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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Live Register (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 152. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider amending the regulations for the collation of data for the live register in order to include persons with disabilities and those in receipt of a disability allowance in the live register since not to include them in the live register is to render them economically invisible and is discriminatory. [27229/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider adding a provision to the taxi regulations that would allow taxi and small public service vehicle owner-drivers to suspend their taxi plate for a year due to the current collapse of the trade in view of Covid-19 restrictions, and be able to reactivate their plate after a year without extra penalties or costs over...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of legal fees and other associated expenditures relating to the EU General Court appeal of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16865/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 364. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure that all sectors of the arts, including the live entertainments industry, are represented on the Covid-19 task force for the recovery of the arts and culture sector; and if she will recommend that all workers from the arts and live entertainments industries based upon such workers being certified by a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to engage with the Greek authorities to commence the immediate evacuation of Lesvos and the relocation of unaccompanied children and families from Lesvos and Greece to Ireland in the context of the deepening humanitarian crisis and the increasing risks to refugees on the island; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (29 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: 419. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to change the approach of the EU with regard to accepting refugees in Greece into the countries of the EU in order to uphold both EU and international conventions on human rights and ensure that non-European nationals will not be arbitrarily deprived of their life Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights...

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]