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Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. I will make several different points concerning Covid, but particularly on the repressive powers the Minister proposes to extend now. We oppose those repressive powers and their extension. It is striking to compare the approach taken by the Government in extending significant restrictions on civil liberties to its approach concerning...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The central issue here is simple. When Covid hit, student nurses and midwives stepped up to the mark and went above and beyond the call of duty in the fight against Covid. Last year, under pressure from student nurses, from the left and from People Before Profit, the Government finally recognised they deserved to be paid and gave them the healthcare assistant rate of €14 an hour....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: There were 3,726 Covid-19 cases confirmed yesterday. This is the highest figure since January. Schools are on the front line of the fight against Covid-19 and they are not getting the support they need from the Government. Back in September, the Government decided to stop contact testing and tracing in schools. In this Chamber I described this as a hear no evil, see no evil policy and the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Look at 5- to 12-year-olds. I am not saying that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: They need HEPA filters.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with marine and fishing will next meet. [53179/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will be very brief. In September, the ban on large trawlers fishing within Ireland's inshore waters was lifted following a Court of Appeal judgment. These trawlers are extremely damaging to our coastal environments and fish habitats. They damage our marine biodiversity. They are also damaging to the interests of small fishers. They do not practise a sustainable form of fishing and they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: He would need an hour.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [53180/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The UN emissions gap report gives lie to the empty rhetoric of world leaders in Glasgow. In analysing the new nationally determined contributions, it outlines that what has been agreed thus far by various states would mean reducing carbon emissions by only 7.5% by 2030, as opposed to the 55% level that is agreed to be needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. We are on a trajectory to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Capitalism is responsible for the climate crisis - sure. The Taoiseach thinks capitalism is not responsible. That is fine.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Come on.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will focus my remarks on COP26 and the coup in Sudan. The Taoiseach’s doublespeak on methane is precisely the kind of blah, blah, blah, that Greta Thunberg was warning about. Yesterday he signed up to a global target of 30% reductions in methane by 2030, the absolute minimum necessary, and today he says that Ireland will not even try to meet that target, by setting a 10% target...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the planned timeframe for ratifying the CETA trade agreement. [53136/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has read the 2021/2022 report from a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53135/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the new Work Safely Protocol; and his plans for updating the protocols. [53137/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay Commission (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his recent appointments to the Low Pay Commission; and his plans for further changes to the make-up or remit of the commission. [53138/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cross-Border Co-operation (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will hold an independent external inquiry into the process by which the appointments to the board of the Loughs Agency in October 2021 were made, particularly as the positions and the selection criteria are not publicly advertised; the way and the reason candidates were appointed to the board for the first time...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the anomaly whereby a person could be refused a driving licence test in their car by the Road Safety Authority for not having a valid NCT disc on the day of their test given their NCT could be valid by virtue of the four month extension. [52074/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the usage statistics for each individual station of the Limerick, Cork and Galway bike schemes that are available in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53246/21]