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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I worry that this is one of those promises made during the general election campaign that is then watered down in the programme for Government and that will end up falling by the wayside. In the past few weeks, a number of commitments made by the Government have been abandoned under the guise of the Trump tariffs, by saying that now is not the time for extending. I worry that that is where...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: During the general election campaign, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael promised to abolish the means test for the carer's allowance. The programme for Government contains a commitment to phasing out the means test during the lifetime of the Government. Will the Minister tell us in which budget the means test will be abolished?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do not think it is credible to suggest that this Government is anything other than anti-worker. Look at its actions in just the past few weeks - the delay of a promised extension of sick leave. I remember debating the sick leave legislation here. I remember us saying the extension of time should be in the legislation and the Government saying, “We do not need to write it in, but...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The young person has to pay the bill as well. What about them?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: One of the first protests I went on was to demand the introduction of a minimum wage. At that stage there was no minimum wage. Bosses could pay what they liked. That campaign was won and 25 years ago a national minimum wage was introduced. Scandalously, the minimum wage included provision for legal discrimination against young workers. That inequality continues to this day. Around...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the interactions he or his Department have had with the owner of a business (details supplied) since taking office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21247/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The last couple of weeks have seen the Minister abandon a series of promises to workers. He abandoned the promises to extend sick leave and introduce a living wage. Incredibly, he is refusing to scrap sub-minimum wages. People watching this performance might ask if the Minister is following the lead of the most anti-trade union boss in Ireland, Michael O'Leary, who launched the Minister's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: At the Minister's campaign launch, Michael O'Leary stated: We need a government that delivers for enterprise ... it’s vital that we elect a government that gets shit done ... I can think of nobody here, certainly in the current government, who demonstrates more action, more energy ... than Peter Burke. That is more action and more energy for enterprise. Is that why the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Delayed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Saying that is a fact does not make it a fact. The Government has been in power for three or four months. It has not progressed workers' rights at all. It has taken a series of negative steps and reneged on the commitments to extend sick leave and establish a living wage and on the vote of the previous Dáil to abolish sub-minimum wages. I will focus on the latter. The Dáil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is a delay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, it is not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: In 2029.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the lobbying that has taken place from business interests regarding delaying the introduction of a living wage and additional sick leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21248/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 211. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has made provision to protect the employment of 750 workers in a company (details supplied) in the event of a withdrawal of the company from Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date of the Social Welfare Appeals Office decision that a postmaster was an employee and not self-employed, which has been appealed to the High Court by An Post (details supplied). [21819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of the prohibitive cost of daycare experienced by parents; and to provide a timeline for the implementation of a €200 per month childcare cap, as outlined during the previous general election. [21751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the fact that there has been a seven-year pause on the mid-urethral sling for stress urinary incontinence in women; when this pause will be reevaluated, given the number of women who have been travelling abroad to avail of this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case (details supplied); if she will instruct her Department to provide adequate funding to this organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21750/25]