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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with jobseekers’ benefit recipients being taken off electronic funds transfer and being compelled to collect cash at a post office as a result of having been customers with a bank (details supplied). [51852/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 568. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date that their employment with the Department/Minister ceased where applicable. [51774/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will update an organisation (details supplied) on his promise to consult it in various relevant committees convened from within his Department including fund the future committees. [51747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhDs that are funded through State or State-funded bodies (details supplied); and the estimated number of privately funded PhDs registered at Irish universities. [51744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the way in which the €307 million figure contained in the funding the future policy document would be spent, with a specific comment on any funds dedicated to improving the conditions of PhD researchers and other staff members on temporary, contingent and or precarious contracts. [51749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date that their employment with the Department/Minister ceased where applicable. [51781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 659. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the long delays faced by non-EU PhD researchers when applying for their yearly stamp; and if her Department will consider conducting a review of visa renewals for PhDs to allow for essential work travel year-round for the duration of all candidates' PhDs. [51741/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 660. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date that their employment with the Department/Minister ceased where applicable. [51784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date that their employment with the Department/Minister ceased where applicable. [51782/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if persons on public health waiting lists are impacted by refusing the option of taking care through the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if their position on the public health list is affected in any way. [51880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date that their employment with the Department/Minister ceased where applicable. [51773/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ministerial Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 893. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development If she will provide a list the names of each special adviser employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date their employment with the Department / Minister ceased where applicable. [51786/22]

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy should be ashamed of himself.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy really should be.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact the Government is belatedly moving to bring in some improvements in respect of work-life balance for some workers. However, people should be aware that the Government - and this is a consistent feature of this Government's approach - is doing the bare minimum of what it is legally required to do under an EU directive on work-life balance. That is what the Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the €2 increase in the qualified child payment is sufficient to tackle child poverty in the context of the cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50725/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward the extension of eligibility for the fuel allowance, currently not due to come into effect until January 2023, given that the cold weather starts long before then; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the failure to increase social welfare rates, in particular for single parents, above the rate of inflation in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50719/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reintroduce the Covid enhanced illness benefit given that statutory sick pay will not start until at least January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50724/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the ongoing cost of disability can be adequately addressed through one-off payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50723/22]