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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Put the houses on planes and fly them out.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Tánaiste to go outside to meet the students who will sleep out overnight to highlight the student accommodation crisis. They will tell him this is the worst the crisis has ever been. They will tell him stories about the very many students who still have no accommodation, who are commuting long distances every day, who are paying extortionate money in hotel fees or who are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government has taken a policy decision not to provide a CO2monitor for every classroom in this State. That is a scandalous policy decision. The Government has also taken a policy decision not to provide high efficiency particulate air, HEPA, filtration systems where necessary. To make our schools reasonably safe from a ventilation perspective would cost €10 per child but the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The change in policy with regard to close contact tracing does not make sense. If a child goes to a birthday party for half an hour, that child is counted as a close contact and has to be tested. However, if they are in school and in the same pod as another child all day, every day, for a week, all of a sudden they no longer count as a close contact. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CO2 monitors required to provide one for each classroom, learning support room, staff room and other school spaces in which they are required; the number that have been provided to schools to date; and when the remaining monitors will be delivered to schools. [45677/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: We are a year and a half into a pandemic. We know very well the virus is airborne and that ventilation is crucial, and yet we still do not have CO2 monitors in every classroom across the State. According to what the Minister has just said, we are almost finalised and, therefore, there is not even a plan to have CO2 monitors for every classroom across the State. Why are we scrimping and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: School Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has provided for the recent pay agreement with school secretaries and caretakers in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45716/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the instructions she has given to schools on the way they must respond to Covid-19 cases including on isolation of close contacts of symptomatic and asymptomatic cases. [45680/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to increase education spending to bring Ireland up to at least the OECD average of 4.9% of GDP given that according to the OECD, Ireland has the lowest spending on education out of 36 countries at just 3.3% of GDP. [45682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration given and the action she has taken to provide high-efficiency particulate absorbing filters for each classroom, learning room and staffroom. [45678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration given and action she has taken to protect and improve air quality in classrooms and school staffrooms. [45681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Covid-19 tests administered and the number and proportion of confirmed Covid-19 cases for primary school pupils by week since the return of primary schools in August 2021. [45679/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the provision of public sector pensions to school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45715/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: For over a year, Debenhams workers waged a heroic struggle against the loss of their jobs and their treatment by their employer. In many respects, their struggle epitomised the treatment of some workers by some employers in the course of the pandemic. Yesterday, the Government announced that employees who had lost their job during Covid would now be able to seek redundancy and it announced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Chairman and the Minister. He was at pains to emphasise that companies can currently take states to court for discriminatory measures and so on. I agree that is an accurate summation of the current law. Why then is it that corporations need to have access to parallel justice mechanisms? Why can they not just pursue issues through the national courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is a parallel justice system just for corporations. The Minister was explicit and said repeatedly that the only basis on which a Canadian company could sue the State in the ICS is if it was discriminated against. I would like him to clarify that. Is that his position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister stated on a couple of occasions the only way companies could sue is if they were discriminated against. He now accepts that is not the case. They would not have to be discriminated against on the basis of not being European to access the ICS and potentially win against the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: In the Minister's opening statement, which we do not have before us, he repeatedly stated that it would only be on the basis of discrimination but that is not the case. According to Article 8.12 of CETA: A Party shall not nationalise or expropriate a covered investment either directly, or indirectly [and indirectly basically involves any sort of regulations that interfere with the right to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister was at pains to emphasise that the chances of Ireland being successfully sued by a Canadian company are low. He is presumably aware that approximately 1,000 Canadian corporations are currently taking cases in ISDS processes against states around the world. They are very much engaged in what Joseph Stiglitz described as "litigation terrorism".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, some of them are. For example, one Canadian mining company is suing Romania for almost $6 billion for interfering with its mining rights. Another corporation is suing Croatia for removing its illegal permits for a golf course. The Minister said that effectively, we will have protection-----