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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but it would be a ministerial order that would state, for example, that instead of 70%, a development would go for 65%, based on our experience, or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and the submission. I want to focus on the question of green jobs, which should be central to job creation in the coming years. I know the expert group has a very long report on skills for zero carbon. There is a lot in it that is very good and a lot that I agree with but it tends to take a pretty narrow view of what type of green jobs will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses. To tease this out, I take it that the relatively narrow remit of the report is because there were not clear enough indications from the Government on what it will do on public transport. To be clear I am completely on board with retrofitting, solar power and renewable energy. I am sceptical about the focus on electric cars as a way to go. I will also throw in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have a question on housing, where the witnesses project a significant, and necessary, rise in the labour force. Perhaps they will say this question is beyond their remit, and it is fair enough if they do. Is there an issue with attracting construction workers when apprentices start on as little as €7 an hour and suffer from all of the issues that have been discussed previously by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Donohoe.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the issue of the Debenhams workers. Many times in this Chamber and in the convention centre, the Taoiseach correctly described them as having been treated shoddily and shabbily by their former employer. Debenhams took advantage of the pandemic to walk off and leave its workers high and dry. They waged an heroic struggle which ended after more than 400 days with an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit of his Department. [60212/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: During the first year of lockdown, more than 20,000 fines were handed out for the breaking of Covid regulations. A special hotline was set up for people to report illegal gatherings. Some 3,000 people were fined for attending social gatherings that broke the law, while another 700 were fined for organising those events. Last summer, a group of young people socialising on South William...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: And the law.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: One of the many scandals of Covid-19 in this country has been how our pupils, teachers and schools have been treated. One of the latest episodes is that right across the country today and for the last couple of weeks, people are attempting to teach and learn in temperatures of 8°C, 9°C and 10°C. This is almost impossible to do in those circumstances. The reason is that the...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. There has been much talk about watershed moments and I agree that this moment has the potential to be a watershed moment. It can and must be a watershed moment. What struck me last week, attending the vigil outside the Dáil, is that often you go to large assemblies that are powerful partly because people are shouting and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if those in rented accommodation that are on a pre-pay power plan are also entitled to the €100 off their electric bill in relation to the scheme allowing households to receive €100 off their first electricity bill of 2022. [63057/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Library (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 415. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding the National Library of Ireland provides to the Museum of Literature. [62974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 423. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on the sports capital programme application made by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63601/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove hares from the open season order and stop all shooting, hunting and coursing of hares given the threatened nature of the Irish hare species and the pressure it is under (details supplied). [62995/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local councils carry out means testing and calculation for social housing eligibility based on net or gross income; if the maximum household income will be increased to reflect the rising cost of living; and if local councils remove persons from the social housing list who are over the HAP limit. [63226/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 14 December 2021, the person or body that gives approval for the location of hare coursing. [63295/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses covered by thermal upgrade contract number 123 (details supplied); the number of those houses that have had asbestos identified; and the number in which the asbestos is being removed. [63554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the asbestos identified at a location (details supplied) will not be removed as part of works given that it has previously been suggested by contractors that it should be removed. [63555/21]