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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the leaving certificate class of 2020 are by no means the only leaving certificate students who will be directly affected by loss of class time and alterations and non-completion of their curriculum (details supplied); her further views on whether the incoming sixth class due to take their exams in 2021 will also be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the weight being borne in school bags by primary and secondary pupils (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24825/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is regretful that the Government has failed to legislate for the areas examined by the Duffy-Cahill report in view of the difficulties being faced by workers of a company (details supplied); her plans to conduct a thorough review of the report; if so, when the review will commence; when legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 775. To ask the Minister for Health when the resumption of normal diabetes reviews in hospitals and primary care settings will take place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25181/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 830. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an OCG review of a capital approval for a new cath lab in UHW given in September 2018 should now be required (details supplied); the reason it should take four months to review such a proposal; the reason the project could not be fast tracked considering the capital expenditure has been ringfenced for over 12 months; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has considered setting up rural information pods and lectures in the community to facilitate adult learning within the rural environment in relation to issues such as job seeking, heritage, the environment and sustainability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24439/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Department consider setting up rural information pods and lectures in the community to facilitate adult learning within the rural environment on issues such as job seeking, heritage, the environment, sustainability and onward education?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: In my constituency, the Dunhill Multi-Education Centre and Dunhill Community Alert invite people in to speak on issues. Recently, John Lonergan very kindly came and spoke about the issues of the Prison Service and so on. These people have to travel at their own expense. There is no funding. We are not looking for funding for that but realistically, I am talking about community centres...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I commend the men's sheds organisation, part of which was started in Waterford. A new men's shed is being started in Dunmore East for the winter. There is a particular problem down there as there have been many suicides over recent years. These are very notable community organisations and I would appreciate any help the Department can give them in the future. Perhaps I can liaise with the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister of State. The tenor of the question was wider than that remit. What I was driving at was more about re-imagining rural Ireland and trying to look at more homogenous signage that would describe the character and the charm of our rural places. In terms of community development, particularly in terms of the town renewal schemes and so on, where the Department is giving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: If the Department were to look at specific funding initiatives that would emphasise the idea of using a more rural and more traditional type of signage to give character and to keep the little bit of character we have left in our rural areas, and to try and build on that, it would be a very good initiative.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider introducing a code of standardisation of road and pathway signage that must be used by community groups and local residents associations in view of the many different signs and sign designs across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24438/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Before I start, I wish to thank the member of staff who chased me down the corridor this morning to return money that had fallen out of my pocket. I am sure they thought they could do with it far more than me but I would like to acknowledge their honesty and integrity. Will the Minister of State consider introducing a code of standardisation of road and pathway signage to be used by...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Remote Working (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 17. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps being taken by her Department to provide additional funding to both enhance existing hubs in view of the fact that remote working is now becoming the new normal for persons both in the public and private sectors, and that this is likely to be the norm for some time; if funding for additional hubs across rural Ireland will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has a strategy in relation to bringing the arts back in a social distanced manner to the rural community; if so, her plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department currently liaises with the Department of Community and Rural Development and the Islands in terms of the recruitment of community employment workers by rural community groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24436/20]

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Verona Murphy. In the past ten days, three economic reports were released by the Department of Finance, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and the employers' group IBEC. They examined the financial resilience of Irish small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, the revenue lost since the onset of Covid-19 and the future revenue trajectory...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their excellent work and the tenor of the report they have produced. It is very important that they have taken a forward-looking view and I accept that there may have to be some retrospective learning done at another time. We must now go about the business of protecting all of our aged in the future and making sure they have adequate resources in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Professor Kelleher. She has answered my questions. Does she have an understanding of what the management of oxygen in terms of palliative care will be in the future if we end up with a second wave in our nursing homes? Please God, we will not. Will the Covid response teams that have been highlighted be assigned for that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: The witnesses will be aware that at the start of the Covid pandemic many private nursing homes had to buy PPE. They were not being supplied by the State. Subsequently, the State gave them support moneys but this was based on capitation grants and did not cover private patients in nursing homes. I hope this has been rectified at this stage and that in future there is modelling to provide PPE...