Results 1-20 of 376 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...-year waiting list, which would be bad enough, but it has more than 1,600 people on the waiting list and has never handled more than 160 people in a year. It is, therefore, clear it has a decades-long waiting list. If somebody can manage to get through that ten-year-long list, and does not have access to private resources to go abroad for healthcare, that person is faced with incredibly...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...that means the Government is not going to oppose our motion and will allow it to pass. Before there is uproar and celebration in the Visitors Gallery, I would warn that this Government has a long and not very proud history of allowing motions to pass and then not doing anything about the things that are passed in the motion. I would say that if this passes this evening, while that is...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...for it. This ignores the reality that it is pouring now for people in terms of the ongoing crises relating to housing, health, education, climate action and biodiversity. That €100 billion could go a long way towards resolving those crises. We could set up a State construction company. We could directly build hundreds of thousands of social and genuinely affordable homes....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...s colleagues in the European People's Party - hand in glove with the climate and biodiversity-denying far right - to try to block even this watered-down version of the nature restoration law. It went along with the lobbyists who invented all kinds of dire consequences for food production and security, all of which were complete nonsense. The truth, as a coalition of 3,000 actual...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...on their own websites. There is a provision to set up a fossil fuel information commission to enable consumers to compare prices and features of fossil fuels and fossil-fuelled vehicles for so long as they are legally available for sale. I hope that will not be for too long as we need to get to zero emissions many years before 2050. Unfortunately, the Government's climate action plans...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 710. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the special pay with leave long-Covid scheme for healthcare workers which is not to be extended beyond 31 March 2024 (details supplied) why have the Minister and the HSE reached this decision; if he is aware that these healthcare workers are still in the same situation and therefore still in need of the same support; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...in the world but more than four in ten parents have skipped meals so their children can have enough to eat. This is a country full of vacant and derelict properties - almost 60,000 properties are long-term vacant - but where more than 4,000 children are in emergency accommodation. These are properties that should be compulsorily purchased by councils, as has finally now happened in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Health whether the due diligence on therapists offered positions in the HSE is being outsourced to a private company; how long the average wait is from the time of application to completion of due diligence; how much the private company is being paid; whether there was a tender process for this company; and the reason the HSE is not itself verifying the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the communication he has had with Fingal County Council with regard to the long processing delays with the tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8984/24]

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ..., I thank the families, the advocates and the children in the Gallery for taking time out to fight for healthcare services. People should get the healthcare that they need. They should not be on long waiting lists. They should not be waiting over a year to get healthcare. It is a national scandal that we are here tonight. We have been here before. Children with scoliosis are being...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...of a Bill and have pre-legislative scrutiny and debate, as opposed to bringing this measure into legislation that has nothing to do with it. We supported this Bill on Second Stage because of the long-overdue reforms it makes to the treatment of maintenance by the social welfare system. Instead, we have two new sections that are far-reaching and shameful for the Government, in particular...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: .... I also thank those who have gone before him, including Ming Flanagan who is in the Gallery. I also thank all the campaigners, many of whom are here. They have been pushing on this issue for a long time, trying to get us in the direction of social progress. I have been here almost ten years, incredibly, and I have learned a thing or two about how the establishment politicians react...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...sufficient increase. If we are getting twice as many applications as are being dealt with at present, increasing the funding by 25% will not get on top of it and we will continue to have extremely long waiting lists.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...120,000 homes per year will not be achieved on the basis of the warmer homes scheme and it will certainly not be achieved in light of the extremely slow progress of the councils. It is a disgrace how long people in council housing have to wait. Instead, the Minister is simply hoping to achieve what needs to happen on the basis of incentivising the wealthier households that can afford the...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...requirements sought.", and (ii) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7A): "(7B) The Board shall be entitled to refuse connection on the grounds of the expected emissions profile, long term carbon emissions or inconsistency with the carbon budget programme or sectoral emissions ceilings as per sections 6A and 6C of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...carbon budget-aligned, economical and efficient and shall perform its functions in a manner consistent with— (i) the most recent approved climate action plan, (ii) the most recent approved national long term climate action strategy, (iii) the most recent approved national adaptation framework and approved sectoral adaptation plans, (iv) the furtherance of the national climate...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...amended), and means the State’s obligation to reduce the extent of further global warming, to pursue and achieve, by no later than the end of the year 2050, the transition to a climate resilient, biodiversity rich, environmentally sustainable and climate neutral economy; ‘national long term climate action strategy’ has the meaning assigned to it in section 4 of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...Biden Administration has proposed an extra €14.5 billion. Joe Biden recently told a fundraiser, "We’re not going to do a damn thing other than to protect Israel. Not a single thing.” As long as Joe Biden supports this genocide, the Taoiseach should not go to the White House on St. Patrick's Day to give him a bowl of shamrock. Instead, we should send a signal around...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: My question is simple. Will long Covid be included in the terms of reference of the Covid inquiry? It is clearly important that if we are to come to a balanced assessment of mistakes that were made and so on, we do not look just at the short term but also at the long-term implications for hundreds of thousands of people, such as illness, isolation and inability to work. In that regard, the...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome this Bill as a long overdue reform of the social welfare system in relation to maintenance. It is nothing short of outrageous that for decades lone mothers have been legally obliged to pursue fathers for maintenance by the Department of Social Protection and are then penalised by the Department when the father does not pay court-approved maintenance. That is because the Department...