Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

School Equipment

Holly Cairns

298. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if exceptional payments will be provided for schools to purchase laptops and-or tablets to enable students learning online in anticipation of restrictions on attendance in the 2020/2021 school year. [12656/20]

Traffic Fines

Holly Cairns

354. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been fined to date on foot of legislation governing the overtaking of pedal cyclists. [12654/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

387. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if it will be ensured that all grants and supports are accessible by businesses which operate on offshore islands (details supplied). [12655/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

572. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if the guidelines will be changed to enable persons travelling on ferries to offshore islands social distance at 1 m with compulsory facemasks in order to ensure the viability of the services. [12659/20]

Disabilities Data

Holly Cairns

573. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of adults with intellectual disabilities residing in acute or long-stay psychiatric settings in Cork city and county between January 2016 and May 2020, in tabular form. [12660/20]

Disabilities Data

Holly Cairns

574. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of adults with disabilities residing in nursing settings in Cork city and county between January 2016 and May 2020, by age in tabular form. [12661/20]

Housing for People with Disabilities

Holly Cairns

575. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his views on producing a scheme to ensure that persons with disabilities under 70 years of age who are residing in nursing homes but do not have a medical nursing care need can be housed in more appropriate sheltered and supported accommodation services. [12662/20]

Harbours and Piers

Holly Cairns

617. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dedicated funding will be put in place for small coastal piers in order to support sustainable fishing and coastal and island communities. [12650/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

618. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Coivd-19 fishing tie-up scheme will be reviewed and adjusted to greater meet the needs of fishing communities and ensure more fishers avail of same. [12651/20]

Fishing Communities

Holly Cairns

619. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a support scheme will be provided for fishers similar to the support scheme for beef finishing farms. [12652/20]

Ministerial Meetings

Holly Cairns

742. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet representatives of organisations (details supplied) to discuss their recovery plan and in order to open lines of communication with the tourism recovery task force and the task force for aviation recovery. [12670/20]

National Play and Recreation Policies

Holly Cairns

744. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the provision of specific funding will be ensured to support the development and maintenance of accessible play groups in towns and villages to enable children play and interact with their peers in an outdoor setting. [12666/20]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Holly Cairns

774. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the consideration she has given to extending the age limit on the second year for free preschool allowances due to the Covid-19 pandemic. [12667/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

862. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a time extension will be committed to regarding pandemic supports to photography and videography businesses in order to provide the certainty required for members of an organisation (details supplied) to keep their companies. [12657/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

863. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be extended beyond the current timeline for the small public service vehicle industry. [12658/20]

Heritage Sites

Holly Cairns

950. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of sites on the list of proposed natural heritage areas by county; and when they will be designated as natural heritage areas. [12663/20]

Wildlife Protection

Holly Cairns

951. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the recent destruction of sensitive marsh habitats in Garrylucas, Garrettstown, Kinsale, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12664/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

952. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an exception will be made for ferries to offshore islands to allow persons social distance at 1 m with compulsory face masks in order to ensure the viability of the services. [12665/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

53. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance if he will extend the temporary wage subsidy scheme for the hospitality sector for as long as it is operating at reduced capacity due to social distancing guidelines, restrictions on overseas visitors and self-isolating procedures. [11529/20]

Insurance Fraud

Holly Cairns

135. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to address the insurance claim culture in society which is putting small businesses under extreme financial pressure. [11547/20]

Cycle to Work Scheme

Holly Cairns

136. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on adjusting the cycle to work scheme to cover the purchasing of child seats or trailers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11548/20]

Cycle to Work Scheme

Holly Cairns

137. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance the reason a person can only avail of the cycle to work scheme once every five years even if the person's bike is stolen and-or damaged. [11549/20]

Cycle to Work Scheme

Holly Cairns

138. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on changing the cycle to work scheme from a benefit-in-kind model to a model similar to the electric vehicle grants scheme which would enable more persons to purchase a sustainable and healthy form of transport regardless of employment status. [11550/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

291. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration of the mental health of primary school children was taken into account during the decision making of the timeline for reopening of schools. [11535/20]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

292. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if children with special educational needs attending rural mainstream schools are included in the July provision. [11536/20]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

293. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if children with special educational needs that avail of transport to and from their educational facilities will have the service available during the July provision. [11537/20]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

294. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision will be extended into August 2020 to allow children with special educational needs to ease back into the school year and provide respite to those families. [11538/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

397. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the renewal of immigration permissions and future naturalisation applications for persons will not be affected by their having to avail of the pandemic unemployment payment or the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [11551/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

407. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the systems in place to ensure supermarkets and other retail spaces are adhering to Covid-19 guidelines. [11541/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

461. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if supports or grants will be put in place for businesses that operate from privately-owned home premises in view of the fact the restart grant being issued by local authorities is inequitable as it only caters for businesses paying commercial rates. [11543/20]

Work Permits

Holly Cairns

462. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of employment permits issued to boners of meat from August 2015 to April 2020, in tabular form. [11544/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

708. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his views on the reopening model introduced by other countries such as France, Italy and China that focused regional variations using registers including the population density of an area and confirmed cases of Covid-19. [11524/20]

Departmental Funding

Holly Cairns

709. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will provide funding for healthcare professionals including carers who cannot access or afford private vehicle transport to purchase bicycles and pedicels to travel to work in view of social distancing requirements and the vulnerability of the patients, clients, and family members they work with. [11525/20]

Disability Support Services

Holly Cairns

710. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the expected timeline for children with special educational needs to be able to attend appointments for speech and language and occupational therapy. [11539/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

711. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the procedures being put in place at airports, ports and other places of entry to ensure persons travelling will self-isolate for the appropriate period of time. [11540/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

712. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on social distancing guidelines that hotels, restaurants and cafés must follow; and the estimated length of time these restrictions will be in place [11542/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

885. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated timeline that overseas travel will be regularised again to enable the hospitality and tourism industry prepare and engage in medium-term planning. [11545/20]

LEADER Programmes

Holly Cairns

945. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a breakdown for LEADER programme funding will be provided according to categories used by his Department for the period January 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; the amount of funding apportioned to women's projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11526/20]

Community Enhancement Programme

Holly Cairns

946. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of women's sheds groups that applied for and were successful under the most recent community enhancement fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11527/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Holly Cairns

1025. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on extending the pandemic unemployment payment to those who were in full-time employment prior to the crisis and are now full-time carers as a direct result of the pandemic. [11528/20]

Carer's Support Grant

Holly Cairns

1026. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide additional exceptional payments for carers to access equipment to enable them to safely and effectively work, for example, PPE and additional work clothing. [11530/20]

Disability Allowance

Holly Cairns

1027. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance who have availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [11532/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Holly Cairns

1028. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 9 June 2020 and her contribution to the Dáil debate of 28 May 2020, if she will clarify the position regarding the future clawback of the pandemic unemployment payment (details supplied). [11533/20]

Commercial Rates

Holly Cairns

1085. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on encouraging local authorities to suspend commercial rates for hotel and hospitality businesses when they are closed for the winter months; and his further views on providing local authorities with funding to make up a shortfall. [11546/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

1112. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expected date non-resident travel to offshore islands can resume under the reopening roadmap. [11534/20]

Ministerial Communications

Holly Cairns

25. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to convey the condemnation of persons here of the actions of the President of the United States of America and those that seek to fuel racial tensions and racial inequality in the United States of America and elsewhere. [10154/20]

State Examinations

Holly Cairns

165. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills the considerations or special exceptions that will be made when predicting grades for leaving certificate students that have had low attendance or struggled with class participation due to mental health related issues. [10147/20]

School Transport

Holly Cairns

166. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if children and young persons travelling to primary school from offshore islands will be provided with adequate funding in line with the principles of the primary school transport scheme through a mechanism such as a remote area grant to ensure they are not disadvantaged in accessing their education. [10149/20]

Crime Data

Holly Cairns

233. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of racial crimes and the rate of prosecution between January 2015 and December 2019, inclusive in tabular form. [10150/20]

Forestry Sector

Holly Cairns

479. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Growing for the Future document is still the strategic plan for the development of the forestry sector here. [10151/20]