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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: We did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It has been.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: If the Department enforced its rules, it could not happen again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to update the national reform programme for 2022. [11774/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [12795/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise a shocking example of where the State is completely failing to protect the well-being of people. Those living in the shadow of the Aughinish Alumina plant in County Limerick have suffered massively from the toxic pollution from that plant. People have got sick, animals have died and livelihoods have been wiped out by the pollution. When an investigation was done into the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Has the Taoiseach been informed of the recent U-turn by Stormont on rents? Two weeks ago, People Before Profit proposed in Stormont a 10% rent cut for private tenants right across the North. It was passed. At the time, MLAs from the SDLP, Sinn Féin and the Alliance Party all backed the proposal but since then buckled to the landlords' pressure. They did a U-turn and, two days ago,...

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

Paul Murphy: What is the Taoiseach doing to ensure that the big oil companies do not simply pocket the excise duty cut? Reports are already coming in of petrol stations increasing their prices for petrol and diesel today before the cut. Around the corner from where I live, one petrol station increased the price of diesel by 15 cent at lunchtime today. Presumably, then, the station will reduce the price...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion. The Government's response, whereby it will allow the motion to pass, reeks of cynicism again. Last night, the Government allowed to pass a motion that lacerated its approach to waiting lists for children with special needs but has no intention of doing anything about the issue. Today, it will allow to...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Here we go.

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: No problem.

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: There was a virtual meeting on the issue of remote working, which the lobbyists-----

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: -----at the committee meeting last week forgot all about. Does the Minister of State know who IBEC met? It met him, the other Minister of State, the Tánaiste and every senior official in the Department. That is some level of access. IBEC has that access and gets the legislation written in its interests. I will remind the Minister of State of something else. It is three months...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Three months have passed and there is a pandemic-----

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: No. The Minister of State should go back and look at the record. He said that he was going to call me that afternoon to arrange a meeting.

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It was cynical then, just as it is cynical today. The Government has no intention of legislating for workers' rights except when it is under immense pressure. What is contained in the heads of the Bill is not the right to remote working, but 13 reasons that businesses can give for saying workers cannot do it.

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Incredibly, one of the grounds is concern for the commute between the proposed working location and the employer's on-site location. An employer can say "No" on the grounds that it believes the employee lives too far away or too near. What does that mean? There are not just 13 reasons, but any ground at all, given that "the proposal requested is not suitable on business grounds." The...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It is striking the length to which the State has gone to try to cover up the reality of the extremely long waiting lists for children who have special needs. It is ingenious of the State to try to do so. This stands in contrast with the absence of similar ingenuity matched with resources to provide children with the care they need....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Catholic bishops have, this week, finally agreed to hand over patronage of eight schools so that they can become secular schools. This is after a decade of talk following the forum on patronage in 2012. At this rate it will take 3,000 years to finally have a secular primary school system in this country. Even more alarming are the reports today that the church may be doing with these...