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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports he plans to provide for mature students and others that are returning or commencing third level and further education courses in 2020 in view of the fact that many will be unable to access an income from employment or casual work in the current economic climate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22969/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine providing additional supports to those commencing third level and further education in 2020 that are currently on the pandemic unemployment payment or the wage subsidy scheme and are faced with the difficulty of trying to commence the courses with inadequate income supports; if the back to education scheme can be extended to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a commitment will be given that new regulations that are to become criminal offences by section 13 of the new Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018 will be debated and voted on by Dáil Éireann prior to the regulations becoming law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22923/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I wish to raise a point of order.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: The point of order is relevant because I am sure others here would like to mention nursing homes and circumstances about which we are concerned. This ruling makes a mockery of this procedure if we are not allowed to call it out and name it. I am standing up for this Deputy who is, quite correctly, naming one of the worst places in the country for the deaths.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I do not see how the Chairman's ruling can legitimately apply to this committee because it stops us doing our job.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: He is stating facts. He is not attributing blame.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: One cannot allege that 23 people died in a nursing home in Dundalk. They died. It is a fact.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for attending. I find this process very frustrating, not least the rulings that we get that we cannot talk about this or that, or that this is subject to legal action and that is not. It really does hamper us in doing our job in trying to scrutinise what is going on. I note the witness is nodding his head. I am sure the witnesses are used to this and that they get...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: Chairman, I have five minutes and I am not going to be hampered in what I am trying to do at this committee. I am raising this for a reason.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: Are you telling me I have to shut up now?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am using it as an example.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am using it as an example and I stand over my right to use examples here to exemplify the crisis we are facing.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have a specific question I want to ask so I will move on. I know the Chairman will take this argument out of the very limited time I am allocated.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: On 13 March, HIQA ceased regular monitoring inspections of nursing homes. That also happens to be the date it was first notified of a death from Covid in nursing homes. It was said earlier by Ms Dunnion that everybody was learning about this pandemic and how we should handle it. HIQA seems to have learned very quickly, on the same date that it got notification of a death, that that was the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: That was not my question.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am stating that the report omitted to make any comment on the privatised nature-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: That was not my question. Ms Dunnion was about to answer the question I asked.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (15 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the Mercosur deal and the way in which it will impact farming here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24346/20]