Parliamentary questions

School Staff

Brian Stanley

308. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education if her Department will honour the agreement reached between her predecessor and a trade union (details supplied) on 19 October 2019 to use the Labour Court to resolve the outstanding issues for school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30928/20]

Psychological Assessments

Brian Stanley

542. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health when the child psychologist post that has been vacant at a centre (details supplied) since January 2020 will be filled, as assessments of need are not being carried out in the required timeframe of three months. [30969/20]

Health Services Provision

Brian Stanley

543. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health when services such as speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy will be restored in full at a centre (details supplied) to clear the waiting list for persons that have been referred and need to avail of the services. [30970/20]

Industrial Development

Brian Stanley

26. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider the establishment of a similar-styled body to the Industrial Development Authority to focus specifically on microbusinesses, workers' co-operatives and small and medium-sized enterprises. [29988/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Brian Stanley

65. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to make workplace outbreaks of Covid-19 notifiable by workers to the Health and Safety Authority. [29987/20]

School Staff

Brian Stanley

16. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education her plans to ensure that school secretaries employed by schools are properly remunerated for their work. [29972/20]

School Staff

Brian Stanley

97. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education the progress being made to grant the same terms and conditions for school secretaries that are not employed by her Department or an education and training board, ETB. [29971/20]

Television Licence Fee

Brian Stanley

128. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount of revenue collected in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, from the television licence fee. [30391/20]

Special Educational Needs

Brian Stanley

159. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education the reason special needs assistant support is not being made available to a school (details supplied) to facilitate pupils to whom SNA access has been granted; if the decision will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30392/20]

Community Alert Programme

Brian Stanley

242. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice if a scheme of grants will be reintroduced for community alert schemes to erect cameras. [30472/20]

Housing Policy

Brian Stanley

69. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the need for cost-rental housing provision in regional towns to accommodate those unable to secure a mortgage from a bank or lending facility. [28356/20]

Housing Policy

Brian Stanley

91. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will address the position of persons whose income is above the threshold for social housing but not sufficient to secure a mortgage from a bank or lending facility. [28357/20]

Housing Provision

Brian Stanley

342. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to roll out affordable housing in the midland's region. [25963/20]

Community Employment Schemes

Brian Stanley

513. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding community employment participants that are over 55 years of age; the maximum number of years they can be on the scheme; and the variation that may apply to those that entered community employment under the part-time jobs opportunity. [28268/20]

Income Inequality

Brian Stanley

631. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if the inequality in income vis-à-vis a trainee, a child and educational psychologist and a clinical psychologist undertaking a doctorate who receive a starting salary of approximately €33,000 will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28091/20]

JobPath Programme

Brian Stanley

224. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in each county that engaged with JobPath in each year since it began; and the number whose employment was sustained for more than 12 months in each county. [28070/20]

Mortgage Lending

Brian Stanley

54. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Finance the status of extending the mortgage repayment break for those on the pandemic unemployment payment. [26628/20]

Mortgage Lending

Brian Stanley

76. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Finance the steps his Department has taken to investigate whether interest rates can be suspended on mortgages for those on the pandemic unemployment payment. [26629/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Brian Stanley

113. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of funding spent on procurement across all Departments in 2018 and 2019 that was non-compliant with EU directives on public procurement and with Circular 10/14: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement broken down by each Department. [26666/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Brian Stanley

137. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of funding spent on procurement across all Departments in 2018 and 2019 that was non-compliant with EU directives on public procurement and with circular 10/14: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement by each Department. [26665/20]