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European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I will be brief. I am from east Clare. There is a distinct divide when it comes to fishing. Not much sea fishing goes on in east Clare. What little of it is left it is all along west Clare. There is a great imbalance in the fishing industry and among most of the people the Minister represents, whether farmers or fishermen. It is chiefly about their inability to take on a system....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27350/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27353/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27046/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Charges (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 859. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) in County Clare will be reimbursed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26690/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I call Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I call Deputy Shortall. She will be followed by Deputy Cullinane.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: That is correct. They were invited to come.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: That was mine too.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I will call Deputy Cullinane, followed by the clerk to the committee, Mr. McEnery. We can go into private session, but before we do, I would like to-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Yes, and then Deputy O'Dowd.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Representatives from NPHET will not be in a position to be in the Dáil.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Surely one would expect the answers to bolster the message rather than detract from it, but they are not here to answer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: It was the middle of August, the Deputy might recall. The representatives did not attend but they did make themselves available the next week.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Does anyone else wish to contribute before we go into private session briefly in order that the clerk, Mr. McEnery, can explain the correspondence with NPHET regarding its representatives' non-attendance today?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Apparently the clerk cannot speak in public session. I have not been furnished with any reason as to why NPHET representatives are not present today. I am aware there has been extensive correspondence with them for two weeks now.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I welcome the witnesses who have come before the committee and I thank them for doing so. From the HSE, I welcome Mr. Paul Reid, chief executive officer, who I do not see on screen but who I believe is joining us, Ms Anne O'Connor, chief operations officer, Dr. Colm Henry, chief clinical officer, and Ms Niamh O'Beirne, national lead for testing and tracing. From the Health Protection...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Reid. I appreciate that. I now invite him to make his opening statement and I ask him to confine it to five minutes, if possible, as it has been circulated in advance.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Reid. I will be fairly rigid with time today because it is limited. Is Deputy Cullinane taking five or ten minutes?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I have a brief follow-up question for Dr. Cuddihy. Let us suppose somebody who is asymptomatic, that is, who is showing no symptoms of Covid, has a heart attack, is brought to hospital and is tested and it is found that the person has Covid and he or she dies soon afterwards. This is a person who has demonstrated no symptoms. Is that person's death recorded as a Covid death or not? The...