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Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have two sets of questions, the first on the disrespect shown to childcare workers by the Government and the second on the lack of supports for parents during this pandemic, including the proposal we have brought forward for paid childcare for working parents. The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated again just how essential childcare and childcare workers are. It is worth noting that over...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: The public are paying very substantial sums of money to enable businesses to keep going. There is a problem in that we still do not have a system of conditions for the kind of funds that are going to businesses, particularly conditions relating to Covid-19 compliance, to workers who can work from home being allowed to do so, and to how workers are being treated. Anybody who watches the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance if donations to non-SIPO-registered far-right political entities through online crowdfunding platforms are counted by the Revenue Commissioners as taxable income; the income that has been declared to the Revenue Commissioners by non-SIPO-registered far-right political entities since 2016; the amount the Revenue Commissioners have collected from taxable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an organisation (details supplied) and its members will be instructed to immediately release all hares currently in captivity for the purposes of hare coursing in view of the High Court ruling that hare coursing should not resume during level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5392/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time that hares may be held in captivity for the purposes of hare coursing. [5393/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all of the hares under the control of an organisation (details supplied) have been released given the decision of the High Court in relation to the Covid-19 restrictions and hare coursing; if not, when they are due to be released; and if there is a time limit for the length of time the organisation can keep a hare in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 773. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 568 of 20 January 2021, if his Department has a list of the locations of the animal testing laboratories; and if the list will be published. [5565/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 774. To ask the Minister for Health the body with responsibility for the inspection of laboratories involved in animal testing and the treatment and condition of animals within those laboratories; and the regime of inspection. [5566/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: 873. To ask the Minister for Health if there was a breach of the Covid visiting policy at the HSEs Clonakilty Community Hospital on 30 December 2020, in which a group of eight persons allegedly visited a resident in the hospital, as indicated in a report in the media (details supplied) on 16 January 2021; if four of the group of eight visitors subsequently tested positive for Covid-19; if the...

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: Parents are at their wits' end trying to juggle work and childcare during the lockdown, with no support from the State. They are expected to double job, to hold down their regular work while also home schooling. Many are simply not able to do that. They have run through their annual leave already. They are being told by the Department to leave their job and go on the PUP. Other countries...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am fairly certain it was said at the press event to announce the extension of restrictions to 5 March, etc.. If we want to reduce the chances of more dangerous mutations that could undermine vaccines getting into the country, it would make sense to pursue elimination strategies within each country and to seek to keep new variants out. This also makes sense in respect of the points made by...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is clear from listening to the Minister that he prefers vaccination aspirations to targets, because people can be strung along with aspirations that will not be met and because that allows him to try to avoid the fact that if we continue the living with Covid strategy, there will be more lockdowns before we achieve full vaccination. Earlier this week the Minister, unbelievably, claimed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Management Companies (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the remedy available to residents who discover that their owners’ management company has not established a sinking fund contrary to the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011. [4617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Management Companies (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the remedy available to residents who discover that their owners’ management company has not held an AGM within the timeframe set out in the company constitution and according to the relevant legislation. [4618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the SEAI will start to revisit homes in 2021 in which insulation or other energy efficiency works were done in the past under the energy upgrade scheme but which would now benefit from a further upgrade of insulation and or other energy efficiency works as stated on the SEAI website; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the tenancy rights and right of recourse to the RTB which tenants in tied accommodation currently enjoy (details supplied); if necessary amendments will be made to the legislation and regulations to ensure that workers in tied accommodation have the same rights and security of tenure and have recourse to the RTB in the same...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the backdated payments due to workers (details supplied) under the short-time work support scheme; if in the process of that review, her Department has had the co-operation of the management of the company in processing short-time work support claims by the workers; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department continues to review social protection payments, including seeking bank statements for six months from persons despite the level 5 lockdown (details supplied). [4112/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 684. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that up to 80 persons arrived in Ireland from the UK and South Africa up to 17 January 2021 without having provided evidence of a negative Covid-19 test; the person or body responsible for ensuring that newly arrived travellers or migrant workers from the UK and European countries with high rates of infection,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 780. To ask the Minister for Health the way and location in which providers of home care services can register for the vaccination of home care workers on the Covid-19 vaccination list. [4030/21]