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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The economic impact of Covid has been shouldered overwhelmingly by ordinary workers and young people, lower paid workers in particular, while a tiny elite of billionaires have actually profited greatly. New figures from Forbes show that the wealth of billionaires increased by more than 60% during the pandemic. Denis O'Brien, owner of the Beacon Hospital and much more, is now €1.4...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: The International Transport Federation, ITF, and Kitty Holland, writing in The Irish Times, have shone a light on the super exploitation taking place on fishing boats in Irish waters. Companies are routinely ignoring the laws around the atypical work permit scheme, instead preferring, in many cases, to have unregistered people working below the minimum wage in unsafe conditions. One...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Charges (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Finance if as a major shareholder in a bank (details supplied), he will instruct the bank to withdraw its proposal to impose non-overdraft account fees on non-business account holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18858/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 570. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants and the number of public sector workers who are currently working from home; the way in which this compares to the first lockdown in March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20177/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 571. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the processes in place to ensure that civil servants and public servants are working from home where possible. [20178/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Parks (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 773. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount he has allocated in additional funds to carry out increased cleaning and litter collection in parks and other public places; if he has allocated additional funds to local authorities to provide public toilets in parks and other public places; if so, the amount in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 774. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will build on the current successful pilot projects of all-year-round daily seawater quality monitoring in bathing areas and improve health and safety for swimmers by mandating all of coastal county councils to promptly commence such monitoring; if he will provide these councils with the resources to carry out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 775. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will maintain the current restrictions on the way in which the locations and when hares can be captured for the purpose of coursing in the context of continued widespread infection of the RHD2 virus among hares in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19850/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Acquisition (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 794. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to correspondence received by Minister of State with responsibility for Local Government and Planning dated 12 March 2021 in relation to the CPO of lands (details supplied); the action his Department has taken in relation to the new information contained in this correspondence; and if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Acquisition (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 796. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he considers the 12 March 2012 Report of the Independent Review of the management by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government of an application by Wicklow County Council for loan approval in respect of the compulsory purchase of land at Charlesland, County Wicklow and the 9 February 2013 Report of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 795. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a meeting took place on 29 September 2014 between a senior Department official and three persons to discuss the unauthorised removal from the Minister’s office of a file pertaining to the CPO of lands (details supplied) and to receive a replacement file; if a security file within his Department was created in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Veterans (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 907. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a report on the plans of his Department to provide permanent stable accommodation as against hostel accommodation for retired veterans of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19851/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider raising the compulsory retirement age of drivers who are in possession of a full PSV licence, a full driver licence and are certified as medically fit to drive, who have been working for contractors on contracts with Bus Éireann but are currently required to retire at 70 years of age as in the case of a person...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 998. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the decision was taken not to conduct a re-profiling exercise of special education teacher allocation in 2021, in view of the previous commitment to do so. [19137/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 999. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools which were recognised as being under-resourced in terms of special education teacher allocation in 2019 had a cap of 20% on any upward adjustment applied, meaning that they continued to be under-resourced, even as determined by her Department’s own re-profiling exercise. [19138/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1000. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be allocated the additional special education teacher hours more than 50 that her Department previously recognised as required in 2019, in view of the fact that the number of pupils attending the school has increased since then. [19139/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Human Rights (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1014. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.170 of 21 January 2021, if she will provide a copy of the notices for this ex-gratia scheme published in the press and other mass media; the number of applications to this scheme to date; the number of applicants who were previously the subject of litigation; the number of cases still open; the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1015. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently put in place a protocol to ensure that an investigation is promptly carried out involving her Department and any other relevant bodies of the State, the school and the parents concerned, when there is a breakdown of a school placement for a child with an autistic spectrum disorder to rectify such a breakdown and to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1062. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider raising the compulsory retirement age of drivers who are in possession of a full PSV licence, a full driver licence and are certified as medically fit to drive who have been working for contractors on contracts with Bus Éireann but are currently required to retire at 70 years of age such as a person (details...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of either the disability allowance, an invalidity pension or other disability payment from her Department is permitted to take up a Ph.D. scholarship or bursary without the loss of his or her disability allowance, invalidity pension or other disability payment, or any part thereof. [18364/21]