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Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...last in government, so why should anyone believe it will be any different if it manages to get back in again? All the good proposals in this motion are probably "what you do during an election" as Pat Rabbitte famously admitted. We all know that elections are around the corner. We in People Before Profit have been campaigning for many of the measures in this motion for many years....

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...referendum is as follows. We will get rid of the women in the home clause; that is correct, we support that and that is what we want to see done. However, then we get a more modern, more up to date and paternalistic pat on the head delivered right on time for International Women's Day. Where did International Women's Day come from? It was established by socialist women, women like...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...deeds and then having the consultative forum with a definite plan in advance to recommend getting rid of the triple lock. The Government moved to sign Ireland up to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a NATO alliance that meets in NATO’s headquarters and in which Ireland has participated time and again, and involve Ireland in sending military assistance, albeit supposedly only...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...They cannot say to the supermarket, "Here is 90% of the price of my shopping." They absolutely rely on it to survive. It is the same case for many college students who depend on this money to pay their way through college. That paternalistic approach of justifying the exploitation of young people on the basis that somehow they do not need it is complete nonsense. It is not we who say...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...happen. Last month, I raised with the Taoiseach new evidence showing there was IDA Ireland interference in the previous investigation of the health impacts. Sitting in the Gallery that day were Pat and Nuala Geoghegan, whose farm animals died and whose personal health suffered greatly. They are protesting outside the Dáil now and calling for a fresh investigation that is truly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is familiar with the case of Pat and Nuala Geoghegan, who have for more than 25 years been highlighting serious concerns about the health and environmental impacts of the Aughinish Alumina plant neighbouring their farm. They have raised serious questions over a previous investigation into this in the late 1990s, in particular highlighting 18 medical samples that mysteriously...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...all. A month ago I raised with the Taoiseach the case of more than 20 families in the Shannon Arms in Limerick facing eviction by a consortium of landlords that included Supermac's millionaire Mr. Pat McDonagh. We now know that these tenants include a family from Ukraine that has been living in Ireland for the past number of years, as well as a family from Syria. The far right wants to...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...used for decades to produce a profit. What we have before us is simply not in line with the science. The Chairman of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action, who is a member of the Green Party, earlier anticipated that we in People Before Profit would make the argument that the budgets presented are not adequate. He knew we would do that because he was at that committee...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...are evicting on the grounds of sale. Notices of eviction were signed at the same place and witnessed by the same solicitor on the same day. Another landlord, the millionaire owner of Supermac's, Pat McDonagh, is evicting his tenants on the grounds of renovation, a claim backed up by a company run by his son-in-law. The suspicion is that the other landlords are selling their properties...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...an investigation was done into the health impacts of the plant in the locality, Aughinish Alumina used the notorious lobbyist, Frank Dunlop, as its fixer. Later, 18 medical samples from resident Pat Geoghegan and his family mysteriously disappeared. When the Taoiseach was the Minister for Health and Children, he was on record as supporting an independent inquiry into the missing samples,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: A toxic time bomb is ticking at RUSAL Alumina near Askeaton. I remember visiting it when it was Aughinish Alumina, almost ten years ago, and meeting local campaigner Pat Geoghegan, who I believe the Taoiseach met when he was Minister for Health. I saw a massive, red mud storage area, which is now so big it can be seen from space. It comprises 50 million tonnes of toxic waste with no...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...will lead us. Equally, the answer is not in the Government's countermotion, which promotes eco-austerity in the form of carbon taxes. I have seen a point referenced in the media in a kind of offhand way. I think Pat Leahy mentioned it in an article a couple of weeks ago, when he wrote that everyone accepts carbon tax is an important part of addressing the climate crisis. That is not...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...could survive on it. It is back to normal now. Payments for carers, pensioners and unemployed people are at a level below the poverty line. It is national fiver day. The Government wants a pat on the back for giving all these vulnerable groups of people a fiver. The irony is that in the Minister's own speech, he admitted the inflation rate is going to be 3.7%. The Government is,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...refutes the key justification the Government has put forward for cutting the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, in September. For months we have had to listen to millionaire business owners, like Pat McDonagh of Supermac's, calling for cuts to the PUP and claiming it was so high it meant that workers were better off not working. Yesterday's ESRI report exposed that as being simply...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...their tune, it is time we stood up to these profiteers. Turning to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill, it is really a success of spin over substance. The Government is patting itself on the back for setting so-called ambitious targets but the elephant is the room is that these targets are mere political spin because of how far out the implementation dates...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...to the Government, nursing is a vocation, a good deed, and that this is a reward in itself. It is clear, however, that the Government does not take the same attitude to itself. The Government is not happy with claps or a vocation or pats on the back for itself. It rewards itself with very substantial pay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: What actions do the Taoiseach and his Government intend to take to pressurise the British Government to reverse its scandalous decision not to hold a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane? Even David Cameron, in 2012, admitted to "shocking levels of collusion" and said it seemed that Mr. Finucane was suggested to the murderers as a target to kill by the police. The British Supreme...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...measures we really need to tackle the climate crisis. What we have from the Government is the same neoliberal approach which permeates everything it does. Look at the section on climate change in the speech given by the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. The Government pats itself on the back for the climate action Bill, which is nowhere near adequate and has a punchline of a target of pursuing...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...unions for any company in receipt of this money. Instead, the money is simply given over to major businesses that are entitled to continue to operate in whatever way they want. I shall give an example. Pat McDonagh, the Supermac's millionaire was on the radio complaining about people getting €350 per week, did not mention that Supermac's was in receipt of a much larger amount on...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...come back to them. The Government has a problem now because the true face of the motivation behind this attack was revealed in all its ugly glory on RTÉ Radio 1 at about 11 a.m. today when Pat McDonagh made his arguments for cutting it. The essence of the argument is that 200,000 people are better off as a result of the pandemic unemployment payment, or according to a Fianna...