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July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: This debate is quite problematic. Huge numbers of parents of children with additional needs are watching and interested in this issue. They fight their whole lives for their children and they need to know what will happen with regard to the July provision. We have scheduled a special session of the Dáil to debate it and every answer to every question is that the Minister will reveal...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I refer to the broader point that Deputy Gino Kenny raised about pupil-teacher ratios. Does the Minister accept that if schools are to operate properly in a post-coronavirus world or in a world where the coronavirus persists, the pupil-teacher ratio will have to come down, we will have to invest in our education system and we will potentially have to make infrastructural investments to...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: Other choices are available, outside the frame of reference of the Minister and Fine Gael, as to where resources could come from to enable us to do those things. They could come from the Apple tax and many other areas. I will raise a concrete question which illustrates a point about a potential post-coronavirus environment. The Acting Chairman, Deputy Lahart, mentioned Firhouse Educate...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: Last week the Taoiseach told the Dáil that nobody would be worse off than they were before the pandemic as a result of his proposed cuts to the €350 Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment. That is not true. The Taoiseach has played with words in order to hide the reality of the cuts he is planning but the press statement issued by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will quote the Taoiseach's words from last week in the Dáil: "The changes we are making tomorrow will ensure that those young people", referring to young people working part-time before the crisis, "are no worse off than they were before the pandemic". That is the impression that the Taoiseach gave to people. He suggested that those people would not lose out as a result of the cuts...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Erasmus+ Programme (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request and urge UCD to revoke the cancellation of all outgoing Erasmus arrangements for 2020 in circumstances in which the receiving institutions are willing to accept students from Ireland and in view of UCD preparing to accept international students onto campus-based courses from September 2020; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to unsanitary or unsafe conditions in the direct provision centre at a location (details supplied); if his officials or the international protection accommodation service, IPAS, will be instructed to arrange for an inspection of the building or to publish the findings of a recent inspection of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 603. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the existing grant agreement between the State and St. Vincent's Healthcare Group under which the Nutley Wing was funded by the State; the other public healthcare facilities funded under the agreement; the amount expended on each facility; and if he will provide a copy of the agreements. [11026/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended to date on the preparatory works under way on the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group site relating to the new maternity hospital; the detail of the works involved; the funding provided to date for each of the works; the dates of the payments made in this regard; and the budgetary allocation that has been made for the continuation of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 850. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct an airline (details supplied) to discharge its responsibilities to customers who booked flights with the airline which were subsequently cancelled due to Covid-19 and promptly provide refunds to those customers who want them and vouchers to those who are willing to accept them; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 949. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who previously earned less than €200 a week in wages and were in receipt of a social welfare payment when they became unemployed by scheme type (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who previously earned less than €200 a week in wages and are in receipt of rent supplement, HAP, or are living in social housing. [10892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if cash tips are to be included in assessing the eligibility of a person for the higher rate of the pandemic unemployment payment. [10893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 952. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons due to have their pandemic unemployment payment cut from 30 June 2020 who were earning over €200 a week in wages on that date in 2019. [10894/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons due to have their pandemic unemployment payment cut from 30 June 2020 who are less than and more than 25 years of age, respectively. [10895/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 954. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated savings from cutting the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the resulting increases in other benefits for current recipients. [10896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 976. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to cease the child benefit of a person (details supplied) on the grounds that the person is no longer in the country will be reconsidered in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the particular circumstances. [10628/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1095. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Arts Council has decided not to create a new platform to host the work of the recipients of the Covid-19 response award; and the alternative means that will be used to disseminate the work of the recipients. [10888/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on the Fiscal Position (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: Reference was made to an overlap with or mapping onto phase 3 of IFAC's plan. The programme for government, regarding that period, refers to utilising taxation and expenditure measures to close the deficit, while IFAC refers to phase 3 being a period of fiscal consolidation to bring the debt-to-GNI* ratio down. It seems to me that IFAC is at pains to avoid describing this as a period of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on the Fiscal Position (16 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: The submission states that this "would require total adjustments ranging from €6 to €14 billion over the period 2023–2025". An adjustment of €14 billion over a three-year period equates to €4.666 billion per year, which is more than the average between 2008 and 2014.