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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: What constitutes adequate PPE? Can children safely be in the one space at the one time? We should know now where we are going on these issues. There is a significant amount of PPE in the country, with a sizeable stock warehoused very close to where I come from in east Clare. Availability of hand sanitiser should not be a difficulty. I am sure it would not be beyond the capability of a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I presume that advice has been provided. The Department has sought and obtained that advice.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: That is true, but preparations are in place for everybody. As of now, all students will go back to school in September.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: The impression I got from Mr. Tattan's response to Deputy Ó Laoghaire on summer provision is that the Department did not expect to be able to proceed with it and that is one of the reasons more hours are not available. That is concerning. The advice received was not what the Department expected. Suddenly, it was possible for summer provision to be made available. The Department found...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: Although it may have come as a surprise to the Department that it was going to able to provide summer provision and that might explain the difficulties in that regard, the Minister was asked about the programme on several occasions in the House in May and at all times he anticipated that it would be provided.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 1: To delete the words “June, 2021” and substitute the following: “January, 2021, before which date a report of the Law Reform Commission into the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 shall be requested by the Attorney General to be completed no later than the 31st December, 2020. The Attorney General shall, as soon as may be, send a copy of the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I am pressing the amendment. I believe the Law Reform Commission should look at this issue while the law is continuing in force.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: It is not agreed. Vótáil.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 2: To delete the words "June, 2021" and substitute the following: "January, 2021, before which date a report of the Law Reform Commission into the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 to 1998 shall be requested by the Attorney General to be completed no later than the 31st December, 2020. The Attorney General shall, as soon as may be, send a copy of the report to the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: It is time the Law Reform Commission considered this issue.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I have already. Deputy Pa Daly probably has more experience of the criminal courts than everyone else in this Chamber put together and he made the point that many of the gangland trials were carried out in normal courts and that much of what affects trials is not neutered by having it in the Special Criminal Court because there still are witnesses and there is no more witness protection in...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: -----that can be taken. I am not going to propose them now but would ask that the Law Reform Commission look into this.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I understand I cannot technically move the amendment until the earlier amendments are dealt with. I intend to press the amendment.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I will move the amendment. I would like to get on to the substance of it. I welcome that the Minister will carry out a review but what is a review? If it is something that his Department will examine internally, I regret that I cannot have much confidence in that. We know what the Department thinks is necessary because the Minister put the motion before us, as he did last year and the...

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

Michael McNamara: We will wait for Deputy Carroll MacNeill.

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

Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy McGuinness. That is what we were elected to do. We have been notified that Deputies Rabbitte, Whitmore, Costello, Barry and Sherlock will substitute for their party colleagues today. Are the minutes from 16 and 18 June agreed? Agreed. We have received 12 items of correspondence, which I will take as noted. Members will also have received written submissions for today's...

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

Michael McNamara: That is not an unreasonable proposal, but I suggest that we discuss it at Friday's working group meeting.

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

Michael McNamara: I have arranged for Deputy Carroll MacNeill to chair a session later today. I would like to move on to welcoming our witnesses if there is nothing further to discuss.

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

Michael McNamara: Indeed, I heard its representative in the media this morning. It is not a case of it being omitted; it is just a loaves and fishes operation because we are so confined with the number of sessions we can have and the number of people we can realistically bring in. It is not just from the point of view of what is safe but equally because a finite number of people can answer questions in two...

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

Michael McNamara: Deputy O'Reilly did indicate, in fairness.