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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy O'Dowd would like to contribute first.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy to yield three to the Chair. There is a huge array of recommendations here and I will focus on those on visiting nursing homes. The first recommendation in that section refers to balancing personal freedoms and public health measures. However, in the plan published yesterday, it seems clear that at a particular point in the scale, there will be suspension of nursing home...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: To be more specific, the report talks about additional facilities and such facilities would need to be funded. What model and level of funding would be applied?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: It would be incredibly important. I know from my own family and from many other families that visiting other people with PPE and protective gear makes the visit almost more traumatic than the absence of a visit. We need to make sure that whatever facilities there are ease some of these concerns or make PPE less necessary by having physical barriers. We want to make sure any facility put in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I am surprised that visitors are not necessarily a source of infection but as part of the Government's plan published yesterday, it is very clear that under level 3, visits, aside from critical or compassionate circumstances, would be suspended. My worry is that if we were to be in level 3 for a long time it would have a significant impact on people in nursing homes. I have run out of time...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Minister of State outlining some of the difficulties with the site, but it is clearly water long under the bridge since 2012. What people want to know now is, first, when will the design team be initiated? I appreciate that the Minister of State confirmed it will be appointed, but when will that be done? Second, is the funding in the capital programme to deliver this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State for his bona fides on this issue. I acknowledge that he is taking the question on behalf of the Minister. We have a very strong team in the Department, led by the Minister and the Ministers of State. I hope that they, working with me and other Government Deputies who represent the area, will be able to deliver on the commitments in the programme for Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 43. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Finglas primary care centre [22250/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler, Rabbitte and Feighan, to the House. Having waited eight years for a Minister to champion their primary care centre, the people of Finglas will be delighted that three Ministers of State have come along all at once. This project dates back to 2012. The HSE, local GPs, elected representatives and the community all agree on the need for a...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 150. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of full-time staff by job title working in the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as of 1 September 2020. [23725/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Commencement of Legislation (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when sections 1-68 of Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 comes into effect. [23722/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assistance that can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied). [23783/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a backdated pandemic unemployment payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23339/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (15 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 732. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing numbers for the HSE pest control services in CHO 9; and if there are vacancies awaiting to be filled. [23721/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dublin receiving an ancillary services grant in tabular form. [23195/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria required and the way in which a school applies for a full-time caretaker. [23196/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Autism Support Services (9 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. In the immediate aftermath of the election, the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, said that there was an urgent need to provide the country with a functioning government. In outlining the many reasons why that was needed, he spoke very passionately about how parents of children with a disability must fight to secure a place each September for their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Autism Support Services (9 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State. At the heart of her reply, as well as the experience of any parents who sit before us at a clinic explaining their real urgency and frustration, is the issue of transparency. Many of those parents do not feel part of the process but feel they are subject to the process. Many do not believe there is transparency about how a school or ASD unit is established,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the witnesses attending the committee today. Dr. Ronan Glynn, on RTÉ on Friday night, talked about us closing chapter one and moving into chapter two, where chapter one was about us suppressing a huge outbreak of a disease that we we were very unfamiliar with, and chapter two is about us learning to live with this virus. The actions that were taken in the first chapter may...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: While I share the witness's concerns on the broader point, I must say that I have not met, in my clinic, anybody who said that they have been removed from the payment on the ground of genuinely seeking work, nor have I heard tell of this from any of my colleagues. So, the questions is, is it a current and legitimate concern, or a broader concern regarding the overall legislation in the...