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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: As our knowledge of Covid has increased, there has been increased emphasis on and awareness of the fact that Covid is airborne and of the very important role ventilation has to play, which is why there is particular concern around indoor hospitality. What ventilation standards for hospitality are being legally mandated by the Government?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Presumably the Tánaiste agrees that Covid-19 is airborne and that ventilation is important. Yet, over a year into the pandemic where we are aware of this fact, there is no legal requirement on pub or restaurant owners to have any ventilation in place to protect their workers. That is a health risk for workers. A well-ventilated pub or restaurant is significantly safer than a badly...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Will the Tánaiste explain the enforcement to me? There is a work safety protocol and reference to various guidelines. However, they are precisely guidelines and not law. The Tánaiste says there are inspections. If the inspectors find that the ventilation is not up to the guidelines, what enforcement can take place?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The problem is that it is precisely guidance and has no legal basis. It is a collection of statements of voluntary public health advice. The Government is asking unvaccinated workers to go back and work in these circumstances. That is completely unacceptable and shows a disregard for the health and safety of workers. The Tánaiste should feel free to come back on that. I wish to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I would point out that we have the Delta variant and we have higher case numbers than we had this time last year.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination last met; and when it will next meet. [34687/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: Has the co-ordination committee discussed the issue of ventilation? Last September, during Leaders' Questions, I said, "One crucial, immediate issue is that of ventilation." Since then, I and People Before Profit have consistently pushed for serious energy and effort to be given to ventilation in workplaces to help to combat Covid. It is ten months on from then. Last week, when I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the new social dialogue unit of his Department will next meet. [34842/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: In response to Deputy Barry on the issue of JobBridge 2.0, the Taoiseach was coy about what he described as the pathways to work scheme. The language he used in respect of activating people who are unemployed, in particular young people, was strikingly reminiscent of the language used around JobBridge. Let us remind ourselves what "scambridge" was about. It involved tens of thousands of...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: The situation of domestic abuse calls to the Garda being ignored is a major scandal. It is not a scandal that should be ended with an apology and a promise to do better. In just one shocking case a woman phoned 999 three times in one hour begging for help for her and her children. In her first call she reported she was being assaulted, in her second call she explained her partner was...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount the Hunger Museum tour of Ireland cost the State. [35769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if further information will be provided on the stated need to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 11 May 2021, the date on which it was discovered that the file was missing; the date the file was found; the location in which the file was found; the person who found the file; if the Taoiseach or others in Government were informed of the missing file; and if An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 15 June 2021, his views on the contents of the 9 February 2013 Report of the Independent Review of the Compulsory Acquisition of Land at Charlesland, County Wicklow by Wicklow County Council. [36046/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the issue of the human rights violations by the government of Saudi Arabia was raised during his meeting with the Saudi Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubier, in Riyadh on 16 June 2021; his views on whether the Saudi Government is in violation of Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if troops participating in the African Lion military exercises passed through Shannon Airport or Irish airspace before or after their military exercise. [36110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Human Rights (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 170 of 21 January 2021 and 1014 of 21 April 2021, if as part the examination by her Department of the ex-gratia scheme for compensation for school victims of child sexual abuse (details supplied) she will consider opening a compensation scheme for school victims of child sexual abuse who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce new work placement experience programmes for the unemployed (details supplied); if so, when it will be launched; the outlines of the schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual cases heard by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in the context of scope section appeals on an annual basis over the past ten years given that the Chief Appeals Officer has stated in the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands the appeals are heard...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 386. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children with special needs living in south-western areas of Dublin; the number of therapists working in the area to provide essential services for these children; his plans to ensure that these services which are crucial for the families of these children will resume to pre-Covid-19 levels; and...