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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: So the Taoiseach is not withdrawing that Opposition Members of Parliament are agents of a foreign power? That is incredibly authoritarian.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is genuinely quite chilling that the Taoiseach feels able to discount what we say and attempt to smear us by saying we are agents for Putin with no evidence whatsoever.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is very serious. It is a real diminishing of democratic rights.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is accusing Opposition Deputies-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: -----because they do not go along with the Taoiseach's agenda of militarisation, of being agents of Putin.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is quite shameful.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the national risk assessment. [59246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he followed the procedure set out in section 105 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in appointing a new interim chairperson of An Bord Pleanála; and, if not, the reason he felt able to ignore that requirement. [59589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the plan for Ireland's participation in the European Union Assistance Mission Ukraine; and if he can provide a guarantee that Irish soldiers will only be involved in training related to de-mining and that they will not be involved in other aspects of the military training which will be taking place. [59587/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he intends to bring a proposal to Dáil Éireann in advance of Irish Defence Forces personnel participating in the European Union Assistance Mission Ukraine in order to comply with Article 28 of the Constitution which sets out that "the State shall not participate in any war save with the assent of Dáil Éireann". [59588/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will question the IHRB in relation to the undisclosed compensation (details supplied); the amount that was paid; by whom the payment was made; and the person or body that received compensation in relation to the Rosscarbery case. [59646/22]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to confirm with the Minister of State that companies that run data centres will be eligible under the TBESS to get as much as €30,000 per month if they have three meter point reference numbers, MPRNs, and up to a maximum of €500,000 in total.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State can confirm that data centres are eligible for the scheme and could draw down a maximum of €30,000 per month.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: At a time when ordinary people are struggling to pay their bills and worrying about what will happen over the winter, how is it being justified as a policy decision that people, through the State, may be transferring money to some of the largest and richest corporations in the world to help them with their energy bills?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will revert to my question. How can the Government justify asking people who are struggling to pay their bills or put food on the table to hand over money to some of the richest corporations in the world to help the latter with their bills?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am asking why the Government did not exclude a category of businesses. I am not asking about particular businesses. I am asking why the Government did not say that huge energy users, such as data centres run by some of the richest corporations in the world, were excluded from this scheme to get State funding.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: So it is because of speed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: How does paying data centres for their energy usage tally, correlate or cohere with the Government's rhetorical commitment to act on climate change? We are keeping Moneypoint open on fossil fuels in order to provide electricity for data centres, which use more electricity than all the rural homes in Ireland combined. Is that not a deep incoherence in policy?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: When the Minister for Finance was asked about this issue, he said the Department of business, enterprise and innovation has indicated it will bring forward a scheme to try to offer support to higher energy users "a little later in the year". There will be another scheme to facilitate companies like data centres. What is that scheme?