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

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amounts owed by workers for outstanding tax as a result of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the plans in place to deduct this from workers; the way tax refunds due to workers are affected by same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 380. To ask the Minister for Finance the ongoing efforts being made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure full compliance by film production companies with the conditions attached to receipt of section 481 film tax relief particularly following a recent ruling by the scope section that one of the regular recipients of section 481 over many years was found to have wrongly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 381. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax increases; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent announcement that those on the disability allowance will become eligible for PhD scholarships without the loss of disability allowance and a medical card will also apply to those on the invalidity payment and other disability-related welfare supports. [17061/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I support the Bill. Workplace infections are a driving factor in Covid, but that has been hidden by the inadequacies of our testing and tracing regime. If one looked at current Covid hotspots geographically, one would find that they map fairly well onto geographical centres with meat plants. There is a more general point to be made, though....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes. We will go back and forth, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us say that I am in a workplace that asserts it is essential and I, as a worker, do not dispute that. During the first lockdown, I was able to work from home safely and was permitted to do so. During this lockdown, however, I am being compelled by my employer to go to work, as is the case for many workers. If I approach the HSA and say that it is not right, fair or in line with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us get to the bottom line. Let us forget about the question of essential. The issue is that I as a worker was allowed to work from home during the first lockdown and can safely do so, but as appears to be the case for many workers, I am being compelled this time around to go into work. The HSA has advised workers that it is at their employer's discretion whether they return to work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is requesting, but it is ultimately at the discretion of the employer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: How are we a year into the pandemic with many workers being compelled to travel to work unnecessarily, thereby undermining the efforts that we are all making, yet the HSA does not have the authority to do anything about it? As far as I can tell, no other body has that authority either. Surely the HSA should be given the power to conduct inspections where workers could be safely working from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: The HSA is ensuring that systems are in place in terms of people being as safe as possible when they are at work. That is good and I am all for it. I received a response on this matter from the HSA's head of communications a couple of months ago. As far as I understand, the authority cannot do anything about workers being compelled to work in the workplace rather than from home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If the HSA concludes that a worker who worked from home previously but is not doing so now should be allowed to work from home again, what can it do to an employer who is unnecessarily compelling workers? Can it fine or doing anything to an employer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: But if the employer is breaching other parts of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: If the employer is breaching other parts of the work safety protocol, is there anything the HSE can actually do apart from advising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Dr. McGuinness.

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I pay tribute to the Extend Maternity Leave 2020 campaign, which drove a grassroots campaign last year to extend paid maternity leave during the pandemic. More than 30,000 people signed a petition in support of that and the issue was debated in the Dáil. Unfortunately, because of the long and many delays before this comes into effect, the majority of those people who were campaigning...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. We are now one quarter of the way through 2021 and this country has fully vaccinated less than 4% of the population. It is a similar picture in most countries in the EU because the issue we face at this stage is primarily one of supply. The immediate cause of this is the problems with AstraZeneca, which certainly seems to have sold its supply twice,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [13272/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: Last year, we launched a Bill to implement a complete ban on evictions and rent increases during the pandemic. The Government rejected that and instead adopted a piecemeal approach of banning evictions under certain conditions while the 5 km limit persisted. Now we have the potential lifting of the limit, which poses the possibility of opening the floodgates on a large number of evictions....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered introducing a requirement for identification to be provided by the buyer of a car when ownership is being transferred to avoid a situation in which a buyer can provide a false address. [15530/21]