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Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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Insurance Industry
Marc MacSharry
186. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance if he will make contact with the insurance industry to reduce annual premium renewals for sports clubs that are being hit by large premiums (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6330/21]
Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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Insurance Industry
Marc MacSharry
188. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will request the insurance sector to reduce insurance premiums for sports clubs in 2021; if the insurance industry will be requested to base premiums on true risks, that is, the reduced risk associated with the drop in usage and footfall due to Covid-19 restrictions; if the insurance sector will be further requested to be lenient in relation to payments for sports clubs, given his request for banks and lending institutions to show forbearance to businesses and clients with loan and mortgage repayments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6331/21]
Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
258. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department or an agency under her remit has considered action to assist individual clubs with their costs; if she will ensure that sports clubs’ large direct payments, for example, insurance premiums, will be eligible for assistance in future Covid-19 funding; if she will examine the issue of sports clubs that were assisted in 2020 but are now ruled out as not eligible in the new Covid restrictions support scheme given that they will be in difficulty in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6330/21]
Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
259. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the situation regarding sports clubs that received funding (details supplied) in 2020 but that are now ruled out as ineligible under the Covid restrictions support scheme will be reviewed; if the difficulties of sports clubs will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6331/21]
Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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School Transport
Marc MacSharry
407. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Education when a school transport summer provisions grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6477/21]
Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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Disability Allowance
Marc MacSharry
493. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6523/21]
Wed, 3 Feb 2021
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Student Accommodation
Marc MacSharry
531. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there are plans to assist the large number of third-level students who paid for student accommodation and were subsequently directed to stay at home under Government guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5425/21]
Thu, 28 Jan 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Marc MacSharry
266. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the reason a facility (details supplied) has not been advised to date when a Covid-19 vaccination will be available to it, has not been advised when the vaccine will be administered to residents and no contact has been made to make preliminary enquiries to secure informed consent; the date for inoculation in the facility; if the residents will be prioritised given that all fall within the most vulnerable category of persons requiring vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4789/21]
Thu, 28 Jan 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Marc MacSharry
270. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health when front-line nursing and care staff working within residential disability services at Cregg House Sligo and Cloonamahon Sligo and community houses linked to both will be offered and receive the Covid vaccination; the date for same; the process of determining the schedule; the reason the National Immunisation Advisory Committee has not been the body determining the priority list of when and who receives vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4808/21]
Thu, 28 Jan 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Marc MacSharry
271. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health if a nurse contracts Covid-19 and consequent associated illness prevents attendance at work, that following a period of 28 days the nurse in question must offset further or continuing absence due to Covid-related illness from sick leave days prescribed in their contract; if a nurse due to non-Covid-related illness which has or may require the use and exhaustion of prescribed sick leave days will not be financially disadvantaged and penalised due to Covid-related illness causing more than the 28 days currently prescribed as the maximum supported period for such absence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4809/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Waste Management
Marc MacSharry
37. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his strategy for the sustainability and expansion of the compost industry in Ireland; his plans to expand the brown bin service to all households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3670/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Departmental Expenditure
Marc MacSharry
38. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the expenditure on national public awareness campaigns for waste services (details supplied) over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3671/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
246. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason an increased salary of some €292,000 has been allocated to the position of Secretary General for the Department of Health. [4153/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
247. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has provided direct approval and sanctioning of a salary increase for the new position of Secretary General of the Department of Health; the details of the business case for such an increase in remuneration; if the account as reported in a national print media article dated 18 January 2020 quoting a person (details supplied) is correct; the reason a full memo was not brought to Cabinet; and the reason a message was not brought by him to Dáil Éireann. [4154/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
248. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a public statement advising the absence of a memo to Cabinet for formal approval of the proposed increase of the rate of pay for the position of Secretary General of the Department of Health to €292,000 is in line with Articles 11 and 17 of the Constitution and the views of the Minister for Health (details supplied) that such an increase would not be included in advised voted expenditure; and his plans to bring a message to Dáil Éireann for approval of such an increase in the rate of remuneration applicable to the position, which is far outside increases prescribed in the public service pay agreements. [4155/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
249. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the interests of the taxpayer, TLAC will immediately suspend the formal recruitment of a new Secretary General of the Department of Health, pending the full consideration of the matter by the Committee of Public Accounts and Dáil Éireann to ensure the optimum public scrutiny and approval of public expenditure and the proposed increase in the salary to avoid the setting of further poor precedent by proceeding without such scrutiny and examination. [4156/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Staff
Marc MacSharry
250. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide additional extensions or to carry out a competitive recruitment process for the replacement on retirement of three Secretaries General (details supplied) in view of the expiry of the seven-year rule in 2018. [4157/21]
Thu, 21 Jan 2021
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Working Family Payment
Marc MacSharry
226. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo whose working family payment was not renewed following the annual review even though the person's circumstances have not changed since 2020 will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3031/21]
Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
31. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the legislation with regard to employers who had to cease trading and let their staff go due to Covid-19, repaying statutory redundancy payments paid to their former employees, given that these employers have already paid their portion of the employee social insurance contribution over the years and the fact that the closure of their respective businesses was due to the pandemic and they are not in a financial position to make these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2792/21]
Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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Revenue Commissioners
Marc MacSharry
147. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance if clarity will be provided on the benefit-in-kind treatment for tax purposes for company cars for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2516/21]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Broadband Infrastructure
Marc MacSharry
25. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the establishment of a network of broadband connection points in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43606/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Local Improvement Scheme
Marc MacSharry
77. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that will be provided in counties Sligo and Leitrim under the local improvement scheme in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43607/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Marc MacSharry
109. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Sligo and Leitrim that have availed of the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43804/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
160. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Sligo and Leitrim that have received support under the restart grant and the restart grant plus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43803/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Animal Welfare
Marc MacSharry
646. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all seizures of horses made under SI 62 of 2016, the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 and the Control of Horses Act 1996 are included in the national horse seizure statistics figure; if not, his plans to ensure that all horse seizures are included in the national figure in view of the fact that, without the inclusion of same, the national horse figure provided is erroneous; if he will ensure that all of the legislation will be enforced in order to reduce and eliminate continuing and blatant disregard for the law on animal welfare in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44441/20]
Tue, 15 Dec 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
206. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance the position of eligibility to the new CRSS from sports clubs with a bar registered under the Clubs Act 1904 and so on as it seems the system of the Revenue Commissioners is refusing such applications; the reason this should be as the CRSS was projected as a replacement for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment local authority reopening scheme which did apply to sports clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43055/20]
Tue, 15 Dec 2020
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Fuel Allowance
Marc MacSharry
378. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) who had their fuel allowance disallowed on reaching 66 years of age will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43274/20]
Thu, 10 Dec 2020
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Medicinal Products
Marc MacSharry
373. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the way in which he is encouraging the use of biosimilar medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42312/20]
Thu, 26 Nov 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
140. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in counties Sligo and Leitrim that have qualified for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39199/20]
Thu, 26 Nov 2020
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School Admissions
Marc MacSharry
284. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Education the reason a student (details supplied) is being refused a place in three schools; the assurance she can provide to allay the fears and upset of the student's parents that there will be a place in a local school for the next school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39508/20]
Wed, 25 Nov 2020
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Energy Policy
Marc MacSharry
30. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 26 and 27 of 4 November 2020, the financial implications or fines arising from the failure of Ireland to meet Regulation (EU) No. 994/2010 from 1 January 2021 on the security of gas supply, which requires member states to comply with the N-1 formula; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38914/20]
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
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Property Registration Authority
Marc MacSharry
395. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the total number of employees in the Property Registration Authority is in the region of 550 employees; the precise number employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38734/20]
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
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Property Registration Authority
Marc MacSharry
396. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if approximately 230 employees are currently remote working enabled and who are therefore working from home; the precise number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38735/20]
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
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Property Registration Authority
Marc MacSharry
397. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the remainder of staff at the Property Registration Authority numbering approximately 320 employees are split into two teams, namely team A and team B; if these teams work part-time across the six locations operated by the PRA, with team A and B working a two-day week and three-day week alternating from team to team and week to week; if the employees while working a short week continue to be paid their full salaries based on a full working week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38736/20]
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
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Property Registration Authority
Marc MacSharry
398. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the attention of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has been drawn to and has approved a situation in which employees are working a two to three-day week in certain instances but yet being remunerated for a full working week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38737/20]
Tue, 17 Nov 2020
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Health Services
Marc MacSharry
724. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive treatment for Parkinson’s disease with Duodopa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36282/20]
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
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One-Parent Family Payment
Marc MacSharry
268. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the anomaly whereby a person (details supplied) cannot be awarded reckonable credits for the period during which they were in receipt of the one-parent family payment and subsequent welfare payment due to the fact that immediately prior to claiming the payment the person was on a community employment scheme, which is not listed as one the qualifying schemes for awarding credits; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this has a knock-on effect for the person in that they cannot qualify for the widow’s contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35925/20]
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
453. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) HEAnet promised upgrade can be brought forward as the current service is very poor and not fit for purpose particularly during Covid-19 restrictions in which students are unable to log on to class from home if self-isolating due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34904/20]
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
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Medicinal Products
Marc MacSharry
674. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the reason access to the compassionate use programme for the new spinal muscular atrophy drug, risdiplam or Evrysdi, is not currently available to adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34663/20]
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
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Medicinal Products
Marc MacSharry
675. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the granting of access to the compassionate use programme for the new spinal muscular atrophy drug, risdiplam or Evrysdi, by hospitals to adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34664/20]
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
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Medicinal Products
Marc MacSharry
676. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health if there is a specific reason adults cannot currently avail of the new spinal muscular atrophy drug, risdiplam or Evrysdi, under the compassionate use programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34665/20]
Wed, 4 Nov 2020
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Climate Change Policy
Marc MacSharry
25. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications if there has been an evaluation of the potential carbon emissions savings resulting from the commitment in the programme for Government which commits to an allocation of 10% of the total transport capital budget for cycling projects and an allocation of 10% of the total capital budget for pedestrian infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34039/20]
Wed, 4 Nov 2020
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Energy Policy
Marc MacSharry
26. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications if Ireland is compliant for 2020 and 2021 with the Regulation (EU) No. 994/2010 on security of gas supply which requires member states to comply with the N-1 formula; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34040/20]
Wed, 4 Nov 2020
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Energy Policy
Marc MacSharry
27. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the implications of Brexit for Ireland's energy supply; if the UK will continue to be subject to the EU law obligations to provide solidarity as required by Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 regarding measures to safeguard the security of supply to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34041/20]
Tue, 3 Nov 2020
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National Cancer Strategy
Marc MacSharry
130. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the amount of additional funding which will be allocated for the national cancer strategy in 2021; the total funding for the strategy in 2021 on foot of this increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33467/20]
Tue, 3 Nov 2020
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Energy Policy
Marc MacSharry
258. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications if it is feasible to remove Ireland’s dependency on gas by 2030; his plans to import gas rather than use Irish gas discoveries; if he considers this an ethical and economic thing to do in view that it will come from other countries; if he has considered this within WHO and other organisations’ codes regarding exploitation of other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32957/20]
Tue, 3 Nov 2020
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Energy Policy
Marc MacSharry
259. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications his views on a recent media article (details supplied) which indicated the UK Government was placing restrictions on energy transfers to Ireland; if this is consistent with an interview he gave to the same newspaper on 12 October 2020 in which he said the UK would not do this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32958/20]
Wed, 21 Oct 2020
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Climate Change Policy
Marc MacSharry
29. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the energy activities he envisages will be included in the new definition of emissions in the proposed climate action Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31967/20]
Wed, 21 Oct 2020
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Climate Change Policy
Marc MacSharry
30. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the differences proposed for agriculture over other sectors in his categorisation of its special role in the new climate action Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31968/20]
Wed, 21 Oct 2020
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Climate Change Policy
Marc MacSharry
31. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications if individual farmers can apply to the Climate Action Fund under changes proposed in the climate action Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31969/20]