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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 719. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 23 February 2022 and in view of the fact that the HSE has responded to say that, the question does not fall under the remit of the HSE but rather the Office of the Chief Medical Officer in his Department (details supplied), if he will now detail the actions his Department has taken to ascertain the number of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The armaments industry's merchants of death have seen their stock prices rise dramatically in recent weeks as the brutal invasion of Ukraine has an impact and the arms race that began in its aftermath has accelerated. The Government, unfortunately, seems to be planning to join that arms race. Presumably, it will get a boost from the meeting in Versailles today. What is the Government's...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: To be clear, we are in favour of spending to ensure that Defence Forces personnel are not living in conditions of poverty. Only €20 million of the €500 million and €2 billion extra recommended in the report relates to that. We are in favour of doing that but we are not in favour of trying to win an arms race that cannot be won. It certainly cannot be won by Ireland....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yes, I have read the report and I disagree with it. I disagree with close to 50 mentions of NATO, all talking about the need for interoperability and so on. That makes me suspicious. I disagree with buying a squadron of jet aircraft or buying warships.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It absolutely is recommended in paragraph 6.11. It is recommended; the Government likes to shy away from it. I also see it in a certain context, which is that a war on neutrality is being launched by the Government and by right-wing media commentators. Military spending will be ramped up and as a logical consequence of that, it is going to be used for something. Instead, we are saying...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister for the up-to-date figures on the arms trade between Ireland and Israel, which is shameful. It goes from Ireland to Israel in the form of dual-use goods and it goes from Israel to Ireland in the form of weapons that have been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: That is €1.7 million or so in the past three years to Israeli armaments companies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: They are Israeli companies that are providing military equipment to the Irish State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have a couple of questions. The Minister says there is no arms embargo. Does he agree there should be an arms embargo on a state that has been defined as an apartheid one by Amnesty International? It has been defined by it as operating a racist and cruel system of apartheid within the State of Israel, within the occupied Palestinian territories in Gaza, and against the millions of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is a clear question. Is the Minister in favour of an arms embargo on Israel? That is what Amnesty International recommends. Is the Minister in favour of it or not? He made a clear statement earlier that the Government is on the side of Ukraine against Russia. That is okay. I am also for the defeat of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and for its repulsion by the Ukrainian people. Will...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of Ireland’s defence spending projections into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a letter from a union (details supplied) pointing out that the advice of her Department that CO2 concentrations of above 1,400-1,500 parts per million are likely to be indicative of poor ventilation was being publicly challenged by experts in the field and that the union noted that experts maintained that a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take immediate action to reduce the average class size in Irish primary schools to below the European Union average of 20 pupils per class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms and school staffrooms that have yet to be supplied with adequate ventilation systems to ensure safe air quality standards in every school classroom and staffroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that were absent in February 2022 due to having Covid-19 symptoms, testing positive or being identified as a close contact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13316/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the new ESRI report, Children of migrants in Ireland: how are they faring?; the steps that she will take to provide additional language supports for children with migrant parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13317/22]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The actions of P&O Ferries last week highlighted the brutality of capitalism, with 800 workers sacked by video call, special handcuff trained security sent in to clear them off the ships and the company hiring new workers on wages as low as $2.38 per hour. This is part of a wider race to the bottom. The RMT union has reported that workers on the Dublin-Liverpool route were on a basic...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a lot of mysticism that goes on when talking about the increase in energy prices, which basically presents laws of a private, for-profit market as if they are laws of nature. It is as if these prices are going up by themselves, and that it is a natural disaster about which nothing can be done. It removes what is actually going on, which is the profiteering that has already been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last October, the Holy Spirit junior school in Greenhills was told it would lose a teaching post and would have to go from having four junior infant classes to three. This was because a number of parents who had planned to start their children in junior infants in September decided to keep them back a year in light of the scale of the Covid pandemic at the time and the negative impact it had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that the Minister of State has the response from the Department and is reading it out, but it is just the same response that we got in October 2021 basically, which is just a sticking to the rigid bureaucratic rules of “these are the numbers, etc.” It is not taking into account the reason that they fell short was because of the pandemic. The school staff then took...