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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62065/21]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Two and a half thousand children will be homeless this Christmas. They are children living in hotels and emergency accommodation and families with no kitchen to cook in or dinner table to gather around. For some of them, it will be the second Christmas in those conditions. They are tough memories that, we now know from multiple reports, will stick with them throughout their lives. There...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: In response to a parliamentary question last week, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Varadkar, stated: I have an open mind on the alternative suggestion of a TRIPS waiver. I have always said that if we receive a WTO proposal [in writing], we will examine it. That has not happened yet. This is misleading, to say the least. The first formal proposal from India...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The role that the Irish Government is playing in blocking people around the world getting access to Covid vaccines is criminal, murderous and absolutely scandalous. We are one year into the global roll-out of the vaccines and just one in 12 people in poor countries have received even one dose. In Haiti only 1% of the population has been vaccinated. In many African countries vaccination...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the newly published response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2021. [60211/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Recommendation 3.4 of the report is: To increase certainty for individuals and businesses, publish a timetable that shows how the national broadband plan roll-out is being brought back on track This was clearly conceived before the latest and emerging very significant scandal relating to National Broadband Ireland. I found the Taoiseach's answers earlier wanting in him seeking to kick...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government information on HEPA filters in schools has been all over the place, to put it mildly. After months of campaigning by People Before Profit, trade unions, parents and teachers, the Government has been dragged, kicking and screaming, to accept the necessity, in some limited circumstances, of HEPA filters in schools. It is progress and some new money actually promised this week,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: As the Taoiseach knows, for a long time we have been stressing the importance of ventilation and filtration in a strategy to fight Covid-19, which is an airborne pandemic. We were therefore very glad that People Before Profit’s Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 received the support of the entire Dáil. The Minister of State, Deputy English, who contributed to the debate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a local community park (details supplied) is shut to the public during Covid-19 to allow a barbaric and cruel activity such as hare coursing. [61190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the schools that have and do not have HEPA filters. [61165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that lost their job due to Covid-19 restrictions before 6 December 2021 can apply for the reopened pandemic unemployment payment; and if they can transition from other unemployment payments, for example, jobseeker’s allowance if they signed on before the pandemic unemployment payment reopened. [61447/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter in relation to a disability welfare payment (details supplied). [61694/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the mother and baby home scheme works for those who are uncertain in relation to the date on which they were adopted. [61755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if private colleges are entitled to free antigen tests for their students; and if so, the way they can access them. [61166/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if access to services will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and the supports that can be provided to the family. [61188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that fathers are being denied access to attend 12-week scans at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, in cases in which partners are fully vaccinated and have no Covid-19 symptoms; the reason partners have been refused access given the advice in national media that partners can attend all pregnancy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I spent the morning with Pete Brennan from Kingswood, Tallaght. He caught Covid at the end of last year. He went to Tallaght hospital and ended up in intensive care. He was in a coma for three months. It is a really terrifying story. Pete's family were told to prepare for the worst but he managed to recover, defying the odds. Like tens of thousands of others in this country, he is now...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the investigation into the circumstances that led to the immediate cancellation of the Loughrea coursing meeting on 15, 16 and 17 October 2021 has been concluded; and if not, when it is expected to be concluded. [60898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a hare coursing meeting was called off in County Cavan the day before it was scheduled to go ahead on 12, 13 and 14 November 2021. [60899/21]