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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing social welfare claimants the option of continuing to receive their payments into their bank account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the rising cost of living will further worsen child poverty; and the measures she will take to address same. [5404/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, the Taoiseach warned here about the danger of spiralling wage costs and a wage price upward spiral. Does that include Secretaries General under this Government? One such civil servant has now got two pay rises in the past four months. His wages have jumped more than €80,000 to almost €300,000, which is almost as much as those of the President of the United States....

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [4703/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise again the heartbreaking case of Ava Cahill, an 11-year-old old from Tallaght. She has spina bifida, which results in her feet being turned inward making everyday tasks very difficult. Putting on her shoes on a daily basis is a challenge. She needs help to put on her trousers. She has been left waiting for more than a year and a half for corrective surgery with her...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The regularisation scheme for undocumented people opened on Monday last. While the scheme is very welcome, there are thousands of people excluded from it. I had a meeting with some of them yesterday. These are people who have made lives here and for various reasons are excluded. For example, people who have been temporarily documented within the past four years cannot avail of it, those...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Social Democrat Party for bringing forward this motion, which highlights aspects of a dysfunctional two-tier health system that exists in a permanent state of crisis. The problems in healthcare on this island are not accidental. They are not to do with personnel; they are structural in nature. They are the consequence of years of underfunding of our public health system, cuts,...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Acting Chairman. I also want to refer to the issue of parking charges. It is more than three years since a €10-per-day cap on parking at hospitals was promised. Fianna Fáil went further and promised free parking, but this regressive tax on sick people and their relatives and friends who are faced with inadequate public transport infrastructure remains in place....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021; and when the legislation outlawing fur farming will come into effect. [5302/22]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: In his concluding remarks, the Minister mentioned taking the lead in creating five new workers' rights, one of them being the right to request remote, home or hybrid working. What he is talking about is not really much of a right if it is just the right to request. If we had a situation where one has a right to request the minimum wage, people would think that was laughable. It is similar...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will explore that further. I take the Minister's point, which I welcome, that he is willing to review it. As it stands, however, all this provides is the right to request and the right to the employer to say "No". Even the suggestion that 13 reasons might be too many misses the point. The 13 reasons are just examples that are given. Instead, there is an overarching position that the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is counter-posing an absolute right to work remotely, regardless of job, versus no right whatsoever. To be clear, what the Minister is proposing is not a right to remote working in certain circumstances. All that is being proposed is the right to request it. There is a big gap between the absolute right to work remotely regardless of the job and, on the other hand, just the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I will speak again in the second round.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third level education; if she plans to abolish the leaving certificate; if she will engage with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to develop open access to third level education; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I do not buy it and the important point is the students will not buy it. They will not buy the idea that the Minister listened and that she and the Government did everything that was possible. A full 67% of students in a very widely shared and participated in survey by the students union said they did not want a traditional leaving certificate exam but the Government is pushing ahead with a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: That the Minister would say this is very different and there are significant changes speaks to a profound lack of vision by the Government because the basis of the system is exactly the same. For students, their perception of how they are going to do in their leaving certificate all rests on one or two exams in subjects including maths, English and Irish, in the oral and the aural exams....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have nothing against accredited grades.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The alternative is open access.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Look at the figures-----

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: -----90% of people from Dublin 6, 10% from DEIS.