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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is no problem. My jaw almost hit the floor during the Taoiseach's response when he said the meat plants have been dealt with. Tell that to the six meat factory workers currently hospitalised with Covid-19. Tell that to the meat factory workers in the two plants that have been added to the list of outbreaks in the latest weekly statistics. There are now open outbreaks in 27 of 56...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [13274/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met; and when it next plans to meet. [16824/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: In countries that followed a zero Covid strategy, the schools were largely able to stay open after the first lockdown. The same could have been done here last summer, but instead the Government decided on a yo-yo lockdown strategy that has seen schools having to close repeatedly. There is hope and the target of opening schools fully again, but with case numbers so high and the risk of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [16823/21]

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I support this motion and thank Sinn Féin for tabling it. For too long, the hard work of carers has gone largely unrecognised, unsupported and unpaid by the State. The State and the Government have failed to care for the carers in our society. Every day, carers do crucial work supporting our most vulnerable but this and successive Governments largely view their work as a way to save...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [13273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts due to be returned from employers for overpayments of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy scheme; the manner in which this will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amounts owed by workers for outstanding tax as a result of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the plans in place to deduct this from workers; the way tax refunds due to workers are affected by same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 380. To ask the Minister for Finance the ongoing efforts being made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure full compliance by film production companies with the conditions attached to receipt of section 481 film tax relief particularly following a recent ruling by the scope section that one of the regular recipients of section 481 over many years was found to have wrongly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 381. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax increases; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent announcement that those on the disability allowance will become eligible for PhD scholarships without the loss of disability allowance and a medical card will also apply to those on the invalidity payment and other disability-related welfare supports. [17061/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I support the Bill. Workplace infections are a driving factor in Covid, but that has been hidden by the inadequacies of our testing and tracing regime. If one looked at current Covid hotspots geographically, one would find that they map fairly well onto geographical centres with meat plants. There is a more general point to be made, though....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes. We will go back and forth, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us say that I am in a workplace that asserts it is essential and I, as a worker, do not dispute that. During the first lockdown, I was able to work from home safely and was permitted to do so. During this lockdown, however, I am being compelled by my employer to go to work, as is the case for many workers. If I approach the HSA and say that it is not right, fair or in line with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us get to the bottom line. Let us forget about the question of essential. The issue is that I as a worker was allowed to work from home during the first lockdown and can safely do so, but as appears to be the case for many workers, I am being compelled this time around to go into work. The HSA has advised workers that it is at their employer's discretion whether they return to work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is requesting, but it is ultimately at the discretion of the employer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: How are we a year into the pandemic with many workers being compelled to travel to work unnecessarily, thereby undermining the efforts that we are all making, yet the HSA does not have the authority to do anything about it? As far as I can tell, no other body has that authority either. Surely the HSA should be given the power to conduct inspections where workers could be safely working from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is ensuring that systems are in place in terms of people being as safe as possible when they are at work. That is good and I am all for it. I received a response on this matter from the HSA's head of communications a couple of months ago. As far as I understand, the authority cannot do anything about workers being compelled to work in the workplace rather than from home.