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- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I do not share the Minister's touching faith in the attitudes of these employers.
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: They are not driven primarily by the safety and the health of their workers; they are driven primarily by the maximisation of their profits and sometimes workers' health and safety can be sacrificed at the expense of that. That is the allegation made by some of these workers. My final question is about the future of agriculture. Small farmers are facing the brunt of the coronavirus...
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: The Minister did not substantiate the claim that these people care about their workers.
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I should-----
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I was not-----
- Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: Maybe we could do question and answer, if we get to it. I will pick up where the Minister left off. I agree that we should have free provision of childcare as a public service. We need to develop a national childcare service in this country, and it can be done. The question is, is now not the time to do it? Our so-called normal model of childcare was a failure. It was a failure for...
- Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: I have another more specific question relating to huge numbers of workers who have been forced to stay at home to mind children in the course of this crisis. It seems that for many workers this will continue to be the case for months to come. Does the Minister agree that parents must not suffer as a result of this, that those who need to stay at home to mind their children, and for whom...
- Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: Annual leave.
- Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: It referred to people who have taken annual leave at all-----
- Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: Including healthcare workers.
- Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: I will try to get through three questions and answers. It is clear from the approach of the Tory Government that the question of a hard border on the island of Ireland is again coming into focus. Boris Johnson, as has been referred to, has ruled out the idea of an extension of the transition period, which means that this can be posed sooner rather than later. It will be posed at the end of...
- Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: A key question in the context of a right-wing Tory Brexit is, as has been referred to, the prospect of a race to the bottom with working conditions, labour regulations and taxation. We have an example now of a company that seems to be putting its workers' health at risk in order to minimise its costs and maximise its profits. We know that a particular fruit company had an internal document,...
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: Last week I asked the Minister about various aspects of the costs we are paying to lease the private hospitals. I asked whether we are paying the directors' pay, the CEO pay, rent or interest for the private hospitals. The Minister said I would get a response in writing from the HSE or the Department within days but I have not received one yet. Fundamentally, I am trying to get to the...
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: I am simply asking whether we are paying-----
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: We have the right to know about this money in the context of a company that paid almost no tax on €170 million.
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: I hope to get another question in but first I will see if we get an answer.
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: Following up on Deputy Bríd Smith's question about workplaces, the Minister has obviously seen the clusters. We have been contacted by many workers in many different workplaces who have had difficulty getting anyone to inspect their workplaces. This is now becoming a very central issue in the context of a phased ending of the lockdown, a return to work and so on. Does the Minister...
- Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: I want to raise an important issue with the Minister, which is the decision of the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, to continue processing adjudications on evictions and other cases without holding hearings. I have a letter from the RTB that says due to the Corona virus all cases will be handled as paper-based adjudication and there will be no physical hearing. There is no proposal for a...
- Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: The Minister did not really answer the question. Adjudications are still happening, even if they may be happening at a lesser volume than before. It is significant that the RTB is saying, and I have a letter from the RTB to someone involved in the case, that it will not be holding hearings. It will not hold physical hearings, but what is contained in that is that it will not hold hearings...
- Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)
Paul Murphy: People are not getting hearings.