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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: Go breá.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (19 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: Cad é líon na n-iarratas a théann chuig an gcoiste achomhairc?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with private third level institutions on the one-off €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee for higher education students to ensure their inclusion in this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51645/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: The introduction of the €1,000 reduction in third level fees is a positive development and has been widely welcomed. For various reasons, however, some students find themselves excluded. Has the Minister engaged with the various institutions and examined opportunities and ways in which the students can be included within the ambit of this fee reduction, if this is possible?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister for the overview of this area. Typically, I understand that the free fee scheme acts as the qualifying criterion in this regard. For a whole range of different reasons, though, students may be attending different courses and they will be feeling the same pressures in respect of accommodation, energy and food cost-of-living issues as everybody else. Being in that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister and draw his attention to several other students also falling outside this scheme, even though they are part of the free fees scheme. I refer to part-time students. Many people doing the green certificate, for example, will do it part time. People could be doing part-time courses for a variety of reasons. People who are repeating a year are finding themselves excluded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with third level student accommodation providers to ensure that the €600 electric credits announced in Budget 2023 are passed onto students in form of reduction of rent which includes their utilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51646/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of child benefit claims paid to persons where both the child and social welfare claimant reside outside of the State; the euro value of such payments for 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51965/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Agriculture Industry (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to increase and encourage women to pursue a career in farming through education and agriculture courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51659/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 787. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug semaglutide will be made available to a person’s (details supplied) medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51752/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: The measures and the focus on lower income families is positive and constructive. I agree with the Minister on it. Not every household is on social welfare. There are those that are just beyond the threshold. They also feel the burden of costs. Choices must be made. You have to cut your cloth according to measure but to do that you must measure. Has the Minister measured how many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister for the comprehensive response. There is a wide range of positive supports. When people reach 16, they need to confirm that they are in full-time education to be eligible. Clearly, full-time secondary school education is the threshold to be eligible. They continue to be in that situation, with the same costs, throughout the leaving certificate cycle, whether they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider expanding the children's allowance payment to include children after the age of 18 years who are still in second level education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are being taken to deal with the long processing times for carer's allowance; carer's benefit, invalidity pension, disability allowance and additional needs payments applications; the measures that are being taken to deal with the long processing times for reviews on the previously listed applications; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his engagement with the Minister for Education to identify school buildings for after-school childcare services to increase on the current 14% level nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50597/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his engagement with the Red Cross on pledged accommodation to progress Ukrainians currently in hotels and temporary type accommodation arrangements are matched to these pledged accommodations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50596/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the online application issue with the European Health Card due to new medical cards and drugs payment cards now not having PPSNs which in turn has resulted in people making applications for the European health card online not having their PPSN recognised; the engagement that he has had with the Department in charge of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports and funding that are available specifically for women in farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (11 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all school workbooks will be considered under the new scheme to provide free schoolbooks to all primary school children from September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49970/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pleananna Oideachais (11 Oct 2022)

Aindrias Moynihan: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é atá pléite aici leis na páirtithe leasmhara maidir le straitéisí don Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [49971/22]