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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of submissions noting concerns that were made to HIQA regarding nursing homes from 2020 to date in 2022, by the type of concern and by county, inclusive of concerns of safeguarding, substandard care, poor communication and visiting. [60914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of submissions noting concerns that were made to his Department regarding nursing homes from 2020 to date in 2022, by the type of concern and by county, inclusive of concerns of safeguarding, substandard care, poor communication and visiting. [60915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns his Department received from staff and families with concerns in nursing homes; and the action that was taken. [60920/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of submissions to note concerns that were made to his Department of the confidential recipient regarding HSE nursing homes from 2020 to date in 2022, by the type of concern and by county, inclusive of concerns regarding safeguarding, substandard care, poor communication, and visiting. [60916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes that took a case against HIQA to prevent publication of its report since March 2020; and if he will provide the details including the name and county of the homes. [60917/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of safeguarding referrals that HIQA have forwarded to the guards and to the safeguarding teams from March 2020 to date in 2022. [60918/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the blanket DNR (do not resuscitate) that was put in place in nursing homes in March and April 2020. [60919/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 694. To ask the Minister for Health the role that the geriatricians on the Covid-19 response teams played in engagement with nursing homes which had outbreaks and in the meetings with specific homes, who made decisions on medication and transfer to hospital for residents. [60921/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: If the Government gives 100% redress, it will be enough for me.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister has my word.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister has my word.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: If the Government provides 100% redress, we will accept it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Today, we heard news about fire defects at one of the largest housing developments in the State, the Phoenix Park Racecourse apartment complex. Up to 550 apartments are affected by major deficiencies that could result in a fire racing through the common areas and spreading to other apartments. These are just some of the 100,000 apartments and duplexes around the State that are affected by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: These developers have and will cost people between €20,000 and €70,000, off-loading responsibility from themselves onto ordinary people who simply cannot afford it. More than that, they have put people's lives at risk by their actions, yet they are still operating and, in some cases, on the same site. How can that be allowed? How are they allowed to wash their hands of it?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Research Funding (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: The issue of treating PhD students as workers is the central issue because what flows from it is that, if we recognise them as employees, then they have to be paid at least the minimum wage. They are workers in terms of the research work they do but also, in very many cases, in the context of the unpaid work the do in delivering tutorials, demonstrations, correcting assignments and exams,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Research Funding (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Ireland compares badly with its EU peers in terms of how PhD workers are treated. I listed the kind of stipends at the high end and, obviously, there are many on less than that, but the EU average for a PhD pay is €32,100, and pay in Nordic countries starts at about €50,000 and progresses to €55,000 on a fixed-term four-year contract. Separate from the issue of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Research Funding (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with PhD researcher unions (details supplied) to ensure that all PhD research students receive a living wage income or above via their stipend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59820/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Research Funding (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister engage with PhD researchers' unions to ensure that all PhD students receive a living wage income and that they are treated as workers? The truth is that they are well below the minimum wage. The highest available PhD stipends are €18,500 over a 40-hour week. Most of them do significantly more than that, which works out at less than €9 per hour.

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

Paul Murphy: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that owners of apartments and duplexes with construction defects will receive 100% redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review two specific cases (details supplied) to ensure that these multi-unit complexes are purchased by local authorities of AHBs, in order that no tenant is made homeless [59822/22]