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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 62. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has plans to support a local library for the City West area. [50089/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Boyd Barrett and Barry. As we explained and outlined clearly yesterday, this is a budget for banks, landlords and developers. It is not an exaggeration to say there is less than nothing in it for renters, workers, pensioners, carers and the unemployed, all of whom will be worse off in real terms this time next year because what is being given is less than the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 862 of 28 September 2021, if he has taken into account concern for the welfare of the animals once they arrive in China; and if his attention has been drawn to the likely treatment that they face (details supplied). [50006/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms McNamara for her presentation. I only have one question. She might have seen an incredible story in today's newspapers about Ryanair, which has been in receipt of significant public moneys throughout the course of the pandemic. Passengers who were unable to travel due to Covid carried out chargebacks on their credit cards and, as a result, Ryanair is saying that they are banned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Hypothetically, let us say that this is an online retailer with nothing to do with flights. I buy something, I feel I did not get it or whatever and I do a chargeback as a result, but the online retailer says that I am barred and cannot buy anything from it again. Would that be covered by this Bill or is it the right of a retailer to decide that someone cannot buy something from it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms McNamara.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government spin is that this is a back-to-normal budget after Covid-19. It is that. We are going back to the capitalist normal of reliance on the market, which means a further deepening of the housing crisis when rents are completely out of control, prices are going through the roof and 10,000 people are homeless. It means a further growth of the hospital waiting lists when there are...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: No it will not.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is nonsense.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a number of employees that have been deemed unable to return to their place of work full-time by their healthcare professional under circumstances in which they are able to fulfil their job in full while working from home when they are experiencing inflexibility from their employers given the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unlike commercial landlords, owner-occupiers and social landlords cannot write-off their defects levies against their tax liabilities (details supplied); and if he will ensure that Budget 2022 contains measures to assist owner-occupiers and social housing providers who have paid or are paying levies for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constituency Commission (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review constituency boundaries considering the recent population estimates (details supplied). [49152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish her Department’s new strategy for education for sustainable development. [49571/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary schools will take into account the difficulties that many transition year students face in trying to get relevant work experience at this time due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic when outlining the requirements as part of the transition year programme. [49682/21]

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. It is more than a year since I said in the Dáil that what was happening in aviation was an example of what Naomi Klein calls "shock doctrine", that is, the taking advantage of a real crisis to drive through a pre-existing agenda. In this case, the agenda is to outsource operations, drive down workers' wages and conditions and create a leaner...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase funding for childcare services to make childcare services affordable for all. [49076/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Ireland's childcare barometer shows that 65% of the public agree that childcare, like primary education, should be free. People Before Profit agrees. If we want happy, healthy and developmentally successful children, we need proper State investment in early childhood education and childcare. The Minister spoke earlier about all the supports given during Covid and so on, but will he accept...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The figures are €638 million this year and €1 billion by 2028. These are inadequate sums. Families are spending 34% of household income on childcare, compared with 3% in Austria and 6% in Sweden, and that is despite childcare workers in many cases earning just the minimum wage. There is a crisis and the Government proposes, basically, to go back to normal. UNICEF recommends...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Post Covid, this is not a time for half measures; it is a time to restructure the entire way childcare operates, recognise the failure of the current model and set ourselves on a short, direct, rapid path to a national childcare service, publicly provided and free at the point of use. The Minister stated nobody disagrees we are underfunding childcare but, with all due respect, he is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Prices (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether eligibility for the fuel allowance should be expanded given the increases in electricity prices and carbon tax. [48554/21]