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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I want to discuss sectoral issues. I know the Minister is not the line Minister responsible for agriculture but he will have a view on agricultural emissions. The Labour Party espouses a position whereby the Government needs to consult the stakeholders in agriculture to talk about agricultural emissions. Everyone recognises that there has to be a reduction in agricultural emissions but how...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: It is very interesting to hear Deputy Eamon Ryan, who may be a prospective Tánaiste, giving us a sense of his vision. The potentially continuing or next Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is also here to listen to that view. I am in no way being facetious about this. The view espoused by Deputy Ryan, possibly soon to be a Minister, is a vision that broadly we would all like...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 644. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will undergo a further appointment for a scan at Cork University Hospital. [11216/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 830. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting appointments for a driver licence by age, location and length of time respectively, in tabular form. [10747/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Commissioners of Irish Lights (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 831. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place with the Commissioners of Irish Lights for deployment under public health guidelines. [10749/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 905. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocations to each provider across each budget line and vote of her Department since 27 March 2020, in tabular form. [10709/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 906. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the wage subsidy scheme for childcare workers is being extended to the end of August 2020 in line with the wage subsidy scheme which operates for other sectors. [10756/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 907. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the temporary childcare wage subsidy scheme will continue after 29 June 2020. [10825/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 908. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme payment or the Covid-19 payment that deem themselves to be employees within the remit of her Department. [10826/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new lower pandemic unemployment payment is based on earnings before or after tax. [10755/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the contributors here this morning. I want to start with the 18 May deadline. That was the deadline that was fixed in the minds of all of us here in terms of the expectation that childcare for healthcare workers would be provided at that point. I am talking about the roadmap. That deadline was missed. What I find extraordinary, and this what I would like to get a view on from...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that. The message to take away for us, as public representatives and Teachtaí Dála, is that the issue of the clawback of parental leave needs to be addressed. There has to be recognition of healthcare workers in respect of the amount of parental leave and other leave that they have taken to meet their childcare needs. The State owes them a service or favour in that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I join others in thanking the witnesses for their contributions today and for the clarity of thought they bring to these proceedings. The messages they are imparting to us are well rehearsed, perhaps, in that they have spoken on these challenges previously. My first question relates to the temporary wage subsidy scheme. If it is the case that public funding accounts for approximately 58%...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I have only two minutes left.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Ms Byrne and gaibh mo leithscéal for intervening. Is that shared by the other witnesses?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I apologise to Ms Daly but I have very little time. That is a "Yes".

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I take it that is a "Yes" from all the contributors here. We need a launch pad for a proper wage commensurate with people's qualifications across the sector. Public funding accounts for 58% of childcare providers' income. This is what we will be told later on by officials from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. We therefore, as a society, need to grasp that nettle. I will...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I will gladly take the balance of the Green Party member's time, if I could.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Deputy Costello is very kind. I thank the witnesses for appearing before us. I want to go back to the staff ratios. There are two stories here; there is the 29 June scenario and the September onwards scenario. What is the Department's assessment of the level of demand in percentage terms for 29 June onwards with regard to staff? Will 50% or 40% be back? I ask the witnesses to give us a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Staff and parental. I want to get a clearer picture of what the sector will look like.