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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Eugene Murphy: ...from continuing. I look at the state of that countryside now and at people being flooded out. I had a couple on the phone in tears yesterday. The man is 80 and his wife is 78. Their home, their land and their house, has now been flooded with water. This particular problem is now spreading to another village. The couple were crying on the phone and asking how they are going to be...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hedge Cutting (22 Feb 2024)

Eugene Murphy: It is a huge issue. In my part of the country, the land is saturated. Gabhaim buíochas leis na Seanadóirí agus na hAirí Stáit, as well as the staff around the House and ushers. As always, it is nice to have the co-operation of everybody around us because it makes the smooth running of the House possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eugene Murphy: On that point, from my own experience of growing up on a family farm, which was then pretty small, my parents put in a huge effort to buy an extra bit of land to make it viable, as did many families. To go back to those days, I can recall the family farm was really efficient and environmentally aware. You would watch how the whitethorns and the blackthorns would develop and you would hear...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Eugene Murphy: ...Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 to permit the Minister for Finance to direct the National Treasury Management Agency to provide the proceeds of the disposal of directed investments to the Land Development Agency and to include the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to the provision of funds from the Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...work was done, what was supposed to be done in a pilot scheme was never done. So much silt and debris has built up in the River Shannon. We have to get one thing clear as well. We cannot manage waterways and land unless we have a full drainage programme. Water will always find its level or elsewhere to go. Trying to hold it up or slow it up at times is not the way to go. We need a...

Seanad: Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Motion (4 Oct 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...what happened, in particular Senators Conway and Clonan. I know from speaking to party members and the Minister how deeply upsetting this is for him. He has been unfortunate in that a lot of things have landed on his desk. Most people accept he is a very good and hard-working Minister and is determined to get the bottom of this. I wish him well. I now call on him to address the House.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...without delay. The same Minister is going to be a very busy man because I am looking for something else from him as well. I am concerned about draft proposals from Europe on the rewetting of land and what they might mean for Irish agriculture. All of us raised on small farms know of the great drainage programmes that were carried out and the huge benefits they brought to rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...to juggle two meetings here which is why I left earlier. The witnesses may have answered some of the questions, but they can keep the answers short. I return to the Gresham House deal. How many land purchase deals have been done already under that deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...too much publicly about it. It was very recent. I will not press the witnesses on this. They have been very honest with their answers. However, I know of a young farmer who was looking for that land. My information is that it went over €8,000. I do not blame Gresham House altogether because he may have got cold feet at €8,000. He is a young progressive farmer and he...

Seanad: National Forestry Fund: Motion (8 Feb 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...native broadleaf trees. Two or three hectares could be put in by lots of farmers. From talking to quite a number of them, it is clear they think this is significant. We can do huge things with woodlands as well, which can be very enjoyable for people. We should not forget that aspect of it. I am willing to accept the words of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...it is due to happenings down through the years and bad experiences people have had. When we go back to the big crash, all of the most influential and expert people told us there was going to be a soft landing, but I think that ball is still hopping in some quarters of Irish society. There was anything but a soft landing. People have genuinely asked what happens if there is some type of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Eugene Murphy: .... The Bill is not being approved to suit developers or speculators. Rather, it is to suit the ordinary people I have been meeting for many years who have been refused planning permission on their land to build a house. It is to suit the development of houses that are needed in the middle of a crisis. We have to do this. There has been a great deal of false and misleading material on...

Seanad: Statements on COP27 (8 Dec 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...Chambers’s comments in regard to the western corridor. We should actually looking throughout the country to see where we can develop spurs of rail tracks. I understand we may have to purchase land and there is the whole system of planning that has to be gone through. However where it is simple to do it we should put short rail spurs into place and link those spurs into other...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...of Senator Kyne's county in south Galway also floods very badly. I posted a video on social media last week in which I travelled to Clonown in south Roscommon where literally thousands of acres of land are now flooded. The farmers have moved their stock off it. Roscommon County Council had carried out considerable work on the roadways in the area in recent months, raising them in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Eugene Murphy: Lest it be misconstrued in any way, when I spoke about compensation it was not about relocation or people getting compensation for their land. I was referring to the farm payments that have been lost, that is all. I thank the Chairman.

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...It is only right that the Government use the taxpayers' money it has collected to help people with their heating bills throughout the winter. I do not agree at all with the capping of the energy prices because we are in a no-man's-land. The UK is going to be in real trouble over this. It has cost it £120 billion already. What will happen come January or February if it experiences...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Finance): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...are being given represent the right way to go. People might refer to Britain and other countries capping the payments or the energy bills. We do not know how that is going to work out. We are all in no man's land here. It is a new situation. I think Britain will be in a lot of trouble. It is costing it £100 billion. If Britain has no money in the kitty in February or March,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...Marine, knows what I am going to mention. We are already starting to speak about flooding along the River Shannon again, particularly along the callows. It is not that the areas are becoming flooded. Rather, most of the farmlands there are in the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, under which farmers cannot cut meadows until 1 July. Land has become particularly wet, and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Roads Projects (2 Jun 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...make improvements in that regard and it must be done. There are schools, churches and community centres along the route. Farmers have to do their business along the road, taking cattle to different lands and so on. They are really concerned about it because there is a threat every time they go out on the road. I know this issue is not part of the Minister of State's portfolio and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Eugene Murphy: I am glad to be here to speak to the witnesses this morning. As others said, we are delighted to have them here. I pay tribute to foster parents throughout this land. They have a very nurturing and caring approach to people. I constantly meet people who have been in foster care who say they are heading back to their parents, which are the foster parents, to see how they are. They might...