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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the summary of responses from the population of south-west Dublin will be made public in relation to the draft review of the transport strategy for the greater Dublin area; and the point at which the process to finalise the draft review of the next public interaction will take place. [6858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare centres, preschools and crèches that have installed HEPA filters as part of the grant programme announced in December 2021. [6765/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to tackle the long waiting lists for children to receive operations; and the way his Department plans to improve the management of waiting lists for children for operations going forward. [6766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if advice can be provided for persons in circumstances (details supplied). [6823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that paxlovid will be available to high-risk patients in the UK from 10 February 2022; the plans the HSE has to make this drug be available for high-risk patients in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: First, I apologise for only arriving a few minutes ago. I was speaking on our Private Members' Bill. My apologies if I ask questions that have already been answered. As currently drafted, the heads of the Bill are extremely weak and give a right to request, which is fine, and then a right to deny by the employer on very broad business grounds. There is a list of 13 reasons, but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Within that, is the Department open to removing the catch-all business grounds? In a sense the Department could remove all 13 grounds and it is still left with business grounds, which is extremely broad. Any business can refuse on business grounds. That appears to me to be where the problem is, as opposed to the 13 grounds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. What is in the heads of the Bill at present is the right to appeal as effectively a procedural right. One can appeal on procedural grounds that one's employer did not refer back to one in time, as opposed to on substantial grounds that the business grounds the employer is citing are not substantiated. Is the Department indicating a willingness to amend or change that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: As drafted, the balance is very much in favour of the employer. The right to request is very limited when the employer can just refuse and one cannot appeal on substantive grounds. Hopefully, that will be amended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Alan Eustace and Ms Niamh Egleston in Trinity College Dublin have proposed an alternative model of remote working based on annual leave, where a worker would effectively be entitled to a number of days of remote working in the course of a year. Is that something the Department has considered as an addition to the current model, which is based on all-year-round remote working and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I thank the witnesses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach spoke about how in May 2019 the Dáil declared a biodiversity emergency and called for a citizens’ assembly. Three years will have passed by the time an assembly will have been established. That is not exactly moving swiftly or recognising the scale of the emergency that faces us. One quarter of bird species in Ireland are a "serious conservation concern". Some 77...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [6403/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Retail and hospitality workers were applauded over the last two years for helping to keep society running during the pandemic. Does the Taoiseach agree that those workers deserve a raise? Very many of them are on the minimum wage. The minimum wage in this country is a poverty wage. Does the Taoiseach think that is okay? Does he think it is acceptable that someone should work full-time...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the case of the strategic litigation against, and bullying of, Ballyboden Tidy Towns group by the developer Ardstone. He responded that no one should ever intimidate a Tidy Towns committee. I agree but it is clear that Ardstone does not. In response to our interaction here, its representatives wrote another letter to the Ballyboden Tidy Towns group....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment last met; and when it will next meet. [6402/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [6401/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: That is what the Government is doing.