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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: One of the suggestions Mr. Sack makes for a remedy is to use the Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006. How do we know that will work? How many cases have been taken to the WRC about these sorts of issues under this Act? How have they gone? What has been the outcome?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I think there have been six cases taken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Has that worked well for those who have taken cases? It has not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: There is a certain view that the Act is weak and was watered down through a process of corporate lobbying when it came into effect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: How can we ensure that any dispute mechanism allows an entire EWC to take a dispute and not just an individual member?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: While we are on that subject, will Mr. Sack talk a little to us about the Central Arbitration Committee, CAC? Will he tell us what kinds of cases it dealt with, how it dealt with them and whether there are things we can learn there?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that community welfare officers are readily accessible to all who need them, and that additional needs’ payments are processed promptly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6337/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the length of time it is taking in different areas to process additional needs payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of requests for additional needs payments in the month of January; the number granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is concerned at the lack of access to community welfare officers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will immediately review social welfare rates in light of the rising cost of groceries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount dispersed in additional needs payments for the month of January; the amount requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6084/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the reason for the poor quality service and lack of service provided by a company (details supplied) on its 75 and 175 bus routes; if he will consider reassigning the routes to Dublin Bus as a result; if he will make available increased resources for the operation of routes 75 and 175; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of private and voluntary homes to which the HSE offered crisis support during the Covid outbreak crisis; the number that received and the number that rejected such support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints HIQA has received in the last year regarding restricted visiting in care homes. [6194/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints that were received by the HSE adult safeguarding teams in regards to nursing homes since March 2020, in tabular form; the number relating to public nursing homes, private nursing homes and people living in the community, and also a breakdown by county; and the number of private nursing homes that allowed or denied...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints received by the office of the confidential recipient since March 2020, with a full breakdown by concern type, that is, safeguarding, standards of care or medical errors; and the number of concerns or complaints that were referred to safeguarding or An Garda Síochána. [6196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the process involved in HIQA deciding whether to refer safeguarding concerns to safeguarding teams or to An Garda Síochána, including the length of time it takes to decide if a matter should be referred to safeguarding teams or to An Garda Síochána; and the expertise in safeguarding possessed by the decision makers. [6197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only ten concerns relating to nursing homes were reported to safeguarding teams from the period from 2020 to the end of November 2022, out of more than 3,000 concerns recorded by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6198/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if the mistreatment of a patient in a nursing home (details supplied) was reported to safeguarding, HIQA and-or An Garda Síochána; if any investigation took place into who was responsible for locking the door of the room in question; if any disciplinary procedures were instituted in relation to the locking of the door; if the patient and-or their...