Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme

Paul Murphy

51. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that persons who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the Pandemrix vaccine receive appropriate compensation without the need for expensive court cases. [23676/20]

Paediatric Services

Paul Murphy

86. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure the full reopening of paediatric emergency services at Tallaght Hospital as was promised earlier in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23675/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

386. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention and that of NPHET and the HSE have been drawn to the fact that the exchange of teenage school students from other European states continues to be facilitated by secondary schools here despite Covid-19 restrictions on travel and household gatherings; if they have approved that secondary schools should continue such exchange programmes; the number of students associated with the programmes; and the measures her Department, NPHET and the HSE have taken to reduce the risk of travel-related infection from the international exchange programmes. [23546/20]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Paul Murphy

508. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of the EWSS are also eligible to apply for the short-time work support (details supplied). [23716/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

704. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the latest restriction on groups of 15 outdoors will be clarified with regard to caravan parks in which families are only allowed use their own caravans, campers or tents and in which no clubhouse or other group facilities are open and all other public health and distancing advice is observed: and if such caravan parks can open and remain in compliance with current restrictions. [23547/20]

Disability Support Services

Paul Murphy

769. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health his policy with regard to the care of persons with special needs, in particular the apparent change in the level of care to be provided under service level agreements between the HSE and care institutions (details supplied); and the steps he will take to ensure that day services reopen five days a week and that there is a full resumption of transport and respite services [23880/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

119. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if arrangements will be made to allow the children of parents who are at high risk of Covid-19 to receive remote schooling rather than having to attend in person, putting their parents at risk (details supplied). [23175/20]

State Examinations

Paul Murphy

120. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the way in which the leaving certificate calculated grades standardisation algorithm works (details supplied). [23184/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Paul Murphy

129. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of the EWSS are also eligible to apply for the short-time work support (details supplied). [23173/20]

Third Level Admissions

Paul Murphy

150. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if arrangements are being put in place to support CAO reapplicants disadvantaged by the grade inflation due to calculated grades in 2020 (details supplied). [23189/20]

Third Level Fees

Paul Murphy

40. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way in which the continuation of the full €3,000 student contribution fees can be justified in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, the loss of income for many students and their families and in view of the fact that much third-level education will be provided virtually. [22512/20]

Third Level Fees

Paul Murphy

43. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the abolition of the €3,000 student contribution fees to enable genuinely free education. [22513/20]

Driver Licences

Paul Murphy

206. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if the NDLS will provide a further extension for driver licences for six months or until the current backlog is cleared and more appointments become available in view of the difficulty for persons in renewing licences such as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if documentary applications will be accepted by way of registered post. [21636/20]

Mortgage Lending

Paul Murphy

279. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a bank (details supplied) is discriminating against mortgage applicants who are recipients of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will engage with the bank to ensure that income from the scheme is treated equivalent to other income. [21300/20]

Hare Coursing

Paul Murphy

374. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht her plans for the issuing of hare coursing licences; and her further plans to fully suspend the issuing of same. [22110/20]

Election Monitoring Missions

Paul Murphy

453. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of the members from Ireland on the national election observation roster by the county submitted on the application forms as of 30 March 2020; the country submitted on the application forms of each in cases of overseas observers; the due diligence applied prior to appointment of persons to the roster in tabular form; if his attention has been drawn to allegations that some members on the roster were involved in fake election activities while appointed to the roster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21205/20]

School Accommodation

Paul Murphy

496. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education her plans to ensure a school (details supplied) has a school building in the area for reopening in September 2020. [21256/20]

School Transport

Paul Murphy

497. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education her views on the decision of Dublin Bus to not renew the contracts for school bus services across Dublin and to cut the school transport services for many schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21257/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

573. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if the necessary support will be provided to allow a school (details supplied) to open safely in view of the issues raised by the board of management. [22033/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

689. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the precise regulations in relation to the pandemic unemployment payment and jobseeker's payments; and if there are self-isolation or quarantine issues with regard to travel overseas either to green list countries or to non-green list countries (details supplied). [21656/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

1032. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will promptly initiate a public inquiry into nursing homes in view of the evident failings in the system of care for older persons contained in the HIQA report entitled, The Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland, of 21 July 2020 and in particular the findings regarding the way in which Covid-19 got into some homes but not others. [21254/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

1033. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the deaths to date due to Covid-19 in the HSE Crooksling and Tymon North nursing homes; the reason residents were moved from one facility to the other; if he will provide the communications with the families of residents; and if he will report on the relevant staffing issues. [21255/20]

Medical Cards

Paul Murphy

1224. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if melatonin will be added to the list of medicines covered by the medical card. [21645/20]

Medical Cards

Paul Murphy

1287. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health when section 2 of the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2020, which increases the income limit for the over-70s medical card, will be commenced. [21992/20]

Covid-19 Tests

Paul Murphy

1303. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the public health policy in relation to the testing of patients for Covid-19 prior to surgery; and if the same policy applies to public and private hospitals. [22036/20]

Childcare Services

Paul Murphy

997. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will begin to rationalise the system of childcare and distribute the burden of rearing the next generation across all of society rather than all on the immediate parents by establishing a fully funded public system of childcare similar to Sweden (details supplied) in the context of rising childcare costs and potentially fewer childcare places due to Covid-19. [19957/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

1162. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he or his Department have instructed hospital consultants and or general practitioners and or hospital management instructions not to issue certificates permitting certain persons not to wear face masks for medical reasons on foot of reports received that clinical staff at University Hospital Limerick have been told not to issue certificates permitting certain persons not to wear face masks for medical reasons. [19936/20]

Health Services Provision

Paul Murphy

1167. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans by the HSE to sell the 52 acres of publicly-owned land at a nursing home (details supplied) in the near future; if his attention has been further drawn to local public opposition to the proposed sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19963/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

63. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €350 per week pandemic unemployment payment rate will be maintained rather than reduced. [19015/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

85. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseeker’s benefits will be raised to the €350 per week pandemic unemployment payment rate rather than reducing the pandemic unemployment payment. [19016/20]

Health Services

Paul Murphy

287. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age that have an acquired brain injury; the person or body that records data on children with the injury; the national strategy for the rehabilitation of children with the injury; and if such a national strategy exists, the steps being taken to implement the strategy for children with same. [19280/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

289. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the provisions that have been made in the regulations which require persons to wear face masks for those persons that for certifiable medical reasons are unable to wear facemasks. [19339/20]

Direct Provision System

Paul Murphy

812. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will arrange for the transfer of residents of a direct provision centre (details supplied) to different, safe and supportive accommodation in view of letters from residents detailing issues in relation to bullying and inadequate and unsafe food being provided. [18928/20]

Vaccination Programme

Paul Murphy

922. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he has received a full breakdown of the legal costs of fighting court cases in relation to the administration of the Pandemrix vaccine; and his views on whether the State should continue to spend fighting court cases against persons that suffered narcolepsy after receiving the vaccine. [18101/20]

Social and Affordable Housing

Paul Murphy

6. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will use public land for public housing and halt the privatisation of public land banks and public housing. [17643/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Paul Murphy

66. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the rent freeze and evictions ban will be extended to 31 January 2021. [17644/20]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

28. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to adhere to the 2% pay restoration for public sector workers in October 2020 as agreed under the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020; and his policy approach to public sector pay thereafter. [16866/20]

Election Monitoring Missions

Paul Murphy

342. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the persons on the most recent election observer roster. [16766/20]

Departmental Correspondence

Paul Murphy

490. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a copy of correspondence delivered to a person (details supplied) in relation to the possible prosecution of another person on grounds of animal cruelty or relating to other matters relevant to such a prosecution mentioned in correspondence between his Department and the person will be provided. [16918/20]

Departmental Correspondence

Paul Murphy

514. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if copies of all correspondence will be provided between his officials and a person (details supplied) relating to the possible prosecution of another person for animal cruelty. [16919/20]

Rights of People with Disabilities

Paul Murphy

562. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will speed up the process of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which Ireland ratified in March 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17299/20]

Disability Services Provision

Paul Murphy

615. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the action the HSE is taking to support a person (details supplied) who is on the autism spectrum and whose condition has deteriorated significantly in the past year. [16537/20]

Apple Escrow Account

Paul Murphy

2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the way in which he plans to respond to the ruling of the General Court of the European Union in regard to a case (details supplied) which was due on 15 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16606/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Paul Murphy

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the way in which he plans to ensure that profitable companies do not benefit from significant corporate welfare in the context of supports being made available in the July stimulus. [16314/20]

Commercial Rates

Paul Murphy

15. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if highly profitable companies will be excluded from the suspension of rates. [16310/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Paul Murphy

16. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to stop banks charging interest on Covid-19 mortgage breaks. [16311/20]

Tax Code

Paul Murphy

23. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a tax on net wealth exceeding €1 million in order to fund public investment. [16312/20]

Legal Costs

Paul Murphy

24. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the amount that has been spent on a case (details supplied) to date. [16313/20]

Child Abuse

Paul Murphy

110. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reopen the redress scheme for survivors of sexual abuse in schools and require it to act in accordance with the recommendations from a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16376/20]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Paul Murphy

29. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the carbon emissions reductions he expects will be achieved annually in this term of Government. [16042/20]

Consumer Protection

Paul Murphy

76. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct each airline (details supplied) that operates flights out of Ireland on pain of forfeit of Government financial support to discharge their responsibilities to customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16257/20]

School Transport

Paul Murphy

141. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has approved the cancellation by Dublin Bus of all school transport contracts operated by private bus companies in the Dublin area; his plans for the way in which those private bus operators that depend on school transport contracts will continue in business if the school transport contracts are cancelled; his further plans for the way in which and by which service operator a comprehensive school transport service is to be provided at least to the level previously provided when the schools reopen if the private school transport contracts are cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14954/20]

School Transport

Paul Murphy

265. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a series of matters relating to the non-renewal of school transport contracts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15964/20]

Commemorative Events

Paul Murphy

377. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Famine Commemoration will take place on the third Sunday in May 2021 in Buncrana, County Donegal. [16032/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

693. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will accept self-assessed income for 2019 from self-employed persons, as would be accepted by the Revenue Commissioners for tax purposes, as reference year evidence of income for the purposes of determining the level of continued payment of the pandemic unemployment payment rather than only using 2018 as self-employed reference year income to determine the level of continued payment (details supplied). [15577/20]

Carer's Leave

Paul Murphy

925. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider introducing a statutory instrument to extend carer’s leave and allowance until the end of 2020 for certain cohorts of persons (details supplied). [15144/20]

Immigration Status

Paul Murphy

966. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay for a review by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, of the EU treaty rights of a person (details supplied) who has applied for citizenship. [16027/20]

Heritage Sites

Paul Murphy

297. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the proposal by South Dublin County Council to spend an estimated €22 million on the development of a visitors centre and walkways at the Hellfire Club, Rathfarnham (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14226/20]

Passport Applications

Paul Murphy

334. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application for Irish passports for the children of an Irish citizen (details supplied); and the way in which the person should now apply for renewal of their Irish passport which expired on 22 May 2020 in the context of their circumstances. [13836/20]

Animal Sales

Paul Murphy

550. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to take action to deal with the widespread non-compliance with the Animal Health and Welfare (Sale or Supply of Pet Animals) Regulations 2019, in view of the fact that the majority of advertisements for dogs on a website (details supplied) breach the regulations as highlighted to him in correspondence from a number of animal welfare organisations, Deputies and MEPs. [13779/20]

Bord na gCon

Paul Murphy

552. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an interest free loan reported to be €250,000 from the Irish Greyhound Board to the private operators of Clonmel greyhound stadium has been repaid; and the details of all current IGB loans to tracks and outstanding repayments. [13831/20]

Greyhound Industry

Paul Murphy

553. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will order the immediate closure of Enniscorthy, Youghal, Thurles and Kilkenny greyhound tracks in view of fire safety concerns highlighted in two Indecon reports (details supplied). [13832/20]

Assisted Decision-Making

Paul Murphy

623. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the prompt roll-out and full funding of the decision support service and further to same, the abolition of the ward of court system in view of commitments made by her predecessor to roll out the new decision support service. [14098/20]

Naturalisation Applications

Paul Murphy

632. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied); and if she will request her officials to treat this application as a priority. [14259/20]

Anti-Racism Measures

Paul Murphy

313. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a staff member of a company (details supplied) is sitting on the anti-racism committee in view of the involvement of the company in the private prison industry, multiple allegations of human rights abuses at its facilities and its involvement in the surveillance of asylum seekers in the UK. [13298/20]

General Practitioner Services

Paul Murphy

501. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if medical card holders should not be charged by their general practitioners for blood tests; and the steps persons that have been incorrectly charged should take. [13295/20]

Driver Test

Paul Murphy

722. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency or prioritised driver test appointments will be provided for persons that are essential carers and or essential workers and that urgently need to do a test in order to be able to drive legally but whose planned tests were cancelled due to Covid-19, in view of the planned lifting of many of the Covid-19 restrictions on 29 June 2020. [13368/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

808. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 as a result of having previously earned less than €200 in wages, in receipt of child benefit. [12884/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

809. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 as a result of having previously earned less than €200 in wages.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12885/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

810. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 that were not previously in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied). [12886/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

811. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 and in receipt of child benefit, that were not previously in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied). [12887/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

812. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment to the end of 2020. [12888/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

813. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment if it were maintained at €350 for all those availing of the scheme to the end of 2020. [12889/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

814. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated difference in cost of leaving the pandemic unemployment payment at current levels to the end of 2020, compared to reducing it to €203 for those previously earning less than €200 in wages from 29 June 2020. [12890/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

815. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment for July 2020. [12891/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

816. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of the pandemic unemployment payment for July 2020 if it was maintained at €350 for all recipients. [12892/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

817. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if declarations of income from cash tips will be accepted in assessing income for the purposes of the pandemic unemployment payment. [12893/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Paul Murphy

69. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will request his officials and-or the Revenue Commissioners to contact an airline (details supplied) to request that it immediately pay the temporary wage subsidy scheme payments to those employees that it made redundant on 29 May 2020 due to Covid-19, but for whom it has continued and will continue to receive payments under the scheme until 29 June 2020 on account of it keeping these ex-employees on its payroll list for revenue until that date; and if he will request that it pay these workers such temporary wage subsidy scheme payments due until 29 June 2020 alternatively. [12251/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Paul Murphy

70. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will request that his officials and-or the Revenue Commissioners will contact an airline (details supplied) to request that it immediately remove from its payroll listing, those employees who were made redundant on 29 May 2020 due to Covid-19 but have been unable to claim the pandemic unemployment payment, due to the fact that it has the ex-employees listed on its payroll and that it indicates will remain listed on its payroll for purposes of the temporary wage subsidy scheme until 29 June 2020, meaning the ex-employees continue to be ineligible for the pandemic unemployment payment and will have had no income for a month; and if he will arrange for such employees to receive arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment from 29 May 2020. [12269/20]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Paul Murphy

126. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reducing the pupil-teacher ratio to ensure smaller class sizes are possible in the context of the need for social distancing in schools due to Covid-19. [11701/20]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Paul Murphy

127. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reducing the pupil-teacher ratio to ensure smaller class sizes in DEIS band 1 schools in the context of the loss of teaching time, the impact on children from deprived backgrounds and the particular need for smaller class sizes in DEIS band one schools. [11702/20]

School Accommodation

Paul Murphy

156. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department will take to ensure that a school (details supplied) can continue to be located in Firhouse, County Dublin from September 2020. [11924/20]

Maternity Leave

Paul Murphy

331. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend maternity leave and maternity benefit to 38 weeks, that is, a three-month extension for all who were on maternity leave and maternity benefit prior to the introduction of the Covid-19 emergency legislation, are currently on maternity leave and benefit or who become eligible for maternity leave and benefit before the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions on 29 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12308/20]

Departmental Communications

Paul Murphy

369. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the communication that has taken place between her Department and the representative organisations of the barbers, hairdressing and other personal care salons. [11941/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

370. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the detailed Covid-19 safety advice that has been issued to the representative organisations of the barbers, hairdressing and other personal care salons. [11942/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Paul Murphy

371. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the advice that has been issued to the representative organisations of the barbers, hairdressing and other personal care salons with regard to reopening dates. [11943/20]

General Practitioner Services

Paul Murphy

440. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will call for the general practitioner card to be made available to all persons who are deemed eligible for the respite care grant as certified by their respective general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11961/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

788. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those previously earning a salary under €200 a week but also in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance, jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s transition payment that brought their total weekly incomes over €200 will be moved to the reduced pandemic unemployment payment. [11749/20]

Carer's Allowance

Paul Murphy

789. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will raise the household income threshold for eligibility for the carer’s allowance to €1,000 a week in view of the fact it has remained at €663 since 1982; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11960/20]

School Meals Programme

Paul Murphy

791. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it has been indicated that outstanding school meals programme funding cannot be used to provide food for families in need beyond May 2020. [12172/20]

Carer's Allowance

Paul Murphy

823. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will suspend the current round of reviews of carer's allowance until after all the impacts of Covid-19 have been fully considered or for at least a year in view of the additional emotional and financial stress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11954/20]

Carer's Allowance

Paul Murphy

824. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will raise the household income threshold for eligibility for the carer’s allowance to €1,000 a week in view of the fact it has remained at €663 since 1982; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11955/20]

Local Authority Housing

Paul Murphy

878. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will contact the housing department of Kilkenny County Council to determine the reason for delays in processing approval of arrangements for a housing transfer on certified health grounds for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11855/20]

Erasmus+ Programme

Paul Murphy

264. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request and urge UCD to revoke the cancellation of all outgoing Erasmus arrangements for 2020 in circumstances in which the receiving institutions are willing to accept students from Ireland and in view of UCD preparing to accept international students onto campus-based courses from September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11199/20]

Direct Provision System

Paul Murphy

324. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to unsanitary or unsafe conditions in the direct provision centre at a location (details supplied); if his officials or the international protection accommodation service, IPAS, will be instructed to arrange for an inspection of the building or to publish the findings of a recent inspection of the building, its accommodation and facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10707/20]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Paul Murphy

603. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the details of the existing grant agreement between the State and St. Vincent's Healthcare Group under which the Nutley Wing was funded by the State; the other public healthcare facilities funded under the agreement; the amount expended on each facility; and if he will provide a copy of the agreements. [11026/20]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Paul Murphy

604. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the amount expended to date on the preparatory works under way on the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group site relating to the new maternity hospital; the detail of the works involved; the funding provided to date for each of the works; the dates of the payments made in this regard; and the budgetary allocation that has been made for the continuation of the works. [11027/20]

Aviation Industry

Paul Murphy

850. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct an airline (details supplied) to discharge its responsibilities to customers who booked flights with the airline which were subsequently cancelled due to Covid-19 and promptly provide refunds to those customers who want them and vouchers to those who are willing to accept them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10994/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

949. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who previously earned less than €200 a week in wages and were in receipt of a social welfare payment when they became unemployed by scheme type (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10891/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Paul Murphy

950. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who previously earned less than €200 a week in wages and are in receipt of rent supplement, HAP, or are living in social housing. [10892/20]