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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to media reports over the summer period reporting a drop in full-time equivalent students of in excess of 2,400 over the previous year at TU Dublin, and given that the FTE figure is calculated for funding purposes, he will confirm what the actual drop in this FTE figure was for TU Dublin; and what the decrease in funding will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the HEA published student number data by mode of study full-time or part-time, the number of full-time students includes students registered on full-time programmes but who are repeating modules and not completing 60 credits in the year; if the same is true for part-time students; and if the figure for part-time students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the role of President of TU Dublin which was advertised on the basis of it being a seven-year appointment with the option for the governing body, based on a performance review, to extend the appointment for a further three years, he will confirm that the TU Dublin governing body will evaluate the performance of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total spend on legal fees by each of the technological universities for the past five years (details supplied). [57259/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total spend on external consultants by each of the technological universities for the past five years (details supplied). [57260/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the development of a 'borrowing framework' for technological universities and a timeline for this framework, given that the absence of such a framework makes it impossible for TUs to borrow money on the financial market to build student accommodation. [1982/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Over the past number of months across Europe we have seen repression and criminalisation of pro-Palestinian protestors. In Germany, for example, there have been severe police crackdowns and a banning of Palestine solidarity protests on the wrong basis that they are antisemitic. In Britain, we have seen the potential criminalisation of the carrying of flags and of chants, and there is now a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [53912/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: At the weekend, it was reported that the Government is considering the introduction of an Internet tax, that is, a tax of €10 to €15 which will apply to everybody's broadband bills, to replace the TV licence fee. At a rate of €15, that would mean €180 for practically every household in the country. Broadband is not some luxury; it is a necessity. Such a tax...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: My question is simple. Will long Covid be included in the terms of reference of the Covid inquiry? It is clearly important that if we are to come to a balanced assessment of mistakes that were made and so on, we do not look just at the short term but also at the long-term implications for hundreds of thousands of people, such as illness, isolation and inability to work. In that regard, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the issue of trans rights in education and healthcare come up in discussions with church leaders? The Catholic Primary School Management Association recently wrote to the Government, arguing that students should not be taught what it means to be transgender. It stated that it would be "counterproductive, generating unnecessary divisions" and, "more seriously, it might add to a growing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I had to step out for a while so if I ask something that has been answered already, my apologies. Can anyone tell me what the total cost of this was to an average household over the period that it was in operation, separate from the overcharging?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: It was about €250, or something like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but over how many years? Was it 11 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Okay, so it was somewhere between €250 and €300 over that time. That is effectively a transfer from households to corporations. Does the Minister of State politically agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State agree it was the right decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Corporations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: If people lose their jobs, as a lot of people did during this period, the idea that they would not care about electricity prices seems a bit bizarre. They will have less income so clearly every bill they have will be more impactful and they will be more concerned about it. I am somewhat sceptical about the idea that unemployed people would say not to worry about them and to take their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State accept that what happened here was effectively a form of shock doctrine? Effectively, something was presented as being essential for the moment - responding to a situation of mass unemployment where companies were feeling the heat, etc. - and that we had to do something. Then it was made permanent. The ESB's opening statement refers to this as "enduring", as in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The decision could have been made at the time. Even if we accept the logic of the moment, a decision could have been made that we will do this for three years, four years or whatever.