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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if correspondence with a company (details supplied) since 1 January 2020 in relation to support measures to assist the company to cope with the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic will be provided; the dates of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18000/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if correspondence with a company (details supplied) since 1 January 2020 in relation to support measures to assist the company to cope with the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic will be provided; the dates of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18001/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Control (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: 289. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide copies of all relevant communications and correspondence between her Department, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the EU Commission and the EU Directorate-General for the Environment on a matter (details supplied), including all such relevant communications and correspondence exchanged with those EU...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the operational guidelines for the pandemic unemployment payment. [18105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: 578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the general scheme for the pandemic unemployment payment. [18106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the review and appeals process for the pandemic unemployment payment. [18107/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: On that point, I think the explanation given today lacks any credibility. I know how heavily regulated the airport is. If a children's choir wants to welcome people home at Christmas in the arrivals hall, it needs permission. To think social welfare inspectors can rock up on the land side of the airport and question people without the DAA knowing or without seeking permission defies all...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: That is somewhat encouraging. I disagree that it is early days. Almost every Member in this Chamber questioned the previous Minister, Shane Ross, in the Chamber a number of months ago about testing and testing capability. We have always known aviation would take a huge hit and be one of the last sectors, if not the last, to recover. We talk about confidence. I do not think we are as far...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Gray and I have one final question. Since this started, has this Government or the interregnum Government ever come to Mr. Gray with an offer or proposal to keep the DAA viable through this? Has either Government said it would guarantee the operation by investing a certain number of millions of euro to protect jobs and the viability of the DAA?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I will address my first question to Aer Lingus. A great deal of the lack of confidence in the safety of foreign travel among the public at the moment is to do with flights coming in from North America, in particular the United States, given the levels of Covid there and how the virus still seems to be out of control. Do the witnesses have any comment on what could be done to improve public...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: No one disputes the value of the North American routes and aviation in general. While the ordinary person on the street does not have the figures, he or she does understand that it is vital for the economy that we have an aviation sector that is thriving. I am glad the witness mentioned testing as being part of the solution. This is a common theme that has come from this committee since its...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I am also interested in Mr. Wilson's comments on that. I cannot believe we are only starting this. This should have been done a couple of months ago. If Mr. Wilson could comment I would appreciate it.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I acknowledge that both submissions today advocate and support the use of testing, with that from IALPA regarding people coming in and out of the country and that from SIPTU concerning workers. That is significant, it must be acknowledged and the Government and companies need to take cognisance of it. I thank the witnesses for their submissions in that regard. I will ask Mr. McGowan two...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. McGowan for mentioning the third-party support services, which have been as affected as every other element of the aviation sector. Mr. Cullen pointed to a slide on the situation in IAG airlines. It is quite stark and it lets a question hang, which I would like to ask him to expand on. What does he think IAG is planning for Aer Lingus?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: It is pretty stark.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I had a question for Mr. O'Leary but it has already been answered. I thank him for his contribution on face masks in general. He was doing it from a position of protecting his workers, which was fantastic. He was an early and ferocious public voice for the provision of face masks and that transcended his workers and public transport users in general. It helped move us forward as a society...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: It is fair to say that the voice of the ordinary taxi driver is not being heard proportionately in any way on the taxi advisory committee.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: Travel is indeed on the floor. The airport is in my constituency, so I am keenly aware of that. However, I do not think that any of the three of us is engaging in hyperbole in asking questions of the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: In fairness, Deputy Boyd Barrett was very confident in his delivery and all that, but what he is saying is spot on and it is exactly how I feel and how I think Deputy McDonald and others in this House feel. There is an issue with using the wording "green light". Green means go, as I said on the radio yesterday morning, and it was a political decision to give implicit permission in this...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: I would be interested to know if the committee met last night in advance of the Cabinet meeting. As we know, the Cabinet meeting was delayed by an hour and a half or more. My assumption, which may be incorrect, is that the green list articulated in public by the Tánaiste may have fed into a committee meeting and delayed the Cabinet meeting in turn. I am interested to know what...