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- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: It was not graduated.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: The decision is about ideology.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: We will be back to level 5.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: Then it will be later and longer. There will be more damage-----
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: But our ICU capacity-----
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: That is not what NPHET says.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: In the summer the Government had the opportunity to follow New Zealand and crush Covid. Instead, it turned a blind eye to the outbreaks in meat factories, ignored the calls for sick pay for workers and wound down the level of testing. It took the decision to accelerate through the phases and to reopen the economy, under pressure of lobbying from businesses and for the image of the then...
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: Yes.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: It is in our budget statement.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: They are not imaginary. They are corporations.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses the economy will next meet. [25608/20]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: Many people will have been surprised to see the Tánaiste last night become a new convert to concern about poverty, mental health and ordinary workers. If they thought that was real, they will be quickly disabused of the notion when they hear about the decision of the Cabinet today to increase the minimum wage by a miserly 10 cent, from €10.10 per our to €10.20 per hour,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: That is the Government's proposal.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: One point I had made was the idea that sitting until midnight on Wednesday in some way comes from the Opposition. It does not. That is a proposal from the Government at the Dáil reform committee, the idea that we use the Convention Centre on a Wednesday and sit until midnight. We could continue to do votes on a Thursday and, it seems clear to me, that the incentive behind that is the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: I do not see how we can have a Dáil sitting today that does not debate the rejection of the clear public health advice by the Government and the Tánaiste's undermining of that public health advice in a very cynical and dangerous way on RTÉ television last night. Lives will unfortunately be lost as a result of the Government’s decision. The approach will not avoid going...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Direct Provision System (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been consulted on the role his Department can play in ending direct provision. [28325/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a scheme will be put in place for private sector rent write-offs for tenants who have lost income as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. [28323/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Presidential Election (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he discussed the upcoming US presidential elections and the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement during his visit to Washington, DC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28444/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (6 Oct 2020)
Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of Ireland on the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28445/20]