Parliamentary questions

Sports Funding

Sorca Clarke

78. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of applications for funding received regarding funding for skate parks in 2020 and to date in 2021, by county, in tabular form. [62084/21]

Housing Provision

Sorca Clarke

84. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the refurbishment earmarked in May 2018 for Granard, County Longford by an organisation (details supplied). [62080/21]

Vacant Sites

Sorca Clarke

85. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities that have adopted, and have yet to adopt, a vacant sites policy, in tabular form. [62081/21]

Vacant Properties

Sorca Clarke

86. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes that are unoccupied, by local authority area. [62082/21]

Local Authorities

Sorca Clarke

87. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities that have an approved overdraft; and the levels of same by local authority, in tabular form. [62083/21]

School Equipment

Sorca Clarke

121. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if a cost-benefit analysis has been conducted on the installation of air filtration systems in primary schools throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62376/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Sorca Clarke

122. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if her Department is considering closing schools early or extending closure over the Christmas holidays in view of the increasing numbers of Covid-19 infections and the changing public health advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62377/21]

Domestic Violence

Sorca Clarke

167. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice if she has had engagement with organisations (details supplied) or similar agencies to tackle the increase in domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62374/21]

National Broadband Plan

Sorca Clarke

173. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if clarity will be provided on the National Broadband Plan including investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61977/21]

Departmental Schemes

Sorca Clarke

174. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the low-cost loan scheme for retrofitting residential homes is open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61978/21]

Public Transport

Sorca Clarke

199. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the National Transport Authority Connecting Ireland plan provides no public transport on R392 between Ballymahon, County Longford and Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61979/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Sorca Clarke

205. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance if he is considering the reintroduction of the employee wage subsidy scheme in view of the current restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61226/21]

United Nations

Sorca Clarke

367. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has engaged with bodies regarding the development of a United Nations binding treaty on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61974/21]

United Nations

Sorca Clarke

368. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to bring forward gender responsive human rights and environmental due diligence legislation to ensure businesses respect human rights across their activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61975/21]

United Nations

Sorca Clarke

369. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a report has been completed on whether the voluntary guidelines in Ireland’s National Plan on Business and Human Rights has had an impact on improving respect for human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61976/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Sorca Clarke

473. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if it is planned to introduce health regulations in relation to the holding of in-person third-level examinations between the end of November and Christmas 2021 in the Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone in view of the risk that the institute might become a super-spreader events and cause Covid-19 to be reintroduced by students returning home for Christmas to households throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61227/21]

Agriculture Schemes

Sorca Clarke

46. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will remove the proposed age limit for women to receive increased TAMS grant aid. [60802/21]

Regional Development

Sorca Clarke

115. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether his Department can be central to helping reimagine and redevelop town and city centres. [60859/21]

Living Wage

Sorca Clarke

144. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of his Department's work on the implementation of a living wage. [60860/21]

Covid-19 Tests

Sorca Clarke

329. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the requirement for persons who have previously tested positive for Covid-19 and hold a valid HSE recovery certificate in relation to the new international travel Covid-19 testing measures. [61002/21]