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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you, Governor and Deputy Doherty. I have a couple of brief follow-up questions. You issued a directive or a letter to insurance companies saying they should treat Government guidance to close as a direction to close. Did you ever communicate to the Government that it needed to direct bars to close in order for the bars to be able to recover from insurance companies?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Are you sure that you did not?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: To avoid this mess.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is the Central Bank a notice party to any of the ongoing cases?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is it a notice party either? No. I refer to insurance companies. One letter I saw required publicans to identify cases of Covid-19 within 20 miles of their establishment. At that time, as the HSE and NPHET were not saying where particular cases were occurring, it was impossible for pubs to do that. Since then, the Central Statistics Office, CSO, has published the breakdown of cases per...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: The CSO published the breakdown of incidences per DED, which tend to be quite small. That breakdown would enable publicans, or any businesses, to pinpoint their proximity to an incidence of Covid-19.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: On 7 April. That is correct.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: In any event, it has been overcome by the CSO data which were subsequently published. I thank Mr. Makhlouf. I call Deputy Hourigan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I take it that Deputy Nash is substituting for Deputy Duncan Smith.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Makhlouf.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am going to have to move on to the next speaker.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I have allowed every speaker until now to go over time. I do not want to discriminate against Deputies Michael Collins, Boyd Barrett and Shanahan but I ask them to stay within their time. All of the subsequent speakers will have to remain within their time to ensure everybody gets in.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Could Mr. Makhlouf perhaps give it in writing?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Makhlouf. I ask him to give the reply in writing because I have to allow other speakers in.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Makhlouf. I have to cut him off here. I ask him to put any further reply in writing to Deputy Boyd-Barrett. I have to get in other speakers and we have to be out within a certain period of time. I call Deputy Shanahan. He has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. O'Connor. If he wishes to reply further, I ask that he do so in writing because I have to bring in other speakers.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Makhlouf and Deputy Michael Collins. I call Deputy Mairéad Farrell next.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Farrell. I call Deputy Burke.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Dr. Cassidy to provide his answer in writing because I have to fit two other speakers into the next ten minutes. I call Deputy O'Reilly, followed by Deputy O'Dowd. I am sorry; I got the order wrong earlier. It was my mistake.