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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 699. To ask the Minister for Health whether long-Covid clinics are prescribing medications; and if so, what medications they have been recommended to prescribe by the HSE. [33604/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 700. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the medical basis for the decision to recommend that children return to school three days after they have had a positive Covid test; and the reasoning that this recommendation was put forward by the HSE. [33605/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 701. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason behind the decision to remove mandatory masks in lexical settings; and the evidence used to make this decision. [33606/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 702. To ask the Minister for Health what actions the HSE is taking to prevent the spread of Covid in hospital settings, including details of all precautions taken.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33607/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 734. To ask the Minister for Health whether the medical school which the Secretary General of his Department suggested will be established by TU Dublin will be located on the Tallaght campus; when the first intake of students is expected; and if the TU Dublin governing body had approved the proposal for a medical school prior to the Secretary General's comments at the Joint Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 819. To ask the Minister for Health whether the internal and external reviews into spinal surgeries in Temple Street Hospital will be published; and if so, when they will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34165/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 867. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Deputy President and Chief Operating Officer at TU Dublin received a pay increase outside routine pay awards; if so, if these payments were backdated to the date of their appointment; and if this pay increase to two individuals will be applied across the technological university sector. [33743/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 868. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the technological universities which have a foundation to raise philanthropic donations for the university. [33745/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline for technological universities with a foundation, how much money from the technological university funds has been spent on covering salary costs, operating costs, training or other costs of the associated TU Foundation for each of the past five years. [33746/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 870. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason separate technological university foundations exist, given that technological universities are themselves registered charities. [33747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 871. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any donations or portions thereof received by technological university foundations were returned to donors for any reason over the past five years; in cases where donations were returned, how much money was returned; the reason the money was returned; and who the donor was. [33748/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: First, I salute the workers at Tara Mines, who have mounted a protest today. The way they are being treated by their employer, Boliden, is horrendous. They are facing shortly the loss of their jobs and wages and the huge impact that will have on their community. The measure is supposedly temporary, but they are not being given any date or timeframe for when the mine will be back in...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government has been found wanting. More people are at risk of poverty, using food banks and in deprivation. That is the consequence of the Government's decision to increase social welfare rates and so on by less than the rate of inflation, along with lots of other decisions it has made. The Minister referred to the increase of €12, or 5.7%, in the latest budget. Inflation last...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government prioritised once-off payments. The vast majority of the payments the Minister listed are once-off but the price increases are permanent. They are not going to go down. Groceries are not going to decrease in price to where they were a couple of years ago. If inflation goes down, prices do not go down. It is just that the rate of increase is reduced. Unless the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all social welfare payments will be increased in line with inflation in the forthcoming budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33170/23]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will ask the Minister a simple question. Does she agree that all social welfare payments should be increased at least in line with the rate of inflation in the forthcoming budget? The Government did not do this in the last budget and the result has been that the poorest people in our society got poorer as a consequence of the decisions the Government made. These consequences are that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is cold comfort to the 12,441 people who are homeless now. The Minister made the point, which is true, that the staggered nature of the ending of the eviction ban has had an impact. It meant we did not have the tsunami in one fell swoop. That is true, but we in the Opposition never said it would come in one fell swoop. I am not an expert in tsunamis, but I get the impression they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not need a private rental sector.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not need a private rental sector. It is not true. We need homes for people to live in and affordable rents for them. The landlords the Minister spoke about exiting the market cannot bring the homes with them. They do not strap the apartments to their backs, get on a boat and leave; the properties remain here. They cannot remove them. We simply need the State to step in, in every...