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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 765. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the expenditure on the agreement with private hospitals to incorporate their capacity into the public system in tabular form. [6471/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance that will be provided to small crèche owners to assist with filling out the necessary paperwork to avail of the TWSCS. [6854/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance that will be provided to small crèches to assist them in reopening safely at the appropriate time. [6855/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the fuel allowance further in view of the extension of the lockdown. [5654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further extend the fuel allowance in view of the continuing Covid-19 crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pandemic unemployment payment will be backdated for a person (details supplied). [5916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State could pay maintenance payments that are not being made on the basis that the State could recoup these costs after the Covid-19 crisis. [6196/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if amendments to planning regulations will be introduced to facilitate small businesses that are no longer able to work out of their business premises as a result of the Covid-19 health measures and therefore need to operate from their home. [6197/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1404. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the National Famine Commemoration Day is being marked on the fourth Sunday of May for 2020, when the third Sunday in May is formally designated as the National Famine Commemoration Day. [6165/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: The issue of workers returning to work confident that they will be safe at work is vital and the State has a crucial role to play in that. I have questions for Dr. McGuinness from the HSA on this issue. The first relates to the question of the 200 complaints. I received a letter from the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, on 13 May, which said there had been 200 complaints about non-adherence to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Therefore, Dr. McGuinness is saying that the HSA did not do the on-site investigation because no protocol was in place.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Dr. McGuinness mentioned that about 80 inspections were done yesterday, is that right?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: How were 80 done yesterday and zero done prior to a week ago? How is that explainable? Surely that is some policy choice or decision? How can it be that all of a sudden there is a requirement to have 80 in one day, which I welcome - although I suspect that it is not enough - but up until last week there were zero, despite the HSA having received complaints?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It seems to me that there was a problem and that the complaints were not being treated appropriately previously, if the authority had 80 such complaints yesterday. In early April, the HSA was advising workers and those who complained that it "did not have the powers to enforce the public health guidelines". It said it could not do anything about this. This was said repeatedly to many...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Dr. McGuinness is saying that the protocol was key in giving the HSA the powers. It did not previously have the powers and the protocol gave it these powers.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Finally, hundreds of thousands of employees were in work before this week and before the protocol. Dr. McGuinness is saying that if a protocol had been in place previously, the HSA would have been able to act more effectively, and could have, for example, been doing on-site inspections before the last week.

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will quickly ask a separate question. Has the Minister considered the request by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties not to expand the Garda powers beyond 18 May? Rather than using these restrictions on civil liberties, the Garda should rely on the things that have an overwhelming impact, such as education, persuasion, etc.

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have a very simple question and I would like a clear answer to it. According to the agreement with the private hospitals, last week they were to produce a full cost statement detailing the costs for the month of April. I asked last week if that would be published but I did not receive a response to that question. Will the Minister make this detailed breakdown of costs available to...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: This is the fourth time I have raised this question and got various answers but on the essence of publishing the information about the costs so we can establish why we are paying so much for the private hospitals, I am not getting an answer. I raised it once with the Taoiseach and three times with the Minister and, repeatedly, the phrase "open book" is used to explain it but I do not...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach think it is acceptable that 200 workers or groups of workers have complained about not being safe in their workplaces to the HSA, the body to which we eventually found out they are supposed to complain, and it has not inspected their workplaces? Are workers who are asked to return to work next week expected to have confidence in the system when those who have complained...