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

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will halt the tendering of local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Investigations (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 9 September 2021, if it remains his position that no file relating to an investigation was created by his Department in view of an affidavit (details supplied). [48796/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise a case about an Irish citizen who fled here from Iraq after the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS, took over Mosul. His father and other close family members were murdered. He is currently in Ireland, but his mother remains in limbo, effectively, in Turkey and has been for years. This is the third time I have raised this case in the Dáil. I previously raised it...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I thank some of the Opposition groupings that said they would support the motion. I want to respond to a variety of the arguments used by the Government. I will start with what was the elephant in the room in the context of the speeches of the two Ministers of State who spoke, namely, the question of data centres. They spoke about energy...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is only the case because it is a privatised market.

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — that energy prices are currently rising rapidly worldwide; — the fact that data centres currently take up 11 per cent of electricity produced in Ireland is adding to upward pressure on energy prices, as predicted by Moody’s in 2018; — that according to the Economic and Social Research Institute, one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I thank, in particular, those who are campaigning for a four-day week. I really think it is an idea whose time has come. It brings together the interests of workers as workers, the interests of those who are unemployed, the fight for gender equality, and the need to tackle climate change. The benefit of the demand is that it can bring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: In those cases where the existing number of hours are squeezed into a lesser number of days, for example, four days, would Ms McElwee not be concerned about the potential negative impact on workers' health, in particular workers in manual jobs who are working for, let us say, ten hours in a day as opposed to eight hours in a day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Ms McElwee has a point there. The question is what to do about that. For me, what to do about that is not to have a model whereby we try to extract 25% more productivity from workers on a per-hour basis, precisely because workers are already very heavily managed, their time is heavily managed in many cases and they already have stressful lives. We should accept that there is a four-day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will finish with a questions for the witnesses representing the four-day week campaign. I appreciate they are trying to get some level of buy-in from employers and convince them it can work, and so on. As part of this they have emphasised that strictly speaking they are not saying it will be a four-day week with a three-day weekend and that they are open to flexibility. There was a study...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to provide for a definition of fresh air based on CO2levels in the workplace as an emergency Covid-19 prevention measure; to provide for health and safety inspectors to take CO2measurements and issue improvement or prohibition notices; to provide for employees to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: We need answers from the Government about the quite incredible situation involving the Attorney General effectively double-jobbing, acting as legal adviser to the Government during the week while at the weekend, doing what appears to be a nixer for former Independent News & Media, INM, directors. This is the same Attorney General who provided legal advice against a ban on evictions...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have a problem with the use of the word "apartheid". I am against the Bill as well but to describe it as "apartheid" is not acceptable. It undermines the actual reality of apartheid.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Telecommunications Infrastructure (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government updated sections of the Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures Guidelines 1996 in 2012 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48212/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the body with responsibility for the safety of children at school; and the body that has responsibility for the safety of school staff at school. [47711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is a rule that prevents persons who are on illness benefit from qualifying for fuel allowance and the bonus week payment at Christmas given that there is a provision made for those in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance for 390 days, 15 months or more to qualify for both the fuel allowance and the bonus...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the position of his Department that a school principal would be breaching GDPR by sending an email or letter saying to parents that there has been a case of Covid-19 in their child’s class in the context of the new guidance regarding close contacts in childcare and education settings. [47709/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if the advice from his Department that it does not recommend that principals inform parents about Covid-19 in their children’s class supersedes a school’s duty of care to pupils and school staffs’ right to a safe work environment. [47710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to improve laws in relation to cruelty to animals given that there has been criticism that the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 contains the term unnecessary suffering which has been deemed too ambiguous to enforce in practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47600/21]