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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: A month ago I raised in the Dáil the need for us to take action to slow down the spread of the Delta variant in Ireland, including mandatory hotel quarantine for travellers from Britain. I raised it again with the Taoiseach last week and he said the Government is not taking any risk in terms of the Delta variant. When I first raised it, we had a small number of cases of the Delta...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the National Risk Assessment for 2021. [33401/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment last met. [31406/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the ESRI issued a report which refutes the key justification the Government has put forward for cutting the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, in September. For months we have had to listen to millionaire business owners, like Pat McDonagh of Supermac's, calling for cuts to the PUP and claiming it was so high it meant that workers were better off not working. Yesterday's ESRI...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is appropriate that a person convicted of animal neglect and animal welfare breaches continue to oversee the implementation of animal welfare legislation (details supplied). [33451/21]

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will finish shortly. They have no protection in terms of health and safety. They suffer injury in many cases. For many of these fishers, it comes to an end when they suffer a significant injury and are no longer able to continue. They are then off the boat and the owner of the boat no longer cares about them. It is an absolute scandal which continues in this country. The International...

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry and, possibly, Deputy Boyd Barrett. In May 2019, the previous Fine Gael Government, propped up by Fianna Fáil, declared a climate and biodiversity emergency. So far, more than two years on, even with the Green Party now in government, those in power have completely failed to follow up that declaration with adequate action. The science is very...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (17 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered a review of the nine-year rule in regard to the taxi industry; and if older vehicles having passed a strict NCT test could be permitted to operate as taxis. [32598/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (17 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to bring forward legislation to implement the recommendations of the Supreme Court ruling in Zalewski vs. Adjudication Officer and Others in relation to Workplace Relations Commission hearings; and the timeframe within which he plans to do so. [32591/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the Public Spending Code requires that the Metrolink Preliminary Business Case to Beechwood, which has been submitted to Government by the NTA, cannot be approved until the main alternative option (details supplied) has been appraised. [32594/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I did not think she would get around to me so quickly. I am very happy to be named on the amendment. I have two points to make. The first is that it is scandalous that the Government is putting a guillotine on this, the most important - or what should be the most important - piece of legislation we will pass in this Dáil. We are not getting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: We condemned it in the debate about Belarus last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I raise a particular case of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and ask that the Taoiseach raise it at the European Council. Yesterday, the Saudi authorities executed a young man called Mustafa Hashim al-Darwish. He was arrested as a minor in 2015 as a result of participation in protests. He was held in solitary confinement and brutally tortured and in those conditions he confessed to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it will next meet. [31402/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach stated that he had not taken gambles in terms of Covid. That is not historically accurate. I hope that we will have a public inquiry into the management of Covid and it will be for that inquiry to judge, but the Taoiseach also said something that is for us to discuss today, that no gamble is being taken at the moment. There is a gamble or, to use a different word, a choice...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has taken a number of big gambles in the management of the Covid pandemic. The biggest was the decision to reopen at the end of November last year. To put it mildly, those gambles did not pay off. The Taoiseach is taking another big gamble now in relation to the Delta variant. We hope that gamble pays off and we are able to achieve sufficient levels of full vaccination, in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. That was a cop-out by the Taoiseach. Last week's details of a so-called rental protection Bill suggested this would be a plan to stop the double rent hikes many tenants are facing in the next month, but the details of the plan fail to address the actual scale of the problem. Hundreds of thousands of tenants are living in fear of rent hikes of €150 or...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment last met. [31406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Construction Industry (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the provisions in place to require a primary tenderer to ensure that a contractor to whom a contract is awarded by that primary tenderer pays any sub-contractor in full for work undertaken and completed satisfactorily by any such sub-contractor; if there is a public register of defaulting contractors; the procedures for the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact airlines specifically an airline (details supplied) to require it to provide free of charge rescheduling of flights scheduled prior to 19 July 2021 to dates after 19 July 2021 when international travel restrictions have been lifted. [32314/21]