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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Medical Cards (8 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the validity period of medical cards issued to eligible citizens aged under 70 years of age from three to ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41520/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Medical Cards (8 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 651. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the three-yearly review of medical cards issued to eligible citizens aged under 70 years of age is pointless and should be discontinued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the wait time of 18 months for a person (details supplied) to be seen at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41583/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: When the Tánaiste was Taoiseach in July 2019, he made a welcome apology to the victims of child sex abuse in day schools. It was appreciated. This is now December 2020. The Tánaiste will be aware that the ex gratiascheme at the time was not fit for purpose. Thanks to the good work done by Mr. Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill, the requirement for a prior complaint was seen to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Paul Murphy. The first item on the agenda is the scrutiny of EU legislative proposals. The committee has already discussed a number of EU proposals and we are now required to make a formal decision on them. One proposal has been circulated under schedule A, that is, COM (2020) 682 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a briefing on Brexit and the readiness of businesses, employees and communities with the coming into effect of the UK's decision to depart from the EU. To assist the committee in its consideration of this matter, I am pleased that we have been joined remotely today by representatives of IBEC, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Can you finish your contribution, Mr. O'Brien? You are over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will return to that. I apologise, but we are constrained due to Covid-19. We must be strict about the time. Thank you for your contribution. I invite Ms King to make her opening statement on behalf of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I must stop Mr. Murray as he is over time and we must be strict about meeting times due to Covid restrictions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: This committee has been asking that particular question since 2016. I invite the witnesses to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Deputy Bruton has a small amount of time remaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will have a second round of questions in two seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Ms King for her reply. I advise Deputy Shanahan we have run out time and I must move on. I call Senator Ahearn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Four years ago, we were in this same chamber, talking about the same issues with some of the same witnesses who are here. We were one of the first committees to produce a report on Brexit and it is hard to believe that we are here with some of the same concerns and worries four years later about what is facing us in the new year. What do the witnesses think is one issue that the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Deputy and all our witnesses. That concludes our consideration of the matter. I particularly thank the representatives of IBEC, ICTU and Border Communities against Brexit who assisted the committee today. The committee has sought written comments on the matter from the ISME and we may need to consider the issue further. I apologise for interrupting people but we were under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Compensation Schemes (1 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the ex gratia scheme for survivors of sexual abuse in day schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39872/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Compensation Schemes (1 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of the ex gratia scheme will be published and made available to the impacted survivors of sexual abuse in day schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39874/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights (1 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a need for further extensions to the deadline for the submission of the report to the Council of Europe on the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in view of the granting of an extension to the deadline for submission and the report of 8 December 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in replacing the mobility allowance and mobility transport grant, which were abolished in 2013 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39536/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 693. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the waiting time of nine months for a person (details supplied) to be seen at the breast clinic in University Hospital Limerick, having originally been advised that it would be a six-week wait period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39897/20]