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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expenditure on national public awareness campaigns for waste services (details supplied) over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason an increased salary of some €292,000 has been allocated to the position of Secretary General for the Department of Health. [4153/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has provided direct approval and sanctioning of a salary increase for the new position of Secretary General of the Department of Health; the details of the business case for such an increase in remuneration; if the account as reported in a national print media article dated 18 January 2020 quoting a person (details supplied) is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a public statement advising the absence of a memo to Cabinet for formal approval of the proposed increase of the rate of pay for the position of Secretary General of the Department of Health to €292,000 is in line with Articles 11 and 17 of the Constitution and the views of the Minister for Health (details supplied) that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (27 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the interests of the taxpayer, TLAC will immediately suspend the formal recruitment of a new Secretary General of the Department of Health, pending the full consideration of the matter by the Committee of Public Accounts and Dáil Éireann to ensure the optimum public scrutiny and approval of public expenditure and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (27 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide additional extensions or to carry out a competitive recruitment process for the replacement on retirement of three Secretaries General (details supplied) in view of the expiry of the seven-year rule in 2018. [4157/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity to make some points. Like Deputy Moynihan, I will simply make a statement and ask that the Minister take the points on board. I want to make three points. The Minister made the point that our role is to make policy. Our role is a little more than that. Our role is to provide leadership in what is a difficult time. It must be reflective...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a facility (details supplied) has not been advised to date when a Covid-19 vaccination will be available to it, has not been advised when the vaccine will be administered to residents and no contact has been made to make preliminary enquiries to secure informed consent; the date for inoculation in the facility; if the residents will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 270. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line nursing and care staff working within residential disability services at Cregg House Sligo and Cloonamahon Sligo and community houses linked to both will be offered and receive the Covid vaccination; the date for same; the process of determining the schedule; the reason the National Immunisation Advisory Committee has not been the body...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 271. To ask the Minister for Health if a nurse contracts Covid-19 and consequent associated illness prevents attendance at work, that following a period of 28 days the nurse in question must offset further or continuing absence due to Covid-related illness from sick leave days prescribed in their contract; if a nurse due to non-Covid-related illness which has or may require the use and...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: No, I am here in my own right. I understood that myself and Deputy Dillon were sharing time.

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: I am happy to take it.

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: If he comes in, the Ceann Comhairle might point that out to me. I am glad to have the opportunity to engage with the Minister and Minister of State and make a few points. Obviously, it is common sense for us, as per the motion, to extend the EWSS without which the misery of the last nine or ten months would have been much worse for people throughout the country. Initially it was pitched at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (3 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to assist the large number of third-level students who paid for student accommodation and were subsequently directed to stay at home under Government guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5425/21]

Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Ministers of State for the opportunity to speak. As always, my worry is not the commitment of the Ministers of State to their job. I know personally that they are focused on the issue of mental health. The difficulty is that consecutive governments, certainly in my political career, have paid lip service to the issue of mental health when it came to resourcing. We had A Vision...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: I am glad to have this opportunity to make a few points on childcare. With regard to the systems and structures review I caution against any change to the county childcare committees, which have been serving us very well. More resourcing and supports for these structures is a better way to go rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. I was concerned when the Minister took office that this...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to ask a few questions. I will focus on Mr. Gunning and he can defer to others as required. The finish date, by my calculation, is May 2024 from what he has outlined, which will be news to a lot of people but that is how he outlined it. He also said earlier, in his presentation, that in terms of the execution of the value of the bill there has been...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: That was a statement.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: No, Mr. Gunning does not need to respond to that. I was just adding up what he already told us.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: It is very difficult in a virtual setting, and we both probably sound really bad speaking over each other. The question I am asking is whether the delay is getting worse month by month because Mr. Gunning indicated this in his opening statement.