Results 4,981-5,000 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates on which the advisory group of stakeholders met to discuss the State examinations since the outbreak of Covid-19; and if he will publish the minutes of the meetings and recommendations of the group. [5625/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans to oversee the admissions process for further and higher education for the 2020-2021 academic year. [5627/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alternative arrangements for students unable to attend State examinations if in isolation as a result of Covid-19. [5628/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to address the specific educational needs of children with a disability or learning difficulties, including a lack of access to technology and access to high speed broadband. [6856/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Safety (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 644. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State agency responsible for enforcing public health guidelines in the workplace as set out in the Return to Work Safely Protocol; if spot workplace inspections will take place under the protocol; and the number of inspectors available under the protocol. [6851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if children and adults with a disability will be included in the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business setting out the way in which the Covid-19 restrictions will be lifted. [6869/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants signed up for the Be on Call for Ireland initiative; and the number of applicants deployed in each CHO area to date in tabular form. [5800/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons tested for Covid-19 in each residential centre for persons with a disability in CHO9; the number of persons that tested positive for Covid-19 in each of these settings; and the new measures in place to reduce infection and protect staff and residents. [5802/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 969. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take in response to the concerns and proposals of a trade union (details supplied) for protecting maritime workers from the long-term economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis. [5622/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1018. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the proposal to back a refund note that travel agents and tour operators can offer customers who have had to cancel bookings due to Covid-19; the circumstances in which a refund note would apply; the State guarantee proposed for such a note; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1019. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if under the EU travel package directive persons who have had to cancel such travel bookings due to Covid-19 are entitled to a cash refund and that entitlement will continue to apply. [6419/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1020. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with companies (details supplied) regarding the reported refusal of both to provide their customers who have had cancelled bookings with a cash refund under the EU travel package directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6420/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of her Department's €25.3 million budgetary allocation for 2020 for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence related services. [6852/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional budgetary allocation related to Covid-19 for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence related services her Department has allocated. [6853/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the person or body that has lead responsibility for the co-ordination of the emergency Covid response to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she has considered the provision of a short-term emergency rent supplement payment to enable women and children in need of immediate relocation due to domestic violence...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to a statement by the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann on 30 April 2020, if she will progress short-term emergency rent supplement to enable women and children in need of immediate relocation due to domestic violence access safe housing for a period of three months and or the duration of the Covid-19 national...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider her decision not to provide a Covid-19 domestic violence emergency rent supplement payment to enable women and children in need of immediate relocation due to domestic violence to secure safe housing for a period of three months and or the duration of the Covid-19 national emergency. [6861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will backdate the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment for staff (details supplied) who were due to be paid through the temporary wage subsidy scheme at the end of April 2020 but were not in view of the fact the liquidators will not release the funds for wages. [5630/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Data (20 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the technical issues will be resolved to enable manual updating of contributions for illness benefit claims. [6860/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I have correspondence from a childcare provider from the Arachas childcare insurance team, dated 7 May. That was the day on which the Government scheme was announced. The correspondence makes two things absolutely clear: that the insurers were in constant contact with the Government for some six weeks and that they set out very clearly that they would not cover Covid instances. They made...