Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Electric Vehicles

Louise O'Reilly

222. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will be legislating for the use of electronic scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25464/20]

Wage Subsidy Scheme

Louise O'Reilly

245. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the number of workers on the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25262/20]

Tax Yield

Louise O'Reilly

247. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the amount collected in 2019 from pub licence fees. [25276/20]

Workplace Relations Commission

Louise O'Reilly

285. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to increase funding to the Workplace Relations Commission by 50%. [25311/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

304. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the reason she has not met with an association (details supplied) in view of ongoing requests for a meeting from the body; and if she will meet directly with the association. [25277/20]

Commercial Rates

Louise O'Reilly

322. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of a full year commercial rates wavier for businesses in the hospitality, tourism, leisure and retail excluding supermarkets sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25261/20]

Commercial Rates

Louise O'Reilly

328. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of a commercial rates waiver for three months for businesses in the hospitality, tourism, leisure, and retail excluding supermarkets sectors. [25785/20]

State Examinations

Louise O'Reilly

480. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education if there will be a bespoke plan including the option to receive predicted grades for current sixth years that have started their final year in abnormal conditions and after losing much on-site education time from their fifth year. [25459/20]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Louise O'Reilly

544. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason workers in a company (details supplied) cannot access backdated payment of short-time working support for the time period when they were in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [25457/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

609. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if dedicated sector-specific supports will be provided to English language schools in view of the fact that the Covid-19 crisis has significantly affected this sector. [25456/20]

Scientific Research

Louise O'Reilly

621. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the cost of associate membership of CERN. [25313/20]

Apprenticeship Programmes

Louise O'Reilly

623. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if apprentices’ off-the-job training can be scheduled in a way that means they will be closer to home in view of Covid-19; and if not, if additional funding will be provided for their accommodation allowance. [25466/20]

Drugs Payment Scheme

Louise O'Reilly

828. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health when the planned reduction of the drugs payment scheme threshold will take place; the reason he has claimed that the achievement of this measure predicated on the achievement of corresponding savings in health in view of the fact it was announced in Budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25460/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

829. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if there are specific Covid-19 testing protocols for babies and toddlers; if so, the protocols; and if not, the reason therefor; and if protocols will be drawn up. [25467/20]

Ministerial Meetings

Louise O'Reilly

48. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the meetings held by him and or his officials from assistant principal level upwards with businesses and or banking representative groups and organisations since his appointment as Minister; the dates, attendees and matters that were discussed at each meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24597/20]

Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme

Louise O'Reilly

49. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the size of the MFI loan book; the State-wide breakdown of current creditors by county; and the number of creditors that have contacted the organisation expressing an inability to meet payments in October 2020. [24600/20]

Departmental Meetings

Louise O'Reilly

201. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the meetings held by his officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in relation to the issue of adult or child obesity in Ireland from 2011 to 2016; the dates, attendees and matters that were discussed at each meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24596/20]

Legislative Measures

Louise O'Reilly

218. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of measures via amending legislation or statutory instrument to ban smoking in outdoor areas including in locations food is consumed; the person or body that would be responsible for the implementation and enforcement of such a measure; the location the jurisdiction of same lies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24681/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

74. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason debt was prioritised through loans over grants to the level of a four to one debt to grant ratio in the July stimulus package instead of prioritising grants for at the recent European Union summit on a post-pandemic recovery package; and his views on whether this is contradictory. [19803/20]

EU Funding

Louise O'Reilly

85. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if regions with the status of assisted regions under the EU regional aid guidelines will continue to qualify post-2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21729/20]

Brexit Issues

Louise O'Reilly

86. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure greater flexibility for the Border region under the EU regional aid guidelines in view of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21730/20]

Community Intervention Teams

Louise O'Reilly

1206. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the CHO areas in which heart failure community integration teams are operating; the gaps that exist; the work carried out by the teams in each area; his plans to standardise same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21588/20]

General Practitioner Services

Louise O'Reilly

1207. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the access general practitioners have to carry out BNP testing in each CHO area; the reason there is no national general practitioner access to the tests; his plans to develop the service; the estimated amount national general practitioner access to BNP testing would cost (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21589/20]

Hospital Services

Louise O'Reilly

1208. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the number of heart failure nurses is sufficient to fully meet standards in relation to the treatment and management of heart failure in hospitals and in the community; if there is a deficit, the number of additional heart failure nurses required; the other staffing deficits that exist within heart failure services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21590/20]

Health Services

Louise O'Reilly

1209. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health his plans to standardise referral pathways nationwide using existing IT infrastructure such as Healthlink to aid improved communication between the community and hospital services for heart failure; his views on whether heart failure virtual consultations between general practitioners and cardiologists are particularly useful in rural areas or areas geographically removed from heart failure units or those with multimorbidity; his plans to develop the services to deliver more effective and cost-effective care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21591/20]

Hospital Services

Louise O'Reilly

1210. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the successful resumption and maintenance of heart failure services with particular emphasis on developing such services in the community and providing greater integration between these and hospital services; if there will be no redeployment of staff working in acute cardiac and stroke services in view of the fact such patients are particularly susceptible to such disruption; the research taking place to establish the exact impact of disruption to services on excess deaths since the outbreak of Covid-19 here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/20]

School Admissions

Louise O'Reilly

41. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of additional school places for Swords, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19291/20]

Special Educational Needs

Louise O'Reilly

53. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ASD unit promised for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19290/20]

Small and Medium Enterprises

Louise O'Reilly

98. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the funding streams available for newly established businesses specifically to help with advertising. [19795/20]

Trade Sanctions

Louise O'Reilly

99. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the instances in which the State would cease to trade with another country and-or state such as human rights violations; and the details of instances in which the State has a trade at any cost position. [19797/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

100. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the July stimulus package has no grant or support schemes for affected self-employed and-or sole traders in view of the fact that other European countries have delivered grants for same. [19802/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

101. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the value of grants issued under the restart grant scheme by each local authority and or LEO in tabular form. [19805/20]

Employment Rights

Louise O'Reilly

118. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the legislation he will bring forward in the next Dáil term to protect and strengthen workers’ rights [20394/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

119. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if there will be additional measures in addition to the July stimulus brought in to support businesses in budget 2021. [20395/20]

Insurance Costs

Louise O'Reilly

120. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if he will work with the Minister for Finance to ensure that legislation is brought forward to reduce insurance costs for businesses in view of the crippling cost of business insurance. [20398/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

229. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to insurance companies seeking to have an engineer's report carried on the car of taxi drivers who have installed a Covid-19 protection screen; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the drivers have to pay for the report but the engineer is chosen by the insurance company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19796/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

230. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to meet representative bodies of the taxi industry, not the National Transport Authority, NTA, to discuss financial supports for the sector in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. [19801/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

231. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide clarification to taxi drivers on whether their vehicles are included in the announcement for the mandatory wearing of face masks on public transport. [19804/20]

Dublin Airport Authority

Louise O'Reilly

232. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Dublin Airport Authority is attempting to change the payment of fees for airport taxi permits at Dublin Airport from payment in quarterly instalments to a yearly payment; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that taxi driver representative bodies have not been engaged with regarding changes to the payment structure of airport permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19806/20]

Tax Reliefs

Louise O'Reilly

314. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reintroducing a tax relief on trade union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19798/20]

Value Added Tax

Louise O'Reilly

315. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost if the Revenue Commissioners were to apply a zero rate of VAT to face masks using the European Commission decision to allow goods to combat Covid-19 to be imported from outside the EU free of import duties and VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19799/20]

Value Added Tax

Louise O'Reilly

324. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the VAT for the tourism and hospitality sector from 13.5% to 9% for a full year based on VAT intake for the first six months of 2020. [20387/20]

Value Added Tax

Louise O'Reilly

325. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the VAT collected from the 13.5% VAT levied on the tourism and hospitality sector in the first six months of 2020. [20388/20]

Insurance Costs

Louise O'Reilly

326. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if there will be legislation brought forward to reduce insurance costs for businesses in view of the crippling cost of business insurance [20397/20]

Commercial Rates

Louise O'Reilly

500. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason businesses cannot access the rates wavier due to the fact many county and city councils have not been given instruction on the way in which to apply the rates wavier; and the way in which the rates shortfall will be made up. [20396/20]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Louise O'Reilly

1269. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting lists in north County Dublin [20389/20]

Disability Services Data

Louise O'Reilly

1270. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for assessments of needs in north County Dublin. [20390/20]

Disability Services Data

Louise O'Reilly

1271. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health : the number of children on waiting lists for speech and language therapy in north County Dublin [20391/20]

Occupational Therapy

Louise O'Reilly

1272. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for occupational therapy in north County Dublin [20392/20]

Occupational Therapy

Louise O'Reilly

1273. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for physiotherapy in north County Dublin [20393/20]