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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: Please do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: We share the Deputy's frustration about the process that is going on today. We would clearly have liked more time to discuss these matters but the legislation was sprung on us without pre-legislative scrutiny by the committee. That is not best practice. The legislation gives extraordinary powers to the Minister and there is a concern over democratic oversight of legislation that is going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: Do the witnesses wish to sum up? There are ten minutes remaining. Do the witnesses wish to add any further comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses for attending. We would have liked to invite other groups to attend but, unfortunately, we did not have the time, there was not the space and the Oireachtas was not able to facilitate us to have more meetings on this issue. We realise we are right up to wire with respect to legislation being discussed in the House, but it was important we had this meeting. It gave us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: We are having problems with Ms Coyle's Internet connection. We will move to Mr. Herrick and come back to Ms Coyle in a moment. Mr. Herrick is very welcome.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding available for the school meals scheme in the 2021-2022 academic year; the number of schools that applied to the scheme for the coming 2021-2022 academic year; the number of those schools that applied in the lunch and dinner funding categories; and the number of those schools that were awarded funding in each...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the lottery system that has been implemented in the school meals scheme is a blunt instrument that does not adequately recognise the individual needs of schools and the areas that they serve; if her attention has been drawn to two schools (details supplied) that both applied for funding to provide hot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: Before we commence our formal proceedings this morning, I must address a housekeeping issue. The draft minutes for our meetings of 11 and 12 May were circulated earlier. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the witnesses. Both are members of the expert advisory group on ventilation and Covid-19, and will present on the role of ventilation in achieving better health outcomes in tackling the Covid-19 virus. I welcome Ms Orla Hegarty, associate professor at the school of architecture, planning and environmental policy at UCD, and Mr. Simon Jones, commercial director, Aereco Limited. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: They are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: There is a problem with the sound and picture. You are too near to the device, Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: You are on mute and your time is up, Deputy Cullinane, unless you have one more point you want to make. You are still on mute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: I am sorry but Deputy Lahart has gone over his time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Jones was looking to come in. I ask him to be quick as we need to move on to the next questioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy is out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: I have a couple of questions and comments myself. Ms Hegarty spoke about how Chicago suppressed the 1918 pandemic with targeted measures, including building inspectors who signed off on ventilation as a condition of trading, and the city reopened within six weeks. Here we are 100 years later and we are almost starting again, going by some of the evidence that was given today. There was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: It was on aeroplanes and the point you made about the verification there as well. Is there something more that can be done? Again, there is a fear that as soon as people get the green light, a lot of them will jump on planes to get some sunshine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Seán Crowe: The committee appreciates the witnesses' coming in this morning. We certainly will look for the reports mentioned in the witness statements. It would be useful for the committee to get copies of those reports. The suggestion that we try to produce a report on this issue is useful. If there is anything else that the witnesses feel they have not had a chance to expand on this morning, we...