Results 141-160 of 251 for long speaker:Michael McNamara

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

Michael McNamara: Mr. Wilson keeps saying we are out of line with the rest of Europe. Does anybody know what is happening in Albania? It had an isolationist, inward-looking regime for a long time. Do either of the witnesses know what is it doing?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: I call Deputy O'Rourke. He has ten minutes but may take as long as he wishes as there are few members present, through no fault of their own.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Deputy has spoken for 13 minutes. He can speak for as long as he likes within the time allocated to his party, but his colleague, Deputy Ó Murchú, wishes to come in. I do not know how the Deputies wish between the two of them to use their time.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: For once, we will take the long answer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: How long is it?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Tourism, Arts and Entertainment Sector (2 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...believe they are coming onto the set of "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" or something like that? The legal regulations do not say anything about live music. Can a pub legally have live music as long as a substantial meal is being served? What are the recommendations around live music? When will live music be allowed in bars? If musicians are spaced as far apart as the four...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...made on 7 April and which forms the basis for further restrictions? The Minister joked about Kerry and Sligo at the start of this session being areas where there has not been transmission for a long time. Clare is another area where there has not been much transmission for a long time. I accept that in a small country like Ireland, it is very difficult to differentiate one area from...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: World Health Organization: Public Health Advice (11 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...of interventions that we have to use to keep the threat low. If there is going to be a decision to get it down to zero, then that comprehensive package must be super-strong and maintained for a long time. It will also include action at borders, because that is the only way one can keep it at zero. If there is going to be a willingness to tolerate that there will be some cases appearing...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...looking at climate patterns now say there is climate change and we need to be able to adapt to that change. With regard to Moneypoint and offshore, nothing has been done to replace coal. For a long time we knew that Moneypoint was going to close, and it has closed, but nothing has been brought on line to replace it. Farmers can produce energy and they do so right across Europe in...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...in the event that Aer Lingus diverts a plane there or the airport starts opening up. Other companies will be called on to carry out ground crew work or any essential works that are required. I have long held suspicions about Aer Lingus’s attitude to the airport. It informed my attitude to the sale of the 25% shareholding a number of years ago. However, it has been confirmed by...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...we hear anecdotally that there was a big increase in the sale of alcohol but it was primarily the big companies which were in a position to benefit from that rather than small micro breweries. How long do the witnesses think it will take for the customer practices that have developed, with people not going to local shops because they were closed and going to the big multinationals like...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...for business. There is a dangerous, vicious sort of cycle going on. It was fine of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to state that the Government did not get everything right at the time, but that is a long time ago now. It is even further away, it appears, when the sector is going to open up and we need to do something about it. I appreciate that involves funding but we need to be fair. ...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...session we will have per week will certainly help us deal with more issues. We had the HSE representatives in last week and I asked what the testing was costing. It was at the end of a very long day. We were confined to two hours and I was told that it was hundreds of millions of euro. That was as specific as we got in the time period available to us. We cannot bring in the same...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the teacher-pupil ratio can be reduced to help schools deal with the Covid-19 health crisis, get pupils back to school and provide a long-term positive impact on the well-being of students and their educational attainment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7993/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: Next is Sinn Féin. For how long is Deputy Doherty speaking?

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

Michael McNamara: ...in this State. I am not suggesting that the Minister's Government is the first to have genuflected before the altar of the beef barons; it is just the latest Government to do so. There is a long history of tribunals and abuses of power by that sector. That will continue for a long period. This is simply emblematic of it. We have regulations in place. We have strict separation of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry (19 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: How long are you speaking for?

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...to put those individual members in. It is a power I would not feel comfortable having. I would not want to determine whether it is reasonable that somebody I meet should be out of his or her home. How long does the Minister think it is feasible to continue with these penal provisions? There are penal provisions in the regulations which are quite unusual, but which may be necessary or...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: .... It is almost impossible. It is far more expensive than what Deputy O'Donohoe proposes which would be to leave the front facade, knocking the rest down and rebuild them. There could be a big long architectural discussion of whether it is the same building after one does that, but would the Minister consider a pilot project, preferably in a town in Clare and unfortunately there are many...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...Comhairle. I will not let this opportunity pass without congratulating you, a Cheann Comhairle. However, we must devise mechanisms by which, whoever is the Government and we know it will take a long time to form a Government, it is not a winner-takes-all scenario and the Government can be held to account not only by the Opposition but also by its backbenchers. I have plenty of...