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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (21 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on the resources for inspections of dog breeding establishments; his further views on whether legislative change is required in relation to inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7155/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about the National Famine Commemoration Day Bill which was passed on Second Stage over a year ago. What is the plan to progress it to Committee Stage or if there is no such plan, what is the Government's plan to implement the decision to name a day as National Famine commemoration Day?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: I have a quick question on flood prevention measures. There are a number of issues in my constituency, and I presume around the country, where people have suffered flooding. The local authority has engaged in flood prevention work, which apparently is to a 100 year standard, but the people are still unable to access insurance because the OPW does not include it in the memorandum of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: Can anything be done to bring flood prevention works done by a local authority into the memorandum of understanding whereby the insurance companies would be satisfied in terms of the work being done and therefore would provide cover for those cases where they are still not willing to provide it?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review the policy regarding charging motor tax on blood bikes; if his Department has considered the recent policy changes in the United Kingdom in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3947/18]

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: Wait for it.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: The expansion of precarious working conditions is a cancer which is eating away at employment conditions for all in this and many other countries throughout the world. It acts to undermine the rights and conditions - the stability of life - achieved by a previous generation of workers and increases the rate of exploitation by the 1%, which is causing the massive expansion in corporate...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: This issue says something about the culture of light touch regulation pursued by this Government and previous Governments. The deficiency in the law identified and rectified by Deputy Doherty's Bill effectively allowed senior management in finance companies to lie, evade the truth, peddle mistruths and incomplete information to the Central Bank of Ireland and avoid personal criminal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the full commencement of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7636/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department anticipates receiving the results of the pay review into two-tier pay for teachers; the timeframe he envisages to end pay inequality; his views on whether two-tier pay is a breach of the principle of equal pay for equal work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7301/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 542. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the extension of broadband to the Bohernabreena area; the reason there are no plans under way to extend to areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7095/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: I have a number of questions and then I am afraid I must run. My first question concerns the industry's preferred approach of the 2% ex antefund. Is there any danger that, were a major insurer to collapse in the first year or number of years where the fund had not been built up and there were a load of claims, the fund would not be of a sufficient amount to cover such claims?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: Can anything be done to prevent the 2% being passed on to customers? That is the likely dynamic here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: That is the problem. If I were the Minister of State, I would not start with an insurance market that is based on private insurance companies competing for profit.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (8 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Health if it is policy not to adjust the start time on waiting lists for treatment by the school age team should an appeal find that the child's original needs assessment shows that the child is in need of treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6276/18]

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: The name of this Bill, the Climate Emergency Measures Bill, is important. Just as when we talk about the housing crisis, it is vital we call things what they are and in this case we have an emergency, a catastrophe which threatens humanity. Instead of recognising that, political leaders around the world largely fiddle while the world burns, because of the interests they represent, whether...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: It seems Deputy Micheál Martin wants to be the one to be attending Davos. I am not sure that there was some golden age when Davos was anything other than what it is.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: I think the Deputy might like to be back there again. I am sure he will go if he gets a chance to be Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: It will be exactly the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: We get some of that in Tallaght. Not like in Davos though. The event consists of politicians prostrating themselves before the economic elite, doing business deals and demonstrating that they are safe pairs of hands for capitalism. In that respect, I am interested in what the Taoiseach discussed at the impromptu meeting he had with our 1%, Mr. Denis O'Brien, who was not there for no reason....