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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We are joined from committee room 1 by officials from the Department of Justice and Equality to deal with the response to the Covid outbreak in direct provision centres. I welcome Ms Oonagh Buckley, deputy Secretary General, civil justice and equality, Mr. Michael Kirrane, assistant secretary and head of immigration service delivery, and Mr. Mark Wilson, principal officer, international...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I remind members that they have ten minutes, inclusive of responses from the witnesses.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We have to move on. The next speaker for the Sinn Féin slot is Deputy Pa Daly who is taking ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I am sorry, Deputy, but we have to move on. I have allowed an extra minute.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: The next slot is Fine Gael's. I call Deputy Carroll MacNeill, who has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We will now move on to the Labour Party's slot; Deputy Duncan Smith that he has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We will move on to the Social Democrats slot. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: Thank you, Deputy Smith, we must move on. I call Deputy Shanahan from the Regional Group.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank Ms Buckley. I call Deputy Michael Collins for the Rural Independent Group.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Pringle and the witnesses. We have to move on. I want to be fair to everyone. We move to the Fianna Fáil slot again. I call Deputy Donnelly, who has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We move back to Sinn Féin. Deputy Carthy has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: That answer will have to be furnished in writing because we are up against the clock.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: Does Deputy Burke mind ceding his last minute? I want to get the last speaker in and time is pressing. Would you mind?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: The answers are coming from a different room. It is difficult.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I must wrap up the debate and suggest that Ms Buckley answers the final question in writing.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank all our witnesses for their attendance and for the information provided for today's meeting. Is it agreed to request the Clerk to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from this meeting? Agreed.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2020)
Mary Butler: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in relation to the new build at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7523/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)
Mary Butler: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients transferred from acute hospitals to a step down facility, nursing home, community nursing unit or other residential care facility during March 2020, in tabular form; the number of these patients that were tested for Covid-19 prior to transfer; the number of these patients that contracted Covid-19 after their transfer; the number of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)
Mary Butler: 550. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recommence BreastCheck which ceased during the Covid-19 pandemic; the procedures that will be put in place to protect both staff and patients; his further plans to deal with the backlog that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7495/20]
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (2 Jun 2020)
Mary Butler: I support Deputy Cullinane's first point. Many questions that I asked last Tuesday were not answered yet The Irish Timeshad the answers on Thursday. That is extremely disappointing. We must revisit that and ask why we, as a committee, cannot be given answers on a Tuesday yet they appear in The Irish Timeson a Thursday. It really undermines our role.