Results 16,701-16,720 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 439. To ask the Minister for Finance the recent discussions between him, his officials and banks regarding the fact that mortgage applicants who are in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme are having their mortgage applications turned down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33403/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 451. To ask the Minister for Finance if employees in relation to recent changes around tax relief for those working from home were able to claim the daily rate of €3.20 as a remote worker in which the employer was not paying this directly to them has ceased since the introduction of new regulations; if this is the case, if remote workers are eligible to apply for the daily rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 452. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis on the changes in tax rebate policy for eworkers and home workers in relation to the rules in place from March to October 2020 and then from October going forward to ascertain whether this would result in a negative change for families’ financial positions; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 6 October 2020, if he will reconsider granting an order to extend planning time periods in view of the introduction of level 5 restrictions nationwide. [32616/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position on his Department’s instructions to local authorities regarding applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan who are on the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33404/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the tenant purchase scheme review; his plans to amend the scheme to allow tenants in homes classed as apartments and duplexes to avail of tenant purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the lack of educate together school places to serve families in the Finglas, Dublin 11 area; the steps she will take to address same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32861/20]

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

Róisín Shortall: 803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has issued advice to primary school principals instructing them that if a child must isolate on grounds of the Covid-19 emergency period public health advice and is continuing to do their school work at home, that they would no longer be marked present on the school’s roll book, but instead should be marked...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing the rules around maternity benefit in order that persons that have been on jobseeker’s benefit payment since before the beginning of the Covid-19 emergency period can have the same rules applied to them as applies to recipients of Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability claim which has been upheld on appeal by the social welfare appeals office (details supplied) will go into payment; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33441/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1115. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance in filling out the passenger locator form on a weekly basis from 5 October 2020; the number of forms which were correctly and incorrectly completed on a weekly basis; and the number of persons that refused to fill out the form on a weekly basis, in tabular form. [33892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1152. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the values of the document of a religious order have not been amended or replaced in the constitution for a company (details supplied) which was published after the company registered with the CRO in August 2020, despite a commitment by a person in 2017 that the 2010 code would be amended and replaced in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1153. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the phrase voice for the voiceless which is a common citation for Catholic organisations when referencing abortion which is used in the constitution for a company (details supplied); if he has endeavoured to discuss this with the company with the view to having it removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1154. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought an explicit, public and legally binding guarantee from a company (details supplied) that it will not deny procedures which are legal here based on religious beliefs or the ethical code of the hospitals under its ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32435/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1155. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) will retain the legal right to mortgage any or all parts of the publicly funded National Maternity Hospital under the current ownership agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32436/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1156. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of Covid-19 and the grave need it has shown to retain public ownership of the health service, consideration will be given to ensuring the full public ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital by moving the site to Elm Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1162. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address staff recruitment issues in homecare provision; if he has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) on this matter; and if he will conduct a social care workforce capacity review. [32475/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1336. To ask the Minister for Health when the emergency funding to offset the costs of delivering drug and alcohol services in the context of Covid-19, which was announced during the Dáil Éireann debate on the National Drugs Strategy on 10 September 2020 will be made available to drug and alcohol task force and to community drug projects; the level of emergency funding being made...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1469. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered evidence in an article (details supplied) which shows that good ventilation is critical to lowering Covid-19 transmission; the number of personnel in his Department who have responsibility for considering and implementing preventative policy actions to stop the onward spread of Covid-19; if ventilation is considered as part...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1367. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking mental health supports in Galway city to date in 2020; the way in which this compares to the previous five years; if there were notable increases during the initial Covid-19 emergency period lockdown from 13 March 2020 to 18 May 2020 in those seeking mental health services in Galway city; if there was a change over the summer...