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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Two and a half thousand children will be homeless this Christmas. They are children living in hotels and emergency accommodation and families with no kitchen to cook in or dinner table to gather around. For some of them, it will be the second Christmas in those conditions. They are tough memories that, we now know from multiple reports, will stick with them throughout their lives. There...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a local community park (details supplied) is shut to the public during Covid-19 to allow a barbaric and cruel activity such as hare coursing. [61190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the schools that have and do not have HEPA filters. [61165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that lost their job due to Covid-19 restrictions before 6 December 2021 can apply for the reopened pandemic unemployment payment; and if they can transition from other unemployment payments, for example, jobseeker’s allowance if they signed on before the pandemic unemployment payment reopened. [61447/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter in relation to a disability welfare payment (details supplied). [61694/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the mother and baby home scheme works for those who are uncertain in relation to the date on which they were adopted. [61755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if private colleges are entitled to free antigen tests for their students; and if so, the way they can access them. [61166/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if access to services will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and the supports that can be provided to the family. [61188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that fathers are being denied access to attend 12-week scans at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, in cases in which partners are fully vaccinated and have no Covid-19 symptoms; the reason partners have been refused access given the advice in national media that partners can attend all pregnancy...

Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Instruction to Committee (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I wish to focus on the underlying issue of the Bill, which is the central issue, that is, the ban on fur farming. I will make two points on that. One, there needs to be a just transition for workers engaged in these industries that will have to be shut down and for which we have been campaigning for a long time to shut down. It is not just an issue of redundancy payments. It is also a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will issue an order for HEPA filters to be used on all public transport while Covid-19 infection rates are at high levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62358/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will issue an order for public transport to operate at 50% capacity while Covid-19 infection rates are at high levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62357/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (16 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that his Department has taken to ensure clean air in nursing homes, including providing ventilation schemes, CO2 monitors or HEPA filters, to support them in ensuring their residents are exposed to clean air in an effort to keep them safe from Covid-19 infection. [62442/21]

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 thank the Minister of State. Even in advance of us discussing the Bill tomorrow, under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007, an employer is required to ensure that sufficient fresh air is provided in enclosed spaces of work. It continues to deal with ventilation systems and so on. A weakness is that it does not define what that is. Nonetheless,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, lines 23 and 24, to delete “, or such other percentage as may be prescribed,”. This amendment relates to the definition of an LRD, which states that the floor space "is not less than 70 per cent, or such other percentage as may be prescribed, of the LRD floor space of the buildings comprising the development", in other words, that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. To clarify one point, where the legislation refers to "or such other percentage as may be prescribed", the Minister is saying that is a power of the local authority, as opposed to being an issue of ministerial order, which is how I would have read it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I accept the point that large-scale residential developments will not simply be 100% composed of regular housing or student accommodation. We want communities with other things that people need. The point is that this is the threshold by which developments can get in to this special LRD process. If they do not get into this process, they still have to go through a regular planning process....