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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is no problem. My jaw almost hit the floor during the Taoiseach's response when he said the meat plants have been dealt with. Tell that to the six meat factory workers currently hospitalised with Covid-19. Tell that to the meat factory workers in the two plants that have been added to the list of outbreaks in the latest weekly statistics. There are now open outbreaks in 27 of 56...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next plans to meet. [16825/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The CEO of Beacon private hospital was caught red-handed essentially stealing public vaccines, treating them as his personal property. He should not get any special treatment just because he is the boss at Denis O'Brien's private hospital and part of the golden circle. The Taoiseach says it was wrong and a gross breach of trust. I agree. The question is whether there will be any...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [13273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts due to be returned from employers for overpayments of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy scheme; the manner in which this will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amounts owed by workers for outstanding tax as a result of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the plans in place to deduct this from workers; the way tax refunds due to workers are affected by same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 380. To ask the Minister for Finance the ongoing efforts being made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure full compliance by film production companies with the conditions attached to receipt of section 481 film tax relief particularly following a recent ruling by the scope section that one of the regular recipients of section 481 over many years was found to have wrongly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 381. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax increases; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent announcement that those on the disability allowance will become eligible for PhD scholarships without the loss of disability allowance and a medical card will also apply to those on the invalidity payment and other disability-related welfare supports. [17061/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: Two days ago, public health officials requested that the USA, Germany and 41 other countries be added to the list for mandatory hotel quarantine. This is in order to prevent dangerous Covid variants from entering the country. We still have not heard if or when this is going to happen. Instead, we have the corporate lobbyists, IBEC, out pushing for this public health advice to be ignored...

Employment Permits (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the protection of certain foreign nationals in employment in the State and for that purpose to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003,the Employment Permits Act 2006, the Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act 1984 and the Employment Permits Regulations 2017 and to provide for related matters. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank MII and the MRCI for their presentations. I think the meat industry presents a good case study where there is quite-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The meat industry proves the point the MRCI is making that where there is discrimination and different sets of rules for migrant workers, it serves to undermine working conditions and wage rates for all workers. Covid is a good illustration. It has, unfortunately, shone a light on some of the conditions that exist in our meat plants and that is worth looking at further. I have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The figures I have are from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, from 7 April. Those are the most recently published figures and they state that there are 25 open outbreaks in meat plants. If Mr. Healy has alternative or more up-to-date figures, I would be grateful if he would share them with the committee. On the substance of the issue, does Mr. Healy accept that the fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not agree. The evidence will show that one will find a correlation if one maps meat plants and levels of community transmission on to each other. That has happened at multiple stages in terms of the different waves of the pandemic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: Absolutely. Is it acceptable that, according to Mr. Healy's own statement, eight out of ten workers in the companies he represents do not have access to sick pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I might get an answer to that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The International Transport Federation, ITF, and Kitty Holland, writing in The Irish Times, have shone a light on the super exploitation taking place on fishing boats in Irish waters. Companies are routinely ignoring the laws around the atypical work permit scheme, instead preferring, in many cases, to have unregistered people working below the minimum wage in unsafe conditions. One...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The economic impact of Covid has been shouldered overwhelmingly by ordinary workers and young people, lower paid workers in particular, while a tiny elite of billionaires have actually profited greatly. New figures from Forbes show that the wealth of billionaires increased by more than 60% during the pandemic. Denis O'Brien, owner of the Beacon Hospital and much more, is now €1.4...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: What we had in the Dáil this afternoon was political theatre. This was shown most obviously and blatantly by the climate change denial group which was scaremongering about things that are not in the Bill for some cheap publicity and presumably, hopefully, for some votes down the line. This ignores the fact that it is the small farmers who they claim to stand up for and defend who will...