The Government is actively involved in this question and is showing leadership on it through involvement with the WHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. We are providing money and, down the line, we may even provide spare vaccines to developing countries to help them with their vaccine programmes. We know how infectious diseases work. Covid will always be present somewhere in the world. It is endemic at this stage. Nobody will be safe until everyone is safe. That means that vaccine programmes like those that were used…

I thank the Deputy. I will have to check that out for the Deputy. It may well need to be re-established, particularly for groups that may be at very high risk and I am thinking of the Roma community, in particular, which experienced Covid-19 very badly during the first wave, and there are other such groups. I will take this up with the chief medical officer, CMO, to see if it can be established and what the merits and the demerits of this are.

I thank the Deputy. I totally understand and appreciate that sixth years are under a great deal of pressure. These are the same students who lost a chunk of fifth year and are now also losing several weeks, perhaps even longer, of sixth year. It is very difficult for them. I know that they want an answer from Government as soon as possible on what is going to happen with the leaving certificate examinations and we want to do that but it requires some planning, co-ordination and consultation and the ISSU, as mention…

I thank the Deputy. I, unfortunately, do not have any information on that for her but I will raise it with the Minister and ask that he send a reply directly to her.

I thank the Deputy. I appreciate that this is an important issue. I am not exactly sure what the question for me on this is. If the Deputy is concerned that there is an issue around competition and competition law, there is a procedure by which these matters can be raised with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, and there are also rules around cross-media ownership. Perhaps the Deputy may wish to take this question up in that forum.

I thank the Deputy. I broadly agree that there is a greater role for antigen testing in Ireland into the future but we have to be guided by public health advice on this. NPHET, as the Deputy will be aware, has not been particularly confident about the accuracy of antigen testing and it believes that in many instances it does not meet what the manufacturers say. NPHET has updated its guidance in the past number of days so antigen testing is now going to be used more extensively for outbreaks and for symptomatic case…

I thank the Deputy for this question. We have a couple of schemes. There is a retail scheme and also the trading online voucher scheme, which has been transferred to my Department. We have decided after careful consideration to change the scheme to a 50:50 model, with the business contributing half the cost and the Government contributing the other half. We believe we will get better bang for our buck by doing it in this way. We will see how it goes and review it again at that point.

I am aware of the water problems at Enfield and Ballivor. The Minister of State, Deputy English, has also informed me of the problems in those areas. It is of course a decision for Irish Water as to whether it can go ahead with the necessary project, but I will certainly check out the situation for the Deputy.

I am afraid that I do not know the answer to the Deputy's question, but the situation he has described certainly seems inconsistent, namely, that people already on the programme would not be reimbursed while new entrants would be. All I can do is to make the Minister for Health aware that the Deputy has raised this issue. I will try to get a written answer provided to Deputy Collins.

I thank Deputy Andrews for raising this important issue, which I know is of real concern to families in Dublin 4, 6 and 6W. I will let the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, know it has been raised and ask her to furnish Deputy Andrews with a written response.

As I explained previously, I requested it verbally. It is not uncommon to ask for something and not to do it by letter or email. I often ask for documents. I did not request the document I have here, by the way, but I do have it because it is provided to me every Thursday; it is my folder for each Thursday. My adviser got the copy from the Department of Health and she had it.

The Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020 is before the Seanad and that may be the legislative means by which we can deal with this.

I remember well that at the time the ECDC, the World Health Organization, WHO, the Chief Medical Officer, CMO, and NPHET all advised against stopping flights from Italy because that sort of action was at the time seen as being ineffective. Much has changed and a great deal of advice has changed since then. The Deputy can go back and check over that from the press conferences etc. What we know now is that Covid-19 was present in Ireland well before that, and that someone had sadly died in Cork University Hospital, C…

I saw that opinion poll. If we exclude those undecided, the opinion poll indicates that a majority of people in Northern Ireland are in favour of holding a Border poll. It also shows that a majority of people in Northern Ireland, excluding those undecided, would vote to stay in the Union. People are therefore in favour of a Border poll for different reasons, some because they want a united Ireland and others because they want to demonstrate that the majority of people in Northern Ireland do not want a united Irelan…

I appreciate that student nurses are going to want to know what the plan is quite soon. We will get that information out as soon as possible. The placement of student nurses was suspended because, as the Deputy knows, student nurses have to be supervised and tutored. Suspending those placements freed up hundreds of fully-qualified nurses to look after patients and that was the priority. A decision will be made shortly as to whether those placements can be reinstated. Obviously, the hospitals will need to be less bu…

I appreciate that the Deputy has raised this matter before. Unfortunately, I do not have any up-to-date information on it. I will make sure that the Minister is aware of the Deputy's suggestion.

I thank the Deputy. I believe the review was published just before Christmas. Much to the disappointment of many people it did not recommend a change. Many people had expected a change to a two-year rule rather than a one-year rule, but for various reasons it was not recommended. I will definitely check up on it to see if I can get more information to the Deputy.

I am very sorry to hear about that case and what that lady is experiencing. I recall that under the last Government we did change the law to give victims of domestic violence much stronger legal rights in situations like this so it is the perpetrator and abuser who has to leave the home, not the victim of the abuse or violence. Perhaps there is a legal remedy in this case that she may be able to take up using that law. Without knowing the detail of the individual case it is difficult for me to answer but the law do…

There is a greater role for antigen testing in our response to Covid. We do need to be very much guided by the advice of our scientists and our public health doctors in this regard. They have concerns about the accuracy of antigen testing. It has been introduced at Dublin Airport and in Gorey for hauliers going to France. It is a requirement of the French Government, which accepts antigen testing to enter France. We do not accept it to enter Ireland; we only accept the PCR test in that regard. It does seem that ant…

I do not agree. These are the facts, and I am happy to restate them. It was not actually a contract; it was an agreement about a contract. I gave a copy of that agreement to Dr.Ó Tuathail, who was president of the NAGP at the time. I should not have done this. I accounted to the Dáil for it last November and I apologised for it. I acted on my own judgment and nobody is responsible for this, other than me - no officials, no advisers and not the Minister, Deputy Harris. I am sorry that I have brought them into this i…