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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: What about the Covid-19 oversight group?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Economic Recovery and Investment will next meet. [22655/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will raise two matters with the Taoiseach. 4 o’clock The first pertains to the redundancy law which was extended today. With this law the Government has effectively allowed companies to make workers redundant while refusing to allow workers who have been laid off to invoke redundancy to get the payments to which they are entitled. Instead these workers are being left in limbo....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Education will next meet. [22654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that persons who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the Pandemrix vaccine receive appropriate compensation without the need for expensive court cases. [23676/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure the full reopening of paediatric emergency services at Tallaght Hospital as was promised earlier in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention and that of NPHET and the HSE have been drawn to the fact that the exchange of teenage school students from other European states continues to be facilitated by secondary schools here despite Covid-19 restrictions on travel and household gatherings; if they have approved that secondary schools should continue such exchange...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the EWSS are also eligible to apply for the short-time work support (details supplied). [23716/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 704. To ask the Minister for Health if the latest restriction on groups of 15 outdoors will be clarified with regard to caravan parks in which families are only allowed use their own caravans, campers or tents and in which no clubhouse or other group facilities are open and all other public health and distancing advice is observed: and if such caravan parks can open and remain in compliance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (15 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 769. To ask the Minister for Health his policy with regard to the care of persons with special needs, in particular the apparent change in the level of care to be provided under service level agreements between the HSE and care institutions (details supplied); and the steps he will take to ensure that day services reopen five days a week and that there is a full resumption of transport and...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Hare Coursing) Bill 2020: First Stage (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the coursing of hares with dogs and for that purpose to amend the Wildlife Act 1976 and the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, to make consequential and other amendments to the Greyhound Industry Act 1958 and other Acts relating to such coursing and to provide for related matters. I am very proud to introduce...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Hare Coursing) Bill 2020: First Stage (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Investigation (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I apologise as I did not realise this matter was down as coming first in the order. The last time I looked, it was third in the order. I first express my sympathy and solidarity with Izzy, the activist who was beaten on the head outside Leinster House on Saturday. People have seen the horrific pictures of blood streaming down her face. She was hospitalised and had to receive stitches....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Investigation (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Kenny. I wish to make two quick points. First, any idea that the answer to this is to ban or clamp down on protests is completely wrong. Ms Kamikaze has publicly stated that she will be opposed to any ban on protests. I am also opposed to such a ban because I know that it will be used against progressive protestors in the future. We have to defend civil liberties. This...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I listened to the Tánaiste talking about Debenhams workers on RTÉ Radio the other day. During the interview he basically acted as an attorney or lobbyist for Debenhams and made excuses for it. In particular, he said that the situation is not like that of Clerys because there are no assets, which outraged the workers and ignores the €25 million in stock in its Irish shops....

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: Naomi Klein wrote a book entitled The Shock Doctrinewhich was published in 2007. It outlines how political and economic elites, the capitalist class and their political representatives in this case use national or international crises to try to reshape social relations, laws and norms in their favour. The truth, which is very far from the "we're all in this together" rhetoric, is that...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Housing will next meet. [22652/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that could be raised from the imposition of an emergency 3% Covid-19 tax on the total assets of natural persons, whatever the legal form of tenure, of €1 million and over, rising to a 5% tax on assets of €10 million and over. [24295/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that could be raised from the imposition of an emergency 3% Covid-19 tax on the assets of investment funds and holding companies. [24296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that could be raised from the imposition of an emergency 3% Covid-19 tax on the market value of all property transfers by legal persons. [24297/20]