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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparation that has been undertaken to facilitate urgent same-day Covid-19 tests for teachers to allow for the continuity of care of children, the building of relationships and in order to ease anxiety of both children and teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23995/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 791. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide care for post-Covid-19 patients who may suffer ongoing fatigue or develop post-viral fatigue syndrome and if unable to get the correct advice and support may go on to develop myalgic encephalomyelitis; and if appropriate care is being provided for those at risk [23997/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What the Chairman has said is very important as it speaks to the empathy shared by everybody on this committee and in the Parliament. We go about our work in a technical way but there are people on this committee who lost close relatives in nursing homes because of Covid-19 and they share the personal experience of so many families. That is being represented today. We also go about our...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There was mention of the number of inspections in different contexts. There was also mention of 267 "inspector days". I am trying to get a handle on what this means in reality. How many days does it take to do an inspection? Would it take one or two days? How many inspectors are involved? Would it be one or two inspectors? Will the witnesses give me just a bit more colour on what those...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The authority operates in a particular context and there is an urgent need to inspect as often and regularly as possible. This will have an impact on the way it plans its operations, including the length of time it can spend in a facility and the number of inspections it can do. Three or four years ago, how many inspections were typically being done, how long were they taking and how many...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On foot of the change, has there been any dilution in the availability of inspections or in the robustness in the process? These things can happen so easily with a different plan.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The witness mentioned to Deputy Devlin that inspections increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. What was the increase in question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will the witness be brief as my colleague needs to make some comments before time runs out?

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry, but we lost the connection with the committee room for a few seconds. I thank the two witnesses for attending and being of assistance to the committee today. The rule of law and its operation are always important and never more so than when citizens are in real danger from any source, be it an external threat or what we have all experienced in the last number of months. While...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you. Dr. Buquicchio referred to the "margin of appreciation". What specifically does he mean by that, in respect of the judicial review? Is he saying that governments basically have a large degree of flexibility in the approach that they are taking and as long as they are not actually transgressing on civil liberties they can take a broader approach in these circumstances? I ask him...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Obviously, Dr. Buquicchio has gone through the different parliamentary and executive responses in different parts of Europe. Our own research in this Parliament indicates that the real difficulty has been the voting arrangements in different parliaments. Parliaments have come up with different solutions for ways of meeting and for scrutinising executive decisions in the management of the...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Specifically, the problem we have with the Irish Constitution is that it requires Members to be in a particular physical place when meeting and when voting as Members of Parliament. That has been a barrier to exercising the required degree of parliamentary scrutiny so we are trying to look to the future to see what arrangements we might make. I wish to ask Lord Sumption about what he said...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is Lord Sumption's view on the exercise of voting rights by Members of Parliament and their being present for voting? I ask him to address the functionality of the Parliament in terms of confirming the regulations.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree. One of the proposals the committee may consider is the provision of remote voting to enable all Deputies to participate. I thank the witnesses for their participation.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is no problem. Dr. Kenny's point is interesting because this committee was faced with the challenge of how we would meet, how we would take privilege, hear from witnesses and afford them privilege and so on. There is a practical difficulty with what he is saying, although it is interesting and I agree with him and I would love to discuss it with him in detail. There is a practical...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is certainly worth considering. These are questions this committee asked several times. At the end of the day, when we are stuck with the legal advice we have, it seems difficult. It would be nice to be able to pursue these things in a speculative way to try to get better answers, but of course that is not an option for us at the moment. I will go back to my other questions. Deputy...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is an ongoing communications challenge. The committee heard evidence from behavioural scientists and other public health experts. One of the scientific experts questioned the common sense behind the requirement for a €9 meal and how it protects the public, as have many other people, but the behavioural scientists from another university responded that when a person is engaged in...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I totally agree. We have all learned a significant amount about the way in which this is communicated. Every time we get an answer and explanation about the balance relating to choices that have to be made in terms of reducing contacts generally in the community, we learn more about it. People deserve to be given the respect of knowing the reason for different things but, as Mr. Murphy...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is no problem. I will come back in later.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On that point, I am just suggesting that-----