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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. The housing crisis is a failure of the market, the State, this Government and previous Governments. We see that failure everywhere when it comes to dealing with the housing crisis. Often when we have debates about the housing crisis, the Government likes to say that those of us in opposition and the left are approaching this from a...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: My amendment does the same thing by means of a slightly different mechanism. This is an important issue. Workers should be entitled to sick pay from the moment they start work. The consequence of the requirement for 13 continuous weeks is the exclusion of many vulnerable workers. It will discriminate and disproportionately affect women, to a significant degree. The Irish Congress of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (27 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is now five months since Second Stage of our Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) was passed unanimously. The Government did not oppose it. The Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Damien English, said: The Government supports the objective of this Bill. I assure the Deputy that my officials and I will work with him to determine the best approach...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage (7 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: I can confirm what Deputy Bruton said. Obviously, we welcome the introduction of a right to statutory sick leave in this country. It is a good thing that we are going to have it, even if it is extremely overdue and even if it is a lot less than what we need to have and what workers deserve in this country. Ireland has been an extreme outlier in not providing any statutory sick leave....

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "having reflected on the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, declines to accept the carbon budgets presented for 2021-2025 and for 2026-2030 as: — they are not aligned with the State's commitments entered into under the Paris Agreement; and —...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...in this country is acknowledging that the system we have is thoroughly broken from almost every point of view. It is broken from the point of view of parents, who are struggling and scrambling to try to find places for their children, and then trying to afford another mortgage, in effect, to get their children the care they need. This is a crisis for women in particular, on whom the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...Covid-19. Seven months on, not a single cent has been paid out and now many workers are finding out that they either will not qualify for the full bonus or they will not get anything at all due to the Scrooge-like terms and conditions being applied. One such group is the Covid-19 community swabbers, who helped to run our testing facilities throughout the country before vaccines were even...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is very clear that this Government is determined to erode any remaining semblance of Ireland's military neutrality. It is doing so extremely cynically by attempting to portray it as a necessary and mature response to Putin's horrendous invasion of Ukraine. The truth is that it is not a new position for the political establishment or Fine Gael. We can go back 19 years to 2003, when Fine...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry. I welcome the Bill and the establishment of the authority as a late and small step towards tackling the reality of Ireland as being in the Wild West when it comes to fertility care. The problem is that the Bill does not do anything in terms of the public provision of fertility care, in particular IVF, and, therefore, does not really address the key...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion. The Government's response, whereby it will allow the motion to pass, reeks of cynicism again. Last night, the Government allowed to pass a motion that lacerated its approach to waiting lists for children with special needs but has no intention of doing anything about the issue. Today, it will allow to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: What is listed on the lobbying return is that the intended results were to ensure understanding of the business position on proposed statutory sick pay and the right to request remote working. It seems like IBEC met the whole caboodle. It was not just some special adviser. It was the Minister and the two Ministers of State in the Department. Is that not quite a high-level meeting for IBEC...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...in murdering people. The point has been made that this is far more than a few bad apples. It is or was clearly government policy. It was systematic, deadly, has been covered up and continues to be covered up, and those responsible continue to have impunity. It is worth going through some of the cases, and many have been mentioned, to bring out the horror of this behaviour by a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise with Taoiseach the very poor treatment by Tesco of its workers. Yesterday it sent notice to almost 100 directly employed retail security officers that their jobs are going to be outsourced to OCS. There has been no engagement whatsoever with the workers. It means that workers, who in some cases have worked for up to two decades with Tesco, are being given a few weeks to...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett and, possibly, Deputy Barry. I will start by making some suggestions as to how the small but positive reforms contained in this Bill could be improved before moving on to the wider issue of workers' rights. The Bill states that periods of time up to September 2021 during which workers were laid off because of Covid emergency measures will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Recommendation 3.4 of the report is: To increase certainty for individuals and businesses, publish a timetable that shows how the national broadband plan roll-out is being brought back on track This was clearly conceived before the latest and emerging very significant scandal relating to National Broadband Ireland. I found the Taoiseach's answers earlier wanting in him seeking to kick...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: For a brief moment, the value and essential nature of workers, those who are on the front line doing the work, had to be recognised in the pandemic. Chief among them, or certainly up there, were supermarket workers, who universally were accepted to be keeping our shops open and providing an essential service when most things were locked down. Even their employers were forced very briefly...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the recent announcement of the reopening of the pandemic unemployment payment. I will be blunt that if by reopening the Minister means anything less than restoring the payment to €350, which was accepted as the level people needed to survive, and leaving it open to anyone who loses his or her job as a consequence of pandemic restrictions, that will simply not be acceptable....

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Often in here, the Government accuses us in People Before Profit and Solidarity of being very ideological. How else can the Government's approach to local employment services be described except as purely ideological? The basic approach of the Government is what is the point of doing anything if it does not create a profit for some private company? On the other hand, the essence of the...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The central issue here is simple. When Covid hit, student nurses and midwives stepped up to the mark and went above and beyond the call of duty in the fight against Covid. Last year, under pressure from student nurses, from the left and from People Before Profit, the Government finally recognised they deserved to be paid and gave them the healthcare assistant rate of €14 an hour....

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. I will make several different points concerning Covid, but particularly on the repressive powers the Minister proposes to extend now. We oppose those repressive powers and their extension. It is striking to compare the approach taken by the Government in extending significant restrictions on civil liberties to its approach concerning...