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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost to the State to implement each of the funding options laid out in the 2016 Cassells report for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39746/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the report by the European Commission on the analysis of the Cassells report has been delayed; when it will be available to the public; and if recommendations from the Commission’s report will be implemented for the 2021-2022 academic year. [39747/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the State of increasing SUSI grants by 10%. [39748/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to restore the SUSI non-adjacent rate to 24 km. [39749/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to reinstate postgraduate grants. [39750/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding SUSI maintenance rates to all qualifying part and full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. [39751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fund affordable student accommodation and housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39752/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of a targeted fund to fully finance third-level education for 100 persons experiencing homelessness including those living in temporary accommodation such as hostels, direct provision centres and domestic abuse refuges. [39755/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated of cost of reducing apprentice fees by 20%, 50% and 100%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to decrease the qualifying criteria for the non-adjacent rate of the SUSI grant from 45 km to 24 km; the estimated cost involved in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39874/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students that would be affected by changing the SUSI adjacency rates from 45km to 25km, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Schemes (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected yield from a 0.1% increase in 2021 in the national training fund levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39882/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Schemes (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the history of increases in the national training fund levy over the past five years in tabular form; the projected yield at budget time of each 0.1% increase in tabular form; the actual yield in the full year following the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39883/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports specifically available to students with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40105/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students that are in receipt of disability, scholarship or bursary payments are disadvantaged when they apply for SUSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40106/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1515. To ask the Minister for Health if the current definition of a sporting event in the current Health Act 1947 (Covid-19) Regulations 2021 precludes sporting organisations not affiliated with a recognised national body from organising a competitive sporting event; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this has prevented independent and unaffiliated clubs (details supplied) from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1951. To ask the Minister for Health when an orthopaedic appointment will be made at the Mater Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35968/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 2884. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to issue the digital Covid Certificate, SI 318 of 2021, based on a vaccination elsewhere in line with EU regulation 2021/953, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39477/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 3093. To ask the Minister for Health if those who have been partially vaccinated in the State but have received either a first or second dose of an EMA registered vaccine in another jurisdiction will be considered fully vaccinated by the HSE; if such cases will have their vaccination details updated to avoid being offered an unnecessary vaccination appointment; if persons in such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: 2885. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish citizens and their family members who have been vaccinated in Northern Ireland will be eligible for the Digital COVID Certificate in (EU) 2021/953 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39479/21]