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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the plans by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to run a full-scale election observation mission for the forthcoming elections in Serbia with both long and short-term observers; if long-term and short-term observers from Ireland will be provided for such a mission; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 20 civil society groups in Hungary have urged the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to conduct a full-scale election observation for the forthcoming elections in Hungary and that this has been supported by a number of MEPs; if he plans to support the running of such a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget in 2022 for Ireland's election observation programme; if the budget includes provision for the recruitment to a replacement roster in 2022; the number of observers on the current roster; if observers must be tax resident in Ireland; if not, the number of non-tax resident observers on the roster; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is involved in carbon offset programmes for airline travel journeys undertaken; if so, the details of the programme; the amount spent on the programme in 2021; the budget for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reassess the policy in relation to the Irish exemption and autism to offer an exemption on the basis that a child has a significant processing disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied). [3702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consider an appeal by a person (details supplied). [3718/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Apologies, I only have seven minutes. I will return to my question. I am not talking about the technology sector in general; I am talking about data centres. Does Mr. Shanahan believe Ireland is a data superpower and what does that mean? Perhaps he could be more precise. How many people are employed in permanent jobs in data centres in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: How many people are employed full-time in data centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I would say it is a few hundred people. Does Mr. Shanahan agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I would argue that far from us being very lucky to have all these data centres investing here that Ireland and IDA Ireland, which is a part of this and it is nothing personal, are dupes of the big tech companies. The talk of Ireland being a big data superpower is about buttering us up. Ireland is simply a dumping ground for data. It brings very few positives in terms of long-term jobs,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Attracting more data centres to Ireland still appears to be a key part of the IDA Ireland strategy from 2021 to 2024. There are many references in the strategy to cloud computing, artificial intelligence, AI, and big data. Are data centres still a key part of IDA Ireland's strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: When the witnesses referred in the opening statement to targeting 60 sustainability investments, were they including data centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: There are to be no more data centres in Dublin and the east of the country but potentially a bunch more in the rest of the country, regardless of the additional burden owing to the additional electricity demand. The problem is that while the figure of 11% was correct, it is up to 17% at this stage. It keeps rising because we keep adding more data centres to the grid. That is a problem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: Much of what happens in data centres is not necessary. Much of what happens in data centres involves running significant numbers of algorithms to target Mr. Shanahan and me with advertising. We do not know what is happening because it is in a big black box. I thank Mr. Shanahan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Shanahan for his presentation. I want to explore the issue of data centres and what can be described as the leading role of the IDA Ireland in attracting data centres to Ireland. There is a number of items on the IDA Ireland website about data centres, including one which features a quote from Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, quite prominently, where he talks about the...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: What about Kazakhstan?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: At the start of January, there was a mass movement in Kazakhstan, an uprising triggered by an increase in fuel prices. The move started with a strike of oil workers in Zhanaozen and became widespread general strikes and protests across much of the country. It was put down with incredible brutality by an incredibly brutal dictatorship. The military and police were given orders to shoot...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I also want to ask about the ongoing protests against the planned closure of the Regina Coeli hostel for women in Belfast. This hostel is the only one of its sort in the North, providing for women who have suffered from homelessness, drug addiction or domestic violence. Now they have been told by the Legion of Mary that it is to close. The workers have refused to accept it. They have...