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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-07-30/11/
30 Jul 2020 -
I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce Financial Provisions (Covid-19) No. 2 Bill 2020 to...The plan is the next stage in our response to the Covid-19 crisis and will help businesses get back on...The overall value of the package, including tax changes and the opening of the €2 billion Covid-19 credit...No interest will be charged on the tax debts for the initial Covid-19 restricted trading period or 12...to the Covid-19 crisis.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-07-29/10/
29 Jul 2020 -
The Government of the time acted very quickly, and from what I understand, the Covid-19 payment was initially...a type of public health measure to encourage people to stay at home and try to curb the spread of the...I am unclear on some of the elements of the Bill....They might have to save their Covid-19 payment from now to pay that income tax and some people are concerned...Many people have been put on the Covid-19 payment but some people who spoke to me have said their companies
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-12-09/10/
9 Dec 2020 -
of the Covid-19 pandemic since it began....Covid-19 response....The 65+ age group account for 13% of the population but 92% of Covid-19 deaths....The senior officials group and the Covid-19 oversight group have worked to provide insights to the Cabinet...This work has been going on throughout the pandemic with inputs from across Government.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-04-23/5/
23 Apr 2020 -
Three weeks later, the care centre has three Covid-positive staff members and 19 Covid-positive patients...and one dead, with another five staff out sick and at least 18 patients suspected to have Covid-19 and...It is not that they were afraid they would catch Covid-19 in their community but, rather, that they may...I am getting texts - I presume other Members are - and mobile phone calls from people working as home...Sadly, as a result of Covid-19, we have seen the danger of dormitory-style accommodation for residents
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-07-29/10/
29 Jul 2020 -
The Government is absolutely committed to supporting people who have lost their jobs due to Covid-19,...-19 pandemic unemployment payment with effect from 17 September....offers support to those employees who would, were it not for Covid- 19, in the ordinary course, have...as those on the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, who have lost their employment since 13 March 2020...as a result of the public health crisis arising from Covid-19.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-09-23/2/
23 Sep 2020 -
All workers are being asked not to go to work if they are showing symptoms of Covid-19....with Covid-19, unless it is part of the contract of employment....According to the WHO, six weeks is the recovery time for a moderate to severe case of Covid-19....This draft Bill is an important protection for workers but is also very important in combating Covid-...the presence of the employee is required at home to care for the child.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-03-31/28/
31 Mar 2021 -
, the Government has introduced a series of supports to help businesses deal with the impact of the Covid...-19 pandemic....With regard to employees working from home, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is driving...from home, including additional heating and electricity costs....to pay up to €3.20 per day to employees in respect of working from home expenses without deducting income
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-03-26/9/
26 Mar 2020 -
The aim is to keep people in their homes....No notice of termination can be served during Covid-19 and, except in exceptional circumstances, those...Rent increases are prohibited during the Covid-19 emergency period....The Bill defines the Covid-19 emergency period to be of three months' duration but this period can be...Section 3 of the Bill provides for standard definitions, including a definition of the Covid-19 "emergency
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-03-26/11/
26 Mar 2020 -
The aim is to keep people in their homes....No notice of termination can be served during Covid-19 and, except in exceptional circumstances, those...Rent increases are prohibited during the Covid-19 emergency period....The Bill defines the Covid-19 emergency period to be of three months' duration but this period can be...Section 3 of the Bill provides for standard definitions, including a definition of the Covid-19 "emergency
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise, Trade And Employment
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_trade_and_employment/2021-03-30/2/
30 Mar 2021 -
(Amendment) Bill 2020....to report to the authority if an employee contracts Covid-19 as a result of occupational exposure from...The wording in the Bill would in essence make Covid-19 an occupational disease if any worker in a workplace...As Covid-19 can just as easily be acquired by employees outside of work and subsequently brought into...The Bill needs to consider the implications on all employers of imposing a Covid-19 reporting obligation
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-05-24/17/
24 May 2021 -
, the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020, the Criminal Justice (Enforcement...Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 and the Health (Amendment) Act 2020....Section 2 of the Bill amends section 1 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act...Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 and the Health (Amendment) Act 2020, respectively....Section 5 of the Bill provides for the Title of the Act as the Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19)
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-04-23/5/
23 Apr 2020 -
Student accommodation providers must refund students who have had to return home because of Covid-19....Parents are very anxious that Covid-19 may result in the leaving certificate not going ahead or that...There will be no visa interviews until further notice due to Covid-19....-19 or during Covid-19....This will in no way reflect the reality of 2020, the Covid-19 year.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-11-06/32/
6 Nov 2020 -
-19) Act 2020....-2021: Plan for Living with Covid-19, which spans a period of six to nine months....Today, I am proposing that the Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 should also...The Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 gives gardaí the power to enter such premises...) (Covid-19) Act 2020 will continue to be required.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-11-06/31/
6 Nov 2020 -
-19) Act 2020....-2021: Plan for Living with Covid-19, which spans a period of six to nine months....Today, I am proposing that the Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 should also...The Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 gives gardaí the power to enter such premises...) (Covid-19) Act 2020 will continue to be required.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-11-19/29/
19 Nov 2020 -
Covid-19 is a new, highly infectious disease for which there is no cure and, as of yet, no vaccine, although...positive, stay at home if we are a close contact of a confirmed case, physically distance by 2 m from...As the only actions proven to work against the spread of Covid-19, these safe behaviours are the bedrock...Throughout the pandemic, my Department has been working with a Covid-19 communications behavioural advisory...-19 symptoms and what to do; Covid tracker app; Covid-19 - cases to self-isolate and close contacts to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-29/18/
29 Jul 2020 -
-19 pandemic unemployment payment or jobseeker's schemes after 25 June 2020 to restart their business...fewer than ten people, have an annual turnover of less than €1 million and are not eligible for support from...the Covid-19 business restart grant or other similar business reopening grants. ...In order to be eligible for the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment an individual must have lost his...In cases of doubt where emergency work is undertaken, an individual should discuss the matter with the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-14/31/
14 Jul 2020 -
-19 in January, February and March 2020...., smart working and the number of people working from home....I refer to people in public service employment who have been working very efficiently from home....They have had their employees working from home as well....very effectively from home.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-28/42/
28 Jul 2020 -
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to provide for a new benefit to mitigate...the adverse economic effects of the spread of the disease known as Covid-19; to provide for the attribution...of paid social insurance contributions in respect of payments arising directly from the economic impacts
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2020-11-25/7/
25 Nov 2020 -
Covid-19 spreads when individuals and groups come into close contact with each other, enabling the virus...to move from one person to another....The framework takes account of the societal and economic impacts of the response to Covid-19....In this regard, the Taoiseach had a number of Covid-19 related meetings with faith groups....to discuss the effects Covid-19 is having on their communities.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-02-04/5/
4 Feb 2021 -
security, welfare and nutrition in school and in other settings that in some cases was not available at home...I recently received a response to a parliamentary question which stated: From June 2020 to end of December...Child poverty was there before Covid-19, it has gotten worse during Covid-19 for some children and it...will be there after Covid-19....We are where we are now and we must learn from those mistakes.
