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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: If that is not ruling out price controls, I am not sure what is, and that has been done just as the meeting is about to take place. I know what happens in a capitalist economy because I live in one. I experience the reality of the people who come to see me and are now dependent on food banks. Around one in seven families in this State is now dependent on food banks. Why? It is true...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach comes from a radical right-wing neoliberal ideology.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: What is the Government going to do in six weeks?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: What if there is no such evidence and it is just profiteering?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: For over a year, workers have been suffering from this cost-of-living crisis. Unite the Union conducted research which suggests that the average worker has lost €76 per week in real terms. The average family is now paying more than €1,000 extra per year on fuel, more than €1,000 extra per year on electricity and more than €1,000 extra per year on groceries. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is the dominant factor.

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will start with where I agree with the Deputies of the Rural Independent Group. I agree with the fact that, despite years of promises and lip service, the Government has consistently failed to tackle the housing crisis effectively, leaving it scrambling to react to a situation that has now spun out of control; and with the fact that Ireland's housing crisis is currently the worst in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of a company (details supplied) offering rates below the minimum wage; if he will instruct the WRC to investigate whether the company is operating outside of regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of public money that has been spent to-date in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) defending the actions of a WWETB principal by the senior management team and board members of WWETB against serious accusations of wrongdoing reported from 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if all implants used in spinal surgery for patients with spina bifida and spinal muscular atrophy across Temple Street and Crumlin Hospitals are appropriately licensed. [21947/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Health whether he is aware of a recommendation from external reviewers to place a senior spinal surgeon from Temple Street Children's University Hospital on leave; and if he is aware of the steps, if any, that were taken to implement that recommendation. [21948/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the processes that have been put in place to consider and act upon the findings and recommendations of both internal and external reviews into spinal surgery at Temple Street Children's University Hospital. [21949/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of public money that has been spent to date defending the actions of a person (details supplied) against serious accusations of wrongdoing reported from 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21935/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for the response but unfortunately it did not answer the questions. Therefore, I will go again. Is it the case that where An Bord Pleanála is considering an appeal, the company has to stop? Alternatively, can it continue? That is a very simple question. The written response circulated, which I think the Minister of State did not read out, states: "With...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not have a problem, and neither do the residents, with masts in and of themselves. They are part of public infrastructure today. We need them for mobile phones and so on, but what people have a problem with is waking up one morning and finding that significant work is happening at the entrance to their estate. A 2 m high platform has been erected, upon which a 20 m high mast is going...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is now the third country in Europe in the context of the number of European works councils, EWCs, based here. It is a requirement under EU law for major corporations to have councils for, effectively, consultation and discussion with their employees. After Brexit, a substantial number of companies moved their EWCs to this country. Millions of workers, therefore, are affected by how...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [21532/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Sure I said "Yes" you said "No", no problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is worth reminding ourselves what is the essence of this. What was being investigated was a massive rip-off and loss for the public to the tune of €118 million written off by IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, to the benefit of the Denis O'Brien-owned Siteserv. The fundamental conclusion is that the IBRC was misled by Siteserv directors over the transaction. The phrase "tainted...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Included in this grouping is a question about ethics reform. The Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, emerged today and, for the first time, answered some questions about his unethical behaviour, not from Deputies because he refused to do and the Taoiseach shielded him in that decision, but instead from the media. So, for the first time, not on the Dáil record but to the media, the...