Paul Murphy

22. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach for a report on the work of the shared island unit. [56997/25]

I will quote the Taoiseach who told an international audience at COP30: The science is undeniable. Temperatures are rising, and the clock is ticking. If we are not prepared to tell our citizens the truth about this, we are failing them, and this planet, in the most profound way. Has the Taoiseach tried telling the truth to the big dairy farmers and the big dairy processors who are driving up car…

I want to raise the race to the bottom in migration policy that is happening right across the European Union and Europe. We witnessed it unfold over the past few days when the British Government announced that it was going to implement a Danish-style asylum system, cracking down further on already very limited rights of people to asylum, with the Labour Party Government dancing to the tune of Nige…

I welcome that we are finally going to have a statutory inquiry into the care of children with scoliosis and spina bifida at CHI. It is unfortunate and outrageous that it has taken what it has taken to get to this point where we have an inquiry. Campaigners have been calling for one for a long time, as have some of us in the Dáil. It is not just about the hundreds of children who have been left wa…

It is pretty shameless of the Government to use the occasion of Paschal Donohoe moving on in the world to avoid answering questions today. I also want to say that the statements on paediatric care must be made into questions and answers. We pushed for this at the Business Committee. There has been a long push for a statutory inquiry into the care of children with scoliosis and spina bifida. I unde…

It was signed off on. Okay. I ask that we have questions in relation to that.

I am sharing time with Deputies Coppinger and Boyd Barrett. On a personal level, I wish the former Minister for Finance well but on a political level and on an ideas level, I do not wish his ideas and his politics well. It is worth examining what Paschal Donohoe's ideology has been and what it has meant. He is one of the more ideological and more considered figures within the political establishm…

I do not know about that. There are plenty.

75. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will reintroduce a cost-of-disability lump sum payment before Christmas to reduce the negative impact of budget 2025 on disabled people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62432/25]

The programme for Government promises a permanent, annual cost-of-disability support payment, with a view to incrementally increasing this payment. Instead of doing that, we have just had a budget in one of the richest countries in the world, with a substantial budget surplus, that did not introduce this payment. Instead, it made disabled people poorer to the tune of more than €1,000. This questio…

I presume the Minister is not disputing the fact that the budget made disabled people poorer, despite the measures he is announcing. The disability support grant was cut by €400. In respect of the living alone allowance, the lump sum of €200 was cut. That is another €200 gone. The fuel allowance was reduced for disabled people, resulting in a net loss of €160. The October double payment of €254 wa…

The cost-of-living crisis is now. The cost-of-disability crisis is now. One in four households with a disabled person experiences deprivation. That is going to be worse next year as a result of the budget. Again, we live in one of the richest countries in the world that has record national surpluses. The Government has made repeated commitments to equality and inclusion, but it has introduced a bu…

I thank the Social Democrats and Deputy Farrelly in particular for bringing this forward. It is a really important Bill and it is great they have used their Private Members' time for it. I do not think we need to debate this; it is the most obvious thing in the world that 16 and 17-year-olds should be able to vote. It is their future and them who are going to live in the barbarous world we are cur…

The revelations at the weekend from a CHI whistleblower about why Harvey Morrison Sherratt was removed from a waiting list were truly shocking and scary. Apparently - allegedly, but wrongly - it was because he was deemed to be palliative. It underscores the need for a full public inquiry as the parents have been campaigning for-----

-----and the need for a debate this week with the Minister to come and answer questions on this issue.

Last week, the Taoiseach made a fine speech in Belém. He spoke about the need to listen to the science, tell the truth to citizens and for urgent action to meet climate targets. He said that leaders must lead. This was at COP30. The problem is that he does not take his own advice when he is back at home. He leads a Government which is on track to miss our legally binding targets by a country mile.…

They wrote the budget.

Buy them.

Buy them.

No, I asked the question about the-----

Is the Taoiseach going to launch additional measures?

Is he serious about the 51% target?

8. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice, migration and social affairs will next meet. [53245/25]

It has been almost two years since I spoke here about a campaign of far-right terror in this State. We have seen this move step by step from threats to intimidation to misinformation and on to the burning down of empty buildings and attacks on buildings with people inside, including women, children, young babies. We have also witnessed attacks on migrants. Last week, we had the prevention by An Ga…

The Taoiseach did praise him. I was here.