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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 672. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the breakdown by Garda district of fines and arrests in relation to the Covid-19 legislation. [26330/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is a grave injustice being done to the 149 pupils who attend Knockmore Junior School in Killinarden and a similar injustice being done to 91 other schools and the children who go there. These are schools that applied for the hot school meal programme because they need it and they lost out on the basis of a lottery. It is completely unfair. There is plenty of academic evidence, not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: To start with the point about the lottery system, it is good that the Minister of State recognises that it is inadequate. Frankly, it is sick that in 2021 pupils are relying on a lottery to determine whether they get a hot meal in school. Either the programme is necessary, which the evidence suggests is clearly the case, or it is not but it is not acceptable in this day and age that...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There have been decades of underinvestment in our water infrastructure. That underinvestment continues, and the danger is that it will be used as another excuse to try to introduce water charges, which still will not resolve the underinvestment. Last week, the OECD called for the reintroduction of water charges in Ireland. In case the Government gets the wrong idea, it must be put on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is noteworthy how the Taoiseach is the only man in the building without an ideology. It really is quite striking. It is the best kind of ideology when you do not admit that it is an ideology. Parents and staff at Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School have been forced to struggle again and again to ensure they have buildings for the kids and students on the school site. Last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [24256/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The statement of the EU Commission President that she condemns indiscriminate attacks by Hamas on Israel was scandalous. There was no mention of the ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem. Neither was there any mention of the pogroms being carried out by far-right Israeli activists in Israel, with the backing of state forces, against Palestinians. Likewise, there was no mention of the bombs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [26512/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is reported that yesterday the Cabinet agreed to seek to extend the sweeping Garda emergency powers to November with a possible extension all the way to February 2022. Shamefully, while political parties have been exempted from the ban on gatherings, workers' pickets and socially distanced protests have been effectively banned for over a year. Recently, taxi drivers were threatened with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach never answers the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach should answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26244/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26245/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not think it is an accident that the housing policy of this Government and many previous Governments has not solved the housing crisis and has not addressed the needs of ordinary people, but instead has lined the pockets of developers, speculators and investment funds. I put it to the Taoiseach that is because housing policy has been captured by those interests. We have seen many...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest engagement with the social partners. [24670/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has approved the resumption of point to point racing which is now taking place with large crowds in attendance; and if he will act to stop it in view of a Government request that it be discontinued under current Covid-19 regulations. [26796/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: On the previous decision made by IDA Ireland to employ a consultant in Israel, does the Tánaiste think that it is still appropriate to go ahead with this, considering the situation facing the Palestinians and the role of the Israeli state in terms of apartheid conditions, pogroms within the borders of Israel, ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem and bombs raining down on Gaza being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: Right now bombs are raining down on Gaza and children are being-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister for Foreign Affairs has previously stated in written answers to parliamentary questions that IDA Ireland operates under the aegis of the Tánaiste, so he has responsibility here and can make a political statement about whether he agrees with IDA Ireland expanding its operations into Israel at this time. On Facebook's content moderators, the Tánaiste made the point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste. A general point that was raised about the conditions facing content moderators was, in effect, the two-tier workforce, with those who work directly for Facebook and have access to proper psychiatric counselling and so on and those who work for various outsourcing companies, such as Covalen and others, who do not have access to that, to wellness coaches and so on....