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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (9 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the WRC appears to be making no preparations to redeploy its workplace inspectors to work with the HSA to carry out Covid-19 workplace inspections. [9797/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (9 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has instructed her officials at the WRC not to redeploy their workplace inspectors to work with the HSA doing Covid-19 workplace inspections. [9798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 338. To ask the Minister for Health when outpatient appointments will recommence in view of the cancellation and postponement of many due to the Covid-19 crisis. [9794/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 383. To ask the Minister for Health if persons under 18 years of age that are admitted to the adult section of Tallaght Hospital will be permitted to have a parent or guardian stay with them overnight. [10075/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Marriages (9 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the Covid-19 guidelines to permit small civil marriages on and after 8 June 2020 with restricted attendance of up to ten persons only including the persons getting married under the strict condition of social distancing and with the agreement of the registrar and celebrant in view of the fact...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister can talk about other issues if he wants to, and I will go on to talk about other issues. The reality, however, is that I have been looking for these figures for two months now. The idea that they are commercially sensitive in a context when all the private hospitals are in on the deal just does not seem credible. We have a situation where €300 million of public money is...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: For more than two months I have been saying that we have been paying over the odds to private hospital owners like Denis O'Brien and are being ripped off. I pointed to evidence that suggests we are paying four times as much per bed as was being paid in the UK and I have repeatedly asked for a breakdown of costs. The Minister refused to publish those costs and instead tried to dismiss what I...

Covid-19 (Transport, Tourism and Sport): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: For the record, I take it the Minister agrees that there is substantial scientific weight behind the 2 m requirement. A review of over 200 scientific studies published in The Lancettwo days ago states that transmission of viruses was lower with physical distancing of more than 1 m and that the evidence is clear that 2 m saves more lives than 1 m. The World Health Organization, WHO, is also...

Covid-19 (Transport, Tourism and Sport): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: A growing number of millionaires and billionaires and their cheerleaders in the media and the Dáil are calling for vital public health restrictions to be loosened more quickly so that the economy can fully re-open and they can resume making their profits. Leading the charge, unsurprisingly, has been Michael O'Leary of Ryanair, a notoriously bad employer, despite what the Minister might...

Covid-19 (Transport, Tourism and Sport): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is not pushing to reduce the 2 m distance to 1 m.

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Charlene Lyles, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and Amadou Diallo; I could recite the names of black men, women and children murdered by racist vigilantes and racist police in the United States for my full five minutes, and I could go on for much longer than that....

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise three issues with the Minister, the first of which is not an area under his direct responsibility. However, it is an urgent issue so I will raise it with him now. I have written to the Minister for Justice and Equality about it and ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to raise it with him as well. I refer to the conditions inside the direct provision centre...

Covid-19 (Defence): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: From day one, members of the Defence Forces have got stuck in to help fight the impacts of this pandemic. They have transported PPE, helped with testing and tracing and much more besides. Like retail workers, cleaners and other essential workers, they have worked throughout the crisis, in many instances putting their health and lives and those of their families at risk in order to keep...

Covid-19 (Defence): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I stated that that was the case at the start of the year.

Covid-19 (Defence): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have another specific question I wish to ask the Minister of State.

Covid-19 (Defence): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: If the Minister of State keeps answering it, I will not have time to ask another.

Covid-19 (Defence): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask about the 116th Battalion. The Minister of State is aware of this issue. Will its members received their full six months' overseas allowance in order that they will not end up out of pocket as a result of Covid-19?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will invite representatives of the teachers, students and trade unions from the English language education sector onto the Covid-19 working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8645/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Attorney General and his Department have completed the review of the State ex gratia scheme which Dáil Éireann was informed was occurring on 12 December 2019. [8905/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made regarding the eligibility of persons (details supplied) for the ex gratia scheme. [8907/20]