Results 1-13 of 13 for other and baby speaker:Paul Murphy

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact the Government is belatedly moving to bring in some improvements in respect of work-life balance for some workers. However, people should be aware that the Government - and this is a consistent feature of this Government's approach - is doing the bare minimum of what it is legally required to do under an EU directive on work-life balance. That is what the Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a coroner’s inquest has not been ordered in respect of the Tuam burial site and other institutional sites of unmarked graves; if he will provide clarity on whether the Government will order inquests into the deaths and burials of mother and baby home residents; the reason the proposed certain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 367. To ask the Minister for Health if he can remove the visitation rules for the partner and or other nominated birth companion after the baby is born so that those who have given birth can be supported; if attendance for partners and or other nominated birth companions through all stages of labour including induction can be ensured; and if it can be ensured that partners and or other...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I pay tribute to the Extend Maternity Leave 2020 campaign, which drove a grassroots campaign last year to extend paid maternity leave during the pandemic. More than 30,000 people signed a petition in support of that and the issue was debated in the Dáil. Unfortunately, because of the long and many delays before this comes into effect, the majority of those people who were campaigning...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...regards the comments the Ceann Comhairle made, it is very clearly the Government that is not listening or hearing. It would not have to have particularly good hearing to listen to the anger, upset and appeals to change course from survivors. The approach of the Government has been horrendous and heartless and is unfortunately reimposing an abuse upon people. I pay tribute to the...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...in 2004 were racist. Certainly, the vast majority of those who voted thus were not racist. However, I contend that the arguments used by the establishment political parties -with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats in the vanguard and Fine Gael trailing slightly behind - were racist. It was a deliberately divisive use of the race card to distract from the real crises in public...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." A number of people who are affected by this issue are on their way to the Gallery. I will start by giving an example. As the law currently stands, two children could be born tomorrow side by side in a hospital. They could go to the same crèche, the same school, have the same group of friends and the same interests socially,...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2018: Second Stage (11 Jul 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will share my time with Deputy Bríd Smith. I welcome the Bill. It is very late but I welcome it on behalf of the LGBTQ+ parents who will have their rights as parents acknowledged and those of their children as a consequence. Serious questions need to be answered about why this legislation has taken three years. I can accept that technical mistakes can happen and so on, but for a...

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...of waiting until tomorrow or else more protesters would be killed. We have had the debate today, but another two protesters have been killed. Presumably, more will be killed as the day goes on and more will be killed tomorrow. The absolute horror of the oppression of the Palestinians has been brutally laid bare to the world. Every time I checked my phone yesterday the numbers of...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...pictures of foetuses there is something or, more precisely, someone obviously missing: the person who can become pregnant. The absence of women betrays the real viewpoint of the most reactionary and right-wing anti-choice campaigners. In their world view women - pregnant women in particular - are not one of us but, rather, merely vessels for foetuses. The referendum is an opportunity to...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Paul Murphy: Here we are again with the left bringing the movement for women's bodily autonomy and women's rights into the Dáil. Outside the Dáil there is a majority who support the repeal of the eighth amendment and a majority who support the extension of abortion rights. In here, in this debate, we are in a small minority because of how conservative and how influenced by the Catholic Church...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: ...to 200,000 people coming out three weeks later. It is even more significant than the hundreds of meetings that have taken place across the State as local communities come together, self-organise and self-mobilise to discuss how to beat these water charges. What has happened is that working class people have felt their own power. They have discovered that they can force the Government...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: The Government and the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, had their very best Malcolm Tuckers working on their presentation of the new water charges regime. Their master plan was to decide to appeal to "reasonable" people, and I guess the logic emanates from the feeling of who would not think of themselves as reasonable. I am accused of being a kidnapper by the Taoiseach, a ringleader by the...