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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Drennan stated that the ferry companies appear to have been able to pass the parcel on being the carrier. Ms Sheridan indicated they were legally entitled to do that. Mr. Drennan stated that when hauliers submit declarations they are required to name the ferry company. That is a contradiction. Will Mr. Harrahill explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Before Mr. Harrahill does that, Mr. Gavin wishes to contribute briefly on this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Ms O'Neill to give a one-minute response to allow Senator Buttimer to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will Revenue give an undertaking to look at the French system? I assume it will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Harrahill might assume that an email will come from Mr. Drennan of the IRHA after this meeting, so I hope the parties will meet early next week. I hope Mr. Savage or his departmental officials might do likewise. We should look at the common interest. Hauliers must make a living and we must have food on shelves. We must have exports. Will the witnesses give those commitments in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: There may be much merit in people from the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine meeting representatives of the IRHA. It would ensure there could be no misunderstandings. Perhaps representatives of the HSE could be involved as well if necessary. This is about all stakeholders getting around a table and they could report to this committee to see what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Savage agreeable to such a meeting involving stakeholders taking place with the IRHA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We take it that those emails will issue this afternoon to the Revenue Commissioners, the Department and the HSE and that a stakeholder meeting will take place early next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The most important thing is to find solutions. We will take it that the IRHA will invite the other parties to a meeting early next week. I ask that the witnesses report back to us on what we can do and on whether the processes are working. I thank all the witnesses for attending today and engaging with the committee. We will have a private meeting at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 26 January and...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is probably not often that I would admit I have little to say as Deputy Ó Cuív encapsulated exactly my views on this matter. If everything is stripped away, the issues involved are about public health for both the staff and students with special needs and education for people with special needs. I know parents and students with special needs in Limerick. What they have gone...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The big issue with the vaccine now is supply. Will the Minister indicate the level of supply coming into Ireland over the next month, by week and company?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: For the public, is the Minister saying that we are getting 40,000 of Pfizer, there will be 40,000 next week and 40,000 thereafter? If approved, what type of level will the first order be from AstraZeneca?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: UHL is in my area of the mid-west. It has only received 3,400 vaccines to date. The South/South-West Hospital Group appears to have to administer over 19,000. When the next roll out comes, the mid-west share must balance that. Dentists are front-line workers. Dentists have been calling me and they are petrified about Covid. They deal with patients everyday and they do not know...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (20 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Transport Authority plans to roll out new bus stop signage and timetable information in counties Limerick and Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2577/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (20 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if primary medical certificate applications can be processed by the HSE from 1 January 2021 as provided for in the Finance Act 2020; and if his Department has advised the HSE in writing of this legislative measure. [2286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) about the need for supports for student radiographers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2551/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan (14 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Minister to deal with the specific questions. Would the Minister support Eir and NBI coming together to expedite the roll-out of fibre broadband in the amber areas that are alongside blue areas where Eir has already rolled out broadband? People are looking over the ditch to their neighbours who have broadband and they do not, and they could be waiting two or three years. Can...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan (14 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, for coming in and taking this debate. The national broadband plan is very significant. It is the rural electrification of its time. Broadband is as important in this modern age as electricity was decades ago. I refer to high-quality fibre broadband in particular because of its speed and the amount of...

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have a question for the Minister, Deputy Foley. The concern with the leaving certificate is certainty for students, who are the most important of all. What is the Minister's personal view, as she ultimately makes the decision? Does she want a written leaving certificate - the normal leaving cert - or is she looking at predicted grades or a hybrid model? Students are entitled to and need...

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have very little time.