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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: 855. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for elective eye surgery at University Hospital Limerick following a previous cancelled appointment in March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14453/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: 856. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for elective surgery at University Hospital Limerick following the cancellation of an appointment for 6 July 2020 with no rescheduled date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14456/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: We have been notified that Deputies Ó Cathasaigh, Hourigan, Devlin, Mairéad Farrell, Ó Laoghaire and Funchion will substitute for their party colleagues today. Are the minutes of the meetings of 30 June and 2 July agreed? Agreed. I will take the 11 items of correspondence received as noted. Deputy Doherty has submitted a questionnaire for commercial banks. I take it that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Deputy is available. Deputy Cullinane shared the Chair for the last one. That is great. I thank the Deputy.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I welcome our witnesses for this session on the overall fiscal and monetary position. We are joined from committee room 1 by the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf, and by Mr. Mark Cassidy, director of economics and statistics at the Central Bank. We are also joined by Mr. Frank O'Connor, director of funding and debt management at the National Treasury Management Agency,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Makhlouf. We will now take Mr. O'Connor's opening statement. I also ask him to please limit it to five minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. O'Connor. I now open the floor to the first speaker who is from Fine Gael. Does Deputy Carroll MacNeill wish to speak for five or ten minutes?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Deputy.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: Thank you, Governor and Deputy Doherty. I have a couple of brief follow-up questions. You issued a directive or a letter to insurance companies saying they should treat Government guidance to close as a direction to close. Did you ever communicate to the Government that it needed to direct bars to close in order for the bars to be able to recover from insurance companies?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: Are you sure that you did not?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: To avoid this mess.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: Is the Central Bank a notice party to any of the ongoing cases?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: Is it a notice party either? No. I refer to insurance companies. One letter I saw required publicans to identify cases of Covid-19 within 20 miles of their establishment. At that time, as the HSE and NPHET were not saying where particular cases were occurring, it was impossible for pubs to do that. Since then, the Central Statistics Office, CSO, has published the breakdown of cases per...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: The CSO published the breakdown of incidences per DED, which tend to be quite small. That breakdown would enable publicans, or any businesses, to pinpoint their proximity to an incidence of Covid-19.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: On 7 April. That is correct.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: In any event, it has been overcome by the CSO data which were subsequently published. I thank Mr. Makhlouf. I call Deputy Hourigan.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I take it that Deputy Nash is substituting for Deputy Duncan Smith.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Makhlouf.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I am going to have to move on to the next speaker.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I have allowed every speaker until now to go over time. I do not want to discriminate against Deputies Michael Collins, Boyd Barrett and Shanahan but I ask them to stay within their time. All of the subsequent speakers will have to remain within their time to ensure everybody gets in.