Results 11,521-11,540 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes are envisaged in June 2020 to illness benefit for Covid-19 related absences in terms of rate or eligibility criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to enable workers who have not taken some or all of their statutory annual leave entitlement due to Covid-19 to be able to carry weeks of accrued but untaken annual leave over into the next two leave years as is allowed for in the UK; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6068/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the occasions on which section 202 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 has been utilised since it came into effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6620/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if women returning from maternity leave are entitled to the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7139/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date the pandemic unemployment payment is due to cease in June 2020; her plans to extend the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7382/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the public services card in addition to the action of the Data Protection Commissioner on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7137/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (27 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the interdepartmental review into community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7138/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (27 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislation under the remit of her Department that is due to expire or lapse in the next three months and needs to be renewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7944/20]

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: I welcome the Minister to the House. We are all familiar with the expression, "I cannot believe what I am hearing." Today, I cannot believe what I am not hearing. We are in a situation where the House is being asked to vote for an additional €6,840 million of taxpayers' money for increased social welfare payments, which I welcome, but without any information whatsoever as to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason online teaching is not being counted for the purpose of the Droichead process for persons who had all other aspects completed prior to school closures on 12 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8796/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (3 Jun 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 588. To ask the Minister for Health when the location allowance will be paid to nurses in University Hospital Limerick that are employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8664/20]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Willie O'Dea: Like my colleague, Deputy Crowe, I want to use my 150 seconds to make a special plea to the Minister, the Government and the incoming Government to intercede with Aer Lingus to persuade it to reverse the unfair, discriminatory and possibly illegal way it has treated its staff in Shannon Airport for the reasons outlined by my colleague. The Minister may well say that Aer Lingus is a private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (14 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new redress scheme for victims of sexual abuse in primary schools will be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15257/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (14 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received recent correspondence regarding additional accommodation required for a school (details supplied); and the status of the matter. [15261/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (16 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the public concern regarding the decision of private hospitals to charge between €250 and €275 for a Covid-19 test; the steps he plans to take to rectify the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16453/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (21 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget for the electric vehicle home charger grant scheme is increased by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16612/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Telecommunications Infrastructure (21 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to statements by an organisation in 2001 in relation to exemptions in the Planning Act 2000 concerning the erection of masts and antennae by telecommunications companies (details supplied); his views on whether the prediction has proved correct; his plans to alter the regulations to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland (21 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken to the Chief Executive Officer of Horse Racing Ireland recently; if so, the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16615/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (21 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide funding for the purchase of additional high-powered unmarked vehicles for the Garda roads policing unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services (21 Jul 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost if the number of audiologists working in public health service increased by 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16613/20]