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TDs / Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy
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1,527
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
205,529
words spoken in the chamber
Across 1,276 contributions
383
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
314
topics asked about
Across 20 departments
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Questions asked 1,527 in all
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Contributions to debates 1,276 in all
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| Month | Questions | Contributions |
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| December 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| January 2025 | 78 | 10 |
| February 2025 | 138 | 69 |
| March 2025 | 120 | 75 |
| April 2025 | 115 | 100 |
| May 2025 | 97 | 97 |
| June 2025 | 88 | 70 |
| July 2025 | 92 | 52 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 66 | 60 |
| October 2025 | 50 | 82 |
| November 2025 | 84 | 73 |
| December 2025 | 59 | 79 |
| January 2026 | 94 | 61 |
| February 2026 | 71 | 78 |
| March 2026 | 49 | 41 |
| April 2026 | 76 | 45 |
| May 2026 | 50 | 40 |
| June 2026 | 58 | 95 |
| July 2026 | 67 | 59 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| September 2026 | 30 | 23 |
| October 2026 | 45 | 64 |
Debates they spoke in most
Plus 977 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.
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- constituency Dublin South-West 29 November 2024 to now
- party People Before Profit-Solidarity 29 November 2024 to now
-----on killing badgers.
That is absolute nonsense. It is not badgers. It is a waste of public money.
The Minister of State is going to sell them out on Mercosur.
You are out of touch.
As the gap between the votes is less than ten, given the importance of this matter, that this is about women's health and is about simply restoring a Bill to the Order Paper that already had passed Second Stage in the last Dáil, I am asking that we vote by means other than electronically. I ask people to look at their consciences and even shift from a "No".
Under Standing Order 88(3)(b), I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.
It has been three years since the completion of the Shannon report into sexual abuse of children at St. John Ambulance. It is a harrowing report which concluded that the organisation had failed to act against the perpetrator for years, despite, "a significant degree of organisational awareness of the risk that he posed to children". One of the central recommendations of that report was that the national safeguarding …
I move:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 205, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 33rd Dáil, shall be restored at Order for Committee Stage and notice shall be published pursuant to Standing Order 37.
I move:
That Dáil Éireann adopts the Report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform entitled, "Rota for Leaders' Questions pursuant to Standing Order 38", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 12th December, 2025.
6. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach for a report on the national security strategy. [65782/25]
Does the Taoiseach think there is any national security implications for the significant decline in basic civil liberties that is happening in Britain, such as the proscription of organisations of Palestine protestors like Palestine Action, the denial of the right to a jury in the vast majority of trials and what is happening with the Palestine protesters who are charged with nothing more than property damage and who…
I would like the Taoiseach to present some evidence. He said the circumstances are suggestive-----
The circumstances are contested. It might well have been the Russians but I would like to see some evidence if this will be used as an agenda to undermine our neutrality.
I thank the Taoiseach.
The Taoiseach should have read the Denton report.
Interned for property damage.
That is not what I said.
No, it is not.
The point I was making is it is not normal to hold people-----
-----without trial for over a year for property damage.
That is the point I was making and the Taoiseach knows it.
Exactly.
Israeli weaponry property? No.
17. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [65783/25]