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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to assist those over 50 years of age who have found themselves unemployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, especially those who were self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23936/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a series of matters regarding taxi drivers will be addressed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23605/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (15 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 749. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further streamline Covid-19 testing and to increase its capacity to reduce the number of days of schools missed by schoolchildren and work days by their parents and guardians, who currently will be forced to isolate for two to five days; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the inconvenience to families will result in some parents...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 754. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of persons permitted to attend weddings and civil ceremonies if the venues allow for full adherence to the Covid-19 guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23830/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (15 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is a backlog in felling licences leading to the importation of the raw material for pallets while thousands of pallets are burned at Halloween each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23571/20]

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: We now move back to the Government side, for which there are three speakers. Are the Deputies sharing time?

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: We now move to the Rural Independent Group, from which there will be four speakers.

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: The Deputy is out of time.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (16 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans and timelines he in mind with regard to the holding of a referendum on the public ownership of water. [24204/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was awarded a pandemic unemployment payment and then subsequently had it withdrawn; the reason subsequent requests for information by this Deputy to the pandemic unemployment payment team have been declined; if there is an ongoing examination of the application; and if she will make a...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: I am pleased to be able to contribute to this debate. I was Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight in the last Dáil for four years. As the Members opposite will know the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, visited the committee on many occasions and we were very grateful for its presence. I was very taken by the message IFAC's representatives delivered this morning....

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: -----if it were not for the decisions taken - this is a point I was going to come to later - the really tough decisions that involved incredible burdens for the Irish people which were taken by the former Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen, and the former Minister for Finance, the late Mr. Brian Lenihan, then this country would not be in a position to borrow anything at any rate because our...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: I echo what Deputy Farrell said about the attendance of the Minister for the duration of the debate. It is something I would have expected of him given his interest and certainly, like myself, he was a very regular attender at the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action in the previous Dáil. Seven or eight months ago, we would not have thought there was something incongruous about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for attending in person. She carries a great burden at this time – the burden of office associated with looking after and ensuring the smooth running of our primary and second level education systems during these extraordinarily challenging times. The country, and certainly her party colleagues and everybody in the Dáil, are grateful for the job she is doing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: There is quite a lot to digest in the Minister's response and I am grateful for the detail into which she went in such a short period. I take on board, as everybody does, that faced with an unprecedented set of circumstances her Department moved quickly and came up with a system that has attempted, successfully for the most part, clearly, in dealing with the challenges faced by students. It...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to grant funding to the live events sector (details supplied); if the sector will be considered when appointing persons to the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25268/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (22 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 688. To ask the Minister for Health when the BreastCheck screening service will recommence; if his attention has been drawn to the importance of early detection of breast cancer in women over 50 years of age; his plans to deal with the backlog of appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24702/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: Following on from Deputy Murnane O'Connor's comments, I met taxi drivers and the Minister of State last week regarding those issues and following up on them. Many pressing transport issues are facing Dublin, as the Minster will appreciate, but I will focus on a matter I raised during the climate action debate last week. It concerns e-scooters. There are far more important issues, but this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: I am seated behind the Minister. I have his back. There are many vulnerable groups in society, but I wish to raise the plight of a particularly vulnerable small group, namely, expectant mothers. This issue has been raised previously in the House. Like many other Deputies, I have begun to receive an increased volume of correspondence from expectant mothers. As the Minister is aware, they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Scheme (24 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: That was the second Topical Issue matter and we will move back to the first Topical Issue matter now. I thank the Minister of State and the Deputy for facilitating that.