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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider in relation to the Covid recognition payment including others that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as practice nurses to commend them for their outstanding effort and enthusiasm throughout the pandemic. [3976/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Shanahan for his presentation. I want to explore the issue of data centres and what can be described as the leading role of the IDA Ireland in attracting data centres to Ireland. There is a number of items on the IDA Ireland website about data centres, including one which features a quote from Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, quite prominently, where he talks about the...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4701/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs published its internal review of what it calls workplace arrangements in Iveagh House, a euphemism for champagne-gate on 17 June. This was a time when many people were not able to attend funerals of loved ones and thousands of people received fines for either organising or attending social gatherings in breach of the regulations in place at the...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [2225/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have quite incredible correspondence with me from Augustus Cullen Law Solicitors on behalf of Ardstone Homes Limited, which is a development and investment company. They are threatening letters to a Tidy Towns group, Ballyboden Tidy Towns Group, threatening to sue it for defamation. Why? It is because the group has stood up for proper planning against abuse of the SHD process and...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [2226/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4702/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach admitted a year ago that the leaving certificate was inflexible and that a new system was needed. Here we are, after two years of no traditional leaving certificate, as it is called, and now the Government is absolutely determined, against the wishes of 68% of students, to drive through a return to a so-called traditional leaving certificate. In addition to the usual anxieties...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Look at the figures-----

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: -----90% of people from Dublin 6, 10% from DEIS.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: It compounds and crystallises it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third level education; if she plans to abolish the leaving certificate; if she will engage with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to develop open access to third level education; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I do not buy it and the important point is the students will not buy it. They will not buy the idea that the Minister listened and that she and the Government did everything that was possible. A full 67% of students in a very widely shared and participated in survey by the students union said they did not want a traditional leaving certificate exam but the Government is pushing ahead with a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: That the Minister would say this is very different and there are significant changes speaks to a profound lack of vision by the Government because the basis of the system is exactly the same. For students, their perception of how they are going to do in their leaving certificate all rests on one or two exams in subjects including maths, English and Irish, in the oral and the aural exams....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have nothing against accredited grades.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The alternative is open access.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to introduce objective sex education in all primary and post-primary schools; if it will be ensured that religious ethos cannot prevent the teaching of the objective sex education curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms in primary and post-primary schools that have HEPA filters; when she expects all classrooms to have HEPA filters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4693/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the wearing of face masks of an FFP2 or higher standard is mandatory in all school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4695/22]