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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]

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: What the public could expect from the Green Party is that it takes the side of the environment rather than of major multinational corporations, but that is not what they are getting. Deputy Leddin was arguably more enthusiastic in his cheerleading for more and more data centres in this country than even the Minister of State. He fits very well the role of outrider for a right-wing,...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Indeed, I suspect many climate scientists who are looking with open eyes at what is happening are drawing the conclusion that a system that treats nature as free, one that bases itself on the exploitation of labour and of nature and treats damage to nature, in terms of both the biodiversity and climate crises, as an externality and something it does not have to care about is incompatible with...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Blah, blah, blah is what we have heard for 30 years from politicians. Greta Thunberg got it correct about the Taoiseach and the UN Security Council, as in regard to much of the debate that has happened today. The gulf between the promises, the rhetoric and the talk and the reality of the action or lack of action grows wider and wider. The Taoiseach was correct when he said at the UN...