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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to ask about the back to school clothing and footwear allowance. I have already heard the Minister state that it is going to be extended to people on the PUP. She might outline the way in which they might go about making the application and the timing in which they might get it. For some on the Covid payment this might be the first time they have applied. Will the social welfare...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister. As I understand from her answer, these were people who were already in receipt of the allowance and who would have expected to be in receipt of it again. However, for that cohort of people on the Covid payment who have not gone through this process previously, how many people does the Minister believe that will apply to in those circumstances? The Minister confirmed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures included in the July stimulus package to tackle youth unemployment and support young persons to return to the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18810/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports being made available to the 39 schools that were directed to establish special classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19404/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question relates to the 39 schools that were directed to provide special classes. Has every support that the Department and its officials can provide been provided? Can we get an assurance that the Department has responded to every request for additional resources and space that the schools have made recently and previously? Be it down to a difficulty or unwillingness on the part of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate her commitment to the issue. I wish her every success in that work and it is fantastic that she is in that seat. I wish to raise a linked matter with the Minister for discussion with her colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The greatest issue that will face the education sector is that of children who have not received...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that commitment and the Minister's support. This matter is something that Deputies will have to raise time and again because it is of such concern, which the Minister recognises. I would welcome it if the Minister reverted to the House and updated us on the progress she has made, perhaps at the occasion of our next education Question Time. We will raise the matter with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for immunocompromised students, parents, teachers, teachers that may have immunocompromised children and those that may live with immunocompromised persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19403/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I ask Mr. Ennis to elaborate on his point about the workers' fear of speaking to the media.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As regards agency staff, I want to get a better handle on the structures and agencies involved. How many agencies are there or what percentage of staff are from agencies?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry, I asked-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question is about the agencies.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Labo, but I asked how many agencies are involved.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is relevant to me because it is a question of interest to me. What I am interested in is whether there are agencies based in Ireland and the number of people they are hiring.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Labo for the additional information she has provided, but what I am trying to do is get a systematic review of the number of agencies, where they are based and their proliferation. I can imagine they have different recruitment and contractual practices. We need to be very careful such that saying something about one will not necessarily implicate others.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Do the witnesses' members communicate the names of the agencies? Is there a list of the agencies? We do not want to name people publicly because that is not what we do in these committees but do they have a list of the agencies?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would greatly appreciate that. Mr. Ennis said that about 30% of his workers are working in the industry generally.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Ennis. That is all I wanted to know.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Labo for that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is me. Deputy Durkan and I were to share time. We were to share ten minutes.