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- Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: A great book by the author Dr. Ida Milne is a treatise on the Spanish flu. Dr. Milne tells the story of a battalion of US soldiers who arrived at the Western Front in France in September 1918, who fought on the front in October, with the war ending in November. Some 440 of that battalion succumbed to the Spanish flu and only a small fraction succumbed in action. The metaphor is not lost in...
- Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: What if the person is at home now but availing of a homecare package?
- Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: Is that chronological also? Is it according to the age of the person? Must a person aged 62 with a homecare package wait his or her turn? It will not be up to the GP to say a patient is more in need because his or her situation is particularly fragile.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: I am struggling to see the relevance of the Deputy's contribution to the Counterfeit Bill.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: I am not denying that point, but this has nothing to do with this Bill.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: The Deputy's point is nothing to do with the topic of counterfeiting and this Bill.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: The Deputy is out of order.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: The Deputy will finish it now.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: The Deputy is finished now on that topic as this is not relevant to the debate. I ask the Deputy to respect the Chair. If the Deputy is finished his contribution, I will now go now to Deputy Mattie McGrath-----
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: This has nothing to do with the Counterfeiting Bill, as the Deputy knows well. I call now Deputy Mattie McGrath.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: This is now about the Counterfeiting Bill and I ask the Deputy not to try my patience.
- Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: I have not indulged the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: 558. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of inspections carried out since January 2020 in St. Patrick’s direct provision centre, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7021/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (10 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the first four regional fertility hubs; if they are operational and seeing patients at this stage; the timeframe for further hubs; the specific actions planned in 2021 to develop the publicly funded model of fertility care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7022/21]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: I welcome the Ministers. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has always been very generous with his time in coming before this committee and has made himself available more than most. I welcome my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, to his first budgetary oversight scrutiny and extend very best wishes to him, on my behalf and I am sure on behalf of the committee, in the onerous task that confronts...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister. I have a minute and a half left.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: I hear what the Minister is saying and the inflections he has made. His UK counterpart, Rishi Sunak, is considering taxing companies such as Amazon because of the amount of retail business that has been displaced online. What is the Minister's thinking on that? My final question will not get answered but the Minister, Deputy McGrath, might be able to come back to me. It relates to how...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: Can the Chairman hear me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: All of my questions are for Ms Ní Sheaghdha. I echo the comments of previous speakers. Will Ms Ní Sheaghdha give us some kind of taste of what life has been like for nurses in hospitals with the third surge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
John Lahart: What has happened regarding childcare?