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- Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: Why did the Government not put the US on the list?
- Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: That is not what the Government did.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: 227. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will ensure those over 50 years of age with underlying medical conditions can be vaccinated by their general practitioners as per the first two rounds of vaccination. [59692/21]
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021) Paul Murphy: I wish to ask about funding for ventilation. What funding has been provided for small businesses to invest in improved ventilation or filtration systems? The Scottish Government established a £25 million business ventilation fund for SMEs. I believe we could do with something similar here.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021) Paul Murphy: The budget 2022 expenditure report claimed that the HSA had greatly increased staff. However, I understand it was revealed in March that the HSA had hired one extra inspector in 2020 and an additional three inspectors by April of this year, bringing the total to 70. To call that greatly increased staff is to put a very optimistic gloss on it. The Minister of State referred to increased...
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: I welcome the recent announcement of the reopening of the pandemic unemployment payment. I will be blunt that if by reopening the Minister means anything less than restoring the payment to €350, which was accepted as the level people needed to survive, and leaving it open to anyone who loses his or her job as a consequence of pandemic restrictions, that will simply not be acceptable....
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: Has it?
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: The means test has been changed.
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: There you go. Great. You get somewhere eventually in this place.
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: Literally as we speak.
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: That is fantastic. I am very happy to hear that. I will call my constituent who has been battling away on that issue immediately once I am out of the Chamber. He will be delighted. The €5 and the increase in means test thresholds are still extremely minimal, but we will take them. You have to put pressure on in this place. It takes a long time to get even a fiver for people. ...
- Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: Yes, I will, in light of the change of facts on the ground. I recognise that.
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach just confirmed that this is not extra money and that it is a matter of choosing between toilets and HEPA filters. That is an absolutely scandalous position that he has been trying to avoid spelling out all afternoon. I have been listening to him. In any case, I want to ask a question about the sneaky fine print with regard to the announcement made by the Minister, Deputy...
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: What does the Taoiseach expect me to say?
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: There are thousands of people out of work.
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: What if they lost their jobs two weeks ago?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [58594/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Murphy: I want to return to the question I asked on the Order of Business. I got a lot of bluster back from the Taoiseach but I did not get an answer. It seems to me that a point of very basic inequality has been created, if I am reading the terms of the new PUP scheme correctly. I would be delighted if the Taoiseach could confirm to me that I am reading them incorrectly and that this inequality...