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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Provision (19 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 578. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average amount spent each year to assist low income persons in securing childcare services. [47211/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (19 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated impact on emissions in a transition across the economy to a four-day work week. [47204/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (19 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any local authorities have commissioned the construction of zero carbon homes. [47230/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Costs (19 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected cost to build a zero-carbon home. [47231/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Costs (19 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected cost to build 100,000 zero carbon homes. [47232/19]

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Minister focused on two themes. First was the argument that Fianna Fáil did it first and, second, there is the notion that no policy change will alter the situation facing people who are waiting on outpatient lists or on trolleys in hospitals. The first thesis is accurate. Fianna Fáil did indeed do it first, but that does not reduce the responsibility of the Minister or of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Retention (20 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time her Department retains data on the route, time and date of journeys taken by individual public service travel pass users in view of the fact that the Secretary General of her Department acknowledged to the Committee of Public Accounts that data is retained. [48108/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: Reference has been made to the possibility that Dublin City Council will decide to increase rents for council tenants. South Dublin County Council has already decided to do this. I want to ask the Tánaiste about what is quite an outrageous decision by his party, Fine Gael, together with Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, to support an increase in rents. There has been a cruel...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste did not even attempt to answer the question. It relates to whether, despite his talk of not targeting anybody, he agrees with the decision of his Fine Gael colleagues, together with their colleagues in Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, to increase council rents for individuals in the South Dublin County Council area. These are individuals on low and fixed incomes whom...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: No, because the Tánaiste has reframed what social housing is. He believes that giving money to private landlords amounts to providing social housing. How many local authority houses is he building? People are right to be angry. There are over 65,000 people in a Facebook group organising for the protest on 5 December. They are ordinary people. They are not organised in any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is €600 per year for a pensioner.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: They voted to increase the rent.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: How many local authority houses?

Supporting Children out of Emergency Accommodation and into Homes: Statements (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I find it very difficult to listen to the Government repeat its excuses about the very worst aspects of child homelessness. 3 o’clock We hear them regularly at this stage. This is presented as a terrible natural disaster, which everyone is working very hard to try to sort it. That obscures the reality that this is an unnatural disaster, one that has been created by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a continued delay in the access to medication for patients with multiple sclerosis in view of the fact that there are a new drugs recently available and accessible in other EU countries, for example, siponimod; the steps he will take to expedite access of such drugs for patients; and the timeframe for same. [48467/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: What period do these figures relate to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: I will cut to the chase in terms of the insurance industry. I think the narrative being spun by the insurance industry about how the primary issue is an increase in claims is falling apart. It is not working well for the industry. The facts do not illustrate it. The dual pricing issue is part of that. Perhaps we can start there before going back to the figures. I am not asking Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: If my twin brother and I have the same job, the same living conditions, the same sort of house, the same car - are identical for all actuarial purposes - Mr. Hassett does not think there is a problem if I, as a loyal customer of insurance company A, could be charged substantially more than my brother, who is a customer of insurance company B but is looking at insurance company A. Mr. Hassett...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: So Mr. Hassett does not agree that such a practice could discriminate against people based on their age, not as an actuarial factor, but to do with the fact that they may not be checking the Internet or scouring price comparison websites. They may not have the time to do it. Mr. Hassett does not think that is necessarily a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: What non-actuarial factors is it fair to take into account when setting price?