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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Let us see what the code of practice is. I wonder whether there is a need for a primary legislative framework for there to be real, substantial sanctions on employers that do not provide clean air for their workers. Belgium, for example, which has been one of the first movers on this in the EU, is currently introducing something quite similar to our Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department has taken to progress additional regulations on clean air in the workplace as promised in Dáil Éireann in December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53848/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is almost a year since our Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 passed through Second Stage. At that time the Minister of State, Deputy English, stated that we wanted to see it speedily and effectively implemented. He was going to call me that afternoon to see how we could have regulations to get this implemented because we do not need legislation. Where are the regulations? What...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support increasing the national minimum wage to €15 an hour in order that it becomes a living wage in the context of the cost-of-living crisis. [53851/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's position on the proposed EU corporate sustainability due diligence Directive, including the size of the companies that should be covered, applicability to the whole value chain and to pension funds and alternative investment funds; and if the Government will move to legislate on these issues in advance of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove data centres from eligibility for the temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53847/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 128 nursing homes of concern that HIQA provided the HSE as stated by the 2020 expert panel; the number of those homes that went into crisis and the death rate in those homes in tabular form. [53949/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 285. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of those homes received HSE support in relation to the list of 128 nursing homes of concern that HIQA provided the HSE provided as stated by the 2020 expert panel and if any of those homes refused HSE support. [53950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the supports the HSE provide to a nursing home in Dublin 7 (details supplied) from 2020 to 2022; the reason this support was provided; when did the home request support; on what grounds and the date the HSE provided this support. [53951/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were received from directors of nursing regarding the non-transfer of residents to hospital who they felt had potential to benefit from hospital treatment. [53952/22]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government has been dragged kicking and screaming to implement some form of eviction ban. It has been dragged by pressure from the Opposition, by the growing housing movement, which will be seen on the streets again from 26 November with the Raise the Roof protest, and by the rising homeless numbers and the political pressure that puts on the Government. In that context, the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Giving money to developers is relying on the market.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Thirty-three Ukrainian refugees had to spend a night in Dublin Airport. It is being reported the Government is to use social media to tell Ukrainians there is no accommodation in Ireland. So much for the Ireland of a thousand welcomes. Sometimes people say to me the Government should put its own first, but the problem is precisely that the Government does put its own people first, namely,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [53231/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It appears that we are on the verge of the second Stormont election within six months. The DUP has used a boycott of Stormont to attempt to whip up sectarianism to stop its slide in the polls. The truth is that more and more people are seeing through its sectarian and Tory policies. This is the party that backed the disastrous policies of May, Johnson and Truss and failed to do anything...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Something needs to be done. Here is something: let us do that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will raise with the Taoiseach a particular case that illustrates the problems in our health service and the fact that children with complex needs are being failed by the State. Brody Martin is eight years old and has multiple complex needs that mean he cannot be left by himself. He has to be minded at all times. He needs to have spinal surgery every six months. He was due to be in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Stop kicking the can down the road. The Government has the report from July. It is very simple and it sets out the problems and the potential solutions. At the very least, the residents are looking for a commitment from the Taoiseach today that any scheme that will be introduced will be retrospective. Will the Taoiseach answer that question and give a commitment that, regardless of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: You were warned very clearly-----