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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to ensure the foreign births register staff are contactable and applicants can receive an update on their applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12069/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 385. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he has taken in response to recent statements by a person (details supplied) regarding academic freedom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11878/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new post-primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11036/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered using transition year to allow students to catch up on missed classes and lessons due to Covid-19 school closures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with UCD on the accreditation of the national training course for special needs assistants that is being held by UCD; the details of the future accreditation of the course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12022/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered ensuring that inheritances that do not qualify for inheritance tax do not affect a non-contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Speech (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if action has been taken in relation to an incident regarding academic freedom (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 913. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for autism assessment for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11778/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 915. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for autism assessment for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11780/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 914. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in accessing autism assessment for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11779/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 924. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered increasing investment in test and trace facilities to help combat Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11792/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 925. To ask the Minister for Health the current average turnaround time for contact tracing following a positive test for Covid-19; the goal for the turnaround time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11793/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 1101. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a charity (details supplied) has availed of funding under the Covid-19 stability fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12001/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: I am very grateful to my colleague, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, for allowing me to contribute on this important Topical Issue matter. We are all aware that throughout this pandemic, people have sadly slipped through the gaps in terms of the supports available from the Government. We discuss these at length. Supports are available under the Covid restrictions support scheme and there are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome many of his comments. This is about the practicalities of individuals carrying out vital works that are unfortunately not classified as essential. I am referring to family circumstances that most of us in this House deal with every day simply through representations but we do not experience them on a personal level. The families do not have the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (4 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to establish a comprehensive redress scheme for houses affected by historic defects and pyrite as recommended by the 2018 Safe as Houses report by the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government; if so, the progress that has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: 158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered updating the application criteria for the Covid-19 operating support payment to ensure as many providers as necessary can avail of these supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12301/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: I thank the witnesses for appearing before us. It feels like we could be engaging with the Central Bank every second day right now, there is so much happening. Like other members, I will keep my questions to the investigation into J & E Davy. My first question is for Ms Rowland. How many people does the Central Bank employ in its enforcement division?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: The more relevant question is how many of the Central Bank's employees were working on this investigation. Does Ms Rowland feel that the Central Bank had enough resources to carry out the investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Neale Richmond: Okay. The reason I am asking these questions-----