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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Paul Murphy: In his concluding remarks, the Minister mentioned taking the lead in creating five new workers' rights, one of them being the right to request remote, home or hybrid working. What he is talking about is not really much of a right if it is just the right to request. If we had a situation where one has a right to request the minimum wage, people would think that was laughable. It is similar...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Paul Murphy: I will explore that further. I take the Minister's point, which I welcome, that he is willing to review it. As it stands, however, all this provides is the right to request and the right to the employer to say "No". Even the suggestion that 13 reasons might be too many misses the point. The 13 reasons are just examples that are given. Instead, there is an overarching position that the...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Paul Murphy: The Minister is counter-posing an absolute right to work remotely, regardless of job, versus no right whatsoever. To be clear, what the Minister is proposing is not a right to remote working in certain circumstances. All that is being proposed is the right to request it. There is a big gap between the absolute right to work remotely regardless of the job and, on the other hand, just the...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Paul Murphy: Okay. I will speak again in the second round.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third level education; if she plans to abolish the leaving certificate; if she will engage with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to develop open access to third level education; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: I do not buy it and the important point is the students will not buy it. They will not buy the idea that the Minister listened and that she and the Government did everything that was possible. A full 67% of students in a very widely shared and participated in survey by the students union said they did not want a traditional leaving certificate exam but the Government is pushing ahead with a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: That the Minister would say this is very different and there are significant changes speaks to a profound lack of vision by the Government because the basis of the system is exactly the same. For students, their perception of how they are going to do in their leaving certificate all rests on one or two exams in subjects including maths, English and Irish, in the oral and the aural exams....
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: I have nothing against accredited grades.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: The alternative is open access.
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Look at the figures-----
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: -----90% of people from Dublin 6, 10% from DEIS.
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: It compounds and crystallises it.
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [2226/22]
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4702/22]
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach admitted a year ago that the leaving certificate was inflexible and that a new system was needed. Here we are, after two years of no traditional leaving certificate, as it is called, and now the Government is absolutely determined, against the wishes of 68% of students, to drive through a return to a so-called traditional leaving certificate. In addition to the usual anxieties...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: I have quite incredible correspondence with me from Augustus Cullen Law Solicitors on behalf of Ardstone Homes Limited, which is a development and investment company. They are threatening letters to a Tidy Towns group, Ballyboden Tidy Towns Group, threatening to sue it for defamation. Why? It is because the group has stood up for proper planning against abuse of the SHD process and...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs published its internal review of what it calls workplace arrangements in Iveagh House, a euphemism for champagne-gate on 17 June. This was a time when many people were not able to attend funerals of loved ones and thousands of people received fines for either organising or attending social gatherings in breach of the regulations in place at the...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [2225/22]
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4701/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Feb 2022)
Paul Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to introduce objective sex education in all primary and post-primary schools; if it will be ensured that religious ethos cannot prevent the teaching of the objective sex education curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4696/22]