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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale for the introduction of online safe pass renewal; and the reason for the delay. [60351/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 578. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address obesity in Ireland with a public health (obesity) Act including restricting the marketing of unhealthy foods to children; and if he will introduce regulations for online and social media marketing of unhealthy foods also extending the broadcast ban to 9pm as per the proposals made by an organisation (details supplied). [60263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the way the findings in the report commissioned by the Women’s Health Taskforce will inform the forthcoming Women’s Health Action Plan; and the way focused investment in women’s health will support the implementation of the recommendations from the report (details supplied). [60293/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department [60206/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I echo that point. There is a serious issue. I wish to raise with the Taoiseach a case I have raised with him a number of times, that is, the gross and sexist abuse of power by retired Kerry judge James O'Connor. I have brought a number of testimonies to the Dáil of women in vulnerable positions before him on family law matters where he used his position to completely,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach said he would revert to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [60210/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: For a brief moment, the value and essential nature of workers, those who are on the front line doing the work, had to be recognised in the pandemic. Chief among them, or certainly up there, were supermarket workers, who universally were accepted to be keeping our shops open and providing an essential service when most things were locked down. Even their employers were forced very briefly...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I spent the morning with Pete Brennan from Kingswood, Tallaght. He caught Covid at the end of last year. He went to Tallaght hospital and ended up in intensive care. He was in a coma for three months. It is a really terrifying story. Pete's family were told to prepare for the worst but he managed to recover, defying the odds. Like tens of thousands of others in this country, he is now...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the investigation into the circumstances that led to the immediate cancellation of the Loughrea coursing meeting on 15, 16 and 17 October 2021 has been concluded; and if not, when it is expected to be concluded. [60898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a hare coursing meeting was called off in County Cavan the day before it was scheduled to go ahead on 12, 13 and 14 November 2021. [60899/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice he received from AMRIC in relation to HEPA filters in schools. [60959/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Health if he still maintains his opposition to the use of HEPA filters in schools. [60960/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: As the Taoiseach knows, for a long time we have been stressing the importance of ventilation and filtration in a strategy to fight Covid-19, which is an airborne pandemic. We were therefore very glad that People Before Profit’s Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 received the support of the entire Dáil. The Minister of State, Deputy English, who contributed to the debate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government information on HEPA filters in schools has been all over the place, to put it mildly. After months of campaigning by People Before Profit, trade unions, parents and teachers, the Government has been dragged, kicking and screaming, to accept the necessity, in some limited circumstances, of HEPA filters in schools. It is progress and some new money actually promised this week,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the newly published response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2021. [60211/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Recommendation 3.4 of the report is: To increase certainty for individuals and businesses, publish a timetable that shows how the national broadband plan roll-out is being brought back on track This was clearly conceived before the latest and emerging very significant scandal relating to National Broadband Ireland. I found the Taoiseach's answers earlier wanting in him seeking to kick...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The role that the Irish Government is playing in blocking people around the world getting access to Covid vaccines is criminal, murderous and absolutely scandalous. We are one year into the global roll-out of the vaccines and just one in 12 people in poor countries have received even one dose. In Haiti only 1% of the population has been vaccinated. In many African countries vaccination...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: In response to a parliamentary question last week, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Varadkar, stated: I have an open mind on the alternative suggestion of a TRIPS waiver. I have always said that if we receive a WTO proposal [in writing], we will examine it. That has not happened yet. This is misleading, to say the least. The first formal proposal from India...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.