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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the matters raised in an email of 7 April 2021. [28513/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 116. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has raised with the Minister for Social Protection the way in which the threat of losing the blind pension or disability allowance due to the inclusion of arts grants in means testing of income is preventing artists with disabilities from achieving their potential in the arts and placing them at a further disadvantage...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the fact that artists with disabilities are dissuaded from applying for and accepting Arts Council grants or funding as a result of the threat to their means tested blind pension and disability allowance; and the steps she will take to correct this. [28515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 118. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the policy of her Department to ensure artists with disabilities have full access to and participation in the funded arts and cultural life. [28516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will exclude arts grants and funding for artists from means testing for the blind pension and disability allowance to bring certainty to artists with disabilities and enable them to avail of funding without fearing loss of basic supports; and her views on whether the current means testing system causes unnecessary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will end the practice of including the income of partners or spouses in the means testing of recipients or applicants for the blind pension and disability allowance and to address the impact of the current practice on diminishing the independence of persons with disabilities. [28519/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the blind pension that were rejected in 2020 as a result of Arts Council grants or funding putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28520/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the disability allowance that were rejected in 2020 as a result of Arts Council grants or funding putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28521/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the blind pension that were rejected in 2020 as a result of the income of a partner or spouse putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28522/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the disability allowance that were rejected in 2020 as a result of the income of a partner or spouse putting the applicant above the means test eligibility threshold. [28523/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual administrative cost incurred to conduct means testing of blind pension and disability allowance applicants each year from 2010 to 2021. [28524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual spending on both the blind pension and the disability allowance each year from 2010 to 2021, in tabular form. [28525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the blind pension in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of applications rejected due to means testing for the same time period in tabular form. [28526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the disability allowance in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of applications rejected due to means testing for the same time period in tabular form. [28527/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (26 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the policy of his Department to ensure artists with disabilities have full access to and participation in the funded arts and cultural life. [28517/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (27 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he has taken to ensure that CIÉ fully engages with the trustees of the 1951 pension scheme before changes are made in the scheme which many in Iarnród Éireann have paid into over their lifetime of work with the company. [28940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (27 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to request the Teaching Council to reverse its downgrading of the level of history required for aspirant second-level teachers of history (details supplied). [28917/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the plans for a school (details supplied) have been finalised; the number of classrooms it will have; if the yards and associated works are part of the plans; the number of children that will be accommodated at the school; the number of staff that will be required; when a contractor will be appointed; and when the works will begin and be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (27 May 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the accommodation that has been made to ensure that students of the class of 2020 that never got to finish their courses, that received calculated grades in 2020, sat the leaving certificate in 2020 and are being expected to await the first round of CAO offers in September in 2021 to know their fate in relation to their preferred choice of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (1 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken since he took the decision to abolish an agency (details supplied); and his plans regarding the lands, contracts and staff of the agency. [29386/21]