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Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy really should be.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact the Government is belatedly moving to bring in some improvements in respect of work-life balance for some workers. However, people should be aware that the Government - and this is a consistent feature of this Government's approach - is doing the bare minimum of what it is legally required to do under an EU directive on work-life balance. That is what the Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the €2 increase in the qualified child payment is sufficient to tackle child poverty in the context of the cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50725/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward the extension of eligibility for the fuel allowance, currently not due to come into effect until January 2023, given that the cold weather starts long before then; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the failure to increase social welfare rates, in particular for single parents, above the rate of inflation in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50719/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reintroduce the Covid enhanced illness benefit given that statutory sick pay will not start until at least January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50724/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the ongoing cost of disability can be adequately addressed through one-off payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an access-to-work scheme will be introduced for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50639/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Rights (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the Government has not ratified the optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which would provide a mechanism for persons to challenge when their rights are not being upheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50638/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: A Vision for Change (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline her plans for a deeper analysis of the allegations of racial profiling at the North-South Border which the Taoiseach said would be undertaken on 5 October 2022 (details supplied). [50803/22]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. That is a lot less than the one year cooling-off period for relevant designated public officials under the lobbying Act. Of course, Mr. Neville is not covered by that because Deputies are not covered, which again reflects how weak our legislation is regarding the rotating door of people moving from politics to lobbying. To return to the committee’s recommendations, the fact...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: This Bill is for the exploitation of migrant workers. That is what it is. It is a Bill, therefore, to undermine the rights of all workers. It is a Bill written in the interests of the employers in particular sectors. Evidence of that is contained in the fact that the minimal recommendations made by the Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, of which I am a part, which were signed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, EirGrid forecast yet again that data centres are on track to use almost 30% of our electricity by 2031. It is a completely unsustainable approach which makes reaching our climate targets even harder. Now, to add insult industry, the Minister for Finance has confirmed to me that data centres will be eligible to receive €10,000 a month each from the public purse because of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that he has put in place to stop companies from cutting off pay-as-you-go customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the only form of identity being accepted at NDLS centres when applying for the first time or renewing one's driving licence or learner permit is a public services card; if there is an alternative offered for those who do not have a public services card and are unable to obtain one due to work...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Rights (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 4 October 2022, if the Revenue Commissioners will be taking any action to recover the difference in tax from the amount that was paid as labelled self-employed as opposed to the amount that should have been paid, had the workers been correctly labelled as employees (details supplied), given that the Revenue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. If the Government sticks with its proposal of an 80 cent increase in the minimum wage, is it fair to say it is deciding on a pay decrease in real terms for the lowest paid workers in the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: What would ICTU call on the Government to do in the Finance Bill? What level of increase in the minimum wage would it seek?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Dr. Bambrick mentioned a consensual approach and the problems associated with it. I want to unpack that. The unions did not agree with the proposed increase in the minimum wage. It does not look very consensual when the body representing the vast majority of workers in this country did not consent to this inadequate increase. Can she explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Berney mentioned something that is a very important part of the adequate minimum wage directive, which is the issue around increasing the total number of workers covered by collective bargaining. The directive sets out that Governments shall provide a framework for enabling conditions for collective bargaining, by law and after consultation or agreement with the social partners, and...