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

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate the centralised purchasing by her Department of HEPA filters to ensure all primary and post-primary classrooms are equipped with HEPA filters as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4694/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a non-traditional leaving certificate examination will take place in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4692/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when remote working legislation will be introduced; if he will ensure that employees have the right to work from home in circumstances in which it is possible in this legislation rather than just the right to request same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 294. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that social care workers are not listed by the Revenue Commissioners as a profession and are unable to claim flat-rate expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5063/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a single parent who is living with a partner who is unemployed is unable to claim tax credits for their child, even in cases in which they are supporting them alone (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider including other categories of workers, such as social care workers, who have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods, in the Covid recognition payment. [5065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Legal Services (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department sought legal advice in relation to section 34 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 before the publication of reports (details supplied) in which three county councillors were publicly named; and if he is satisfied that section 34 was fully complied with. [4252/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those who fall into the demographic category of long-term disabled and or the elderly may be unable to avail of the MICA redress scheme due to the fact that they are unable to borrow the remaining amount that needs to be put forward; if he will instruct his Department to carry...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hares captured during each coursing season (details supplied) in tabular form. [4987/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Maritime Jurisdiction (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 444. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the military exercises by states other than Ireland that have taken place within Ireland’s exclusive economic zone over the past 20 years by date. [4562/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update in respect of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied). [4439/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 886 of 19 October 2021, when the outcome of the 2022 proposal for additional nursing posts will be approved; and if approved, the length of time it will take for the changes to be implemented. [4447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to expand the weight management services throughout the country. [4521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 690. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a need for a publicly funded service to get excess skin removed for those who have gone through bariatric surgery. [4522/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Social Democrat Party for bringing forward this motion, which highlights aspects of a dysfunctional two-tier health system that exists in a permanent state of crisis. The problems in healthcare on this island are not accidental. They are not to do with personnel; they are structural in nature. They are the consequence of years of underfunding of our public health system, cuts,...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Acting Chairman. I also want to refer to the issue of parking charges. It is more than three years since a €10-per-day cap on parking at hospitals was promised. Fianna Fáil went further and promised free parking, but this regressive tax on sick people and their relatives and friends who are faced with inadequate public transport infrastructure remains in place....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The regularisation scheme for undocumented people opened on Monday last. While the scheme is very welcome, there are thousands of people excluded from it. I had a meeting with some of them yesterday. These are people who have made lives here and for various reasons are excluded. For example, people who have been temporarily documented within the past four years cannot avail of it, those...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [4703/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise again the heartbreaking case of Ava Cahill, an 11-year-old old from Tallaght. She has spina bifida, which results in her feet being turned inward making everyday tasks very difficult. Putting on her shoes on a daily basis is a challenge. She needs help to put on her trousers. She has been left waiting for more than a year and a half for corrective surgery with her...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, the Taoiseach warned here about the danger of spiralling wage costs and a wage price upward spiral. Does that include Secretaries General under this Government? One such civil servant has now got two pay rises in the past four months. His wages have jumped more than €80,000 to almost €300,000, which is almost as much as those of the President of the United States....