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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reports (6 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has examined the report into the Jobstown protest given to his Department on 26 July 2017 by An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5682/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the employment rights issues raised by the industrial dispute in a company (details supplied) and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6290/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the very serious case of the illegal super-exploitation of workers by a contractor, Kwik Structures. The contractor is involved in student accommodation at Grangegorman, Blackpitts and Boland's Mill, where the main contractor is BAM. I understand that Kwik Structures is due to start work at the national children's hospital site shortly - again, in conjunction with BAM. Kwik...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: The workers in question are now getting organised and taking all the appropriate action. The conditions they face are horrific and similar to those relating to slavery. The conditions in question are primarily focused on migrant workers. Previously, it appears to have primarily involved Polish workers but it now relates to Romanian workers. However, Irish workers are also exploited and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: I think the workers will contact the WRC very shortly if they have not already done so. I draw attention to the fact that the company is due to start work on a publicly-funded project relating to the new national children's hospital. Obviously, if what I am saying is accurate, and I very much believe it is, it would be completely inappropriate for such exploitation to be happening. It is...

Other Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will direct the Workplace Relations Commission to devote more resources to carrying out inspections on fishing vessels (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6016/18]

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

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [4569/18]

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....

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...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fishing Vessel Safety (7 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: 152. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if inspectors at the Workplace Relations Commission have the training they need to carry out inspections on fishing vessels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6015/18]

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]

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 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]

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...