Paul Murphy

Yes, absolutely, and people will vote on that basis.

Toothless.

There has been shockingly little coverage of the scandal of the illegal felling of over 30 acres of native broadleaf trees and mature hedgerows in Cork that date back to at least the 1800s, if not earlier. It was revealed by The Journal after an FOI to the National Parks and Wildlife Service last week discovered that nearly 2 km of ancient, long-established hedgerows with high biodiversity value f…

Not agreed.

Can I ask whether we are going to schedule a debate about the new principle being espoused by a presidential candidate that TDs should have to declare previous professional work relating to a topic before speaking on it in the Dáil? For example, the Minister of justice, who I thought spoke well on this yesterday, would have to declare, before he spoke about violence, if he was ever involved in def…

10. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [53243/25]

I want to ask about transport infrastructure, of which buses are the easiest, quickest and cheapest part to deploy. Every day, pretty much, I get emails about the state of the bus services in Ballycullen, Knocklyon and Rathfarnham. The 15 bus service is the busiest route in Dublin and the 15B is also grossly overcrowded. What is happening is that buses routinely fill up in the morning after the fi…

21. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on his engagement with President Zelenskyy. [53244/25]

The Taoiseach's former Cabinet colleague and now preferred choice for President, Heather Humphreys, took part in a radio debate about a week ago during which she said that Irish troops should not be stopped from being sent to Ukraine by a Russian veto. Is that the Taoiseach's position? Is he in favour of sending Irish troops to Ukraine without Russian consent? Doing so would mean placing their liv…

The right of ordinary people in Ukraine to decide what their future is. I am against sending Irish troops to participate----

That is why I am calling for the immediate, unconditional----

How is it? I am calling for people----

I appeal to the Chair to stop the Taoiseach from intervening.

I will restate my basic points. I am opposed to the criminal invasion. I call for the immediate withdrawal of all forces. It is the right of Ukrainian people to decide their future; it is not for Russia to decide. I am against sending Irish troops to participate in a war against Russia in Ukraine. I am asking the Taoiseach whether he agrees with his candidate in the presidential election that this…

I did. I am asking you a question.

I am asking you a question.

Feel free to answer the question.

I did not mention conscription.

The Taoiseach is getting ahead of himself.

Who is your presidential candidate? The Taoiseach can criticise her, no problem.

No.

I condemn.

I have said it a million times.

When I was in the European Parliament, I spoke about Russia and Putin-----

-----five or six times and Fianna Fáil MEPs did not mention Putin once. I checked the record on that.