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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will clarify what steps she is taking to compensate workers for their losses by being unlawfully misclassified as self-employed by group and/or class by the Social Welfare Appeals Office, which the Minister has been aware of since at least 1995. [49834/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will make a public statement to the effect that the failure of the Social Welfare Appeals Office and Senior Management of her Department to halt the unlawful use of precedential sample/test cases when her Department was first informed of this unlawful practice may now...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if hare coursing meetings at Fermoy and Trim, scheduled to take place last weekend, were called off; if so, to outline the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2012 and 2022; and the number of those inseminations that were carried out with sperm straws collected from now deceased stud dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022 will include a ban on surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49626/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the traceability system (RCÉTS) for greyhounds is not utilised to provide a full picture of what happens with greyhounds in Ireland, i.e., outlining on a regular basis how many pups are born in any given year, when they die and if they are exported. [49627/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of correspondence from Caredoc (details supplied); if he will keep the terms and conditions of these workers in line with Section 38 and HSE staff, given that the CIT team in Caredoc is the only national team not to have received the building momentum pay rises and 37.5-hour week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49775/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: While the Taoiseach was away yesterday, the Ministerfor Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, took Leaders' Questions and he said that Israel is waging a war on children. Does the Taoiseach agree that Israel is waging a war on children? There is plenty of evidence to show that they are. Almost 5,000 children in Gaza have been killed by Israel. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I asked the Taoiseach last week about this deal for a data centre from South Korea in Ireland. I was spun a line about fuel cells and so on. The Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, said, "If we can build data centres that are powered by fuel cell technology, initially gas, but in the future hydrogen, then that really does change the dynamic". It is classic greenwashing-speak by the Government,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I attended an excellent town hall meeting organised by the North West Migrants Forum at the end of September. It has done very good work on highlighting the reality of the invisible hard border that exists on this island for non-EU nationals. There was another example of the consequences of this in terms of racial profiling on 7 November, when a black passenger was removed from the X4 Derry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I will start with Ms Donnelly. As I understand it, the role of the Climate Change Advisory Council is to advise the Government on, among other things, how we can transition to a carbon neutral economy. It is not bound by the energy policy of the Government or anything else, so it is free to advise what is necessary. Ms Donnelly listed the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I understand that answer. Maybe I will unpack it in a couple of different ways. It may be the case that Ms Donnelly and I disagree on how positive data centres are for our society. Senator Dooley compared data centres to the filing cabinets of the 1980s. In responding Ms Donnelly did not disagree with that. Let us say 18% of our electricity consumption at the moment goes on data centres....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I think Ms Donnelly is fundamentally wrong. I suggest that, as chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, this is information she surely must have. I do not see how she can come before us and say we should fire ahead and have more data centres, so long as we have corporate power purchase agreements and so on, without knowing how much energy is spent on useful things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Sure. Has the CCAC tried to get this information about what the energy is spent on? I would wager that a small percentage of the total energy is spent on actual data storage of filing-type stuff. A relatively large percentage is spent on Netflix, YouTube etc., which people genuinely use and get enjoyment from and so on. Also, another very significant percentage, perhaps even a majority, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: What I am suggesting to Ms Donnelly is that even to think about her own computer, and the noise it makes when it begins to whirr and make activity. If it is just sitting there storing one's data on any given day, it is not making much noise or using a whole lot of energy. One can turn one's computer off and the hard drive still has the information on it. One's computer begins to whirr,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I take the Chair's point, and I will move on. I accept Ms Donnelly's framing and that what she is saying is a problem is also a problem. I do not accept that it is the only problem. Does Ms Donnelly not see that even if we can bring the renewables into stream and on time in order to accommodate this further growth of data centres, there still is a problem. There are two problems. One...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yes. We have to electrify and then go to renewables.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the CRU why the current consultation on large energy users is proposing only to introduce new requirements and conditions for new data centres as opposed to existing ones?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Finally, has the CRU communicated carbon budget obligations to Gas Networks Ireland, GNI?