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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: As general comment first of all, it is unfortunate the discussion happens in the context of the horse having bolted, with the Minister and the Government having taken the decision to effectively return to what looks like a two-tier health service, combined with a supercharged NTPF. That looks like where they are going. It seems to suggest that it is not okay to treat people according to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: To follow up on that, I have been trying to get access to both the April cost provided by the private hospitals, and a full breakdown of the costs from the Government. They are refusing to give me any of the figures, which makes it very difficult for us, as public representatives, and the public in general to make a decision on whether or not it is good value for money because we do not have...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Varley. Does the IMO have any comments to make on that? In particular, I note its comments about the NTPF. It seems that is what the Government is gearing up for, a more extreme NTPF with all the inequalities, and so on, which go from that.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I only need four minutes.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: People are not stupid. They know exactly what the Government was doing. People know there has been a campaign of manufacturing consent for attacks on the pandemic unemployment payment and they are increasingly seeing that it is built on the same sort of lies as those on which the Taoiseach built his previous campaign about welfare cheats, which are fundamental untruths about the figures. I...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I do. I just need ten seconds. It excludes all social protection payments, including the working family payment and so on. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by those payments, but the figures do not include any of them and, therefore, they are bogus. Could the Minister confirm that the payment is based on people's income from an employer, that it does not include social...

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...