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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: However, if nobody took the minutes of the meeting, there is no record of who was there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. [55800/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Tomorrow, Seán Binder, an Irish NGO worker and trained maritime search and rescuer faces trial in Greece for the crime of saving people's lives. In 2017 and 2018, he worked with a registered non-profit body that regularly engaged and joint operations with the Greek Coast Guard. His job was conducting search and rescue operations in the Aegean Sea, saving drowning refugees. Now he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which further potential risks have been identified in the context of the national risk assessment. [55799/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The new draft national risk assessment highlights a decline of people's trust in institutions as a risk facing the State. I would make the case that cronyism, corruption and a complete lack of transparency have meant that more and more people are disgusted by the politicians and the institutions in this State. I ask the Taoiseach to comment in that respect on the recent actions of his...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: On 19 October I asked the Taoiseach why the increase in the means test for fuel allowance was being delayed until next January. The Taoiseach told me that the Government decision was to implement the decisions with immediate effect on budget night. I then got a letter from the Minister, dated 15 November, telling me that, in fact, the decision is that the means test will not be increased...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward the Bill, which we support. We support anything that will enable people to take the action that they want to take. The evidence strongly suggests that people are in favour of doing everything they can to try to contribute to the collective effort to avoid the climate catastrophe we are currently hurtling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the officials for their presentations. I will turn first to Mr. Hughes. He spoke of how business supports are still available until the end of the year. Businesses can apply for those supports until the end of December. What explains the contrast between that and the PUP? It is obviously fair enough that a nightclub owner is not expected to do something else if he or she cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Bluntly, to return to the question, what is the rationale for PUP being closed off whereas the business supports continue? To be clear, I am not arguing against the business supports. I am suggesting there is a contradiction, particularly at a time when sectors of the economy are beginning to be closed down. Fair enough, the Department says some taxi drivers have never come off the PUP but...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of the Attorney General (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the full extent of the special and exceptional arrangements made by the Government to facilitate the appointment of the Attorney General in June 2020, which allowed for the continuation of private litigation while at the same time they were serving as Attorney General. [54567/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is still the plan to appraise the three options on the southside of Dublin in relation to MetroLink (details supplied). [56418/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a series of matters in relation to the continuing of MetroLink on the southside of Dublin (details supplied). [56419/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a coroner’s inquest has not been ordered in respect of the Tuam burial site and other institutional sites of unmarked graves; if he will provide clarity on whether the Government will order inquests into the deaths and burials of mother and baby home residents; the reason the proposed certain...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for the drawdown from the fund for former workers of a company (details supplied); and when this criteria was adopted by SOLAS. [56416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the use which will be made of remaining funds of the outstanding balance of the €3 million allocated to the fund for former workers of a company (details supplied) at the end of the two year period of the fund. [56417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if the restored overtime pay as set out in HSE HR Circular 31/2021 will be paid for non-consultant hospital doctors; and if they will also be paid for back pay accumulated since July 2021. [56420/21]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am happy to support the extension of the Act to ensure temporary outdoor seating areas in pubs and restaurants are covered by the liquor licences of the premises. Obviously the use of outdoor seating over the summer in particular was very important in helping to bring down Covid numbers. It also helped to make our towns and city centres more vibrant. It is possible for us to sustain...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [54566/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Someone said to me earlier that Leaders' Questions should be renamed Leaders' obfuscations. I asked three simple questions. I did not get an answer to a single one of them. Instead, I got a repetition of what is just a line that schools are safe places. Is the Taoiseach seriously saying that no transmission of Covid-19 takes place in schools? Is that why he is saying that schools are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: -----if a certain level of carbon dioxide is exceeded, over 900 ppm, then action must be taken. Will the Taoiseach commit to supporting that Bill, even though the Government did not introduce it, to enable people to have safe air and to stop transmission in this way?