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Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: In a response I received yesterday to a parliamentary question I tabled regarding my repeated requests for a breakdown of expenditure under the agreement with the private hospitals to be published, the Minister claimed this information is commercially sensitive and, therefore, will not be published. I have written to the Ceann Comhairle under Standing Order 44A to complain that the Minister...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: We have a situation whereby the State has now paid €112.4 million, as I understand it, to the private hospitals owned by, among others, Denis O'Brien, Larry Goodman, etc. We know from reports that the State is paying up to four times as much per bed as is paid in the United Kingdom. We are now finding out that, two weeks after the figures were to be provided by the private hospitals,...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Why does it not apply to meat factories, shops or pharmacies?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: That is not the question the Minister was asked.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is the same as three weeks ago. It is the same ideological, touching faith in the pursuit of profit of these companies-----

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is the idea that the pursuit of profit by these companies will never clash with the health and safety of the workers. The Minister, Deputy Creed, should withdraw the comments from three weeks ago. The Minister should apologise to the meat factory workers of the country for not listening to their warnings and for not calling for inspections. There were no HSA inspections of meat...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is a picture of what not to do.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is huge. It is a higher percentage than in America.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: My first question is to the Minister, Deputy Creed, and it follows on. Three weeks ago, he accused me in this House of smearing the meat processing plants because I raised with him complaints from the meat factory workers and their unions and I called for them to be inspected by the Health and Safety Authority. Does the Minister now accept that the Health and Safety Authority should have...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have a few specific questions, so we might do this in the form of question and answer, question and answer, etc. My first question is on childcare workers in the informal sector. It is estimated that there are approximately 35,000 non-crèche childminders, many of whom work out of their own homes or the homes of the children they are minding. They are not well paid, but unless they...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. I wish to ask about the availability of primary care facilities, particularly for children, and raise the example of a campaign that I presume the Minister is aware of, that being, the active and long-running campaign for a primary care centre in Fettercairn. Despite having approximately 7,500 residents, Fettercairn incredibly does not have a single GP. That has real...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask about a report that the Minister might have seen and on which the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, has provided answers to parliamentary questions. It relates to private clinics in the new national children's hospital. The proposal seems to be that, despite everything that we have gone through in recent months, there will still be private clinics operating out of the...

Covid-19 (Finance): Statements (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is planning to cut it.

Covid-19 (Finance): Statements (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: Debenhams workers protested outside the Dáil earlier for the third time. They are some of the almost 2,000 workers who have been opportunistically thrown on the scrapheap by a company that had been seeking to exit the Irish market, a company of which Bank of Ireland is a part owner. Of course, the public is, in turn, part owner of Bank of Ireland. My first question is very simple....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if amendments will be made to the requirement to submit payslips for work done by a student applying for a grant to SUSI in view of the impossibility of contacting some previous employers, for example, pubs due to them being closed as a result of Covid-19. [6198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Maternity Leave (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend maternity leave and maternity benefit by three months from the end of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions for all persons currently claiming same or those that become eligible for maternity leave and benefit before the lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when INIS registration appointments which have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis will be rescheduled. [5633/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 610. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she or her Department were contacted by any of the contractors involved in the construction of a new factory (details supplied) regarding the continued construction work at the site during the period of the Covid-19 restrictions. [6437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Paul Murphy: 611. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to or if she has been contacted regarding the full reopening of a construction site (details supplied) on 11 May 2020 a week before the agreed reopening date for construction on 18 May 2020 and prior to the Return to Work Protocol from her Department and the HSE being distributed to and discussed with...