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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes can be made to ensure that telecommunications assistance can be enhanced in order that applicants with queries concerning rent supplement allowance can be supported as efficiently and as expeditiously as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures can be introduced to ensure that students who sat the leaving certificate in 2019 or earlier are not subjected to the obvious unfairness caused by grade inflation in the 2020 leaving certificate results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in place to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23620/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken to introduce equality legislation prohibiting discrimination on grounds of socio-economic disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23625/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the White Paper on direction provision will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when all parts of the Judicial Council Act 2019 will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a statutory inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23615/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 718. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has stopped providing the median age of those whot died with or of Covid-19 since 12 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23621/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the ICU capacity in hospitals; the extent to which this has been increased as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23622/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women availing of cervical screening since 1 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23623/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tribunals of Inquiry (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 721. To ask the Minister for Health when the statutory tribunal established for the purpose of assessing claims against the State arising from its negligence in the provision of cervical screening shall be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23624/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Trade Fairs (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 270. To ask the Minister for Health when business to business trade fairs will be permitted to recommence. [22840/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Lord Sumption and Dr. Buquicchio for giving of their time and sharing their expertise. I direct my first questions to Lord Sumption. Obviously, the pandemic is an extraordinary event, but it is not an unprecedented one. However, the response of political systems in Ireland and around the world has been unprecedented. In terms of that political response, has too much emphasis has...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I refer to the laws that this House of the Oireachtas creates. Obviously, we are all politicians in this room and I am conscious that the witness is a lawyer, but the laws that we make are very much moulded by policy decisions and the reaction that we have to the event, namely, the pandemic. I have a concern that in our response to this pandemic, we are not taking into account other...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: Obviously every crisis produces its own vocabulary, and the word that this crisis has produced, which seems to instill fear in the Irish people, and I think it probably also instills fear in people throughout Europe and the rest of the world, is this term of "a lockdown". As the witness has indicated, that is a legal measure that the state can introduce for what it believes to be the purpose...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: Members of the Irish Parliament are in a different position from members of the United Kingdom Parliament because there is a written Constitution in this country and we as politicians cannot enact any law which is inconsistent with our written Constitution. We have that supervisory shroud above us to prevent us going beyond what is permitted by the Constitution. However, when one looks at...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: May I ask Dr. Buquicchio a question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will. Dr. Buquicchio stated that any measures taken by a state in response to the pandemic should be proportionate. Proportionality is a principle in this country's legal system and that of most European countries. When do the laws which have been introduced here and which seem to be consistent with laws throughout Europe extend beyond what is proportionate?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Dr. Buquicchio.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Negotiations (8 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Financial Timesreported yesterday that the British Government intended to introduce legislation that would have the effect of not only undermining but breaking the withdrawal agreement entered into by the European Union and the Government of the United Kingdom. It was stated then that this was merely sabre-rattling or gamesmanship. Today, however, the Secretary of State for Northern,...