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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will allow essential retail businesses to retrospectively apply for the employment wage subsidy scheme if their turnover drops by more than 30% between January and June 2021, even though the business owner had not forecast such a drop in turnover due to the fact that they are unable to accurately forecast lockdown levels; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protocols for employers to insist that employees work from home throughout the various levels of restrictions in place throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; if fines are in place for businesses found to be bringing employees into the workplace if they are not meant to; if the Health and Safety Authority has enforcement powers under...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Traders Licences (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the enforcement measures in place to monitor and deal with the sale and use of non-smokeless fuels in smokeless zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44846/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Traders Licences (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to put in place a testing and enforcement regime to deal with the widespread air pollution from the burning of non-compliant fuel products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44847/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who accessed the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy scheme during 2020. [1727/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are cuts planned to school grants for PPE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1462/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of persons who accessed the pandemic unemployment payment during 2020. [1726/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Third Level Costs (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to ensure the return of accommodation fees that were paid in good faith at the start of the academic year in light of the fact that, due to Covid-19 restrictions, the majority of third level colleges are carrying out lectures online and students are no longer availing of the student accommodation cannot attend college;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 1033. To ask the Minister for Health the stage of the vaccination process; if the staff and residents of boarding out facilities for the elderly will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1520/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 874. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with ongoing symptoms of long Covid; if general practitioners, consultants and employers have been provided with guidelines in relation to dealing with long Covid patients; if he will consider setting up multidisciplinary clinics throughout the country as in the UK; the resources being deployed to deal with the persons who suffer from long...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 922. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of HSE funding allocated to the eating disorder treatment plan in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the actual spend on these treatments; the breakdown of this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1076/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 923. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of ambulance response times from time of call to arrival on scene in each of the years 2018 to 2020, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1077/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (13 Jan 2021)

Marian Harkin: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health the number of boarding out facilities for the elderly by county, in tabular form. [1519/21]

Covid-19 Task Force: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: I wish to make two main points to the Minister. I have read his vaccination strategy and implementation plan. It is impressive and I wish him, the task force, and everybody involved well because this is the most important piece of work that the Minister and his Government will undertake during its term of office. That is why I have previously called for a separate Ministry to take full and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: I want emergency funding for Sligo Airport to continue its search and rescue operations and its emergency medical evacuations for a region that stretches from Clifden to Belfast. I direct this question specifically to the Tánaiste because he quite rightly supported €750,000 funding to Waterford Airport in 2018 to supply similar services. Waterford is a bit like Sligo in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services (17 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a LocalLink route (details supplied) in County Sligo; if he plans to discontinue the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44154/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: 306. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the provisional vaccine allocation groups document to include persons with Down's syndrome in the group of people aged 18 to 64 with certain medical conditions, given that research highlights the increased risk of hospitalisation, severe disease and death among adults with Down's syndrome who contract Covid-19; the reason the decision was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regional Airports (15 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: As the Minister of State is aware in 2011, the public service obligation, PSO, was withdrawn from the Sligo-Dublin route, which led to the end of commercial flights. However, since then Sligo Airport has focused on four services: search and rescue; medevac, which is medical evacuation for critically ill patients to centres of medical excellence and, God knows, we have few of those in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regional Airports (15 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: I am gutted by what the Minister of State said. She said it all. It has been a decade since the airport received any Government funding. She went on to say that funding of airports in contingent on their providing passenger services. Let us consider another airport. Waterford Airport has not had passenger services since June 2016. Let me say, good luck to Waterford Airport; it needs the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: 573. To ask the Minister for Health the full details of the decision made by the HSE drugs group to support reimbursement of dupilumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in both adults and adolescents of 12 years of age and older who are candidates for systemic therapy which was on the group’s agenda for its December 2020 meeting; and if he will make a statement...