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Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. It is more than a year since I said in the Dáil that what was happening in aviation was an example of what Naomi Klein calls "shock doctrine", that is, the taking advantage of a real crisis to drive through a pre-existing agenda. In this case, the agenda is to outsource operations, drive down workers' wages and conditions and create a leaner...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I thank, in particular, those who are campaigning for a four-day week. I really think it is an idea whose time has come. It brings together the interests of workers as workers, the interests of those who are unemployed, the fight for gender equality, and the need to tackle climate change. The benefit of the demand is that it can bring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: In those cases where the existing number of hours are squeezed into a lesser number of days, for example, four days, would Ms McElwee not be concerned about the potential negative impact on workers' health, in particular workers in manual jobs who are working for, let us say, ten hours in a day as opposed to eight hours in a day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Ms McElwee has a point there. The question is what to do about that. For me, what to do about that is not to have a model whereby we try to extract 25% more productivity from workers on a per-hour basis, precisely because workers are already very heavily managed, their time is heavily managed in many cases and they already have stressful lives. We should accept that there is a four-day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will finish with a questions for the witnesses representing the four-day week campaign. I appreciate they are trying to get some level of buy-in from employers and convince them it can work, and so on. As part of this they have emphasised that strictly speaking they are not saying it will be a four-day week with a three-day weekend and that they are open to flexibility. There was a study...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Prices (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether eligibility for the fuel allowance should be expanded given the increases in electricity prices and carbon tax. [48554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will halt the tendering of local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Investigations (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 9 September 2021, if it remains his position that no file relating to an investigation was created by his Department in view of an affidavit (details supplied). [48796/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is nonsense.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: No it will not.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government spin is that this is a back-to-normal budget after Covid-19. It is that. We are going back to the capitalist normal of reliance on the market, which means a further deepening of the housing crisis when rents are completely out of control, prices are going through the roof and 10,000 people are homeless. It means a further growth of the hospital waiting lists when there are...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Boyd Barrett and Barry. As we explained and outlined clearly yesterday, this is a budget for banks, landlords and developers. It is not an exaggeration to say there is less than nothing in it for renters, workers, pensioners, carers and the unemployed, all of whom will be worse off in real terms this time next year because what is being given is less than the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a number of employees that have been deemed unable to return to their place of work full-time by their healthcare professional under circumstances in which they are able to fulfil their job in full while working from home when they are experiencing inflexibility from their employers given the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unlike commercial landlords, owner-occupiers and social landlords cannot write-off their defects levies against their tax liabilities (details supplied); and if he will ensure that Budget 2022 contains measures to assist owner-occupiers and social housing providers who have paid or are paying levies for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constituency Commission (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review constituency boundaries considering the recent population estimates (details supplied). [49152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish her Department’s new strategy for education for sustainable development. [49571/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary schools will take into account the difficulties that many transition year students face in trying to get relevant work experience at this time due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic when outlining the requirements as part of the transition year programme. [49682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 862 of 28 September 2021, if he has taken into account concern for the welfare of the animals once they arrive in China; and if his attention has been drawn to the likely treatment that they face (details supplied). [50006/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has been involved in supporting efforts to establish a domestic violence refuge in County Carlow; and if her Department provides assistance to such rural-based community services. [50090/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Over the last two years we have seen a shadow pandemic of violence against women yet in many rural communities and counties such as Carlow there is no domestic violence refuge available. The Carlow Women's Refuge Campaign supported by Councillor Adrienne Wallace has long been pushing for this injustice to be corrected. Numerous reports and experts have recommended it. Two temporary...