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Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of plans to reopen society and the economy when level 5 Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. [38080/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Taoiseach for repeating all that. Yesterday was obviously a big day and Friday will be another big day. Regarding the trajectory of the virus, we do not know what that will be, obviously, but consideration might be given to when the Government is going to make some announcements concerning 6 January. I am not asking the Taoiseach what he is going to announce, just when that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: In fairness to the professor, he cannot make those decisions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I accept that, but other people are given a little bit more latitude than I am.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: Regarding the Covid-19 passport, the committee has to be given guidance concerning what rules it must implement for such a passport.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I am not sure if the Taoiseach is aware that a number of section 39 workers represented by SIPTU and Fórsa are demonstrating outside his constituency office in Cork at the moment. They have submitted a claim for pay restoration which the Labour Party supports. These workers have done Trojan work throughout the pandemic and are most valuable members of our community. I sat beside the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: They said they were in what?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: We also do not need a situation where the communications on how we are going to implement all of this will be done once or twice a year in the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach is going to be busy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: It is under the Department of the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: They were of a different scale.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: Yesterday, I raised the requirement to have a Minister in charge of the roll-out of vaccinations for Covid-19. In fairness, the Taoiseach said he would consider the issue. I hope he does so by the end of this week. I fundamentally believe we need one. The volume of people who have been in contact with me agree. We must have a situation where somebody working in this eminent task force is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate the information the Taoiseach has provided to the House. This is not in any way about politics, and I mean that sincerely. My party believes we must up our game here. The Taoiseach will be aware of the adage, "Fail to prepare, prepare to fail", from his fellow Cork man. We cannot have that. We must get it right. I fully support the Taoiseach in this regard. However,...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I have been spokesperson on health for several years and have sat in committees with the current Minister for Health. I put it to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, that it is very disappointing that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, cannot be here for this debate, considering what he has said in the past on this issue, including having queried why so many of our nurses were abroad and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (2 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the estimate cost to the State to pay student nurses for all mandatory on-the-job training they undertake as part of their studies if the wage scale was set at the same level as the apprenticeship training allowance based on the gross wage norms for the sector. [40623/20]

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (1 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: We will be supporting this increase for this fund for both the racing and greyhound industries, although it may be slightly wrong to describe the greyhound industry in that way as it is really more of a hobby. We give this support with many qualifications. I will speak on both horse racing and greyhound racing. The first qualification is that I do not have confidence in the Irish Greyhound...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on social affairs and equality is next due to meet; and when it last met. [38078/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I have a few questions on the reopening of the country, which begins today. To show the public that we are not always fighting in here, I acknowledge that the Government took on board a suggestion from me last week regarding health workers who were in contact with me about covering the Christmas period. It was that those without children or with grown-up children would cover the Christmas...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: We need clarity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (1 Dec 2020)

Alan Kelly: I hope the Taoiseach believed all that. The Labour Party established the Policing Authority and it will do everything it can to ensure that it, or a version of it, is maintained into the future. My colleague, Deputy Howlin, drove that development. Successive reports of the authority, whose work I commend, showed that An Garda Síochána was not moving at the pace it should. One of...