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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2566. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has allocated additional funds to local authorities in the context of the major increase in outdoor recreational activity which is likely to continue into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19848/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank MII and the MRCI for their presentations. I think the meat industry presents a good case study where there is quite-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The meat industry proves the point the MRCI is making that where there is discrimination and different sets of rules for migrant workers, it serves to undermine working conditions and wage rates for all workers. Covid is a good illustration. It has, unfortunately, shone a light on some of the conditions that exist in our meat plants and that is worth looking at further. I have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The figures I have are from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, from 7 April. Those are the most recently published figures and they state that there are 25 open outbreaks in meat plants. If Mr. Healy has alternative or more up-to-date figures, I would be grateful if he would share them with the committee. On the substance of the issue, does Mr. Healy accept that the fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not agree. The evidence will show that one will find a correlation if one maps meat plants and levels of community transmission on to each other. That has happened at multiple stages in terms of the different waves of the pandemic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: Absolutely. Is it acceptable that, according to Mr. Healy's own statement, eight out of ten workers in the companies he represents do not have access to sick pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I might get an answer to that.

Employment Permits (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the protection of certain foreign nationals in employment in the State and for that purpose to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003,the Employment Permits Act 2006, the Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act 1984 and the Employment Permits Regulations 2017 and to provide for related matters. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: Two days ago, public health officials requested that the USA, Germany and 41 other countries be added to the list for mandatory hotel quarantine. This is in order to prevent dangerous Covid variants from entering the country. We still have not heard if or when this is going to happen. Instead, we have the corporate lobbyists, IBEC, out pushing for this public health advice to be ignored...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next plans to meet. [16825/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The CEO of Beacon private hospital was caught red-handed essentially stealing public vaccines, treating them as his personal property. He should not get any special treatment just because he is the boss at Denis O'Brien's private hospital and part of the golden circle. The Taoiseach says it was wrong and a gross breach of trust. I agree. The question is whether there will be any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is no problem. My jaw almost hit the floor during the Taoiseach's response when he said the meat plants have been dealt with. Tell that to the six meat factory workers currently hospitalised with Covid-19. Tell that to the meat factory workers in the two plants that have been added to the list of outbreaks in the latest weekly statistics. There are now open outbreaks in 27 of 56...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [13274/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met; and when it next plans to meet. [16824/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: In countries that followed a zero Covid strategy, the schools were largely able to stay open after the first lockdown. The same could have been done here last summer, but instead the Government decided on a yo-yo lockdown strategy that has seen schools having to close repeatedly. There is hope and the target of opening schools fully again, but with case numbers so high and the risk of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [16823/21]

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I support this motion and thank Sinn Féin for tabling it. For too long, the hard work of carers has gone largely unrecognised, unsupported and unpaid by the State. The State and the Government have failed to care for the carers in our society. Every day, carers do crucial work supporting our most vulnerable but this and successive Governments largely view their work as a way to save...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [13273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts due to be returned from employers for overpayments of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy scheme; the manner in which this will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17209/21]