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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports for pensioners announced in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50531/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (13 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to increasing the foster care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated savings to parents following the introduction of supports for children in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (13 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give serious consideration to include an amendment in the Finance Bill 2022 which will amend Section 84 of the Finance Act 1996 which currently gives a power to the tobacco manufacturers to set the price which retailers can charge for cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50922/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional SNA will be allocated to a school (details supplied), given that the current SNA is required to give over 85% of their time to one student, who has very complex needs, and that the remaining students are not receiving the required level of support which they require; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50923/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on career breaks for teachers (details supplied). [51038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2023 (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if additional payments for pensioners announced in budget 2023 will be reflected in an increase in the threshold for applying for a medical card, or that additional cost-of-living payments will be disregarded in the calculation of means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50530/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I apologise for being late. I raised the matter of the Life Centre last night in the Dáil. I know the MInsiter gave an explanation here. I fully understand that the Department and ETB are involved and that it is a complex issue. It is somethign on which we need to work out a compromise. I gave the example last night of my own experience of being on a board of management and being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Regarding that implementation, it is about bringing the people currently working in the system in and making sure they are satisfied that the changes required also accommodate their concerns and that they are taken into account. How would the Minister see the level of engagement with them going forward, at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes, I fully accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I accept that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank my colleague for raising this issue and I thank the Minister for the reply. Regarding wind turbines at sea, in view of the fact we do not have a huge amount of expertise in that area to date, I ask whether part of that funding would allow companies to have people work overseas for a period in order to get experience or necessary training. A number of other countries are well ahead...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank Deputy Stanton for raising this important question and the Minister of State for his response. We need to consider this issue. People are dropping out of the education system and finding it difficult to get back into training. We need to do much more for them. One of the frightening figures over the past week was that 12% of households of people aged 20 to 64 years did not have an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the process for contribution fee refunds in 2022; when students can expect a refund of their contribution fee in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51686/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: There was a welcome announcement on the refund of €1,000 to students. I want to ascertain when the process for the repayment of this €1,000 will commence? Will it occur over the next eight to ten weeks? The other issue is we saw the refund of moneys to people in the health sector delayed for quite a period. Is the structure established to make sure this can be dealt with in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Has there been engagement with the third level institutions? Is it a case that the Department will have to provide the funding to those institutions to enable them to provide the refunds? When will that process commence?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I refer to the PhD students who will get the additional €500 as part of their stipend. When is that likely to be paid? Is provision made for that in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for attending. Apologies for not being here for the presentation. Unfortunately, I was speaking in the Dáil at the same time that the witnesses were presenting, but I have gone through the notes. On long Covid, the witnesses mentioned in the presentation that between 10% and 20% of people have ongoing problems for a number of months after getting Covid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: My apologies. Can the Chairman move to the next speaker?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: In regard to the 6,000 to 13,000 people who would benefit from primary prevention vaccination, what is the process for trying to identify them or is there any such process? What stage are we at in the sense of talking about numbers?