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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Presumably the Tánaiste agrees that Covid-19 is airborne and that ventilation is important. Yet, over a year into the pandemic where we are aware of this fact, there is no legal requirement on pub or restaurant owners to have any ventilation in place to protect their workers. That is a health risk for workers. A well-ventilated pub or restaurant is significantly safer than a badly...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Will the Tánaiste explain the enforcement to me? There is a work safety protocol and reference to various guidelines. However, they are precisely guidelines and not law. The Tánaiste says there are inspections. If the inspectors find that the ventilation is not up to the guidelines, what enforcement can take place?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The problem is that it is precisely guidance and has no legal basis. It is a collection of statements of voluntary public health advice. The Government is asking unvaccinated workers to go back and work in these circumstances. That is completely unacceptable and shows a disregard for the health and safety of workers. The Tánaiste should feel free to come back on that. I wish to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I would point out that we have the Delta variant and we have higher case numbers than we had this time last year.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any engagements with the Central Statistics Office with regard to the rescheduling of Census 2021. [34844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider implementing education on basic first-aid skills which could be introduced to children in upper primary school and continued in secondary school given it would provide most of the young population of this country with the basic skills necessary to react in an emergency situation (details supplied). [34533/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to give accreditation to the 500 special needs assistants currently undertaking the National Training Programme for the SNA certificate in inclusive school support (details supplied). [34723/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the regulations to allow the blind pension to be paid concurrently with the invalidity pension given that it is means-tested (details supplied). [34737/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the problems with a proposed funding model (details supplied) and its possible detrimental impact on all Youthreach learners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34762/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 562. To ask the Minister for Health if he will require the business case for the design, construction and operation of the proposed new national maternity hospital at Elm Park to include design, construction and fit-out for the provision of full reproductive healthcare including contraception, surgical sterilisation, IVF and abortion; the specific design, construction and fit-out provision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will require the business case for the operation of the proposed new national maternity hospital at Elm Park to include specific estimates for section 38 funding of staff for the provision of contraception, surgical sterilisation, IVF and abortion services; and the estimated number of staff to be funded under section 38 for the specific provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the case of an official (details supplied) in his Department who has admitted to animal neglect charges at a farm County Sligo; the way his Department has dealt with this situation; and the steps he is taking to ensure this is not the case for any other Departmental employees. [34468/21]

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: On the substantive issue, the Minister asserted that the Government is not pretending to do something. The issue we are discussing is that of people facing 8% rent increases. It has become a significant issue, so much so that the Fine Gael by-election candidate was forced to say that it is both a revelation and outrageous and called on the Government to do something. It has become a...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: These are crucial amendments. Amendments tabled by members of other parties would have a similar effect in terms of ensuring this aspect of the legislation does something meaningful for those who are facing 8% rent increases, rather than just pretending to do something meaningful. I will tell the Minister about Jane, who came to me more than a month ago regarding the €160 a month...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, has described this Act as "the single biggest denial of fair trial rights in our legal system". It is completely correct and that is why People Before Profit will be opposing this, as we have consistently done. I would urge other parties to join us in opposing this, particularly the Green Party and Sinn Féin, which previously also opposed...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I start by quoting from James Geoghegan, the Fine Gael by-election candidate in Dublin Bay South. On 28 May he released a press statement which stated, "I am alarmed by the revelation today that tenants in the rental accommodation sector could potentially face a double rent increase of 8% when measures providing for a temporary ban on evictions and a rent freeze that were implemented during...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [33403/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am not sure whether the Taoiseach saw the footage from ITV in Britain last week relating to the practices of Amazon. In its fulfilment centres in that country, the company is destroying up to 200,000 products, and an average of 124,000 to 130,000, per week. Those products are in perfectly good condition, from toasters to televisions to face masks. They could be used but are instead being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government tells us we are to have an outdoor summer, which is very important for wellness, but over a year into a pandemic the outdoor public facilities are still entirely inadequate. I will give an example. In the South Dublin County Council area there are many beautiful parks, but the bins are overflowing, there are very few spaces for people to sit with friends and family and there...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in preparing the national economic recovery plan. [33402/21]