Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]