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- Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)
Paul Murphy: What the public could expect from the Green Party is that it takes the side of the environment rather than of major multinational corporations, but that is not what they are getting. Deputy Leddin was arguably more enthusiastic in his cheerleading for more and more data centres in this country than even the Minister of State. He fits very well the role of outrider for a right-wing,...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Sep 2021)
Paul Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will be reviewing the €320,000 maximum market values of the property that can be purchased or self-built in counties Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow, and the €250,000 maximum in the rest of the country, given that housing prices have increased by almost 7% in the past...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: I have a problem with the use of the word "apartheid". I am against the Bill as well but to describe it as "apartheid" is not acceptable. It undermines the actual reality of apartheid.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: We need answers from the Government about the quite incredible situation involving the Attorney General effectively double-jobbing, acting as legal adviser to the Government during the week while at the weekend, doing what appears to be a nixer for former Independent News & Media, INM, directors. This is the same Attorney General who provided legal advice against a ban on evictions...
- Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to provide for a definition of fresh air based on CO2levels in the workplace as an emergency Covid-19 prevention measure; to provide for health and safety inspectors to take CO2measurements and issue improvement or prohibition notices; to provide for employees to...
- Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Telecommunications Infrastructure (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government updated sections of the Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures Guidelines 1996 in 2012 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48212/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the body with responsibility for the safety of children at school; and the body that has responsibility for the safety of school staff at school. [47711/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is a rule that prevents persons who are on illness benefit from qualifying for fuel allowance and the bonus week payment at Christmas given that there is a provision made for those in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance for 390 days, 15 months or more to qualify for both the fuel allowance and the bonus...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the position of his Department that a school principal would be breaching GDPR by sending an email or letter saying to parents that there has been a case of Covid-19 in their child’s class in the context of the new guidance regarding close contacts in childcare and education settings. [47709/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if the advice from his Department that it does not recommend that principals inform parents about Covid-19 in their children’s class supersedes a school’s duty of care to pupils and school staffs’ right to a safe work environment. [47710/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to improve laws in relation to cruelty to animals given that there has been criticism that the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 contains the term unnecessary suffering which has been deemed too ambiguous to enforce in practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47600/21]
- Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — that energy prices are currently rising rapidly worldwide; — the fact that data centres currently take up 11 per cent of electricity produced in Ireland is adding to upward pressure on energy prices, as predicted by Moody’s in 2018; — that according to the Economic and Social Research Institute, one...
- Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: That is only the case because it is a privatised market.
- Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I thank some of the Opposition groupings that said they would support the motion. I want to respond to a variety of the arguments used by the Government. I will start with what was the elephant in the room in the context of the speeches of the two Ministers of State who spoke, namely, the question of data centres. They spoke about energy...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: I wish to raise a case about an Irish citizen who fled here from Iraq after the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS, took over Mosul. His father and other close family members were murdered. He is currently in Ireland, but his mother remains in limbo, effectively, in Turkey and has been for years. This is the third time I have raised this case in the Dáil. I previously raised it...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase funding for childcare services to make childcare services affordable for all. [49076/21]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: Ireland's childcare barometer shows that 65% of the public agree that childcare, like primary education, should be free. People Before Profit agrees. If we want happy, healthy and developmentally successful children, we need proper State investment in early childhood education and childcare. The Minister spoke earlier about all the supports given during Covid and so on, but will he accept...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: The figures are €638 million this year and €1 billion by 2028. These are inadequate sums. Families are spending 34% of household income on childcare, compared with 3% in Austria and 6% in Sweden, and that is despite childcare workers in many cases earning just the minimum wage. There is a crisis and the Government proposes, basically, to go back to normal. UNICEF recommends...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)
Paul Murphy: Post Covid, this is not a time for half measures; it is a time to restructure the entire way childcare operates, recognise the failure of the current model and set ourselves on a short, direct, rapid path to a national childcare service, publicly provided and free at the point of use. The Minister stated nobody disagrees we are underfunding childcare but, with all due respect, he is the...