Results 141-160 of 385 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request his Department to launch an awareness campaign for patients and general practitioners to ensure that those with long-Covid can be supported and helped. [28599/22]

Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...never-ending waiting list whereby thousands of people are forced to wait for months and years for vital public services in the hope that they either die first or give up and go private. These are two long-established and proven ways for the HSE to reduce waiting lists. The second is means testing to thin out the queue of people deemed eligible for a public service. It is a bit like...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (31 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that there is a greater supply of long-term rental accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27737/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (26 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...class at this stage and those numbers relate to Dublin. That also gives rise to alarm about why we have an extra 40 spaces. Is it because they will be filled over a number of years? Is this how long it is planned to be for? Another important point is the danger this will be a move away from integrated education for students. Where will these buildings be? Clearly, if they are meant to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...Minister for Health if his Department will urgently issue guidance to general practitioners around the country that exercise should not be recommended to patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis or long-Covid where protein-energy malnutrition is a feature, following the publication of guidelines from an organisation (details supplied). [25893/22]

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: That would go a very long way to addressing the main substantial point.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach described this as a long-standing issue. For workers suffering because of low pay, 21 years is very long-standing when we have an expert group recommendation that is simply not being implemented. There has been a passing of the buck throughout this whole process. When the MLSA negotiate with the HSE, the HSE states the problem is it cannot get the money from the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...crumbs being offered to people are not good enough. When their bills are soaring by thousands of euro giving them a few hundred euro is not enough. In 2021, 19% of people unable to work due to long-standing health problems were living in consistent poverty. That was before this year's price increases. The poverty line in 2021 was €286 per week, while the standard rate of social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the very serious issue of long Covid, which I fear will be a pressing issue for our health service and our society in the coming years. Figures suggest that, worldwide, well over 10% of people who get Covid suffer some form of long Covid, and that a minority of them suffer a very severe form of long Covid that can continue for many months and even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...State and to try to pressurise for just their basic rights. These parents, however, feel they have no choice because their children are being utterly failed by the State in respect of the extremely long waiting lists, inadequate supports and absence of support in our schools. I raise the particular issue, that in all of Tallaght there is only one secondary school with an autism class....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...No. 1565 of 26 April 2022, his views on whether that losing a medical card will disincentivise applicants to the fair deal scheme from renting out their principal residence after they have entered long-term residential care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22760/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the figures that have been collected on the prevalence of long Covid among those who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Ireland; and if the figures will be published. [21662/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: 374. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that his Department has taken to tackle the issue of long delays at Dublin Airport due to queues at security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20039/22]

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...political parties here, including the Green Party, and the world, are just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Even worse than that, we are pushing the Titanicfurther into the water through the EU signing up for a long-term deal with the US to ensure demand for 50 billion cu. m of US liquefied natural gas until at least 2030. We are signing up for more fossil fuels and more fossil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Implementation of the New National Retrofit Plan: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...the €8 billion allocated been so dramatically backloaded? I can understand a certain lead-in time. I presume that is the explanation to get the scheme up and running and so on. However, it takes a long time to hit the high rates. Of the €8 billion, over €5 billion is due to be spent in the last three years of the scheme. It ramps up very slowly. In 2023, the sum...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...to hold a referendum to enshrine neutrality in the Irish Constitution. Shamefully, its members voted with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to block that referendum. In doing so, they voted against the long-standing position of the Green Party and the position for which the Minister voted in 2003, 2016 and 2018. Later that evening, it emerged that the Tánaiste, and future...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...in all sorts of medical circumstances where time is of the essence, which is the case here. We will have a situation where, in theory, people could sign up for IVF, but they will be on a list for two or three years or for however long. As people who are going through it know, the chances of having a child successfully at a certain point, just drop precipitously in a year or two, makes a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports offered to those suffering with long Covid; if they are entitled to long-term illness benefit given the impact of long Covid on their health and ability to work. [14490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 968. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans for funding long Covid clinics; and the supports that are available for those suffering with long Covid. [14489/22]

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It is striking the length to which the State has gone to try to cover up the reality of the extremely long waiting lists for children who have special needs. It is ingenious of the State to try to do so. This stands in contrast with the absence of similar ingenuity matched with resources to provide children with the care they need....