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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a real drive to increase military spending in Ireland that, in my opinion, is part of a push to completely abandon any notion of neutrality and to instead align with NATO and the permanent structured co-operation push for an EU army. All of that is clear from the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. It is pushing for up to an additional €2 billion in military...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 26 January 2022, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Hungary has not complied with the Copenhagen Declaration as Hungary has not provided a legal framework for domestic citizen NGOs to conduct election observation missions; if he will urge a full-scale independent election...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: This morning, I attended a protest in front of the Central Criminal Court in solidarity with two climate change protestors, Orla and Zac, who are facing trial for their participation in a protest last year. In two weeks' time, a ROSA activist, Aislinn O'Keeffe, faces trial accused of organising a small protest in Limerick against gender-based violence. We have also seen more and more use of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Are they affordable, though?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will ask a very straightforward question, which hopefully can get a straightforward response. What does the Taoiseach believe is an affordable rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Dublin? This week, South Dublin County Council announced that people will shortly be able to apply for its first affordable rental scheme. Rents for a one-bedroom apartment will be approximately €1,000 a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [6395/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise with Taoiseach the very poor treatment by Tesco of its workers. Yesterday it sent notice to almost 100 directly employed retail security officers that their jobs are going to be outsourced to OCS. There has been no engagement whatsoever with the workers. It means that workers, who in some cases have worked for up to two decades with Tesco, are being given a few weeks to...

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Barry for bringing the motion forward. At the centre of this debate is one unassailable fact, which is not debatable: the national minimum wage in this country is a poverty wage. A full-time worker earning the minimum wage gets only €21,000 a year. That is €5,000 a year less than the independently assessed minimum income needed for an acceptable standard of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the MetroLink to Knocklyon, County Dublin is seriously deficient in aspects (details supplied). [6857/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the summary of responses from the population of south-west Dublin will be made public in relation to the draft review of the transport strategy for the greater Dublin area; and the point at which the process to finalise the draft review of the next public interaction will take place. [6858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare centres, preschools and crèches that have installed HEPA filters as part of the grant programme announced in December 2021. [6765/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to tackle the long waiting lists for children to receive operations; and the way his Department plans to improve the management of waiting lists for children for operations going forward. [6766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if advice can be provided for persons in circumstances (details supplied). [6823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that paxlovid will be available to high-risk patients in the UK from 10 February 2022; the plans the HSE has to make this drug be available for high-risk patients in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: First, I apologise for only arriving a few minutes ago. I was speaking on our Private Members' Bill. My apologies if I ask questions that have already been answered. As currently drafted, the heads of the Bill are extremely weak and give a right to request, which is fine, and then a right to deny by the employer on very broad business grounds. There is a list of 13 reasons, but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Within that, is the Department open to removing the catch-all business grounds? In a sense the Department could remove all 13 grounds and it is still left with business grounds, which is extremely broad. Any business can refuse on business grounds. That appears to me to be where the problem is, as opposed to the 13 grounds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. What is in the heads of the Bill at present is the right to appeal as effectively a procedural right. One can appeal on procedural grounds that one's employer did not refer back to one in time, as opposed to on substantial grounds that the business grounds the employer is citing are not substantiated. Is the Department indicating a willingness to amend or change that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: As drafted, the balance is very much in favour of the employer. The right to request is very limited when the employer can just refuse and one cannot appeal on substantive grounds. Hopefully, that will be amended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Alan Eustace and Ms Niamh Egleston in Trinity College Dublin have proposed an alternative model of remote working based on annual leave, where a worker would effectively be entitled to a number of days of remote working in the course of a year. Is that something the Department has considered as an addition to the current model, which is based on all-year-round remote working and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I thank the witnesses.