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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in light of proposed redundancies at a company (details supplied), he will review current legislation around redundancies and notice periods in order to enhance current protection for workers; if he or his Department will meet with representatives of the company’s workers to hear their concerns at the limitations of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how he can reconcile the finding of the CCPC that there is no excessive pricing in the grocery sector with the fact that Irish prices are 46% higher than the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31660/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of recent actions by a company (details supplied) which are aimed at unilaterally changing the work contract of senior staff and separately the changing of hours and remuneration of delivery staff; if he will meet with workers’ representatives on foot of these moves to examine their concerns on the limitations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will abolish fares for school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to resolve teacher shortages in the coming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31654/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all students who need it will have access to school transport in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31655/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that teachers in Dublin can afford accommodation near their jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31653/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she considers that continued Catholic Church dominance in the school system is appropriate given the findings on religious affiliation and lack of religious affiliation reported in the last Census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31657/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Services (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend the current Workplace Relations Act 2015 that changes the way cases under the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 are heard and dealt with. [31765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm if a jobseeker is obligated to share personal data with a third-party private company (details supplied); the exact scope of the data they are legally required to disclose; the mechanisms of data processing; whether the data could be transferred outside Ireland/the EU; and what safety measures are in place,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 388. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with a group (details supplied) which has written to him on two occasions seeking a meeting, as a matter of urgency to discuss the intended reduction in its Tusla grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31767/23]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed to.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: The war on neutrality we are seeing in this country forms part of a wider process of European militarisation that is seen in the applications of Sweden and Finland to join NATO and in the unprecedented increase in military expenditure right across the European Union where in 2022 the announced increase in military expenditure was bigger than total EU military expenditure across all the member...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, published the review into senior public service recruitment and pay processes. As part of that, he agreed to the re-establishment of a senior public pay remuneration committee. I read the report and much of it makes sense, including reducing the potential term of Secretaries General from a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the lack of educational provisions in the community of Knocklyon for neurodivergent children, as there are no autism units in either primary school in Knocklyon; if she will provide an update in relation to any development of these much-needed services in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the senior side of a school (details supplied) does not have an ASD unit, despite the junior side school having one open for 11 years; if she will confirm, in relation to the unit which has been previously sanctioned by her Department, where the funding is; when this unit will be made available to the children who need it...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (28 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in relation to the OASA Review Group Report, she will make a commitment to implement the Review Group’s recommendations; and if she will provide a timeline for implementation. [31546/23]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: Since we last debated this in 2022, the long awaited review of the Offences against the State Act has been published. This was the fig leaf that Sinn Féin used to justify abstaining on the vote to renew the Special Criminal Court as opposed to its traditional correct position of opposing the court and that most of the rest of the Opposition and the Government cited when voting for it....

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: Law and order anyway; I am not sure about justice.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy may only speak to it now.