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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if a distinction is made across the various enterprise tax schemes such as employee investment incentive, EII, key employee engagement programme, KEEP, and capital gains tax, CGT, entrepreneur relief for high risk and high potential innovation start-ups as opposed to more traditional asset-backed enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the decision to use personal public service or PPS numbers in the compilation of the electoral register; when he expects the project to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current progress on the establishment of an electoral commission; when he plans to introduce necessary legislation concerning its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to release funds to local authorities for the commercial rates waiver scheme that applied up to the end of September 2020; his plans to extend the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the Land Development Agency, LDA, and its capacity to accept freedom of information, FOI, requests in view of recent remarks in which it seems the LDA will now be subject to FOI. [31110/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the responsibility of her Department or each individual management board to ensure adequate PPE is supplied to teachers, staff and students of each primary and post-primary school in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31111/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that have been put in place by her Department to ensure access to online education for all students if the State returns again to a lockdown situation if Covid-19 infection rates continue to rise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31112/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is still a commitment to develop a mechanism to allow certain qualified post-primary teachers to register as mathematics teachers following the completion of a course of studies; when these courses will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31722/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation to change the age eligibility criteria for the State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31723/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering proposals to reintroduce the transition payment for those eligible for the State pension from the period they turn 65 years of age until they start to draw down the State pension, rather than the current position in which such persons must go on jobseeker’s allowance for the transition period;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the repeat leaving certificate exams will take place; the contingency plans that will come into force if Covid-19 restrictions come into force which preclude the current intended course of action from taking place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32191/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Sittings (22 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current process by which court proceedings can take place in a manner that is open to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic; when restrictions on the movements of the public are curtailed or prohibited as a matter of public health policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32188/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if such legislation in relation to further legislative proposals to limit the general movements of the population owing to the current Covid-19 pandemic takes into account the essential movements which will be required by those that live in or adjacent to urban areas that cross county boundaries for essential services in healthcare and education and that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (22 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the completion of construction and the entrance into full operation of the new second cath lab at UHW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32190/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have availed of SUSI grants in 2020; the percentage this is in relation to the student population at large; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38130/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reform the SUSI support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38131/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Dec 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he and his Department officials became aware that 4,600 forestry licence applications are backlogged in the Forestry Service; the specific dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Dec 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department concluded that there were circa 2,000 forestry licence applications backlogged in the Forestry Service; the developments that led to the determination that the correct number of backlogged licence applications is 4,600; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40676/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Dec 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is appropriate that An Taisce is appealing applications for forestry licences in view of the ongoing crisis in the forestry and timber sector rather than consulting directly with his Department and in view of the fact that An Taisce receives significant public funding. [40679/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Dec 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of days each of the four divisions of the Forestry Appeals Committee is sitting; the number of hearings each division has heard since it has operated in four divisions since 9 November 2020; the number of hearings each division will hold between now and the end of 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...