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Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: They are independently done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I accept that moving to level 5 creates a lot of anxiety, difficulties and challenges for people, particularly people in employment who will now lose their jobs and enterprises that have struggled through the pandemic and since reopening have been endeavouring through hard work and putting in place safe protocols to save their enterprises and keep them going which, to a large extent, many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy continues to play the populist card. The first thing she could do is talk to her party colleagues in the North and get them to do much better in terms of mortgage breaks. They are offering only three-month payment breaks that can be extended after assessment, unlike the Irish payment break, which was for six months in total without assessment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald needs to get her own house in order. She continues to lecture people in here all the time about what we should be doing, but her party does not deliver where it has power and is in government. It is always somebody else's responsibility but never the Deputy's. That is always her story in terms of any issue. The Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is again being deliberately distortive in her assessments and assertions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: It is somebody else's turn to talk now, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his comments and support for the Government's decision. On the metrics, NPHET has been clear that we have to get consistently below R=1. Ideally NPHET would want us to get it to 0.5, although it would be very challenging to do so in six weeks. There are other measures that we need to get consistently going on a downward trajectory. Other factors would have to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I will engage with Deputy Kelly, the Minister for Health and others on Deputy Kelly's ideas about the bubble and with other Members of the House on how it can be, in the Deputy's words, simplified, particularly in respect of subsequent adherence and enforcement. However, it is not really a measure that one would enforce; rather, it is a measure one would want to make sure is useful for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: -----there is no shortage of resources being given to the health service and the HSE right now to expand numbers and deliver over 1,200 acute hospital beds for next year in community, rehabilitation, acute - right across the board. The recruitment will continue. Another challenge, as we recruit into the HSE system, is to make sure that nursing homes and so on do not come under pressure as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for her comments. We had an all-party leaders' meeting last Monday week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I met Deputy Shortall afterwards with Deputy Kelly. The Deputy was on the call and then left which is fair enough as it was a long meeting. People asked for a briefing the previous week. I believe the briefing was useful in dealing with the issues the Deputy has just raised, such as modelling and the Chief Medical Officer's and deputy Chief Medical Officer's perspectives on the issues....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I am speaking generally and that is what is said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I will answer the Deputy's questions. I did not interrupt her. I have time to answer her two questions but the Deputy mentioned an all-island approach. It is being tossed about the place that we should have an all-island approach and the Government should sort it. Parties in this House which are on the Northern Executive cannot sort it. We need to get real about it. There are political...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I have. If the Deputy asks the First Minister and deputy First Minister, they will say that. I understand the pressures they are under.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I will do everything I can them to support them in having to deal with what is a very serious situation for them and the people of Northern Ireland, as it is for the Republic. On the issue of no visitors allowed to homes, that is the whole idea of the bubble. I am answering the question. The idea is that we do not have a person on his or her own who cannot have a connection with another...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: No, that is not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: It is not high-risk------

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy misunderstands the social bubble. She has got it wrong. I hate saying that but it is just the reality.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I do not have send the Deputy a note. What is proposed will allow persons living alone, parenting alone or similarly at risk of social isolation to pair with one other household as part of an extended household. This must be an exclusive bubble. For both households, this is their extended household and this will allow for social support beyond the provision of care exemptions already...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: This is not in the context of special categories, it is in the context of ending social isolation. On workers in vulnerable situations, we have dealt with that. We have communicated with those workers on the ground. There is the pandemic illness payment and we have made it very clear to them that they will not lose out on income if they come forward with symptoms, are tested, etc. That...