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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will support the request to establish a working party to investigate the needs of people living with Huntington’s disease and their families and to make recommendations on the actions to be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16388/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 727. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include other workers in the Covid recognition payment that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as those within the HSE working in the role of Covid-19 community swabber; if they will be excluded from receiving the full €1,000 offered to healthcare workers due to not having been in employment between 1 March...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if in relation to the HSE website and the instructions for symptomatic persons in relation to ordering antigen tests, his views on whether the phrasing (details supplied) is discouraging for persons with symptoms to order a test; and if his Department will consider updating this. [16561/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is very clear that this Government is determined to erode any remaining semblance of Ireland's military neutrality. It is doing so extremely cynically by attempting to portray it as a necessary and mature response to Putin's horrendous invasion of Ukraine. The truth is that it is not a new position for the political establishment or Fine Gael. We can go back 19 years to 2003, when Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister agree that there be a referendum and that the people get to decide on the question of neutrality instead of having a false mature public debate which does not actually allow the people to participate? Will the Minister accept that if Ireland is going to join a rapid reaction force which is, in effect, a super-sized European battle group comprising 5,000 soldiers, there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government give the people a referendum before joining the rapid reaction force?

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry. I welcome the Bill and the establishment of the authority as a late and small step towards tackling the reality of Ireland as being in the Wild West when it comes to fertility care. The problem is that the Bill does not do anything in terms of the public provision of fertility care, in particular IVF, and, therefore, does not really address the key...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. I thank Ms Diana O'Dwyer and Mr. Des Hennelly in People Before Profit for their work on the Bill as well as the Bills Office. This is a Bill which, if passed, would mean we would...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government abolished NPHET.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that the Minister of State has the response from the Department and is reading it out, but it is just the same response that we got in October 2021 basically, which is just a sticking to the rigid bureaucratic rules of “these are the numbers, etc.” It is not taking into account the reason that they fell short was because of the pandemic. The school staff then took...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last October, the Holy Spirit junior school in Greenhills was told it would lose a teaching post and would have to go from having four junior infant classes to three. This was because a number of parents who had planned to start their children in junior infants in September decided to keep them back a year in light of the scale of the Covid pandemic at the time and the negative impact it had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) has had an infant class teaching post removed despite having a classroom available and a large waiting list of children hoping to attend; and if she will take steps to ensure this is corrected. [15395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the once-off reductions in new enrolments in junior infants in some schools in 2021 due to Covid is now resulting in a reduction in teaching posts for the coming 2022-2023 school year despite a recovery in the numbers seeking enrolment, potentially leading to classrooms being left empty while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. To quote Mr. Godfrey in his opening statement, he said "Most businesses ... are not in a dominant position, and their pricing decisions are constrained by the need to compete rather than by any legal obligation." In other words, the pricing decisions of most businesses are not constrained by any laws apart from the law not to operate as a cartel....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: That includes war profiteering. It includes the examples of Energia with three price increases in the first six months of last year, a 51% increase in profits; the ESB had big price increases and a 27% increase in profits; Bord Gáis Energy, owned by Centrica, doubled its profits last year set against a 39% increase in the cost of gas coming up shortly. All of that is perfectly legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I accept that. It is not Mr. Godfrey’s fault; it is his job to enforce the law and the law is problematic in terms of not actually protecting people at all. Mr. Godfrey said people are free to make a choice but is there really a choice if, let us say I am a consumer and I am driving around trying to find petrol but petrol everywhere is extremely expensive? What choice do I really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Even the word "unscrupulous" involves a certain moral consideration. While I agree that price-fixing and so on are unscrupulous, I would argue that taking advantage of a war situation to increase profits is also unscrupulous. It is not illegal. It is perfectly legal within the framework of the capitalist market as we currently have it. However, I also think that is unscrupulous behaviour....

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a lot of mysticism that goes on when talking about the increase in energy prices, which basically presents laws of a private, for-profit market as if they are laws of nature. It is as if these prices are going up by themselves, and that it is a natural disaster about which nothing can be done. It removes what is actually going on, which is the profiteering that has already been...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The actions of P&O Ferries last week highlighted the brutality of capitalism, with 800 workers sacked by video call, special handcuff trained security sent in to clear them off the ships and the company hiring new workers on wages as low as $2.38 per hour. This is part of a wider race to the bottom. The RMT union has reported that workers on the Dublin-Liverpool route were on a basic...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of roles that have been filled in the Work Placement Experience Programme; the cost of the scheme to the Exchequer since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7060/22]