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Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent phone call with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [4427/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he is intending to establish new Cabinet subcommittees. [3078/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday it was elderly people in nursing homes while today it is people with disabilities living in institutional care centres - another day, another scandal involving the conscious abuse of State power to defraud the most vulnerable people. Rather than caring for these people as the State is legally obliged to, a decision was repeatedly taken at the highest level to rip them off. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: We have a very impressive display of workers' power in Britain today, the largest co-ordinated strike action in more than a decade, with teachers, train drivers, civil servants and many others withdrawing their labour. In the North, UCU members working in higher education are on strike, a strike that is about pay and the investment in the future of higher education. The workers have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issues with the 76-bus route (details supplied); the plans his Department has in place to fix these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5116/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 296. To ask the Minister for Health following the failure to bring in the GP card for children of ages six and seven years as promised in 2022, if he will provide an update in relation to this; and if he will ensure that this is introduced as a matter of urgency. [5114/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is important to remember that it is not a matter of debate that there is a problem with the law as it currently stands. We have the example of what happened to the workers in Debenhams. More than 1,000 workers were working for a company that clearly engaged in a cynical tactical liquidation to deny those workers what they had in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: He did agree with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: ICTU is on record in that regard. Other than ICTU, what other representative bodies are part of the CLRG?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Egan is telling me that the representatives of the bankers, the Irish Stock Exchange, the Irish funds industry and company directors along with two organisations that represent small firms were all against making workers preferential creditors while ICTU, which represents workers, was in favour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Well precisely. Is that not the point that class interest is being represented here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but the ones that represent the workers are in favour of it and all the ones that represent the various business groups are against it. Will Mr. Egan outline the group's mandate under section 959 of the Companies Act 2014 when advising the Minister? What are the things of which it is supposed to take account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: It has no mandate to protect workers' rights,

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: My point basically is that the group is against enhancing workers' redundancy. Quelle surprise. The body is overwhelmingly made up of employers' representatives and its mandate is explicitly not anything to do with workers' rights and protecting workers' rights. In fact, legally it has to come up with advice that promotes enterprise, facilitates commerce and encourages commercial probity....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Okay. No problem. Turning to SOLAS, after more than a year of strike action and so on, all the workers got out of it was a €3 million training fund. That is not the fault of SOLAS. How much of that has been drawn down so far?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: So the vast majority has not been drawn down. When does that come to an end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Any money that is not spent by that point goes into an overall pot of the National Training Fund and the Debenhams fund is -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Can Mr. Smith indicate how many applications have been turned down because they do not meet the criteria?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is certainly what the reply to the parliamentary question suggests. How much does SOLAS estimate will be drawn down by the time we come to the end?