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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us get to the bottom line. Let us forget about the question of essential. The issue is that I as a worker was allowed to work from home during the first lockdown and can safely do so, but as appears to be the case for many workers, I am being compelled this time around to go into work. The HSA has advised workers that it is at their employer's discretion whether they return to work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is requesting, but it is ultimately at the discretion of the employer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: How are we a year into the pandemic with many workers being compelled to travel to work unnecessarily, thereby undermining the efforts that we are all making, yet the HSA does not have the authority to do anything about it? As far as I can tell, no other body has that authority either. Surely the HSA should be given the power to conduct inspections where workers could be safely working from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is ensuring that systems are in place in terms of people being as safe as possible when they are at work. That is good and I am all for it. I received a response on this matter from the HSA's head of communications a couple of months ago. As far as I understand, the authority cannot do anything about workers being compelled to work in the workplace rather than from home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If the HSA concludes that a worker who worked from home previously but is not doing so now should be allowed to work from home again, what can it do to an employer who is unnecessarily compelling workers? Can it fine or doing anything to an employer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: But if the employer is breaching other parts of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If the employer is breaching other parts of the work safety protocol, is there anything the HSE can actually do apart from advising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Dr. McGuinness.

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I pay tribute to the Extend Maternity Leave 2020 campaign, which drove a grassroots campaign last year to extend paid maternity leave during the pandemic. More than 30,000 people signed a petition in support of that and the issue was debated in the Dáil. Unfortunately, because of the long and many delays before this comes into effect, the majority of those people who were campaigning...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. We are now one quarter of the way through 2021 and this country has fully vaccinated less than 4% of the population. It is a similar picture in most countries in the EU because the issue we face at this stage is primarily one of supply. The immediate cause of this is the problems with AstraZeneca, which certainly seems to have sold its supply twice,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [13272/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Last year, we launched a Bill to implement a complete ban on evictions and rent increases during the pandemic. The Government rejected that and instead adopted a piecemeal approach of banning evictions under certain conditions while the 5 km limit persisted. Now we have the potential lifting of the limit, which poses the possibility of opening the floodgates on a large number of evictions....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered introducing a requirement for identification to be provided by the buyer of a car when ownership is being transferred to avoid a situation in which a buyer can provide a false address. [15530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of thoroughbred foals born over the past five years; the number registered to race on the track; the number of horses exiting racing over the same period; and the number of same that were sent to slaughter. [15584/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the welfare of dairy calves born in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15667/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State's response really sums up the problem. That is not personal but the problem is summed up in the fact that it is the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, giving the response rather than the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, and the fact that the major thrust of the answer relates to justice, gardaí, extra resources and so on. This approach is not working. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: This matter arises from a meeting we had with community drug project managers last week. The meeting represented a cry for help and an appeal for help to the Minister of State and the Government in respect of the projects in Tallaght and Whitechurch and, I am sure, throughout the city and country. There is a new drugs crisis in our communities. Widespread crack cocaine use is devastating...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: When I read the Government's amendment to our motion earlier, I thought that George Orwell had been resurrected and put to work. I am sure he would not want to be writing Government amendments. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the slogan of the regime famously was "War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength." The Government's amendment suggests that what are the highest fees in the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) in view of his statement in Dáil Éireann on 15 December 2020 in relation to same; and if he has responded to correspondence from the organisation of 25 January 2021. [13629/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek to future proof the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2020 against potential misuse of negative emissions technology to delay reducing overall greenhouse gas, GHG, emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1498/21]