Results 281-300 of 3,462 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work commenced in March 2020 on the development of interim guidance to support the teaching of social, personal and health education, SPHE, and relationships and sexual education, RSE, at primary and post-primary levels; the status of the guidance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to a person (details supplied); if the person is in receipt of the maximum level of support available under the HSE personal assistant service in view of the fact that the supports being received are shared with a sibling and that the current level of support will enable each of them only to shower and get dressed and do nothing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 929. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the prescription of Epilim to pregnant women will be reviewed; his views on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18148/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank our guests for attending and for the work they have been doing during this period. Will they outline the financial difficulties their organisations are facing? How many employees do the DAA and Shannon Group have at the Dublin and Shannon airports and how many of them are on the temporary wage support scheme? Have there been any job losses during the pandemic?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not want to seek to many details in the context of matters that are the subject of privacy. However, will Mr. Gray indicate the proportion of the cash reserves that has had to be used?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Both organisations pay significant amounts in rates. There is the rates waiver but I appreciate that it merely involves not incurring a cost rather than managing to achieve a saving.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to discuss some of the experiences within the airports, particularly Dublin. Other members will focus on Shannon and Cork. I am interested in the number of people who have been coming through Dublin Airport. Obviously, there has been an enormous fall-off in passenger numbers. From what locations have people been coming through the airport in the past couple of months? There are...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is that-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I apologise for interrupting. We are not in the same room so we cannot see each other. The number of people coming through per day was 600 to 700, so when did it increase to 15,000?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: So there are 200 flights per day at the moment and, by the sound of it, that has increased from two or three flights per day in June.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course. I am sorry. Excuse me.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Mr. Gray just talk me through the experience people travelling through the airport in both directions are having? Reference was made to an evidence-based model whereby people would provide proof of testing negative for Covid two or three days prior to travelling. What is the current position and what does Mr. Gray envisage doing in order to increase passenger numbers again?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I presume the DAA is keeping travellers spaced apart when they are going through security and everything else.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What liaisons, if any, does the DAA have with the airlines once a passenger gets on the plane about the protection for passengers there? Is that entirely left to the airline to resolve? Is there any communication on that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We will have Aer Lingus and Ryanair in front of us later so I am sure those questions will come up. There have been reports in the media this week about PPS numbers being collected and I saw Dublin Airport tweeting that they were not sharing passenger information with third parties. Will Mr. Gray talk us through his read on what is going on?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Gray.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: No, that is fine.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does Ms Considine want to respond?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask one more question if I might. I do not wish to conform to the stereotypes of Dublin versus rural Ireland which are reflected in politicians but I am sure that my colleagues from County Clare will in fact ask plenty of questions of Shannon Group as well. My question is on the PPE transit work that was done at an early stage. I ask Mr. Gray to talk us through the work that his...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be eligible to apply for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18809/20]