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Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will receive a report from the Low Pay Commission following his request that it review the impact of the minimum wage on young persons and women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2083/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the findings of the University of Limerick study into zero-hour and low-hour contracts which the Government commissioned in 2015. [2146/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister set out his views on the findings of the report of the University of Limerick and the study on the prevalence of zero-hour contracts? The study confirms the precarious nature of work in this economy. It confirms that the labour market has become increasingly flexible not through the use not of zero-hour contracts, in particular, but of if-and-when contracts. What is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister accept that the prevalence of if-and-when contracts and precarious work gives the lie to the idea of a strong recovery and good quality jobs being created? Given that 32% of workers are working fewer than 35 hours per week, 24% of workers work different hours each week and 41% of workers work part-time because they cannot find full-time work, compared to less than 30%...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: My particular worldview is one that would have been shared by the Labour Party not long ago. It is the idea that no one who is in work should be living in poverty. We should not be the second highest country in the OECD in terms of prevalence of low pay. We should not have 20% of workers living in deprivation. I do not think that is such a radical worldview. What will the Government do...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister of State if the Government accepts - I quote from The Guardian- that African and Asian migrant workers were being routinely but illegally used as cheap labour on Irish fishing trawlers working out of some of the country's most popular tourist ports. If that is accepted - it is good that it accepts the facts - why did the Government not do something about it? Rather than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: So there have been reports that fishing industry representatives have sought to increase the number of permits from 500 to 1,000. I do not know whether they have made representations to the relevant Minister. It seems to me that is in contradiction to the initial response to the fishing industry representatives which was to be extremely dismissive, a bit like the Government at that stage...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on undocumented non-European Union crew members in the Irish fishing industry; and his actions to assist these workers and to improve compliance with workers' rights legislation in the industry. [2145/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I ask again about the gross exploitation of undocumented migrant workers in the fishing industry and what action the Government is taking to ensure that such exploitation does not recur. I also remind the Minister of his statement when this matter was raised in the Dáil under the impact of the International Transport Workers Federation, ITF, by Deputy Higgins that this was a mere contention.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (20 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the announced job losses in the Cantrell and Cochrane bottling plant and the measures he will take to protect these jobs and others in the manufacturing sector. [2085/16]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: In the dark recesses of the Internet I found a great, aspirational document about how political cronyism can be dealt with. It is the Labour Party manifesto for the last general election, entitled "One Ireland: Jobs, Reform, Fairness". Section 9 of that manifesto is entitled “Reforming Politics” and it states:Time for change Labour’s pledge is that Ireland will never...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: That was then. A few months ago in respect of the McNulty controversy the Tánaiste said: “What I am determined to see is that we have procedures and processes which are clear to everybody.” Thanks to the Government we have procedures and processes which are absolutely clear to everybody. It is also clear to everybody that the Government and the Tánaiste in...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: Yes, there is.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Living Wage (19 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on recent media comments by the Minister for State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Gerald Nash TD, regarding the cost to the Exchequer if the State becomes a living wage employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2086/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (19 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given the passing of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Act 2015 which provides for a 21-person forum of local stakeholders to preside over local matters in partnership with Dublin City Council, to detail the process and schedule by which the five local resident representatives will obtain their...

Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Labour Party is having meetings around the place. Those involved, having been in power for five years, are saying it is time to repeal the eighth amendment. They had plenty of time to do it. However, they rejected a Bill in the Dáil precisely to repeal the eight amendment. I am referring to the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill. It is utter hypocrisy and people...

Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: I thank the ordinary people who participated in the Convention on the Constitution and produced a series of recommendations within the limited framework under which they had to work. It is the position of the Anti-Austerity Alliance that a left-wing Government would begin a more fundamental process than the Constitutional Convention. We would commence a debate in society with the aim of...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: We all know the Government pitch for its own re-election. We know that the choice we apparently face is between stability and chaos. It must be a slogan that sounds very nice and clever in the minds of the Tory strategists for Fine Gael. The problem the Government has is that out in the real world, in particular our health service, there is no stability. There is instability and chaos....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (13 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax reliefs available under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme can still be availed of if the vehicle is used as a taxi, if restrictions apply, and if so, if he will outline them. [1362/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Data (13 Jan 2016)

Paul Murphy: 413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the 500 atypical worker permits that are being made available to the owners of Irish fishing vessels in order that they may regularise the status of undocumented non-European Union migrant crew, how many have so far been applied for, the ports in which the applicant vessel owners are based, the number of fishing crew at each...