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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will instruct his Department to investigate a case (details supplied) in relation to the warmth and wellbeing pilot scheme in 2017; if he will ensure that this person's heating is repaired at no cost to them and the original installation company held responsible for their faulty work. [59921/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that students who qualify for learning supports in primary, secondary and higher education, lose all these supports if they go to further education (details supplied); his views on whether marginalised students deserve the full suite of options that others can utilise to nurture their educational journey and navigate full lives; and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to confirm with the Minister of State that companies that run data centres will be eligible under the TBESS to get as much as €30,000 per month if they have three meter point reference numbers, MPRNs, and up to a maximum of €500,000 in total.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State can confirm that data centres are eligible for the scheme and could draw down a maximum of €30,000 per month.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: At a time when ordinary people are struggling to pay their bills and worrying about what will happen over the winter, how is it being justified as a policy decision that people, through the State, may be transferring money to some of the largest and richest corporations in the world to help them with their energy bills?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will revert to my question. How can the Government justify asking people who are struggling to pay their bills or put food on the table to hand over money to some of the richest corporations in the world to help the latter with their bills?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am asking why the Government did not exclude a category of businesses. I am not asking about particular businesses. I am asking why the Government did not say that huge energy users, such as data centres run by some of the richest corporations in the world, were excluded from this scheme to get State funding.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: So it is because of speed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: How does paying data centres for their energy usage tally, correlate or cohere with the Government's rhetorical commitment to act on climate change? We are keeping Moneypoint open on fossil fuels in order to provide electricity for data centres, which use more electricity than all the rural homes in Ireland combined. Is that not a deep incoherence in policy?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: When the Minister for Finance was asked about this issue, he said the Department of business, enterprise and innovation has indicated it will bring forward a scheme to try to offer support to higher energy users "a little later in the year". There will be another scheme to facilitate companies like data centres. What is that scheme?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: They are the biggest higher energy users.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Is a scheme coming for higher energy users?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will there be a scheme by the end of the year? We are nearly at the end of the year.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am running out of time.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will quote from the first recommendation in the committee's report. It states: The Committee has not seen sufficient evidence to support the proposed introduction of a Seasonal Employment Permit, and it is also concerned about the lack of detail in the proposal. [...] The protections and provisions under the existing General Employment Permit scheme must not be diminished, and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: We will not persuade the Minister of State and he will not persuade us. The protections will not change the essence of the thing which is that a particular employee can bring in someone for a few months. They are absolutely tied to that employer. They cannot go elsewhere and at the end they must leave. Inherently that is rife for exploitation, particularly when we consider the industries...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I accept that the majority will not be a problem. It does not have to be 100%-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The rationale for this is very simple. It is to shift more power to the worker as opposed to the employer. It gives workers mobility and the ability to walk away from a bad exploitative employer and move somewhere else without all of the barriers that currently exist. It would reward good employers because it would mean people would stay with them as a consequence of them being good...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, we heard about a crisis in our banking sector and that we cannot attract the bankers we need to lead our banks like they did before the crisis. The answer from the Government for that crisis was to get rid of the pay cap of €500,000 so we can pay them millions of euro like they were paid before the banking crisis that we all experienced. This week, we hear about a much...