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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Accepting that, and almost leaving that aside, does Dr. De Gascun agree that testing and tracing will be important moving forward?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Is Dr. De Gascun satisfied that the current testing and tracing system that is in place is sufficient for whatever might come down the line?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I have two questions. I will try to be as brief as possible. Perhaps Professor Nolan might be the best person to answer whether we have any reliable data on excess deaths for the period since March. In Britain they have released those figures in recent days. Do we have a sense of what they are for Ireland yet?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: My final question is to both speakers. Reference was made to the letter that scientists wrote to Government yesterday. Many people have taken an interest in it. One notable thing from that letter was its stark call for an all-Ireland approach to be adopted in whatever measures are adopted. We have seen some rhetoric to that end. Are Dr. De Gascun and Professor Nolan satisfied that the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Do they think it is a little mad not to have an integrated strategy on such a small island?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Interaction is different from integration.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I love the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's optimism. I welcome this opportunity and I thank our speakers for being here. I have a general question for Dr. Quinn to start with. What does the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation do when it learns of the potential loss of a large number of jobs? If there are reports that a factory may be closing, for example, what interventions...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I was afraid Dr. Quinn would give an answer like that. Clearly, we could now see quite a number of companies close as a result of Covid-19. In fact, Covid-19 was cited by the Henderson Group, which announced the closure of plants in County Meath and Glaslough, in my constituency. The Glaslough plant employs 48. I noted that the Minister's response was very similar to what Dr. Quinn has...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: With respect, from 2010 onwards, particularly as we started moving to the position where jobs were being created, I agree that Dr. Quinn's Department always had, and still has, an incredibly high profile when new jobs were being announced. The Minister is out in front and there are big press statements. It does not appear that the same profile is adopted when jobs are at risk. I understand...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Could Dr. Quinn give an example of that approach? Looking in this instance at my constituency, where potentially anything up to 48 families - certainly 36 families, we understand - will be devastated by the loss of an income and a very important employer, what types of interventions are being made with the company to ascertain whether measures can be put in place to save those jobs?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I would welcome that opportunity to discuss this because we have not seen the evidence as of yet.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am sharing time with Deputies Stanley and Ruairí Ó Murchú. There are fundamental problems that affect the narrative on agriculture, climate change and the transition we all know needs to happen. The fundamental problems lie in the analysis to the effect that, first, farmers are considered enemies of the process of delivering on our climate change obligations and, second, all...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: World Health Organization: Public Health Advice (11 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I thank Dr. Nabarro for his contribution here this morning and for joining us. Reference was made to nursing homes and Dr. Nabarro mentioned the fact that quite a number of states have a high percentage of fatalities that occurred within nursing homes and the figures ranged from the early 20% to the situation in Ireland. Has he ascertained anything specific that those states with a lower...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: World Health Organization: Public Health Advice (11 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Dr. Nabarro mentioned the situation regarding some workplace settings and referenced meat and fish packing plants and plants of that nature. Is there any advice that he would give to governments with regard to meat factories or plants that would help address the issues that seem to come from such settings? I ask as there is evidence that suggests clusters within the communities located...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: World Health Organization: Public Health Advice (11 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: There is an ongoing debate in this country and I do not know whether Dr. Nabarro is aware of it. To contextualise it, in essence our strategy is to suppress the virus and some have argued that because we are part of an island nation it is possible for countries such as ours, New Zealand, Greece and other island nations to eliminate the virus. Does Dr. Nabarro think a strategy of suppressing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: World Health Organization: Public Health Advice (11 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I have one more question in my limited time, if I may. We are coming out of lockdown and easing restrictions, as Dr. Nabarro will have noticed. There are fears, particularly with regard to whether, if there were ever a need to reignite the control or lockdown measures, the same level of public support or buy-in to this type of scenario would be there. What are the particular warning signs...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (16 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of full-time personnel employed across the Defence Forces for each of the years 2008 to 2019 and to date in 2020, by branch in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11341/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (16 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 20 May 2020, the date on which each of the current vacancies across the Defence Forces first arose in tabular form; the efforts taken to recruit to fill these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11342/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority (16 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 444. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the additional resources that will be provided to the HSA to assist the agency to carry out its functions, including workplace inspections, in order to ensure business compliance with public health and safety guidelines as workplaces set to reopen following the Covid-19 pandemic; if she has received a formal request from the HSA for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 440. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason for the exclusion of commercially rated businesses within community and sports centres from the business restart grant scheme; her plans to provide supports to assist these businesses to reopen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11320/20]