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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Before addressing the Bill I will briefly address a matter that is down for decision without debate today. It would be very unfortunate if we made a decision on it without any debate. I think it would be wrong to proceed with the proposal in question. It was agreed between the Government and Sinn Féin representatives at the committee dealing with Dáil reform and saw dissent at...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 997. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will begin to rationalise the system of childcare and distribute the burden of rearing the next generation across all of society rather than all on the immediate parents by establishing a fully funded public system of childcare similar to Sweden (details supplied) in the context of rising childcare costs and potentially fewer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1162. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have instructed hospital consultants and or general practitioners and or hospital management instructions not to issue certificates permitting certain persons not to wear face masks for medical reasons on foot of reports received that clinical staff at University Hospital Limerick have been told not to issue certificates permitting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 1167. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans by the HSE to sell the 52 acres of publicly-owned land at a nursing home (details supplied) in the near future; if his attention has been further drawn to local public opposition to the proposed sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19963/20]

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The way the Government and the political establishment have been marketing the July stimulus, one would think that it was going to transform the economy, that it will be a landmark for the Government and will show that it is up to the tasks ahead of it. The reality, however, is that the stimulus package is socially unjust and regressive and is economically irrational from the point of view...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The discrimination against PUP recipients is a shambles worthy of the Government. Ten minutes before Leaders' Questions began, the Minister responsible was in the House announcing what sounded like a partial U-turn on the policy. It leaves PUP recipients wondering if the discrimination has ended. It leaves those who have been penalised wondering if their money will be reinstated. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has been in the House a lot longer than I have but my understanding is that this session is called Leaders' Questions. The implication is that we ask questions and, I presume, we get answers as opposed to policy statements, rhetoric or anything else. I will restate the basic questions people need to know. This is not a question about whether there will be reviews of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has three minutes per question.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €350 per week pandemic unemployment payment rate will be maintained rather than reduced. [19015/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseeker’s benefits will be raised to the €350 per week pandemic unemployment payment rate rather than reducing the pandemic unemployment payment. [19016/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age that have an acquired brain injury; the person or body that records data on children with the injury; the national strategy for the rehabilitation of children with the injury; and if such a national strategy exists, the steps being taken to implement the strategy for children with same. [19280/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that have been made in the regulations which require persons to wear face masks for those persons that for certifiable medical reasons are unable to wear facemasks. [19339/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the reports were that members of the Government were taking a 10% pay cut, but it later emerged that it is not a pay cut at all and, in fact, the Taoiseach will be more highly paid than his predecessor, Ministers will be more highly paid than their predecessors and junior Ministers will be more highly paid than their predecessors. If the Government was a shop which advertised a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed. The PUP recipients losing their income on the basis of travelling is extremely serious. Not only does it appear to have no sound legal basis, it is also blatantly discriminatory. When Mr. Billy Kelleher MEP of Fianna Fáil openly broke the travel guidelines there was no impact on his income. We know that the rules were changed to facilitate tax exiles, maintaining...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Certainly. The point is that we have a motion on the Order Paper which would annul the statutory instrument and end this blatant discrimination. We believe the Dáil must debate and vote on it today.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Taoiseach to address the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: There is a law before the House.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: What we needed was a real extension of the evictions ban and rent controls to bring rents down, but that is not what we got. This Bill is a triumph of spin over substance, with the Government getting headlines about extending the evictions ban while in reality the Bill slashes the rights of tenants and opens the floodgates of evictions by removing important protections for renters. In...