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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Are the utility services playing ball?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: What has been the response of the banks?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Do the witnesses expect the employment level within the sectors to drop and will they be looking for assistance in terminating employment contracts and effecting redundancies and so on? Has there been reaction from members in all of this? What has been the response from Government?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Hospitality Sector (30 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: Essentially, what Mr. Cribben is asking for here is a huge injection in the July stimulus and for each Department and Minister to understand that this is urgent and required now.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Arts and Entertainment Sector (30 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: If I may go back to the question about the local authorities and their funding, in spite of the fact that it is local authority funding, it will now have to come from central government too because the local authorities are challenged. In Kilkenny, I am acutely aware of the great role the arts and the network relating to arts projects, festivals and so on play in the economy. Through the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Arts and Entertainment Sector (30 Jun 2020)

John McGuinness: What about the response by Government in terms of providing the necessary funding? In the context of not being able to get back fully until mid or late 2021, it is important from the figures that have been presented that they reflect the possibility of a longer recovery for the sector. There is a need to support EPIC and the other parts of the industry that act behind the scenes. I hope...

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

John McGuinness: The Chairman and Deputy Carroll MacNeill did very well this morning sorting out the problems of the world for the public.

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

John McGuinness: Is that what happened in the case of Seas Suas?

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

John McGuinness: Will that organisation be included?

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

John McGuinness: Okay.

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

John McGuinness: I will let my constituency colleague go first.

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

John McGuinness: I cannot say I am surprised or shocked by the evidence given by the witnesses today. Throughout the tenure of a number of Governments, the State has shown scant regard for front-line workers except, of course, when the house is on fire, when a pandemic is under way or when something terrible is happening. In those cases, the State is wonderful. The hypocrisy, disrespect and disregard for...

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...