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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the brutal repression of uprising in Kazakhstan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his attendance at an event after a champagne party in Iveagh House on 17 June 2020. [3841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 19 January 2022, the way his Department plans to ensure the €100 payment is reflected in a saving for tenants given that tenants are more in need of the saving than landlords and that there are many landlords with the prepaid power account for a tenant’s home...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider in relation to the Covid recognition payment including other workers that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as security guards. [3977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider in relation to the Covid recognition payment including other workers that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as catering workers that fed staff and patients throughout the pandemic. [3978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider in relation to the Covid recognition payment including others that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as practice nurses to commend them for their outstanding effort and enthusiasm throughout the pandemic. [3976/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I feel I am the one to point out that the emperor has no clothes here. The Taoiseach was quoted extensively in the article which carried the details of the leaked report. He was quoted as saying that he found the report shocking and difficult to read and he confirmed he would be making an apology to the survivors on behalf of the State and wider society. At the very least he had a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is a pretty poor answer now.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about the exclusion of huge numbers of people from the Covid recognition payment. The answer the Taoiseach gave earlier is that it is restricted to those on the front line. For many groups of people, this is frankly insulting. The Taoiseach is saying to carers they are not on the front line. Despite the €20 billion of free labour done by these people, the Taoiseach is...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Listening to the Taoiseach yesterday, his remarks were striking. He warned workers of a potential wage price spiral. After the horse has bolted and workers are experiencing a reduction in income in real terms, he was saying not to put in for wage rises because they might make inflation even worse. In reality, he attempted to blame workers for the inflation that we are seeing. The truth is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps a person (details supplied) can take to attain an Irish passport. [3743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the plans by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to run a full-scale election observation mission for the forthcoming elections in Serbia with both long and short-term observers; if long-term and short-term observers from Ireland will be provided for such a mission; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 20 civil society groups in Hungary have urged the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to conduct a full-scale election observation for the forthcoming elections in Hungary and that this has been supported by a number of MEPs; if he plans to support the running of such a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget in 2022 for Ireland's election observation programme; if the budget includes provision for the recruitment to a replacement roster in 2022; the number of observers on the current roster; if observers must be tax resident in Ireland; if not, the number of non-tax resident observers on the roster; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is involved in carbon offset programmes for airline travel journeys undertaken; if so, the details of the programme; the amount spent on the programme in 2021; the budget for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reassess the policy in relation to the Irish exemption and autism to offer an exemption on the basis that a child has a significant processing disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied). [3702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consider an appeal by a person (details supplied). [3718/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Apologies, I only have seven minutes. I will return to my question. I am not talking about the technology sector in general; I am talking about data centres. Does Mr. Shanahan believe Ireland is a data superpower and what does that mean? Perhaps he could be more precise. How many people are employed in permanent jobs in data centres in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: How many people are employed full-time in data centres?