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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any of her predecessors made a request to the Chief Justice to appoint a judge under section 21 of the Courts of Justice (District Court) Act 1946, or any other similar provision, to investigate (details supplied). [44434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the inquest in relation to the Stardust fire; the timeframe and budget for same; and her views on whether the resources allocated will be sufficient. [45121/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 579. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a nursing home (details supplied) has received three poor inspection reports in a row; the reason the Chief Officer of HIQA has not used their powers under section 59.1(iii) of the Health Act 2007 ; and the reason they have not requested a court order to enforce improvements needed at this home. [44640/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 30 June 2021, if a decision has been made on the inclusion of rabbits in the Animal Health and Welfare (Fur Farming) Bill 2020. [44433/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: -----is a parallel justice system simply set up for corporations. That would be a consequence of us signing up fully to CETA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Correct. So it is another avenue-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CO2 monitors required to provide one for each classroom, learning support room, staff room and other school spaces in which they are required; the number that have been provided to schools to date; and when the remaining monitors will be delivered to schools. [45677/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: We are a year and a half into a pandemic. We know very well the virus is airborne and that ventilation is crucial, and yet we still do not have CO2 monitors in every classroom across the State. According to what the Minister has just said, we are almost finalised and, therefore, there is not even a plan to have CO2 monitors for every classroom across the State. Why are we scrimping and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government has taken a policy decision not to provide a CO2monitor for every classroom in this State. That is a scandalous policy decision. The Government has also taken a policy decision not to provide high efficiency particulate air, HEPA, filtration systems where necessary. To make our schools reasonably safe from a ventilation perspective would cost €10 per child but the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The change in policy with regard to close contact tracing does not make sense. If a child goes to a birthday party for half an hour, that child is counted as a close contact and has to be tested. However, if they are in school and in the same pod as another child all day, every day, for a week, all of a sudden they no longer count as a close contact. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is 3%.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Put the houses on planes and fly them out.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Tánaiste to go outside to meet the students who will sleep out overnight to highlight the student accommodation crisis. They will tell him this is the worst the crisis has ever been. They will tell him stories about the very many students who still have no accommodation, who are commuting long distances every day, who are paying extortionate money in hotel fees or who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to explore further what regulatory chill looks like in reality and what it will mean for people as opposed to it all being highfalutin treaties and the ICS. To take a current issue which is data centres, we may have electricity blackouts this winter. Electricity prices are going through the roof, primarily because of international factors but also because the data centres currently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: So they could sue through the ICS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not know whether the Minister is being deliberately obtuse about the difference between national courts and ICS. Does he accept that there is a substantial difference in that the national courts rule on the basis of Irish and European law, which can be changed by different parliaments and governments being elected, and even the Constitution in our case, but the investment court system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: There are plenty of bad ISDS mechanisms. There is no question about that. That is where the 1,000 Canadian corporations are taking these cases worth hundreds of billions of dollars. They have been widely criticised. There is no question that these exist but this is a new development in respect of the EU and Canada. As has been said repeatedly by the Minister and others, this will be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, I am absolutely against ICS mechanisms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Rather than having parallel justice systems for corporations, they and individuals should be able to take cases, as it is possible to do now, which the Minister has stressed repeatedly, in national and European courts. We do not need a special corporate courts process.