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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the independent review into the 2020 leaving certificate calculated grades system will be completed and published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21142/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason former gardaí who worked in the public sector prior to April 1995 do not have entitlement to a State pension (contributory); her plans to change this rule; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Enterprise Support Services (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the enterprise support grant; the number of grants that have been approved to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22234/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to change the law to ensure that persons responsible for killing spouses or civil partners do not benefit from the estates of the deceased person. [22114/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of silencers for firearms that are licensed in Ireland. [22115/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 872. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to implement the recommendations of a report (details supplied) on Covid-19 rapid testing in respect of the graduated return of spectators to sport. [21234/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 873. To ask the Minister for Health if regulations will be amended to permit the return of 2,000 antigen tested spectators to the RDS on 15 May 2021 for a rugby match in accordance with the findings of a report (details supplied). [21235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 874. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to permit a branch of an organization (details supplied) to allow 2,000 antigen tested spectators living within a 20km range of a stadium into the stadium on 15 May 2021 for a match as part of the graduated return of spectators to sport. [21236/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 875. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be acknowledged that the antigen testing proposed by an organisation (details supplied) that will take place in advance of the rugby match that will take place on 15 May 2021 is compatible with the recommendations within the on a report on Covid-19 rapid testing. [21237/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 876. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a difference in payment for persons administering Covid-19 vaccinations depending on if they are nurses or doctors. [21242/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 898. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to vary the requirement for persons travelling to Ireland from the United Kingdom to quarantine in view of the low incidence of Covid-19 that exists in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21338/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman and the witnesses for coming before the committee today. I will start by asking Mr. Healy about the extraordinary levels of youth unemployment at present. Obviously, it is contributed to significantly by Covid-19 but what role does he see the apprenticeship issue playing in trying to resolve youth unemployment so that we do not have a long-term problem in this country?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Brownlee. Did Mr. Healy want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: We, as Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, are policymakers. What can we do to try to direct more students toward the apprenticeship avenue and maybe give them an opportunity to recognise it is a more attractive avenue for them than, say, going down the CAO route, which is the more orthodox path presented to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Brownlee and Mr. O'Callaghan.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Tests (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his answer. I am fully aware of his commitment to getting people back playing and watching sport. Obviously, the Minister of State is correct in saying we are at level 5 at present and limited in what we can do. We need to recognise that hope is out there, however. We cannot continue to live with this sense of doom and dread, listening to numbers every...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Tests (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Last year, the Minister for Health established an expert group to report on the use of rapid Covid-19 tests and to make recommendations on how such tests could be used in different settings. In fairness to the Minister, he put together talented people to form the group to advise him on these matters. The group was chaired by Professor Mark Ferguson, the Government's chief scientific...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new school builds will include the construction of ASD classrooms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20908/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to produce a five-year forecast of the current and future need for special needs education places in the catchment area of each school and to communicate this demand to schools within each area within six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20909/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Apr 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to publish a list by school each June of all available school places in ASD units for the coming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20910/21]