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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make provision in the Statutory Instrument regarding the changes proposed by the Workplace Relations Commission to the CIÉ regular wages scheme pension in order that those members of the scheme who have retired since the date of the members ballot in June 2020 which agreed to those WRC proposals receive back payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently introduce a reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio for the staffing schedule for all DEIS band 1 schools and in particular for DEIS band 1 junior schools of at least the same percentage reduction of pupil-teacher ratios provided for the mainstream schools in recent years to address the needs of the most disadvantaged...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made for remote learning to continue for leaving certificate school students in circumstances in which their parents who they live with are highly vulnerable, for example, if they have cancer and their oncologist advises it is not safe for their child to return to school. [11685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the record will be corrected regarding the statement by the chief appeals officer of the Social Welfare Appeals Office to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection that the office does not use test cases in view of the fact this contradicts a letter of 9 January 2019 taking into account...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding recognition of professional researchers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11757/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 840. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being or have been taken to prevent the sale of e-cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age. [11471/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: We should be clear that if these amendments from various parties are not passed, and the Government has clearly stated its objections to them, then this is not a Bill for mandatory hotel quarantine, as is being reported. It is a Bill for a piece of theatre or a joke about mandatory hotel quarantine. It is a Bill to close one window in a house when the other windows and the front and back...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: He is dog-whistling as well.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: Can the Ceann Comhairle give us the list?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: For months, RISE and People Before Profit have been to the fore in calling for mandatory hotel quarantine for all incoming travellers as part of a zero Covid strategy that is based on socialist policies. We are not alone in this. Nine and a half months ago, NPHET wrote to the Government calling for “a mandatory regime of self-isolation for 14 days at a designated facility for all...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: Why is there still no sick pay?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: Last night, we got the living with Covid plan mark II. It could have been subtitled "More of the Same". It contains restrictions for ordinary people while turning a blind eye to what is happening in the meat plants and while there is no enforcement of employers in terms of working from home and there is a half-arsed approached to mandatory hotel quarantining. All of this is combined with a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: We have no time this week to debate the new plan. Our regular slot to debate vaccinations and Covid has been removed this week and, for the seventh week in a row, there will be no Taoiseach's questions. The Government is running from accountability. That is not on. We objected to this at the Business Committee and we will object to it in the Chamber. We need time to debate these matters.

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: The mother and baby homes report has not only failed to address the concerns of survivors, in many respects it has made the situation worse. If it was not for the outpouring of anger from survivors, the Government would have gone along with the plans to destroy their testimonies. I welcome the U-turn on the part of the Government and its promise not to destroy those recordings. The...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Immunity (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of flights given diplomatic clearance since the beginning of 2021. [10118/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: They say a leopard never changes its spots and Fianna Fáil does not change its character. It has always been, and remains, a party of the big developers and big builders. We have three proofs of that this week alone. First is the ESRI research which confirms what the left has said about the supposed affordable housing schemes, that their effect will be to push up house prices to make...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (18 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether a social media policy for public servants referred to in an article (details supplied) undermines the right of those public servants to freedom of expression; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9033/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (18 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of expenditure for each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, showing consultancy, financial, legal, recruitment, quality assurance and training fees incurred by the election observation programme in tabular form; the amount involved for each service; the name of the suppliers; the nature of the services provided; if...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: When will the Government implement legislation to give people sick pay?

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: I would like to do a question and answer session with the Minister on the same issue raised by Deputy Smith. The meat plants are once again major Covid clusters. Of the 56 meat plants in this State, there are 29 open Covid outbreaks. At the majority of the plants, there have been Covid cases in the past 28 days. In the Larry Goodman-owned ABP Bandon plant, 70 of the 300 workers have...