Results 19,801-19,820 of 19,870 for speaker:Norma Foley

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Safe Pass training has resumed; the date for it to resume; and if Safe Passes that have expired have been extended. [8095/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take with operators of student accommodation to seek refunds for students who left the accommodation on the instruction of his Department on 12 March 2020. [8098/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 471. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when casual traders can return to work. [8100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 472. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports in place to benefit bus and coach operators that are parked up as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. [8101/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 473. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding plans to allow persons over 70 years of age who are deemed medically fit for work to be allowed to return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8104/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an orthopaedic appointment for a person (details supplied). [8102/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [8106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied) at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin. [8107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 701. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when leisure fishing can commence in view of the fact that this can be an individual activity. [8103/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 740. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when dive schools can reopen. [8099/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 762. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when high-performance athletes (details supplied) will be permitted to return to training. [7365/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 763. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on granting permission to high-performance athletes (details supplied) to return to training. [7366/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 764. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to facilitate online driver licence issuance for first-time licence applicants by which a first-time driver licence applicant fulfils all requirements, for example, has passed a theory and or practical driving test. [7367/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to cater for drivers who require a CPC to drive a lorry; and if it is possible to complete same online as can be done in the UK. [8096/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the requirement for 38 hours or more per fortnight for those eligible for the working family payment in view of the fact hours have been reduced for many workers. [8024/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (27 May 2020)

Norma Foley: 1075. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessary funding will be provided to address a major health and safety matter in respect of an out-of-order sewerage treatment plant at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8094/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Norma Foley: At the outset, I want to convey my sympathies to the families of all those who have passed away in the nursing home setting at this time, and to acknowledge the trauma for families and, equally, for nursing home staff. The focus today is very much on Covid-19 and how that has hit the nursing homes but, in the interests of balance, it is important to acknowledge that many nursing homes...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Norma Foley: I welcome that. A point raised with me by a number of nursing homes is the current position where if a patient has to be transferred to a hospital for a minor procedure - it may well be an X-ray, a cardiac issue or a pacemaker or a defibrillator check - on return to the nursing home, even though he or she might have only been on the hospital campus for an hour or two, he or she is expected...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Norma Foley: The turnaround for testing of staff in nursing homes has proven quite problematic as well. I want to raise that with the witnesses.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Norma Foley: I acknowledge the excellent work of the many organisations and Departments represented here today, and I do so unequivocally. Equally, there is much that could and should have been done better, which, when not done as it should be in terms of best practice, can have a catastrophic impact. I wish to raise this afternoon the catastrophic impact on the lives and quality of life of the...