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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare workers who are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment on a weekly basis from 21 December 2020 to 25 January 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5082/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to the circumstances regarding ECCE in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the role of childcare committees; if it is within their remit to control and put in place an upper limit on the number of childcare places in a particular area to ensure the viability of existing providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the restrictions in place on the importation of honeybees; if there is a licensing regime; if his Department monitors the level of compliance; the disease controls in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5796/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Five hundred and fifty survivors gave their testimony as part of the mother and baby homes commission investigation. Those recordings were never fully transcribed and they have since been destroyed. That is despite assurances from the Minister in October that survivors would be able to access their own stories and also a clause in the 2004 Commissions of Investigation Act that the...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have two questions for the Minister. Perhaps he can answer the first one and then come back to me. I want first to acknowledge the huge work done by those in the early years sector. They have operated selflessly over the course of the pandemic and despite all the challenges have really stepped up. I thank them for that work. I know that when the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS,...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister for that response. It would be good if there was some way of retrospectively dealing with it because there has obviously been a severing of relationships with some staff and their employers. While I have the Minister here, I will mention a separate matter because it is of real urgency. I refer to the destruction of the 550 files, that is, the testimonials from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Archaeological Sites (4 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the efforts his Department will carry out to protect and preserve the archaeological heritage of west County Wicklow including sites (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6068/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Ireland has not submitted a final long-term climate strategy to the European Commission as was required by 1 January 2020 under Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the governance of the energy union and climate action; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will make appointments to the EPA advisory board given that the term of office of most of its members expired in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of SEAI warmer homes grants approved, by county, in 2020 and to date in 2021; the waiting time for a surveyor to be allocated; the subsequent waiting time for work to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6877/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of SEAI warmer homes grants that were approved in 2020 and to date in 2021, by county; the current waiting time for a surveyor to be allocated; the subsequent waiting time for work to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6921/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person who is on hunger strike in a direct provision centre (details supplied); the support being provided to the person; if he will examine the mental health needs of persons in direct provision, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 715. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages patients already receiving medical cannabis treatment will be able to subscribe to the access programme that was recently announced; and the process for subscribing to this scheme. [6398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 922. To ask the Minister for Health if the 5 km limit for persons leaving home other than for essential purposes during the current lockdown permits driving within the 5 km radius; if not, if persons are restricted to walking within 5 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7264/21]

Dumping at Sea Act 1996 (Section 5(12)) (Commencement) Order 2021: Motion (11 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Ministers for giving us the opportunity to debate this matter today. The Social Democrats will be supporting this proposal. This is a long overdue measure being brought in to deal with the decommissioned Kinsale gas field. Kinsale is the start of the Wild Atlantic Way and is situated on a section of coast that is valued for its natural beauty and its role as a tourism amenity....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (11 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a new national implementation plan on the sustainable development goals will be produced; when the associated national stakeholder forum process will be restarted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7560/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (11 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of lead and stakeholder Departments for each of the sustainable development goals, as committed to in the national implementation plan on the sustainable development goals 2018-20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7561/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (11 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times and the dates on which the interdepartmental working group on the sustainable development goals has met in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the implementation plan actions and commitments addressed in each of the meetings of the interdepartmental working group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Parks (11 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to encourage local authorities to provide communities with temporary access to publicly owned land that is lying idle for the benefit of local community purposes such as allotments, community gardens and other outdoor uses given the continuation of Covid-19 regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....