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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered introducing a requirement for identification to be provided by the buyer of a car when ownership is being transferred to avoid a situation in which a buyer can provide a false address. [15530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of thoroughbred foals born over the past five years; the number registered to race on the track; the number of horses exiting racing over the same period; and the number of same that were sent to slaughter. [15584/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the welfare of dairy calves born in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15667/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I support the Bill. Workplace infections are a driving factor in Covid, but that has been hidden by the inadequacies of our testing and tracing regime. If one looked at current Covid hotspots geographically, one would find that they map fairly well onto geographical centres with meat plants. There is a more general point to be made, though....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes. We will go back and forth, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us say that I am in a workplace that asserts it is essential and I, as a worker, do not dispute that. During the first lockdown, I was able to work from home safely and was permitted to do so. During this lockdown, however, I am being compelled by my employer to go to work, as is the case for many workers. If I approach the HSA and say that it is not right, fair or in line with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us get to the bottom line. Let us forget about the question of essential. The issue is that I as a worker was allowed to work from home during the first lockdown and can safely do so, but as appears to be the case for many workers, I am being compelled this time around to go into work. The HSA has advised workers that it is at their employer's discretion whether they return to work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is requesting, but it is ultimately at the discretion of the employer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: How are we a year into the pandemic with many workers being compelled to travel to work unnecessarily, thereby undermining the efforts that we are all making, yet the HSA does not have the authority to do anything about it? As far as I can tell, no other body has that authority either. Surely the HSA should be given the power to conduct inspections where workers could be safely working from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is ensuring that systems are in place in terms of people being as safe as possible when they are at work. That is good and I am all for it. I received a response on this matter from the HSA's head of communications a couple of months ago. As far as I understand, the authority cannot do anything about workers being compelled to work in the workplace rather than from home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If the HSA concludes that a worker who worked from home previously but is not doing so now should be allowed to work from home again, what can it do to an employer who is unnecessarily compelling workers? Can it fine or doing anything to an employer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: But if the employer is breaching other parts of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If the employer is breaching other parts of the work safety protocol, is there anything the HSE can actually do apart from advising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Dr. McGuinness.

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I support this motion and thank Sinn Féin for tabling it. For too long, the hard work of carers has gone largely unrecognised, unsupported and unpaid by the State. The State and the Government have failed to care for the carers in our society. Every day, carers do crucial work supporting our most vulnerable but this and successive Governments largely view their work as a way to save...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [16823/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: In countries that followed a zero Covid strategy, the schools were largely able to stay open after the first lockdown. The same could have been done here last summer, but instead the Government decided on a yo-yo lockdown strategy that has seen schools having to close repeatedly. There is hope and the target of opening schools fully again, but with case numbers so high and the risk of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [13274/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met; and when it next plans to meet. [16824/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is okay.