Results 101-120 of 379 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (15 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...pharmacies (details supplied) do not have a nominated supervising pharmacist as per the PSI registers which is a position required by law for each pharmacy; given that many of these vacancies are long-standing, this put the responsibilities of the supervising pharmacist on to locums and support staff, if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that this breaches the Pharmacy Act...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take important steps to help parents of children with long-Covid, including an awareness campaign, the education of selected consultants and several specialist GPs to offer care to children with the condition, a communication to be sent to all GPs on the issue of long-Covid and the way to recognise it (details supplied); the steps that have been...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...it will become an even bigger issue. As the motion notes, there are likely to be well over 300,000 adults in the State who are suffering or have suffered from medical conditions associated with long Covid, based on an extrapolation of research done in the Netherlands. I have seen at first hand people I know who have been affected by long Covid and continue to be, and the debilitating...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...be a high quality public transport system in place; the measures being taken by his Department to improve public transport in an area (details supplied) currently; and the plans for the medium to long-term. [55295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1226. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that the Mater Hospital long-Covid clinic has stopped seeing new patients in the past week, and will be unable to continue at all without funding and support; if he will ensure that the review of the business case is expedited; if he will confirm the status of the HSE review of the proposal; and when it will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: What is Ireland's position? The Minister of State spoke for a long time but he did not say what Ireland's position is. Does Ireland support extending the TRIPS waiver to diagnostics - technology other than vaccines - or does it not? Does it stand with the poorest people in the world who want to get access to the technology to be able to test for Covid, etc., or does it stand with the big...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...is to ask why the Government has not done what it has promised on several different occasions, namely, to provide a remedy for migrant fishers, or any fishers, who are overworked. They are working long hours in contravention of the EU directive. Currently, they cannot go to the WRC. The Government has promised on multiple occasions that it will introduce amending legislation to enable...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health and Safety (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...one of the first movers on this in the EU, is currently introducing something quite similar to our Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill. Has the Department any idea of how many people who have long Covid were infected in their workplace? Will the Department change its policy of refusing to classify Covid as an occupational illness? The Oireachtas Library and Research Service...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...as the 2011 census which is more than ten years ago. On top of that, at the end of 2021, there were 22,000 derelict buildings in the State. Even allowing for a certain amount of over-estimation of long-term vacant properties it is clear there is massive potential to bring vacant properties into use immediately as social and affordable homes for the tens of thousands of households...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...tent for her and her four children. Thankfully, the landlord was co-operative and did not force her to leave. However, the landlord wants to sell. We are hearing from the council that there is a long list and a long process, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: To clarify that, as long as they can show they did their due diligence at the point of the investment or whatever, they are covered if everything deteriorates.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...people come before the heat and lighting needs of 500,000 people. The predatory nature and impoverishing effects of capitalism are laid bare in the energy market that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael worked so long and hard to deregulate and privatise in order that the rich get richer and the poor get cold. These prepay predators should be shut down and households should be moved to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 659. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the long delays faced by non-EU PhD researchers when applying for their yearly stamp; and if her Department will consider conducting a review of visa renewals for PhDs to allow for essential work travel year-round for the duration of all candidates' PhDs. [51741/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...and Social Protection if she will bring forward the extension of eligibility for the fuel allowance, currently not due to come into effect until January 2023, given that the cold weather starts long before then; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...are approximately 600 children waiting on disability services in the Tallaght area (details supplied); if he will take all the necessary steps to reduce this wait time; and if he will ensure the long-term improvement of these services by filling the need for more staff and college places to allow more qualified therapists to work in the service. [48467/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1817 of 8 September 2022, the reason those running the long-Covid clinics were not included in the discussion in relation to which hospitals were allocated and funded for long-Covid clinics. [47386/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will mainstream multi-annual funding and ensure adequate long-term funding levels are provided for community services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45133/22]

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...which the payment of tips or gratuities by customers typically applies.”. I am not, I am just joking. At the moment in section 4A, which is proposed to be added to the principal Act, there is this big long process about the things the Minister should take into account in terms of whether the essence of what we are passing here applies to an employer or a class of employers....

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...the idea of supporting the Oxfam call. It has made a complaint to the European Commission concerning infringements of EU law by Greece. That complaint is detailed. It has a table and goes through all the breaches one by one. It is very long because all the breaches are long. I urge the Minister to commit to the Government supporting an independent investigation into these breaches.