Results 5,941-5,960 of 12,298 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms King. I will return to Ms McElwee, if I may, and ask whether that is the case for IBEC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: In that meeting, is it likely that IBEC asked for the grounds of refusal for employers to be broad and general, asking probably for a general business ground for refusal? Did IBEC ask for appeals to be only on procedural, and not on substantive, grounds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Is it fair to say IBEC's position has very substantially shaped what is in the Government's proposal and that it is close to what IBEC was in favour of? IBEC is clearly against any legislation at all but if there is to be legislation, IBEC's position is that the employer has the absolute right to say no with no substantive appeal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will go back with a final question to Ms King.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: How much of ICTU's position informed the drafting of the Government's Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms King.

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I extend our deepest solidarity with and support to the Ukrainian people. They are now the victims of war crimes carried out by Putin's army. There is no justification for this imperialist invasion. Russian troops should be withdrawn immediately and all refugees fleeing from Ukraine should be welcome into the EU and Ireland. I will address the campaign from large sections of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Hundreds of thousands of people were killed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Afghanistan was robbed of its gold just last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: We do.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to update his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [7690/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: We will switch it around. The Taoiseach can ask us questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The world is horrified by Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, by the war crimes which are now being committed and by the threat of this spiralling into a full-scale hot war between nuclear powers. We unreservedly condemn this brutal invasion and we demand that Putin withdraw from Ukraine, immediately and unconditionally. I want to pay tribute to the anti-war protesters in Russia who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is nine months since the Dáil endorsed our Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020 to which Deputy Boyd Barrett referred. The Dáil agreed to call a referendum to insert the right to a home into the Irish Constitution. Nine months on, we have no date for this referendum. No progress has been made on that but we heard reports today that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, an agency under the aegis of his Department. [11434/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach is on record as saying that no clear process was followed in deciding to give a 38% pay rise to Robert Watt. He stated “While I would rather there was a much more scientific process for all of these things, there is not.” Some €81,000 extra was given to Mr. Watt, more than the vast majority of workers earn in a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to the public finances of renting and leasing buildings from private property owners in total and broken down by Department or State agency over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that outstanding increases to pensions for semi-State workers are being authorised and paid over to pensioners by all Departments and State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered revisiting the current public sector pay agreement before the expiration at the end of 2022 considering the real difficulties faced by low and middle income workers in the view of inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Treatment Purchase Fund (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the impact on public finances of the of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the likelihood that that impact will grow ever greater over future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11495/22]