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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department has taken to progress additional regulations on clean air in the workplace as promised in Dáil Éireann in December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53848/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is almost a year since our Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 passed through Second Stage. At that time the Minister of State, Deputy English, stated that we wanted to see it speedily and effectively implemented. He was going to call me that afternoon to see how we could have regulations to get this implemented because we do not need legislation. Where are the regulations? What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State said there will be a code of practice. What will be the consequence if a company does not abide by the code of practice? What is the level prescribed in terms of CO2parts per million in the code of practice? Our Bill did not just relate to Covid, rather, it related to CO2parts per million. It effectively was a proxy for the likely presence of Covid but it related to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Let us see what the code of practice is. I wonder whether there is a need for a primary legislative framework for there to be real, substantial sanctions on employers that do not provide clean air for their workers. Belgium, for example, which has been one of the first movers on this in the EU, is currently introducing something quite similar to our Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The purpose of this question is to ask why the Government has not done what it has promised on several different occasions, namely, to provide a remedy for migrant fishers, or any fishers, who are overworked. They are working long hours in contravention of the EU directive. Currently, they cannot go to the WRC. The Government has promised on multiple occasions that it will introduce...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. I do wish to focus on this issue. The consequence of the Government failing to act on the agreement with the International Transport Workers Federation is that workers like Jose Pame Salandron are not able to vindicate their rights in the WRC. This is a guy who was working 80 or 90 hours a week regularly. He went to the WRC and he was awarded, wrongly,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The settlement agreement was reached on 30 April 2019. The reply to the parliamentary question was given in January of this year. Do the Minister of State and the Government not feel bad that this failure to act has left extremely vulnerable workers ripe for extreme exploitation? They are being left with no remedy in respect of going to the WRC to deal with being asked to work an illegal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support strengthening the very limited TRIPS waiver agreed in relation to Covid-19 vaccines to include suspending all relevant intellectual property rules and ensuring the mandatory pooling of all COVID-19-related knowledge, data and technologies in order that any nation can produce or buy sufficient and affordable doses...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the status of his engagement at WTO and EU level with regard to the proposal to not apply the TRIPS Agreement to cover Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostic tests, as well as the issue of vaccines.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: What is Ireland's position? The Minister of State spoke for a long time but he did not say what Ireland's position is. Does Ireland support extending the TRIPS waiver to diagnostics - technology other than vaccines - or does it not? Does it stand with the poorest people in the world who want to get access to the technology to be able to test for Covid, etc., or does it stand with the big...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: That is not acceptable. We are asking a question. The answer of the Minister of State, repeatedly, was to say we are feeding in to find the best way. I have no idea what this means. Is Ireland at European Council level pushing for the EU to support the extension of the waiver or is it not? We have the right to know what position the Irish Government is taking. The Minister of State does...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mostly public.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support increasing the national minimum wage to €15 an hour in order that it becomes a living wage in the context of the cost-of-living crisis. [53851/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's position on the proposed EU corporate sustainability due diligence Directive, including the size of the companies that should be covered, applicability to the whole value chain and to pension funds and alternative investment funds; and if the Government will move to legislate on these issues in advance of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove data centres from eligibility for the temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53847/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 128 nursing homes of concern that HIQA provided the HSE as stated by the 2020 expert panel; the number of those homes that went into crisis and the death rate in those homes in tabular form. [53949/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 285. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of those homes received HSE support in relation to the list of 128 nursing homes of concern that HIQA provided the HSE provided as stated by the 2020 expert panel and if any of those homes refused HSE support. [53950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the supports the HSE provide to a nursing home in Dublin 7 (details supplied) from 2020 to 2022; the reason this support was provided; when did the home request support; on what grounds and the date the HSE provided this support. [53951/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were received from directors of nursing regarding the non-transfer of residents to hospital who they felt had potential to benefit from hospital treatment. [53952/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on the Circular Economy and COP27, including Climate Justice and Energy: Discussion (21 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank our guests for their presentations and, in particular, for their campaigning, the Fridays for Future school strikes and the activism that has pushed the agenda on climate, biodiversity and the general ecological crisis we face here and throughout the world. I presume some of this will be a little frustrating for them when they go home, because they will have come and said we are...