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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Macken.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I call Deputy McAuliffe, who I understand is taking ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Macken.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I apologise but I wish to bring in another speaker. We have limited time slots because we cannot sit for longer than two hours.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: If Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes to come back in at the end, I will be happy to allow him, or anyone else, do so. I will try to get through the list of speakers first. Deputy Shanahan has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I must bring in other speakers. I will allow those who want to contribute at the end to make whatever points they wish. The next speaker is Deputy Lawless on behalf of Fianna Fáil.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: There are a lot of questions to be answered in three minutes but I am sure the witnesses will do their best.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: If the Deputy wishes to come back at the end, she is welcome to do so.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Deputy's five minutes are up but he may come in again at the end. I have a question on the introduction of the latest regulations. Regulations are often introduced before they are announced. They could take effect on Monday morning and are published on Monday afternoon at the earliest. Under the regulations on wearing a face mask on public transport, it was only an offence to refuse...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I understood there was no consultation with the union but was there any consultation with workers in a separate way outside the union to see how this requirement might work in practice?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: We have all read the horrific story of a bus driver in Bayonne in the south of France being beaten to death for asking somebody to wear a face covering. Returning to the original point, Mr. O'Leary is correct that the term "relevant persons" includes employees of the transport company, which would be NBRU members, and NTA personnel. Did the NTA send out personnel to monitor compliance with...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is Mr. O'Leary aware from speaking to NBRU members of any NTA patrols?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Returning to the taxi drivers, the plight of the taxi industry seems to be very much shared by hackney drivers. I appreciate there is often rivalry between the two groups. In the west, the Western Chauffeur Drive Association has reported an 80% reduction in income for March and April. Does Mr. Waldron accept that a similar difficulty is being faced across the PSV sector? In other words,...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I agree that a forum is a good idea. Before other speakers contribute again, I will ask one more question. Mr. Waldron said that he received 500 boxes of face masks from the Chinese embassy. I do not expect him to be able to answer this question, but does he have any idea where they were made? I ask that question because in the People's Republic of China there is a phenomenon called a...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I take that point. Furthermore, neither the NTA nor anybody else in Ireland is checking the source of where this PPE comes from, which is sad. There was a time when Irish foreign policy was otherwise. In terms of China's internment of Uighurs and other Muslims in the north western Xinjiang province, there are almost 2 million people estimated to be incarcerated. These people are a Muslim...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Mr. Waldron to repeat that.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Any generosity is to be welcomed, particularly if it meets a shortfall from a State authority. Dealing with the latter is, I suppose, the primary purpose of this committee. I was just wondering if anybody knew where the masks were made, in what conditions they are being made or if there is any State authority here is looking at that, particularly in view of Ireland's enhanced role on the...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: And, perhaps, the Department of Foreign Affairs as well.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Deputy might wish us to make that recommendation.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Solidarity-People Before Profit pressed for this session. Would Deputy Boyd Barrett like to speak last or to proceed now? I am alerting the Deputy to the fact that there are two other speakers yet to come.