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Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: Like previous speakers I commend the Minister of State for bringing this legislation before the House. Sometimes one marvels at how resistant the system is to change and how long it takes to achieve change. When someone does bring a measure before the Dáil that changes the system, albeit long argued for and long promised, they are to be commended. I commend the Minister of State,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will issue a renewed stamp 4 to a person (details supplied) awaiting a decision on an application for certificate of naturalisation whose previous stamp 4 was extended three months at a time when it expired on 21 May 2020, most recently up to the April 2021, but whose passport was not stamped to that effect in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the An Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries following the death of Mr. Patrick Nugent, which she received on 3 November 2020, will be shared with the family. [27214/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will share the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the An Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries following the death of Mr. Patrick Nugent, which she received on 3 November 2020, with the Nugent family. [27215/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the An Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries following the death of Mr. Patrick Nugent, which she received on 3 November 2020, will be published. [27216/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the An Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries following the death of Mr. Patrick Nugent, which she received on 3 November 2020. [27217/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Walsh very much for his presentation. Mr. Walsh is a person with much experience in running an airline. Can he tell me what practical import there is from the closure of a base? Obviously, it does not mean that Aer Lingus will no longer fly in and out of Shannon Airport but it has implications, in particular, for early morning and late evening flights. Can Mr Walsh provide a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Walsh. It would be difficult then to provide the sorts of flights that business passengers would typically get, which are early in the morning and late at night.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: Also, if one has to make choices, it makes it a less attractive choice-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: -----from the point of view of airline management. The guaranteed slots at Heathrow to which my colleague, Deputy Carey, alluded earlier are of considerable value. Mr. Walsh seemed to indicate he did not think there was any particular threat to them immediately, but are those slots at a particular time? Are they not early-morning and late-evening slots into and out of Heathrow, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: There were some who thought IAG got much better value than the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, did at the time, but that is a different question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: Then additional connectivity was agreed to Barcelona and Paris. One expects it will not be business as usual straight away and that airports will consolidate around key hubs. For Aer Lingus that is Dublin and, perhaps, increasingly Manchester rather than Shannon and Cork. Obviously, Ireland is not a Schengen state. Schengen states will pretty soon allow in American passengers who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: Lastly, Mr. Walsh is a businessman, and businessmen take risks. Most of the risks he has taken have paid off, but one cannot live in a zero-risk world. It is simply impossible. Mr. Walsh is also an Irishman so he understands Ireland and Irish politics. That is clear from the multiple references he has made and the fact that he was chairman of a State board. How does he account for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (25 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct University of Limerick to engage meaningfully with students in seeking a resolution relating to the cancellation of the international trips for students for respective masters courses due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to refund costs to students for flights, transfers, accommodation and food; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (25 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: 574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider decentralising her Department to a regional location as an indication of the commitment by the Government to the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 policy document; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27574/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (26 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. In 2010 a tentative list of sites for designation to UNESCO world heritage status was put forward by this State. Unfortunately, nothing very much happened after that with regard to that tentative list. During my time as a Deputy in the Thirty-first Dáil, the Dáil before last, I took the opportunity to visit UNESCO to hear what was happening with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (26 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: What the Minister of State said in regard to the process of application differs somewhat from the published criteria. The Minister of State said that applications must be made in conjunction with a local authority, but under the published criteria, any group can put forward a proposal. If one was a lip-smacking lawyer looking to judicially review a process, the Minister of State has given...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (26 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: I would like to make a final point.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (26 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: If Inis Cealtra was significant enough to be on the list previously, it still is. I look forward to an explanation.

Independent Beef Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: I very much endorse what Deputy Fitzmaurice said. As he indicated, we will prepare a Bill if the Government falls short on this. It is generally accepted that we live in an information age. Information is everything. He who has information has power. All of the information and all of the power reside with the processors because all of the information available to the Minister of State,...