Parliamentary questions

Social Welfare Eligibility

Jackie Cahill

512. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person over the age of 66 who could not receive the Covid-19 payment but who still has significant financial responsibilities will receive some form of financial relief; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14168/20]

Grant Payments

Jackie Cahill

539. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grant aid available to churches, church organisations, charity organisations and so on which have accrued large expenses while they were closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14009/20]

Maternity Benefit

Jackie Cahill

642. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase maternity benefit for mothers in the lifetime of the Government; if so, the estimated increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14397/20]

Dental Services

Jackie Cahill

788. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when children’s dental services will be restored to St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary, after being relocated to Nenagh Hospital, Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14224/20]

General Practitioner Services

Jackie Cahill

813. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when ShannonDoc services will reopen at St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14287/20]

Insurance Coverage

Jackie Cahill

23. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance the reason equestrian centres cannot get day cover for pony trekking companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/20]

Student Grant Scheme

Jackie Cahill

123. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the selection processes regarding SUSI applications in view of the effects from the recent Covid-19 pandemic on employment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12783/20]

Special Educational Needs

Jackie Cahill

127. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the summer programme for children in special education (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12806/20]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Jackie Cahill

128. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding schools losing teachers due to the pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12807/20]

Health Services Provision

Jackie Cahill

367. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when treatment for a person (details supplied) will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13243/20]

HSE Complaints Procedures

Jackie Cahill

392. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12786/20]

Physiotherapy Services

Jackie Cahill

407. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when the intensive physiotherapy department will reopen at Our Lady’s Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12862/20]

Hospital Charges

Jackie Cahill

408. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if a series of matters will be clarified in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12863/20]

Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme

Jackie Cahill

583. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter will be clarified for a person (details supplied) who was unable to source cattle to meet the stocking rate; if they still qualify for the ANC payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12882/20]

Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme

Jackie Cahill

588. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of persons (details supplied) regarding BEEP 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13074/20]

Forestry Grants

Jackie Cahill

600. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if approval and financial support will be provided for a forestry road in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13319/20]

National Broadband Plan

Jackie Cahill

619. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will intervene in the process of extending the broadband connection to the remaining houses in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12780/20]

National Car Test

Jackie Cahill

668. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review and clarify the policy surrounding the NCT and licence extensions in the wake of the Covid-19 public health emergency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12781/20]

Taxi Licences

Jackie Cahill

669. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter regarding the skills development certificate will be clarified (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12784/20]

Telecommunications Infrastructure

Jackie Cahill

870. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the necessity for the proposed erection of a 22 m high telecommunications mast at Ballymoreen, Littleton, County Tipperary will be examined (details supplied); if the local community will be engaged with regarding the concerns they have in relation to the proposed mast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13005/20]

Departmental Reports

Jackie Cahill

871. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the cost of the Moorhead Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13287/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Jackie Cahill

55. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance if he will review the anomaly in the temporary wage subsidy scheme in which a limited company that runs a quarterly payroll has been deemed ineligible for the scheme for that reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11972/20]

Departmental Funding

Jackie Cahill

326. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding sources available for community crime prevention organisations, including social enterprises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12177/20]

School Staff

Jackie Cahill

210. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will suspend for one year only the loss of a teacher in small rural schools due to the marginal reduction in pupil numbers in view of the fact the pressure to teach with strict social distancing when the schools reopen could make the schools unmanageable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10732/20]

Private Security Authority

Jackie Cahill

330. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend the licence of electronic alarm installers which are issued by the Private Security Authority in cases in which they have expired during the Covid-19 lockdown (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10750/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Jackie Cahill

432. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will consider introducing additional financial supports for hospitality businesses in rural areas which have been closed during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to help them reopen in view of the fact they will not have the benefit of increased footfall due to location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11210/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

609. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when summer camps can commence; if children who take part in one camp can take part in another camp or if they will be precluded from doing so due to the risk of cross infection; if children can eat indoors at camps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11045/20]

Disability Services Provision

Jackie Cahill

610. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when the dialectical behaviour therapy programme in Tevere Day Hospital, Limerick will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11047/20]

Disability Services Provision

Jackie Cahill

611. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if a person who has been more than two years on the waiting list for the dialectical behaviour therapy programme in Tevere Day Hospital, Limerick, can transfer to the same course in Cork (details supplied) if the course in Limerick does not recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11048/20]

Hospital Facilities

Jackie Cahill

627. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when the cardiology department in Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary will be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11123/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

643. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the maximum number of children allowed at a summer camp provided they are in groups of no more than 15 and that they can be distanced from other groups of 15; if they can use indoor dressing rooms after a water sport for changing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11212/20]

Teaching Qualifications

Jackie Cahill

120. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the commitment given to NQTs by the Teaching Council that no NQT would be disadvantaged in their progress through the Droichead process due to school closures after the lockdown to manage the Covid-19 crisis and that no NQT will be required to begin the Droichead process from day one due to school closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9802/20]

Prison Inspections

Jackie Cahill

225. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the office of the Inspector of Prisons is to be moved from Nenagh, County Tipperary; the criteria or protocols being used for such a move; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10016/20]

Physiotherapy Services

Jackie Cahill

371. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if physiotherapists and reflexologists can reopen as part of phase 2 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; if so, the restrictions under which they will operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10014/20]

Departmental Reviews

Jackie Cahill

496. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to implement the recommendations within the Review of Approval Processes for Afforestation in Ireland commissioned by his Department in 2019; when it will become fully operational; if a person has been identified or appointed to carry out the task of implementing the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10400/20]

Education and Training Provision

Jackie Cahill

141. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the resumption of Safe Pass courses will be facilitated now that construction has reopened in view of the fact the inability to facilitate new recruits into the sector will greatly hamper the re-opening and stifle job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8889/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

556. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the advice or instruction available for a retailer aged over 70 years of age who is the only employee in the business as to whether he or she should reopen if the business is included in the list of businesses allowed to open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8516/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

568. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if summer camps will be allowed to take place during the summer in view of the fact they are integral part of summer for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8582/20]

Future Growth Loan Scheme

Jackie Cahill

765. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer who has been accepted for the future growth loans scheme and has the relevant code that expires on 6 June 2020 can draw down the loan before that date; if not, if the code date will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8663/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

806. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if contractors, installers, suppliers and service providers undertaking activities within SEAI funded works and funded administered schemes can return to work as part of phase 1 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; if not, the phase under which they will be allowed to return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8484/20]

Tourism Policy

Jackie Cahill

882. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the meaningful measures which are being or have been put in place for the hotel and tourism sector to help a reboot of the sector in the areas of liquidity, VAT, the job subsidy scheme, rates and water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8491/20]

Special Educational Needs

Jackie Cahill

160. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the ASD unit at a school (details supplied) has been delayed in view of the fact all works have been completed at stage 2(a) in the process, including the obtaining of planning permission, fire certificates and disability access certificates; the way in which it will be progressed to stage 2(b) to allow the building go to e-tenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7321/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Jackie Cahill

419. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the announced business restart fund and the person or body to apply to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7368/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

667. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if greyhound racing will be permitted to return behind closed doors on the same date that horse racing is resuming behind closed doors from 8 June 2020 as per correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); and if he is reviewing same. [7675/20]

Wildlife Control

Jackie Cahill

1089. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the decision to ban the shooting of pigeons during the summer months in view of the fact they are a serious cause of damage to tillage crops; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7370/20]

School Equipment

Jackie Cahill

188. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which schools can apply for the ICT grant package as recently announced; and the way in which an individual student can access the grant. [5787/20]

School Staff

Jackie Cahill

234. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6144/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

569. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the instructions and guidelines being prepared for pub owners in preparation for an opening of the sector; if the number of customers per square metre is being addressed; the signage to be recommended; the hygiene protocols to be observed; if there will be an information pack provided addressing all of the questions and queries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5936/20]

Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Jackie Cahill

792. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the financial challenge facing the local authority veterinary service on 30 June 2020 as a consequence of a cut in funding from the FSAI; the reason this cut is happening in view of the importance of the service to food production at this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6793/20]

Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Jackie Cahill

793. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to correspondence issued by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland on 12 May 2020 relating to the operation of checks in small slaughter houses post 1 July 2020; his views on whether this correspondence undermines attempts to secure the future of the local authority veterinary service which currently operates this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6794/20]