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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The signal the Taoiseach is sending is that he does not care about the climate change challenge and about the emissions targets, because we will blow right past them. He does not care. He does not care about the bills that are going up for ordinary people. He does not care about people who are forced to pay carbon taxes when they have no other way to get to work. He does not care about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: We are heading for climate catastrophe. We know that 2024 was the warmest year on record - 1.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Already, extreme weather events, hunger and sickness related to climate change are responsible for the loss of 300,000 lives a year. That figure, unfortunately, will only rise. We now have a climate denier in the White House. He says, "drill, baby,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 469 of 5 February 2025, regarding funding for a school (details supplied) if she will provide information and the progress and status of the additional school accommodation that was received by her Department in November 2022. [5948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any policy to ensure that approved housing bodies repair any damage done to neighbouring properties as a consequence of insufficient maintenance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations of a review (details supplied) and the related issues raised in correspondence to the Minister from a survivor of abuse. [5595/25]

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the recent reduction in speed limits on local rural roads. I also welcome the forthcoming reduction in speed limits on urban roads from 50 km/h to 20 km/h. The facts are absolutely undeniable that speed kills and reducing speed even by a small amount saves limbs and lives. Research published by the Department of Transport shows there is "an extremely strong and fundamental...

Protection of Tenants' Deposits Bill 2025: First Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Protection of Tenants' Deposits Bill 2025: First Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 so that the provisions in that Act for tenant deposits to be sent to the Residential Tenancies Board are commenced within 90 days of the passing of this Act. I am introducing this Bill to protect tenants' deposits today because it is one of the common and damaging...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will act to stop the sale of Israeli bonds by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned that outsourcing relationships with particular private contractors are contributing to exorbitant costs for OPW contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the current tax-free allowances for pensioners; when these were last changed; if there are any plans to adjust them in light of the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5456/25]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: First, I am disappointed that my proposed amendment and the amendment from Deputy Gibney were ruled out of order. I understand the reason given was that they were not in line with the spirit of the Bill. Deputy Gibney's amendment sought to have the maximum number of junior Ministers set at 20, while I sought to have it set at 15. It seems to me that this is legislation changing the number...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister not embarrassed to have his first act in this Government and in this Dáil be such a stroke and to be so blatant in sharing out the spoils of political office? Is he not embarrassed to have to trot out the line that "Oh, it is really about the size of the population and we need more people" and so on? Does it not cause him to cringe even a little bit inside to so...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Healy. I will leave at least three minutes for him, maybe more. We will see. Here we are with the first Bill of this Dáil and this Government, and we are off to an extremely bad start, both procedurally, because the debate is being guillotined, and with respect to what the Government is proposing. We are having a short Second Stage debate and then we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The quickest, easiest and most immediate response to the housing crisis is to deal with the scourge of vacancy and dereliction. In almost every estate in Dublin South-West one will find vacant houses. These are perfectly good homes or they were at one stage. They could be used to house families. Instead, they are a blight on the community. We got figures recently that 14,500 of the more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Why did you not say this during the election?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is the last man standing from the Fianna Fáil Governments that blew up the property bubble and then saw the whole thing come crashing down and ordinary people paid the price for a decade or so. It seems the Taoiseach is committed to going back to the future. He is resurrecting the same policies that caused the 2008 financial crash. At the weekend, it was tax breaks for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Normally, the Taoiseach reads the response first and then we speak.