Results 2,981-3,000 of 4,933 for speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the inclusion of bakers within apprenticeship programmes offered by education and training boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26566/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if community swimming pools and leisure centres will be permitted to hold swimming classes for children in primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26447/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if standardised format price lists for display in shops are to be implemented for the sale of tobacco products to consumers under the Public Health (Tobacco) Acts to dissuade the promotion of cheap cigarettes to young persons; if his attention has been drawn to the dangers of cheap cigarette advertising to young persons; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 803. To ask the Minister for Health when the €350,000 allocated to the ambulance base in County Carlow which was committed to by the previous Government will be provided; when he expects works to begin; when County Carlow will have an ambulance base which is fit for purpose; his views on whether it is acceptable for a town the size of Carlow not to have its own ambulance base and not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card patients are being charged €20 for a flu vaccine, which is meant to be free in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26442/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 805. To ask the Minister for Health when progress will be made on reducing waiting times in counties Carlow and Kilkenny for occupational therapy assessments, especially for those in routine and non-urgent categories; the reason for the current backlog of up to a full year for a visit to a person's home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26443/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address increased demand for Covid-19 tests and facilitating those who do not have transportation; if the current demand on the ambulance service to support this service is under pressure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 807. To ask the Minister for Health if the flu vaccine is being added to the school vaccination programme in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 808. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is being allocated to a service (details supplied) to cover extra costs involved in the recruitment of cleaners to comply with Covid-19 public health recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26446/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 810. To ask the Minister for Health when progress will be made on reducing waiting times in early intervention speech and language therapy in counties Carlow and Kilkenny for assessments; if a timeline can be provided for the reduction of the current backlog of three years; if a speech and language therapy vacancy (details supplied) has been filled; and if he will make a statement on the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I, too, thank the witnesses. I have four questions to which I would like an answer, the first of which is directed to Mr. Reid. Over the past number of Covid committee meetings, I have called for the recruitment of a dedicated workforce for testing and tracing. I was recently contacted in my office by a person who had been told by the HSE that it was not recruiting. Will the HSE be...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank Mr. Reid, but there is confusion straight away. A man contacted my office to say he went to all the different areas of the Department and they told him they were not recruiting. I went back and checked with him again. This is where we are falling down. I know the witnesses are doing a great job, but somebody contacted my office - I will give the person's details - and told me he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Election of Vice Chairman (29 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I would like to nominate Deputy McAuliffe.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Scheme (24 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That is not proper information. That is wrong information.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Scheme (24 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue matter and know that she will relay my concerns to the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Foley. I have a deep concern that in our fight against Covid-19, we have worsened the education inequality curve. Schools play a very important role in children's lives. That social relationship between school teachers and families is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Scheme (24 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am disappointed with the reply. Some schools are constantly applying to the Department for DEIS status and have been refused on grounds that do not make sense. When schools that are beside each other, with the girl from one family attending a girls' school that does not have DEIS status while the boy attends a school beside it that does have it, the whole system is wrong. Whatever the...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I will raise some transport issues that have arisen during the pandemic. When school bus capacity was reduced to 50% and parents were told that if they drove their children to school they could seek a refund of their free travel, was there ever a discussion about just hiring extra buses? Private bus and coach operators could certainly do with the business. The Federation of Transport...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is. Under the auspices of EU projects, we have been told that there will be some electric buses. I believe that the Ring-A-Link service might be in line for one of those buses. Is capital funding available, and will an electric bus be furnished to the Ring-A-Link service in Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary? Is there a subvention or a roadmap? I need answers to all those questions. I...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I too thank our guests. I have three questions. The witnesses might come back to me in writing and I would appreciate that. Dr. McConkey previously spoke about saliva testing. I believe it is precise. Is it faster and does it give fewer false negatives or false positives? I believe that at present, we have a positivity rate of just 2% or 3%. Testing is expensive. I am not saying that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (22 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension to time limits for workers on community employment schemes in community organisations in rural areas will be applied to retrospectively replace time lost in suspended jobs under public health restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24300/20]