Results 7,501-7,520 of 11,952 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure a school (details supplied) has a school building in the area for reopening in September 2020. [21256/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the decision of Dublin Bus to not renew the contracts for school bus services across Dublin and to cut the school transport services for many schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21257/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the necessary support will be provided to allow a school (details supplied) to open safely in view of the issues raised by the board of management. [22033/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the precise regulations in relation to the pandemic unemployment payment and jobseeker's payments; and if there are self-isolation or quarantine issues with regard to travel overseas either to green list countries or to non-green list countries (details supplied). [21656/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health if he will promptly initiate a public inquiry into nursing homes in view of the evident failings in the system of care for older persons contained in the HIQA report entitled, The Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland, of 21 July 2020 and in particular the findings regarding the way in which Covid-19 got into some homes but not others. [21254/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1033. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the deaths to date due to Covid-19 in the HSE Crooksling and Tymon North nursing homes; the reason residents were moved from one facility to the other; if he will provide the communications with the families of residents; and if he will report on the relevant staffing issues. [21255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1287. To ask the Minister for Health when section 2 of the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2020, which increases the income limit for the over-70s medical card, will be commenced. [21992/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1224. To ask the Minister for Health if melatonin will be added to the list of medicines covered by the medical card. [21645/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1303. To ask the Minister for Health the public health policy in relation to the testing of patients for Covid-19 prior to surgery; and if the same policy applies to public and private hospitals. [22036/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. This is the first debate in which I have spoken under the new speaking rules and what an attempt it is to muzzle the Opposition. By the time we get to speak for five minutes the Government has spoken for 32 minutes. By the time our slot comes up, instead of four slots before us there have been eight. By the time some of the other Opposition groups...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (2 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: Deputy McConalogue will today become the fourth Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in four months and nothing sums up the dumpster fire that is this Government as succinctly as the revolving door at the Department. It goes around, bringing in a new Minister each month. We started lockdown with the former Minister, Deputy Creed, who rushed to the defence of the meat plant owners,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to ask about high-risk teachers. It seems absolutely scandalous that teachers with significant underlying conditions are being compelled to go back to work in circumstances where their doctors or consultants are saying it is unsafe to do so. There does not seem to be any guarantee that this issue has been dealt with or that the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (2 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Piggott. I have a question for Mr. Gillespie. It seems that, at an individual level, coronavirus exposes and attacks underlying conditions, which relates to the previous question. It also does so at a societal level and exposes the very low levels of investment in our education system as a percentage of GDP, the very high pupil-teacher ratios and the lack of space in our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will add to that by asking for confirmation that nobody else will be moved into the centre and underline the point that it should not have come to a hunger strike. People should not have been forced into that situation where they felt they had no other choice. This crisis has been discussed openly including in the media, protests, organisation and support from the local community for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Anyone who has heard about what is happening in the Skellig Star is utterly horrified. It was so bad that it drove people to engage in a hunger strike. Coronavirus spread like wildfire through this direct provision centre. As I understand it, it has still not yet been inspected. Food and water were rationed. At one stage, people were limited to 1 l of water per day. A letter I received...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I request that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Under which Standing Order is a question assumed to be agreed to if one of the tellers does not sign?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: No. A Leas-Cheann Comhairle on a point of order-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----