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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is only one secondary school in Tallaght with an autism class; the steps that she is taking to ensure that secondary schools in Tallaght have the training and resources necessary to meet the needs of all children with autism in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to introduce objective sex education in all primary and post-primary schools; if she will ensure that religious ethos cannot prevent the teaching of the objective sex education curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that schools schedule any time that is allocated to subjects in religious instruction to be the first subject or the last subject of the school day in order that pupils not attending such classes do not have to be present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a motion that was passed at a trade union conference (details supplied) calling for a ballot for strike action if the Government fails to meet its members’ pay demands; if she will ensure that all school staff receive pay increases at least in line with inflation; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Rights (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 26 April 2022, the process of engagement that is taking place in more detail; and the process and timeline for the public consultation. [23925/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses that were injured and killed in horse racing, horse training, point-to-point racing and show jumping in 2021 and to date in 2022, by racecourse in tabular form; and the names of the horses and the nature of their injuries. [23958/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 359. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of thoroughbred foals born in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the number registered to race on the track; the number of horses exiting racing over the same period; and the number of same that were sent to slaughter. [23959/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses that were injured and killed at the 2022 Punchestown horse racing festival; and if consideration will be given to ending State funding to Horse Racing Ireland in view of the growing number of horse deaths at tracks around Ireland. [23960/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [21864/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the murder of a female Al Jazeera journalist by Israeli troops in a Palestinian refugee camp earlier today. A photographer from the French media company, AFP, has reported that Shireen Abu Akleh was wearing a press flak jacket and standing with other journalists when she was shot and killed by Israeli troops. The Israeli Defense Forces ignored the jacket and shot her in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [18417/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2022)

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Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is not just a rip-off Republic, it is also a Republic of low pay. More than 370,000 workers in this country are regarded as low paid. Sometimes the Government likes to repeat the Thatcherite mantra that work is the way out of poverty, but for one in five of those in work it certainly is not because they are still living below the poverty line in what is the fifth richest country in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. Mr. Eynikel made the point earlier that we should not whitewash the impact of the intellectual property stranglehold on vaccines. Has Mr. Eynikel an estimate of how many people have died as a consequence of the absence of a TRIPS waiver?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: We understand it is four times the death rate. That is not solely down to intellectual property, absence of vaccines or treatments or whatever, it is also down to general conditions and so on. Would it not be accurate to say that millions of people have died as a consequence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Can Mr. O'Connor estimate how many people have died as a consequence of the absence of a TRIPS waiver?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Excuse me, I must ask the next question as there are only five minutes left. How much public money has been provided globally to the pharmaceutical industry in terms of the development of vaccines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Would it be accurate to say about $100 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Earlier Mr. O'Connor mentioned where the value of that investment went, saying that it has accrued to people in their lives and societies. Nobody, or certainly very few people, would doubt the extraordinary impact of vaccines and therapeutics in terms of helping us to get out of a phase of Covid-19. Can Mr. O'Connor think of any other group of people, or class of people who have also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Could Mr. O'Connor put a figure on what value has accrued to the companies?