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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am not doubting the organisation is doing everything that has been asked of it. My question is more focused on what is being asked of it with respect to ventilation. What instructions, guidelines and advice has the organisation been given from the HSA or other bodies and to what degree are inspections taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is very helpful. That is precisely the information I am trying to get a handle on because we are weak there. On a related question, Mr. Graham might have read an article in The Irish Timesyesterday about Belgium, which has introduced laws with respect to ventilation specifying that every indoor retail unit and hospitality unit needs to display CO2monitors and the laws in that regard....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: In small stores the ventilation system is precisely as simple as keeping the door open. That probably provides more than enough circulation of air in a small shop. The issue probably arises in the larger shops. Could the ICTU representatives comment on the general issue of worker safety if there are matters that should be improved? Is ventilation an issue ICTU has considered in terms...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: The situation of domestic abuse calls to the Garda being ignored is a major scandal. It is not a scandal that should be ended with an apology and a promise to do better. In just one shocking case a woman phoned 999 three times in one hour begging for help for her and her children. In her first call she reported she was being assaulted, in her second call she explained her partner was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: In response to Deputy Barry on the issue of JobBridge 2.0, the Taoiseach was coy about what he described as the pathways to work scheme. The language he used in respect of activating people who are unemployed, in particular young people, was strikingly reminiscent of the language used around JobBridge. Let us remind ourselves what "scambridge" was about. It involved tens of thousands of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the new social dialogue unit of his Department will next meet. [34842/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: Has the co-ordination committee discussed the issue of ventilation? Last September, during Leaders' Questions, I said, "One crucial, immediate issue is that of ventilation." Since then, I and People Before Profit have consistently pushed for serious energy and effort to be given to ventilation in workplaces to help to combat Covid. It is ten months on from then. Last week, when I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination last met; and when it will next meet. [34687/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount the Hunger Museum tour of Ireland cost the State. [35769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if further information will be provided on the stated need to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 11 May 2021, the date on which it was discovered that the file was missing; the date the file was found; the location in which the file was found; the person who found the file; if the Taoiseach or others in Government were informed of the missing file; and if An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 15 June 2021, his views on the contents of the 9 February 2013 Report of the Independent Review of the Compulsory Acquisition of Land at Charlesland, County Wicklow by Wicklow County Council. [36046/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the issue of the human rights violations by the government of Saudi Arabia was raised during his meeting with the Saudi Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubier, in Riyadh on 16 June 2021; his views on whether the Saudi Government is in violation of Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if troops participating in the African Lion military exercises passed through Shannon Airport or Irish airspace before or after their military exercise. [36110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Human Rights (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 170 of 21 January 2021 and 1014 of 21 April 2021, if as part the examination by her Department of the ex-gratia scheme for compensation for school victims of child sexual abuse (details supplied) she will consider opening a compensation scheme for school victims of child sexual abuse who did not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce new work placement experience programmes for the unemployed (details supplied); if so, when it will be launched; the outlines of the schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual cases heard by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in the context of scope section appeals on an annual basis over the past ten years given that the Chief Appeals Officer has stated in the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands the appeals are heard...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 386. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children with special needs living in south-western areas of Dublin; the number of therapists working in the area to provide essential services for these children; his plans to ensure that these services which are crucial for the families of these children will resume to pre-Covid-19 levels; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 464. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can supply an at home delivery of Covid-19 vaccinations to a person (details supplied). [29292/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 506. To ask the Minister for Health the requirements regarding mandatory hotel quarantine for Irish citizens returning to Ireland from Bahrain in summer 2021 who have been working and have been fully vaccinated there with a vaccine (details supplied) which has been WHO approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29700/21]