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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: Let us talk about social insurance. Does Mr. McDonnell accept that employer's PRSI in Ireland is approximately 50% of the EU average?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: That is the point. If employer's PRSI were increased by 2%-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: I stand with the meat factory worker. I stand with the contract cleaner who felt she had to go to work in a nappy even though she is on a low income. Yes, I think she should be entitled to sick pay and, yes, I think those who have it should pay for it. Does Mr. McDonnell accept that if employer's PRSI were increased by 2%, which would still leave it substantially lower than the EU average,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: I did pick up on it. I noticed it and I thought to myself that we have an unusual alliance on that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: May I ask Mr. McDonnell just one final question? I am just about out of time. In the spirit of his 3% surcharge on those earning over €100,000-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Higher Education Institutions (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the practice of postgraduate students being expected to do unpaid teaching hours. [41659/20]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Higher Education Institutions (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: In October, the Minister admitted to me that it is common practice for universities to require PhD researchers to do five hours of teaching per week without payment. Similar to the situation with student nurses, the Minister tried to claim this was not work but merely an upskilling programme. These are workers working in universities through lockdown, running classes and laboratories, often...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Higher Education Institutions (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: In the Minister's reply, there was much reference to transferable skills. It seems to me that he and the Department are at pains to avoid referring to work as work. Instead, it is about developing transferable skills. Although there are differences, there are also parallels with the situation for student nurses. In this case, the universities are reliant on free labour from PhD...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Higher Education Institutions (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: I ask that the Minister include a representative of the Postgraduate Workers Alliance on that group. It is a specific organisation made up of postgraduate researchers across the country and set up precisely to discuss this issue. Its presence at those meetings would be important. For me, there is something quite simple here, which is that where people are engaged in productive labour, they...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: How many lives?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: There is a balance between lives and what?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: How much?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the person or body that represented his Department at the first meeting of the high-level task force on Covid-19 vaccination. [41722/20]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: It is clear that it will be many months, and perhaps six months or more, before we will have a full roll-out of the vaccine across the country, which will obviously be enormously welcome. There will, however, be a significant time remaining where social distancing, ventilation and handwashing and a strategy based on investment in testing and tracing, etc., will be necessary to minimise and,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: That does not mean it is right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: We do not have to sign up to investor-state dispute settlement measures to do so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: What would the Taoiseach say to investors who sue the Irish State?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach does not even know what it stands for.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the progress of his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [43141/20]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)
Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has convened the well-being expert group as committed to in the programme for Government. [43143/20]