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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 722. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency or prioritised driver test appointments will be provided for persons that are essential carers and or essential workers and that urgently need to do a test in order to be able to drive legally but whose planned tests were cancelled due to Covid-19, in view of the planned lifting of many of the Covid-19 restrictions on 29...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 as a result of having previously earned less than €200 in wages, in receipt of child benefit. [12884/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 811. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 and in receipt of child benefit, that were not previously in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied). [12887/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 as a result of having previously earned less than €200 in wages.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12885/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 that were not previously in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied). [12886/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment to the end of 2020. [12888/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 813. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment if it were maintained at €350 for all those availing of the scheme to the end of 2020. [12889/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated difference in cost of leaving the pandemic unemployment payment at current levels to the end of 2020, compared to reducing it to €203 for those previously earning less than €200 in wages from 29 June 2020. [12890/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment for July 2020. [12891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment for July 2020 if it was maintained at €350 for all recipients. [12892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if declarations of income from cash tips will be accepted in assessing income for the purposes of the pandemic unemployment payment. [12893/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will start with some questions for Mr. Cribben of the Vintners Federation of Ireland. On the 2 m or 1 m distancing requirement in pubs, the World Health Organisation's special envoy on Covid-19, Dr. David Nabarro, has made very clear that 2 m is very safe and much safer than 1 m as it protects people from 99% of droplets. The advice on pubs changed in recent weeks when the 2 m distancing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: To clarify, the study the VFI commissioned did not consider the question of the impact on people's health, whether that of staff in pubs or of customers or the wider community. Were there lobbying interactions with the Government about this, separate from the public intervention and the publication of the study?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Cribben stated the VFI has stuck with the public health advice, but the public health advice at that stage was quite clear about the 2 m distance. The purpose of the study was to make the case for a reduction of the 2 m but that was not grounded in science or public health. It was grounded in the capacity and viability of pubs, which I appreciate is an important issue, and not in public...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: On transport, and school buses in particular, in my constituency there are at least three schools where parents have been told in recent weeks that school buses will no longer be available. The schools to which I refer are St. Mac Dara's community college, St. Paul's secondary school and Tallaght community school. Previously, the buses went to housing estates to collect students. It was...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (2 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: On the issue of mental health, the figures referenced in Ms Lynch's opening remarks and the survey to which she referred are striking. She stated that 11% of parents believe their child will need additional support from someone outside the family to help with anxiety and that 45% of those parents believe the child will need professional therapeutic support. The parents of 5% of children in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed. I understand that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Cowen, is due to give a personal statement today on his drink-driving offence. It is not acceptable for us that he would be able to give a statement and there would not be opportunities for questions from the Opposition and answers from the Minister, as was the case and became the precedent on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not, as we have the right to reject the Order of Business today.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is based on the precedent that when there was controversy involving Ministers in the previous Dáil, there was, very regularly, an opportunity for questions and answers. If the Minister makes a statement and then leaves before we can ask questions or get answers, that is quite problematic. If the Business Committee could come back with a proposal to include time for questions and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Could we get a response from the Chief Whip or somebody from the Government as to whether we can agree to change the order?