Results 5,041-5,060 of 12,298 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that a person (details supplied) should proceed when their claim for disability allowance has been rejected, despite a letter from their doctor advising that they are unable to work for at least a year; and the way that they can receive the much-needed support from the welfare system. [48876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm the contracts that her Department has with top security. [49262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 329. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to reopen one of the PCR testing centres in Tallaght in view that that all PCR testing centres around the area have been closed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48867/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 330. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make antigen tests free of charge and readily available to all frontline workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48868/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Contracts (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the contracts that his Department has with top security. [49262/22]

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Across the country, hundreds of thousands of people are living in homes affected by defects, whether these have been caused by mica, pyrite, fire safety deficiencies or other blatant defects. Hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted. Given the campaigning and the pressure from below, it is clear that the Government has been forced to concede redress schemes, such as the one for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: But, in Britain, it is 60%. It is not like they are. I checked it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: They earn the most income.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Liz Truss has been forced to perform a humiliating U-turn concerning her plans to reduce the top rate of income tax from 45% to 40% for those earning more than £150,000. The move was widely condemned as a tax cut for the wealthiest. It was met by mass protests right across Britain from the Enough is Enough cost-of-living coalition. The top rate of income tax in this country, however,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Foster carers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. [44842/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, in the Minister, Deputy Donohoe’s budget speech, he said we would have an inflation rate of 8.5% this year and 7% next year, and he announced a series of increases in various payments, all inadequate and the vast majority below the rate of inflation. One group of people got absolutely no increase at all for the 13th year in a row, and that is foster carers. These are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [46019/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last year, a study published by Tuismitheoiri na Gaeltachta demonstrated that only 23% of parents in the Gaeltacht are raising their children through Irish. Thankfully, the use of Irish outside the Gaeltacht seems to be increasing, but there can be no real revival of the Irish language without its native speakers. A crucial part of that is the education system and treating Irish as a living...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will discuss concerns regarding the energy crisis with an organisation (details supplied) to ensure workers in this industry are protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Rights (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department takes a different view from the Department of Social Protection on the employment status of workers (details supplied) recently adjudged to be employees through the Department of Social Welfare on the one hand, and through the Eversheds Report on the other. [48408/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 14 September 2022, if he will clarify the definition of the supplement form; if it is a completely different document from the RFA1 form; if the supplement form has a specific name; and if the form can be filled in and submitted by a resident of Ireland at any time of the year,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 329. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Russian authorities in relation to the abduction and forcible conscription of a Russian national (details supplied) who is a Ukrainian resident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48021/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the high cost of alternative foods for those with allergies, especially those with dairy allergies; if she will ensure there is financial assistance provided to those who have allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a change in policy that would see those who are in receipt of the widow’s allowance also able to gain access to jobseekers' payments; if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in this context; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48108/22]