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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Does that not mean the survey is fictitious?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: In Mr. Bell's experience as a trade unionist, has he experienced this type of exclusion - because that is what it is - in areas of the private sector in which there is union representation? Is it experienced only in dealings with Government and Government Departments?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: I do not have much time left.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: I have a question for Ms Ní Sheaghdha. Where is the blockage in regard to the INMO's direct involvement in the consultations or conversations with Departments or the HSE which she is saying the INMO was not involved in? I find it an outrageous treatment of workers' representatives that such exclusion should take place. Can Ms Ní Sheaghdha tell us why nurses have not been paid...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Will the Chairman allow Ms Ní Sheaghdha to finish her answer to me?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Yes, my slot will be there if it is wanted later. In the various submissions that have been made, surely over the years and in discussion with Government officials, Department officials and Ministers, they would have been aware of the demands the representative organisations are making of Government for funding for a better model of delivery for the sector. What has been the response? Are...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: I understand that, but the point is that as a result of the engagement it has carried out, the sector has built up a body of information that would inform the Department as to the amount of money that is required. Even before Covid-19, the Department or the Minister would have known that substantial financial intervention was required. Ms Daly referred to the survey that was carried out....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: In the few seconds I have left, I wish to state the community sector and the private sector are facing the same problems, as described by the witnesses and outlined in the submission of Seas Suas. It comes down to finance and supporting a new model. There was reference to a cost of €2 billion in the context of the Scandinavian model. We must strive towards some sort of goal and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: The committee heard earlier from the INMO and Crann Support Group. We had written submissions from other groups, including Seas Suas. During most of the commentary on the provision of healthcare for front-line workers, there has been criticism of the consultation process and how people were excluded to a degree, or at least not involved. What have the officials to say regarding this...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Does Dr. Lynch accept what the INMO said this morning in its opening statement that the Department's response to this has been poor and that it has let down the nursing and midwifery profession? The committee was told that the information provided in response to requests under freedom of information was less than adequate. Why was that the case?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Has the Department examined the survey carried out by Crann Support Group? This afternoon, Ms Marie Daly, its CEO, provided the committee with details of the survey which highlights several areas which the sector requires to be addressed. Has the Department examined that survey? What is its response to it?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: I raise this issue because what Dr. Lynch indicated in his opening statement almost contradicts the statements given to the committee earlier this afternoon by the representative organisations in the context of the co-operation between the groups and the Department. For example, the Crann survey states that 98% of respondents indicated they will have some level of financial difficulty in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Seas Suas and other organisations at the coalface of the delivery of this service are saying that the funding is insufficient. It is misleading to compare the allocation this year to that in previous years because the funding in place previously was insufficient and providers must now deal with the substantially greater issues raised by Covid-19 and the regulations. The representative...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: The sector is under serious financial pressure. What has been offered by the Department in the face of Covid-19, and planning for a second wave of the virus, is not sufficient and does not show real forward planning or thinking on the side of the Department, or a real understanding of the sector and the cost base that it must carry. As an aside, we have been told that there is only one...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Will it be a disappointing development?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Or maybe the Acting Chairman, one would not know.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: God is good.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (16 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Is it possible that the questions which went unanswered on which we were to be sent written reply would be flagged, given the quantity of correspondence being received, if the clerk does not mind?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (16 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Thanks. There was a written request from Seas Suas to come before the committee regarding childcare. I do not know whether the Chairman agreed to that but I would like to see that group come in.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (16 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: I ask that my interest be noted.