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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to raise an issue I have brought up previously, which concerns private psychological reports that were not being taken on board by the HSE. Has Ms Dempsey spoken to the Department again about this issue? If schools are only allowed, in essence, to do a couple of evaluations a year, the conundrum is that some of those doing the evaluations for the schools are also in a position to do...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: In response to Ms Lynch, I have met a number of parents who have gone down the road of private assessment and I can tell her most assuredly that they could not afford it. They had to scrimp and save to put it together because essentially, they are trying to fast-track some resourcing for their children who are being left behind. It is not about people who can afford it. As Ms Lynch...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I will outline one issue, although I will not ask a question about it. The Inclusion Ireland representatives said they are due to meet the Department again shortly. I have engaged widely with people on school transport. I ask the representatives to highlight to the Department that a number of people hold private contracts for school transport that have not been renewed. They are operating...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I congratulate the Minister on her appointment. I have not had an opportunity to congratulate her. I commend the work she and her Department are doing. I wish to highlight that I wrote to her a couple of weeks ago with respect to concessionary tickets for Blackwater Community School in Lismore, County Waterford. The Department gave a commitment to come back to me and I would appreciate...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I said it needs to be reviewed-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: That is fine. I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 902. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the refusal of an application by investors (details supplied) under the immigrant investor programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21320/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 971. To ask the Minister for Health the testing regimes that are under consideration for airport arrivals here (details supplied); when testing will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21221/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (8 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 1257. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the announced procurement schedule for contract award for the building of a new cath lab for University Hospital Waterford; the reason for the OGP review lasting four months in the process in view of the fact that project was announced in September 2018; the reason the design specification to tender announcement has taken over two years;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans or funding to support for ongoing education at Waterford Institute of Technology in view of the decision by the college to provide nearly all learning remotely due to the inability in capital facilities to provide social distancing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22599/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the funding requirement for a new X-ray machine for the Waterford Institute of Technology SEAM Technology gateway will be reviewed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22598/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank both our guests. Like Deputy Durkan, I do not have any legal background, so I will ask a few general questions. The steps the Government has taken in recent months have been intended to fight a pandemic, as was the case in every other country. In Ireland specifically, we were also trying to prevent our hospitals from being overrun. We do not have the capacity of countries like the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Lord Sumption. I will speak to Dr. Buquicchio on the issue of air travel. Ireland's dependence on international access was highlighted. I know there are probably different protocols but is there anything within Dr. Buquicchio's office that can describe a European protocol for aviation to which Ireland might ultimately be obliged to adhere? We have most stringent airline protocols...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: My thanks to our guests today. I will go back to the point raised some moments ago on the powers of gardaí. The main tenet coming across from the submissions is that we must have robust constitutional oversight, albeit some of the recommendations were probably not well understood early on. The issue of house parties occupied a good portion of time in the national media yesterday,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett in terms of the comments about direct provision centres. Has the Law Society of Ireland or any of the other legal people represented at the committee looked at trying to short-circuit the asylum process? One of the problems we have is that there are several people in the country who have been here for a long stay and who are trying to have their status...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Dr. Kenny.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the cath lab at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23707/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 865. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the previous three-day diagnostic angiogram service at University Hospital Waterford which was being provided by the mobile cath lab now removed from the hospital; the extent of the present angiogram waiting list; the proposed resumption of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24187/20]

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Verona Murphy. In the past ten days, three economic reports were released by the Department of Finance, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and the employers' group IBEC. They examined the financial resilience of Irish small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, the revenue lost since the onset of Covid-19 and the future revenue trajectory...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their excellent work and the tenor of the report they have produced. It is very important that they have taken a forward-looking view and I accept that there may have to be some retrospective learning done at another time. We must now go about the business of protecting all of our aged in the future and making sure they have adequate resources in...