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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Michael McNamara: 919. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding children travelling with applicable travellers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21401/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (31 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 730. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be provided to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17389/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (31 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 1197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice received from a senior counsel on the practice of obtaining information from treating clinicians of children for the purpose of compiling dossiers on said children with special educational needs in respect of whom litigation was taken against his Department. [17521/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (31 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 1198. To ask the Minister for Health if he will send any information obtained from clinicians treating children with special educational needs as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation in respect of the said children’s special needs to those children’s parents, identifying the clinicians who provided the information. [17522/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (31 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 1199. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify all clinicians who provided information to his Department on children with special educational needs under their care as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation. [17523/21]

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister. Last week her Department sent out a circular asking two questions regarding children returning to school. One was entirely reasonable. It asked parents to certify to the best of their knowledge that their child does not have an infectious disease. The second question asked if the parents could confirm that they have adhered to all medical advice since the child's...

Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...that there was not data and that it had data from every emergency department. When one looks for the data, one finds out that they have data from some emergency departments but no data from any of the children's hospitals. We know children are suffering and we know that there are emergency departments so that is a lie on behalf of a Government agency to discredit somebody who is probing...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...out in terms of blue flu and so on. It is very difficult to coerce people into providing their labour, as the Government recently found out to its detriment. More important, it has also been to the detriment of children with special needs, who have a right to education. While that right to education is enshrined in Irish law, at least in regard to primary and secondary education, there...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Michael McNamara: .... I understand that this is to protect them and other residents but we are now eight months into this pandemic; is there nothing more that we can do to ensure that families can see their parents, children or siblings who may be in hospitals? The issue of antigen testing and the screening opportunities it provides was discussed by EU leaders, including the Taoiseach, in November. Surely...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...The general backdrop to the budget is bizarre. I agree with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae about the number of members of An Garda Síochána who were ordered to go out and sabotage the economy last week. They were ordered to go out and hold people with children and people trying to get the ferries on motorways. This was happening in places nowhere near county boundaries just as a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...community throughout rural Ireland. The closed games have been very difficult. What impact has that had on communities and the spirt of communities, with old men not being able to see their children or grandchildren playing? We have seen scenes of old men desperately trying to get to camogie matches to see their granddaughters play. It has been very difficult for people to witness that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...past six months. The public is justifiably sceptical about Ministers with plans. We have been hearing about what is planned for the health service since the Taoiseach was Minister for Health and Children. It begs the question of how many health ministers it takes to change a health service. There are four current or former health ministers in the Cabinet. The shortage of critical care...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...to ring a certain number and when they ring it nobody answers. In the unlikely event that somebody does answer, they are transferred to somebody else. The particular parent I cited, whose three children have been denied a place, showed up at the Bus Éireann office today and was told everyone was working from home. That is a common problem across the Civil Service. Given that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: That is a lot of children.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...and Tulla. There are schools in Killaloe, and Tulla and indeed in Scariff, and this family is more or less equidistant between the three. In this particular family of seven members, four of the children went to Tulla with no problem whatsoever, leaving three children. Of the three children last year, two of whom were told that they were eligible to get a ticket to Tulla and one was told...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: .... Again, I ask her to confine her remarks to five minutes. Ms Mai Fanning:The National Parents Council Post Primary is grateful for this opportunity. The mental and physical well-being of our children has always been and remains the main focus of concern for parents. We again emphasise the importance of fairness, equality and equity in the delivery of support for children and their...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I spoke earlier to a representative of SNAs and asked him what his members were encountering. He spoke of a sense of relief because there had been a sense of isolation for many children, particularly those with special needs, during the lockdown and the following period of absence from school. Ms Dempsey also spoke of a similar feeling of isolation and abandonment that parents had. Would...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...to this glass palace. We are told this was done so we can be safe. I know the cost is sometimes exaggerated. Someone told me tonight that it only costs around €30,000 a day, but how much could that money do for children in our schools and for special needs students in particular? I appreciate that the Minister is not terribly long in the job. I also appreciate that she has...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...in the National Botanic Gardens protected from the realities of where they live. In a couple of months' time, we are going to ask pupils and teachers to go back into schools, and rightly so. Our children deserve an education. We are going to ask our medics, doctors and nurses, to go back into overcrowded hospitals and provide a health service, not just a Covid-19 health service, but...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...have inevitably fallen off in circumstances where schools are closed. Due to the fact that the are closed, however, I suggest that parents across the mid-west are looking for places to bring their children for a day or even an hour. The children have been unexpectedly under their feet since March. A site with 30 acres of parkland, a crannóg and a castle would have been an...