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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constituency Commission (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review constituency boundaries considering the recent population estimates (details supplied). [49152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish her Department’s new strategy for education for sustainable development. [49571/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary schools will take into account the difficulties that many transition year students face in trying to get relevant work experience at this time due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic when outlining the requirements as part of the transition year programme. [49682/21]

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. It is more than a year since I said in the Dáil that what was happening in aviation was an example of what Naomi Klein calls "shock doctrine", that is, the taking advantage of a real crisis to drive through a pre-existing agenda. In this case, the agenda is to outsource operations, drive down workers' wages and conditions and create a leaner...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase funding for childcare services to make childcare services affordable for all. [49076/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Ireland's childcare barometer shows that 65% of the public agree that childcare, like primary education, should be free. People Before Profit agrees. If we want happy, healthy and developmentally successful children, we need proper State investment in early childhood education and childcare. The Minister spoke earlier about all the supports given during Covid and so on, but will he accept...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The figures are €638 million this year and €1 billion by 2028. These are inadequate sums. Families are spending 34% of household income on childcare, compared with 3% in Austria and 6% in Sweden, and that is despite childcare workers in many cases earning just the minimum wage. There is a crisis and the Government proposes, basically, to go back to normal. UNICEF recommends...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Post Covid, this is not a time for half measures; it is a time to restructure the entire way childcare operates, recognise the failure of the current model and set ourselves on a short, direct, rapid path to a national childcare service, publicly provided and free at the point of use. The Minister stated nobody disagrees we are underfunding childcare but, with all due respect, he is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Prices (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether eligibility for the fuel allowance should be expanded given the increases in electricity prices and carbon tax. [48554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will halt the tendering of local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Investigations (7 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 9 September 2021, if it remains his position that no file relating to an investigation was created by his Department in view of an affidavit (details supplied). [48796/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise a case about an Irish citizen who fled here from Iraq after the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS, took over Mosul. His father and other close family members were murdered. He is currently in Ireland, but his mother remains in limbo, effectively, in Turkey and has been for years. This is the third time I have raised this case in the Dáil. I previously raised it...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I thank some of the Opposition groupings that said they would support the motion. I want to respond to a variety of the arguments used by the Government. I will start with what was the elephant in the room in the context of the speeches of the two Ministers of State who spoke, namely, the question of data centres. They spoke about energy...

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."