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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...

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

Paul Murphy: The Ombudsman for Children found that the State is failing children with special needs, which means the Government is failing children with special needs. It is particularly failing those children who do not have an appropriate place for September when it is now the end of June. The original response from Government to that failure was the awful scheme for special education centres, which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the provisions of the Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 that passed Second Stage in Dáil Éireann in October 2021; the actions she has taken to ensure sufficient fresh air is provided in all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34920/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 53. 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 if she will make a statement on the matter. [34924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the recent rapid increase in Covid-19 infection rates and hospitalisations; if she will ensure that schools provide teachers and all school staff with FFP-2 grade masks or higher where necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34922/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Religious Discrimination (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a direction to schools to ensure that they provide students who do not attend subjects in religious instruction under section 30(2)(e) of the Education Act of 1998 with instruction in other curriculum subjects during that part of the school day; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34921/22]

European Council Decision: Motion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: The purpose of this motion is to strengthen sanctions against Russia and we are opposed to it for that reason because we are against sanctions on Russia. It is not because People Before Profit or the genuine socialist left is in any way soft on Putin, his gangster regime or his crimes being committed against Ukrainian people. In fact, we are the people who have been consistent on this....

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: Vótáil.