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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the once-off reductions in new enrolments in junior infants in some schools in 2021 due to Covid is now resulting in a reduction in teaching posts for the coming 2022-2023 school year despite a recovery in the numbers seeking enrolment, potentially leading to classrooms being left empty while...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is very clear that this Government is determined to erode any remaining semblance of Ireland's military neutrality. It is doing so extremely cynically by attempting to portray it as a necessary and mature response to Putin's horrendous invasion of Ukraine. The truth is that it is not a new position for the political establishment or Fine Gael. We can go back 19 years to 2003, when Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister agree that there be a referendum and that the people get to decide on the question of neutrality instead of having a false mature public debate which does not actually allow the people to participate? Will the Minister accept that if Ireland is going to join a rapid reaction force which is, in effect, a super-sized European battle group comprising 5,000 soldiers, there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government give the people a referendum before joining the rapid reaction force?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [14273/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last September, the Taoiseach first promised a bonus for front-line health workers who helped in the fight against Covid-19. Seven months on, not a single cent has been paid out and now many workers are finding out that they either will not qualify for the full bonus or they will not get anything at all due to the Scrooge-like terms and conditions being applied. One such group is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all State apologies he has issued since he assumed office. [14275/22]

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for using its time on this issue again. It is ironic. In the past couple of months every time the Opposition demands a debate on something, the Taoiseach, in particular, likes to say the Opposition has all this Private Members' time to use and if Opposition Members want a debate on Yemen or the national maternity hospital, they should use that time. If the Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the asylum process for refugees from countries other than Ukraine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16252/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a massive sense of solidarity among ordinary people with the Ukrainian refugees, who have had no choice but to flee their country and arrive in countries such as Ireland. There is also massive support for the idea that the State must do everything possible to support those people. The question is whether the refugee process will be reformed now so all refugees coming to Ireland...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the processes put in place to assist Ukrainian refugees find accommodation, get a personal public services, PPS, number, access education and healthcare and avail of banking services. They also gain permission to work in Ireland and to access translation services. The processes and hubs that have been put in place are precisely what are necessary for people who are fleeing a war...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State is saying Ukrainian refugees who come here will not have to go into direct provision. They will be given hubs, PPS numbers and education assistance. These are all the things a refugee needs. It is great. It is brilliant. It is what we need for Ukrainian refugees. At the same time, the Government will continue to say people who come from Syria, Libya or wherever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. To quote Mr. Godfrey in his opening statement, he said "Most businesses ... are not in a dominant position, and their pricing decisions are constrained by the need to compete rather than by any legal obligation." In other words, the pricing decisions of most businesses are not constrained by any laws apart from the law not to operate as a cartel....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: That includes war profiteering. It includes the examples of Energia with three price increases in the first six months of last year, a 51% increase in profits; the ESB had big price increases and a 27% increase in profits; Bord Gáis Energy, owned by Centrica, doubled its profits last year set against a 39% increase in the cost of gas coming up shortly. All of that is perfectly legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I accept that. It is not Mr. Godfrey’s fault; it is his job to enforce the law and the law is problematic in terms of not actually protecting people at all. Mr. Godfrey said people are free to make a choice but is there really a choice if, let us say I am a consumer and I am driving around trying to find petrol but petrol everywhere is extremely expensive? What choice do I really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Even the word "unscrupulous" involves a certain moral consideration. While I agree that price-fixing and so on are unscrupulous, I would argue that taking advantage of a war situation to increase profits is also unscrupulous. It is not illegal. It is perfectly legal within the framework of the capitalist market as we currently have it. However, I also think that is unscrupulous behaviour....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to recent allegations from organisations representing sex workers of Garda intimidation and abusive behaviour against sex workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the deportation notice against a person (details supplied); if she will revoke this notice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16255/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Taoiseach the plans that are being put in place to allow those that are homeless, including rough sleepers and those living in cars to complete the 2022 census. [16426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take a public position supporting the necessity for the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of Covid-19 to clearly affirm the Government’s support for such an initiative within the EU (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16403/22]