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Brexit (Foreign Affairs): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

John Brady: Now that the reality of Brexit is here we are left to deal with its wide-reaching implications, especially in the areas of trade and fisheries. Politically, the advent of Brexit, with its accompanying unleashing of English nationalism, has made the future of the British union one of the central political issues for the next decade. The unification of Ireland is now an urgent political issue...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (21 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration will be given to removing the measure of charging married women the full cost of attaining a new passport that they incur if they have taken their husband's surname; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the transport grant and July provision scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3170/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all areas of horticulture can operate under level 5 public health restrictions; if not, if work is limited to certain types of horticulture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3345/21]

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

John Brady: Following an initial period in the immediate aftermath of the 1 January deadline, when haulage traffic was much reduced, primarily due to stockpiling by companies, we are now facing into the full implications of Brexit and the withdrawal agreement that was designed to avoid the chaos that a no-deal scenario would have introduced. Measured against the undoubted catastrophe that the failure to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 514. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that a number of private companies under HSE contracts are administering the home testing kits SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test in order to circumvent self-isolation periods for staff; if guidelines have been issued for such testing; if the efficacy of this testing process been established; the criteria and-or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to either suspend or provide some form of relief on benefit-in-kind taxation on company cars given that a person with a company vehicle is liable to pay a considerable amount of tax due to not meeting business mileage quotas due to the impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Transport (13 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the July provision scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44906/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (13 Jan 2021)

John Brady: 572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if class S PRSI is considered to be compulsory insurance under Articles 8 and 12 of the Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland signed on 1 February 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1027/21]

Brexit Readiness for the End of the Transition Period: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

John Brady: We are rapidly approaching the midnight hour that will mark the introduction of Brexit. The closer we get to that moment, the more I am reminded of the work of the historian Professor Christopher Clark, who described the great powers of Europe in the fateful summer of 1914 as sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff as the Continent obliviously inched towards the ensuing catastrophe. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Fire Service (17 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 113. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Working Time Directive applies to the retained fire service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38396/20]

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

John Brady: The Minister for Foreign Affairs is on the record as saying that Ireland will do well from the Brexit adjustment fund. I believe the Minister of State has also said that he expects us to get the lion's share of this €5 billion. I know that the French, under President Macron, have their eyes on this fund. They expect to use it to look after their fishermen. What actions is the...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

John Brady: As a matter of record, my concerns and those of my party over the disparate allocations of resources from the EU Covid recovery fund are well established. With the dual challenges faced by our country through the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, Ireland merits consideration of a fairer allocation of funding than that envisaged at present. As things stand and as we are all aware, Ireland will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (16 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to secure the release of a person (details supplied) currently being prevented from leaving China by the authorities there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44346/20]

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statements (15 Dec 2020)

John Brady: While this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, it also marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima in August of this year marked the day Ireland ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Those two events, 75 years apart, stand in stark contrast...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (15 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 291. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he can undertake to raise awareness through the EU of the plight of a journalist (details supplied) who has been tortured and is being detained illegally in Belarus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43054/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive their payment under the school transport grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43366/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (15 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to use the old Wicklow district hospital building for respite and long-term care support in the form of a day care centre for the elderly of County Wicklow. [43413/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to reopen 20 beds in the former Wicklow district hospital in Wicklow town; and his plans for same. [43414/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (10 Dec 2020)

John Brady: 30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans in place for the old disused Bray Courthouse on the Boghall Road, Bray, County Wicklow; and if she will engage with Wicklow County Council with a view to handing it over for community use. [39662/20]