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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Taoiseach the plans that are being put in place to allow those that are homeless, including rough sleepers and those living in cars to complete the 2022 census. [16426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take a public position supporting the necessity for the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of Covid-19 to clearly affirm the Government’s support for such an initiative within the EU (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16403/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the building and the unoccupied apartments above a building (details supplied) are owned by the local education and training board; if the board has plans for the use of these apartments; if they will be made available to Ukrainian refugees; if not, the reason; and the reason they have not been made available to those on the housing list up...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the inequality which exists in the funding of PhDs with a large number having to self- fund while many others must find funding bodies getting approval on detailed proposals; if he will instruct his Department to increase the stipend received by PhD students across the country given the increased cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that third-level student attending the Technological University Dublin, Tallaght campus have concerns in relation to in-person examinations given the current high numbers of Covid-19 cases; and if he will instruct the institution that they must offer online examination. [16112/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied); if it will be ensured that an operation will be scheduled for the child; and when the parents of the child can expect to hear from the HSE in relation to scheduling an operation. [16133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 694. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the measures that can be put in place to assist them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will support the request to establish a working party to investigate the needs of people living with Huntington’s disease and their families and to make recommendations on the actions to be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16388/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 727. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include other workers in the Covid recognition payment that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as those within the HSE working in the role of Covid-19 community swabber; if they will be excluded from receiving the full €1,000 offered to healthcare workers due to not having been in employment between 1 March...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if in relation to the HSE website and the instructions for symptomatic persons in relation to ordering antigen tests, his views on whether the phrasing (details supplied) is discouraging for persons with symptoms to order a test; and if his Department will consider updating this. [16561/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is very clear that this Government is determined to erode any remaining semblance of Ireland's military neutrality. It is doing so extremely cynically by attempting to portray it as a necessary and mature response to Putin's horrendous invasion of Ukraine. The truth is that it is not a new position for the political establishment or Fine Gael. We can go back 19 years to 2003, when Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister agree that there be a referendum and that the people get to decide on the question of neutrality instead of having a false mature public debate which does not actually allow the people to participate? Will the Minister accept that if Ireland is going to join a rapid reaction force which is, in effect, a super-sized European battle group comprising 5,000 soldiers, there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government give the people a referendum before joining the rapid reaction force?

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry. I welcome the Bill and the establishment of the authority as a late and small step towards tackling the reality of Ireland as being in the Wild West when it comes to fertility care. The problem is that the Bill does not do anything in terms of the public provision of fertility care, in particular IVF, and, therefore, does not really address the key...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. I thank Ms Diana O'Dwyer and Mr. Des Hennelly in People Before Profit for their work on the Bill as well as the Bills Office. This is a Bill which, if passed, would mean we would...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government abolished NPHET.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that the Minister of State has the response from the Department and is reading it out, but it is just the same response that we got in October 2021 basically, which is just a sticking to the rigid bureaucratic rules of “these are the numbers, etc.” It is not taking into account the reason that they fell short was because of the pandemic. The school staff then took...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last October, the Holy Spirit junior school in Greenhills was told it would lose a teaching post and would have to go from having four junior infant classes to three. This was because a number of parents who had planned to start their children in junior infants in September decided to keep them back a year in light of the scale of the Covid pandemic at the time and the negative impact it had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) has had an infant class teaching post removed despite having a classroom available and a large waiting list of children hoping to attend; and if she will take steps to ensure this is corrected. [15395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the once-off reductions in new enrolments in junior infants in some schools in 2021 due to Covid is now resulting in a reduction in teaching posts for the coming 2022-2023 school year despite a recovery in the numbers seeking enrolment, potentially leading to classrooms being left empty while...