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

Paul Murphy: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that could be raised from the imposition of an emergency 2% Covid-19 tax on the market value of property transfers by natural persons of €1 million and over. [24298/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the benefits workers are entitled to claim when they are not working but are still on their employers' books and their employer is in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and the related hours and wage thresholds. [24283/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the benefits workers on reduced working hours are entitled to claim when their employer is in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and the related hours and wage thresholds. [24284/20]

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: Catastrophic climate change is coming closer. No longer is it just killing people and destroying people's lives in the very poorest countries in the world but we can see, not for the first time, that it is striking home, like the Australian fires, in terms of what is happening in the west coast of the US, in California, in particular. In a way, it encapsulates the nature of the problem we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason newly approved applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment are not being given an initial payment which includes arrears due from the date on which their application was received rather than being informed that arrears will be paid at an unspecified date down the line and in a context in which there is no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will use the short time remaining to give the Taoiseach an example of what is happening. This morning, I was present at a threatened eviction to assist the tenant. This woman is a taxi driver who has lost her income as a consequence of the Covid restrictions. This loss of income is the underlying reason that the landlord wants her gone. However, the reason the latter gave in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the development of the forthcoming plan for dealing with Covid-19. [23685/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: The cut to the pandemic unemployment payment is happening concurrently with the increase in and stepping up of restrictions. This is a time when people need support from the State to deal the coronavirus rather than punishment. How on earth can the Taoiseach justify slashing the supports to workers who have lost their jobs due to Covid when we have a second wave of the coronavirus and a...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Health and Safety Authority (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 137. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if a workplace accident which resulted in the tragic death of a person (details supplied) was reported to the Health and Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25473/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if appeals to the calculated grades for leaving certificate students will be facilitated in instances in which the predicted grades of their teachers were significantly higher that the grades awarded through the calculated grades system. [24972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider levelling up the 2019 leaving certificate grades in the context of the 2020 leaving certificate grade inflation, to remove disadvantages for the 20,000 students that did the leaving certificate in 2019 in order to create a level playing field (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25469/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the health professions admissions test rules will be amended in order that the HPAT grades achieved in 2020 can be used for university entry to study medicine in 2021 and students do not have to repeat the HPAT tests. [24973/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 654. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the refusal of the review of an application by a person (details supplied) will be overturned under the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015, in view of the fact that the factual basis upon which the decision was made has been refuted by the applicant in a letter to the head of the unit. [24947/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the deportation order of a person (details supplied) will be rescinded; and if their asylum application will be processed in Ireland. [25265/20]

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: Deputy Bríd Smith said it as well as one can when she said she does not believe a word of the Government's amendment. It is attempting to kick this issue down the road and is hoping that Covid, and the struggle for workers' rights which is connected to the struggle against Covid, disappears in some way. We simply cannot tolerate an ongoing situation where meat plant workers, nursing...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government refers to the migrant crisis in the Middle East and taking an approach with human rights at its core. I want to raise a specific case with the Taoiseach the details of which I am happy to send to him. It is a man who is an Irish citizen. He was born in Iraq. He fled Mosul in Iraq, after ISIS had taken over and after they murdered his father and other close...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses the environment and climate change will next meet. [25606/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: This is bike week and yesterday was world car free day. Every day, cycling in the Dublin area takes up to 60,000 cars off the road and saves 28,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year, according to the NTA. It could be much more than that. Research from the NTA states that 69% think that cycle tracks along roads, physically separated from traffic and pedestrians, would be useful to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to stop the cutting of the school bus service previously contracted by Dublin Bus. [16041/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the provisions in place for the regulation of property management companies; and her plans to introduce further provisions for the regulation of property management companies. [25719/20]