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Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1786. To ask the Minister for Health if a date will be chosen in January 2022 to meet with an association (details supplied) given a planned meeting scheduled for 11 January 2021 was cancelled and the meeting has not been rescheduled to date. [1830/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have been admitted suffering from Covid-19 per day since the start of December 2021; and the breakdown by hospital including children's wards in general hospitals in addition to children's hospitals by age breakdown, that is, under 5, 5 to 11 and 12 years of age and upwards if possible. [1640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1860. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those presenting to the accident and emergency department in St. James’s Hospital must wait outside in line to gain entry; his views on whether waiting out in the freezing cold conditions is not the correct process for those who are already so ill that they must attend the emergency department; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a report detailing the recreational shooting of sheep, goats and deer by trophy hunter tourists; if this breaches animal protection legislation; and if he will act to stop it and prosecute those responsible (details supplied). [62994/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds injured, killed and destroyed at tracks in 2021; the names of the greyhounds; the nature of each injury and death and destruction; and the associated dates and track locations. [62996/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will issue an order for HEPA filters to be used on all public transport while Covid-19 infection rates are at high levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62358/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will issue an order for public transport to operate at 50% capacity while Covid-19 infection rates are at high levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62357/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (16 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that his Department has taken to ensure clean air in nursing homes, including providing ventilation schemes, CO2 monitors or HEPA filters, to support them in ensuring their residents are exposed to clean air in an effort to keep them safe from Covid-19 infection. [62442/21]

Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Instruction to Committee (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I wish to focus on the underlying issue of the Bill, which is the central issue, that is, the ban on fur farming. I will make two points on that. One, there needs to be a just transition for workers engaged in these industries that will have to be shut down and for which we have been campaigning for a long time to shut down. It is not just an issue of redundancy payments. It is also a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62065/21]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Two and a half thousand children will be homeless this Christmas. They are children living in hotels and emergency accommodation and families with no kitchen to cook in or dinner table to gather around. For some of them, it will be the second Christmas in those conditions. They are tough memories that, we now know from multiple reports, will stick with them throughout their lives. There...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: In response to a parliamentary question last week, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Varadkar, stated: I have an open mind on the alternative suggestion of a TRIPS waiver. I have always said that if we receive a WTO proposal [in writing], we will examine it. That has not happened yet. This is misleading, to say the least. The first formal proposal from India...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The role that the Irish Government is playing in blocking people around the world getting access to Covid vaccines is criminal, murderous and absolutely scandalous. We are one year into the global roll-out of the vaccines and just one in 12 people in poor countries have received even one dose. In Haiti only 1% of the population has been vaccinated. In many African countries vaccination...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the newly published response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2021. [60211/21]

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: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government information on HEPA filters in schools has been all over the place, to put it mildly. After months of campaigning by People Before Profit, trade unions, parents and teachers, the Government has been dragged, kicking and screaming, to accept the necessity, in some limited circumstances, of HEPA filters in schools. It is progress and some new money actually promised this week,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: As the Taoiseach knows, for a long time we have been stressing the importance of ventilation and filtration in a strategy to fight Covid-19, which is an airborne pandemic. We were therefore very glad that People Before Profit’s Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 received the support of the entire Dáil. The Minister of State, Deputy English, who contributed to the debate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a local community park (details supplied) is shut to the public during Covid-19 to allow a barbaric and cruel activity such as hare coursing. [61190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the schools that have and do not have HEPA filters. [61165/21]