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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contact tracers assigned nationally; the average number of contacts reached on a daily basis in Ireland through the tracing system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31692/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 759. To ask the Minister for Health the hours of contact tracing currently being operated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31693/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to introducing drive-in Covid-19 test centres in which persons with symptoms can present without a general practitioner referral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to introduce rapid testing regimes at airports, ports, hospitals, nursing homes and schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of confirmed Covid-19 cases in County Wexford for September and October 2020, by cases displaying symptoms and cases not displaying symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 763. To ask the Minister for Health the number of close contacts tested for Covid-19 through the tracing system in County Wexford for September and October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31697/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: Five months ago, I stood in the House and asked the Minister at the time for a roadmap on testing. My understanding was that in June, as we began to open up the country, the system of testing, tracing and isolating would begin in earnest and every person who needed to be tested for Covid-19 would be tested. I understood that was how Government was going to contain the virus while being able...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: The Tánaiste says that we need not blame anyone. I am not blaming anyone. I am pointing out an ineffective system of contact tracing. I am inundated with calls locally. I will give one serious call as an example. It is the most harrowing one I have heard to date. It is about a young man, a GAA player, who tested positive but had not actually been contact traced for six days. His...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: He did not know.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: He was not contacted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: He was not contacted for six days.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: No. He was not contacted to be tested as a close contact.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will report on the SME growth task force and explain the long-term vision for supports for SMEs here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30111/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: There is never been a more uncertain and worrying time for SMEs. Ensuring that the conditions are set out for the sector to thrive is vital to the economy and its recovery. When the Tánaiste chaired a meeting of the SME growth task force on 25 September last, he said we need to set out a long-term strategic vision for SMEs. With that in mind, and particularly with Brexit preparations...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Tánaiste. I hope the blueprint will include transport for the SMEs and businesses that will require it. The Tánaiste will have seen yesterday that in preparation for Brexit, the UK Government has invested just under €80 million in four European ferry companies to safeguard their trade in products being imported and exported post Brexit. Particular mention was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: If we take seriously a report that was produced by the Irish Maritime Development Office, IMDO, in 2018, and if we add up the figures of the current land bridge traffic having to travel direct post Brexit, we will see that we currently have six daily ferries. According to the IMDO figures, post Brexit we will need 15 services to replace the land bridge traffic. Some 40% available capacity...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of the Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: The next meeting is tomorrow.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school transport scheme; if she will report on the expected time frame for the recommended 50% capacity to be fully operational across the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30113/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when targeted specific funding for the provision of communal and sports areas within schools will be forthcoming in view of the immense importance of the appropriate facilities for physical activities to enhance the general health and mental well-being of our children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30112/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: As a matter of integrity, we are locked in here to protect the integrity of this budget process on budget day. What is the point of having these procedures in place if the Minister or his officials leak almost all of the budget to the media in advance? It is a cynical exercise by those in power to curry favour with their friends in the press which undermines the political process. There...