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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will categorise teachers as essential workers who should be fast-tracked for Covid-19 tests in the same way as health workers are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26431/20]

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. It is clear from the figures, and from any visible comparison of Ireland with other European countries, that we have a problem with afforestation here. There is a total of 11% in Ireland, versus an EU average of 30%, and very low levels of afforestation at the moment, combined with higher harvesting rates. It is a problem that needs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (30 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider calling upon the banks and the other institutions which provide banking services to cease deducting service charges from the accounts of persons in cases in which their only source of income is a jobseeker's payment, disability allowance, lone parent benefit or any other welfare payment in view of the fact that these persons have the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (30 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no representatives from civil society or NGOs that work with one-parent families or child poverty experts are on the child maintenance review group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27436/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Back to Education Allowance (30 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be permitted to access the back to education allowance. [27437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the HSE or an agency (details supplied) that is recruiting for community swabbers and-or contact tracing; the body that will employ persons recruited as community swabbers and-or contact tracing roles; the terms and conditions of employment, that is, if they are employed for either community swabber and-or contact tracing roles; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been denied access to primary care psychology services, which they have been referred to purely on the basis of their address. [27631/20]

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is his last time to speak this evening.

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Last week it was announced that Tallaght hospital has had to cancel elective surgeries and close operating theatres due to the second wave of Covid and the major threat it poses to our entire health service. This comes on top of the closure of Tallaght hospital's children's accident and emergency department and its rushed downgrade last month. Decades of Government neglect mean our...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure that all sectors of the arts, including the live entertainment industry, are represented on the Covid-19 arts and culture recovery task force. [27477/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will recommend that all workers from the arts and live entertainment industries, based upon such workers being certified by a reference from a relevant employer or an Irish cultural organisation, are made eligible for full payment of the €350 pandemic unemployment payment for the duration of the shutdown of live...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the use of postgraduates in precarious positions for teaching and other duties is increasing in NUIG and that the university expects postgraduate workers to carry out unpaid teaching; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that postgraduates at NUIG have declared their intention to refuse...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding the full restoration and preparation for the winter of day services, respite services and residential services for persons with disabilities, including children and adults with either physical or intellectual disabilities, in view of the fact that these measures are missing from the HSE winter plan 2020-21; and if he will make a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I do not see how we can have a Dáil sitting today that does not debate the rejection of the clear public health advice by the Government and the Tánaiste's undermining of that public health advice in a very cynical and dangerous way on RTÉ television last night. Lives will unfortunately be lost as a result of the Government’s decision. The approach will not avoid going...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is the Government's proposal.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: One point I had made was the idea that sitting until midnight on Wednesday in some way comes from the Opposition. It does not. That is a proposal from the Government at the Dáil reform committee, the idea that we use the Convention Centre on a Wednesday and sit until midnight. We could continue to do votes on a Thursday and, it seems clear to me, that the incentive behind that is the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Many people will have been surprised to see the Tánaiste last night become a new convert to concern about poverty, mental health and ordinary workers. If they thought that was real, they will be quickly disabused of the notion when they hear about the decision of the Cabinet today to increase the minimum wage by a miserly 10 cent, from €10.10 per our to €10.20 per hour,...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses the economy will next meet. [25608/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: In the summer the Government had the opportunity to follow New Zealand and crush Covid. Instead, it turned a blind eye to the outbreaks in meat factories, ignored the calls for sick pay for workers and wound down the level of testing. It took the decision to accelerate through the phases and to reopen the economy, under pressure of lobbying from businesses and for the image of the then...