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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 1068. To ask the Minister for Health when a chair will be received for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14939/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 1082. To ask the Minister for Health when the births, deaths and marriages office will reopen at St. Mary’s hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14999/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (14 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of isolation beds operational and available at South Tipperary General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15353/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (14 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget for South Tipperary General Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2020, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15354/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (9 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the Minister for his reply and accept that he acknowledges the great difficulties this industry is encountering. The industry has put forward a detailed proposal about exactly how much funding it needs. I would press on the Minister to give careful consideration. The industry has stated that 17% of operators costs have to be grant-aided for them at this time. The Minister talked...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (9 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I wish the Minister for climate action, communication networks and transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, all the best in his new portfolio. My question relates to financial assistance for private bus operators. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Ireland in March, private bus and coach operators have suffered a devastating blow to their operations. National tourism has halted, school buses are not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: It is simply unacceptable that banks are halting lending to those in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme and the pandemic unemployment payment. Reports also that extra scrutiny will be applied to so-called high-risk workers certainly do not help matters. At a time when all sectors of society are pulling together to aid our recovery from the pandemic, the banks' actions are simply...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the Acting Chairman for the opportunity to speak on this important legislation. If businesses cannot access funds in the traditional way, it says something about our banking system that these companies fail to get accepted by our pillar banks and have to turn elsewhere for funding. Reading the documentation that we have received, the success rate of these companies and the small...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I refer to the CSO and its role in the collection of data. The CSO collects data about our people and society. Those data are essential to informed decision-making in many industries, such as construction, healthcare and finance. as well as for European governing bodies. The data provide essential information on employment and unemployment, providing accurate quarterly labour force...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: The forestry sector has a significant part to play in our climate change strategy. The sector has been bedevilled with trouble in the past number of years. We are only meeting approximately 50% of our targets for planting and face difficulties in obtaining licences for thinning, felling and plantation. The Mackinnon report has been commissioned and I would like to know the timeframe for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available for sports and snooker clubs to help them get up and running again after Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13825/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if taxi and hackney drivers and their passengers will be required to wear masks as part as the latest plan to make masks compulsory on public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13951/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Road Safety Authority first announced a change for CPC course providers that all trucks must become automatic by 1 June 2020 but later pushed the date back to 1 November 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14288/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the flood relief works will be completed on the Templemore to Borrisoleigh road, County Tipperary, (details supplied). [13954/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if vital services in the arts and entertainment sector, such as wedding entertainment providers and so on, will be entitled to some form of financial assistance following the loss of work from the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14350/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to maintain Covid-19 payments and or wage subsidy schemes to those involved in the entertainment industry until such time that mass gatherings are permitted (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14351/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing assistance scheme for first-time buyers applies to a once-off building of a home in the countryside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14167/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person over the age of 66 who could not receive the Covid-19 payment but who still has significant financial responsibilities will receive some form of financial relief; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14168/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Grant Payments (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 539. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grant aid available to churches, church organisations, charity organisations and so on which have accrued large expenses while they were closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14009/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Maternity Benefit (7 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase maternity benefit for mothers in the lifetime of the Government; if so, the estimated increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14397/20]