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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Steven Matthews: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to allowing sole traders to access the employment wage subsidy scheme, as they would be entitled to if they were listed as a company director in circumstances in which all other qualifying criteria for the scheme are met. [22871/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2020)

Steven Matthews: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [22866/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2020)

Steven Matthews: 195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal framework for persons that were made redundant during the Covid-19 pandemic and have to date been unable to access redundancy payments from their employers due to amendments in legislation on 13 March 2020 but can provide evidence that the layoff is not a temporary move due to Covid-19 and in fact a permanent one....

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

Steven Matthews: I welcome Dr. Buquicchio and Lord Sumption and thank them for their attendance and for their submissions to the committee. In his statement to the committee Dr. Buquicchio outlined the constraints and difficulties that many Governments have faced in responding with adequate legislation during the Covid crisis. He mentioned particularly that the German Bundestag quickly amended its rules and...

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

Steven Matthews: Does Dr. Buquicchio have concerns regarding legislative oversight in this scenario or in the context of time for such oversight?

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

Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. Buquicchio. I have a question for Lord Sumption. In his report to the committee, he states that in urgent cases regulations under the public health legislation have provisional validity, pending parliamentary approval, for 28 days and for any period when the British Parliament is not sitting, parliament cannot amend, remove or revoke them and that they remain in force at the...

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

Steven Matthews: I thank an Cathaoirleach. I thank the witnesses for their attendance here this afternoon and for the submissions they presented to the committee. I also thank them for the very important work they do throughout society in respect of access to justice and equality, not just at this time, but at all times. I have a question for Ms Barry. Her submission was very detailed and covered quite a...

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

Steven Matthews: I agree that this is something that needs to be examined. Is this more common in precarious employment types, or is the witness seeing this across all employers? Is there a pattern to where the witness is seeing this in certain types of employment?

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

Steven Matthews: Does the lack of such a written document make employees more vulnerable vis-à-visemployment law?

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

Steven Matthews: On page 3 of the submission reference is made to the benefit take-up campaign for the newly extended rent supplement scheme. The uptake was very low because not many people are aware that they may qualify under the new criteria. A huge number of schemes, supports and assistance were being provided across different Departments. Was this one that was just missed out on and what lessons can...

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

Steven Matthews: Would Ms Barry be satisfied generally that the awareness campaigns for the supports and assistance available were effective? Would she be generally satisfied with the way they were conducted?

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

Steven Matthews: I have one quick question on health and safety. There was an increase in the number of calls seeking health and safety at work advice. Was there a pattern there in terms of the types of employment involved?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Data (8 Sep 2020)

Steven Matthews: 293. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of self-employed persons registered with the Revenue Commissioners who list their profession as musician, sound engineer, lighting engineer and stage production or other related titles within the music industry. [21966/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Sep 2020)

Steven Matthews: 663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to historic cases by which women were given PPS numbers linked directly to that of their husband and who required the approval of their husband in order to attain social benefit payments (details supplied). [21200/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Steven Matthews: I thank the witnesses for their attendance today and their submissions to the committee. I thank their team and all the HSE staff for their huge work effort over the past six months. I have a question on the reopening of health services. It was expected that the health services roadmap would be published before now. Has that happened and is there a full service in place yet for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Steven Matthews: I appreciate that. A colour-coded alert system is meant to replace the plan for the phased reopening of the economy. How will this affect the health service? Will services need to be shut down or scaled back if we move to a stricter colour-coded alert process?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Steven Matthews: If we have a localised cluster in a school or another location, particularly in rural areas or locations that are distant from test centres, are there mobile units that can be deployed and, if so, how quickly can that be done to reduce the amount of travel time for people going to test centres?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Reid. In terms of the target turnaround time for testing of 2.2 days or one day less than in a hospital setting, is there any part of the process we could improve to reduce that time of 2.2 days, either in terms of the collection time, treatment time or the process of communicating the test results? Is any work being done to decrease that time?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Reid and the Cathaoirleach.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the witnesses for their participation and submissions today. I have two questions on testing in meat processing plants. First, I understand that the meat processing plants will be ramping up the testing in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus in these settings. We are looking at 6,000 plus workers tested weekly at approximately €150 a test. Who will be responsible for...