Results 461-480 of 7,457 for speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be provided to local authorities to enable them to suspend rates of payments for SMEs impacted by the Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30335/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if floating storage regasification units (details supplied) qualify as infrastructure developments under the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006. [30334/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 210. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which a decision will be made regarding permitting the affiliating union of the Defence Forces to an organisation (details supplied); the reason this decision has been delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30360/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on increasing the school transport remote area grant to reflect the cost for children that live on an island and attend school on the mainland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30345/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided to college and university library services to enable students to access academic textbooks online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30354/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided to college and university online virtual learning environment management systems which in some cases do not have the capacity to accommodate the amount of students currently using the systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30355/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if colleges or universities that receive funding from his Department have asked students with disabilities or underlying health conditions to defer their place for a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30356/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will direct third level institutions to enable all students to apply for the laptop scheme through a separate means-testing system. [30358/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many student nurses and midwives will return this week to unpaid placement; if he will work with the Minister for Health to ensure that there are sufficient financial supports to remunerate student nurses and midwives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30359/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the Changing Places Ireland initiative (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30340/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for cuts to legal aid fees relating to persons in the international protection appeals process; and the impact same will have on waiting times for persons in the system. [30336/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if private dance and music schools are classified as education under the Plan for Living with Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30338/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day centres in Cork city and county that have closed since mid-March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; the location of each centre; the service provided by each centre; the number of users deprived of services as a result of the closures; the analysis undertaken by HSE community healthcare west in regard to the closures and the impact...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the provision of transport to and from disability support services in west County Cork that have been reduced due to social distancing and other Covid-19 protocols; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30339/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a Covid-19 test in each testing centre in County Cork in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30342/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Attendance (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a State-funded contraception scheme; if an implementation group has been established to progress this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30343/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Crisis Pregnancy Services (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 572. To ask the Minister for Health the measures introduced to prevent the operation of rogue crisis pregnancy agencies which seek to obstruct women seeking access to termination of pregnancy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30344/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the backlog for assessment of need for children with a disability in the south County Kildare and west County Wicklow area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30350/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the reassignment of 3.5 clinicians from the South Kildare Children’s Disability Network Team to address the backlog for assessment of need for children with a disability in the south County Kildare and west County Wicklow area; if his attention has been further drawn to the impact it will have on waiting times for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physiotherapists in areas of County Cork (details supplied) in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30352/20]