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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if workers being paid through the temporary wage subsidy scheme without the employer top-up to 100% of previous wages are expected to work full or pro rata hours; the mechanisms his Department is employing to monitor this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there has not been flexibility in accommodating businesses that were unable to meet the payroll submission deadline in March 2020 and which can demonstrate their legitimate need to access the temporary wage subsidy scheme; if new applications are being accepted for businesses that require access to the scheme to retain and rehire employees in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which annual leave entitlements will be calculated for those on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific legal barrier that would prevent the use of section 202 to provide a payment of €350 to persons over 66 years of age who have lost their employment due to Covid-19 in view of her comments in Dáil Éireann on 20 May 2020. [10498/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 964. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a requirement to pay PRSI on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if not, if this will be reckoned as a break in employment and that no contributions will be reckoned during the period in which recipients are deemed unemployed. [10505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made to recoup annual leave entitlements for workers who were put on annual leave because of the public health emergency before the TWSS intervention was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10523/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (16 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: 987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase for each weekly social welfare payment in tabular form. [10796/20]

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: What would happen in the event of no deal? The EU is stepping up its preparations for a no-deal outcome. I referred to the second omnibus Bill. People will be concerned about what will happen at the Border. We have not had clarity on that from the Irish Government yet. In the minute she has left, the Minister of State might be able to provide some clarity.

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: That is right. We will take seven, four and four minutes, respectively. The Minister of State said that we live in an uncertain world. That is certainly true but when it comes to Brexit, it feels more like Groundhog Day. We are again seeing the British Government trying to have its cake and eat it when it comes to a future trade agreement. It wants to be outside the club but enjoy all...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I return to my specific question. I understand that this is cumulative and that up to 2020 - these things come in seven-year cycles - we were to achieve a 20% non-ETS reduction on 2005 levels. Are we going to come in on target? Will we have achieved that 20% reduction by 2020? It is a yes-no answer.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: We are definitely going in the wrong direction. On the same page, it is stated that "the 2030 reduction targets", under what we signed up to with the EU, "require that Ireland reduce its non‐ETS emissions by 30% on 2005 levels by 2030". There is much talk about a 6% or 7% reduction in carbon emissions targets. Going back to something that was said earlier, we have not yet seen any...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: It does not give us the answers.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I am delighted to hear that in next year's 2020 statements we may not see any huff and puff and Fianna Fáil will blow the house down and usher in a new level of transparency where we will have action plans, implementations and costings. I very much look forward to next year's implementation plan, if Fianna Fáil end up forming a Government with Fine Gael and the Green Party. I...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I refer to the page of the annual transition statement which deals with greenhouse gas emission projections. It sets out the targets and the binding limits that we agreed to, as a country, from 2013 to 2020. Our 2020 targets were that our non-ETS emissions to be reduced by 20% by 2020. The statement states that the best case scenario is that we may have achieved a target 5% or 6% below the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (9 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I have two quick points. A letter was sent to the committee from Colm Gildernew, MLA, the chairperson of the committee for health in the North, seeking some interaction between that committee and ours. We should progress that if we can. The Association of Childhood Professionals, ACP, has also written to all of the committee members, I think, but certainly to us, seeking to be one of the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their service in recent months and for the work they have done. I will put distinct questions and ask that they provide distinct responses because each Deputy only has five minutes. We have a plan to reopen the economy. It involved five phases but this has been reduced to four. I have seen the fruits of that. I drove up from County Waterford...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I understand that and I also understand all the other parts, in particular the holistic approach and the individual responsibilities that come into it, and that the control measures and all those factors are important. However, there has to be a number. Is Professor Nolan saying the number is above 1 and that if it went above 1, that creates a difficulty and that is where the risk becomes...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I understand that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: Professor Nolan's job is to provide that data and that modelling. We know it is a virus and we know it is a virus that spreads. If it spreads more quickly, we may have more community transmission as a consequence of more people moving about. I am asking what is the number. There has to be a number when Professor Nolan is doing the modelling and when he is providing the Government with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

David Cullinane: I will move to Dr. De Gascun. With regard to the control measures, obviously, to keep that below 1 involves many different things. The witnesses are both right in saying that testing, tracing and isolating is one part of the component. We also have to make sure that we have capacity in our hospitals. Dr. De Gascun knows that the contract with the private hospitals will come to an end and...