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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20 should take in circumstances in which parents and teachers are of the view the HSE is not providing timely or adequate guidance on foot of confirmed Covid-19 infections amongst pupils, particularly with respect to close contact tracing and testing. [32690/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is being made available for a special autism unit at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22; when this funding will be made available; and when the ASD unit will open for pupils. [33083/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who comes off the pandemic unemployment payment for short-term seasonal work should reapply for the pandemic unemployment payment or the jobseeker's allowance when the seasonal work comes to an end. [32480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of family income supplement and the pandemic unemployment payment has their family income supplement renewed, if her Department has been instructed to withdraw the family income supplement as the person was not in employment at the time of the renewal or if they can have their family income supplement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) who had been offered and accepted a CSO college offer subsequently had that offer removed, despite the fact that fees had been paid; if such a withdrawal is permitted by his Department; and if it will be ensured the person does not lose their college place. [32589/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1232. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration was given to allowing outdoor fitness classes to continue under level 5; and if he will consider allowing gyms to operate under tighter parameters if required to facilitate individual training. [32728/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received and the decisions made for licences for felling, afforestation, forest road works or aerial fertilisation by month in tabular form; the number of decisions appealed; the outcome of those appeals as set out in section 4 of the Forestry Act 2020 which inserted section 14B(13) of the Agriculture...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of progress made to date on the implementation of the Forestry Act 2020;and the schedule for implementing same. [32441/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I commend the work of Home for Good. It is a really good alliance and initiative to try to bring this issue to the next level. I acknowledge the good campaigning work of other networks, such as Raise the Roof, which has been strongly arguing for such a constitutional referendum. As committee members will know, Sinn Féin has long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will let them decide who can best respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect, is it not Sinn Féin after Fianna Fáil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We skipped Labour in the first round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It depends on the Attorney General.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would like to make a brief comment and a suggestion. Something very significant has happened in this meeting today. This is the first time in my five years in the Oireachtas that a clear majority of the housing committee has spoken in favour of the holding of a referendum to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution. That is really significant. I say that while not in any way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Chairman support my suggestion?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (4 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are circumstances in which persons that have lost their home due to Celtic tiger era mortgage distress and that have exited a personal insolvency agreement could apply and secure a Rebuilding Ireland home loan. [33987/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Guardian's Payment (4 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports to grandparents that have direct responsibility for caring for their grandchildren as guardians. [33982/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers' Strategy (4 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for grandparents of children with special needs in circumstances in which the grandparents are the primary guardian of the children. [33983/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I will address questions to the EPA and SWAN but if we do not get to the answers in this round, I might get them in a further round later. From our session with departmental officials last week, one of the key ideas we are trying to grasp is why the heads have settled on the 25 cu. m and 2,000 cu. m thresholds. My first question to the EPA is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was shared. If anyone could shed light on that technical issue-----