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Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing the Bill to the House and I thank the Minister for accepting it. If we are to turn the tide and end the cruelty of homelessness, we need to address the heart of the problem. We need to reform our housing market so that it is no longer designed to maximise profit for landlords and lead to ever-increasing housing prices. Deeper reforms are needed but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he will provide clarity to students in terms of on-campus time in the next semester given the experience of the last semester; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43161/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures and supports that have been put in place for third-level students with dyslexia and other conditions that secured them supports at second level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43284/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the independently appointed consultants conducting the economic evaluation of the funding options presented in the report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education under the European Commission DG Reform Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43285/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time further education students by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43563/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the decline in numbers of apprenticeship entrants to full-time education courses as a result of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the HPV vaccine for medical card and non-medical card holders who are advised to get the vaccine by their general practitioner or consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43562/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise with the Taoiseach Claremorris Boys' National School, which has had 16 confirmed Covid-19 cases. On Monday, out of 85 pupils due in, only seven turned up. The Department and the Minister's handling of the challenges presented by Covid-19 in that school is wholly unacceptable. I commend the huge collective effort by the board of management, the principal and teachers, the parents'...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously, I welcome the progress made across the areas of the multi-annual financial framework, the Covid recovery and climate action. I also welcome the European Council's commitment to treating the vaccination as a global public good. There were positive steps recently at EU level in the conclusion of common advance purchase agreements to guarantee access for Ireland and other member...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of grants and loans approved for each individual Covid scheme by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43829/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 375. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown of Covid-19-related supports allocated to community halls and centres by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43830/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses very much for their presentations. Useful questions have been asked. Regarding mobile telephone coverage, is there a measure or mapping of the households, estates and areas that do not have it? What advice can they give to people who do not have coverage? There are many, even within the county town of Castlebar in Mayo, who do not have mobile telephone coverage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (16 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There are households and estates that have no coverage.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 89. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports in place for community halls and centres nationwide that have lost the ability to generate revenue during Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43785/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 126. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged with workers and their trade union in relation to the appointment of provisional liquidators to a group (details supplied); the other steps he has taken to ensure that the company will honour the workers' collective agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43950/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to ensure that all employers are adhering to public health advice to allow employees to work from home unless it is absolutely necessary particularly in relation to staff with underlying health conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43784/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mobile Telephony Services (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 262. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average 4G mobile coverage by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44589/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when persons in Ballygowan, Claremorris, County Mayo can expect to be connected to the broadband network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44590/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance if mortgage interest relief for all active housing is to be abolished at the end of 2020; the breakdown by county of the number of mortgage holders this will affect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44586/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Dec 2020)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of registered employers in the apprenticeship programme; the number of active employers in the programme; the number of apprenticeship participants by type and county in each of the years 2017 to 2019, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44599/20]