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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 968. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans for funding long Covid clinics; and the supports that are available for those suffering with long Covid. [14489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 979. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to the payment of Covid-19 bonuses for HSE workers; and when these will be processed and provided to workers. [14554/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister for the up-to-date figures on the arms trade between Ireland and Israel, which is shameful. It goes from Ireland to Israel in the form of dual-use goods and it goes from Israel to Ireland in the form of weapons that have been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: That is €1.7 million or so in the past three years to Israeli armaments companies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: They are Israeli companies that are providing military equipment to the Irish State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have a couple of questions. The Minister says there is no arms embargo. Does he agree there should be an arms embargo on a state that has been defined as an apartheid one by Amnesty International? It has been defined by it as operating a racist and cruel system of apartheid within the State of Israel, within the occupied Palestinian territories in Gaza, and against the millions of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is a clear question. Is the Minister in favour of an arms embargo on Israel? That is what Amnesty International recommends. Is the Minister in favour of it or not? He made a clear statement earlier that the Government is on the side of Ukraine against Russia. That is okay. I am also for the defeat of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and for its repulsion by the Ukrainian people. Will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: To be clear, we are in favour of spending to ensure that Defence Forces personnel are not living in conditions of poverty. Only €20 million of the €500 million and €2 billion extra recommended in the report relates to that. We are in favour of doing that but we are not in favour of trying to win an arms race that cannot be won. It certainly cannot be won by Ireland....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yes, I have read the report and I disagree with it. I disagree with close to 50 mentions of NATO, all talking about the need for interoperability and so on. That makes me suspicious. I disagree with buying a squadron of jet aircraft or buying warships.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: It absolutely is recommended in paragraph 6.11. It is recommended; the Government likes to shy away from it. I also see it in a certain context, which is that a war on neutrality is being launched by the Government and by right-wing media commentators. Military spending will be ramped up and as a logical consequence of that, it is going to be used for something. Instead, we are saying...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The armaments industry's merchants of death have seen their stock prices rise dramatically in recent weeks as the brutal invasion of Ukraine has an impact and the arms race that began in its aftermath has accelerated. The Government, unfortunately, seems to be planning to join that arms race. Presumably, it will get a boost from the meeting in Versailles today. What is the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of Ireland’s defence spending projections into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a letter from a union (details supplied) pointing out that the advice of her Department that CO2 concentrations of above 1,400-1,500 parts per million are likely to be indicative of poor ventilation was being publicly challenged by experts in the field and that the union noted that experts maintained that a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take immediate action to reduce the average class size in Irish primary schools to below the European Union average of 20 pupils per class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms and school staffrooms that have yet to be supplied with adequate ventilation systems to ensure safe air quality standards in every school classroom and staffroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that were absent in February 2022 due to having Covid-19 symptoms, testing positive or being identified as a close contact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13316/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the new ESRI report, Children of migrants in Ireland: how are they faring?; the steps that she will take to provide additional language supports for children with migrant parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13317/22]

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will raise two specific points, but before I get to them I will make some general remarks. Hate speech, racist speech and the kind of hatred spewed by those on the far right, which must be combated and fought and the best way to do that is by building a mass anti-racist and anti-fascist movement, is connected to the hate policies and state racism of the EU and the Irish Government. They...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The national reform programme talks about students.  What action is going to be taken to ensure that English-language students from outside of the country are protected and are not allowed to be scammed again as has happened?  There have been scandalous cases whereby Latin American students have lost their life savings, thousands of euro, to travel companies like Travel Now. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: We are the ones who resist them.