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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full update on her Department’s review of the official report provided after the consultation talks with industrial school survivors, submitted in November 2020 (details supplied); if she will be putting the proposals made into place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she recognises the importance of saving the free hot meals scheme given that some of the children who depend on the meals may not only come from hubs, hostels or hotels but they also may come from a home where addiction is rampant (details supplied); and if she will confirm her Department’s plan to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. We have a crisis in our health service, as the motion states. According to the INMO, more than 12,600 people were without beds in Irish hospitals in November. It was the worst November on record for hospital overcrowding, and there were only two days in that month when fewer than 500 people were admitted to hospital without an inpatient bed. For the...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: The market is not-----

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is not.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Build houses for the people.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government votes it down every single time.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Thousands died. It is not funny.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Currently, over 3,000 civilian staff work with An Garda Síochána. These are people who applied for civil servant roles and were allocated, under the Department of Justice, to work in An Garda Síochána. At the moment, they can transfer out to work in another civil servant role. They are 100% civil servants like any other civil servant. However, the Government's new...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with church leaders. [61332/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week Archbishop Eamon Martin, the most senior Catholic archbishop in Ireland, backed protests outside maternity hospitals by anti-choice activists. He claimed it was "perfectly reasonable" to intercept pregnant people on their way into medical appointments. He said that to have safe zones would be "tantamount to enforcing a ban on pro-life activities, including prayer and respectful...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with the social partners. [61333/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Did the Government discuss the issue of redress for the 100,000 apartments and duplexes affected by defects at the Cabinet meeting this morning? I know that the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, had a webinar last night with many apartment and duplex owners. They were not satisfied with that, certainly the ones I spoke to, because there was not a clear commitment to 100% redress, nor was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on transport will next meet. [59255/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government will seek to exclude banks and investment funds from the scope of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62115/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: This question is about the corporate sustainability due diligence directive. It is potentially very important European legislation that would make corporations responsible for human rights abuses, labour rights abuses, environmental abuses and consumer rights abuses throughout their supply chain. Unfortunately, it is being subject to intense lobbying by big corporations to try to water it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. It is good to hear the Government opposed the watering-down that happened at the latest European Council meeting. Reuters reported that at an earlier stage in the negotiations the Government indicated it wanted to exclude asset managers and institutional investors from the scope and that it said in a submission it could not signal its agreement to including...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: I hope the Parliament will adopt a strong position and in trilogue this will be strengthened again and the financial sector will be brought back in. If not, that creates a danger, as the Minister of State himself pointed out, of a patchwork of different regulations in different countries. That is against the whole purpose of the EU and also creates pressure for a race to the bottom because...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: There have been campaigns for years by groups that represent more than 500,000 retired workers. It is 18 months since the Bill passed Second Stage in the House, but the Minister of State is just saying that we will have a consultation. Does he accept it is a problem that six months after a person who has paid into an occupational pension scheme for all his or her working life retires, that...