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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the practice by the Science Foundation of Ireland Centre for Research Training at the University of Limerick of requiring PhD students to undertake unpaid work placement as interns for 12 weeks of up to 45 hours per week as part of their PhD scheme (details supplied); if this practise at the university is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the University of Limerick and or the Science Foundation of Ireland Centre for Research Training at the University of Limerick to comply with GDPR requirements; if they will be requested to provide their PhD students with all or any information collected in relation to those students that was used in any PhD student...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1540. To ask the Minister for Health the way he and the Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE plan to facilitate the commencement and completion of clinical placements by unpaid first, second and third year student nurses who are unvaccinated or decline to be vaccinated and who are due to commence HSE clinical placements from 1 April 2021; the way the HSE will facilitate a person (details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1563. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place or that are about to be put in place for pregnant women in the context of the current and changing Covid-19 restrictions in order that can they have the full range of maternity services provided to them before, during and after childbirth and in order that they will be able to have the presence and support of a friend, a partner or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1880. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commence a review of healthcare for transgender and non-binary persons with a view to changing the system in order that it corresponds to the recommendations of an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19220/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2070. To ask the Minister for Health if restrictions on non-essential travel will remain in place for travel beyond the new limits in the context of persons now being allowed to travel within their county of residence or up to 20km if travelling across a county boundary. [19740/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1851. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in September 2020 the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics refused reimbursement for the life-changing gene therapy luxturna unless cost effectiveness can be improved relative to existing treatments; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that there are no existing treatments for inherited...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2566. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has allocated additional funds to local authorities in the context of the major increase in outdoor recreational activity which is likely to continue into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19848/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about conditions in the fishing sector generally, in particular for migrant workers, in light in particular of the Ellie Adhamh, to which I am sure the Minister of State paid attention, and what emerged in terms of the primarily Egyptian crew being employed illegally outside the terms of the atypical working scheme not being paid a wage and being on a notional share scheme. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. In light of his comments, it might make sense for the committee to invite in the Minister for Transport to come before to discuss this issue. It seems that there is a mathematical problem which points to widespread abuse of the scheme. The Minister of State indicated that there are 227 individuals on the scheme currently. I understand that there are 210...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. I have one final question. As mentioned by him, a number of investigations have kicked off as a result of the whistleblowing by the workers on the Ellie Adhamh, two of whom almost drowned and the other who was not out on the vessel that day. The situation may have changed, but as I understand those workers are in limbo in that they have no access to social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State.

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I also congratulate the USI for pushing on this issue and forcing the Government to accept that there will have to be change as part of its broader Education for All campaign, which is a vital campaign to remove barriers to access education. We are talking about students who are renting accommodation, many of whom have been forced every year to pay up to an entire term's worth of rent in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [20146/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2 o’clock Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. That right is now being undermined by the actions of the Garda in this State. Last Thursday night, gardaí brutally broke up a peaceful picket of Debenhams workers at Henry Street, arresting a number of supporters and throwing workers, who were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [20145/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: Once again, the Citizens' Assembly has delivered a set of progressive recommendations that put the conservative parties is in Government to shame, demonstrating the gap that exists between ordinary people and the political establishment. One of recommendations resoundingly approved by the Citizens’ Assembly is that the legal right to collective bargaining be guaranteed for all workers...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with the President of the United States of America. [20147/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I would like to ask the Taoiseach whether, in his conversations with President Biden, he has discussed the economic response to Covid. In the US, they have launched a $2 trillion post-Covid stimulus plan but here, the Government is reported to be set on repeating the mistakes of 2008 with a troika-style programme of €8 billion or more in austerity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: How can the Taoiseach justify this contrast? The Government's proposals for Covid austerity will do nothing to rebuild the economy and society. The proposal to cut the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, from June would see millions of euro taken out of the economy, hurting those who have already paid the most in terms of Covid when what we need is public investment. I would also ask...