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Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We never get answers anyway.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We can have a question-and-answer session or we can take all this time.

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: At the outset, we were assured in this Covid crisis that all evictions and people being made homeless would be stopped. Unfortunately, at the instructions of Ms Justice Reynolds, yesterday morning at cockcrow a force of 20 gardaí evicted four different people from a house in Clontarf and brought them before the courts, and rendered them homeless at the behest of vulture funds. This is...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I begin by expressing my gratitude to our local media, including radio, newspaper and other correspondents. Communities in rural Ireland, isolated areas and everywhere else depend on these media, especially during this difficult period. Information over the airwaves from Tipp FM and Tipperary Mid West Radio are a lifeline to many. I hope they and the local newspapers will receive adequate...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 403. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will work with the Minister for Health to formulate an action plan to safeguard the future of the dental profession and introduce measures (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 420. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the qualifying criteria will be reconsidered for the Covid-19 restart grant for small businesses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7441/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Ireland is enforcing a 2 m social distancing limit for restaurants, cafés, pubs and so on while reopening in view of the fact the World Health Organization suggest a 1.5 m distance and many European countries such as France and Italy are able to proceed with only 1 m distancing between consumers and Germany and Norway are enforcing 1.5 m...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work with the Ministers for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Finance and Employment Affairs and Social Protection to formulate an action plan to safeguard the future of the dental profession and introduce measures (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7149/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 521. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the FreeStyle Libre device available to all type 1 diabetics under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7148/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 654. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason horse racing will be permitted from 8 June 2020 behind closed doors but greyhound racing will not be permitted; the difference between the industries; the risks found in greyhound racing that do not exist in horse racing to prevent the same treatment; the risk assessment that has been carried out to inform the decision;...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 730. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific details on the deployment of fibre broadband in County Tipperary; the number of properties in the county supplied with broadband to date in 2020; the number of properties in the county which will be supplied with broadband from now until the end of 2020; and the date the deployment plan will be made...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 752. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently implement a plan to ensure that driver tests will resume without delay to avoid undue discrimination on drivers in rural areas with no other forms of transport; if he cannot implement a plan to recommence driver tests, if he will allow leniency for drivers that are awaiting a test and have completed their essential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Control (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 1094. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a decision to lift the summer derogation on wood pigeon shooting will be reversed in view of the fact that affected stakeholders were not consulted and the derogation was introduced at a time when there is limited opportunity for scrutiny by Dáil Éireann of the decision; if the scientific evidence used in making...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (3 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if provisions will be made for mortgage applicants who were mortgage approved prior to Covid-19 and have subsequently become unemployed and are now not permitted to draw down their mortgage by their bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8499/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to financially support schools and education centres to put in place social distancing facilities and sanitation units ahead of their reopening in autumn 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8827/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will implement particularly in rural schools to reduce class sizes; if extra teachers will be provided to allow for one class one teacher to minimise educational and social disruption for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9218/20]

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

Mattie McGrath: 506. To ask the Minister for Health when the extended emergency powers given to An Garda Síochána will be rescinded; the plans in place for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (3 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 552. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering a delay in the implementation of the enforcement of structural separation within off-licences as part of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. [8493/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 587. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters regarding the provision of funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8662/20]

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

Mattie McGrath: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Covid-19 notices in some hospitals request a social distance of one metre while all other public signs are two metres; if one metre is acceptable in a hospital setting, the reason is it not permitted in public and business settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9221/20]