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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Have any data centres applied to the scheme?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Minister referred to 14 companies. Are any of those companies data centres?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not doubt that they had to meet the criteria; my problem is that data centres are not excluded from meeting the criteria.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not think Government policy should be to give public money to huge energy users. We should not be encouraging the extra use of energy which makes it more difficult for us to meet our climate targets. If energy usage keeps expanding - these users are the drivers of the increase in energy usage - we will never be able to transition to 100% renewable energy. That is why, as a matter of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is not excluding itself; rather, it is the dumping ground for the data of the world's multinationals. There is definitely no danger that it is excluding itself. We are wildly out of proportion in that regard.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I refer to European works councils and the Commission infringement proceedings. I hope the Minister will be appearing before the joint committee on that matter. We had a meeting yesterday at which all the experts agreed that Ireland is in breach. I do not expect the Minister to say he believes we are in breach or whatever, but can he provide information on what is happening in that...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is no problem.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The provision of metrics in the overview is a very good idea. There do not seem to be metrics relating to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, however. The metrics provided are all about creating investment, jobs and so on, and that is great, but why are there no metrics relating to the WRC or the HSA?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: There is a big list of metrics at the end of each section. Why are the metrics for the HSA and the WRC not included there? Why are they just in the body of the text?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Sure. Maybe I am not being clear. On page 64 of the overview, for example, there is a list of published metrics relating to jobs and enterprise development. There is a series of metrics and I was wondering why-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Great.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: On page 64 there is reference to IDA Ireland winning 249 new investment projects in 2021. It then refers to winning five environmental sustainable investments. Are the 15 part of the 249? Does that mean the remainder of the 249 projects are not environmentally sustainable? What is the import of that?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: On unionisation, there was an interesting article in the Business Post on Sunday about tech workers seeking to unionise and join the Financial Services Union in the context of the job losses and so on. It would be a good idea for tech workers to get into unions to try to protect their interests. The rate of workers covered by collective bargaining is very low, at approximately one in four....

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach ashamed to lead a Government in one of the richest countries in the world and yet have a situation where one in ten parents are forced to go to food banks or rely on food donations to be able to feed their children? It is an incredible indictment of what is happening in this country and the policies of the Government. We know that the price of groceries has increased in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: They are getting rent.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [4428/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [3410/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: As night follows day, racist violence follows anti-refugee protests. In recent weeks we have seen a dramatic escalation of violence against migrants in Dublin in particular. On Saturday, 28 January, homeless migrant men were attacked with dogs, sticks and a baseball bat at Ashtown. On Monday, 30 January, a building in Sheriff Street burned down seemingly because it was wrongly suspected of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.