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Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: It compounds and crystallises it.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [2226/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4702/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach admitted a year ago that the leaving certificate was inflexible and that a new system was needed. Here we are, after two years of no traditional leaving certificate, as it is called, and now the Government is absolutely determined, against the wishes of 68% of students, to drive through a return to a so-called traditional leaving certificate. In addition to the usual anxieties...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have quite incredible correspondence with me from Augustus Cullen Law Solicitors on behalf of Ardstone Homes Limited, which is a development and investment company. They are threatening letters to a Tidy Towns group, Ballyboden Tidy Towns Group, threatening to sue it for defamation. Why? It is because the group has stood up for proper planning against abuse of the SHD process and...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs published its internal review of what it calls workplace arrangements in Iveagh House, a euphemism for champagne-gate on 17 June. This was a time when many people were not able to attend funerals of loved ones and thousands of people received fines for either organising or attending social gatherings in breach of the regulations in place at the...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [2225/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4701/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 60. 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 it will be ensured that religious ethos cannot prevent the teaching of the objective sex education curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms in primary and post-primary schools that have HEPA filters; when she expects all classrooms to have HEPA filters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4693/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the wearing of face masks of an FFP2 or higher standard is mandatory in all school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4695/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate the centralised purchasing by her Department of HEPA filters to ensure all primary and post-primary classrooms are equipped with HEPA filters as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4694/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a non-traditional leaving certificate examination will take place in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4692/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when remote working legislation will be introduced; if he will ensure that employees have the right to work from home in circumstances in which it is possible in this legislation rather than just the right to request same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 294. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that social care workers are not listed by the Revenue Commissioners as a profession and are unable to claim flat-rate expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5063/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a single parent who is living with a partner who is unemployed is unable to claim tax credits for their child, even in cases in which they are supporting them alone (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider including other categories of workers, such as social care workers, who have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods, in the Covid recognition payment. [5065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Legal Services (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department sought legal advice in relation to section 34 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 before the publication of reports (details supplied) in which three county councillors were publicly named; and if he is satisfied that section 34 was fully complied with. [4252/22]

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

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those who fall into the demographic category of long-term disabled and or the elderly may be unable to avail of the MICA redress scheme due to the fact that they are unable to borrow the remaining amount that needs to be put forward; if he will instruct his Department to carry...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hares captured during each coursing season (details supplied) in tabular form. [4987/22]