Paul Murphy

Did the Cabinet agree this morning to press ahead with abolishing the triple lock without holding a referendum? If it did, why is the Taoiseach reneging on the promises he personally made to the Irish people in order to get the Nice and Lisbon treaties passed? It now seems crystal clear, despite the Tánaiste promising me just last September that alternative safeguards would be introduced, that th…

Instead of the Taoiseach taking these life-and-death decisions, why does he not allow the people to decide in a referendum?

He should make his arguments and we will make ours, and let the people decide in a referendum.

I want the people to decide.

I am saying the people should have a right to decide.

Why will the Taoiseach not give the people a referendum?

5. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the G20 in South Africa. [3925/26]

It really says something when the US boycotts the G20 in South Africa on the grounds of the racist conspiracy theory of white genocide. It is a conspiracy theory propagated by those who want South Africa to go back to apartheid. It is illustrative of a regime that is ruled by a monstrous bully who has torn up any semblance of pretending to care about international law, if US imperialism ever did. …

23. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU-African Union summit. [6015/26]

The EU-African Union summit discussed the European Union's international digital strategy, which includes AI and online platforms. As the host country for so many big tech corporations, does the Taoiseach accept that Ireland has a unique responsibility to hold them to account? It is clear that is not happening. It is clear from the appearance of the Minister of State with responsibility for AI at …

155. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is concerned that family members of refugees will be endangered by his proposals to limit access to family reunification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6019/26]

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if she will legislate to end the three-day wait for abortion services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4679/26]

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 to regulate the use of recommender algorithms by video-sharing platform services. I am delighted to introduce what, I think, is a very important Bill, the Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill 2026. The Bill is very simple; it bans big tech companies from targeting chi…

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

The Government is barely a year in office and is already on track to be one of the worst Governments on record when it comes to public transport. It depends on right-wing rural TDs who could not care less about commuters in Dublin or elsewhere. All they want is more money for roads in their constituencies. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Ministers are perfectly happy with that, relaxing in their chauffe…

Why does the Government have it in for disabled people and carers? It had a budget where disabled people were singled out for a particularly cruel set of cuts, amounting to more than €1,400. Now we have carers being faced with substantial tax bills. One man in his 80s is facing a bill of more than €6,000. These people are not tax dodgers. They are saving the State billions of euro because of the w…

Donald Trump is a monster. The one good thing about him is that he exposes the monstrous reality of the imperialist and capitalist world system we live in. It is a system that is ugly, bloody and brutal and in which might is right, profits matter for all and people matter for nothing. He has done away with the fig leaf of international law and exposed the US's naked and violent imperialism for eve…

Check the record.

The Oxfam wealth report published yesterday exposed the stark class divide that exists in society between billionaires, the wealthy and everyone else. Ireland's 11 billionaires have the same wealth as 3.5 million Irish adults combined. It takes them just seven hours to rack up the annual income of an average worker. Oxfam shows how a tax on the top 1% of the wealthiest people in the country could …

17. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach for an update on the implementation of the Dublin city task force report. [3923/26]

This morning, a powerful piece on "Morning Ireland" about drug-related intimidation described how families are confronted by drug dealers who say that their child owes them a certain amount of money and the family now owes this money and they will terrorise the family until it gives them the money. One woman said that 50% of the time, she feels a knot in her stomach as a result of stress. Another …

28. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach for an overview of his Department’s annual report for 2024. [3924/26]

The Taoiseach's Government and governments around the world have an important choice to make. The choice is whether the profits of big tech corporations are going to come before the health and safety of our children. For now, these interests are counterposed. We saw it in a stark way in the mass production of child sexual abuse imagery and sexual abuse imagery of women on Grok. There was a protest…

Human capital.

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection when he will introduce a permanent cost-of-disability payment as promised in the programme for Government. [2794/26]