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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: On the Tánaiste's second point, and he is the doctor and I am not, but Covid does not come out of nowhere in a home. It is brought into a home and then infects everyone in that home. It is seeded somewhere, be it in a workplace, school, social activity, church or elsewhere, but it originates outside the home and someone brings it into the home where it spreads. Therefore, what may...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste has clarified his point. The virus spreads in workplaces and that is the reason we shut down certain parts of the economy at a big cost to society and the economy. It is necessary to do that if we are to stay on top of the virus. That is the reality. For all the lobbying in favour of reopening, the position is exactly as the Tánaiste described. If we reopen in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does the Tánaiste agree that one of the big differences appears to be ventilation?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: There is increasing evidence that this is an airborne disease and that where there is bad ventilation, the rate of transmission is substantially higher. The kinds of workplaces where people work closely together with poor ventilation are quite a problem.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: That would make a lot of sense. The rate of infection among meat plant workers is extraordinary when compared to most other sectors, with the exception of healthcare, where it quite obviously not an issue of ventilation but of repeatedly being around the virus. That is true not just in Ireland but in America and elsewhere.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I tried to buy a birthday card in Tesco recently.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is planned to review existing lobbying legislation. [36608/20]

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: I listened to the Minister's speech and I was struck by how out of touch the Government is as regards seeing how significant an issue this is. That is nothing personal. This is a huge issue for working-class communities. The dangerous, irresponsible and unsafe use of scramblers and quad bikes is a scourge for working-class communities. It should be a major political issue but it is not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with leaders of the Catholic Church on 28 October 2020. [36613/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if permission will be granted to an association (details supplied) to apply for membership to a body. [36609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 431. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason he has not granted consent to a group (details supplied) to affiliate to a union. [36461/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the activities of Ireland under PESCO since its implementation. [36610/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department have spent on the use of recruitment agencies for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 to date. [36607/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received and or read a document from a group (details supplied); if he or officials in the NTA have considered other proposals to the NTA for the terms of reference of the feasibility study to include a continuation of the MetroLink to south-west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider bringing forward the date for publication of the 1926 census from 2026 to 2021 in view of the fact this would stimulate interest amongst the Irish diaspora and possibly increase international travel to Ireland in the coming years. [36567/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, at the proposed end of the current Covid-19 level 5 restrictions on 1 December 2020 and-or when the ban on the implementation of eviction notices ends ten days later, he will extend the ban on the implementation of eviction notices until such time as all level 2, 3 and 4 Covid-19 restrictions are also lifted in order...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the class size reductions planned for DEIS band one senior schools to include DEIS band one junior schools and DEIS band one vertical schools in a context of evidence that class size matters most for younger children; the way in which the currently planned increased investment in DEIS schools is to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct her officials to provide for the needs of particular children by ensuring that NEPS psychologists, speech and language therapists and art therapists are given access to primary schools in the context of her assertions that primary schools are safe for both children and adults; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Budget 2021 (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the exact amount of ring-fenced funding across all relevant Departments to be provided to domestic violence services in Budget 2021; and the additional funding that is being allocated in order that services can respond adequately to the shadow pandemic of domestic violence through Covid-19 and beyond. [36880/20]