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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will use budget 2021 to extend eligibility for the home carer tax credit to include single working carers and allow carers to claim tax relief on the cost of employing a care worker while also claiming the dependent relative or incapacitated child tax credit; and if he will increase the dependent relative tax credit in line with the incapacitated...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: Will the Minister use budget 2021 as an opportunity to extend the home carer tax credit to single, or lone, family carers, who cannot avail of it at present? Will he also consider allowing carers to claim tax relief if they employ a care worker while, at the same time, they can avail of the incapacitated child tax credit or the dependent relative tax credit? I have a third question but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: There is a considerable anomaly here. If a single carer, such as a widow or widower or someone who is divorced or separated, cares for a sister or mother, the carer cannot avail of the credit. Perhaps the person is doing it full time, or works eight hours part time for sanity or just to keep heat in the house. He or she cannot avail of the home carer tax credit. That is fundamentally...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Credits (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: I appreciate the Minister's acknowledgement that there is an issue and that he will come back to it at some point. In the context of more people working from home or doing blended working, this issue will arise more. Also, some people need a few hours outside of the home for their mental health and sanity. Those people would not be able to get the home carer tax credit. As I said, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authority Services (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 335. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place and the timeframe for same to reimburse Leitrim County Council for the cost of a report being undertaken to investigate the causes of the recent landslide on Shass Mountain, Drumkeerin, County Leitrim; if he will examine the next immediate steps necessary to deal with this catastrophic event; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 357. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports or grant aid in place for the ongoing costs and expenses necessary for the maintenance and upkeep of a community arts centre, that is, insurance, energy costs and so on, in which no revenue is coming in due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26966/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be restored to its former levels for those that lose their jobs now or in the future due to Covid-19. [26675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider an extension to the Private Security Authority, PSA, licensing period for those working in the sector and whose income has collapsed due to guidelines on Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26967/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 920. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for dentists who were promised they would be provided with PPE in early May 2020 and have not received same and are financing the additional costs themselves (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26986/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 811. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ease the restrictions in terms of antenatal and maternity care in the context of allowing partners to attend scans and also attend the birth of their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26453/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 921. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to deal with the under-resourcing of the HSE community dental service compounded by the redeployment of dentists from the service to undertake testing and contact tracing as part of the HSE Covid-19 public health response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26987/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place and the timeframe for same to reimburse Leitrim County Council for the cost of a report being undertaken to investigate the causes of the recent landslide on Shass Mountain, Drumkeerin, County Leitrim; if he will examine the next immediate steps necessary to deal with this catastrophic event; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Programme for Government (29 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: 1042. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that have been taken to advance the commitment in the Programme for Government to prioritise a State-led rural development programme to bridge the gap between the wind-up of the existing Leader Programme and the implementation of the new programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26965/20]

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Marian Harkin: I wish the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, well on presenting her first Bill to the Dáil. As I am sure she is well aware, the whole area of forestry is one fraught with difficulties at many different levels. In my view, the major contributory factor to the current difficulties is that we do not have a proper forestry policy. We have generous tax-free incentives and grants, so much...

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: We are discussing the framework and the five levels which provide the context in which we hope to lead our lives and live with Covid and the three pillars that underpin them. One overarching area where we could improve things is to make every effort we can when moving from one level to another to give businesses more notice. The Minister of State knows as I do that many businesses have lost...

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister of State and wish her good luck in her new job. Today, we are discussing the HSE winter plan and how it underpins the first pillar of the framework for living with Covid-19. The Minister earlier described the winter plan as ambitious but ambition needs to be underpinned by resources, competence, as well as systems which work collaboratively and efficiently. It also...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (1 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase carbon tax on solid fuel products in Budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27949/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27820/20]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: That is right.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: We will. I am proud to be a signatory to this motion, which unites Opposition Members on the absolute and immediate need to reopen day and other essential disability services. There is also a need to provide additional funding that is required to guarantee sustainable capacity within disability and dementia services. I thank Sinn Féin for facilitating this motion. I listened to...