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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will send it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Should I do it with or without their consent?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work being conducted by a consultancy firm (details supplied) for his Department. [40645/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department is spending on consultancy firms advising on Covid-19 related matters. [40646/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Briefly, to respond to a question asked me by the Taoiseach in the last set of questions, where he suggested that it was not clear to him whether I was in favour of a university model for nurses or not, to be clear I am absolutely in favour and am opposed to the big exploitation of student nurses which is currently going on. We would not be talking about that or the Taoiseach would not be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: On a point of order, Standing Order 54(1) states: "A member of the Government shall, in replying to a Question asked on notice ... address each and every request for information contained therein." Question No. 10 has only one request, namely to ask the Taoiseach-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Question No. 11 inquires as to the amount the Taoiseach's Department is spending on consultancy firms. The question was not answered in a written response he had in advance. He said in response to repeated questions in the House that he can go and get the information. He had notice of the question. He has advisers working for him finding answers to various questions that are not even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and their work on this issue. Why have they gone for the approach of designated venues with a capacity of 1,000 or the Minister deciding? Why not just say outright, across the board, that people cannot sell tickets above the original purchase price, full stop? There would then be clarity for everybody involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have a follow-up question. Let us say that I am a venue operator and I have a venue with a capacity of 950. Why can I not at least apply for designation? Such venues are currently only covered by the last head to which Ms McNamara referred, which is the same one that allows the Minister to decide to cover a venue with a capacity of 2,000 even if there has not been an application. Why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Would this apply to season tickets and so on? Let us take a football season ticket, which is for multiple events happening at 20 or more different venues. Would this measure apply there or does that create a complication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Maybe this is a hypothetical situation that does not exist in reality but what if, of the 20 venues the season ticket covers, 18 are designated but for some reason two are not? They could be very small stadiums. Would that create a complication? Is it the case that as long as one of the multiple venues covered by the season ticket is designated it would be covered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: The unauthorised sale of tickets for matches during Euro 2020 being prohibited was mentioned in the opening statement. I presume that is separate from this legislation. Was that covered by primary legislation or secondary legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Health when restrictions on partners attending at maternity hospitals will be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42443/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (10 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be given to pay student nurses and midwives properly for their labour; if the number of permanent nurses and midwives will be increased to adequate levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40485/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (10 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent outbreak of war between Eritrea and Tigray; the position of the Government on the events taking place in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray; his views on reports of mistreatment of refugees and civilians by the Eritrean Government; the steps Ireland is taking in the EU and at the UN to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (10 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of illness benefit or Covid-19 illness benefit will receive the Christmas bonus; if not, if she will take steps to ensure that recipients of the benefits will get the Christmas bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42596/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 311. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will consider amending the regulations for the Covid-related additional three weeks maternity and parental leave to allow women and parents finishing their maternity leave before April 2021 to add the extra three weeks of parental leave to the end of their existing maternity leave rather than having to return to work before being...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I raise with the Taoiseach the treatment of Aer Lingus workers by company management. For five months now they have been blocked by management from getting the short-time working payment to which they are entitled. Workers have been providing the relevant UP12 forms to the company with the details of the reduced hours they are on. However, the company has not been forwarding that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the progress of his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [43141/20]