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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not looking for a number and I appreciate that would be an impossible question for Professor Nolan to answer. Does he think it is extremely unlikely? Does he think it is highly likely? Does he have absolutely no sense of how likely it is?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Professor Nolan. The letter also states that those who run public transport are planning for 20% of normal capacity, pub and restaurant owners are planning for 30% and school authorities for 50%. The healthcare system is planning and operating at a reduced rate 20% to 50% throughout the system. Is it the understanding of our guests that these will be ongoing reductions in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Would Professor Nolan foresee society getting back to full capacity by the end of this year?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Would Professor Nolan foresee schools, restaurants and businesses opening up to full capacity by the end of the year, along with the healthcare system?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have been listening intently, both in my office and here. I wish to ask a question on which I imagine the witnesses and certainly some of their members are spending time, which is the strategy for ensuring that we can reopen our economy and our businesses, big and small, and ensure that they continue to operate a high level of capacity. Both Mr....

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I will take the first five minutes.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The remaining speakers will take two and a half minutes each.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Everybody would prefer to have his or her own slot, if he or she could.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: We might rely on your laser-like focus to make sure everybody gets his or her time.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to ask the Minister about two different areas. One is the screening services, and I thank him for the update on that, and the second is the contract with private hospitals. The screening services obviously had to be closed down. We screen approximately 3,000 women and men a day. Closing them for three months has meant that 170,000 screenings, or thereabouts, have not happened....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (3 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if the banks are allowed to withdraw mortgage offers due to applicants being put on the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied). [8654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision programme will be extended to six weeks or 60 hours of tuition (details supplied). [9080/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision programme will be extended to six weeks or 60 hours of tuition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9081/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 539. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a new national medicine pricing agreement in 2020 and in place before the expiry of the existing agreement later in summer 2020; the engagements and negotiations that have taken place to date to reach a new agreement; the parties he engaged with in this regard; the estimated timeline for the conclusion of a new agreement; the negotiating...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 1010. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration of an overage exemption in the case of a child (details supplied) in view of exceptional circumstances will be granted. [8665/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: 1157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the rates exemption applied to businesses that had to close also applies to businesses that have partially opened including hotels that provide a very limited service such as takeaway and food. [9051/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all of the witnesses for coming to the committee. I thank their respective members for the Trojan work they have done over the past months. It has been quite extraordinary to see the level of skill and dedication as an entire clinical system geared up for a disease we had no idea how to treat when we did not know what it would do to our population. It has been an incredible show of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it Mr. Varley's understanding, and I put this question also to the clinicians here today, that some of this delayed care as a result of lower capacity is cancer patients and urgent care including diagnostics, outpatient clinics or surgery?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Varley. Do any of the representatives from the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, want to respond on the care that is being missed at the moment?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I will come to that and I agree. When I advocate for the ending of this contract, it is not to go back to the status quowhere public patients cannot access it. I am just trying to get a sense for the total quantum of care that we can now deliver to people in this country. I do not really care if they are public or private; they are people who need care. If there are 10,000 fewer of them...