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Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 15: In page 6, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: “(f) the effects of inflation on the cost of living for employees.”.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 16: In page 6, line 22, to delete “The order first’’ and substitute “An order”. This amendment would mean the number of sick days can only be increased by future Ministers from three upwards, as opposed to the prospect of future Governments actually being able to reduce the number of days down to a floor of three. If we are going...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 18: In page 6, to delete lines 29 and 30.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will zone in on that. The wording in amendment No. 7 states: "...where an employee ceases to be the employee of an employer and, not more than 26 weeks after the date of cesser, the employee again becomes the employee of the employer, the period of service of that employee with that employer before the date of cesser shall be deemed to be continuous with the period of service of that...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: That would go a very long way to addressing the main substantial point.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is hard to read out.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 11: In page 6, to delete lines 11 and 12. I will be reasonably brief on this series of amendments as we are eager to get to amendment No. 30. This is a series of amendments deleting various considerations on which the Minister is meant to base his decision as to whether he increases the number of days of sick leave. The considerations I am seeking to delete are...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, to delete lines 30 to 35. This amendment proposes to delete the requirement for an employee to have 13 weeks of continuous employment before being entitled to sick pay. This was one of the most problematic aspects of the Bill, as drafted. There is a Government amendment in this regard, which I will come to presently.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The issue here is that a very gross discrimination was created by the Government's proposal, whereby an employee whose service was interrupted would go back to zero, lose his or her rights to sick pay and have to work up the 13 weeks again. This meant that the Bill, as drafted, excluded many of the most vulnerable...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste's arguments in favour of sick pay and why it is good are all arguments for allowing workers to have sick pay for the days they are sick. That is the bottom line. They are also arguments in favour of amendment No. 18 which proposes to decrease the limits on the actual number of days. If we were lucky enough to have a left Government - hopefully one with an eco-socialist...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, to delete lines 23 to 25. We welcome that we are here tonight to introduce a right to statutory sick leave, which is positive. It is a shame that it took a global pandemic to get Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil there, but here we are. This amendment aims to make sick leave a real and substantial reality for workers from the word go, as opposed to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: It goes back to the permitted use.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is familiar with the case of Pat and Nuala Geoghegan, who have for more than 25 years been highlighting serious concerns about the health and environmental impacts of the Aughinish Alumina plant neighbouring their farm. They have raised serious questions over a previous investigation into this in the late 1990s, in particular highlighting 18 medical samples that mysteriously...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The shared island we stand for is a secular and socialist island. An essential point of that is no involvement of the church in terms of healthcare and education. That is a very basic thing yet the Government signed an agreement and lease with St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, where the first line of the constitution literally is about the mission of Mary Aikenhead, who was the founder of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the vision for the shared island dialogue in the wake of the Assembly elections. [24778/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach back the growing calls for debt relief for Ukraine? Even the US Congress has now backed calls for suspending all debt service payments by Ukraine and for debt relief. Ireland has reportedly given around €20 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine but the Ukrainians are spending 300 times that amount, or €6 billion, this year just servicing their odious debt....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the new Cabinet subcommittee that is dealing with Ukrainian refugees will next meet. [21866/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach described this as a long-standing issue. For workers suffering because of low pay, 21 years is very long-standing when we have an expert group recommendation that is simply not being implemented. There has been a passing of the buck throughout this whole process. When the MLSA negotiate with the HSE, the HSE states the problem is it cannot get the money from the Department of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach agree the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform should be present at the WRC?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: This morning, I visited the picket line of medical scientists at Tallaght University Hospital. They are among the more than 2,000 members of the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association, MLSA, who are on strike today. By the way, the public support for them and the support from patients were quite overwhelming. These are the hidden heroes of our health service. They are the people who...