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Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 18: In page 6, to delete lines 29 and 30.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 21: In page 7, line 4, after “day” to insert “equivalent to one hundred per cent of an employee’s pay”. This group of amendments deals with the rate of sick pay. All our amendments are effectively trying to get sick pay of 100%. The level of sick pay proposed by the Government is low, let us be honest. It allows for 70% of pay at...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 24: In page 7, to delete lines 5 to 19.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 28: In page 8, to delete lines 20 to 38, and in page 9, to delete lines 1 to 30.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am against the amendment. The original 20 weeks' remuneration was a significant punishment and deterrent for employers who did not pay. Four weeks rather than two shifts the balance slightly but, unfortunately, there will definitely be employers who will think they might get away with not paying workers their sick pay entitlements and the worst that can happen is a penalty of four weeks'...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have one more question. The Tánaiste mentioned legal advice. What did the legal advice state? It can only state there may be a constitutional issue in respect of Deputies drafting legislation because we are clearly changing the law. I am intrigued by that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a family reunion visa (details supplied) which was made on 4 January 2022; and if she will request her Department to expedite this application given the circumstances.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25078/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider IDA Ireland's expansion of its activities in Israel in view of the finding by Amnesty International that Israel is an apartheid state, the recent murder of a journalist by Israeli forces and subsequent police attack on their funeral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25669/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: In January, IDA Ireland appointed a business development consultant in Israel to deepen links with the state that even Amnesty has now describe as an apartheid state. Given last week's horrific war crimes by Israel with the targeting and assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, including an illegal invasion of Palestinian territory and the horrific attack on her funeral, will the Government now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste and the Government have condemned the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, but listen to the spokesperson for the Israeli military, Ran Kochav. He said she was filming and working for a media outlet amid armed Palestinians and stated, "They’re armed with cameras, if you’ll permit me to say so". They see journalists as being armed with cameras because the truth of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: In March, the Minister said his Department was studying the Amnesty International report. Has he studied it yet? What conclusions has he drawn from it? Amnesty International indicted Israel for operating a racist and cruel system of apartheid against the Palestinian people, which is a crime against humanity. It stated that Israel deliberately denies Palestinians their basic rights and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views that an Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS' waiver should be agreed at the WTO in order to ensure access to Covid vaccines and therapeutics. [25228/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: We had a hearing on this in the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment last week. What we heard from the representatives of Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam and the pharmaceutical industry was shocking. Médecins Sans Frontières said literally millions of people have died as a consequence of the failure to give a TRIPS waiver. We heard about the almost $100...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State is closing his eyes to the truth and resting in a comfortable ideology that the free market is delivering. What happened was $100 billion of public money was employed because the public said we needed to develop vaccines and therapeutics as quickly as possible. That benefit was privatised. Earlier, I said they are making $1,000 profit per minute. I meant $1,000 per...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: In 2020, Pfizer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline all spent more on sales and marketing than on research and development.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about the scandals at the top of An Bord Pleanála. The terms of reference of the review have been published and they leave a lot to be desired. They are extremely narrow, dealing with only three particular decisions of the board and only one of the board members, Mr. Paul Hyde. The terms of reference do not include the 2019 case in which Mr. Hyde approved the deeply...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The context of this debate is the sixth mass extinction event, which we are currently living through, with a horrendous, dramatic, marked decline in biodiversity. Some 85% of Ireland's protected habitats are in an unfavourable condition, 46% are in ongoing decline and 43% of protected species are afforded unfavourable status. This biodiversity crisis is part of the rift opened up between...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views that due diligence obligations under the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive should be extended along the whole value chain with no loopholes. [25231/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views that human rights defenders should be named stakeholders in Irish national mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation. [25229/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress that is being made in relation to legislation or regulation to give workers the right to clean air at the workplace. [25232/22]