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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that lost their job due to Covid-19 restrictions before 6 December 2021 can apply for the reopened pandemic unemployment payment; and if they can transition from other unemployment payments, for example, jobseeker’s allowance if they signed on before the pandemic unemployment payment reopened. [61447/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter in relation to a disability welfare payment (details supplied). [61694/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the mother and baby home scheme works for those who are uncertain in relation to the date on which they were adopted. [61755/21]

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

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if private colleges are entitled to free antigen tests for their students; and if so, the way they can access them. [61166/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if access to services will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and the supports that can be provided to the family. [61188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that fathers are being denied access to attend 12-week scans at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, in cases in which partners are fully vaccinated and have no Covid-19 symptoms; the reason partners have been refused access given the advice in national media that partners can attend all pregnancy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I spent the morning with Pete Brennan from Kingswood, Tallaght. He caught Covid at the end of last year. He went to Tallaght hospital and ended up in intensive care. He was in a coma for three months. It is a really terrifying story. Pete's family were told to prepare for the worst but he managed to recover, defying the odds. Like tens of thousands of others in this country, he is now...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the investigation into the circumstances that led to the immediate cancellation of the Loughrea coursing meeting on 15, 16 and 17 October 2021 has been concluded; and if not, when it is expected to be concluded. [60898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a hare coursing meeting was called off in County Cavan the day before it was scheduled to go ahead on 12, 13 and 14 November 2021. [60899/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice he received from AMRIC in relation to HEPA filters in schools. [60959/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Health if he still maintains his opposition to the use of HEPA filters in schools. [60960/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [60210/21]

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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach said he would revert to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department [60206/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I echo that point. There is a serious issue. I wish to raise with the Taoiseach a case I have raised with him a number of times, that is, the gross and sexist abuse of power by retired Kerry judge James O'Connor. I have brought a number of testimonies to the Dáil of women in vulnerable positions before him on family law matters where he used his position to completely,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and the submission. I want to focus on the question of green jobs, which should be central to job creation in the coming years. I know the expert group has a very long report on skills for zero carbon. There is a lot in it that is very good and a lot that I agree with but it tends to take a pretty narrow view of what type of green jobs will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses. To tease this out, I take it that the relatively narrow remit of the report is because there were not clear enough indications from the Government on what it will do on public transport. To be clear I am completely on board with retrofitting, solar power and renewable energy. I am sceptical about the focus on electric cars as a way to go. I will also throw in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have a question on housing, where the witnesses project a significant, and necessary, rise in the labour force. Perhaps they will say this question is beyond their remit, and it is fair enough if they do. Is there an issue with attracting construction workers when apprentices start on as little as €7 an hour and suffer from all of the issues that have been discussed previously by...