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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to review the workings of the school transport system, in particular the system for the allocation of concessionary tickets; his plans to seek funding in budget 2020 to restore general scheme parameters with a particular focus on rule determining eligibility to the pre-2011 system; if he will investigate the possibility...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide extra support for teaching principals in primary schools in view of the increase in responsibilities, reports and paperwork that must be handled by teaching principals to date and the long hours involved in dealing with this work; the position regarding the possibility of allocating one release day per week to teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding certainty of sufficient funding for supported care homes to enable the continuation of the provision of cost efficient care for residents; if he will consider a 50% increase of current funding levels for supported care homes in advance of budget 2020 to meet urgent needs such as annually increasing energy costs, depreciation costs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 272. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the significant savings supported care homes contribute to the State and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection through non-payment of fuel and living alone allowances and household benefits package and the provision of cost effective care; his views on the inspection of supported care homes in accordance with standards...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding cuts to the rostered hours of home help sector workers within the Health Service Executive CHO Area 5; the position regarding deficits which may occur between the 39 hours contracted and the eventual hours allotted and rostered; the protocol in place by which such shortfalls of hours are monitored and analysed and the utilisation of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of the pricing system for long-term residential care facilities, as recommended in the review of the fair deal scheme, will be published; if an independent appeals mechanism within the fair deal scheme to provide third party recourse for nursing home providers that fail to agree a fee with the NTPF and in an effort to bring greater...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 410. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the challenging operating environment the haulage sector faces, in particular the unprecedented challenges posed by Brexit; the steps he has taken to protect the industry from daily fuel increases (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure fuel costs for HGVs do not increase significantly as a result of measures...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate the possibility of increasing investment in youth work in advance of budget 2020 to enable youth organisations to deliver enhanced youth work services to support young persons in County Kilkenny; if she will consider increasing the 2% allocation of overall funding within her Department to support youth work...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 440. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider increasing the funding allocation to the youth service grant scheme which supports 30 voluntary youth organisations to deliver mainstream youth work and to support local youth groups, branches and units through Budget 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41130/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Reviews (8 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delays issuing a decision on the review of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) which commenced over two months ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40911/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: All of the Deputies in this House were canvassed for funding in the last few months before the budget. I will highlight some of the local aspects first. I refer to SOS Kilkenny, which is a group funded under section 39. It looks after disabled people from the time they are children right up to adulthood. In Carlow-Kilkenny in 2015, there were 4,521 respite overnight stays. In 2018, there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 77. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider implementing multi-annual budgets to support planned service for section 39 agencies such as an organisation (details supplied) in advance of budget 2020; his plans for the provision of additional funding to assist such agencies meet their deficits in respect of unmet business cases; his further plans for the provision of additional...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: That is the primary one.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I will follow on from where my colleague concluded because Kilkenny and Carlow are very close. I will ask about rural transport services. With the carbon taxes being introduced and the proposal that they will increase over the next ten years, all of us will be looking to public transport. It will be the NTA's job in the next ten years to deal with that as best it can and to provide a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Does the NTA have control of the rural link? Is that part of its remit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: We call it the rural link. Is it part of the NTA's remit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The funding for that comes from the NTA.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: That is good. I did not know that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Does the NTA envisage the roll-out of better rural provision?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I am not talking about towns but the small villages in all counties. Does Ms Graham see a role in the future there?