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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: 1002. To ask the Minister for Health the number of guests to be allowed at a wedding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: 1000. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to set up an email address for queries about the EU digital Covid-19 certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41523/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: 1370. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reinstating the phlebotomy service at Peamount Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42598/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: I thank the Minister to coming back to us today to provide further clarifications. I propose to ask a number of questions on which I will accept responses as they come through. We know that Katherine Zappone was appointed as an envoy in 2019 while she was serving as a Minister. Whose idea was it that she take on that role at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Katherine Zappone previously served as an envoy in 2019 while also serving as a Minister. Whose idea was it that she would be appointed an envoy at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: She did not volunteer herself to do the role at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: She may have put herself forward as a potential candidate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: I thank the Minister but he is not addressing the possibility that she came forward with the idea herself of serving as an envoy in 2019.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Okay. The descriptions in the correspondence have what I would call a very US-centric flavour. We heard the Secretary General talking about how the Biden Administration was making appointments. We see a memo in the correspondence which talks about the role of a special envoy being a somewhat US-specific one. EU member states typically use "ambassador-at-large" as a title instead. All of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Yes. I thank the Minister. Another one of her texts earlier in the process asked for an introduction to Samantha Power, who, of course, is a close aide of the Biden Administration. Did the Minister make that introduction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Very good. The Minister made a comment earlier that he is very often contacted by people in regard to their career choices. Young people who did the leaving certificate and filled out the CAO forms are today-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: We are all contacted but we are not all in the same position as the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Exactly. Indeed, the CAO points are coming out today and many of us will be contacted by young people in our constituencies, but we are not usually in a position to make up a tailor-made job and appoint them to it. Does the Minister see that this is a little bit different from the run-of-the-mill constituency query we might get?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Yes, her enthusiasm is very clear. That certainly is apparent. The Minister talked about his phone being hacked and deleting messages. Did he delete messages on advice, perhaps from a cybersecurity adviser or the Garda, or did he take it upon himself to do so? I refer not necessarily to these particular messages, although I am talking about them as well, but, in general, does he have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: The Minister has said that he had no reason to hang on to these exchanges. Does he now accept that, among other things, freedom of information obligations on designated officials and data protection require digital data to be preserved? Does he now understand why there was a reason to hang on to those exchanges?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: Moving on to the blurring between personal and public business, has the Minister ever used his private email account for public business?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

James Lawless: I will ask my last question because I am conscious of the time. Last week, I asked the Minister about how the Taoiseach came to have knowledge of this issue at the Cabinet meeting. At the time, we thought this issue had emerged a week or two previously. Given we now know that the specification had been discussed and perused in detail by Secretaries General and a number of Ministers over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys and Update on Afghanistan: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (31 Aug 2021)

James Lawless: The problem of coming in at this stage is that much of the ground has been trawled but I will try to be succinct and get to the point without going all round. The Minister said a few times, but I am still not entirely clear, that he briefed the Tánaiste in some detail. He also said he mentioned it to the Tánaiste a few weeks beforehand. Despite briefing the Tánaiste in some...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

James Lawless: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial assistance grants that are available to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39080/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Jul 2021)

James Lawless: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of an adequate bus stop pole (details supplied) at Fernslough, Killickaweeny, Kilcock, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40242/21]