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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: What are those industries not in a position to do?

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: Is the reason that Dr. McGann wants these new permits to come in to stop wages rising?

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: Okay. Most people would agree that the workers in these sectors have proven to be essential during the pandemic. We know the very low wages that exist in at least some parts of the agricultural industry. Is IBEC in favour of mechanisms to stop wages increasing in the care work and manufacturing sectors, despite the work of those front-line workers in the pandemic, because the employers...

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: Could Dr. McGann put it in her own words, in that case? What does she want to happen to the wages of what she calls low-skilled workers in the agricultural, care and manufacturing industries? Is she in favour of wages increasing or is she in favour of the mechanism that IBEC is proposing to try to keep those wages from increasing?

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 think it was clear from her presentation that Dr. McGann is talking about using these mechanisms as a means of keeping wages low. It is fair enough if she does not accept that. People can listen to what she has said and read the transcript. I will address a question to Mr. Berney. One thing that struck me in looking over the heads of the Bill was that the penalties for employers...

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: Two weeks ago, we heard that there are only 45 inspectors who are obviously dealing with a whole range of matters, not just the question of migrant workers. In ICTU's opinion, is 45 sufficient for the amount of work to be done?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek to future proof the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2020 against potential misuse of negative emissions technology to delay reducing overall greenhouse gas, GHG, emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1498/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The so-called Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020, or at least the first version of it, amounted to vague promises but no plan for real action. One important area that raises concern is the statement that "the means of achieving a climate neutral economy ... may evolve over time through innovation, evolving scientific consensus and emerging technologies". This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have no problem with, or objection to, using technology in respect of electrification, better battery storage and better and more efficient renewable energy. The question relates to what is being spoken about here and whether this can be used for relying on technological sequestration solutions - the idea of carbon capture. It is the idea that in the future, a person will invent something...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If this is the Bill that is going to be published, and I would like to know when we are going to see the next version of it, then the Minister is going to provide a big escape clause for those who have to take action now, by implying that there will be big technological solutions in respect of carbon capture in the future. It is most problematic. The main carbon capture that we know of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Investigations (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 471. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress of an investigation in the Defence Forces into the involvement of one or more members of same with the far right (details supplied). [13136/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 961. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the policy of allocating only certain types of vaccines (details supplied) for the over 70s in view of the recent decisions in this respect by the French and German Governments. [13443/21]

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: When I read the Government's amendment to our motion earlier, I thought that George Orwell had been resurrected and put to work. I am sure he would not want to be writing Government amendments. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the slogan of the regime famously was "War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength." The Government's amendment suggests that what are the highest fees in the EU...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: This matter arises from a meeting we had with community drug project managers last week. The meeting represented a cry for help and an appeal for help to the Minister of State and the Government in respect of the projects in Tallaght and Whitechurch and, I am sure, throughout the city and country. There is a new drugs crisis in our communities. Widespread crack cocaine use is devastating...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State's response really sums up the problem. That is not personal but the problem is summed up in the fact that it is the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, giving the response rather than the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, and the fact that the major thrust of the answer relates to justice, gardaí, extra resources and so on. This approach is not working. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) in view of his statement in Dáil Éireann on 15 December 2020 in relation to same; and if he has responded to correspondence from the organisation of 25 January 2021. [13629/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [13272/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Last year, we launched a Bill to implement a complete ban on evictions and rent increases during the pandemic. The Government rejected that and instead adopted a piecemeal approach of banning evictions under certain conditions while the 5 km limit persisted. Now we have the potential lifting of the limit, which poses the possibility of opening the floodgates on a large number of evictions....

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. We are now one quarter of the way through 2021 and this country has fully vaccinated less than 4% of the population. It is a similar picture in most countries in the EU because the issue we face at this stage is primarily one of supply. The immediate cause of this is the problems with AstraZeneca, which certainly seems to have sold its supply twice,...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I pay tribute to the Extend Maternity Leave 2020 campaign, which drove a grassroots campaign last year to extend paid maternity leave during the pandemic. More than 30,000 people signed a petition in support of that and the issue was debated in the Dáil. Unfortunately, because of the long and many delays before this comes into effect, the majority of those people who were campaigning...