Results 1-20 of 1,496 for speaker:John Paul Phelan in 'Dáil debates'

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

John Paul Phelan: You know you are talking shite.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

John Paul Phelan: On behalf of myself, my family and Fine Gael members in Carlow-Kilkenny, I extend my sympathy to Finola, a formidable woman in her own right, and John's children, his sister, our dear friend, Richard, and the wider Bruton family on their loss. The age of 76 is young nowadays. We would have hoped to have had John for much longer. They say you should not meet your heroes. Just as that...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

John Paul Phelan: If it gives warning and if you say Israel has the right to defend itself-----

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

John Paul Phelan: Deputy Murphy did not say it. Others have said it. Israel has that right. It is the primary function of any nation to defend its citizens from attack. On this question, as on many others in debates on Israel and Palestine, we have no debate. We have no media scrutiny in Ireland. Everyone screams on one side as if it is a one-sided, simple, populist issue to which an answer can be found.

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

John Paul Phelan: It is remarkable that no one in the main Opposition party, which has had four or five members speak already, and Solidarity–People Before Profit, whose members have just spoken, has mentioned that two Irish citizens were murdered by Hamas. None of them mentioned their names. Kim Damti was aged 22 and Emily Hand was eight. If we are to have a debate on what has happened over the past...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Jul 2023)

John Paul Phelan: That is what she said.

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

John Paul Phelan: It is always the start of an election campaign when Deputy Ring speaks. I want to continue from him. It is a hard act to follow. I thank the Deputy and his successor, the Minister for Rural and Community Development. The Department was closed down in the teeth of a recession, when it was probably more needed than ever, and reopened, thankfully, by the previous Government. It reaches into...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2023)

John Paul Phelan: I want to ask the Government, particularly the Minister for Foreign Affairs even though he is not present, about the proposal that is still on the cards to reopen the embassy in Iran in 2023. Almost 560 people have lost their lives since the outbreak of the most recent protests last September and over 20,000 people have been arrested. Four or five Iranians have been executed for having the...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (13 Dec 2022)

John Paul Phelan: I join others in welcoming Bobby's family: Helena, Bob, Triona, Mark, Fr. Eamon, his siblings and his grandchildren. I think nearly half of Fine Gael Deputies have made contributions. I welcome Bobby's family to the House today and the opportunity to say a few words about Bobby. He was the worst type of political opponent you could have because, as Deputy Danny Healy-Rae said, everybody...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2022)

John Paul Phelan: I raise with the Government, specifically the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the 70 days of protests we have seen - at this stage it is a revolution - on the streets of Iran. On 16 September, the morality police of the Islamic Republic killed 22-year-old Ms Mahsa Amini for deeming her not to be wearing an appropriate hijab while she visited Tehran from her native city in the Kurdistan region...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

John Paul Phelan: I thank my colleagues for sharing their time. I welcome that the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, is in the position he is in because this is an issue he knows well. It is one of those very rare issues upon which I find myself in agreement with most of the Green Party policy. In my part of the world, which the Minister of State knows well, there is the issue of intensive agriculture...

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

John Paul Phelan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and I thank Deputy Colm Burke for sharing his time. I wish to make a few points on this important legislation. I welcome it and welcome the fact that some progress has been made over the past few years through various reforms in the insurance sector, and I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, back from his brief hiatus into office. Some...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Insurance (13 Jul 2022)

John Paul Phelan: I know, as most people do, that Revenue has no wriggle room in terms of refunds beyond four years but, on the other hand, there is always wriggle room to chase up unpaid taxes. This is understandable but it should work both ways. I realise that in the context of this Topical Issue debate, we will not be able to change the four-year rule. I will endeavour to speak with the Minister and the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Insurance (13 Jul 2022)

John Paul Phelan: The Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, is taking the matter in the absence of someone from the Department of Social Protection. His background of being self-employed is appropriate to answer this query. This matter stems from a constituent who is almost a neighbour of mine. He retired at the beginning of 2022. This query is also in the context of trying to encourage more people to make...

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

John Paul Phelan: In light of comments made by the Taoiseach in Woodfield last November at the handing over to the State of the diaries of Michael Collins by representatives of the Collins family, what action has been taken with regard to the erection of a permanent memorial to General Collins in Dublin, which is what he commented on the day in question? Furthermore, as we mark the 100th anniversary of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jun 2022)

John Paul Phelan: With regard to the cost of living crisis, does the Tánaiste agree that the most effective way to help families and individuals who are in employment, in their current difficulties, would be to increase the threshold at which people enter the top rate of income tax? Currently it is just over €38,000 of earned income for an individual and double this for a couple, at which they...

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

John Paul Phelan: First, I echo what Deputy Sherlock said, notwithstanding issues that Cork and Kilkenny have had on the pitch in recent weeks. It is very sad for a rural dweller to watch wild ash trees all over my part of the country dying in hedgerows, not to mention the plantations the Deputy referred to and the failure to introduce an adequate scheme. This is a timely discussion on a subject that is...

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

John Paul Phelan: To pick up on one of Deputy Durkan's points, he referred to the importance of how this crisis is handled in terms of the impact on both refugees and our own citizens. In the past few weeks, I have noticed on social media, particularly WhatsApp groups, memes and jokey picture messages with an underlying, insidious element of racism, to be perfectly honest, in pitting refugees against people...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Apr 2022)

John Paul Phelan: I join others in welcoming the Bill. This is fundamental. It is the basis on which we are here as Members of this House. The same can be said of those in the Upper House and local authority members across the country. Like so many things in Ireland, aspects of our public life that work well often go unremarked upon. I remember my first visit to the franchise section during my time in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

John Paul Phelan: 6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that has been allocated for the working family payment scheme that supports parents at work in 2022; the additional allocated funding as part of cost-of-living measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14663/22]