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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: 454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of extending the local authority rates waiver for tourism and hospitality to the end of 2021. [17610/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: 1236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing the tourism and hospitality sector with key indicators and conditions that will need to be met in order for them to reopen their businesses including the percentage of the adult population that will need to be vaccinated in order for businesses to open; the level of community transmission required for reopening; if tourism and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: 1237. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to continue to differentiate between so called wet pubs and pubs that serve food in reopening plans for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17625/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I had indicated to ask questions after the opening statements, etc.

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I thank Mr. McMahon for coming before the committee today. The first thing I want to ask relates to test cases. Mr. McMahon's submissions to committees over the years seem to have focused on test cases and it has been apparent for some time that the Revenue and the Department of Social Protection have denied that these cases existed. Now that they have acknowledged that these cases did...

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: Mr. McMahon mentioned the scope section and its cases. Do we have any idea how many workers win cases in the scope section and how often that happens, once a final decision is made and the employer does not appeal?

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I was listening to an interview with Mr. McMahon as recently as last week. He had seen a draft of a social protection committee report. Can he give us an indication as to what he thought about that report? Was it accurate? Did it acknowledge failings? Did it give recommendations as to how this matter could be rectified? Did it give him confidence? The report I think Mr. McMahon refers...

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am just asking for Mr. McMahon's opinion from what he has seen of the draft report.

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: For clarification, I am just asking for the witnesses opinion of the draft report.

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: It appears, then, that Mr. McMahon has no confidence in the draft report. Am I correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: Mr. McMahon has no confidence in it.

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I just wanted that clear. From the Revenue and Department of Social Protection submissions, it seems they still fail to see there is an issue with the current system. The question is where we go from here. ICTU's statement said that the only effective resolution to this long-standing matter is the introduction of legislative measures whereby all workers are classified as direct employees...

Public Accounts Committee: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: Mr. McMahon stated that the greatest impediment to resolving this was the Department of Social Protection ignoring case law. Should reviews be done of all decisions that were made by the appeals office? Is that an avenue worth chasing? Let us assume we are trying to tackle this issue, deal with it with some finality and correct all the failings. If the Minister is unwilling to champion...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am proud to have the opportunity to support my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh’s Bill. It supports the 1916 relatives’ regeneration plan to create a cultural quarter around Moore Street and will preserve the built heritage of the street. The Bill does three key things: it gives legal recognition to a Moore Street cultural quarter; protects the built heritage of Moore...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: 1194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that fake negative Covid-19 test certificates and documentation are being sold to persons enabling them to avoid travel restrictions; the mechanism in place to ensure that all negative Covid-19 test certificates and documentation produced on arrival at ports and airports in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I agree with the Chairman. There are a hell of a lot of unanswered questions. When HRI appeared before the committee, it outlined the situation as regards funding of CCTV and indicated that, following installation at a single racecourse stables in 2017, funding had been provided to extend the installation to all courses. We were made aware that, at the start of 2018, a change in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: The committee previously expressed disappointment that the Eversheds Sutherland report was not published and that we only received it in summary format. I understand that RTÉ will appear before the committee in the next couple of weeks. Could we write and ask it to publish that report in full in advance of appearing before us, and if it could do so now? I also find it strange that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: Please, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: The bulk of the correspondence actually just gives the technical details of how many cases of whistleblowers there were and how the Department has dealt with them. I know we have dealt with the allegations arising from cases when we had the Department of Justice and the Irish Prison Service before the committee. Sometimes, however, we lose sight of the effect that being a whistleblower...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: I would be shocked by the tone of the communication that we received had we not dealt with Caranua before in the committee. There are a couple of oversights in the correspondence that I wanted to flag. Ms Downes in her correspondence highlighted that she never contended that the committee did not have the permission of the two survivors to discuss their cases. We knew fine well, however,...