Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

626. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding provided to volunteer centres in each local authority area to enable the community call scheme; and the amount returned by each volunteer centre in tabular form. [10153/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Holly Cairns

666. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will not be subject to forms of clawback in the future. [10148/20]

Cycle to Work Scheme

Holly Cairns

46. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on expanding the reach of the bike-to-work scheme to include students, jobseekers, those on disability allowance or doing unpaid work; and his further views on increasing the €1,000 limit to include e-bikes, cargo bikes and non-traditional bikes such as tricycles, handcycles and other modified bikes appropriate for those that require same due to physical capacities. [9386/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

101. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance if he will encourage banks to extend the moratorium on farmers repayments into the autumn in view of the ongoing impact of Covid-19. [9388/20]

Value Added Tax

Holly Cairns

102. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on reclassifying the VAT status for the bus and coach sector to harmonise the VAT systems in view of the fact that operators in Northern Ireland have an advantage in their ability to claim VAT back on expenditure which the operators here are not able to do. [9389/20]

Public Sector Allowances

Holly Cairns

135. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to review the current public sector motor travel rates; and if they include appropriate compensation for those using bikes and e-bikes which informs the rates that are paid tax free to private sector workers (details supplied). [9387/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

293. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills if an indicative roadmap will be provided on when and the way in which primary and secondary schools will be returning. [9382/20]

Youth Services

Holly Cairns

294. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to provide young persons with non-formal educational and outdoor activities resources and opportunities for the summer months in the context of an absence of usual summer camps. [9384/20]

Direct Provision System

Holly Cairns

392. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the process by which decisions are made on the area in which a direct provision centre will be located; and the criteria that inform such a decision. [9390/20]

Direct Provision System

Holly Cairns

393. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the way in which local communities are consulted as part of the process of establishing a direct provision centre including the timelines involved and the types of consultation activities deployed. [9391/20]

Direct Provision System

Holly Cairns

394. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a direct provision centre in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9392/20]

Employment Data

Holly Cairns

480. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of workers in the meat processing industry who are stamp 1 or stamp 2 from January 2016 to April 2020, in absolute and percentage terms relating to the total number of workers in the sector in tabular form. [9385/20]

Disability Services Funding

Holly Cairns

701. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the underfunding of supports for persons with disabilities as a result of the cuts to funding for not-for-profit disability service providers in January 2020. [9366/20]

Health Information and Quality Authority

Holly Cairns

702. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will address the matter raised in a statement from HIQA at the Special Oireachtas Committee on Covid-19 Response on 26 May 2020 (details supplied) in relation to a concern about the lack of clinical oversight of nursing homes; and if action was taken on foot of these concerns. [9367/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

703. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will address the matter raised in a statement from HIQA at the Special Oireachtas Committee on Covid-19 Response on 26 May 2020 in relation to a list of nursing homes sent to his Department which were regarded as high-risk from an infection control perspective; if any action was taken in response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9368/20]

Health Services Reports

Holly Cairns

705. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the timeline for publishing the Health Services Capacity Review as it relates to intellectual disability services. [9399/20]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

781. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reviewing the tie-up scheme and the fact that the current start date of 1 June 2020 fails to recognise the previous six months of hardship suffered by the fishing industry due to the Covid-19 crisis. [9372/20]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

782. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the tie-up scheme provides for retrospection; and the steps he is taking following the amended EU Regulation 2020/560 of 23 April 2020 with specific measures to mitigate the impact of the Covid19 outbreak in the fishery and aquaculture sector. [9373/20]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

783. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the tie-up period of one month; and the way in which it is envisaged this period will relate to the objective of removing oversupply of product on the market. [9374/20]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

784. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he did not adopt proposals of applying 30% of the full grossing of the vessel in the same period in 2019 in view of the fact that this approach is being implemented in other jurisdictions. [9375/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

785. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the deaths and injuries of greyhounds at tracks here from 1 January to 31 December 2019. [9376/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

786. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown by month and track of all greyhound drug testing since 2015, in tabular form as a percentage of starters at each track. [9377/20]

Harbours and Piers

Holly Cairns

787. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the way in which funding for piers and other marine infrastructure projects is prioritised; and the consideration that is given to small piers in supporting coastal and island communities. [9378/20]

Harbours and Piers

Holly Cairns

788. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of funding granted for piers and marine infrastructure projects in each local authority for the period January 2015 to April 2020, in tabular form. [9379/20]

Hare Coursing

Holly Cairns

789. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on legislation that would ban hare coursing. [9380/20]

Forestry Management

Holly Cairns

790. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on encouraging Coillte to designate as many forests as possible across the country to be for recreational and biodiversity use only in view of its recent announcement regarding nine Dublin forests. [9381/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

966. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to support the staff and owners of limousine SPSV tour operating businesses during the recovery from Covid-19. [9357/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

967. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to support the bus and coach companies in adapting their vehicles to cater for social distancing. [9358/20]

Public Transport

Holly Cairns

968. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on establishing a public transport recovery taskforce including all key organisations involved in public transport to restart the industry with social distancing measures and advise on post-Covid-19 transport changes particularly in relation to infrastructure provision, active transport and the climate crisis. [9359/20]

Youth Services

Holly Cairns

1031. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to provide young persons with non-formal educational and outdoor activities resources and opportunities for the summer months in the context of an absence of usual summer camps. [9383/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Holly Cairns

1052. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on providing additional funding for community organisations to provide young persons with resources and opportunities for socially distanced outdoor activities during the summer months in the context of an absence of usual summer camps. [9360/20]

Disability Allowance

Holly Cairns

1133. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance who have lost employment due to Covid-19. [9361/20]

Disability Allowance

Holly Cairns

1134. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be a supplementary payment to support persons on disability allowance to supplement their income if they are unable to return to work (details supplied). [9362/20]

Data Protection

Holly Cairns

1135. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the firewall will continue with regard to information sharing with the Department of Justice and Equality on social welfare payments for migrant workers (details supplied). [9363/20]

Direct Provision System

Holly Cairns

1136. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on extending payment eligibility to those who have lost employment due to Covid-19 but reside in direct provision. [9364/20]

Disability Allowance

Holly Cairns

1137. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to review the anomalies in operational guidelines on disability allowance (details supplied). [9365/20]