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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of boarding schools, given the general closure of schools announced until the end of January 2021 as a consequence of the pandemic. [2221/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a deadline will be set for a decision on whether the leaving certificate oral and practical exams are to proceed, given the spread of Covid-19 infection and the possibility that schools will remain closed beyond 31 January 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding to schools will be increased to ensure full PPE provision, given the need to stop the spread of Covid-19 infection now and into the future and taking account of the concerns of teachers, students and their families regarding the safe functioning and reopening of schools, in particular in special education settings; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give leaving certificate students the option of predicted grades or sitting the written exams, given the spread of Covid-19 infection and the possibility that schools will remain closed longer than 31 January 2021; if she will set a date to announce these options along with the relevant details; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Inquiries (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an inquiry into the operation of spy cops in Ireland will be initiated in view of the revelation that UK so-called spy cops infiltrated Irish political and civil rights groups and in further view of the undercover policing inquiry in the UK that held its opening statement and first evidence hearings from 2 November to 19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that student nurses are included with other front-line health workers as a priority group to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, given that student nurses are an essential part of the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2696/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has a record of animal testing laboratories that are located in Ireland; and if so, if this information will be provided. [2597/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 569. To ask the Minister for Health the funding being allocated towards finding non-animal testing methods; and if his Department is actively encouraging third level institutions to apply for such funding. [2598/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if the details of experiments will be disclosed on animals listed as having a severe level of suffering during experimentation as listed in the latest report by the Health Products Regulatory Authority. [2599/21]

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: Tens of thousands of young people are at home right now and looking to go to further education in September. They are anxious as to how places will be allocated and anxious as to whether they will be able to get a place. Last year, after a massive campaign by school students, the Government promised extra places to remove some of the pressure on students applying through the CAO system....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (14 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of the need to stop the spread of Covid-19 infection, he will immediately instruct the RSA to close the NCT test centres as was done from 28 March to 8 June 2020 and similarly extend the validity of NCT certs by four months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2037/21]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: On a point of order-----

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: On a point of order, the Minister is lying. He is telling bare-faced lies. The Government-----

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: I have a point of order. The Minister told bare-faced lies.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: He did lie to the House.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: May I get a correction on the record?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: Today we had 63 notified deaths, almost 2,000 people with Covid in our hospitals and 172 in ICU. The Minister now oversees the health service in the country with the worst rates of Covid infection in the entire world. It is worse than Trump's US and Johnson's Britain. All of this was predicted. It is the direct consequence of the deadly mistake that the Minister made to ignore the...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to use my short time to amplify the voices of survivors of these hellish church–State institutions. Repeatedly in the report, their voices are denigrated. Despite harrowing survivor testimonies of abuse, the report states there was "very little evidence of physical abuse" of women, and it downplays the physical abuse of children. On forced adoptions, it essentially states the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the current extensions for driving licences and learner permits will be extended by six months in order to alleviate the pressure on and risks to National Driving Licence Service, NDLS, staff and to reduce the need for persons to travel long distances and increase the risks of infection in order to renew same in a context of already...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (13 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct the National Transport Authority to reduce the renewal fee for small public service vehicle licenses that are due for renewal in 2021 from €250 to €50 in the context of the dramatic reduction of incomes of taxi and small public service vehicle drivers due to the Covid-19 restrictions. [1734/21]