There are many incredible people working night and day in our nursing homes, and many nursing homes might have an outbreak of Covid-19 in the same way a family home might.…

That does not just mean public housing but mixed housing developments including cost rental, affordable to buy, social housing and private housing. There may be a way, if the LDA is able to work with the Depart…

The business today shall be as set out in the second revised Report of the Business Committee dated 6 May 2020. Second, might the Ceann Comhairle, as Ceann Comhairle and ex officio chair of the Business Committ…

The European Council sees the European green deal as central to its joint roadmap for recovery. First, I very much welcome the endorsement by the European Council of the Eurogroup's recommendation to provide an…

With international aviation at a virtual standstill, the closure of tourism sites and a ban on public gatherings, the impact of Covid-19 on global tourism is overwhelming and immediate and has impacted travel a…

Fewer children attending a childcare service will increase the cost of the provision of childcare for these children. The two aspects of childcare I will address are the provision of childcare services in any p…

I call Deputy Duncan Smith to announce the Order of Business for today. The business today shall be as set out in the third revised Report of the Business Committee dated 30 April 2020. Is the proposal set out …

I ask the Deputy to bear in mind the plan continues to be to test nursing home staff and residents in all nursing homes, but not necessarily all residents in all nursing homes, because if there is a nursing hom…

Surely it is in the interests of democracy and the upholding of the Constitution itself that all 160 Members might have an opportunity to examine, rather than just accept and comment upon, such experts' advice …

I am determined that we will continue to support businesses and ensure that as many people as possible will have jobs to return to with employers who have businesses that will succeed in the future.…

There are four ways we are trying to assist nursing homes: through the direct redeployment of HSE staff; an agreement reached in recent days with home care providers to allow home care staff to be redeployed; t…

Farmers, in particular beef farmers, are losing money. In 2019, there was a €100 million package for beef farmers. Further to the EU support package for farmers, what plans does the Government have for income s…

I call Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh to announce the Order of Business for today. If so, my proposal is null and void, but if we over-run and are still here at 8 p.m. I propose that we would join the national round …

Health workers in many areas, whether in nursing homes or home help, still have little or no PPE. On testing, I am advised by the HSE that there is capacity to ramp up testing to 10,000 people per day in the te…

Rebuilding our economy must be done through a Covid-19 recovery plan, one that will take up to 1 million individuals off the unemployment register and into a new economy that works for our people rather than ju…

However, it is not for nursing home owners but for the people who regulate nursing homes, the people who set the standards for which this House has legislated, the people who set the standards to ensure that ou…

For a similar school up the road that has 750 students, it works out at about €17,000 in total from the Department - €2,900 for my school of 160 students and €17,000 for the school with 750 students. It does no…

The first round of questions and answers, which shall be with the Taoiseach, shall not exceed 70 minutes and each party or group shall have seven minutes. The second round of questions and answers, which shall …

As for the nursing homes in Ireland, as is the case in most countries and as has always been the case in Ireland, we have a mix of nursing homes.…