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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (21 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will be reinstated for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31964/20]

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: I refer to the practice during the summer of recommending that public servants, or anybody else, quarantine at home. Will that still apply for people coming from a green list country and will it apply to those coming from countries that are orange or red? In the event that a testing protocol is agreed, will a test be sufficient for orange and red? Likewise, will there be no restriction...

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: They do not have to be when the Government is shutting them down.

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Government is shutting everything down.

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: Do any of them have a 5 km limit in place?

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: I accept that they all-----

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: On a point of order. I am entitled to raise a point of order.

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: They are taking steps.

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Government of Portugal is not shutting down the country.

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: I will return perhaps to the European Council. I completely agree with Deputy Mattie McGrath to the extent that we are an outlier in Europe. We have imposed far greater restrictions on people than any other European state over the past six months consistently, and for what? For a policy that has utterly failed. I appreciate that this is not necessarily the remit of the Department of the...

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: How on earth could that not be an impediment? Does the Government intend to continue with this canard and pretend there is no impediment to travel abroad between green list countries while telling people they have to take two weeks' unpaid leave? What will the Government do to develop a testing protocol to enable people to travel between orange list and red list countries? It is quite...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: 818. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1481 of 8 September 2020, the status of an appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30944/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (15 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: Will the Minister give a concrete reply on testing and the development of a protocol that is respected across Europe so that passengers can travel? If antigen testing is not used, what type of testing will be used?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (15 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: Can I speak instead, very briefly?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (15 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: The question I have relates to testing, which is obviously key. So far we have relied on polymerase chain reaction, PCR, testing. It is the gold standard but the WHO accepts antigen testing can be used when PCR testing cannot be used. Will the Government look at rapid testing and will that be antigen testing or PCR testing? In any event, will the Minister outline what steps are being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: Only two were answered, though, and even that is debatable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise a matter which pertains to a constituent of mine who has passed away. He stayed in University Hospital Limerick and was accommodated on a trolley in the corridor. After he passed away, his family were charged €813 per night. I raised this matter with the Minister for Health, who referred it to the hospital. The hospital replied to say the inpatient and day case...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: If the Government is going to continue to treat a trolley in a corridor as a multiple occupancy room then we will inevitably have an expensive court case of the type to which Deputy O'Donoghue referred to sort out this anomaly because a corridor is not a room. It is that simple. I want to move on to one other associated area, namely, the latest restrictions which have been announced for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (14 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: 110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated for an earlier appointment to renew a driver licence for work purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30455/20]