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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry, Chairman, but let me say this one thing. What has been created is an impression of announced inspections being something where everybody has the opportunity to react substantially differently, get their ducks in line and whatever else. Dr. McGuinness is saying that announced is announced within a matter of hours in a way that could not possibly allow that. It is an important...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can we hear from Professor Michie? Do we have the same issue? I want to check in advance - perhaps we do not.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We will go on anyway and perhaps come back if the opportunity arises. This is why I wanted to bring in Professor Michie. It is around the behavioural aspect of what Professor Staines said about pubs and the difference between having a meal and not having a meal. As I understood it, one of the big issues was impacting the behaviour of people while they were there. Having a meal tends to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In fairness to some of the publicans, it is not always within their control how every person moves or behaves at a given time. Part of the effort is to try to keep people seated and stop them moving around, as they would have been used to doing behaviourally beforehand. I wish to follow up on Deputy McAuliffe's questions. What is Professor Staines suggesting? Is the idea that if I live...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand. To follow up on the Chairman's question, I still was not clear on what is being suggested by Professor Staines and his colleagues for the management of the Northern Ireland and Border issues. What do the witnesses specifically propose we do in monitoring that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry to interrupt but time is short. I saw that detail in Professor Staines's opening statement but I am asking what he specifically proposes that we do in management terms about the fact that people cross the Border.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I totally agree and that is one of the practical problems with trying to implement something like this. It is a genuine practical issue that has always been the case. I want to ask about the section in Professor Staines's opening statement that refers to a vaccine. While there has been extremely interesting progress on finding a vaccine, we cannot rely on that or hope too much. Will...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I know Professor Staines said that is not his specialty but there have been some interesting studies carried out by Professor Paddy Mallon and others.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is something the committee has discussed in some detail with Dr. David Nabarro. Do I have much time left?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports being made available to the 39 schools that were directed to establish special classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19404/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question relates to the 39 schools that were directed to provide special classes. Has every support that the Department and its officials can provide been provided? Can we get an assurance that the Department has responded to every request for additional resources and space that the schools have made recently and previously? Be it down to a difficulty or unwillingness on the part of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate her commitment to the issue. I wish her every success in that work and it is fantastic that she is in that seat. I wish to raise a linked matter with the Minister for discussion with her colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The greatest issue that will face the education sector is that of children who have not received...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that commitment and the Minister's support. This matter is something that Deputies will have to raise time and again because it is of such concern, which the Minister recognises. I would welcome it if the Minister reverted to the House and updated us on the progress she has made, perhaps at the occasion of our next education Question Time. We will raise the matter with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for immunocompromised students, parents, teachers, teachers that may have immunocompromised children and those that may live with immunocompromised persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19403/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister. As I understand from her answer, these were people who were already in receipt of the allowance and who would have expected to be in receipt of it again. However, for that cohort of people on the Covid payment who have not gone through this process previously, how many people does the Minister believe that will apply to in those circumstances? The Minister confirmed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be eligible to apply for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18809/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to ask about the back to school clothing and footwear allowance. I have already heard the Minister state that it is going to be extended to people on the PUP. She might outline the way in which they might go about making the application and the timing in which they might get it. For some on the Covid payment this might be the first time they have applied. Will the social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures included in the July stimulus package to tackle youth unemployment and support young persons to return to the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18810/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a provision to exempt persons with small pension funds from the 4% drawdown requirement currently applicable to PRSA funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18729/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the further delay in leaving certificate results; if the delay will not negatively impact some university offers from the United Kingdom for students (details supplied); the communication she has had with the UK to ensure that students here are not disadvantaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18929/20]