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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the provision of school transport for a pupil (details supplied). [47626/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the provision of school transport for pupils (details supplied). [47655/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be any changes to the assessment to qualify for the working family payment in budget 2023; and if there will be an increase in the payment persons will receive. [47715/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) regarding improved access to the free travel scheme for persons with epilepsy in Ireland in budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47656/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for 2023 to increase funding for youth work and youth work organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to tackle the shortage of qualified staff in an industry (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the calls from the industry for more third level places and a reduction of needless paperwork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1899 of 8 September 2022, the category private cleaning staff who were working in a hospital during the pandemic fall under, regarding the pandemic recognition payment (details supplied). [47700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the regulations on the keeping, breeding, sale or supply of exotic pets, following the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce regulations; if there will be a public consultation; and when the regulations will be introduced. [47652/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Many people will be scratching their heads today and in the next number of months asking how come we have a supposedly giveaway bonanza budget and yet the vast majority of ordinary people will be worse off next year. More people will be cold and hungry. More people will be energy poverty. Do not take it from me; take it from Mr. Cliff Taylor, who wrote in The Irish Timesthat "living...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is no mechanism whatsoever to stop the electricity companies pocketing the credits by increasing their prices. There are no windfall taxes. The Government will wait for the European Commission to do that. There is no new energy infrastructure, no investment or no guarantee in controlling our supplies and prices into the future. It is the exact same thing with the renter's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that while the overall allocation to the drugs initiative budget in his Department has risen every year since 2017, there has been no increase in the core budgets for community drug projects since 2013; and if he will increase funding for community drug projects in budget 2023. [47477/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank our visitors for their submissions. To pursue that further, in the presentation from Mr. Courtney, he states, "When we made our recommendation of a 7.6% increase in the national minimum wage inflation was predicted to be 4% in 2023". The Minister for Finance yesterday predicted that inflation will be 7% next year. If Mr. Courtney had that information then and if the projections...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: In his opening statement, Mr. Courtney also made reference to "the need to avoid a wage price spiral". Is there any evidence of a wage price spiral in this country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: What is inflation at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: What is the rate of inflation at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I think it is 8.5% this year and will be 7% next year. We have very high rates of inflation, yet wages have remained largely stagnant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: My point is we have inflation now and yet wages have not increased. Does Mr. Courtney agree that the inflation we are experiencing is not caused by wages increasing?