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Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Apologies from Deputy Bríd Smith who was originally due to be here and wanted to be here to speak. She is our representative on the Oireachtas Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community but she is tied up with the climate change Bill. The housing crisis we are talking about and the particular crises facing the Traveller community is one reflection of the gross State...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The point about the cell renovation was not that cells were renovated subsequently but that the cell in question was immediately painted and renovated before it could be investigated. That is suspicious rather than something good. The suggestion is that with his bare hands, Terence tunnelled into the walls of the cell, found an anchor point to tie the cord of his tracksuit, which he was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has met with the family or representatives of a person (details supplied) who died in Garda custody in 2005; if she will examine the setting up of an independent or public inquiry into the circumstances of their death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30234/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Terence Wheelock left his home to buy a paintbrush 16 years ago yesterday. He never came home. He was picked up and arrested by gardaí and brought to Store Street Garda station. Terence entered a coma as a result of injuries he received there and he died in hospital three months later. The gardaí state that he hanged himself, but his family do not believe that and there are very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I met the Wheelock family yesterday. I pay tribute to their bravery and courage in continuing to campaign for justice. The members of the family are not satisfied with the response they have received. It is open to the Government to initiate a public inquiry. It is a power which rests with it. Regarding the GSOC inquiry, does the Minister not think it was problematic that it was led by a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to protect workers’ health and safety in view of the reopening of the hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30240/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he envisages introducing a mandatory sick pay scheme before the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has made representations to the Minister for Health in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30237/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The way the Government goes on about this plan and has been lauding itself about this being the opposite of austerity and so on over the past 24 hours, one would think a massive new deal public investment was going on in the economy. The reality is very different. Look at the size of what we are talking about. The EU money and the domestic money adds up to €4.5 billion, which is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: There was quite a bizarre story a couple of weeks ago which illustrated a very important point about the position of Ireland in the world and the role it plays in terms of supporting and facilitating US imperialism. It was the story about the massive US air force jet landing at Baldonnel. I and many others asked a whole bunch of questions about it and what emerged was that the pilot had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [26511/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the national reform programme. [28375/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: This national reform programme talks about climate action but, like so much else from the Government, the talk and the actions do not add up. At the same time as the fine talk, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has given the green light to Irish Cement to start burning a million tyres a year in its cement kiln in Limerick city. How on earth in this day and age can it be acceptable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government information spin machine has been trying to prepare the ground for a reintroduction of JobBridge, a JobBridge 2.0. Rather than debating it in the Dáil, we saw it mentioned in one of the Sunday newspapers. There will be substantial opposition to any attempt to reintroduce a JobBridge scheme, even through the backdoor. The plans yesterday refer to a new work experience...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service. [29783/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government says that it would love to do this, but it cannot do it because of the Constitution. It should support our proposed constitutional change so that it can do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is clearly very touchy about the subject of his Government's lack of care for renters. The reason for that is that we have a government of landlords, for landlords. I will provide some facts rather than assertions. The cost of renting has more than doubled in the last ten years. Dublin has the fifth highest rents in all of Europe. Rents here are more expensive than in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: This is another example of the Government's argument, the Constitution says "No".The Taoiseach says that we cannot have a blanket freeze on rents because of the Constitution. He says those are the facts. I do not believe they are. The Government is hiding behind that argument precisely because it represents developers, but let us concede that those are the facts. Let us accept the idea...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Taoiseach said that what we were experiencing was the opposite of austerity. It is a bit hard to accept. There are many similarities now to what was done in 2008 when the Government responded to the crash by bailing out the banks and making ordinary workers foot the bill through cuts to public services and taxes such as this. The result was a lost decade, untold suffering...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (2 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The so-called property tax is, in reality, a family home tax. It is an austerity tax. It is a tax against which the socialist left campaigned when it was introduced in the aftermath of the household tax. People Before Profit warned at that time that if it was introduced it would rise and rise and that is precisely what is happening. The Government is proposing to hike up the property tax...