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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the plans by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to run a full-scale election observation mission for the forthcoming elections in Serbia with both long and short-term observers; if long-term and short-term observers from Ireland will be provided for such a mission; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 20 civil society groups in Hungary have urged the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to conduct a full-scale election observation for the forthcoming elections in Hungary and that this has been supported by a number of MEPs; if he plans to support the running of such a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget in 2022 for Ireland's election observation programme; if the budget includes provision for the recruitment to a replacement roster in 2022; the number of observers on the current roster; if observers must be tax resident in Ireland; if not, the number of non-tax resident observers on the roster; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is involved in carbon offset programmes for airline travel journeys undertaken; if so, the details of the programme; the amount spent on the programme in 2021; the budget for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reassess the policy in relation to the Irish exemption and autism to offer an exemption on the basis that a child has a significant processing disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied). [3702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consider an appeal by a person (details supplied). [3718/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Apologies, I only have seven minutes. I will return to my question. I am not talking about the technology sector in general; I am talking about data centres. Does Mr. Shanahan believe Ireland is a data superpower and what does that mean? Perhaps he could be more precise. How many people are employed in permanent jobs in data centres in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: How many people are employed full-time in data centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I would say it is a few hundred people. Does Mr. Shanahan agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I would argue that far from us being very lucky to have all these data centres investing here that Ireland and IDA Ireland, which is a part of this and it is nothing personal, are dupes of the big tech companies. The talk of Ireland being a big data superpower is about buttering us up. Ireland is simply a dumping ground for data. It brings very few positives in terms of long-term jobs,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Attracting more data centres to Ireland still appears to be a key part of the IDA Ireland strategy from 2021 to 2024. There are many references in the strategy to cloud computing, artificial intelligence, AI, and big data. Are data centres still a key part of IDA Ireland's strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: When the witnesses referred in the opening statement to targeting 60 sustainability investments, were they including data centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: There are to be no more data centres in Dublin and the east of the country but potentially a bunch more in the rest of the country, regardless of the additional burden owing to the additional electricity demand. The problem is that while the figure of 11% was correct, it is up to 17% at this stage. It keeps rising because we keep adding more data centres to the grid. That is a problem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Much of what happens in data centres is not necessary. Much of what happens in data centres involves running significant numbers of algorithms to target Mr. Shanahan and me with advertising. We do not know what is happening because it is in a big black box. I thank Mr. Shanahan.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the brutal repression of uprising in Kazakhstan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his attendance at an event after a champagne party in Iveagh House on 17 June 2020. [3841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 19 January 2022, the way his Department plans to ensure the €100 payment is reflected in a saving for tenants given that tenants are more in need of the saving than landlords and that there are many landlords with the prepaid power account for a tenant’s home...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider in relation to the Covid recognition payment including other workers that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as security guards. [3977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider in relation to the Covid recognition payment including other workers that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as catering workers that fed staff and patients throughout the pandemic. [3978/22]