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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [24256/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The statement of the EU Commission President that she condemns indiscriminate attacks by Hamas on Israel was scandalous. There was no mention of the ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem. Neither was there any mention of the pogroms being carried out by far-right Israeli activists in Israel, with the backing of state forces, against Palestinians. Likewise, there was no mention of the bombs...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is noteworthy how the Taoiseach is the only man in the building without an ideology. It really is quite striking. It is the best kind of ideology when you do not admit that it is an ideology. Parents and staff at Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School have been forced to struggle again and again to ensure they have buildings for the kids and students on the school site. Last...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There have been decades of underinvestment in our water infrastructure. That underinvestment continues, and the danger is that it will be used as another excuse to try to introduce water charges, which still will not resolve the underinvestment. Last week, the OECD called for the reintroduction of water charges in Ireland. In case the Government gets the wrong idea, it must be put on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: To start with the point about the lottery system, it is good that the Minister of State recognises that it is inadequate. Frankly, it is sick that in 2021 pupils are relying on a lottery to determine whether they get a hot meal in school. Either the programme is necessary, which the evidence suggests is clearly the case, or it is not but it is not acceptable in this day and age that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is a grave injustice being done to the 149 pupils who attend Knockmore Junior School in Killinarden and a similar injustice being done to 91 other schools and the children who go there. These are schools that applied for the hot school meal programme because they need it and they lost out on the basis of a lottery. It is completely unfair. There is plenty of academic evidence, not...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest engagement with the social partners. [24670/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has approved the resumption of point to point racing which is now taking place with large crowds in attendance; and if he will act to stop it in view of a Government request that it be discontinued under current Covid-19 regulations. [26796/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: On the previous decision made by IDA Ireland to employ a consultant in Israel, does the Tánaiste think that it is still appropriate to go ahead with this, considering the situation facing the Palestinians and the role of the Israeli state in terms of apartheid conditions, pogroms within the borders of Israel, ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem and bombs raining down on Gaza being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: Right now bombs are raining down on Gaza and children are being-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister for Foreign Affairs has previously stated in written answers to parliamentary questions that IDA Ireland operates under the aegis of the Tánaiste, so he has responsibility here and can make a political statement about whether he agrees with IDA Ireland expanding its operations into Israel at this time. On Facebook's content moderators, the Tánaiste made the point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste. A general point that was raised about the conditions facing content moderators was, in effect, the two-tier workforce, with those who work directly for Facebook and have access to proper psychiatric counselling and so on and those who work for various outsourcing companies, such as Covalen and others, who do not have access to that, to wellness coaches and so on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is precisely what it has done. I have a final question to give the Minister a chance to clarify an earlier remark he made about Covid deaths. He said that Ireland had the third lowest number of Covid deaths in the EU and mentioned Finland and Denmark as being lower. I checked those statistics and it seems that Cyprus, Malta, Estonia and the Netherlands all have lower rates of death,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I checked statista.com.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: We are tragically in the top 50 countries in the world with regard to the number of deaths.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: In answers to me, the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, has said the operating licence to run the national maternity hospital would be issued to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, a company whose statutes pledge it to uphold Catholic values and vision. In this day and age, we should not hand any more hospitals over to the church, especially our national maternity hospital. Nowhere...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is no more glaring example or indictment of capitalism than the situation with Covid vaccines. The truth, pure and simple, is that major pharmaceutical companies and their search for profit maximisation are standing in the way of vaccines getting into the arms of, literally, billions of people around the world. That is devastating for those people but, as has been said, it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: Will intellectual property, IP, be waived?