Paul Murphy

It was under way.

The Taoiseach's propaganda visit took place when the genocide was happening. He misled the House.

The lecturers of the BIMM music college have been forced onto the picket lines. They face an incredible assault on their rights, with 53 workers facing redundancy. A small number of them will be re-employed on less than half the hourly wage they were on previously and the rest will be faced with the choice of getting bogus self-employment on zero-hour contracts. This is part of the so-called "Uber…

-----TU Dublin should tell BIMM to back off or else it will not be able to continue with this arrangement?

It is mostly funded by the State.

2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach his plans for the implementation of the programme for Government. [4512/25]

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

The programme for Government refers to reforming the triple lock legislation. It was reported last Friday that a draft law to end the triple lock will shortly be brought to Cabinet. Will the Taoiseach provide some detail on this? In what way is the triple lock going to be ended or reformed? Back in 2013, the Taoiseach, who was not then Taoiseach, hit the nail on the head when he said that the trip…

You believed it in 2013.

No. It does not.

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 developers, wh…

Why did you not say this during the election?

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 than 100,0…

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 will be straight…

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 of junio…

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 blatantly make Mini…

The programme for Government refers to "all parties and groupings party to the Government". My question is simple. Which groupings are party to the Government and what agreements exist with them? Elsewhere, the programme for Government refers to support resources being made available to "others who support the Government". Who is being referred to there? Am I right in assuming that the groupings r…

It says "groupings", though, and that is what I am asking the Tánaiste about.

Who are the groupings? It says "groupings". Who are they?

Okay.

I will home in on one particular aspect of the programme for Government. On page 99, it states: "Give effect to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ‘Working Definition of Antisemitism’". This is a programme for Government, large parts of which will not be delivered within the five years of this Government's term. The programme for Government had not even been ratified by Fianna Fáil a…

Mr. No ideology.

We were not in here.

It is a painful truth that we will be faced with more and more extreme weather events. We will have more storms, more flooding and possibly even more serious snow if we see the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC, including the Gulf Stream. We should resist those who would try to respond to these extreme weather events by driving us further into the arms of the fossil…

Over the past 16 months, millions of people have had their eyes opened to awful things about the world we live in, about the apartheid nature of the Israeli state, about the oppression, displacement and discrimination faced by Palestinians on a daily basis, about the deep depravity of the capitalist, imperialist system we live in, where Palestinian life is, in effect, worthless, and about the comp…