10. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will commit to above inflation pay increases for public servants in any public sector pay deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74553/26]
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12. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will ensure that any public sector pay deal prioritises lower and middle-income public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74554/26]
First, I want to pay tribute to the parents and families in the Public Gallery, and all the campaigners who have been forced to fight for justice and truth for their children.
I got a parliamentary question back from the Minister the other day after a few attempts, which revealed the cost of the scoping exercise was €241,500. The public has spent a quarter of million euro, and that in itself does not have to be a sc…
I thank Deputy Coppinger for introducing this Bill and thank the campaigners and organisations who have been forced to fight so hard for their rights to be recognised, including TENI, Intersex Ireland, Trans Healthcare Action, Belong To, Trans and Intersex Pride, Transgress the NGS and ShoutOut.
It is clear that intersex and non-binary recognition has been deliberately ignored by this Government and the previous one…
We do.
Be honest.
Please be honest with us.
So we got the Seville declaration. That was great, was it not? The Government is tearing it up.
Yesterday in his defence of the abolition of the triple lock, the Taoiseach asked, "Who is going to engage in military adventurism? Does Deputy McDonald think Dáil Éireann is?". Does he think people have no memory at all? In 2003 I was one of more than 100,000 people marching against the US invasion of Iraq. The Taoiseach was a Minister in a Government that facilitated that illegal and imperialist invasion.
They agr…
The Taoiseach asked why should there be a referendum on this.
Why? Because people already voted on it.
They were promised this. It is in the Seville Declaration. On this basis, they voted.
If you are going to get rid of it, it needs to be put to the people. It is not the Taoiseach's decision.
Because it is not about peacekeeping.
Like Trump wants one.
This use of Russia and China to justify Ireland preparing to break international law is nothing new. Let me quote from a Dáil debate in 2013:
It appears that Fine Gael is arguing that Ireland is failing in its European responsibilities and is allowing Russia and China to have a veto over our peacekeeping activities. This is nothing more than an out-of-touch ideological obsession on the part of Fine Gael which ignore…
-----is say we can only send troops within the framework of international law.
The Taoiseach want to get away from international law. International law says peacekeeping only exists when the UN agrees to it. That is what international law says. That is not just the triple lock. The Taoiseach wants to get rid of it because he-----
-----want Irish troops to participate in illegal wars and the Taoiseach had better tell us which wars those are.
Why else would you get rid of the triple lock?
The triple lock enshrines international law in domestic legislation. That is all it does.
Last week, a grieving mother and formidable online safety campaigner visited Leinster House. Maria Raine is campaigning for stronger regulation of AI chatbots after ChatGPT drove her beloved 16-year-old son, Adam, to take his own life. ChatGPT advised him on suicide techniques, encouraged him to drink alcohol so that he would go through with it, and isolated him from his family. It told him not to talk to his mother …
So why does the Government not reform it?
Hear, hear.
We do not trust the Government.