CCA chairman in firing line before States returns to schools debate
QUESTIONS about the handling of the pandemic locally and an incident involving an alleged isolation breach at The Farmhouse are due to be asked at the States meeting starting tomorrow.
On the receiving end of many of these will be Civil Contingencies Authority chairman Peter Ferbrache.
He has already been alerted to questions about The Farmhouse incident from Deputy Gavin St Pier, although Deputy Ferbrache has said he did not believe that these fall within the rules.
Lester Queripel has also said he intends to challenge the CCA president in relation to the cost of the Covid-19 vaccination programme and supplying parents of schoolchildren with lateral flow test kits.
Deputy Queripel also wants to know whether parents were asked if they were going to use the kits before they were issued to them.
He also intends ask if the CCA foresees a time when the testing and, later, vaccination of schoolchildren will be compulsory.
Health & Social Care president Al Brouard will be asked if the committee has any plans to remind islanders of the importance of building up their immune system to help resist the virus and whether or not it intended to provide financial help for those who could not afford to buy essential vitamins and supplements, such as vitamins C and D, zinc and magnesium.
He also will ask if Deputy Brouard thinks it a good idea for local health professionals to let HSC know of someone reporting an adverse reaction to the vaccine.
This week’s meeting will also see the continuation of the debate on Education, Sport & Culture’s plans for the future of secondary education, which ran out of time in July.
Its policy report had already attracted several amendments and more have been added, which could see the debate occupying a substantial amount of time this week.
After members are finished with that, there remain a couple of items from July, including a bid by Policy & Resources, Economic Development and the States’ Trading Supervisory Board to have responsibility for Guernsey Electricity’s tariffs and pricing removed from the Competition and Regulatory Authority and transferred instead to the STSB.
Assuming July’s business is completed, the items scheduled for debate this week include Environment & Infrastructure’s report on the future of aggregate supply in Guernsey, which gives members the option of approving a new quarry at Chouet headland, or to import material when Les Vardes Quarry is exhausted of granite.
P&R has given its backing to the on-island option.
