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- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. Will the Minister explain to me why then for the past two weeks when I have sought the detailed minutes of all the meetings that have happened between her Department and NPHET they have not been provided?
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: The Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: I have asked for them on three occasions and I have had no response.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. When it was becoming apparent that the outreach model was not going to work did the Minister examine the possibility of extending the partial state indemnity to childcare providers for Covid-19 related claims and did she consult with other insurance companies?
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: The Minister has responded in regard to consulting with the providers to assess the buy-in but only six signed up to the scheme. Can I hear the Minister's thoughts on only six of over 4,500 providers in the country signing up to the scheme?
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: I will now move to the impact of Covid-19 on childcare more generally. Under the Government's plan to reopen Ireland, more workers will return to their places of work and this will create enormous pressures on the childcare sector. The road map provides for phases 3 and 4. On the last day the Minister was in the Dáil, I asked her what is an essential worker. Will she tell me today...
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely, because that is what it says in the road map.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: Yes, so what is it?
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: Yes.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: All right.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: The point is that we have had the Department flip-flopping over this. We have been on a road map-----
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: The Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: With the height of respect to the Minister, what we are trying to establish today is to give confidence in the sector to the people who are returning to work. The Taoiseach has launched a road map which includes a heading for childcare and education. Under education, there is nothing. Under childcare, there are three phases, with phase 1 being to provide support, confidence and a nine-week...
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: In relation to phase 4, there is going to be a huge capacity issue. What is the Department of Children and Youth Affairs doing to address that? I go back to the point that if we are telling workers that they can only use the service on one out of five days, how is the Department addressing that capacity issue and what measures is it putting in place? Are the city and county childcare...
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: Finally-----
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: This is my last point, and if the Minister could address it in her reply to another speaker, that would be great. I go back again to the definition of essential workers, assuming all the phases open up. If the latter proves to be the case, what powers does she plan to exercise regarding who decides who is an essential worker's child and who gets service?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance if childcare employees who are due to return to work following maternity leave are eligible for a subsidy under the temporary wage subsidy scheme [5560/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if crèches that filed their P30 form and other documentation before 1 April 2020 are eligible for full payment under the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [5564/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (20 May 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if recipients of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be subjected to tax on the payments at a later date; if no decision has been made, when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6566/20]