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Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The point I was making was that a return to fees or an increase in the so-called student contribution charge could be on the agenda in the course of this Government and the student movement needs to be awake to that and needs to be prepared to mobilise to defeat it, as has happened in the past. We have a situation where the student movement has been on the front foot and has demanded...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have two questions. If it is possible to follow up on the nursing homes issue that Deputy Gino Kenny raised, I will start with one and get an answer. The Minister underplays the HIQA report. The rate of non-compliance with infection prevention and control regulations was 50% across all nursing homes inspected. The regulation on suitability of premises had a non-compliance rate of...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: My next question is about schools and their reopening. We are sitting in a massive venue, which the public pays for, so that we can work in a safe environment. Will the Minister give a commitment that he will not force teachers and students back and endanger communities by having schools return and operate in conditions that are less safe than those in which Deputies work?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I think the Minister engaged in a bit of a sleight of hand in his response - the same sleight of hand in which the programme for Government engages - when he said he will ensure that "public housing rental stock on public land is under the control of local authorities, approved housing bodies or other similar bodies". The point about the slogan "public homes on public land" is not primarily...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The slogan "public homes on public land" should mean using all public land for public homes. In the case of Killinarden, even setting aside for a moment the unaffordability of the so-called affordable homes, 400 of those 500 homes will be sold by the developer for whatever price the developer wants for private profit. Does the Minister agree with that and, if not, will he halt the sale of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will use public land for public housing and halt the privatisation of public land banks and public housing. [17643/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: "Public homes on public land" is the demand of the housing movement, a movement which has seen what the disaster of allowing developers to make a killing from public land means. I offer the example of the O'Devaney Gardens. This promise made its way into the Green Party manifesto and, interestingly, the Minister of State has uttered this slogan twice so far during our half hour of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the rent freeze and evictions ban will be extended to 31 January 2021. [17644/20]

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State's response to our motion and the Government's amendment to it are an insult. The amendment is an insult to the workers who have been taking action for 104 days. What the Minister of State has offered is more tea, sympathy, crocodile tears and generalities about what the Government is going to do for workers in the future and what it is going to do in terms of...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I note that the Taoiseach is following his predecessor in leaving the Chamber before Solidarity-People Before Profit speaks on this issue.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Perfect, I thank the Minister of State. We await the next European Council statements because this happened on every occasion with the previous Taoiseach. There exist two dominant narratives about the outcome of this European Council. The first is that of the establishment of the European Union, and echoed very much by the Taoiseach here today, where this is a victory for European...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government promises to improve the lives of people with disabilities and for the most important people in their lives, their carers. Next Wednesday, from 12.30 p.m. as part of the Enough is Enough campaign, carers will be outside the Convention Centre calling for just that. Concretely, they will be calling for the reopening of adult day services. All around the country...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (21 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to adhere to the 2% pay restoration for public sector workers in October 2020 as agreed under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020; and his policy approach to public sector pay thereafter. [16866/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (21 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the persons on the most recent election observer roster. [16766/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (21 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a copy of correspondence delivered to a person (details supplied) in relation to the possible prosecution of another person on grounds of animal cruelty or relating to other matters relevant to such a prosecution mentioned in correspondence between his Department and the person will be provided. [16918/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (21 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if copies of all correspondence will be provided between his officials and a person (details supplied) relating to the possible prosecution of another person for animal cruelty. [16919/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of People with Disabilities (21 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will speed up the process of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which Ireland ratified in March 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (21 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 615. To ask the Minister for Health the action the HSE is taking to support a person (details supplied) who is on the autism spectrum and whose condition has deteriorated significantly in the past year. [16537/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank all those who have given presentations. I will hone on the question of carers. I have been in touch with a number of different carers, including Faye Hayden and Linda Comerford, who are part of the Enough is Enough - Every Voice Counts group. I understand that group is organising a protest next Wednesday at 12.30 p.m. at the Convention Centre to demand the reopening of adult day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy's party leader, the Tánaiste, says that he does not fully trust the banks not to profiteer from this situation. The Minister is not even saying that. He is asking us to look at the good stuff the Government has done elsewhere rather than at the absolute scandal whereby banks were, correctly, pressurised to offer mortgage breaks but, when people took up those mortgage breaks...