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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice he received from AMRIC in relation to HEPA filters in schools. [60959/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Health if he still maintains his opposition to the use of HEPA filters in schools. [60960/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [60210/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: For a brief moment, the value and essential nature of workers, those who are on the front line doing the work, had to be recognised in the pandemic. Chief among them, or certainly up there, were supermarket workers, who universally were accepted to be keeping our shops open and providing an essential service when most things were locked down. Even their employers were forced very briefly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach said he would revert to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department [60206/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I echo that point. There is a serious issue. I wish to raise with the Taoiseach a case I have raised with him a number of times, that is, the gross and sexist abuse of power by retired Kerry judge James O'Connor. I have brought a number of testimonies to the Dáil of women in vulnerable positions before him on family law matters where he used his position to completely,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and the submission. I want to focus on the question of green jobs, which should be central to job creation in the coming years. I know the expert group has a very long report on skills for zero carbon. There is a lot in it that is very good and a lot that I agree with but it tends to take a pretty narrow view of what type of green jobs will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses. To tease this out, I take it that the relatively narrow remit of the report is because there were not clear enough indications from the Government on what it will do on public transport. To be clear I am completely on board with retrofitting, solar power and renewable energy. I am sceptical about the focus on electric cars as a way to go. I will also throw in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have a question on housing, where the witnesses project a significant, and necessary, rise in the labour force. Perhaps they will say this question is beyond their remit, and it is fair enough if they do. Is there an issue with attracting construction workers when apprentices start on as little as €7 an hour and suffer from all of the issues that have been discussed previously by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Donohoe.

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this good motion, which People Before Profit supports. It is coincidentally a good day for such a discussion in the sense that the hard, dangerous and vital work that is being done by people in the Dublin Fire Brigade and fire brigades across the country is clear to people who are watching the news, social media feeds and so on. How essential that work is...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I did.

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not, but this is a general point about how the Government has responded to motions. To people tracking this, it is clear how, six or nine months ago, the Government decided that it did not want pictures of it voting against stuff that people thought was eminently reasonable and it would instead allow those motions to pass. It would not vote against them but it would not necessarily...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government should do it then.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Even Joe Biden supports it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Why is the Government backing big pharma?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Of course it is.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government is backing big pharma.