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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if permission will be granted to an association (details supplied) to apply for membership to a body. [36609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 431. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason he has not granted consent to a group (details supplied) to affiliate to a union. [36461/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the activities of Ireland under PESCO since its implementation. [36610/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department have spent on the use of recruitment agencies for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 to date. [36607/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received and or read a document from a group (details supplied); if he or officials in the NTA have considered other proposals to the NTA for the terms of reference of the feasibility study to include a continuation of the MetroLink to south-west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider bringing forward the date for publication of the 1926 census from 2026 to 2021 in view of the fact this would stimulate interest amongst the Irish diaspora and possibly increase international travel to Ireland in the coming years. [36567/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, at the proposed end of the current Covid-19 level 5 restrictions on 1 December 2020 and-or when the ban on the implementation of eviction notices ends ten days later, he will extend the ban on the implementation of eviction notices until such time as all level 2, 3 and 4 Covid-19 restrictions are also lifted in order...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the class size reductions planned for DEIS band one senior schools to include DEIS band one junior schools and DEIS band one vertical schools in a context of evidence that class size matters most for younger children; the way in which the currently planned increased investment in DEIS schools is to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct her officials to provide for the needs of particular children by ensuring that NEPS psychologists, speech and language therapists and art therapists are given access to primary schools in the context of her assertions that primary schools are safe for both children and adults; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Services (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36881/20]

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Workers want to live; they do not just want to exist and to live to work. They deserve not just decent wages, but also a proper work-life balance. In recent years we have seen big corporations trying to squeeze every last drop of energy and productivity out of their workforces, expecting them to be always on and always available. Instead of freeing people up to live their lives, new...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education is due to meet next. [36611/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Last month, the Minister admitted to me that it was common practice for PhD students to be required to do five hours teaching work per week without payment. These are workers who are working through the lockdown. They are running tutorials, laboratories and classes in the universities, but are unpaid while students pay extortionate fees to be there. Does the Taoiseach think it is...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent death in an Israeli prison of a Palestinian detainee (details supplied) who died from the medical negligence of their cancer; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the Israeli state has also withheld their remains from their family in an act of collective punishment; if he...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The budget referred to additional funding for the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, of €4 million but no further detail is provided, either in answers to parliamentary questions or the documentation before us today, on what this will mean in terms of additional inspectors. Can the Tánaiste provide any information in that regard? Will we have additional inspectors and, if so, how...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does the Tánaiste accept that in the course of the last year the HSA has proved to be under-resourced? This most clearly was the case in the meat plants when the alarm was raised and very many complaints were made, but no inspections took place until six weeks later. Does the Tánaiste accept that the HSA was under-resourced and is it, therefore, his intention to make sure it is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Good. A part of that would be having clarity that an important part of this budget should be resourcing the HSA properly. I would also say we should be empowering the trade union movement to carry out inspections, as happens in some countries. Therefore, it is a bit disconcerting that we do not have figures for how many inspectors we will get but I welcome getting that information. On the...