Parliamentary questions

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

Paul Murphy

205. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if there is an official body or bodies in Ireland that investigate GSOC; and if not, the correct process to follow should there be discontent with the outcome of a GSOC investigation. [29880/21]

Departmental Projects

Paul Murphy

4. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the resource efficiency action plan for 2021 of his Department. [26513/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Paul Murphy

14. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [29782/21]

Social Media

Paul Murphy

141. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will be taking on the advice offered by a person (details supplied); and his plans to make a statement in support of the workers and their families. [29234/21]

Workplace Relations Commission

Paul Murphy

272. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 2 of 25 May 2021, his views on whether the WRC's code of practice in the understanding of quality employment, for example, the code of practice on the right to disconnect, should be included as a condition of availing of the tax credit; and his further views on whether the payment of the living wage should be a condition for availing of the tax credit. [29763/21]

Schools Refurbishment

Paul Murphy

414. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the repairs needed to the roof of a school (details supplied); and when it will be fixed. [29510/21]

Schools Building Projects

Paul Murphy

439. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the status of the project for a school building to replace the prefabs that have been used for several years by a school (details supplied); and if building work will commence in June 2021 as planned. [29855/21]

International Protection

Paul Murphy

24. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider bringing to Ireland at least an additional 400 refugees from Lesbos and or other refugee camps in Greece. [41661/20]

EU Directives

Paul Murphy

155. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 353 of 11 May 2021, when he will acknowledge that the derogation allowing the year-round shooting of wood pigeons breaches articles 7 and 9 of the EU Birds Directive given there is no scientific evidence that wood pigeons cause serious damage to crops in Ireland and that the NPWS has expressed concern regarding the negative impact wood pigeon shooting is having on the protected and threatened stock dove species; and if he will review his previous reply in view of same. [28946/21]

Departmental Programmes

Paul Murphy

5. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach the status of the shared island unit of his Department. [26246/21]

Third Level Fees

Paul Murphy

208. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the University of Limerick charged a premium and substantial fee to students for an international trip as part of their master's degree programme which was subsequently cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and replaced with an online alternative and that the college has not returned the cost to the more than 100 postgraduate students affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28608/21]

Driver Test

Paul Murphy

92. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he considers the driver theory test centres to be essential services; and when the driver theory test centres will reopen. [27493/21]

Tax Credits

Paul Murphy

201. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether any new tax incentive for the game industry should at least include a similar requirement to the film sector tax credit introduced in section 481 of the Finance Act 1997 which requires employers to commit to providing quality employment before availing of the tax credit. [28102/21]

Housing Provision

Paul Murphy

283. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commence a review of part M of the Building Regulations 2010 to include specifications for liveable accommodation which provide appropriate accessibility as required by persons with varying levels of mobility in accordance with the lifetime adaptable housing design criteria (details supplied); if he will introduce planning regulations in order that 7% of all houses should be built to be fully wheelchair accessible while the remaining 93% of new houses are designed and constructed to follow and apply lifetime adaptable housing design criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27939/21]

Military Aircraft

Paul Murphy

312. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to an aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28046/21]

School Meals Programme

Paul Murphy

416. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) is not included in the hot meals scheme unlike other schools in the area; if she will instruct her Department to include the school in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28017/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to review its handling of the outbreaks of Covid-19 in the meat processing industry over the past year with a view to improving preventative measures in the future. [27379/21]

Fur Farming

Paul Murphy

15. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for banning mink fur farming; and the current population of mink in such farms in Ireland. [27019/21]

Agriculture Industry

Paul Murphy

51. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered the possible impacts of the further concentration of ownership of the meat processing industry here on small farmers. [27017/21]

Agriculture Industry

Paul Murphy

53. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the planned expansion of the dairy processing industry here. [27015/21]

Regulatory Bodies

Paul Murphy

60. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish an independent regulator for the meat industry to address instability in the sector. [27018/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Paul Murphy

4. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [24256/21]

An Garda Síochána

Paul Murphy

12. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [26512/21]

Departmental Bodies

Paul Murphy

19. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26244/21]

Departmental Bodies

Paul Murphy

20. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26245/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Paul Murphy

44. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest engagement with the social partners. [24670/21]

Horse Racing Industry

Paul Murphy

184. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has approved the resumption of point to point racing which is now taking place with large crowds in attendance; and if he will act to stop it in view of a Government request that it be discontinued under current Covid-19 regulations. [26796/21]

Vaccination Programme

Paul Murphy

8. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the vaccine roll-out group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [24668/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Paul Murphy

14. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [24255/21]

Youth Unemployment

Paul Murphy

103. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans for youth unemployment; and if a commitment will be given not to introduce JobBridge-style activation schemes targeted at young persons. [26227/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

112. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost and the staff employed in the employer reporting facility established by her Department in March 2020 to enable employers to make notifications regarding staff they claimed were unwilling to return to work while they continued to claim the pandemic unemployment payment; and the number of employees on the payment who subsequently had their payments reduced or terminated on foot of employers contacting her Department. [26228/21]

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Paul Murphy

267. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Transport Infrastructure Ireland has an agreement with a company (details supplied) in respect of its development; his views on whether this agreement removes objectivity in the feasibility studies and indicates that the NTA and TII have already decided the outcome and will proceed with their preference of Charlemont-Beechwood; if he will instruct the NTA to promptly publish the feasibility studies and demonstrate that they were fully objective regarding the three possible options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26408/21]

Middle East

Paul Murphy

423. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in the context of ongoing steps by the Israeli state to expel Palestinians from East Jerusalem and replace them with Zionist settlers and the killing of 22 Palestinians in an Israeli attack on Gaza, he will expel the Israeli Ambassador from Ireland to express Ireland’s opposition to these killings and to the threatened expulsion of 13 families comprised of 58 persons including 17 children from Sheik Jarrah in East Jerusalem; if he will immediately prepare a Bill to go before Dáil Éireann to impose trade sanctions against Israel in response to these killings and threatened expulsions; if he will prepare a proposal from Ireland to the European Council calling for the imposition of trade sanctions by the EU against Israel on the grounds of these killings and the breaches of the human rights of Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25926/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

529. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person can still qualify to maintain the pandemic unemployment payment (details supplied) in circumstances in which a person has a part-time PAYE employment which provides income of less than €960 over eight weeks. [25512/21]

National Economic and Social Council

Paul Murphy

557. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she read the recent NESC publication on the position of the self-employed; and her views on the matter. [1490/21]

Departmental Investigations

Paul Murphy

559. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of her Department’s special investigation unit to date including the wages of the 20 gardaí involved; the number of individual cases investigated; the number of individual cases investigated on foot of employer reports; the number of employer inspections carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26349/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Paul Murphy

566. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason foster parents are required to be available for work in order to avail of jobseeker’s payments when they are not allowed to leave the child with a childminder under the terms of fostering; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26499/21]

An Garda Síochána

Paul Murphy

672. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide the breakdown by Garda district of fines and arrests in relation to the Covid-19 legislation. [26330/21]

Special Educational Needs

Paul Murphy

87. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if additional special education teacher hours will be allocated to a school (details supplied) given that her Department previously recognised the need for increased hours and the fact that the number of pupils attending the school has increased further since that recognition. [24893/21]

Special Educational Needs

Paul Murphy

144. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education her views on schools which need additional special education teacher hours which will not be allocated to them given the decision not to re-profile allocations until September 2022. [24894/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

189. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he has authorised Transport Infrastructure Ireland to authorise a company (details supplied) to require ticket inspectors to commence ticket inspections on the Luas trams; if the HSE has approved this; the safety protocols and procedures that are to be applied to protect the health of the inspectors and of the passengers and to stop the spread of infection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25197/21]

Departmental Data

Paul Murphy

258. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if information (details supplied) will be provided. [25351/21]

Vaccination Programme

Paul Murphy

445. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the requirements regarding mandatory hotel quarantine for Irish citizens returning to Ireland from the UAE in July 2021 who have been working in the UAE and have been vaccinated there with a vaccine (details supplied). [25345/21]

National Economic and Social Council

Paul Murphy

7. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [24254/21]

Departmental Functions

Paul Murphy

9. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21776/21]

Departmental Records

Paul Murphy

341. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 21 April 2021, the date the missing file from his office was found; the person who found the file; the location in which the file was found; the person who misplaced the file within his office; and if the file was missing within his Department from the Minister's office from 1 September 2014 to at least 29 September 2014. [24175/21]

Departmental Communications

Paul Murphy

342. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether it is appropriate that his Department published a non-determination of facts naming persons in the reviews carried out into the CPO at Three Trout Stream, Charlesland, Greystones, County Wicklow given that both the reviewer and his Department have accepted that these reviews are not statements of fact and that the reviewer has subsequent to the publication stated that they did not receive relevant documentation from Wicklow County Council in the carrying out of their reviews; and his further views on whether the reviews should be removed from publication on all Government websites. [24176/21]

National Parks and Wildlife Service

Paul Murphy

353. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if species of birds (details supplied) will be removed from the list of birds that may be shot currently included in the Open Seasons Order published on the website of the National Parks and Wildlife Service; if he will cancel the derogation which allows the continued year-round shooting of wood-pigeons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24466/21]

Legislative Measures

Paul Murphy

366. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the upcoming Land Development Agency Bill 2021 will be revised at committee stage to prioritise traditional council housing and to ensure that the affordable housing is defined in relation to incomes and not in relation to market prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24649/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

394. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of vaccines that the EU plans to give to Palestine given the extended state of emergency in Palestine to prevent the spread of new variants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24396/21]