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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: As drafted, the balance is very much in favour of the employer. The right to request is very limited when the employer can just refuse and one cannot appeal on substantive grounds. Hopefully, that will be amended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Alan Eustace and Ms Niamh Egleston in Trinity College Dublin have proposed an alternative model of remote working based on annual leave, where a worker would effectively be entitled to a number of days of remote working in the course of a year. Is that something the Department has considered as an addition to the current model, which is based on all-year-round remote working and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Okay. I thank the witnesses.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (10 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 26 January 2022, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Hungary has not complied with the Copenhagen Declaration as Hungary has not provided a legal framework for domestic citizen NGOs to conduct election observation missions; if he will urge a full-scale independent election...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: I will be brief. I thank the officials for coming before the committee. I read the review with interest. The essential findings are that the regulations relating to the organising of social gatherings were not breached but that social distance guidelines were breached for a minute. Will Mr. Hackett outline what precisely was the breach of the social distancing guidelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Therefore if, in the photograph, the people had been drinking champagne but had been 2 m or more apart, there would have been no breach of any guidelines whatever, in Mr. Hackett's opinion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: But, to repeat the question, if they had been standing 2 m apart from the point of view of Mr. Hackett's report, then there would have been no breach of any guidance or regulations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: But just to confirm Mr. Hackett is saying that the precise breach of social distancing guidelines that took place was the fact that they were less than 2 m apart from each other.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Okay. Let us move on. The report puts a lot of weight on the idea that this was not an organised social gathering because if it was it would have been a breach of the regulations and a criminal matter. Was it a spontaneous event?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: It was spontaneous. Mr. Hackett referred earlier to two people who were present. To be clear, certainly from me, there is no criticism of those people whatever. However, how did they know to be present? I think Mr. Hackett has accepted that they were not working on that day. How did they know to be present at the moment when the champagne corks popped and the picture was taken?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Did they come in to do work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: The review says that the review team is satisfied that the vast majority of those present attended the workplace in order to perform essential work-related tasks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: So were they part of the vast majority or were they part of the minority.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: So they were not there to do essential work-related tasks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: So they were there to celebrate the victory of the UN Security Council place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: To be clear I am not making any criticism of them whatever but it goes to whether the event was organised or not organised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: No problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: That is no problem and to be clear, as I stated at the start, I have no criticism of the women whatever and have no criticism of bringing children into the workplace and so on. I do not have any of those criticisms whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: An email from the Secretary General was sent at 5.16 p.m. on 16 June saying: "following our call earlier, SG happy to watch the result down the back of the political open plan ‘in the thick of it’.” Is it accurate to say the photograph was taken at the back of the political open plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: So how can Mr. Hackett maintain that the event was spontaneous when an email referring to it was sent the day before?