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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise with the Taoiseach again the question of HEPA filters in our schools. Yesterday the Minister for Health told RTÉ radio that the expert group within the HSE had looked at this, namely HEPA filters in schools, in great detail and its advice to the Department of Education and to the Department of Health is that they are not recommended. Exactly what the Minister, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Policy (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 288. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding an event being hosted by his Department and the Defence Forces due to take place on 25 November 2021 in a location (details supplied) entitled Support for Enterprise, Research, and Innovation in Defence; and if he and his Department will reflect on the millions of victims of war around the world and call off this event...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Planning Issues (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department plans to appeal a decision in relation to the attached objection from his Department lodged against a development in Citywest which features a 13-storey building and has been granted permission by An Bord Pleanála; and if not, the reason given it is on the flight path used by SAR helicopters when ferrying patients to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, the reason the deaths in institutions including Bessborough and Tuam are not considered potentially violent or unnatural for the purpose of inquests under the existing Coroners Act, bearing in mind their numbers and the absence of burial records....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, if the power of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications under section 46 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948 can be used to licence exhumation for the purpose of coroner’s inquests, bearing in mind this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 17 November 2021, if exhumation is achieved, do the existing purposes of a coroner’s inquest include identification of the deceased such that DNA testing could be carried out. [58370/21]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask about funding for ventilation. What funding has been provided for small businesses to invest in improved ventilation or filtration systems? The Scottish Government established a £25 million business ventilation fund for SMEs. I believe we could do with something similar here.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The budget 2022 expenditure report claimed that the HSA had greatly increased staff. However, I understand it was revealed in March that the HSA had hired one extra inspector in 2020 and an additional three inspectors by April of this year, bringing the total to 70. To call that greatly increased staff is to put a very optimistic gloss on it. The Minister of State referred to increased...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. Even in advance of us discussing the Bill tomorrow, under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007, an employer is required to ensure that sufficient fresh air is provided in enclosed spaces of work. It continues to deal with ventilation systems and so on. A weakness is that it does not define what that is. Nonetheless,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned timetable for the building of the new secondary school in Citywest, Dublin. [58132/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (25 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 164 and 165 of 17 November 2021, if the final proposal referred to in his answer will be published; and when this criterion was adopted by Solas. [58131/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 345. To ask the Minister for Health if patients who are in hospital and who are unable to leave hospital to go to a vaccination centre are being offered the Covid-19 vaccine in the hospital. [58130/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting list for paediatric orthopaedic care (details supplied); and the solution offered by his Department to rapidly tackle the crisis in providing paediatric care. [58246/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (24 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the key policy achievements of his Department since June 2020. [57327/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [57326/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and European Union division of his Department. [55803/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the social impact assessments carried out by his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit since 1 January 2016. [55802/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference. [55804/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress report on the Programme for Government. [55801/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to immediately establish a rapid and transparent system for reporting Covid-19 cases in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57320/21]