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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?

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

Paul Murphy: They are the biggest higher energy users.

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

Paul Murphy: Is a scheme coming for higher energy users?

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

Paul Murphy: Will there be a scheme by the end of the year? We are nearly at the end of the year.

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 running out of time.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will quote from the first recommendation in the committee's report. It states: The Committee has not seen sufficient evidence to support the proposed introduction of a Seasonal Employment Permit, and it is also concerned about the lack of detail in the proposal. [...] The protections and provisions under the existing General Employment Permit scheme must not be diminished, and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: We will not persuade the Minister of State and he will not persuade us. The protections will not change the essence of the thing which is that a particular employee can bring in someone for a few months. They are absolutely tied to that employer. They cannot go elsewhere and at the end they must leave. Inherently that is rife for exploitation, particularly when we consider the industries...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I accept that the majority will not be a problem. It does not have to be 100%-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The rationale for this is very simple. It is to shift more power to the worker as opposed to the employer. It gives workers mobility and the ability to walk away from a bad exploitative employer and move somewhere else without all of the barriers that currently exist. It would reward good employers because it would mean people would stay with them as a consequence of them being good...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The proposed increase in tolls is just the latest part of a highway robbery that is being carried out by the private operators in this country. This highway robbery is facilitated by the Government and by Fianna Fáil, historically, which developed this whole notion of public private partnerships, PPP. The robbery continues apace. The Government indicated it is going to pay to put off...