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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I am finished. Does any Deputy wish to avail of the remaining three or four minutes?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank our witnesses today for their attendance and for the information provided for today's meeting. I thank the Secretary General and his staff for a very frank engagement, which was very helpful. Is it agreed to request the Clerk to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from the meeting? Agreed.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I welcome our two witnesses. I again thank both of them and their staff for their service in what is still a difficult and challenging time. I commend Mr. Reid for his commitment to look at changes in protecting older vulnerable people. This might come down the track. If there are positive changes, he will certainly have the support of my party. I want to ask some questions of Mr....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: Was there not a plan in place for acute hospitals? I commend the Department on it. I had very high-level engagement with the management of University Hospital Waterford in early March. It had a plan in place that involved shifting staff out of the hospital to a private hospital. It involved freeing up beds for Covid patients. In fact, we did not need the capacity in the end because of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: The question, then, is whether there should have been a comprehensive plan. Mr. Breslin himself talked about the consultation and engagement "from the off". Maybe he will be able to enlighten me on what he meant by "from the off". I refer to when we first became aware that the virus was a real problem. Mr. Breslin says consultation and engagement were evident "from the off". First, when...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I am not asking the witness to look back with the benefit of hindsight. I have said on previous occasions that people like Mr. Breslin and staff in the HSE were in a very difficult position when a virus came at us very quickly and real decisions had to be made in real time. Everybody accepts that, but we read hundreds of pages of correspondence, including emails, from March that seemed to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: With respect, the Nursing Homes Ireland representative may have said all that but he also said that the sector was exasperated, that it felt let down and that it was put in a very difficult position when, as he put it, nursing homes were "crying out for help" in a range of areas and that support was not forthcoming. I think what he was saying was that in the latter stage, from March onwards,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: -----but prior to that, there seemed, from the perspective of the sector, to be real difficulties and challenges.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I will use one of Mr. Breslin's own analogies from a previous meeting in putting my next question. Does he believe that the HSE and the Department sent enough firefighters to support the residents of nursing homes? Does he accept any level of the commentary - criticism might be a strong word but, certainly, there were strong assertions - from the nursing home sector that there were real...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Breslin. I want to put one quick question to the HSE representatives if I can. It is not Covid-related but a response might be given to me in writing. A question was raised by Deputy Shanahan at the latest session in regard to the second catheterisation laboratory for Waterford. There is a bigger issue here concerning the national review of cardiac services. That review has...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Reid.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke. Listening to Deputy Cowen, it is unusual to hear Teachtaí making what are programme for Government speeches on the floor of the Dáil even before the programme for Government has been accepted by the membership of their political parties. It is an unusual departure. It is also interesting to hear Deputies MacSharry...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: When they record that, are reports then done on what the average rating might be for Government Departments? How much was spent on retrofitting Government Departments in recent years, even over the lifetime of the last Government, to improve the energy rating of Government buildings?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I accept that because the Minister is not really responsible for this matter and the Minister who is responsible for it cannot be here but my point is that this is meant to be a new departure in how we hold Government and Ministers to account on climate action. It is the transition statement on what Government Departments and agencies have done to mitigate climate change. One of the core...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if workers being paid through the temporary wage subsidy scheme without the employer top-up to 100% of previous wages are expected to work full or pro rata hours; the mechanisms his Department is employing to monitor this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there has not been flexibility in accommodating businesses that were unable to meet the payroll submission deadline in March 2020 and which can demonstrate their legitimate need to access the temporary wage subsidy scheme; if new applications are being accepted for businesses that require access to the scheme to retain and rehire employees in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which annual leave entitlements will be calculated for those on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific legal barrier that would prevent the use of section 202 to provide a payment of €350 to persons over 66 years of age who have lost their employment due to Covid-19 in view of her comments in Dáil Éireann on 20 May 2020. [10498/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 964. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a requirement to pay PRSI on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if not, if this will be reckoned as a break in employment and that no contributions will be reckoned during the period in which recipients are deemed unemployed. [10505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made to recoup annual leave entitlements for workers who were put on annual leave because of the public health emergency before the TWSS intervention was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10523/20]