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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. To quote Mr. Godfrey in his opening statement, he said "Most businesses ... are not in a dominant position, and their pricing decisions are constrained by the need to compete rather than by any legal obligation." In other words, the pricing decisions of most businesses are not constrained by any laws apart from the law not to operate as a cartel....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: That includes war profiteering. It includes the examples of Energia with three price increases in the first six months of last year, a 51% increase in profits; the ESB had big price increases and a 27% increase in profits; Bord Gáis Energy, owned by Centrica, doubled its profits last year set against a 39% increase in the cost of gas coming up shortly. All of that is perfectly legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I accept that. It is not Mr. Godfrey’s fault; it is his job to enforce the law and the law is problematic in terms of not actually protecting people at all. Mr. Godfrey said people are free to make a choice but is there really a choice if, let us say I am a consumer and I am driving around trying to find petrol but petrol everywhere is extremely expensive? What choice do I really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Even the word "unscrupulous" involves a certain moral consideration. While I agree that price-fixing and so on are unscrupulous, I would argue that taking advantage of a war situation to increase profits is also unscrupulous. It is not illegal. It is perfectly legal within the framework of the capitalist market as we currently have it. However, I also think that is unscrupulous behaviour....

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a lot of mysticism that goes on when talking about the increase in energy prices, which basically presents laws of a private, for-profit market as if they are laws of nature. It is as if these prices are going up by themselves, and that it is a natural disaster about which nothing can be done. It removes what is actually going on, which is the profiteering that has already been...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The actions of P&O Ferries last week highlighted the brutality of capitalism, with 800 workers sacked by video call, special handcuff trained security sent in to clear them off the ships and the company hiring new workers on wages as low as $2.38 per hour. This is part of a wider race to the bottom. The RMT union has reported that workers on the Dublin-Liverpool route were on a basic...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of roles that have been filled in the Work Placement Experience Programme; the cost of the scheme to the Exchequer since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow those who have a pending status for their GNIB card to renew their driver licence. [13845/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) is calling on the National Transport Authority to act on behalf of its industry and introduce a temporary stopgap of one euro to all metered fares during an extremely difficult period for all taxi operators given the increase in fuel costs; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that most electric vehicles come with tinted glass in the rear as standard given that the cost to change these windows is around €800 plus; if the clear glass windows are available if he will discuss with the National Transport Authority the idea of allowing tinted rear glass in taxis;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the working group on defective homes will be completed by the end of March 2022 as previously advised; if his attention has been drawn to the importance of the working group's report meeting this timeline in order that there is sufficient time for the report's recommendations to be considered by Government and acted upon...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm his Department's social housing means assessment policy, specifically regarding the assessment of savings and capital of social housing support applicants and the recent implantation of same by South Dublin County Council whereby applicants have been refused on the basis of savings, inheritance, pension...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 392. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will match funding from an organisation (details supplied) to support persons with cystic fibrosis in Ukraine. [14340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports offered to those suffering with long Covid; if they are entitled to long-term illness benefit given the impact of long Covid on their health and ability to work. [14490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that those who are working over the age of 66 are not entitled to claim the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit payment (details supplied); the reason this information is not supplied on the MyGov.ie website; if she will instruct her Department to change this rule; and the way that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Qualifications Recognition (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 687. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a manager with a level 6+ qualification and 18 years’ experience will not meet the uplift requirements in relation to the Core Funding Plan for Childcare; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that for them to get a level 7 qualification they...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 760. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person who became undocumented on 18 March 2018 just a few weeks after the cut off 31 January 2018 will be allowed to be included in the undocumented scheme. [14492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths by year in or following Garda custody or contact since the creation of GSOC including but not limited to shootings, pursuits, deaths in custody and deaths following any Garda interaction in tabular form. [14991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 929. To ask the Minister for Health when the human tissue Bill including the commitment to bring in soft opt-out organ donor consent will be fully enacted. [14341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 930. To ask the Minister for Health when financial support for all those seeking IVFR treatment including those with cystic fibrosis will be provided. [14342/22]