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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The first thing that strikes me about the Government's approach is the complete lack of urgency. That came across in the Minister of State's opening statement. It was like an Oireachtas briefing. He told us the details of what the report says and then simply said the Government would consider it. What explains the lack of urgency of this Government and the previous Government on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister remind me when the Duffy Cahill report was published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not credible for the Minister of State to claim there is no lack of urgency here when there is a report from 2016. He is saying there is no lack of urgency because it was decided to deal with it in a programme for Government from July. That is not credible at all. If he goes through the Dáil transcripts for the past four years, he will find that it has been raised by Opposition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Even after the situation with Debenhams, the Minister of State is still not giving a commitment to implement any of the recommendations. His position is the same as before, which is that if we can get consensus, we will do it. In effect, is it not the case that if employers say they are not convinced about this, then there is no consensus and once again the Government will not implement the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I do not think that workers around the country will believe that the Government is not implementing these now or giving a commitment to do so because it will do something even better. Perhaps I will be shocked, surprised and very grateful if it does. I have one final question which is somewhat related. Has the Government made a decision about whether it will reinstate the right of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: It creates a problem for workers. If they move on to a different company because they need work, they lose their entitlement. They could have ten, 20 or 30 years of accumulated redundancy.

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: It was James Connolly who wrote that governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. He was 100% correct. He was actually popularising what Marx and Engels had written in The Communist Manifesto, stating the executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. That was back...

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Like many, I feel trapped in a kind of doom loop of lockdowns. Figures come down but community transmission is nowhere near eliminated. The Government listens to the considerable amount of business lobbying and reopens too quickly, and then the number of cases rises again. The way the Government talks, it is like a third wave and third lockdown are inevitable. That would be a nightmare...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: In response to me, I believe the Taoiseach told me that campaigns did not achieve much. I do not take any personal offence at that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is no problem. It sums up the Taoiseach's political philosophy. It flies in the face of history. This Parliament would not exist and we would be a part of the British Empire had there not been a campaign, one with a significant military element. We would not have the right to vote, to join trade unions or to have a minimum wage. Every substantial improvement in living standards and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Not at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: If the Government does what is necessary, we will agree with it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That will be far too late.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses climate change will next meet. [38833/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Future of Media Commission (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the issue of the broadcasting charge, which was alluded to in the past couple of weeks by RTÉ's television controller, Mr. Andrew Lynch, at the Oireachtas committee. Why is the Government insisting on pushing ahead with plans for a new stealth tax on every household with this talk of a broadcasting charge? Did the Taoiseach not learn any lessons from his experience of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Future of Media Commission (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the inaugural meeting of the Future of Media Commission. [36612/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: For two weeks now, with the amount of public attention given to this and the amount of time given to this in the House, one could reasonably ask why the Taoiseach does not just agree. If she has nothing to hide, why does the Minister not just come in here and answer questions? The only conclusion one can draw, as Deputy Shortall pointed out, is that there is something to hide, and that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: In terms of the appointment of Máire Whelan, why did he insist-----