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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount dispersed in additional needs payments for the month of January; the amount requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6084/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the reason for the poor quality service and lack of service provided by a company (details supplied) on its 75 and 175 bus routes; if he will consider reassigning the routes to Dublin Bus as a result; if he will make available increased resources for the operation of routes 75 and 175; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of private and voluntary homes to which the HSE offered crisis support during the Covid outbreak crisis; the number that received and the number that rejected such support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints HIQA has received in the last year regarding restricted visiting in care homes. [6194/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints that were received by the HSE adult safeguarding teams in regards to nursing homes since March 2020, in tabular form; the number relating to public nursing homes, private nursing homes and people living in the community, and also a breakdown by county; and the number of private nursing homes that allowed or denied...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints received by the office of the confidential recipient since March 2020, with a full breakdown by concern type, that is, safeguarding, standards of care or medical errors; and the number of concerns or complaints that were referred to safeguarding or An Garda Síochána. [6196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the process involved in HIQA deciding whether to refer safeguarding concerns to safeguarding teams or to An Garda Síochána, including the length of time it takes to decide if a matter should be referred to safeguarding teams or to An Garda Síochána; and the expertise in safeguarding possessed by the decision makers. [6197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only ten concerns relating to nursing homes were reported to safeguarding teams from the period from 2020 to the end of November 2022, out of more than 3,000 concerns recorded by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6198/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if the mistreatment of a patient in a nursing home (details supplied) was reported to safeguarding, HIQA and-or An Garda Síochána; if any investigation took place into who was responsible for locking the door of the room in question; if any disciplinary procedures were instituted in relation to the locking of the door; if the patient and-or their...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Can we not just throw them all in together? That is what Deputy O'Reilly did.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the Minister. Does he yet have any data on whether any data centres applied for the TBESS?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: To clarify, a data centre could get €30,000 if it had three meter point reference numbers, MPRNs, could it not?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: When the Minister's predecessor was appearing before the committee and we were talking about this, he mentioned work on a future scheme for high energy users, which would be separate from the TBESS. Has there been progress on that? Is it still in the pipeline?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Have any data centres applied to the scheme?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Minister referred to 14 companies. Are any of those companies data centres?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not doubt that they had to meet the criteria; my problem is that data centres are not excluded from meeting the criteria.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not think Government policy should be to give public money to huge energy users. We should not be encouraging the extra use of energy which makes it more difficult for us to meet our climate targets. If energy usage keeps expanding - these users are the drivers of the increase in energy usage - we will never be able to transition to 100% renewable energy. That is why, as a matter of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is not excluding itself; rather, it is the dumping ground for the data of the world's multinationals. There is definitely no danger that it is excluding itself. We are wildly out of proportion in that regard.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I refer to European works councils and the Commission infringement proceedings. I hope the Minister will be appearing before the joint committee on that matter. We had a meeting yesterday at which all the experts agreed that Ireland is in breach. I do not expect the Minister to say he believes we are in breach or whatever, but can he provide information on what is happening in that...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is no problem.