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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including other workers who have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as those who work in residential drug services in the Covid recognition payment. [7476/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the women's health task force to consider the way care for women with hyperemesis can be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7483/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the British Prime Minister. [7684/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been one of the leading international figures who is beating the drums of war and aggression with Russia and who is calling for further NATO expansion. As Deputy Boyd Barrett mentioned, yesterday, 15 February, was the 19th anniversary of the day on which more than 100,000 people marched on the streets of Dublin in 2003. This was part of global...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: They have expanded more than 800 km.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department’s Covid-19 and health unit. [7685/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: New figures have just come out on the Covid hub about the levels of hospitalisation of children due to Covid. They are very concerning. The figures cover the period up to the end of January. Hospitalisations for those between zero and four years of age number 217. That compares with the numbers throughout the course of 2021 of, on average, 25 a month. There are 217 children between the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the case of Tommy Dickson. Tommy is a six-year-old who attends junior infants in Gaelscoil na Giúise in Firhouse. He has a very rare, life-limiting mitochondrial disease. As a consequence, he needs assistance to go to the toilet. When he moves around, he is at risk of falling and hurting himself because of co-ordination and balance issues, so he...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: What about the Americans in Shannon?

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: This report is an attempt to soften public opinion for a massive increase in military spending and, linked to that, further integration and co-operation with NATO. That is the truth. The logic of the report makes no sense in its own terms. If you believe the line from all these people, who half the time are in favour of further integration with NATO, that really this is about protecting...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have read the report.

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have read the report. I will get to the point. That logic makes no sense. How can the Minister explain it? How the Minister explains it, if anyone who reads the report will see, is in the 44 reference to NATO. I will quote just one. They are all like this. It states, the need "for the Defence Forces to be trained and equipped to NATO standards". It is because they can have further...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the commitment made by the NTA in 2021 for route A of BusConnects from Rathfarnham to pass by the National Concert Hall, St. Stephen's Green and Kildare Street (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8582/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a process for receiving information from schools regarding teachers who have been unable to attend school due to illness or being a Covid-19 close contact; if these numbers were examined and taken into account when making decisions regarding the State examinations for summer 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider implementing a policy that would see those on the disability allowance automatically entitled to the fuel allowance rather than basing the payment on a means test. [8581/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a person’s (details supplied) case; and if she will instruct the IPO to prioritise this application due to the high risk facing his family in Palestine. [8566/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (17 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider changing the law to make the expression of non-violent protest a defence against a charge of criminal damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8734/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (17 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week two climate change protestors, Orla and Zac, were up in court charged with criminal damage. Orla was alleged to have painted "No more empty promises" on Iveagh House and Zac was simply alleged to have filmed the incident, but they could both face years in prison for some paint on a building that was washed off in a couple of days. In the UK the Colston four were acquitted because...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (17 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Who are the criminals here when we look at the world hurtling towards climate disaster? Is it the big oil companies, those who want to burn $5 trillion of fossil fuels under the ground to maximise their profits at the expense of humanity and our planet? Is it the governments which know about and accept the science but choose to do precious little about it? Alternatively, is it those who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (17 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: While the Minister of State cannot comment on individual cases, he or the Government could commit to changing the law to ensure that such prosecutions do not happen again. It is an incredible situation that public money is being spent to pursue two young climate activists who could face years in jail for allegedly painting a slogan on a building and filming it or, in the case of Aislinn...