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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 765. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the expenditure on the agreement with private hospitals to incorporate their capacity into the public system in tabular form. [6471/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance that will be provided to small crèche owners to assist with filling out the necessary paperwork to avail of the TWSCS. [6854/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance that will be provided to small crèches to assist them in reopening safely at the appropriate time. [6855/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the fuel allowance further in view of the extension of the lockdown. [5654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further extend the fuel allowance in view of the continuing Covid-19 crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pandemic unemployment payment will be backdated for a person (details supplied). [5916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State could pay maintenance payments that are not being made on the basis that the State could recoup these costs after the Covid-19 crisis. [6196/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if amendments to planning regulations will be introduced to facilitate small businesses that are no longer able to work out of their business premises as a result of the Covid-19 health measures and therefore need to operate from their home. [6197/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1404. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the National Famine Commemoration Day is being marked on the fourth Sunday of May for 2020, when the third Sunday in May is formally designated as the National Famine Commemoration Day. [6165/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Why does it not apply to meat factories, shops or pharmacies?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is not the question the Minister was asked.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: In a response I received yesterday to a parliamentary question I tabled regarding my repeated requests for a breakdown of expenditure under the agreement with the private hospitals to be published, the Minister claimed this information is commercially sensitive and, therefore, will not be published. I have written to the Ceann Comhairle under Standing Order 44A to complain that the Minister...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: We have a situation whereby the State has now paid €112.4 million, as I understand it, to the private hospitals owned by, among others, Denis O'Brien, Larry Goodman, etc. We know from reports that the State is paying up to four times as much per bed as is paid in the United Kingdom. We are now finding out that, two weeks after the figures were to be provided by the private hospitals,...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask a question on the National Famine Commemoration Day. First, I wish to pay tribute to the National Famine Commemoration committee volunteers. The committee has done an extraordinary amount of campaigning work and has pushed for proper appropriate commemoration of the Famine. Part of the work has involved pushing for a full recognised State day with a consistent date in the...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister confirm that the commemoration will happen on the third Sunday in May every year and that will be the case for the event in Buncrana in 2021?

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: My first question is to the Minister, Deputy Creed, and it follows on. Three weeks ago, he accused me in this House of smearing the meat processing plants because I raised with him complaints from the meat factory workers and their unions and I called for them to be inspected by the Health and Safety Authority. Does the Minister now accept that the Health and Safety Authority should have...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is the same as three weeks ago. It is the same ideological, touching faith in the pursuit of profit of these companies-----

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is the idea that the pursuit of profit by these companies will never clash with the health and safety of the workers. The Minister, Deputy Creed, should withdraw the comments from three weeks ago. The Minister should apologise to the meat factory workers of the country for not listening to their warnings and for not calling for inspections. There were no HSA inspections of meat...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is a picture of what not to do.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is huge. It is a higher percentage than in America.