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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a roadmap will be provided regarding the reopening of all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15092/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the system her Department is applying for secondary schools regarding social distancing (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15093/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will examine the possibility of using additional space available locally to ensure all children can return to school in September 2020 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15094/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the operation of school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15095/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to seasonal workers that were not entitled to the Covid-19 payment in view of the fact they had not returned to work in March 2020; if the scheme will be reviewed to take such persons into consideration (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15243/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1193. To ask the Minister for Health when day care centres for the elderly will be able to open again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15491/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1121. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15251/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1122. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15252/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1242. To ask the Minister for Health when a centre (details supplied) for adults with special education needs will reopen following closure due to the Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15621/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: On behalf of all of the publicans in rural Ireland, I ask the Taoiseach to give them the green light to open next Monday. They have waited for 17 or 18 weeks. People living in rural valleys, glens and highways do not have the wherewithal to go to bigger towns where they have to have a meal. They do not have the time or funding to do so. People used to go to their local pub for a couple of...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get a short time to talk on behalf of the people we are representing, including small business people, farmers and fishermen. We know the talks that are coming up are critical for all our constituents. I want the Government to spell out a clear message to the people it is dealing with in Europe. The myth is out there that farmers are getting gift cheques in the post. We want...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get the opportunity to ask the Minister of State a few questions. We have read and heard stories that the Germans have applied for massive amounts of money, with the interest rates at practically nil, for infrastructural projects and for any deficiencies they have in their country or economy. They have it done for many weeks. They are ahead of us. It appears to me that...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Such people need assistance too to give them the wherewithal to open their doors again. We are not being fair on them. I accept I am straying a bit.

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: The fact is that one has to travel 15 miles to get a pint in a rural area because all the rural pubs are not open.

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have just one other point to raise, which is about the banks and mortgages. AIB has deferred the granting of mortgages to couples because one of the parties is on the Covid payment, even if the other person is quite entitled to draw a mortgage but because the application is a joint one AIB is deferring their application. That will nail small builders as a result and it is holding up...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one more question. Will the funding for the sewerage schemes come to Irish Water, which is now responsible for the treatment plants that already are there? I know that Irish Water has responsibility for the Kilcummin scheme. Will the funding for these schemes come to Irish Water or can the Minister of State say how the Government is proposing to fund them?

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this very serious matter this evening. As I have stated several times, this proposal claims to be about national oil reserves or whatever but it is about raising carbon taxes and increasing the amount the ordinary punter will have to pay. The ordinary motorist, farmer, haulier and bus operator will have to pay more. All of those sectors will...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Social Democrats for giving us the opportunity to talk about workers. I thank all of the front-line workers who went to work at the height of the pandemic in hospitals and nursing homes. I commend all of those who went to work, including nurses, doctors, staff in canteens who bought food to patients, home helps who visited houses and tried to keep older people going, shop...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why do people have to eat a meal to be able to have a pint? It is not right or fair.

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is doing no good for the coronavirus. Publicans and their workers are being discriminated against.