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Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I suppose the question everyone across the State wants an answer to is why the Government has decided that there should be a hierarchy on suffering. Who made that decision? Children who were boarded out, many used as slaves and many abused, have been excluded along with children who were less than six months in these appalling institutions. A number of homes and institutions and all the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with regard to the east Meath primary care centre; when it will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently practising in Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57372/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 643. To ask the Minister for Health the planned number of general practitioners who are to be based at the east Meath primary care centre when it is operational; the number of general practitioners planned for the centre who will be in addition to the general practitioners already based in Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to review the Control of Horses Act 1996; if he further plans to introduce legislation amending the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57049/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Deputy Carthy will join the meeting later. He has been delayed. Dr. Quinn said earlier that the Department was reviewing the restart grant schemes weekly. Was it specifically the restart grant schemes or was it the Covid Brexit loans that were being reviewed weekly?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: What tangibly came out of those weekly reviews in the context of the restart grant scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: The Department service level agreement said the review for that scheme was to take place when grant approvals reached €200 million. When it was adjusted, in August I think it was, the Department said there was no need for that review at the time. The reform scheme was meant to trigger a review upon payment of €250 million but, despite €633 million being paid, the review...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn is saying that it would have required more staff so that it would have been more thorough. The weekly reviews did not require more staff, so they were not as thorough as the review requirements in the Department's service-level agreement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn said in response to Deputy O'Connor that the Department was carrying out weekly reviews. Those reviews were worth nothing because they were not thorough. If they had been thorough, the Department would have had to acquire more staff, despite that its own service-level agreement referred to action at the €200 million level and to when payments reached €250 million,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: There was not a thorough review and the Department did not adhere to its own service-level agreement, which included limits, specifying that when funding reached a certain amount, a review would be carried out. Is Dr. Quinn aware of the number of businesses that received restart grants which have ceased trading?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn would have known about the revised payment in August, had the Department been carrying out reviews.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Does Dr. Quinn have the figure for those?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn said the Department would have known about those businesses that had ceased trading by the time the reformed scheme came around. What are the figures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn knew, coming here today, that there would be questions about the restart grant scheme. We have discovered that no reviews were carried out as they were supposed to be, per the service-level agreement. Despite Dr. Quinn saying that the Department would have known how many businesses had ceased trading by the introduction of the reformed scheme in August, she does not have the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Had the reviews been carried out, per the service-level agreement, the Department might have had this information to hand. I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General about his opinion of the practice of setting up a scheme based entirely on self-certification, and whether it would have been prudent to carry out those scheduled reviews according to the Department's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Yes, to a certain extent. I still think there was a lack of prudence in carrying out the scheduled reviews. Things that could have been picked up on were not. Why have it in the Department's service-level agreement if it is not going to be adhered to? It is part of the Department's service-level agreement but nothing was done about it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing the Broadcasting Sector as a Result of Covid-19: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: My question is for the IBI. I presume Mr. Purcell has read the general scheme of the online safety and media regulation Bill. Is he happy with that, or what changes would he like to see, apart from what he said earlier about the broadcasting levy to be removed. Are there any other changes he would like to see?