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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (31 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff directly from within his Department with responsibility for home care services in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by grade in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17391/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: We have a number of witnesses so we will start. It is fine if any member joins in later. This engagement is with the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Alan Renwick, deputy director of the constitution unit at University College London, Dr. Etain Tannam and Dr. David Kenny from Trinity College Dublin and Professor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Do Dr. Renwick's colleagues wish to make a contribution at this stage or will I proceed to questions and answers? If his colleagues wish to say anything now, they can do so if he wants to nominate them or they can speak whenever they wish. I am trying to keep the engagement informal as best I can even though I am wearing a mask. We have a two-hour time slot so at every meeting we rotate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is not absolutely clear. My apologies, but can you speak again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, I can hear you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have to move on. The first ten-minute slot has now finished, so we will take Fianna Fáil followed by Fine Gael.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. I made clear at the beginning that it does include questions and answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree with the principle. I want to get as free a flow as I can. If we take Fianna Fáil now, we will then go back to Fine Gael, the SDLP, the Alliance Party, Independents, Aontú, Sinn Féin again, the Labour Party and the Green Party. That is what we agreed and I will try to stick to it. I hear what the Deputy is saying. I will take the Fianna Fáil speaker or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: That finishes that ten-minute period, more or less. I call Deputy Carroll MacNeill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Our guests have six minutes to respond to those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Would our guests like to reply to any of those points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. Dr. Tannam may go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is okay. I am advised by the clerk that there are technical issues with cameras. I ask everybody to turn off their cameras and turn them on again before we get back to the session. The next speakers are from Sinn Féin and they will be followed by speakers from the Labour Party and Green Party, if that is okay. After that we will have done a full round within the first hour,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: The witnesses have five minutes for a response before we move to the Labour Party members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: If it is in order I propose to take the Labour Party next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will take the answer to that question but I ask the Deputy to work with me on this. I suggest we take the Labour Party next, following which each party will have five minutes. That should get us to the end of the meeting in terms of time. I will ask a couple of questions also. If the Deputy wants the question answered now, that is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will ask a couple of questions before we start the rounds again. The rotation will be as we had at the start of the meeting. If it is fair I ask members to keep their contributions to five minutes. We will have Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, SDLP, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, Independents, Aontú, Senator Frances Black, Sinn Féin again, the Labour Party and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Does Dr. Tannam wish to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I ask the Deputy to speak closer to her microphone please because we cannot hear her too clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: We do not know what the Deputy is saying.