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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to vaccinating teachers who will be undertaking the July provision in summer 2021. [32440/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of special enterprise support grants for self-employed persons issued to date; and the amount of funding provided by county and in tabular form. [32266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that will be provided to deliver the 10,000 places for the work placement experience programme outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan 2021. [32267/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that will be provided to deliver an additional 3,000 places on State employment schemes outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan 2021. [32269/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Services (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that will be provided to deliver the new youth employment charter and the new EU reinforced youth guarantee process outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan 2021. [32270/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that will be provided to deliver the 8,000 JobsPlus scheme places outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan 2021. [32273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that will be provided to deliver the 150 employment case officer job coaches during 2021 to conduct 1,600,000 one-to-one case worker and jobseeker meetings over a rolling 12-month period as outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan 2021. [32274/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of indexing core social welfare rates to 27.5% of average weekly earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that will be provided to deliver 50,000 education and training places to support upskilling and reskilling for the labour market outlined in the Economic Recovery Plan 2021. [32268/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Study Placements (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an analysis has been carried by his Department of the expenditure of stamp two visa holders while studying in Ireland; if an analysis has been done on the income of stamp two visa holders in which all working time rules are followed and an attendance rate of over 85% is maintained over three eight month periods in an English language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Study Placements (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a reversion to the 12 month duration for English language stamp two visas in order to help students who work while studying in English language education schools given all English language education stamp two visas lasted 12 months until 2015 before moving to 8 months. [32397/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for giving their time and making their submissions to us. I have a couple of questions and I hope to get in on the second round to divert slightly from this topic and to have a quick chat with Mr. Berney about the aviation sector, but I will stick to the kernel of the submissions for the moment. I will address Mr. McDonnell in the first instance. He gives links or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I will tell Mr. McDonnell straight up, I do not accept there is a problem in the way in which he has characterised it. He has not provided any evidence and is referring specifically to sectors that are not yet fully open, so I do not think we have a full picture. The evidence we have is the fact that 400,000 people last year voluntarily gave up their social welfare claims and went back to work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: What I am saying specifically is that we all know that the evidence available, the 400,000 people outlined by Dr. Bambrick, is fact. Nobody is disputing that. Those people voluntarily gave up their claims and went back to work when their sectors reopened. Mr. McDonnell is referring specifically to sectors that are not yet fully open. He is talking about part-time work. Whether he has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I am not castigating anyone, but if Mr. McDonnell is talking about a real problem-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and it would be helpful if he could provide real evidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: If Mr. McDonnell might let me finish, an article inThe Irish Timesis not scientific evidence. Reports to the Department of Social Protection, yes, absolutely-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I am not. I am saying that all the available evidence suggests that when the economy reopens - Mr. McDonnell has referred specifically to four sectors not yet fully reopened - people will go back to work. What I am providing for him is information from another person in the business field who says the best way to attract workers is to pay them well and to give them decent conditions. I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to give Dr. Bambrick an opportunity to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Dr. Bambrick. SMEs have warehoused about €1 billion in debt, a very scary figure, although much of it relates to the advance credit for trading expenses and so on. My fear, and I am interested in hearing Mr. McDonnell's view on this, is that much of the debt relates to rent. There are viable, good, decent businesses that could restart, but the issue with them relates not so...