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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fee charged to access the Museum of Literature on St. Stephen's Green given that public museums in Ireland are usually free at the point of entry; and if her Department will take the steps needed to ensure this museum can be accessed free of charge. [60249/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 262. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in the provision of passports for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59882/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of participants who have begun a placement on the work placement experience programme scheme; the number currently ongoing; the number of placements which have ended or ended early; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60402/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints which have been received by her Department from participants on the work placement experience programme scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60403/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of workplace visits that have been carried out by her Department to employers with work placement experience programme scheme participants working for them to ensure they are meeting the standards of the scheme; if she will publish the findings of these checks; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of placements advertised by employers under the work placement experience programme scheme that have been rejected or removed by her Department due to the fact they did not meet the standards required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60404/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of placements advertised by employers under the work placement experience programme scheme that have been removed at the request of the employer; the reasons cited for requesting the placement be removed by the employer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale for the introduction of online safe pass renewal; and the reason for the delay. [60351/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 578. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address obesity in Ireland with a public health (obesity) Act including restricting the marketing of unhealthy foods to children; and if he will introduce regulations for online and social media marketing of unhealthy foods also extending the broadcast ban to 9pm as per the proposals made by an organisation (details supplied). [60263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the way the findings in the report commissioned by the Women’s Health Taskforce will inform the forthcoming Women’s Health Action Plan; and the way focused investment in women’s health will support the implementation of the recommendations from the report (details supplied). [60293/21]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Has it?

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: The means test has been changed.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: There you go. Great. You get somewhere eventually in this place.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Literally as we speak.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is fantastic. I am very happy to hear that. I will call my constituent who has been battling away on that issue immediately once I am out of the Chamber. He will be delighted. The €5 and the increase in means test thresholds are still extremely minimal, but we will take them. You have to put pressure on in this place. It takes a long time to get even a fiver for people. ...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, I will, in light of the change of facts on the ground. I recognise that.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the recent announcement of the reopening of the pandemic unemployment payment. I will be blunt that if by reopening the Minister means anything less than restoring the payment to €350, which was accepted as the level people needed to survive, and leaving it open to anyone who loses his or her job as a consequence of pandemic restrictions, that will simply not be acceptable....

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Why did the Government not put the US on the list?

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is not what the Government did.

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will speak briefly in support of all of these amendments, which add a modicum of democratic accountability to the significant power being given to the Minister. We favoured mandatory hotel quarantine at a certain point in time. We called for it to be introduced across the board as part of a public health system. We said it should not be outsourced and called for appropriate oversight to...