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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 830. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the earnings threshold of €480 per month will be introduced for self-employed persons that are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment to allow same to take up occasional work opportunities and keep their payment. [33196/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons can collect social welfare payments such as jobseeker’s allowance on a fortnightly basis rather than weekly, as was provided for during the previous period of high-level Covid-19 restrictions. [32626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide data on confirmed Covid-19 infection among persons in the age group from four to 12 and 13 to 18 years, respectively, by week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32633/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1221. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to avoid hunting becoming the cause of the spread of Covid-19, for example, in respect of unnecessary travel, close proximity to others, crowds of more than 15 persons and persons travelling through miles of farmland. [32705/20]

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Yes, unless Deputy Boyd Barrett comes back in, which I believe is unlikely. He sends his apologises. He had to go because of the change of the slots. The Government's plan is called Living with Covid. It would be better off renaming it the yo-yo strategy because that is the truth about what it offers to people with its plan. It offers a future of yo-yoing in and out of lockdown until a...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief. As regards the comments the Ceann Comhairle made, it is very clearly the Government that is not listening or hearing. It would not have to have particularly good hearing to listen to the anger, upset and appeals to change course from survivors. The approach of the Government has been horrendous and heartless and is unfortunately reimposing an abuse upon people. I pay...

Residential Tenancies (Extension of Eviction Ban) Bill 2020: First Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to extend the ban on evictions and rent increases and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. At the start of this month as it became clear that we were facing a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and a second wave of restrictions, we drafted this Bill to restore the full ban on evictions and rent...

Residential Tenancies (Extension of Eviction Ban) Bill 2020: First Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Two and a half weeks ago, when the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, advised the Government to go to level 5, there were 31 outbreaks in nursing homes and there are now close to 200 such outbreaks. We are hearing a horrendous story about 26 of 28 residents in a nursing home having tested positive for Covid-19. There has only been one nurse and one carer available in the home for...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 - Part 5: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I am opposed to the extension of the sunset clause for this and for the other matter we are debating today. Fundamentally, the Government is attempting to compensate for its mess-ups, blunders and lack of a clear strategy in dealing with Covid by doubling down on repressive measures. That relates more to the second element of what we are discussing today, but the two elements are related....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (22 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward the implementation and the date of eligibility for the recently promised additional three weeks of parents leave from April 2021 to the 1 December 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32108/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the cases of political prisoners (details supplied) in Bahrain who were sentenced to death. [31932/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Years Sector (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the lack of increase in funding for childcare services in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31315/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Years Sector (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: A childcare worker called "Today with Claire Byrne" after the budget was announced. She said that all those workers were asking was for a fund of €30 million to be put in place to bring the pay of the 60% of staff who were not earning the living wage up to €12.30 an hour and for a sick pay fund to be put in place. She also noted that the childcare sector was the only sector...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Years Sector (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that the current system is broken and the privatised model which depends on inadequate public funding does not work from the points of view of childcare workers, parents or many small providers? TASC produced a report last week which concluded that the single most important factor in knowing the pay and conditions of care work is the extent to which it is marketised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: They could quarantine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: We have heard about the Thursday letter, level 3 and so on before. I will quote from the letter of 4 October. It states: "A graduated approach would, ultimately, result in application of Level 5 measures as mitigation." NPHET predicted precisely where we are. It is important, to learn lessons for the future, that the Government acknowledge that the advice to move to level 5, two and a bit...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Both ways mean lockdown now-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: -----but the question is the future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: More than two weeks ago, on 4 October, NPHET wrote to the Government outlining the deteriorating situation with the coronavirus. It called for level 5 measures across the country for four weeks. The Government rejected that advice. What is more, the Tánaiste went on RTÉ, channelled his inner Donald Trump and publicly trashed and undermined the public health advice. Two weeks...