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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Health if an extension to the nursing home temporary assistance payment scheme which is due to come to an end on 30 June 2021 will be confirmed. [30787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the reason mandatory hotel quarantine is required for a WHO approved vaccine when there is no liability in the event of side effects as the State has not supplied a vaccine (details supplied); and his views on whether the State’s concern should be with the performance of the vaccine which has received WHO acceptance. [30967/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 332. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the community ophthalmic services scheme for those over 12 years of age, beyond medical card holders and their dependants to include students in secondary school for the dispensing of spectacles and optical devices given that glasses are a necessity and are not for cosmetic reasons. [30958/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 368. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend the free general practitioner scheme to all children under 13 years of age. [31127/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations and for the work they are doing. The EU approach to the Israeli settlements is a microcosm of its general approach to Israel, which is one that is based on gross hypocrisy. In the global context, it is happy to cry crocodile tears whenever the latest atrocity takes place, but it facilitates and gives substantial economic benefits to the Israeli...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Konený. That is very helpful. I am a supporter of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, BDS, in general and it has broad support in Irish society. Many people would like to boycott products or companies that have activity in the settlements. Will the witnesses speak a little about the activity of companies that have significant Irish operations and what they are doing in the...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am listening to this debate and some people here are in need of a history lesson, as well as perhaps a mathematical lesson in terms of what progressivity means and what it is meant to relate to, which is income and wealth. In any case, I will deal with the history lesson first. The local property tax was first introduced in 2013 as part of the Fine Gael and the Labour Party Government's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is making a serious and reckless mistake again. The Government is risking the health of hospitality workers who are mostly unvaccinated. It is risking hundreds of unnecessary deaths, tens of thousands of potential cases of long Covid and a fourth wave and another lockdown, which people would find utterly demoralising. I have two specific questions to ask the Taoiseach....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the Covid-19 oversight group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [37717/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is appropriate that we have a question on the parliamentary liaison unit of the Government because the behaviour of the Government towards the Parliament in the past week has been striking. The Government has taken a bullying approach, using its majority to bulldoze things through without proper discussion. There have been two examples in the past week. Last Thursday, there was a motion...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit of his Department. [37716/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: Will these case officers be outsourced in JobBridge 2.0?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to point out that the Taoiseach did not answer any of the questions that were put to him.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Government unveiled the so-called work placement experience programme. It is a new free labour scheme for bosses whereby workers will get less than the pandemic unemployment payment and will be expected to live below the poverty line while working. Put simply, it is JobBridge 2.0. Workers on the scheme will get an extra €3.43 an hour for working 30 hours a week for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: A Cheann Comhairle, it cannot be acceptable that the Taoiseach gets to ramble through three minutes of an answer and that is then the end of the process.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: Let us take the time to debate the legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Health if he or persons in his Department have been in communication with a group (details supplied); and if he read the group's document on Covid-19. [1492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to ensure that persons who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine will receive appropriate compensation without the need for drawn out conflict with the State. [28316/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to ensure that there is no high-risk level of contracting Covid-19 for passengers using the Luas; the way it will be ensured that there is no overcrowding given that the number of trams has been reduced; the sanitation requirements that must be met; and the way these standards are regulated. [37536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent collapse of an unregulated trust (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that brokers involved with an organisation sold investment policies in the trust to domestic savers in Ireland in September 2019, despite the BBC having reported in May 2019 that the trust was a scam and...