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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021; and when the legislation outlawing fur farming will come into effect. [5302/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Bríd Smith. The Minister will be aware of the very high rates of Covid infection that continue among children, particularly those between zero and five years of age. During the week, I got figures about the levels of hospitalisation, which are strikingly high for those aged between zero and five. This is understandable as they are the one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is one vital piece of information I do not think was contained in the Minister's answer and that I would be interested in getting, that is, how many of the crèches and other childcare facilities have HEPA filters installed. That is key information the Government and the Minister absolutely must have. We know from Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HSPC, figures released this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: It seems to me that the fact the Minister does not have the figures illustrates the problem with this approach of establishing a grant and then crèches and crèche operators having to jump through various hoops to get the grant and then install the filters, as opposed to simply going out and saying this is important and that the Department will centrally purchase the appropriate...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: That might be a bit hopeful.

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett and, possibly, Deputy Barry. I will start by making some suggestions as to how the small but positive reforms contained in this Bill could be improved before moving on to the wider issue of workers' rights. The Bill states that periods of time up to September 2021 during which workers were laid off because of Covid emergency measures will...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I cannot think of the last time that, by the time the Government came forward on Second Stage with a proposal, it had basically publicly acknowledged it was not good enough and would not do anything. That is the state we are in now, given the comments that have been reported from yesterday's parliamentary party meetings. On the one hand, it speaks to the scale of the crisis facing...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: In his concluding remarks, the Minister mentioned taking the lead in creating five new workers' rights, one of them being the right to request remote, home or hybrid working. What he is talking about is not really much of a right if it is just the right to request. If we had a situation where one has a right to request the minimum wage, people would think that was laughable. It is similar...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will explore that further. I take the Minister's point, which I welcome, that he is willing to review it. As it stands, however, all this provides is the right to request and the right to the employer to say "No". Even the suggestion that 13 reasons might be too many misses the point. The 13 reasons are just examples that are given. Instead, there is an overarching position that the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is counter-posing an absolute right to work remotely, regardless of job, versus no right whatsoever. To be clear, what the Minister is proposing is not a right to remote working in certain circumstances. All that is being proposed is the right to request it. There is a big gap between the absolute right to work remotely regardless of the job and, on the other hand, just the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I will speak again in the second round.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will withdraw the tender for local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in view of the rapidly rising cost of living she will reverse the cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment and cancel planned future cuts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5403/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a commitment will be made to ending privatisation and outsourcing of the social protection system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5400/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing social welfare claimants the option of continuing to receive their payments into their bank account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the rising cost of living will further worsen child poverty; and the measures she will take to address same. [5404/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The discussion on carbon budgets, and ultimately the decisions that will be made, will be some of the most important decisions made by this Dáil. The Government, however, proposes to ram through the committee report on carbon budgets with no opportunity whatsoever to debate it here in the House. The truth for that is because what is contained within the committee report is a cop-out....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: This is a committee report. There is no-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: That is what the Government is doing.