Parliamentary questions

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

39. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his position and actions either taken by his Department or scheduled for the future on archival infrastructure to ensure truth for mother and baby homes. [31365/20]

Magdalen Laundries

Gary Gannon

71. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if he still accepts the sixth recommendation of a person (details supplied) to provide a suitable memorial to the victims and survivors of Magdalen laundries following the State apology made in 2013. [30368/20]

Student Universal Support Ireland

Gary Gannon

80. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will consider removing the rules within SUSI that do not allow students to be reclassified from the point of entry unless they take a three-year break in their education, which is unfairly targeting independent students. [31363/20]

Budget 2021

Gary Gannon

88. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the omission of financial supports for part-time students in budget 2021; and if part-time students will be eligible for the planned €250 universal student payment . [31362/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Gary Gannon

14. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to support indigenous industries that cannot return due to Covid-19. [25616/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

73. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the measures being advised for students in primary and secondary schools who have family members at home with severe underlying health conditions that would place their lives at risk should an incident of Covid-19 occur in their schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23680/20]

Health Services

Gary Gannon

289. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the status the establishment of the national psychology place office. [29486/20]

Addiction Treatment Services

Gary Gannon

290. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that those availing of supports, such as community meetings for addiction and recovery, will continue to be able to do so if Ireland enters into more severe lockdowns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29487/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

291. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if healthcare workers who are close contacts of positive Covid-19 cases or close contacts of someone awaiting the results of a Covid-19 test are entitled to Covid-19 sick leave; if not, if they are required to use their normal sick leave, annual leave or unpaid leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29488/20]

Driver Licences

Gary Gannon

53. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to significant delays in appointments in National Driver Licence Service Dublin offices causing difficulties in renewing licences in part due to NDLS medical report form, D501, valid one month from signing by a doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29246/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

146. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if the specification for the coding for the predictive grade model was signed off by her Department was explicit and clear as to the requirements; and the date on which this sign-off occurred. [29249/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

147. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the person or body within her Department that approved sign-off for the predictive grade model; on what date, and at what project board meeting. [29250/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

148. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the minutes of the meeting at which the specification and the subsequent approval were authorised for the calculated grade coding for a company (details supplied); and if she will provide evidence that the major flaws in the software quality assurance process will not be repeated. [29251/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

149. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the professional standards that will be applied to future work on the ISO 29119 software testing standards which are an internationally agreed set which can be used by an organisation when performing any form of software testing; if not, the recognised standards that will be adhered to; and the specific name of the alternative standard. [29252/20]

Third Level Admissions

Gary Gannon

194. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [29244/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

195. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there will be consideration given to the errors in the calculated grades, in the case that a student with HEAR or DARE status has a grade increase that an increase in points for these students could have led to offers for courses in participating colleges at reduced levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29245/20]

Health Services Reports

Gary Gannon

254. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent release of the national maternity experience survey, in particular the results that showed women experienced poorer at home care when it came to mental health particularly worrying in view of the fact that homecare supports has decreased during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29247/20]

Nursing Staff

Gary Gannon

255. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses by area in tabular form. [29248/20]

Nursing Staff

Gary Gannon

256. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if public health nurses are currently active; if they have been redeployed by Covid-19 contact and tracing or if they are back within communities; and if not, if there is a date when they can be expected to return. [29260/20]

Housing Policy

Gary Gannon

86. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for ending the eviction moratorium in view of the fact that many industries such as the events, hospitality and related industries are closed and in further view of warnings from senior health officials that Covid-19 will continue to affect the country for the next several months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28232/20]

Departmental Contracts

Gary Gannon

488. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if there was a tender process that secured the contractor (details supplied) for the modelling of the predictive grade system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28904/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Gary Gannon

495. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the average time from sole traders completing and submitting a form for the €1,000 grant to the local Intreo office to receipt of the funding. [28078/20]

Social Welfare Inspections

Gary Gannon

541. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether social welfare inspectors should be able to enter the homes of local authority tenants to carry out unannounced inspections; her further views on whether the home is private and that tenants should be given advance notice of inspections so that they can protect their right to privacy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28233/20]

International Students

Gary Gannon

583. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if correspondence was received from this Deputy on 23 September 2020 regarding a letter from international students in Ireland; and if a reply will issue shortly. [28899/20]

Student Visas

Gary Gannon

624. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice if the decision taken on 25 September 2020 to limit all students on a stamp 2 will be reconsidered in view of the fact that it restricts students, including graduating students who have submitted dissertations but are awaiting results, to only 20 hours per week of work; if there is a method to permit graduating students permission to work full-time whilst awaiting to avail of the third-level graduate scheme, otherwise known as the 1G visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28898/20]

Protected Disclosures

Gary Gannon

628. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the way in which whistleblower accounts will be managed now that a service (details supplied) is to close; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28903/20]

Protected Disclosures

Gary Gannon

778. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the cost of the review of a service (details supplied) undertaken in 2019 by the HSE which last week was reported to stakeholders will not be completed beyond a draft report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28900/20]

Protected Disclosures

Gary Gannon

779. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the stage at which during the review of a centre (details supplied) the decision was made that the investigators had gone beyond the terms of reference; the reason this was not realised at the regular briefing meetings in view of the fact it was not a legal review; and the legal constraints that prevented the examiners going beyond the terms of reference if they deemed it necessary. [28901/20]

Protected Disclosures

Gary Gannon

780. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if the Tusla inspection report on a service (details supplied) published online on 14 July 2020 was a factor in the decision-making to close a centre; and the measures taken by the HSE when it was made aware of the findings of the Tusla inspection. [28902/20]

Sports Funding

Gary Gannon

4. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the details of the budgetary supports which will be committed to clubs (details supplied); and the other supports for the organisation to keep it functioning into 2021 and beyond. [28046/20]

Stadium Projects

Gary Gannon

23. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the status of the redevelopment of Dalymount Park; and the timeline and funds allocated. [27428/20]

Sports Funding

Gary Gannon

24. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if the suggested €3.5 million will be allocated to clubs (details supplied) to keep them functioning into 2021 and potentially beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27427/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Gary Gannon

25. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the supports available to the tourist industry, including tour operators and guides, in view of the extent of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27431/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

31. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the supports for artistic venues and enterprises that are not supported through the Arts Council and which face closures without such needed support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27430/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

62. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the recent closure of a venue (details supplied) and the statement by the directors of the venue in the media on 23 September 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27429/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

45. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance if persons that received the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be liable for a lump sum of tax at the end of the year despite only receiving the maximum of their net pay through the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25022/20]

Wage Subsidy Scheme

Gary Gannon

283. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to calls from the live events sector to reinstate the employment wage subsidy scheme at the full rate per week for these workers in view of the fact the sector is closed and dramatically reduced under public health advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25023/20]

Departmental Meetings

Gary Gannon

514. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the engagement her Department has had with a union (details supplied) following a ballot of its members on 18 September 2020 in relation to a number of key issues which have emerged since schools reopened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27302/20]

National Educational Psychological Service

Gary Gannon

515. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when the national educational psychologists will be permitted to make schools visits to make necessary assessments for students that have been waiting since February 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27303/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

516. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the legal advice her Department received which has resulted in the class ranking of leaving certificate students being released; and when she received this advice. [27304/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

517. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when and the way in which post-primary schools received communication regarding the class ranking being released. [27305/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

518. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when students can expect results from the appeals process; and if there are different deadlines for the different stages associated with the process. [27307/20]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

639. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the independently appointed Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes specifically and repeatedly recommended to his Department that the task of managing information and tracing be removed from Tusla on the basis that they experienced the behaviour of the agency to be demoralising and frustrating and damaging and retraumatising (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27308/20]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

640. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if instead of transferring records from the archive of the Commission for Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to Tusla he will transfer the specified database to the Adoption Authority of Ireland until such time as the records can be preserved in an independent centralised archive of all historical injustice records in view of the fact that the authority has been preparing to take possession of all adoption records since publication of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 (details supplied). [27309/20]

Child and Family Agency

Gary Gannon

641. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has called into serious question the legality of Tusla’s practice, for which there is no published policy, of risk assessing adopted persons that seek access to their personal data. [27310/20]

Adoption Data

Gary Gannon

642. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his views on whether the existing situation regarding access to records of forced family separation is highly problematic and that alongside adopted persons that are being denied their own file, mothers are also being denied their own data and relatives of deceased infants are being denied information regarding the fate and whereabouts of their family member (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27311/20]

Data Protection

Gary Gannon

643. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under the GDPR, according to the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner, the same information may relate to more than one individual and this does not affect the right of access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27312/20]

Data Protection

Gary Gannon

644. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if he acknowledges that a person’s identity at birth is their personal data according to the definition of personal data in Article 4 of the GDPR (details supplied). [27313/20]

Data Protection

Gary Gannon

645. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if he acknowledges that deceased persons do not have rights under the GDPR (details supplied). [27314/20]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

646. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if he acknowledges that adopted persons, survivors and advocates have not called for unrestricted use or open public access to the archive of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes but they have requested differentiated rights of access to the archive, namely personal data access for those personally affected, access for family members to information regarding the fate and whereabouts of their disappeared loved ones that died while in institutional custody, freedom for survivors of abuse to voluntarily publish their own testimony and records if they wish and public access to administrative records which may be redacted as necessary and proportionate (details supplied). [27315/20]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

647. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) proposed amendments to the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 and several Senators submitted amendments at Seanad Committee Stage that would provide all adopted persons with their birth certificate following an information session as a proportionate measure to respect the rights of all concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27316/20]

Adoption Data

Gary Gannon

648. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his views on whether adopted persons personal data access and contact with natural family members are separate issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27317/20]

Adoption Data

Gary Gannon

649. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration the evidence that exists of a guarantee of confidentiality to natural mothers whose children were adopted in view of the system of public registration of births in Ireland. [27318/20]

Adoption Data

Gary Gannon

650. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration the evidence that exists that natural mothers wish to prevent their adult children from accessing their own personal data. [27319/20]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

651. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his views on whether the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 made no provision for natural mothers to access their own personal data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/20]

Adoption Data

Gary Gannon

652. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his views on whether there will still be a right of access to personal data in the archive of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes after it is transferred to him according to the GDPR and Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 as amended by the Data Protection Act 2018. [27321/20]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gary Gannon

653. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration if he will facilitate personal data access requests from survivors, adopted persons, relatives of the disappeared and all others to whom information in the archive relates. [27322/20]

National Archives

Gary Gannon

654. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration his views on whether, as demonstrated by his proposed legislation, the Houses of the Oireachtas has the power to legislate in order that the entire archive is not sealed for the next 30 years but instead is made available in a differentiated manner depending on the information concerned. [27323/20]

National Archives

Gary Gannon

655. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration the justification he can provide for sealing State administrative records that should otherwise be in the National Archives of Ireland due to the fact they are Departmental records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27324/20]

Community Policing

Gary Gannon

746. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the reason funding for the community policing forum in the northinner city ceased in May 2019. [27301/20]

Mental Health Services

Gary Gannon

989. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if he will exempt psychologists working within the mental health services in north Dublin for redeployment to test centres in view of the fact that many mental health services within the north Dublin area are significantly under-resourced based on population size and the services users they support are highly vulnerable during this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27306/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

130. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the number of primary and post-primary schools that have provided a mobile number for a designated contact following communication from her Department on 8 September 2020; and the recourse if a mobile number for a designated contact is not provided. [25871/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Gary Gannon

151. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if pandemic unemployment payment applicants can close their claim to take on a period of work and then go back on the payment by making a new claim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25870/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Gary Gannon

26. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to calls from the live events sector to reinstate the pandemic unemployment payment at the full rate per week for these workers in view of the fact the sector is closed or dramatically reduced under public health advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25023/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

300. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if representation by the commercial live events sector will be ensured on the taskforce for the recovery of the arts and culture in view of the fact this subsection of workers are the least likely to return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25188/20]

School Transport

Gary Gannon

458. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if there is provision to accommodate schools which need substitute bus escorts in cases of a bus escort having to self-isolate due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25189/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Gary Gannon

619. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the consideration and support for international students studying here prior to Covid-19 that may struggle to pay fees due to not being able to work over the summer period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25190/20]

Town and Village Renewal Scheme

Gary Gannon

4. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands if she will extend the 2020 town and village renewal scheme outline for the accelerated measure in response to Covid-19 to enable more communities to avail of this funding. [24462/20]

Company Liquidations

Gary Gannon

140. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the implementation of the Duffy Cahill report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24585/20]

Third Level Admissions

Gary Gannon

151. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there was a difference between the number of CAO first preference offers in 2020 between candidates using 2020 predictive leaving certificate grades and those that completed their leaving certificate in other years in tabular form. [24575/20]

Emergency Departments

Gary Gannon

150. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if the practice within emergency department units for next of kin or a chosen person to act on behalf of patients will be reinstated (details supplied); if a timeframe will be given for the reinstatement of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24403/20]

Health Services Data

Gary Gannon

93. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the number of persons here diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. [23679/20]

School Inspections

Gary Gannon

432. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the role of the school inspectorate in view of the fact that formal inspections have paused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23853/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

433. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if public health HSE or his Department have the mobile numbers of principals in primary and post-primary schools nationwide in the event of contact tracing taking place when schools are closed, that is, at the weekend. [23854/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

434. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education when schools were first contacted and informed that they had to have a summary of key information to assist public health HSE in its public health risk assessment. [23855/20]

School Transport

Gary Gannon

435. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the specific guidance plan for buses which service schools and persons with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23858/20]

Student Universal Support Ireland

Gary Gannon

557. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if SUSI will alter the process of classifying students at their first point of entry to an approved post-leaving certificate course or an approved higher education course in view of the fact it disadvantages students that move out of the family home that is become independent unless they take a break from pursuing their education for five years; his views on the solution required for students negatively affected in 2020 as a result of the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23856/20]

Community Policing

Gary Gannon

600. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice if the community policing forums will be re-established in central areas of Dublin; and if meetings of the forums will be supported to resume in a safe manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23857/20]

Deportation Orders

Gary Gannon

601. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the number of foreign nationals that were refused leave to land in airports here between March and August 2020, by gender, nationality and the country to which they were deported to in tabular form [23863/20]

Deportation Orders

Gary Gannon

602. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the number of foreign nationals that spent time in a prison here after being refused leave to land at an airport between March and August 2020 by the location in which they were jailed, nationality and gender in tabular form. [23864/20]

Deportation Orders

Gary Gannon

603. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice his views on the delays in opening the immigration facility at Dublin Airport and the continued use of jails here to accommodate immigrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23865/20]

Immigration Data

Gary Gannon

604. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice if the criteria and process used by border officials when deciding whether or not to let a person into the country will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23866/20]

National Public Health Emergency Team

Gary Gannon

762. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the reason NPHET is blocking the release of the risk register under a freedom of information request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23859/20]

National Public Health Emergency Team

Gary Gannon

763. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the reason NPHET is refusing to make publicly available the risk register under a freedom of information request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23860/20]

National Public Health Emergency Team

Gary Gannon

764. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health the number of meetings of NPHET and the research subgroup of the Expert Advisory Group that have taken place since 12 June 2020. [23861/20]

National Public Health Emergency Team

Gary Gannon

765. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health when the minutes of meetings for NPHET and the research subgroup of the expert advisory group since the 12 June 2020 will be published. [23862/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

568. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if the formula for the leaving certificate 2020 examinations will be made public in full detail (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22017/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

569. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if clear guidelines will be issued for primary and secondary schools on drop off and collection of students in view of the significant issues experienced over the recent reopening of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22018/20]

School Accommodation

Gary Gannon

570. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if there is a deadline by which infrastructural works in schools are to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22019/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

574. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if the ranking system which teachers needed to provide for leaving certificate students for the predictive grade system will be made public; if this is in line or contradictory with communication to schools and teachers in April 2020; and if subsequent communication was made to schools on this issue. [22042/20]

DEIS Scheme

Gary Gannon

60. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address literacy and numeracy levels for students particularly those returning to DEIS schools in cases in which there was a pre-existing gap prior to Covid-19; if this will involve an essential increase in teacher continuous professional development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19384/20]

School Staff

Gary Gannon

63. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Skills if support will be provided and or the suggested recourse for schools vetting new non-teaching staff in view of time constraints and the significant administrative burden on schools preparing to reopen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19335/20]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

81. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a reduction in the curriculum for incoming sixth years and changing the leaving certificate examinations in 2021 has been investigated to reflect the disruption to learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19336/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

260. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to levies on airlines to discourage unnecessary foreign travel; and if so, the other statutory instruments on the aviation industry that will be considered or implemented to achieve this public health goal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20528/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Gary Gannon

353. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to employees and employers being impacted by the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20531/20]

Cycle to Work Scheme

Gary Gannon

623. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the cycle to work scheme will be available for applications from education staff (detail supplied) in view of many school staff wishing to avail of the scheme with the reopening of schools due to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20526/20]

School Staff

Gary Gannon

699. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of post-primary teachers expected to retire during the first term of 2020/2021; and if this number has been factored into the recruitment of additional teachers within the roadmap for reopening schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20525/20]

Access to Higher Education

Gary Gannon

700. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of successful candidates with HEAR and DARE status from the Irish Universities Association, IUA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20527/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Gary Gannon

770. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the other measures being considered to create disincentives to act in a manner which contravenes public health advice further to SI 242 of 2020; if consideration has been given to the potential of these statutory instruments targeting specific groups rather than society at large; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20530/20]

Social Welfare Inspections

Gary Gannon

870. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the locations in which social welfare officers have carried out random inspections from 7 July 2020 to the most recent data available in tabular form. [20523/20]