Results 9,221-9,240 of 12,076 for speaker:Mary Butler

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Thank you, Deputy Smith, we must move on. I call Deputy Shanahan from the Regional Group.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I thank Ms Buckley. I call Deputy Michael Collins for the Rural Independent Group.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Pringle and the witnesses. We have to move on. I want to be fair to everyone. We move to the Fianna Fáil slot again. I call Deputy Donnelly, who has five minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: We move back to Sinn Féin. Deputy Carthy has ten minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: That answer will have to be furnished in writing because we are up against the clock.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Does Deputy Burke mind ceding his last minute? I want to get the last speaker in and time is pressing. Would you mind?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: The answers are coming from a different room. It is difficult.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I must wrap up the debate and suggest that Ms Buckley answers the final question in writing.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I thank all our witnesses for their attendance and for the information provided for today's meeting. Is it agreed to request the Clerk to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from this meeting? Agreed.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Mary Butler: The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection throughout Europe is no longer a distant theory. I understand that we are also making our plans here. It is imperative that nursing homes, residential homes and care homes be given much higher status when these plans are being drawn up. I welcome what the Minister announced in his opening speech, that there will be a nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision programme will take place in 2020 (details supplied). [5891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1099. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for children in the children’s own homes and in which phase this activity can recommence. [5590/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for children in their own homes and in which phase this activity can recommence. [5591/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening of Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for the children of healthcare workers and in which phase of the plan this activity can recommence. [5592/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1102. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for the children of essential workers and in which phase of the plan this activity can recommence. [5593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1105. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the guidelines on childminders re-opening following this period of closure will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5556/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeals decision will be finalised for a person (details supplied) which was first submitted on 24 October 2019. [5688/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (19 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Are we in public session now?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (19 May 2020)

Mary Butler: We agreed last Tuesday that we would give two sessions to the issue of nursing homes because it has been so significant. Some 62% of all deaths have occurred in residential settings. We agreed last Tuesday that we would have two sessions.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I welcome the witnesses, and thank them for giving their time. I thank them for their work to date and the response of the healthcare sector. I have four or five questions which I will put them to all three witnesses and whoever wishes to respond may do so. This awful pandemic has borne down heaviest on older people, in particular those in nursing homes and residential facilities....