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Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: Parents are at their wits' end trying to juggle work and childcare during the lockdown, with no support from the State. They are expected to double job, to hold down their regular work while also home schooling. Many are simply not able to do that. They have run through their annual leave already. They are being told by the Department to leave their job and go on the PUP. Other countries...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am fairly certain it was said at the press event to announce the extension of restrictions to 5 March, etc.. If we want to reduce the chances of more dangerous mutations that could undermine vaccines getting into the country, it would make sense to pursue elimination strategies within each country and to seek to keep new variants out. This also makes sense in respect of the points made by...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is clear from listening to the Minister that he prefers vaccination aspirations to targets, because people can be strung along with aspirations that will not be met and because that allows him to try to avoid the fact that if we continue the living with Covid strategy, there will be more lockdowns before we achieve full vaccination. Earlier this week the Minister, unbelievably, claimed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Management Companies (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the remedy available to residents who discover that their owners’ management company has not established a sinking fund contrary to the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011. [4617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Management Companies (28 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the remedy available to residents who discover that their owners’ management company has not held an AGM within the timeframe set out in the company constitution and according to the relevant legislation. [4618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the SEAI will start to revisit homes in 2021 in which insulation or other energy efficiency works were done in the past under the energy upgrade scheme but which would now benefit from a further upgrade of insulation and or other energy efficiency works as stated on the SEAI website; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the tenancy rights and right of recourse to the RTB which tenants in tied accommodation currently enjoy (details supplied); if necessary amendments will be made to the legislation and regulations to ensure that workers in tied accommodation have the same rights and security of tenure and have recourse to the RTB in the same...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the backdated payments due to workers (details supplied) under the short-time work support scheme; if in the process of that review, her Department has had the co-operation of the management of the company in processing short-time work support claims by the workers; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department continues to review social protection payments, including seeking bank statements for six months from persons despite the level 5 lockdown (details supplied). [4112/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 684. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that up to 80 persons arrived in Ireland from the UK and South Africa up to 17 January 2021 without having provided evidence of a negative Covid-19 test; the person or body responsible for ensuring that newly arrived travellers or migrant workers from the UK and European countries with high rates of infection,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 780. To ask the Minister for Health the way and location in which providers of home care services can register for the vaccination of home care workers on the Covid-19 vaccination list. [4030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 791. To ask the Minister for Health the position of adults with special needs on the Covid-19 vaccination list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4079/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (27 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 200 horses along with up to 350 trainers, jockeys and grooms are preparing to go to the UK for Cheltenham week from 16 to 19 March 2021 at a time when infection rates of the British variant of Covid-19 are likely to be still very high; if he has been notified of and or approved...

Brexit (Fishing Industry): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is good to see that the Minister has recovered from coronavirus. Congratulations are also in order, as I think he is now the longest serving Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in this Government. My questions relate to Covid and the Minister's Department. I accept that he may not have all the information before him but we do not have other avenues in oral questions and so...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a position with the Naval Service as a radio and radar technician; his plans to change the entry age limit; if so, the date on which such a change will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3243/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Human Rights (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reopen the redress scheme for survivors of sexual abuse in schools and require it to act in accordance with various court recommendations from a case (details supplied) such that survivors of sexual abuse in schools are not required to demonstrate a prior complaint and likewise not required to seek redress through the courts or any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the continued operation of JobPath is inappropriate in the current circumstances of mass layoffs, job losses and restrictions on travel due to Covid-19; if the motion taken in Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2019 to close down the JobPath scheme will be acted upon; if she will terminate the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the parents and carers of persons with particular underlying conditions (details supplied) who are especially vulnerable to Covid-19 and any person in receipt of family, carer’s allowance or benefit in the Covid-19 vaccination category of front-line healthcare workers given their essential role in the care of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 435. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the authorisation of medical procedures that were applied for before the end of December 2020 to be carried out in Belfast under the cross-border directive. [3323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delayed provision of an MRI scan and delayed autism assessments and treatments for a person (details supplied). [3245/21]