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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We should be able to debate this, rather than going off until September.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the social dialogue unit of his Department. [32552/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last week, I and others raised with the Taoiseach the treatment of Tesco.comworkers - those drivers and pickers who make the online store work, who pick up the produce in store and deliver it to people’s homes – and in particular the fact that these workers have had imposed on them unilaterally a change of their rosters which means some of them are down over €4,000 a year...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is profitable.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I asked a question about social media posting by Tesco workers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants. [32553/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The independent review panel on senior public service recruitment and pay processes recently delivered its final report to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. That fundamentally puts the ball in the court of the Government in terms of deciding whether top civil servants - Mr. Watt is on close to €300,000, others are on €200,000...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the State litigation principles announced by the Attorney General. [32554/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday, the Data Protection Commission fined the Department of Health €22,500 for excessive and disproportionate eliciting of sensitive personal details about the private lives of people who had taken legal action against the State over access to supports for children with special educational needs. It came after the exposure of this practice by...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: He said it twice.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach said it twice yesterday. He said it twice deliberately to get the headlines he got. He said it here and at a press conference. That is the truth of it. It is a year since the Government received the report into defects in apartments, which revealed the shockingly widespread nature of serious defects, mostly fire defects, in the majority of apartments and duplexes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent on advertising with RTÉ by his Department in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [34010/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach how much his Department has spent on public relations in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [34012/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: One of the things that emerged from the committee hearings yesterday was the central and important role of Renault as a key commercial sponsor and partner for RTÉ. If one adds in all the other car companies, as well as the other fossil fuel companies, be they airlines or fossil fuel companies directly, that advertise with RTÉ, it must make up a large proportion of the advertising...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the European Council on 29 and 30 June 2023. [34011/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the issue of international parental abduction and ask whether this topic came up at any of the meetings and discussions. This is a situation where one parent takes children out of the State, Ireland, but it could be any state, into another country and they are effectively kept there are not returned to their parent. Obviously, it is a horrendous situation for the parent and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [34018/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the recent criticisms by two organisations (details supplied) of the human rights abuses inherent in the Offences Against the State Acts and Special Criminal Court; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34030/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Taoiseach if he will ensure that long-Covid is included in the terms of reference for the Covid inquiry; and if he will ensure those advocating on behalf of people suffering with long-Covid are allowed to be core participants. [33598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an application for a taxi airport permit (details supplied) has not been granted, given that this person has been advised that they meet all criteria required; if he will instruct the DAA to reconsider this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33845/23]