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- 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...
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I do not share the Minister's touching faith in the attitudes of these employers.
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: They are not driven primarily by the safety and the health of their workers; they are driven primarily by the maximisation of their profits and sometimes workers' health and safety can be sacrificed at the expense of that. That is the allegation made by some of these workers. My final question is about the future of agriculture. Small farmers are facing the brunt of the coronavirus...
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: The Minister did not substantiate the claim that these people care about their workers.
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I should-----
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I was not-----
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: The evidence I have is a document from inside the company that I will not mention again and is not disputed by the company. The document indicates that 50 or more people are being considered part of a family unit and people can be moved from one family unit to another. A statement given to RTÉ indicated that people are sharing bedrooms and so on, which suggests to me that social...
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I have three questions. I would like to pose a question, get an answer and so on. I raised earlier the issue of Keelings with the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Humphreys, and she informed me that the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, has the authority to go into any workplace and inspect it. Does the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine agree that the...
- Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I am asking for an inspection in order that we can find out. I have an internal document from the company - which I will not name again - which refers to family groups and hostel groups which, in my opinion, clearly indicates that social distancing guidelines are not being followed and that workers' health is being endangered. The document states that the accommodation units will be...
- Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I asked for a breakdown of costs.
- Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: The record will show my question - it is fair enough if the Minister heard it that way - was not: "Why have we done it?" My question was whether we can see a breakdown and are paying four times as much per bed.
- Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: The Minister did not answer but he spoke in the answer section, which is fine. He may not have the information. My third question relates to the conditions of workers who are in what are deemed essential workplaces and are currently going to work. I have been inundated by communication from workers stating that they do not feel safe at work. For example, Bausch & Lomb employees...
- Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: Let us take the seven minutes.
- Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I am willing to take the-----
- Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)
Paul Murphy: I wanted it in line with the way it was agreed at the Business Committee it would be done.