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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Policy (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 288. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding an event being hosted by his Department and the Defence Forces due to take place on 25 November 2021 in a location (details supplied) entitled Support for Enterprise, Research, and Innovation in Defence; and if he and his Department will reflect on the millions of victims of war around the world and call off this event...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Planning Issues (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department plans to appeal a decision in relation to the attached objection from his Department lodged against a development in Citywest which features a 13-storey building and has been granted permission by An Bord Pleanála; and if not, the reason given it is on the flight path used by SAR helicopters when ferrying patients to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, the reason the deaths in institutions including Bessborough and Tuam are not considered potentially violent or unnatural for the purpose of inquests under the existing Coroners Act, bearing in mind their numbers and the absence of burial records....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, if the power of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications under section 46 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948 can be used to licence exhumation for the purpose of coroner’s inquests, bearing in mind this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, if exhumation is achieved, do the existing purposes of a coroner’s inquest include identification of the deceased such that DNA testing could be carried out. [58370/21]

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank those who have raised the central issue of ventilation in tackling the spread of Covid, for more than a year at this stage, in line with the science. They include Orla Hegarty, John Wenger, Dr. Kim Roberts and others who are on the expert group on ventilation. They have been very clear and very consistent on this issue, despite the...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will finish now.

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputies for the contributions to the debate. I welcome the strong support for the Bill and for taking action on the crucial issue of ventilation to prevent the spread of Covid and to give workers the right to clean air. I need to address some of the smaller questions that came up from Opposition Deputies first and then go to the question of the Government Members. A number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council.. [57559/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach respond to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, fiscal assessment report that was published today, which makes the central point that the Government has not budgeted for action on climate change or for the implementation of Sláintecare? This is in line with criticism we have made of the Government's approach to the climate action Bill, for example, outlining the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public conversation on the well-being framework for Ireland. [57560/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made on the economic recovery plan published by his Department in May 2021. [57561/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is clear that the new wave of Covid and the Covid restrictions are setting back economic recovery. In fact, we have seen people losing work or even losing their jobs as a result of the restrictions that have had to be brought back in. With the new round of restrictions, one thing that has been very definitely missing is another round of supports. Last year, the Government accepted and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [58593/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government is operating at a snail's pace when it comes to retrofitting housing across the country to improve insulation and building energy ratings, BERs. A new element of the problem was highlighted to me last week. In Limerick, much of the council housing retrofitting is being done through the regeneration thermal upgrades programme but it is not being done to the level necessary to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will introduce a resolution at the Human Rights Council addressing human rights violations in Bahrain; and if not, the reason therefor.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59274/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of PCR test appointments available to book for the past month given the current delays for people accessing PCR test appointments. [59265/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: On 16 October, a fire broke out at the Glashaus building in Tallaght. People were trapped for half an hour on balconies. They were terrified for their lives. Thankfully, there were no casualties, but there could have been. People were waiting for 20 minutes for the aerial platform to arrive from Tara Street. Since then, I have been asking questions about this. What has emerged is that...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will speak briefly in support of all of these amendments, which add a modicum of democratic accountability to the significant power being given to the Minister. We favoured mandatory hotel quarantine at a certain point in time. We called for it to be introduced across the board as part of a public health system. We said it should not be outsourced and called for appropriate oversight to...