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Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: For months, RISE and People Before Profit have been to the fore in calling for mandatory hotel quarantine for all incoming travellers as part of a zero Covid strategy that is based on socialist policies. We are not alone in this. Nine and a half months ago, NPHET wrote to the Government calling for “a mandatory regime of self-isolation for 14 days at a designated facility for all...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Immunity (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of flights given diplomatic clearance since the beginning of 2021. [10118/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: Can the Ceann Comhairle give us the list?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: He is dog-whistling as well.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: We should be clear that if these amendments from various parties are not passed, and the Government has clearly stated its objections to them, then this is not a Bill for mandatory hotel quarantine, as is being reported. It is a Bill for a piece of theatre or a joke about mandatory hotel quarantine. It is a Bill to close one window in a house when the other windows and the front and back...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The private developers say, "Jump" and Fianna Fáil asks, "How high?" It is still firmly the party of big builders and private developers, and this is just the latest proof. In recent weeks we have had the LDA legislation, which is potentially the biggest giveaway of public land and public wealth to profiteers in the history of the State; we have had an attempt, thankfully knocked back,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I agree with the proposal from Deputy McDonald. We need to have a debate about this. One of the issues that is particularly concerning is that it is reported in the Irish Examinerthat the Minister for Finance did not bring any memorandum to Cabinet on Tuesday about his decision but merely slipped it in during an oral briefing on various banking issues. If one looks at the situation in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: We need to have a debate and we need to have a statement from the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: On Saturday, we saw a violent anti-lockdown protest on the streets of Dublin. This protest had the far right at its core, exploiting the widespread frustration people feel about lockdown and the failure of the Government to give people hope in its strategy to eliminate the virus. The far right tried to tap into people's real anxieties and fears. In reality, those groups want to see an end...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will sign the Statutory Instrument to implement the enhanced benefits to the CIÉ regular wages scheme pension as proposed by the WRC in December 2019 and agreed through secret ballot by the CIÉ worker-members of the regular wages scheme in June 2020. [11746/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make provision in the Statutory Instrument regarding the changes proposed by the Workplace Relations Commission to the CIÉ regular wages scheme pension in order that those members of the scheme who have retired since the date of the members ballot in June 2020 which agreed to those WRC proposals receive back payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently introduce a reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio for the staffing schedule for all DEIS band 1 schools and in particular for DEIS band 1 junior schools of at least the same percentage reduction of pupil-teacher ratios provided for the mainstream schools in recent years to address the needs of the most disadvantaged...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made for remote learning to continue for leaving certificate school students in circumstances in which their parents who they live with are highly vulnerable, for example, if they have cancer and their oncologist advises it is not safe for their child to return to school. [11685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the record will be corrected regarding the statement by the chief appeals officer of the Social Welfare Appeals Office to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection that the office does not use test cases in view of the fact this contradicts a letter of 9 January 2019 taking into account...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding recognition of professional researchers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11757/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 840. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being or have been taken to prevent the sale of e-cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age. [11471/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Workers have been treated appallingly during the pandemic. I refer to the front-line health workers, student nurses, Debenhams workers, Arcadia workers, taxi drivers and artists. The list could go on and on but among all the cases of abuses of groups of workers the treatment of workers in meat plants stands out as particularly shocking. They are low paid and highly exploited and are often...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If it is a populist conspiracy theory that the Government represents the interests of the beef barons and not the interests of the workers, why, ten months after this issue was first raised in the Dáil, has the Tánaiste not acted to introduce sick pay for beef factory workers? It is a very simple question. If the Government does not represent the interests of the beef barons, who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank our guests for their presentations. To make a general remark, this conversation has reinforced concerns I expressed at the most recent meeting a couple of weeks ago relating to the problems with the current heads of the Bill, the diminution of democratic oversight and public scrutiny by moving this issue to be dealt with by ministerial order. We are not dealing with the issue of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not really understand why Dr. McGann disagreed with my summary, with all due respect. Dr. McGann said that "shortages among lower-skilled workers and subsequent pressure on wages have the potential to be as harmful to the Irish economy as a shortage of skilled labour". The logic of IBEC's position is that it wants to be able to keep wages low, although it may not describe those wages...