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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (5 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters in relation to testing and contact tracing (details supplied). And if he will make a statement on the matter. [23122/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: That was quite a slippery answer from the Tánaiste. I will attempt to get an answer again. People Before Profit has been campaigning for months for a people's vaccine to stop the big pharmaceutical companies and their profit interest standing in the way of people getting access to vaccines and to seek to avoid the horror scenes we are seeing in India. The Government had a position,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider lifting the restrictions on motorcycle advanced driver instructors to allow them to return to work as they have no close nor indoor interactions with their clients. [23505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Health when attendance at weddings of more than six persons will be permitted. [23517/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing provisions to allow persons over 60 years of age who are certified as having been vaccinated in Ireland to use swimming pools and gyms; and if so, the related certification and monitoring provisions that may he put in place. [23506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (6 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff the HSE has employed to carry out Covid-19 test and tracing activity; the number of additional staff the HSE has subcontracted through employment agencies to carry out Covid-19 test and tracing activity; the number from each agency; the number of staff the HSE has transferred from other HSE roles to carry out Covid-19 test and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21776/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is a considerable amount of international evidence about the importance of hot nutritious meals for pupils in school. Pupils who receive such meals are healthier, less likely to be tired in class and more likely to be attentive. The younger they get access to those meals, the better. That is why I welcome the hot school meal programme. However, the programme is drastically...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. Fianna Fáil's response to this crisis would be laughable if it was not so serious. It was summed up in a tweet by Fianna Fáil MEP, Billy Kelleher, who effectively pointed to what was happening in Maynooth and said "something" must be done but this is Fianna Fáil's policy. It is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael policy to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 21 April 2021, the date the missing file from his office was found; the person who found the file; the location in which the file was found; the person who misplaced the file within his office; and if the file was missing within his Department from the Minister's office from 1...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is appropriate that his Department published a non-determination of facts naming persons in the reviews carried out into the CPO at Three Trout Stream, Charlesland, Greystones, County Wicklow given that both the reviewer and his Department have accepted that these reviews are not statements of fact...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if species of birds (details supplied) will be removed from the list of birds that may be shot currently included in the Open Seasons Order published on the website of the National Parks and Wildlife Service; if he will cancel the derogation which allows the continued year-round shooting of wood-pigeons; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the upcoming Land Development Agency Bill 2021 will be revised at committee stage to prioritise traditional council housing and to ensure that the affordable housing is defined in relation to incomes and not in relation to market prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24649/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 395. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a recently published report by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24397/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 394. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of vaccines that the EU plans to give to Palestine given the extended state of emergency in Palestine to prevent the spread of new variants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24396/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 170 of 21 January 2021 and 1014 of 21 April 2021, if as part the examination by her Department of the ex gratia scheme for compensation for school victims of child sexual abuse (details supplied) she will consider opening a compensation scheme for school victims of child sexual abuse who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the installation and completion of temporary accommodation on the site of a school (details supplied); and if the school and the parents will be informed of the plans and arrangements for the return of the children to the school at the end of August 2021. [24613/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 686. To ask the Minister for Health if the State will be a party to contracts currently being drawn up in relation to the new national maternity hospital including contracts involving St. Vincent's Healthcare Group and the National Maternity Hospital; if he will specify the obligations the State is or will be assuming in this regard; the latest timeline for the conclusion of these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure that the new national maternity hospital to be built at St. Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park will comply with the Sláintecare objectives of removing private medical care from public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24182/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (11 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 805. To ask the Minister for Health if the full range of IVF services will be available in the new national maternity hospital to be built at St Vincent's Hospital as part of the public healthcare system; if surgical sterilisation procedures will be available to women in the new hospital as part of the public healthcare system; if funding will be provided by his Department or the HSE to the...