Paul Murphy

In the past two weeks, I have been inundated with complaints about Go-Ahead Ireland buses not showing up. I have spoken to my colleague, Councillor Conor Reddy in Ballymun-Finglas. I have also spoken to Deputy Boyd Barrett, who represents Dún Laoghaire. It is clear to me that this is not just an issue in Tallaght or Dublin South-West. It is the same story everywhere that Go-Ahead Ireland has a con…

I thank the Minister of State for the answer. I obviously accept that the Minister for Transport is not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services. I am not holding the Minister personally responsible for any bus not turning up, but at the same time, the Minister of State referred to the Government's recent commitment to improving public transport under the new programme for…

Yesterday, stroke politics met robust opposition and the outrageous attempt by the Government to effectively steal time from the Opposition was blocked.

That is not the only stroke by this Government, however. We have the three extra junior Ministers, an extra super junior Minister and approximately €30,000 extra in expenses for each of them. It has become clear that the discussions on the programme for government were really more focused on how many snouts could be fit at the public trough. These strokes are engineered for and organised by the so…

On a point of order------

What about the legal advice? When will we get the legal advice?

When will we get the legal advice?

When will we get the legal advice?

On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle-----

When we are getting the legal advice? Tell us when we are getting the legal advice, a Cheann Comhairle. There is no good reason not to give us the OPLA legal advice now.

We need to get the legal advice.

We need to get the legal advice, a Cheann Comhairle.

Today the corporate landlords, the big developers, and the tax-avoiding corporations can breathe a sigh of relief. They are going to have a government that will serve their interests but most people are being left behind, including the thousands queuing for food parcels, those spending Christmas in emergency accommodation, the families waiting for necessary therapies for their children, the nurses…

The idea that we would break for more than one month and not even discuss the issues when people are going to sleep in emergency accommodation over Christmas and when there are not enough food parcels to go around is not acceptable. We should put pressure to say we have the date of 15 January and that is when we are reconvening. That focuses the minds in terms of the various parties that are engag…