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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints that have been received from participants on the work placement experience programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of positions on the work placement experience programme that have been refused because the position did not meet the standards of the scheme or were removed for the same reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of workplace inspections that have been carried out as part of the work placement experience programme; the number of placements that were found to be satisfactory or unsatisfactory; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is now an appropriate time to reverse the unjust reduction to the State pensions of 36,000 older people which were cut due to changes in the State pension system in 2012, given that they have not had their pension rates restored in light of the current situation of rising prices (details supplied);...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time equivalent staff in TU Dublin that were employed in attached grades (details supplied), in tabular form. [35248/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount TU Dublin spent on organisational design consultants for each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [35249/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the waiting time for an application for permission to remain on the basis of marriage to an Irish national and consequently for a stamp 4 enabling persons to work now being 12 months; her views on whether this is an acceptable waiting period given the severe financial stress that this is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish the report of independent research conducted by an organisation (details supplied) and the University of Limerick which were awarded funding from the dormant accounts fund of the anti-human trafficking unit in her Department in 2018 to investigate the way that sex workers have been impacted by the Criminal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if the discretionary fund of the HSE for 2022 has been exhausted; if so, if he will provide a breakdown of the way that this has happened, only six months into the year. [35789/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make arrangements for the urgent residential care needed for a person (details supplied). [35790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the six planned long-Covid clinics at hospitals nationwide (details supplied) that are open at present; the expected opening dates for the unopened clinics; and if any of the clinics will be accepting children as patients. [35791/22]

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: The context of this debate is the fact, confirmed by the Ombudsman for Children, that the State is failing children with special needs. The Department of Education is failing such children and it is an absolute scandal. The children still being failed the most are the more than 100 children who do not have appropriate school places for September. It is now 1 July and that is a matter of a...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: The first thing I wish to do is pay tribute to the many campaigners throughout the country, some of whom are in the Gallery. When faced with a situation where they discover the house they bought whatever number of years ago is basically crumbling around them, people could be forgiven for collapsing into despair and thinking there is nothing they can do. We are still not where we need to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: I agree we are still in a Covid environment. I often find I am the one pointing that out. It is the Government that is getting rid of long Covid leave. It is the Department of Education that is telling very high-risk individuals they have to go back to the workplace. Clearly, we are in a different situation than we were last year or the year before. Regardless of the reasons, will the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the delay in the publication of leaving certificate examination results until early September 2022, which will cause immense difficulty for students seeking accommodation away from home and for students who may have been allocated places internationally, conditional on a certain starting date; and if she will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister about the leaving certificate results being delayed for the third year in a row, to 2 September on this occasion. As I am sure the Minister knows, this will create a crisis for students seeking accommodation and will present real difficulties for those studying abroad and real problems for those with disabilities who are to go through an access programme, these programmes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: Just because it happened last year and the year before, it does not mean it is okay. Is this going to be the norm now? The Covid situation this year is quite different from the situation last year or the year before. The norm previously was for results to be out in the middle of August. This still left students in a difficult situation with regard to getting accommodation but it was more...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister of State apologise to the four DEIS - Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools - schools that she named? She said that the decision to name the schools had been made because they were "not engaging at all" with the Department and were "just ignoring correspondence". When the schools produced correspondence to prove that was not the case, the Minister of State's story...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will ask again. Will the Minister of State apologise to the four schools? She attempted to name and shame them to distract from her and the Department's failures. She put wrong information into the public domain by saying that they were not engaging at all and "just ignoring correspondence" when it has been proven that this is not the case. Will she apologise to the principals, teachers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a recent report (details supplied) from the Ombudsman for Children that states that children with special education needs are not getting their right to education without discrimination and that this is putting an unacceptable level of stress and pressure on families and their children; and if she will make a...