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Financial Resolution No. 4: Corporation Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but only briefly. I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, for that explanation, which satisfies me in respect of Financial Resolution No. 4. I will make a brief point in response to what the Tánaiste has said. I refer to the idea that loopholes are just found by very smart lawyers and then are very quickly closed by the Government, as it moves to stop any kind of tax avoidance....

Financial Resolution No. 4: Corporation Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I would like the Minister to come back and explain what is happening here in some detail. The explanatory note we were sent, to which Deputy Boyd Barrett referred, simply says that the resolution amends the balancing charge rules in section 288 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to ensure that Ireland's tax regime for intellectual property is fully consistent with international best...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Who else supports carbon taxes? Big oil: ExxonMobil in the US lobbies in favour of a carbon tax. It does that because it knows that carbon taxes are not effective, because they want to deflect from the kind of green new deal programmes that have been put forward by AOC and others in the US and because they want to discredit the environmental movement. They want to associate it, not with a...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I wish to draw attention to something the Ceann Comhairle mentioned at the start of today's debate. He asked all Deputies not to distribute the contents of the budget before the budget speeches were completed. We were not permitted to take the documents out of the room, but the Tánaiste did just that. Before the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform had even stood up to deliver...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request her officials to provide for the temporary retention of a fourth first class teacher at a school (details supplied) for the duration of the 2020/2021 school year. [30107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: DEIS Scheme (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on buying individual portions of bottled water as part of the school lunch programme in DEIS schools; the amount spent per each school involved in the programme; and the average according to the expenditure per student covered in the programme, in tabular form. [30016/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 441. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of the HSE with regard to administrative hospital staff working from home where possible during the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 555. To ask the Minister for Health if occupational therapists and speech and language therapists in Cheeverstown are being reallocated to track and tracing. [30257/20]

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister and the Government made a very grave mistake this week by not following the public health advice. The consequence of that mistake is that we will still go to level 5, but we will do so later, for longer and after unnecessary deaths. That is a decision the Government made against the explicit opinion of NPHET that "[a] graduated approach will not have sufficient or timely impact...

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will offer some quick-fire questions. When the Minister spoke to the Taoiseach before the NPHET meeting, did he discuss level 4? On a separate issue, I note the Minister published a kind of propaganda video boasting about the great things the Government has done in its first 100 days and threatening us with more to come. Who paid for that video? Is it a Department of Health publication,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: What was the Tánaiste doing on Monday night?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Coast Guard Service (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to take the Irish Coast Guard air rescue service back into full public ownership. [28815/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the CAO offered a place to a person (details supplied) which they accepted and made preparations for start of term, on an arts degree course at UCD only to have it subsequently withdrawn via a phone call from the CAO on 25 September 2020; and if he will request and provide this Deputy with copies of all relevant correspondence....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 264. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment and supports available through the HSE to children and adults who have EDS; his plans to provide comprehensive treatment through the HSE for EDS as this appears to be unavailable at present; his plans to provide adequate financial support for persons who need treatment for EDS to travel abroad and thereby avoid debt or over-reliance on family...

Pre-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: There are two issues I want to speak about. The first is the very good news that emerged from Athens a few hours ago on the conviction of the fascist organisation Golden Dawn. The top leaders of that organisation have been convicted of running a criminal organisation. Its members have been convicted of the murder in 2013 of 34-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a left-wing activist. Golden...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste, Deputy Leo Varadkar, surprised the nation on Monday night not by his cynical attack on NPHET, not by his undermining of public health advice in general in an extremely dangerous way, but by his newfound concern for ordinary people. All of a sudden, Deputy Leo Varadkar is a champion of mental health, opposed to poverty and stands up for the ordinary worker. He forgot how...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Justice Rulings (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Attorney General and her Department have completed the review of the State ex-gratia scheme which the Tánaiste informed Dáil Éireann was happening on 12 December 2018. [28998/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Justice Rulings (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department made its latest report to the Council of Europe on the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in a case (details supplied); and when the report will be uploaded to be accessible to the public. [28999/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Justice Rulings (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made regarding the eligibility of abuse victims in a school (details supplied) for the ex-gratia scheme. [29000/20]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: Covid is brutally exposing existing vulnerabilities in individuals but also in our society as a whole. This is very true in terms of our disability services and the effect the coronavirus is particularly having on people with disabilities. The pre-existing conditions are there for all to see with regard to the brutal facts of the treatment of people with disabilities in the State. There...