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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Excuse me, I must ask the next question as there are only five minutes left. How much public money has been provided globally to the pharmaceutical industry in terms of the development of vaccines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Would it be accurate to say about $100 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Earlier Mr. O'Connor mentioned where the value of that investment went, saying that it has accrued to people in their lives and societies. Nobody, or certainly very few people, would doubt the extraordinary impact of vaccines and therapeutics in terms of helping us to get out of a phase of Covid-19. Can Mr. O'Connor think of any other group of people, or class of people who have also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Could Mr. O'Connor put a figure on what value has accrued to the companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Could Mr. O'Connor give me a figure for the profits being made by the companies he represents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: It has been reported that Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna were together making $1,000 profit a second. Is that in the ballpark?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Would Mr. O'Connor accept that something important that is happening here is that a huge amount of public money has gone into developing vaccines for the benefit of humanity as a whole - that is why that investment was made - but that a large part of its benefits has been privatised by the companies Mr. O'Connor represents and is being turned into private profit at the expense of millions of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am not sure that happened here. Can I move on as I have only one minute left? I have one final question. Mr. O'Connor said earlier that more vaccines are available than African countries are capable of accepting. Can he unpack that for me, in the context of the African Union for example being very clear in favour of a TRIPS waiver, of the reported gap in mRNA vaccines needed between 4...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: That is the suggestion; it is that these African people are not capable of using this, even if we give them the technology. That is it. They do not have the facilities and so on. That is part of the line of argument of the pharmaceutical industry to hide behind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mr. O'Connor is the one who was saying that the problem is the capacity of these countries to absorb, distribute and administer the doses that they got, talking about the destruction of significant quantities of doses of expired vaccines, without mentioning the fact that these are end-of-line vaccines and they are getting them because they are nearing their expiry date. It is crumbs from the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. The housing crisis is a failure of the market, the State, this Government and previous Governments. We see that failure everywhere when it comes to dealing with the housing crisis. Often when we have debates about the housing crisis, the Government likes to say that those of us in opposition and the left are approaching this from a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [20607/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the very serious issue of long Covid, which I fear will be a pressing issue for our health service and our society in the coming years. Figures suggest that, worldwide, well over 10% of people who get Covid suffer some form of long Covid, and that a minority of them suffer a very severe form of long Covid that can continue for many months and even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last Friday, hundreds of parents of children with disabilities protested outside the Dáil. There were also protests in Cork and Enniscorthy. These were organised by Families Unite for Services and Support, FUSS. The hashtag used was #LetsMakeAFuss. The speeches we heard were extremely powerful. We are talking about parents forced to make a fuss and to struggle to get, or to try to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [20611/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air and Water Pollution (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that air pollution is the single biggest environmental health risk and that polluted air from solid fuels continues to cause 1,300 premature deaths each year in Ireland; and the actions that his Department has taken to implement the measures to achieve clean air that have...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that the National Famine Commemoration Day 2022 will not be open to the public (details supplied). [22579/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the hare coursing meeting in north County Kilkenny on 17 December 2021, if the figure listed on the report that 47 hares were released after the event on 4 January 2022 is accurate and can be validated given that the report also states that 30 hares were observed (details supplied) . [22574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time that it takes from the moment that a newly built property is made available to a council by an approved housing body to the moment that a tenant takes up residency broken down by each council in tabular form. [22578/22]