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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of extending current supports which encourage and incentivise employers to hire and retain a person with a disability such as the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities and the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities to allow self-employed persons with a disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of permitting self-employed persons with a disability to apply for and the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities and the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities for themselves as if they were an employee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 897. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of permitting self-employed persons with a disability to be considered as an employee for the purpose of accessing the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities and the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities to hire and retain themselves as if they were employees;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the EmployAbility Service by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the walk peer programme to extend the service to each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disregard which now applies to disability allowance recipients who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD will be extended to students who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD who are on other means tested disability payments such as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of extending the disregard which applies to disability allowance recipients who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD to students in receipt of the blind pension who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 1064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who accessed the fund for students with disabilities over the past three years by educational institution; the average amount provided to each student; the estimated cost of increasing the fund by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 1065. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending the fund for students with disabilities to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when phase 2, 4 and 6 off-the-job apprentice training will resume at full capacity in view of the fact that it is expected that third-level classes will resume on campus from September 2021 and second-level schooling has already resumed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33207/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if persons within the different age categories for the vaccine roll-out are taken on an age basis within their respective category; if a 51 year old person could get a date for their vaccination before a 59 year old even if they had registered after them; his views on whether persons not being allocated their vaccination date by age within their respective...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (29 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 396. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that have been undertaken to implement the recommendations made in a report (details supplied), confirmed by two further reports and in addition by two reports from the Office of the Ombudsman; the reason these recommendations were not adhered to in relation to the Charleton tribunal despite the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to Local Link bus services in 2021; the estimated additional cost of increasing this funding by 5%, 10% and 25%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (30 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the maximum grant level for the housing adaptation grant for persons with disabilities was last increased; the estimated additional funding needed to increase the maximum grant level by €5,000, €10,000 and €20,000, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35147/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (30 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional cost of increasing the income threshold of €60,000 to qualify for housing adaptation grant for persons with disabilities by €1,000, €,5000 and €10,000, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35148/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated additional cost of funding the recruitment of a support person with disability training in each education and training board to support students with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35151/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual expenditure on the disability allowance for 2021; the estimated additional cost of increasing disability allowance payments by €5, €15 and €20, respectively for those currently in receipt of this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35149/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the upper limit of the earnings disregard for the disability allowance from €350 to €400, €450 and €500, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35150/21]