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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: According to the EU emissions trading system, data-related emissions from large companies that fall under the scheme have increased 50-fold in the past seven years. This is at a time when the Government's climate Bill is supposed to reduce our emissions by 51% by 2030. Despite this, it was reported at the weekend that two State agencies, the ESB and Coillte, are proposing to partner with...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: First Stage (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: First Stage (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide a legal mechanism for trade union recognition for workers who comprise at least 20 per cent of the employees in an employment (or any category within that employment). I thank my fellow People Before Profit Deputies and the staff who worked on this Bill, particularly Owen McCormack. I thank the union activists...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: More than 500 ESB Networks technicians are today on their fourth day of strike action. They are striking against the outsourcing of their work without consultation or consent and against the creeping privatisation and running down of ESB Networks at a time when we should be investing in these green jobs which are vital to electrify the economy further as part of a rapid just transition to a...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: Again, and again and again this Government takes the side of the corporate landlords and the property developers. Today, it is opposing this motion to freeze rents and tackle those landlords who are breaking the rules when it comes to minimum standards. Why would the Government oppose a rent freeze? Why would it oppose inspecting rental properties to ensure they are meeting minimum...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [23262/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the Programme for Government. [23263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to instruct the vaccination centre administrators to accept either a birth certificate short or long, long-term illness card, social services card, travel pass and proof of address as adequate identification to vaccinate the person and not refuse to vaccinate them (details supplied) in cases in which older persons who are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters in relation to testing and contact tracing (details supplied). And if he will make a statement on the matter. [23122/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (29 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Health if drugs for the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum will be included in the drugs payment scheme or medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22467/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I would like to ask the Taoiseach whether, in his conversations with President Biden, he has discussed the economic response to Covid. In the US, they have launched a $2 trillion post-Covid stimulus plan but here, the Government is reported to be set on repeating the mistakes of 2008 with a troika-style programme of €8 billion or more in austerity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: How can the Taoiseach justify this contrast? The Government's proposals for Covid austerity will do nothing to rebuild the economy and society. The proposal to cut the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, from June would see millions of euro taken out of the economy, hurting those who have already paid the most in terms of Covid when what we need is public investment. I would also ask...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with the President of the United States of America. [20147/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: Once again, the Citizens' Assembly has delivered a set of progressive recommendations that put the conservative parties is in Government to shame, demonstrating the gap that exists between ordinary people and the political establishment. One of recommendations resoundingly approved by the Citizens’ Assembly is that the legal right to collective bargaining be guaranteed for all workers...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2 o’clock Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. That right is now being undermined by the actions of the Garda in this State. Last Thursday night, gardaí brutally broke up a peaceful picket of Debenhams workers at Henry Street, arresting a number of supporters and throwing workers, who were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [20145/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [20146/21]

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I also congratulate the USI for pushing on this issue and forcing the Government to accept that there will have to be change as part of its broader Education for All campaign, which is a vital campaign to remove barriers to access education. We are talking about students who are renting accommodation, many of whom have been forced every year to pay up to an entire term's worth of rent in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will contact Dublin City Council to convey her support for a Council-owned community sports facility (details supplied) to be kept as a public facility for the use and the sporting needs of local communities and not sold by the Council to private developers. [21875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed shared equity scheme will commence. [21387/21]