Results 141-160 of 3,425 for speaker:Emer Higgins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when details will be provided on the way in which the process of appealing leaving certificate grades will work; the estimated cost involved; when appeals will be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18386/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be extended to qualified self-employed professional tourist guides until March 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18381/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 775 of 14 July 2020, if a directive has been issued to her Department in relation to the processing of applications for the pandemic unemployment payment for sole traders over 66 years of age and in receipt of a contributory or non-contributory State pensions and still working; if not,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests for supplying nitrous oxide for human consumption in each year from 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18431/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of nitrous oxide seized by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which gardaí distinguish between legal uses of nitrous oxide and illegal use under the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 or other relevant legislation or statutory instrument; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18611/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 981. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department plans to have completed gathering evidence on the abuse of nitrous oxide by young persons; the plans he has to create a strategy to tackle this issue on completion of gathering this evidence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18402/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 999. To ask the Minister for Health when data from the HSE and Trinity College Dublin on drug trends in summer 2019 at music festivals will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18606/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 1000. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths recorded in the HRB’s national drug-related deaths index in which nitrous oxide was implicated; if two recent deaths in Tallaght, County Dublin and in Millstreet, County Cork which the media have reported as being as a result of nitrous oxide abuse will be recorded in the HRB’s national drug-related deaths index; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 1001. To ask the Minister for Health if guidance issued to retailers on the sale of nitrous oxide without breaching the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 1002. To ask the Minister for Health if a report from the HSE and Trinity College Dublin on drug trends in summer 2019 at music festivals due to be published shortly records use of nitrous oxide; if so, the proportion of attendees at music festivals in 2019 who used nitrous oxide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 984. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of nitrous oxide abuse recorded by the national poisons information centre in each year since 2015 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 1014. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 738 of 21 July 2020, the details on the number of users who have chosen to register their location in these areas when signing up for the application, in view of the fact the application requests users to provide their location when they register and that the locations in the question are included in the drop-down list...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the availability of activation and back-to-work schemes in order to support persons to return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18800/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training and further education supports that will be put in place as part of the July stimulus to help jobseekers to upskill and reskill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18799/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Emer Higgins: 250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if organised sports training within indoor facilities can do so in multiple pods of six; if there is a limit of six on the total number of attendees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Archives (8 Sep 2020)

Emer Higgins: 350. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Archives hold the original applications of former RIC officers to two committees that sat between 1922 and 1923 and 1935 to inquire into resignations and dismissals from the force due to nationalist sympathies; the reference numbers for the files; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21458/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Substance Misuse (8 Sep 2020)

Emer Higgins: 794. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the ability he has to prevent the online sale of solvents to children in cases where it is clear from customer comments on the website that the solvents are being inhaled by customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21454/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Substance Misuse (8 Sep 2020)

Emer Higgins: 795. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the powers he has to prevent the online sale of solvents to children in cases in which it is clear from customer comments on the website that the solvents are being inhaled by customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21457/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Emer Higgins: 815. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on crèches inserting a clause in their terms and conditions stating that full fees are applicable for all closures due to exceptional circumstances beyond their control in view of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21746/20]