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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of flood relief projects undertaken by the OPW in the past five years to date by location; the date on which each flood relief project will be completed; the associated costs of each; if projects are overdue; and if projects went to conciliation, in tabular form. [22742/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within Dublin the OPW plans to refurbish over the next two years; the level of renovation for each station that will receive work; and when each project will commence. [22744/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally to the Slovenian foreign minister, Mr. Anže Logar, in the past three months. [22753/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Transport (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by the Defence Forces on replacing motorcycles in the escort of honour in 2019. [22740/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 149. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the full-year cost of recruiting ten additional aircraft technicians in the helicopter wing of the Air Corps. [22741/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reclassify the pandemic unemployment payment as a permanent payment as with the jobseeker’s scheme and other schemes (details supplied); her further plans to rectify the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22731/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a change of strategy in respect of back to education allowance eligibility criteria has been deployed in respect of applications for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22732/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications in respect of the back to education allowance that have been refused to date in 2020; the level of qualification they are under; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22734/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing disability allowance from €203 to €209 per week. [22745/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the impact on families in receipt of pandemic unemployment payment that will not be eligible for the assessment of their lower 2020 incomes as qualifying criteria for SUSI grants; his plans to rectify the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22735/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the issue of eligibility for fee support via SUSI grants in cases in which the pandemic unemployment payment is not classed as a permanent payment as with the jobseeker’s scheme and other schemes (details supplied); his plans to adopt additional fee structure support schemes or reductions in cases in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Liquor Licences (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of licensed premises prosecuted for offences under section 17(3) of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2003 in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [22748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and vans attached to each Garda district in Dublin as of 2 September 2020, in tabular form. [22749/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of kidney transplant surgeries carried out at CHI, Crumlin in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [22751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ophthalmology Services (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to support the expansion of community ophthalmology in each CHO. [22752/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I have three disparate questions so perhaps I will put them first and whoever wishes can reply. Essentially a lot of public health advice is drawn from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDPC, but there is a quite a variation in how this manifests itself across different countries in terms of the advice given or taken. It...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of the provision to the public of transparent and usable information of which they can make sense, such as knowing where cases are originating in order to be able to alter their behaviour, are there variations across Europe? I tend to favour a very high level of transparency and information being provided in a usable format such that people can act as adults and make decisions for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I congratulate Ms Gibney on her new role and wish to pick up on what she said to the previous contributor. Why is there resistance to providing those data?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: There may be positive stories there as well. There is an expectation that the provision of data will always have negative consequences. That may not always be the case. It will also help us to improve things.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I would like to ask the representatives of FLAC about conflicting rights. Some sectors, such as bars, the travel industry and the arts, will obviously take longer to return. Rights can come into conflict. Recipients of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment are required to be available for work. However if they terminate the employment to which they want to return, they lose rights...