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Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister for the answer. Will he clarify if all 200 officers who are being allocated by the Department of Health will be engaged in on-site field inspections, and if not, how many will? That is crucial. It was reported in the Irish Examiner on 19 May that the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation had assured people that the HSA was getting additional inspectors from...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: A catastrophic crisis is unfolding in our meat factories. Last week, 40% of all new Covid-19 cases in the entire country were among meat workers. That crisis was preventable but the State agencies, and the Ministers responsible, were asleep at the wheel. Does the Minister agree that it is scandalous that there were zero on-site Health and Safety Authority, HSA, inspections in regard to...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will try to regain some time here so I ask the Taoiseach for a very short answer to my first question. It is undeniable that we have seen a massive propaganda campaign in the past week or more to attack those on the pandemic unemployment payment. Pat McDonagh, a millionaire, has been complaining that it is tough to get part-time workers to work in Supermac's for €200 a week because...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: My argument is simply that before the Taoiseach cuts the pay of anybody who is currently on €350 a week, he should see what it is like to live on that amount. Everything about this propaganda campaign reminds me of the "Welfare cheats cheat us all" campaign that was rolled out when the Taoiseach was the Minister for Social Protection. It is the same attempt to divide and rule workers...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: As well as a horrific pandemic with death and tragic consequences for so many people around the world, we are also living in a real-life experiment of what it is to implement the most far-reaching changes imaginable in terms of people's habits. The Minister spoke earlier about the need for everyone to change their habits. I agree with that, but who could have imagined the kind of changes in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 446. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional powers have been granted to the Health and Safety Authority to deal with the issues posed by Covid-19 in terms of health and safety at work. [7897/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 725. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in the provision of the SEAI retrofitting grant to a person (details supplied). [7502/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 750. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safety measures and support measures that will obtain for private contract school transport coaches with regard to Covid-19 when the schools reopen in September. [7147/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 825. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency driver test appointments will be provided for persons whose planned tests were cancelled due to Covid-19, who are categorised as essential workers and who urgently need to do a test in order to be able to drive legally to get to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal and regulatory arrangement in force during the period of the Covid-19 crisis regarding redundancy; the legal and regulatory arrangement to come into force when the Covid-19 crisis comes to an end; and the criteria which will be used to determine when the Covid-19 crisis will end with regard to employment law and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions she will introduce to ensure that financially viable and profitable companies will be prevented from reducing their workforce or changing the terms and conditions of persons that were employees of such companies prior to the Covid-19 crisis when such companies return to normal operations at the end of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions in place or which will be put into place to continue the pandemic unemployment payment for those workers currently in receipt of same but that will not be able to return to work if their employer reopens prior to the availability of childcare due to crèches and schools remaining closed. [7061/20]

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister confirm that the commemoration will happen on the third Sunday in May every year and that will be the case for the event in Buncrana in 2021?

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask a question on the National Famine Commemoration Day. First, I wish to pay tribute to the National Famine Commemoration committee volunteers. The committee has done an extraordinary amount of campaigning work and has pushed for proper appropriate commemoration of the Famine. Part of the work has involved pushing for a full recognised State day with a consistent date in the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: In a response I received yesterday to a parliamentary question I tabled regarding my repeated requests for a breakdown of expenditure under the agreement with the private hospitals to be published, the Minister claimed this information is commercially sensitive and, therefore, will not be published. I have written to the Ceann Comhairle under Standing Order 44A to complain that the Minister...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: We have a situation whereby the State has now paid €112.4 million, as I understand it, to the private hospitals owned by, among others, Denis O'Brien, Larry Goodman, etc. We know from reports that the State is paying up to four times as much per bed as is paid in the United Kingdom. We are now finding out that, two weeks after the figures were to be provided by the private hospitals,...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Why does it not apply to meat factories, shops or pharmacies?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is not the question the Minister was asked.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is the same as three weeks ago. It is the same ideological, touching faith in the pursuit of profit of these companies-----

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is the idea that the pursuit of profit by these companies will never clash with the health and safety of the workers. The Minister, Deputy Creed, should withdraw the comments from three weeks ago. The Minister should apologise to the meat factory workers of the country for not listening to their warnings and for not calling for inspections. There were no HSA inspections of meat...