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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a comprehensive report on all applications for Irish citizenship submitted since 1 January 2014 for each application under headings (details supplied). [1231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress for the recruitment of a third paediatric rheumatologist, which was promised for 2019 in the context of children waiting up to three years to see a paediatric rheumatologist; the status of reducing waiting times for paediatric rheumatology and MRI scans for children with Down's syndrome associated arthritis to not more than 12 weeks;...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: We will withdraw these amendments on the basis of the previous argumentation.

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I support Deputy Howlin's amendment because it goes some way to addressing an issue with this section. However, there remains a problem with the section even after this amendment. I would like to hear the Minister of State's response in this regard. It is to do with what constitutes "grossly offensive" communications. The main thrust of the Bill, and the main commentary around it, has...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I am not convinced by the Minister of State's explanation in terms of the general point. To give a hypothetical, but a very real hypothetical, I could go onto Twitter now and find someone calling me whatever. In theory, a judge would only have to find that what the person said was "grossly offensive", which, by any literal standard, I am sure it would be, and that it was said with the...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact the Minister of State has agreed to accept amendment No. 5. It is very welcome. On the point of consent, I do not think Deputy Murnane O'Connor's amendments work. What we do need are wider public education campaigns on consent. It is vital that older generations as well as young people understand what consent means. It should include mandatory consent, anti-harassment...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to speak to amendment No. 6 and in favour of the similar amendments, which attempt to fix a real problem with the Bill. I am eager to hear the Minister of State's response to this. It is very welcome that this Bill is being progressed. It deals with what was until recently referred to as revenge porn. As Women's Aid pointed out, it is not revenge or porn but it is image-based sexual...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise a particular case with the Tánaiste that I raised with the Taoiseach on 23 September. He asked me to send him the details. I did so but I just got an acknowledgement from the Minister for Justice on 25 September and nothing more despite further contact. In simple terms, it is about an Irish citizen who fled here from Iraq after ISIS had taken over Mosul. His father...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the workings of the Workplace Relations Commission. [43851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the future work plan of the Workplace Relations Commission. [43852/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures in place to protect school staff and students, some with underlying medical vulnerabilities, from Covid-19 infection in a situation in which a student refuses to wear a mask and social distancing of two meters is not possible; the specific evidence and documentation of medical need to not wear a mask required in order to be...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 677. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will ensure that all community services programme workers and the organisations in which they work, many of which have continued to provide essential services during the Covid-19 crisis, have their full funding needs guaranteed by her Department for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic and for the subsequent ongoing service...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of staff in his Department on the #antiviral social media campaign. [42052/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 232 and 248 of 8 December 2020, if her Department will issue an official statement or circular clarifying the situation. [43755/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: What percentage of the employers Mr. McDonnell represents operate a voluntary sick pay scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does ISME urge its members to operate a voluntary sick pay scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I note from a PDF document on sick leave on the ISME website that there is a big bold observation that there is no legal obligation on an employer to provide an occupational sick pay scheme for employees. I agree it is quite clear that the organisation does not recommend it. Does Mr. McDonnell agree that Covid has underlined the problems with not having a sick pay scheme? For example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Sorry, Mr. McDonnell, there are three minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: Is Mr. McDonnell denying the fact that ISME has repeatedly opposed any concrete sick pay scheme? The organisation might be in favour of a sick pay scheme that employers do not have to pay for at all. However, it has consistently opposed sick pay schemes. Is that not ISME's position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: In 2012, ISME opposed a sick pay scheme.