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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister of State if the Government accepts - I quote from The Guardian- that African and Asian migrant workers were being routinely but illegally used as cheap labour on Irish fishing trawlers working out of some of the country's most popular tourist ports. If that is accepted - it is good that it accepts the facts - why did the Government not do something about it? Rather than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: So there have been reports that fishing industry representatives have sought to increase the number of permits from 500 to 1,000. I do not know whether they have made representations to the relevant Minister. It seems to me that is in contradiction to the initial response to the fishing industry representatives which was to be extremely dismissive, a bit like the Government at that stage...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the findings of the University of Limerick study into zero-hour and low-hour contracts which the Government commissioned in 2015. [2146/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister set out his views on the findings of the report of the University of Limerick and the study on the prevalence of zero-hour contracts? The study confirms the precarious nature of work in this economy. It confirms that the labour market has become increasingly flexible not through the use not of zero-hour contracts, in particular, but of if-and-when contracts. What is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister accept that the prevalence of if-and-when contracts and precarious work gives the lie to the idea of a strong recovery and good quality jobs being created? Given that 32% of workers are working fewer than 35 hours per week, 24% of workers work different hours each week and 41% of workers work part-time because they cannot find full-time work, compared to less than 30%...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: My particular worldview is one that would have been shared by the Labour Party not long ago. It is the idea that no one who is in work should be living in poverty. We should not be the second highest country in the OECD in terms of prevalence of low pay. We should not have 20% of workers living in deprivation. I do not think that is such a radical worldview. What will the Government do...

Other Questions: Job Losses (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that Mondelez is seeking further outsourcing of jobs at the Cadbury plant in Coolock in Dublin 17. [2084/16]

Other Questions: Job Losses (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: This relates to the latest worrying news from Cadbury in Coolock to the effect that Mondelez is seeking to outsource a further 17 jobs on top of the 165 jobs that were lost last year. Does it not speak to the nature of the recovery as being for big business and the rich when workers continue to face job losses and major exploitation?

Other Questions: Job Losses (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: That the jobs are disappearing and the workers are disappointed are not just natural events. It is cold comfort to the 17 workers who may lose their jobs that the rate of job losses elsewhere has decreased. Does the Minister acknowledge that the reason these jobs will go is not that Mondelez or the Cadbury plant in Coolock is unprofitable, but because Mondelez wants to maximise its profits?...

Other Questions: Job Losses (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: At least that answer has the benefit of being honest: "That is capitalism". Companies will try to maximise profits, globalisation means that there will be an international race to the bottom in wages and conditions and we must go along with it. The workers would not be happy to hear the news that this is the Government's approach. To become the most competitive, the company will want...

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will receive a report from the Low Pay Commission following his request that it review the impact of the minimum wage on young persons and women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2083/16]

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I look forward to that happening. Does the Minister of State agree that the prevalence of low pay among women and young people speaks against it being in any way an equal recovery or a recovery for ordinary people? Does the Government and the Labour Party, in particular, consider it to be a source of embarrassment that two thirds of low-paid workers are women, that 50% of women earn less...

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State agree that we live in a low-wage economy? Was it the Government's intention to create a low-wage economy, where 20% of workers would be classified as living in deprivation, where one third of one-income households would be deprived, where many people affected by the housing crisis and suffering from homelessness would be employed and yet could not afford...

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Promises.

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I am going to play the lotto later.

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of interns for whom he has provided placements under the JobBridge scheme since the scheme began; and how many of these were subsequently offered full-time employment in his Department. [2087/16]

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I am glad that the Minister of State mentioned a solutions-based approach because with this question we come to one of the Labour Party's favourite solutions which works so well for employers and those who want people to work for free. For how many interns has the Minister provided placements under the JobBridge scheme and how many of them were subsequently offered full-time employment in...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: As the Minister did not really provide the figure in the very clear way I would like, I will spell out what I think the answer was. I asked how many placements had been provided and the answer was 13. A total of 25 placements were offered, of which 13 were taken up. I asked how many of them were subsequently offered full-time employment. If I did not take up the Minister wrong, the answer...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I strongly attack these activation schemes as a mechanism for the Government to manipulate unemployment figures, further casualise the labour market, normalise the idea of working for free, drive down working conditions and undermine working wages and conditions for all. How many of the 13 who took up positions in the Minister's Department did so under threat or perceived threat of sanction?...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the announced job losses in the Cantrell and Cochrane bottling plant and the measures he will take to protect these jobs and others in the manufacturing sector. [2085/16]