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Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The way the Government and the political establishment have been marketing the July stimulus, one would think that it was going to transform the economy, that it will be a landmark for the Government and will show that it is up to the tasks ahead of it. The reality, however, is that the stimulus package is socially unjust and regressive and is economically irrational from the point of view...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The discrimination against PUP recipients is a shambles worthy of the Government. Ten minutes before Leaders' Questions began, the Minister responsible was in the House announcing what sounded like a partial U-turn on the policy. It leaves PUP recipients wondering if the discrimination has ended. It leaves those who have been penalised wondering if their money will be reinstated. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has been in the House a lot longer than I have but my understanding is that this session is called Leaders' Questions. The implication is that we ask questions and, I presume, we get answers as opposed to policy statements, rhetoric or anything else. I will restate the basic questions people need to know. This is not a question about whether there will be reviews of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has three minutes per question.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €350 per week pandemic unemployment payment rate will be maintained rather than reduced. [19015/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseeker’s benefits will be raised to the €350 per week pandemic unemployment payment rate rather than reducing the pandemic unemployment payment. [19016/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age that have an acquired brain injury; the person or body that records data on children with the injury; the national strategy for the rehabilitation of children with the injury; and if such a national strategy exists, the steps being taken to implement the strategy for children with same. [19280/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that have been made in the regulations which require persons to wear face masks for those persons that for certifiable medical reasons are unable to wear facemasks. [19339/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the reports were that members of the Government were taking a 10% pay cut, but it later emerged that it is not a pay cut at all and, in fact, the Taoiseach will be more highly paid than his predecessor, Ministers will be more highly paid than their predecessors and junior Ministers will be more highly paid than their predecessors. If the Government was a shop which advertised a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed. The PUP recipients losing their income on the basis of travelling is extremely serious. Not only does it appear to have no sound legal basis, it is also blatantly discriminatory. When Mr. Billy Kelleher MEP of Fianna Fáil openly broke the travel guidelines there was no impact on his income. We know that the rules were changed to facilitate tax exiles, maintaining...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Certainly. The point is that we have a motion on the Order Paper which would annul the statutory instrument and end this blatant discrimination. We believe the Dáil must debate and vote on it today.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Taoiseach to address the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: There is a law before the House.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: What we needed was a real extension of the evictions ban and rent controls to bring rents down, but that is not what we got. This Bill is a triumph of spin over substance, with the Government getting headlines about extending the evictions ban while in reality the Bill slashes the rights of tenants and opens the floodgates of evictions by removing important protections for renters. In...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will arrange for the transfer of residents of a direct provision centre (details supplied) to different, safe and supportive accommodation in view of letters from residents detailing issues in relation to bullying and inadequate and unsafe food being provided. [18928/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 922. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a full breakdown of the legal costs of fighting court cases in relation to the administration of the Pandemrix vaccine; and his views on whether the State should continue to spend fighting court cases against persons that suffered narcolepsy after receiving the vaccine. [18101/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: As Mr. Gray has heard, I have five minutes. I will be brief and I request brief answers. I want to focus on the attempts of the DAA make up to 1,000 workers redundant from a workforce of, I think, 3,500. I could not help but notice the very sharp contradiction between that and what Mr. Gray said in answer to Deputy Hourigan's question on airport expansion. He said that this was a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I might interrupt Mr. Gray there. Workers have said to me that they feel terrorised into accepting a redundancy package. I will ask the question again. Is it not the case that the airport will need the same number of workers, or more, in the future? Put bluntly, is it not the case that what is happening here is that the DAA is taking advantage of the pandemic to restructure its workforce...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Gray see the contradiction though? In answer to Deputy Hourigan he stated that this is a temporary downturn and that we need to continue to invest in the expansion because what we are experiencing will end. However, his attitude to the workers is to say that they have to go. Surely it is the case that in two or three years the DAA will require the same number of staff again. If...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief and will focus my remarks on what is the scandalous inclusion of the extra €16,000 a year for a super junior Minister, on top of an annual salary of €124,000. Before I discuss that point, I wish to make one point about higher education. There is a crisis of funding in higher education right now which is a consequence of a model of relying on non-EU students...