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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tutors will be entitled to an insurable status and entitled to pensionability for their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22000/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the 2008 Labour Court recommendations regarding community employment supervisors will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22394/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal lodged in respect of the decision to refuse a carer’s allowance for a person (details supplied) will be confirmed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21161/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exemption to the requirement to be unemployed for 12 months before being eligible for the community employment programme will be granted for those working in community and voluntary organisations to ensure adequate staff is available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21997/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 752. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to publish the review of community employment schemes carried out in 2018; when the recommendations of same will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22395/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if VTOS payments will continue past the initial extension date of August 2020 due to uncertainty in relation to the date on which students will return to college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21996/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 948. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the necessary changes will be put in place in order to reduce the waiting time for appointments at Anglesea Street Garda Station, Cork in respect of the renewal of visas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 949. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an automatic extension of immigration residence permits for at least a further two months will be provided due to the backlog in dealing with the renewal of applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 1314. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical device will be provided to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22085/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 1347. To ask the Minister for Health the status of CervicalCheck; if smear tests completed by general practitioners are being processed and results returned within four weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22275/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) will be progressed to decision stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22843/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the date his Department received the final report by a company (details supplied) into its independent external review of the HSE medicine reimbursement process; if he will provide an overview of the findings and recommendations of the report; when it is expected to be submitted to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22867/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines submitted to HSE leadership or executive management team for reimbursement approval; the date of each meeting; the outcome of each meeting from 1 January 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22868/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 277. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publish an updated national rare disease plan as per the Programme for Government; when he expects to publish the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22870/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the rare diseases technology review committee of the HSE; the meetings it has held to date in 2020, in tabular form; the meetings and therapies it has scheduled for the remainder of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22873/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of the drug osimertinib for lung cancer in a first line setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22874/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for the time they are giving to us this morning. It is very much appreciated. I want to go back to the issue of co-ordination across Europe and in the UK. Do the witnesses feel that there could have been far more co-operation among member states on having a coherent set of regulations across Europe rather than individual states taking this...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: Does the witness believe we now need to look at this in a co-ordinated way? We cannot look into the future to see how the virus will further develop. Do we need to work even harder together rather than as individual member states working on our own? In Ireland, for example, we have a scenario where a lot more flights are coming from a lot of different countries of origin into Belfast...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: How would one progress that at European Union level?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Burke: The UK will be leaving the European Union. Let us look forward with regard to co-operation with the United Kingdom and in particular with the Ireland and Northern Ireland issue. Does Lord Sumption not believe that now is the time for both Ireland and the UK to sit down and come up with a framework for dealing with an issue like this, rather than trying to put it together the week an issue...