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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 120. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to support the coach tourism sector as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 371. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the work her Department is undertaking to support the tourism sector as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21970/21]

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to raise a point of order. I have two minutes. Can I ask the Minister of State to answer my question in those two minutes?

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will use one minute and leave one minute for the Minister of State to respond. I want to bring up one specific matter. Mental health issues cross every age group and cohort. I want to zone in on a particular group. I am referring to the young students and office workers who are working from their bedrooms. I am certain that this is a hidden mental health issue. I want to know what the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme (29 Apr 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22478/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have spoken to the Minister and told him that I welcome the return of the requirement for 10% of homes in new estates to be sold as affordable housing. It is a measure that should never have been dropped. It should have been continued. It is a sustainable model. It goes without saying that it is highly important that towns and villages be rejuvenated but I ask that this be done in a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mayoral Election (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the process to establish a mayor for Limerick city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22876/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Professor Mark Ferguson, director general, Science Foundation Ireland, and thank him for coming. We appreciate him taking the time as this is a very important issue. The purpose of the first part of today's meeting is consideration of the report of the Covid-19 rapid testing group, of which Professor Ferguson is chair. This is related to the resumption of our aviation hearings,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I call Deputy Joe Carey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Professor Ferguson. I have a lengthy list of members who wish to ask questions and they will have an allocated time of, roughly, three to four minutes each. I am conscious of time and the need for the committee to get maximum information today so I will move on now to Deputy O'Rourke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Professor Ferguson. I ask members to follow on with questions. This is about extracting the maximum amount of information from the research carried out by Professor Ferguson. The next speaker is Senator Dooley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have to move on. The Senator has had nearly six minutes. I will allow him in at the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Professor Ferguson to give us a "Yes" or "No" answer as I am conscious of other members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Following on from that, how long would it take to get a pilot scheme up and running? Has Professor Ferguson had interaction with the Government about setting up such a pilot scheme? If there was a pilot scheme up and running and the barcode system was in place, coupled with the vaccination programme now under way nationwide, including here, and with the digital green pass now being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: My question is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: How quickly could a pilot be set up and the results concluded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Could it be done in a month?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Has Professor Ferguson had interaction with the Government regarding the recommendations in his report? I refer specifically to interaction with the Department of Transport in respect of aviation. The vaccination programme is very much under way in different countries. How does that feed into the professor's thinking around pre and post-departure antigen testing for air travel, linked with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We will follow up with the Department and ask it to interact with Professor Ferguson immediately with regard to a pilot scheme for antigen testing in the aviation sector. We can do it in the essential worker space, as Professor Ferguson recommended in his report. Will he comment on the vaccination programme that is under way and the digital green pass being proposed by the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Professor Ferguson is referring to antigen testing.