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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is Deputy Colm Burke the next Fine Gael speaker?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: How long are you speaking for?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: There are 15 minutes to Fine Gael, however the Deputies divided it.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Parlon. I would like to give the floor to Deputy Murnane O'Connor, who I believe has seven and a half minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: We will have to stick to the time fairly strictly. Perhaps Mr. Parlon and Ms King could provide Deputy Murnane O'Connor with an answer in writing. We will move on to Fine Gael and then to Deputy McGuinness.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy McGuinness. Does Dr. McGuinness wish to come back on that or are we-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the three witnesses for coming here today and answering all the questions so fully. Before the next meeting, I will be in extensive contact with members to agree our work programme. Deputy Shanahan made the point that it would make sense for us to look at the extension of the private hospital contract before that extension is decided rather than afterwards, but we can only have a...
- Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I wish to return to a matter which was previously raised with the Minister, which is nurses. Obviously, we owe everybody in the front line a huge debt of gratitude, including nurses. We all have stood and applauded them, but nurses cannot live on applause alone. None of us can, although applause for politicians is rare and, maybe, deservedly so. Will the Minister set a deadline by which...
- Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister.
- Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: "Wash your hands" has been the most consistent mantra since this pandemic arrived in Ireland, perhaps the only consistent mantra. Throughout west Clare, a number of water schemes have completely outdated water mains, including Cooraclare, Doonbeg, Miltown Malbay and Mullagh. One has broken down four times since this pandemic arrived in Ireland. The Irish Water staff locally have done an...
- Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister very much for the personal approach she has adopted. I am very conscious that my colleague also has a question.
- Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: We are in the middle of a decade of commemorations. It is important to remember and commemorate the role of artists and culture in that, in affirming Irish Independence and even justifying Irish Independence in a certain way. Why are we an independent State? What makes us different? What was the impetus to become an independent State? It very much related to culture and cultural...
- Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate the Minister is answering the question, but I am conscious that Deputy Connolly afforded me time.
- Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Could the Minister respond to my questions within the five minutes allocated to me? Deputy Connolly also has five minutes. As the Minister knows, on 27 March the House gave extraordinary powers to the Minister for Health to introduce regulations. For almost two weeks, people adhered to the medical recommendations without any regulations. They were introduced on 7 April. The Minister was...
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Rather than run down the clock-----
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: -----does the Minister think this is a fair way to treat workers?
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does the Minister think it is fair to lay them off under the cover of a lockdown?
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Has the Minister no sense of fairness to workers?
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Towards the end of the last Dáil, the Minister met with Clare Bus and the National Transport Authority about an ongoing dispute between them over moneys owed. Some 50 days ago, I wrote to him to outline the situation. The contract had been pulled at the last minute and Clare Bus effectively lost the tender that it had won. During those 50 days in which I have not received a reply from...
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Michael McNamara: Yes. I wrote an email to the Minister's office. I also left two messages on what I was told was his mobile phone.