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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students are being permitted to quarantine at boarding schools; and if so, the measures being taken to ensure that they are not interacting with other students. [21817/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if boarding schools could provide online education for students that are not located in Ireland given the dangers of international travel linked to Covid-19. [21818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the relationship and sexuality programme developed by an organisation (details supplied) will be used in primary schools; and if so, the way in which that relates to the commitment in the Programme for Government to develop inclusive and age-appropriate relationships and sexuality education and social, personal and health education...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if JobPath has been closed down in accordance with the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2019; if contracts to administer JobPath made by her Department or any other Department with Turas Nua or Seetec have either been suspended or cancelled; if in the current context of mass unemployment neither Turas...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans or those of her Department with regard to so-called activation measures such as JobPath (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21883/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which funding from the community safety innovation fund will be allocated. [22067/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about conditions in the fishing sector generally, in particular for migrant workers, in light in particular of the Ellie Adhamh, to which I am sure the Minister of State paid attention, and what emerged in terms of the primarily Egyptian crew being employed illegally outside the terms of the atypical working scheme not being paid a wage and being on a notional share scheme. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. In light of his comments, it might make sense for the committee to invite in the Minister for Transport to come before to discuss this issue. It seems that there is a mathematical problem which points to widespread abuse of the scheme. The Minister of State indicated that there are 227 individuals on the scheme currently. I understand that there are 210...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. I have one final question. As mentioned by him, a number of investigations have kicked off as a result of the whistleblowing by the workers on the Ellie Adhamh, two of whom almost drowned and the other who was not out on the vessel that day. The situation may have changed, but as I understand those workers are in limbo in that they have no access to social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: What we had in the Dáil this afternoon was political theatre. This was shown most obviously and blatantly by the climate change denial group which was scaremongering about things that are not in the Bill for some cheap publicity and presumably, hopefully, for some votes down the line. This ignores the fact that it is the small farmers who they claim to stand up for and defend who will...

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...