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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 770. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the existing limitations on the Covid-19 follow-up of passengers from Northern Ireland landing at Dublin Airport in terms of the passenger locator form or other; the correspondence he has received from his ministerial counterpart in the Northern Ireland Assembly and his response to same; if issues of data sharing have...

Pre-European Council: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: In my contribution, I will raise the issue of vaccines and the recent positive news in that regard. I will also refer to Ireland's role on the European stage, and Europe's role on the global stage, in ensuring that, as a point of principle, nobody is denied free access to a vaccine based on location, financial means or any other discriminatory criterion. There have unfortunately been 1.4...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some employees of a company (details supplied) are still awaiting arrears to be paid for social welfare payments that they were prevented from accessing earlier in the year while on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; when these arrears will be paid; and if she will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairs Designate of the Road Safety Authority and Dublin Port: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: I wish Mr. Grant and Ms O'Donnell well. I have some questions for Ms O'Donnell. I welcome the push to recruit 80 additional driving testers but is it not the case that we have fewer driving testers employed today than we had on 31 December last year? The figures I have show that we had 145 testers at this time last year and that we now have 139. I heard the Minister of State say that 18...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairs Designate of the Road Safety Authority and Dublin Port: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: In fairness, these are essential workers. They are not mammies and daddies. Workers are entitled to some degree of dignity when they go to work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I wish them all well in their endeavours. I am sure they are in competition with each other, but from our perspective we would all like to see some degree of co-ordination and a successful outcome for the State and the country as a whole. I will direct my questions to Mr. O'Reilly. He has outlined the scale of the challenge. It seems quite a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: The Revenue Commissioners do not have staff on-site. Is Mr. O'Reilly asking Revenue to commit to having staff there 24-7?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: Better information and data about the processes are needed.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: The carbon tax is all stick. It is turning people against the environmental agenda, environmentalism and the effort to address climate change. It has no appreciation of the challenges in people's lives. Approximately 400,000 people in this State live in fuel and energy poverty. There are commitments in the budget and the Finance Bill concerning mitigation measures. They are only partial...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 129. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which he plans to support the early years sector in County Meath, particularly in relation to staff, pay and capitation grants in view of the population growth in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39728/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person attending a scheduled driver test in a vehicle with a valid NCT by virtue of the fact of the NCT extension will be failed or considered ineligible, that is, their NCT disc is marginally out of date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40962/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the contact tracing and follow-up situation for a person who is normally resident in Ireland, but flies into Belfast airport and travels across the Border; if this person will be followed-up by contact tracing teams based either in the north or the south of the island; if he is satisfied that the level of follow-up checks on those required to restrict their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the contact tracing and follow-up situation for a person who is normally resident in Northern Ireland, but flies into Dublin airport and travels across the Border; if this person will be followed-up by contact tracing teams based either in the north or in the south of the island; if he is satisfied the level of follow-up checks on those required to restrict...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage rate of passengers who received a follow-up phone call having previously completed the passenger locater form in October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons to date who have refused to complete the passenger locator form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40880/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (8 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: I have raised this issue with the Minister of State on a number of occasions at this stage and I raised it with the chair of the RSA directly at the committee last week. The response to date has been totally inadequate. Driving instructors have been treated with contempt. Simple, low-cost and no-cost solutions are available but they have not been availed of. When I put this matter to the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (8 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: Rita, a driving instructor from Sligo, told us: I felt really embarrassed to have to ask my student could I use her toilet and wash my hands after dropping her home, we don't have public toilets, the only one was the other side of town at the bus station. I'm always in and around the test centre so I relied on the facilities Darragh in Dublin stated: "From my experience I don't expect...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place to increase inspections at Dublin Port and other ports in the wake of Brexit; if it is planned to publish key performance indicators of inspection activity levels each week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to address the challenge of climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41613/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (8 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an increase in reports by SPSV NTA issued licence holders of being prevented from transporting passengers travelling cross-Border both to and from destinations in Northern Ireland by authorities there; if such an escalation in enforcement by the authorities in Northern Ireland contravenes reciprocal...