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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Jun 2020)

Brian Stanley: 957. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the matter of persons that passed their driver test in early March 2020 that cannot receive their licence due to office closures as a result of Covid-19 (details supplied). [9264/20]

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: I raise with the Minister the important issue of the good weather we have had for the past three months during the Covid lockdown and the fact that Bord na Móna has not been able to harvest one shovelful of peat. As a result, hundreds of jobs are in jeopardy-----

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: I will congratulate him on that in a moment. Turf cutters in Laois, Offaly and throughout the midlands who depend on Bord na Móna plots have not been able to cut one sod of turf. Thousands of households throughout the midlands, from Laois and Offaly up to Roscommon, depend on this as a source of fuel for the winter. They do not have €50,000 or €60,000 at this point for a...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: From some of them.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: Not meat plants.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: How many meat plants were inspected?

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: The Minister does not know.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: Why can the HSA not share those figures with the Minister? She is the Minister.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: Has the Minister asked them?

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: It is not confidential.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: We should know how many inspections are carried out.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: We should know how many inspections of meat plants are carried out.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: Does the Minister mean to tell me that we are in the House today seven or eight weeks on, but we do not know how many inspections of meat plants have been carried out? That is disgraceful.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: The Minister should know the number of inspections.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: The Minister should know how many inspections are carried out.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: We do.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: It is not good enough.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: I am sharing time with Deputies Carthy and Kerrane. What we have here is a mess. There has been a massive escalation, with 880 cases confirmed. It is very worrying for the workers, in respect of their health and jobs, and other workers who are awaiting test results. I have been raising this with the Minister since Easter week and he has continually told me that he, his officials in the...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: Those jobs are not yet available. The problem is that the Bord na Móna harvesting jobs are going down the tubes as we speak.

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this opportunity to raise a very important heritage issue that has been held up by Covid-19. I refer to the issue of the peat harvest and domestic turf cutting on Bord na Móna bogs. Bord na Móna has not been able to commence the peat harvest, including at Kilberry near the Ceann Comhairle, and domestic turf cutters have not been able to start on Bord na Móna bogs....