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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the start date in November 2020 for the repeat of the 2020 leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26351/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 emergency measures will be amended to make persons over 66 years of age that would still be working if not for Covid-19 eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26436/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate the full €350 pandemic unemployment payment for workers in the arts and live entertainments industries based on such workers being certified by a reference from a relevant employer or an Irish cultural organisation for the duration of the shutdown of live entertainments and artistic events due...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [26292/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 748. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE is acting in an inconsistent and discriminatory way towards post-primary teachers and students by recategorising them as not being close contacts of cases of Covid-19 infection, which are confirmed in post-primary schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26429/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 796. To ask the Minister for Health if it is a policy of the HSE to categorise a person as a close contact requiring testing and possibly self-isolation if he or she is identified as such by the Covid-19 tracker application in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26430/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will categorise teachers as essential workers who should be fast-tracked for Covid-19 tests in the same way as health workers are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26431/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: In the North, the opening of schools has been acknowledged as a key driver of a second wave of coronavirus cases. There is growing evidence in the South that the same is the case, as can be seen in the weekly case increases of people of schoolgoing age as a percentage of new cases. It has increased from a low of about 4% a week at the end of June to approximately 13% in recent weeks since...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: The point is that teachers are saying that enough has not been done, and that the conditions are not safe enough for teachers, students and the wider community. They do not want to be saying this; everybody wants schools to remain open, but if this issue is not dealt with, it is only a matter of time before there are school outbreaks, with classes and whole schools being sent home, causing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (24 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed with parents affected by the removal by Dublin Bus of a dedicated bus service for a school (details supplied) for students coming from Blessington, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25912/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered providing masks and hand sanitiser at public transport stops and hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25913/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (24 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish a copy of the licences to net and tag hares for the upcoming coursing season. [26206/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: This is bike week and yesterday was world car free day. Every day, cycling in the Dublin area takes up to 60,000 cars off the road and saves 28,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year, according to the NTA. It could be much more than that. Research from the NTA states that 69% think that cycle tracks along roads, physically separated from traffic and pedestrians, would be useful to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses the environment and climate change will next meet. [25606/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government refers to the migrant crisis in the Middle East and taking an approach with human rights at its core. I want to raise a specific case with the Taoiseach the details of which I am happy to send to him. It is a man who is an Irish citizen. He was born in Iraq. He fled Mosul in Iraq, after ISIS had taken over and after they murdered his father and other close...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: Deputy Bríd Smith said it as well as one can when she said she does not believe a word of the Government's amendment. It is attempting to kick this issue down the road and is hoping that Covid, and the struggle for workers' rights which is connected to the struggle against Covid, disappears in some way. We simply cannot tolerate an ongoing situation where meat plant workers, nursing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to stop the cutting of the school bus service previously contracted by Dublin Bus. [16041/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (23 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the provisions in place for the regulation of property management companies; and her plans to introduce further provisions for the regulation of property management companies. [25719/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the development of the forthcoming plan for dealing with Covid-19. [23685/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: The cut to the pandemic unemployment payment is happening concurrently with the increase in and stepping up of restrictions. This is a time when people need support from the State to deal the coronavirus rather than punishment. How on earth can the Taoiseach justify slashing the supports to workers who have lost their jobs due to Covid when we have a second wave of the coronavirus and a...