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

Fergus O'Dowd: I am just making the point.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: The point I am making is that the limitation we have is the two-hour session.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: I just want to make one point. I appreciate that the Chairman understands all this but I want to articulate it clearly. I will have questions, not necessarily today, which will exceed five minutes because I expected to have ten minutes with the witnesses. That is the point I want to make, but I am not objecting today.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: I just want to make the point that, as I understood it, the Chairman's initial proposal was that we would all have ten minutes.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: The problem is that the same witnesses will not be there.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: I have made the point and we will take it from there.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not disagree.

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

Fergus O'Dowd: I think we need to go into private session.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I propose to use two and half minutes. I have one question and I ask the witnesses to respond as they wish. First, I congratulate them on their excellent professionalism, their work and their credibility. I want to tell all the health workers who have given so much to all of us, and all the essential workers in the country, how much we respect them for what they have done. I want to ask...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Chairman is very kind and has been very fair. I want to back up Deputy McGuinness in what he has said. The fact is that there is a person in my constituency who has cancer and who had a procedure cancelled two weeks ago. He and his consultant are both at home and there is nobody in the operating theatre where this procedure could have been done. That is not acceptable. It is hugely...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I very much welcome the return to work. I live in a town that produces a lot of cement. We have a cement factory in the town and we are delighted that business is beginning again and that people are getting back to work. Seeing more lorries and people involved in construction on the road down here and back is very welcome. I accept and acknowledge that this will only work properly if the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am emotional because it is so important.

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will share time with Deputies Feighan, Higgins and Heydon. I welcome the Minister back to the Dáil and wish him every success. My first point relates to MetroLink and BusConnects. It is essential that these projects proceed. There must be no go-slow on them. The statement today from the very eminent representative of the National Bus and Rail Union, Mr. Dermot O'Leary, who makes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNA allocations will progress as normal in 2020 or if unnecessary delays will take place whilst Government formation talks take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the staffing arrangements for a school (details supplied) will be reviewed as a matter of urgency in respect of the publication of staffing arrangements in primary schools for the 2020/2021 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4526/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial measures that will be taken to support bus sub-contractors that are contracted by Bus Éireann to provide school transport during the imposed closure of schools from 13 to 29 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic victims that have presented to State services in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4430/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 558. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4417/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sporting Rights (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 986. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Six Nations Championship will be designated as being of major importance to society that must be screened live on a free-to-air television service here in order to ensure that the majority of the population can continue to watch the championship in the future without needing a costly subscription to a private...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (13 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1106. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on reports (details supplied) in respect of the treatment of child abuse victims; if changes in respect of the process will take place; the measures that will be taken to ensure child abuse victims will feel safe and secure to pursue complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4525/20]