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Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Amendment No. 9 is interesting in the context of this section. The section provides that a worker may make a report to the relevant Minister if one or more of a list of given conditions are met. It then goes on to talk about the head of the public body. To use the example of a Department, the Secretary General would be in charge. If an assistant secretary has engaged in wrongdoing, is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: I thank Dr. Lambert for being here and for his work and advocacy on behalf of long Covid sufferers. Does he think that society and employers need more assurance that this is something that is really impacting on people? I feel that society has not accepted that long Covid is something that is real and impacting on people's lives and on their ability to perform in their jobs or live normal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Does Dr. Lambert have any estimate of the number of sufferers of long Covid in Ireland? Is it prevalent among any specific age cohort or gender?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Dr. Lambert spoke about brain inflammation. Is this a recognisable medical condition that can be certified? Is it accepted among medics? People suffer from a range of conditions, but can a person be certified by a doctor or physician as being a sufferer of long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Okay. On the international evidence, Dr. Lambert has mentioned the UK and Italy. Is it certifiable as a condition in those countries? He mentioned the use of the PET scan, for example. Is that something we can learn from and follow here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Okay. On the community response, Dr. Lambert mentioned the need for occupational therapists, OTs, and physiotherapists. Again, they are dealing with the backlog that is there anyway and the usual pressures within the health system. This will add considerably to that pressure across the community setting. Is that a fair assertion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Has there been any difference between any of the different strains of Covid as far as the severity of long Covid is concerned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: All right. I thank the Chairman.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: To be honest, the insertions are a Bill in themselves. There is a lot of information that the Minister of State is adding at this Stage. To start with, the power to prescribe definition amendment No. 1 states, "The Commission may, by order, prescribe such period as it considers appropriate to be an election campaign period ...", and the definition, in amendment No. 84, of the "election...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State but he did not provide clarity in respect of concerns relating to disinformation and bots today being as relevant today as they are during an electoral campaign period. I ask him to comment on that. Amendment No. 27 refers to protecting the integrity of elections and referendums against disinformation. What about protecting political parties, the political...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: This area must be kept under constant review. The provision is welcome during the defined period. Certainly one can have a set period for local and European elections and we have a good idea when they will take place. The date when a presidential election will take place will be known in advance as well. We have an idea when a general election might happen but we cannot say for certain....

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: I support the sentiment behind all that has been expressed. Having been a member of the previous Government, I know that there was a concerted attempt to ensure more equality in the appointment of members of State boards, for example. Ministers and Secretaries General were always very much conscious of the need to ensure that if three or four appointments to a State board were to be made,...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: We all have relations, and I have nephews and nieces aged 15, 16 and 17, who work, thankfully, in hospitality during the summer period, Easter breaks and weekends. Of course, it is a sign of a buoyant economy and plenty of jobs because there is full employment. That is a reflection of the Fine Gael Government putting measures in place during the early part of the Covid pandemic to ensure...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: It was in the early part of 2020. That was before the coalition.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: That is only a side point. There is no doubt about it, there are very mature 16- and 17-year-olds and very immature 18-, 19-, 20-, 30- and 40-year-olds.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: Age is no definitive sign of one's maturity. That is quite clear. Interestingly, based on surveys, if 16- and 17-year-olds in the UK had the vote during the Brexit referendum in 2016, evidence shows the result would have been different. Clearly, they were more enthusiastic about the European Union, more pro the latter and had more to lose by being outside it. That is one of the sad points...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: May I respond?

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: It was not my intention to say that. It was anecdotal that younger people may vote left. To quote the phrase in American politics, all young people vote Democrat until they start making money.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (29 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Cathaoirleach's office for accepting this Commencement matter. I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. As he knows, 22 August will be the 100th anniversary of the death of General Michael Collins. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste will address the annual Béal na Bláth commemoration on Sunday, 21 August, as a sign of reconciliation in this decade of...