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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?

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: Does Mr. Courtney agree that there is a profit price spiral taking place at the moment and that profits have soared internationally and that is a key factor in driving inflation?

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 this country, ten years ago profits were at €40 billion; they are now €120 billion. They have trebled, therefore, over a ten-year period.

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 am not talking about a growing economy; I am talking about growing profits. The Low Pay Commission is pointing out the danger of a wage price spiral. Does it not take into account the danger of a profit price spiral?

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: Okay. I will move on, although I wonder whether we should have a high profit commission as well as a Low Pay Commission. Regarding to the question of subminimum wage rates, Mr. Courtney and the commission seem to agree that it is okay to have people doing identical work, with 17-year-olds on 70% of the minimum wage, 18-year-olds on 80% and 19-year-olds on 90%. How is that justified,...

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 will turn to someone from Mandate, either Mr. Hogan or Mr. Light.

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 the EU directive on adequate minimum wage rates, which is really what is driving this 60% issue and where it is coming from, there is an important article referring to collective bargaining, which is where there are less than a certain number of workers covered by collective bargaining - in Ireland, we are substantially less - the Government needs to produce an action plan to promote...

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: However, the Government has not been engaged in it yet. In terms of an action plan, have they, that Mr. Light is aware of?

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: Perfect, I thank Mr. Light. Finally, Mandate asked, "How can we have faith in a process that leads to pay cuts and declining living standards for workers?" I agree 100%. What conclusion does Mandate draw about what changes need to be made to this process?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1817 of 8 September 2022, the reason those running the long-Covid clinics were not included in the discussion in relation to which hospitals were allocated and funded for long-Covid clinics. [47386/22]