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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 354. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the help-to-buy scheme for quarters 1 and 2 in 2020; the number of applications approved in the same period; the estimated annual number of recipients of the scheme in 2020 and 2021; the estimated median payment under the scheme; and the estimated expenditure per year. [20544/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons presenting as homeless to local authorities in March, April, May, June and July 2020; the comparable figures for March, April, May, June and July 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19958/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units which have been leased or purchased in March, April, May, June and July 2020, by local authority; the comparable figures for March, April, May, June and July 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19959/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the progress which has been made on the national differential rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19960/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of co-living development in his Department; the terms of reference; the person or body undertaking the review; the expected timeline for delivery of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19961/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure refunds are provided to students for all relevant payments of accommodation provided under section 13(d) of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 in which the accommodation has been vacated by the student due to the suspension of higher education activity due to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposals to modernise the electoral registration process following public consultation in early 2019 in view of the publication of the relevant report in December 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20533/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will be taking to protect students entering new lease and or licence arrangements for accommodation for the 2020/2021 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sustainable Development Goals (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which Ireland's commitment to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in her Department's Skills Strategy and Work Plans 2020–2025; the way in which progress towards achieving same will be monitored and reported annually; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19962/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number or estimated number of workers affected by the policy which states that employed and self-employed incomes cannot be combined in the same year for purposes of assessment for the pandemic unemployment payment resulting in them receiving the lower rather than the higher payment amount; and her views on this policy....

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Our grandparents' generation, particularly our grandmothers, used to say that education was no burden. Some 80 or 90 years ago, a child might well have come to the kitchen table at age 12, 13 or 14 to tell of an offer of a job in a factory or on the docks, which was a chance to leave school and go into employment. 11 o’clock The mothers of those families - our grandmothers -...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party will be opposing the Bill and submitting a number of amendments. We feel that this Bill has limited protections for those impacted by Covid-19. It seems strange, when a measure introduced in March has been seen to work to keep people out of homelessness, that we would change the provisions that were made. Homelessness and housing have dogged political debate for years now....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a reduction of one at all points of the staffing schedule for primary schools from September 2021; and the net number of teaching posts involved in view of the predictions of a continuing fall in primary school enrolments by her Department. [18908/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the requirement for graduate teachers to travel to the country of the language that they teach for a period of time and to be signed off by a native speaker in order to be registered with the Teaching Council to teach the subject; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Teaching Council is still...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who have received conditional offers from foreign universities but whose leaving certificate results are likely to be received after the expiry of the deadline for submission will be able to obtain early access to their results; and the policy measures she plans in order to assist students with overseas offers in retaining these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy responses proposed or being examined to meet the increased pressure and demand on guidance counsellors in view of the impact of the Covid-19 global pandemic; if her Department has allocated enhanced resources and hours for guidance counsellors; and her views on the appropriate response of her Department to the increased support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy responses being planned or examined to meet the increased pressure and demand on guidance counsellors in view of the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic; if enhanced resources and hours have been allocated for guidance counsellors; her views on the appropriate response to the increased support students will need from guidance...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied ) is on the lower rate of pandemic unemployment payment in view of income exceeding the €200 threshold; her views on the policy issues raised by the circumstances of the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18168/20]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is on the lower rate of pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact that their income exceeds the €200 threshold; her views on the policy issues raised by the circumstances of the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18932/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the situation of persons (details supplied) residing and working here as European Economic Area, EEA, family members in cases in which qualifying EEA family member is a UK citizen and that after 31 December 2020 and they are no longer the spouse of an EEA family member and will be unable to...