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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to hold a referendum on the right to water and public ownership of the water infrastructure. [31331/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 410. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recommendations of the Oireachtas Select Committee on Public Accounts in 2018 that the five year duration of the election observation roster should be reviewed as to whether it is excessive; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that EU countries refresh their election observation...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 467. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Permanent Defence Forces including the Army Ranger Wing are still deployed in Mali; if so, the nature of their mission; and if there is a timeline for their withdrawal. [38726/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Council (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that the Pension Commission includes representation of those who would be most affected by an increase in the State pension age by including representation from organisations (details supplied) in the membership of the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37998/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 714. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of rape cases commenced and concluded in each of the years 2017 to 2019 which resulted in convictions. [38030/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the ban on hare coursing until at least the end of March 2020, in a context in which any extension of the current coursing season into March 2020 would be to allow hare coursing during the height of the breeding season and potentially disrupt the reproduction of the Irish hare population. [37984/20]

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Cairns and the Social Democrats for bringing this motion forward. Since I was elected, my colleagues and I have been among a small number of Deputies who every year have opposed the handing over of public funds to the greyhound racing industry. It is great to see this motion and the debate we are having. The bottom line is that there is enormous cruelty involved in the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality is due to meet next. [36616/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who is financially independent is currently being paid €5.45 per day in short-time work support while the person's over-25s colleagues with the same employer and with the same reduced hours of employment are currently being paid €40 per day in short-time work support...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ask the HSE to issue an instruction to all general practitioners to cease charging the holders of general practitioner cards or medical cards for blood tests and other such diagnostic tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38950/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if fur farming will be ended fully after the culling of minks which has been announced. [38946/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any remaining mink in Ireland will be culled as a safety measure against the spread of Covid-19; if he is introducing measures to keep the associated fur farms closed thereby ending fur farming in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38964/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The first thing that strikes me about the Government's approach is the complete lack of urgency. That came across in the Minister of State's opening statement. It was like an Oireachtas briefing. He told us the details of what the report says and then simply said the Government would consider it. What explains the lack of urgency of this Government and the previous Government on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister remind me when the Duffy Cahill report was published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not credible for the Minister of State to claim there is no lack of urgency here when there is a report from 2016. He is saying there is no lack of urgency because it was decided to deal with it in a programme for Government from July. That is not credible at all. If he goes through the Dáil transcripts for the past four years, he will find that it has been raised by Opposition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Even after the situation with Debenhams, the Minister of State is still not giving a commitment to implement any of the recommendations. His position is the same as before, which is that if we can get consensus, we will do it. In effect, is it not the case that if employers say they are not convinced about this, then there is no consensus and once again the Government will not implement the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I do not think that workers around the country will believe that the Government is not implementing these now or giving a commitment to do so because it will do something even better. Perhaps I will be shocked, surprised and very grateful if it does. I have one final question which is somewhat related. Has the Government made a decision about whether it will reinstate the right of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: It creates a problem for workers. If they move on to a different company because they need work, they lose their entitlement. They could have ten, 20 or 30 years of accumulated redundancy.

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I find it quite outrageous, to be honest, that after two weeks of ducking and diving by the Government, in trying to shield the Minister from questioning, we have received a statement that goes on for ten minutes and manages to avoid the central issue about which questions have been raised. The central issue is, if the Minister's story is accurate, on what basis did she decide that...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want a "Yes" or "No" answer to this question. When the Minister spoke to the Taoiseach about this matter, did she mention the fact that there were other expressions of interest besides Séamus Woulfe?