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Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am sharing time with Deputies Flaherty and Crowe. The Government has my full support. This legislation to extend the option of overdrafts, term loans and working capital for small and medium-sized businesses that have been severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic is welcome. It is important that we support viable businesses and ensure that our entrepreneurs do not go to the wall because of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider additional supports for local communities to hold replacement events in view of the cancellation of a number of festivals and other cultural events in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in recent months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17283/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State. That is welcome news. It is so important that we get the funding for the Holy Angels day care centre. I cannot emphasise enough that it really is in a bad place. We have excellent staff and fabulous children. People in Carlow are proud of Holy Angels and the work it does but the prefabs are not fit for purpose after 40 years. I will be looking for capital...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for taking this matter. I ask the Minister for a report on the very special Carlow school, the Holy Angels School for Children with Special Needs, which I have raised on a number of occasions in the Seanad. It is an issue very close to my heart. I am specifically looking for a report on a new building for the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the development of a flood relief scheme on the border of counties Carlow and Kilkenny. [16804/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: First, I thank everyone here today. It is so important that all of us work together for people with disabilities. I particularly want to mention my good friend, John Dolan, who has been a huge advocate for the Disability Federation of Ireland. I sat with John in the Seanad for four years. I want to talk about preschool children. They are not expected to social distance and I believe...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I too wish the Ministers and Ministers of State well. As they know, education is so important in these times. Given the concerns that we have, it is so important to have such good people in education. I wish them well. I want a lot of work done for Carlow, just so as we start on the record first. There is much concern about the return to school in September. There are parents out...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (16 Jul 2020)

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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The public needs clarity regarding travel this summer. The message might be that all non-essential travel is not advised and that anyone coming to Ireland should isolate for 14 days. In practice, however, Irish consumers are about to lose massive sums because flights are still running, hotels abroad are open while large numbers of non-isolating tourists from abroad are wandering around the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 100. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when works commenced on the new gymnasium at James Stephen's Barracks, Kilkenny; and when works on same will finish. [16439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing rent supplement limits by 10%. [16441/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 183. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the elimination of HPV-related cancers within a generation here; the strategies that need to be implemented in the coming 12 months, acknowledging that the introduction of a catch-up programme for boys in sixth year for the HPV vaccine will accelerate this public health goal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract operations that were carried out at St. Luke's hospital, Kilkenny, in 2019 and to date in 2020. [16440/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 186. To ask the Minister for Health when funding and approval for the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab will become available for persons with bladder cancer which has migrated to their lungs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16442/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Offices (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local social welfare offices and staff are exempt from the payment of rates; the local authorities that operate under this premise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of income thresholds to qualify for a place on a local authority housing list will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15321/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person over 70 years of age is permitted to drive a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15319/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supports will be provided for ACELS, QQI and MEI accredited English language schools that were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic in March to reopen in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15297/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if post-leaving certificate students prohibited from undertaking practical exams due to Covid-19 restrictions are to be graded under a predicted grade system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15322/20]