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Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: People are not getting hearings.

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise an important issue with the Minister, which is the decision of the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, to continue processing adjudications on evictions and other cases without holding hearings. I have a letter from the RTB that says due to the Corona virus all cases will be handled as paper-based adjudication and there will be no physical hearing. There is no proposal for a...

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Maybe we could do question and answer, if we get to it. I will pick up where the Minister left off. I agree that we should have free provision of childcare as a public service. We need to develop a national childcare service in this country, and it can be done. The question is, is now not the time to do it? Our so-called normal model of childcare was a failure. It was a failure for...

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have another more specific question relating to huge numbers of workers who have been forced to stay at home to mind children in the course of this crisis. It seems that for many workers this will continue to be the case for months to come. Does the Minister agree that parents must not suffer as a result of this, that those who need to stay at home to mind their children, and for whom...

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Annual leave.

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It referred to people who have taken annual leave at all-----

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Including healthcare workers.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: What happened during the other sections?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: All of the questions ran over and I do not think anyone-----

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Minister about the cost of the private hospitals. The Taoiseach confirmed to me two weeks ago an estimated cost of €115 million per month for the leasing of the private hospitals. I then later asked the Minister for Finance why we are paying more than four times as much per bed as they are in the UK, which he was not able to answer. I then wrote to the Minister for...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: Directors' pay at Beacon in 2018 was almost €1 million. Are we paying the directors' pay? Are we paying the bloated pay of the CEO on top of that? These companies often officially claim to be making no profit but make intra-group transfers through transfer pricing, interest payments and fees to other companies owned by the same person. With that in mind, are we paying for any rents...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: How many on-site inspections have taken place?

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: If the HSE has the role the Minister stated it does, why does the confusion persist? The email I originally received from the HSE stated it was looking into the matter, etc.. I then received a considered response which stated that it does not have any role in this area. To bring this to reality rather than making an abstract point I refer to Keelings. I wrote to the Minister to draw...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: The HSE also stated that it has no role in the inspection of workplace health and safety. That is clear in its response.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will ask a question, get a response and then ask another question, if that is okay. The buck must stop with the Minister and the Government is scandalously disregarding the health and safety of workers. It is an utter disgrace that there is nowhere for workers to go to seek an on-site inspection.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister says the HSE. I have an email from the HSE.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: A minute ago the Minister said the HSE. On 23 April the HSE responded to an email from me about Keelings which stated, "Further to your email of the 20/4/20 below, please be advised that the HSE environmental health service has no statutory role in the inspection of employee living accommodation or workplace health and safety." Two weeks ago the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and the...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: Some 6,000 staff-----

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: We are now beginning to see the long-term economic impact of this emergency. The question of who will pay is going to loom extremely large. Will we bail out workers or will we, once again, bail out big businesses? Unfortunately, the indication from the Government so far in terms of its attitude to the airline industry is that the same mistakes of the past will be repeated and CEOs and big...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is correct when he says that is the law, but his Government and 11 others have written to the European Commission calling for the law to be changed. I find it hard to believe that the Taoiseach is not aware that is the position of his Government. The second more general question concerns the future of airlines because they are, in a sense, the banks of this crisis. IAG is...