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Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: How many lives?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: There is a balance between lives and what?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: How much?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the person or body that represented his Department at the first meeting of the high-level task force on Covid-19 vaccination. [41722/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is clear that it will be many months, and perhaps six months or more, before we will have a full roll-out of the vaccine across the country, which will obviously be enormously welcome. There will, however, be a significant time remaining where social distancing, ventilation and handwashing and a strategy based on investment in testing and tracing, etc., will be necessary to minimise and,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: That does not mean it is right.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: We do not have to sign up to investor-state dispute settlement measures to do so.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: What would the Taoiseach say to investors who sue the Irish State?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach does not even know what it stands for.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the progress of his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [43141/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has convened the well-being expert group as committed to in the programme for Government. [43143/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach's attempt to ram through the CETA deal this week has been pushed back but it is reported that he will try again in January to drive through what is bad deal for workers and the climate and a charter for billionaires and big businesses. This is a deal that gives corporations the right to sue states in a parallel justice system, which only corporations and investors can access,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: I raise with the Taoiseach the treatment of Aer Lingus workers by company management. For five months now they have been blocked by management from getting the short-time working payment to which they are entitled. Workers have been providing the relevant UP12 forms to the company with the details of the reduced hours they are on. However, the company has not been forwarding that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when universities will implement his policy statement of 6 December 2020 (details supplied) that any college-owned accommodation refunds should be provided for; if such rent refunds will be backdated; if so, the date from which they will be backdated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to review the employment status of postgraduate students who also work for third level education institutions as part of their degree. [41658/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the taxes that will apply to used cars imported from the UK after 1 January 2021. [43373/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sanctions in place for schools that fail to meet the legal requirement to include in their admission policies detailed arrangements for those not attending religious instruction. [42887/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it will be ensured that when a person applies for the pandemic unemployment payment that the Revenue Commissioners and-or her Department include in the calculation a person's annual income, for the purposes of deciding on the appropriate rate of payment, any income from State benefits including maternity or parental...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when universities will implement his policy statement of 6 December 2020 (details supplied) that any college-owned accommodation refunds should be provided for; if such rent refunds will be backdated; if so, the date from which they will be backdated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: 485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the free flu vaccine scheme to children up to 17 years of age in view of the relatively low rates of take-up of the nasal flu vaccine by children aged two to 12 years of age [42889/20]