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 into our amendments…
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Paul Murphy
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| October 2026 | 45 | 64 |
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- constituency Dublin South-West 29 November 2024 to now
- party People Before Profit-Solidarity 29 November 2024 to now
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 junior Ministers. I wonde…
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 Ministers of one sort or…
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 referred to are the L…
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 and Fine Gael, never …
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 fuels that are resp…
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 complicity of much of th…
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 contract to operate bus…
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 Government. The und…
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-called kingmaker of…
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 and medical scienti…