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

David Cullinane: I am delighted to hear that in next year's 2020 statements we may not see any huff and puff and Fianna Fáil will blow the house down and usher in a new level of transparency where we will have action plans, implementations and costings. I very much look forward to next year's implementation plan, if Fianna Fáil end up forming a Government with Fine Gael and the Green Party. I...

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

David Cullinane: I refer to the page of the annual transition statement which deals with greenhouse gas emission projections. It sets out the targets and the binding limits that we agreed to, as a country, from 2013 to 2020. Our 2020 targets were that our non-ETS emissions to be reduced by 20% by 2020. The statement states that the best case scenario is that we may have achieved a target 5% or 6% below the...

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

David Cullinane: I return to my specific question. I understand that this is cumulative and that up to 2020 - these things come in seven-year cycles - we were to achieve a 20% non-ETS reduction on 2005 levels. Are we going to come in on target? Will we have achieved that 20% reduction by 2020? It is a yes-no answer.

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

David Cullinane: We are definitely going in the wrong direction. On the same page, it is stated that "the 2030 reduction targets", under what we signed up to with the EU, "require that Ireland reduce its non‐ETS emissions by 30% on 2005 levels by 2030". There is much talk about a 6% or 7% reduction in carbon emissions targets. Going back to something that was said earlier, we have not yet seen any...

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

David Cullinane: It does not give us the answers.

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: That is right. We will take seven, four and four minutes, respectively. The Minister of State said that we live in an uncertain world. That is certainly true but when it comes to Brexit, it feels more like Groundhog Day. We are again seeing the British Government trying to have its cake and eat it when it comes to a future trade agreement. It wants to be outside the club but enjoy all...

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: What would happen in the event of no deal? The EU is stepping up its preparations for a no-deal outcome. I referred to the second omnibus Bill. People will be concerned about what will happen at the Border. We have not had clarity on that from the Irish Government yet. In the minute she has left, the Minister of State might be able to provide some clarity.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if workers being paid through the temporary wage subsidy scheme without the employer top-up to 100% of previous wages are expected to work full or pro rata hours; the mechanisms his Department is employing to monitor this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there has not been flexibility in accommodating businesses that were unable to meet the payroll submission deadline in March 2020 and which can demonstrate their legitimate need to access the temporary wage subsidy scheme; if new applications are being accepted for businesses that require access to the scheme to retain and rehire employees in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which annual leave entitlements will be calculated for those on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10521/20]

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

David Cullinane: 963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific legal barrier that would prevent the use of section 202 to provide a payment of €350 to persons over 66 years of age who have lost their employment due to Covid-19 in view of her comments in Dáil Éireann on 20 May 2020. [10498/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 964. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a requirement to pay PRSI on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if not, if this will be reckoned as a break in employment and that no contributions will be reckoned during the period in which recipients are deemed unemployed. [10505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made to recoup annual leave entitlements for workers who were put on annual leave because of the public health emergency before the TWSS intervention was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10523/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase for each weekly social welfare payment in tabular form. [10796/20]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke. Listening to Deputy Cowen, it is unusual to hear Teachtaí making what are programme for Government speeches on the floor of the Dáil even before the programme for Government has been accepted by the membership of their political parties. It is an unusual departure. It is also interesting to hear Deputies MacSharry...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: When they record that, are reports then done on what the average rating might be for Government Departments? How much was spent on retrofitting Government Departments in recent years, even over the lifetime of the last Government, to improve the energy rating of Government buildings?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I accept that because the Minister is not really responsible for this matter and the Minister who is responsible for it cannot be here but my point is that this is meant to be a new departure in how we hold Government and Ministers to account on climate action. It is the transition statement on what Government Departments and agencies have done to mitigate climate change. One of the core...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I welcome our two witnesses. I again thank both of them and their staff for their service in what is still a difficult and challenging time. I commend Mr. Reid for his commitment to look at changes in protecting older vulnerable people. This might come down the track. If there are positive changes, he will certainly have the support of my party. I want to ask some questions of Mr....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: Was there not a plan in place for acute hospitals? I commend the Department on it. I had very high-level engagement with the management of University Hospital Waterford in early March. It had a plan in place that involved shifting staff out of the hospital to a private hospital. It involved freeing up beds for Covid patients. In fact, we did not need the capacity in the end because of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (18 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: The question, then, is whether there should have been a comprehensive plan. Mr. Breslin himself talked about the consultation and engagement "from the off". Maybe he will be able to enlighten me on what he meant by "from the off". I refer to when we first became aware that the virus was a real problem. Mr. Breslin says consultation and engagement were evident "from the off". First, when...