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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (10 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans to engage with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the report on the right to request remote working, specifically, the reasons to allow an employer to deny a remote working request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (10 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the implementation of the required legislation for the national remote working strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in implementing the pilot soil sampling scheme. [6994/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to support primary producers via the Brexit Adjustment Reserve. [6995/22]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Fadhb ar bith. I would have been only too delighted to listen to Deputy Carthy continuing on far more eloquently than I would myself. The CCPC is the primary enforcement body for competition law. My colleagues have spoken about the fact that we are late to the game in this. It is our absolute failing on white-collar crime. In the past many of us have spoken in this Chamber regarding...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Everybody accepts we are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. As for housing, we all know that a major issue is delivering on supply. That will not happen straight away, no matter whose policies are implemented. The difficulty we have at present is that there are people paying huge and disgraceful rents to the extent that I just do not understand how they could have operated before...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The British Government's amnesty legislation is about covering up what it did in Ireland. It is about the fact that the British Government was responsible for death squads that executed Irish people. There is a responsibility on us in here to highlight the issue. We need to be incredibly strong in regard to the fact that the amnesty legislation is just not going to cut it in terms of human...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [6482/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Everyone is in the same place. Every constituency office has dealt with multiple cases in which families have had difficulties in accessing these services and ensuring their loved ones can be looked after in their homes. It is vital. Weekend care has been a major issue. The Chair has already dealt with a significant amount of the work. The work advisory task force has to recognise that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On the issue of contracts more widely, are there variations across the CHOs with regard to how much providers get paid and what they can pay their employees?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is like an awful lot of other sectors, such as the childcare sector, which was mentioned earlier, in which we are not giving people the respect and pay they need. That is why we are not able to retain people. It is as simple as that. Obviously, the contracts are not fit to do the business we need to have done. We all welcome the fact this work advisory task force is now in place, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is also the issue that was spoken about earlier, which is that you do not necessarily have guaranteed hours if someone is hospitalised, which happens from time to time, sometimes as a result of an insufficient amount of care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I believe that is accepted. We have had a number of reports on the difficulties we have and on how we are not addressing elder care as we need to. We need to facilitate people who want to stay in their own homes. If it is possible, I will ask Mr. Musgrave to come in on the wider issue of the contracts required. I accept he is representing private care operators, which obviously intend to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will finish up. It is vital there is follow-up, particularly with regard to the work advisory task force. We need to put in place a system that is fit for purpose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the witnesses for coming. This is a follow-up from the previous meeting this morning. We are in the middle of a recruitment crisis and there are families who cannot get the carers they want. On some level I also accept these people probably do not care where the service comes from, whether it is the private or public sector, once their loved one can stay at home. I agree with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: People are surviving with sickness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I suppose there are multiple issues. We are reliant on these private sector operators that have built in their profit. HCCI indicated earlier this was between 5% and 10% for companies, on average. They would state there would be a difficulty with the tendering process. If they build in their profit, the State is probably trying to get this on the cheap. Workers will make a determination...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is probably an opportunity in that respect at this point. If the workforce advisory group is serious, it should get down to dealing with those specific matters, although there is a need for short-term fixes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I follow on from some of the questions about NBI. There was a considerable amount of conversation around the investors. Peter Hendrick has told us that on some level, the investor profile he has is not the investor profile he wants. He spoke about two things. One of them was how at some stage, NBI would become some sort of European super-telecoms outfit - I am not entirely sure how....