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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Plaques (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update in relation to the installation of the National Famine Commemoration Day plaque in the Custom House. [5913/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria applied by the Arts Council in providing funding for the publication of books and whether the criteria concerned take into consideration the financial resources already available to the applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5918/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the funding by the Arts Council of a book (details supplied) took into consideration the financial resources already available to the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5919/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding his Department's recent communication on accommodation and support for refugees; the reason it discriminates between different refugees and specifically offers less support to international protection refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the laws and regulations, if any, that exist to ensure that weapons must be disarmed within a certain distance from the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5600/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recent RTÉ Investigates report that showed up to 12,000 vulnerable people were denied their disability allowances by State actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6083/23]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Can we not just throw them all in together? That is what Deputy O'Reilly did.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the Minister. Does he yet have any data on whether any data centres applied for the TBESS?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: To clarify, a data centre could get €30,000 if it had three meter point reference numbers, MPRNs, could it not?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: When the Minister's predecessor was appearing before the committee and we were talking about this, he mentioned work on a future scheme for high energy users, which would be separate from the TBESS. Has there been progress on that? Is it still in the pipeline?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Have any data centres applied to the scheme?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Minister referred to 14 companies. Are any of those companies data centres?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not doubt that they had to meet the criteria; my problem is that data centres are not excluded from meeting the criteria.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not think Government policy should be to give public money to huge energy users. We should not be encouraging the extra use of energy which makes it more difficult for us to meet our climate targets. If energy usage keeps expanding - these users are the drivers of the increase in energy usage - we will never be able to transition to 100% renewable energy. That is why, as a matter of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is not excluding itself; rather, it is the dumping ground for the data of the world's multinationals. There is definitely no danger that it is excluding itself. We are wildly out of proportion in that regard.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I refer to European works councils and the Commission infringement proceedings. I hope the Minister will be appearing before the joint committee on that matter. We had a meeting yesterday at which all the experts agreed that Ireland is in breach. I do not expect the Minister to say he believes we are in breach or whatever, but can he provide information on what is happening in that...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is no problem.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The provision of metrics in the overview is a very good idea. There do not seem to be metrics relating to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, however. The metrics provided are all about creating investment, jobs and so on, and that is great, but why are there no metrics relating to the WRC or the HSA?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: There is a big list of metrics at the end of each section. Why are the metrics for the HSA and the WRC not included there? Why are they just in the body of the text?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Sure. Maybe I am not being clear. On page 64 of the overview, for example, there is a list of published metrics relating to jobs and enterprise development. There is a series of metrics and I was wondering why-----