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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 720. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be provided to allow a child of a front-line worker (details supplied) in County Donegal to remain in a childcare setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18579/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 997. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a diabetic automatic pump fitted and receive training from a specialist diabetic nurse in the use of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18583/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 998. To ask the Minister for Health when intellectual disability services will resume in County Donegal; the level of service planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18584/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 1068. To ask the Minister for Health if home support services will be terminated for service users in circumstances in which the service was suspended while their disability day services remain closed and family members are cocooning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18984/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 1069. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be considered for an earlier appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18985/20]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I am not going to take time to respond to the Minister bar to say that he should be better briefed, especially in his Department. He would know that all five parties in Northern Ireland opposed the increases of £1,000 to MLAs and asked for it to be deferred. No Minister or party of any political view passed legislation to increase salaries in the North. What they, including Michelle...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: What the Minister is saying is that his Ministers of State, on salaries of €124,000, need an extra €16,000 and he is asking us to change the law of this State to allow that to happen. Perhaps we can have a wee whip-around if we get Deputy Michael Healy-Rae’s cap to help out the poor Ministers of State who cannot survive on €124,000. That is the reality of this....

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin Deputies are opposing this section. We have tabled an amendment. This section is silent and has not been referred to by any of the Ministers even though the Bill is only three sections long. What is happening is absolutely crazy. The Government has deemed it a priority to rush through an amendment to this legislation, legislation that Sinn Féin would otherwise be...

Decision of the General Court of the European Union in the Apple Case: Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire, gabhaim comhghairdeas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle agus í i mbun a céad dualgais sa phost. Is lá iontach é dár dtír agus don Dáil seo ós rud é go bhfuil an chéad bhean, agus Gaeilgeoir líofa, tofa mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle na Dála seo. On 15 July, the European General Court ruled that the competition...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, I have five minutes to make my points. I asked the Minister of State a direct question: did a memorandum go to Cabinet last night----

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: -----to increase the wages of a junior Minister who is already on €124,000 by €16,288?

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Acting Chair is obliged to protect Deputies. I asked the Minister of State a direct question but he is speaking about something else-----

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I believe I am correct in my understanding because legislation is being brought forward tomorrow. The priority of the Government in the middle of a pandemic, at a time when cancer patients cannot get medical cards, people are seeing their PUP being cut and students are wondering how they will get back to school, is to introduce legislation to give a junior Minister who is already on...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State does not have the right to respond. It is the turn of my Sinn Féin colleague to speak. The Minister of State was waffling for long enough.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It is the Minister who has responsibility for-----

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: We are, in effect, in committee when debating the Revised Estimates and, as such, I expect a back-and-forth engagement with the Ministers of State during the five minutes available to me. I want to make the point again and send a clear signal to the Government that the way some of the business in this House is conducted is not acceptable and is showing disregard to the Dáil and to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: On Tuesday, I was glad to see that the Tánaiste agreed with my view when a spokesperson said on his behalf that, if the travel advice for countries on the green list was not different to the advice relating to other countries, we would be better off not having a green list at all. Fair play to the Tánaiste. On Tuesday night, however, the Government agreed the opposite. It gave a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Tá na scoileanna druidte ó 13 Márta agus tá tuismitheoirí, páistí agus múinteoirí fágtha sa dorchadas ó thaobh na bpleananna don todhchaí agus do Mheán Fómhair. Cuireadh moill ar fhoilsiú na bpleananna seo arís agus arís. Rinne an t-iar-Rialtas agus an t-iar-Aire praiseach dóibh agus anois nílimid...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste said that is the plan but none of us have seen the plan. He has asked the people to bear with us for a couple of days or a couple of weeks. The reality is that the people have borne with the Tánaiste for the past four months since the schools closed. It is now just over four weeks until the schools are due to open. We need a bit of certainty. We appreciate that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: What about NPHET?