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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The letter of the law could save them there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is not viable and it needs to be dealt with as quickly as possible. My next query is probably a wider issue concerning more than just Mr. Hackett. Some travel agents are small, one to two-person operations. While there was an extension on tax returns this year, unless a person made his or her return in October and instead sought the later date in November - it is now December - it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I understand, but that is going to create difficulties for people like our witnesses because they are absolutely exposed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And they will have the protections that go with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that and the protections are actually killing the travel agents at the moment, to put it mildly. What I was talking about was putting in tax returns. It is a particular difficulty that I will refer to again. We definitely need to look at setting terms of reference for the aviation task force. It is very welcome that we are going to operate with the traffic light system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On testing, Senator Buttimer made a fair point and mentioned possibly inviting in the Minister, Deputy Donnelly. In any event, the Minister last Thursday spoke about HIQA carrying out antigen pilot tests. To me, that was being sold as a means of dealing with this solution. The question is why it has taken so long to start it. If that is the process we are going down-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Representatives from HIQA need to appear before us and they need to be people who have particular information about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As I said earlier, I am slightly annoyed by the answer we got on Wednesday from the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton. We all received a science lesson about testing and what is or is not good about antigen testing. When the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, was asked a question the next day, he replied that pilot schemes were about to be operated. I think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Am I correct in what the travel agent told me, namely, that if somebody decides to fly to a country on a green list and that destination then falls off the green list, and if that person then gets sick or whatever, there is a responsibility on the travel agent. That is how the travel agent I spoke to sold it to me. Is that an issue Mr. Hackett is aware of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. My point, and the one made to me, was that it was just another set of circumstances where travel agents have fallen between multiple stools-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Are we going to write to the commission?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is straightforward - carbon tax is an attack on rural Ireland and poor people. As has been stated, it is utterly lazy. People have no alternatives and the Government has offered none. This is a failure. Unless someone has €100,000 to pay for a high-end car, he or she will not see the benefit. That is just the way it is.

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Not by Sinn Féin.

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have said before that Covid-19 has highlighted the weaknesses we have in society, whether we are talking about housing, healthcare, workers' rights, or the ICU capacity we will need, and which we do not have at this point. From my perspective we are also dealing with the realities of the Border. I call on the Minister of State to bring again to Government the fact that there will be a...

Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Táim ag iarraidh eitilt ar leath-sciathán anois. Tá rud beag náire orm nach bhfuil mo chaighdeán chomh maith agus ba chóir dó a bheith. Ní chleachtaim minic go leor ach bainfimid triail as. Táimid ag caint ar an mBille seo agus ba chóir go mbeidh cabhair agus tacaíocht ag achan duine chun go mbeidh siad in ann a ghnó a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 48. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if troops who undertook predeployment quarantine in Aiken Barracks, Dundalk, have been paid the armed peace support allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29132/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of dentists, dental nurses, clinical dental technicians and orthodontists working in primary care sites in the CHO8 area in February 2020 and June 2020, in tabular form. [29262/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 244. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of dentists, dental nurses, clinical dental technicians and orthodontists aligned to primary care sites in the CHO8 area that are currently seconded on Covid-19 related activities. [29263/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Discussion (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All of this obviously makes sense. I do not think anyone would have thought about pilotage exemption certificates or anything like it when the Brexit vote went through initially but this is the madness we have to deal with. Is it the case that the Interbus Agreement will not kick in until the middle of next year? The Interbus Agreement already exists and is made up of two parts. It covers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Discussion (8 Oct 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And parts of County Louth.