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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 2.2 million hours of home help; the estimated cost of providing 8,000 extra homecare packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30355/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Expenditure (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of meeting the outstanding demand for homecare packages and home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30356/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the spend to date and projected full year spend by the HSE on agency staff by position and grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30357/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation Levy Payments (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the 2018 and 2019 PSO subvention allocated respectively to each transport body and public service provider by the National Transport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30319/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation Data (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of providing an increased subsidy to each public transport provider to reduce fares by 5%, 10% and 20%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30320/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress towards delivering the Galway city bypass since approval was provided in 2018; the spend on the N6 Galway city transport project to date; the annual capital allocations for 2019, 2020 and 2021 for the project; the estimated completion date; the estimated final cost of the road; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 362. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated first and full year cost of increasing the universal childcare subsidy from 50 cent an hour to €1 per hour or €2 per hour respectively; the estimated impact such an increase will have on other income assessed subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30344/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Data (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of families with children in full-time childcare that will not be eligible for an additional subsidy for childcare in autumn 2019 under the national childcare scheme due to their income exceeding the threshold of €60,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30345/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new paid parental leave benefit as announced at budget 2019 for parents will be available; when the application process will open; the number of parents she expects to avail of the new benefit in the remainder of 2019; the estimated number of applicants in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30322/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility criteria for the new paid parental leave benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30323/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new paid parental leave benefit will be available to all new parents of children born since the budget 2019 announcement in October 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30324/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing child benefit and domiciliary care allowance by €5 in 2020; the estimated full year cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30325/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has been provided with sufficient expenditure allocation for the payment of a full Christmas bonus in 2019; the projected cost of a 100% Christmas bonus in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30326/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 26 years of age and under in receipt of jobseeker's allowance by age and payment; the number of qualified adult rates included in these groups; the estimated cost in a full year of restoring all the reduced payments for persons under 26 years to the full adult rate and with the qualified adult...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of building an additional 1,000 social housing units per year on local authority or State owned land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30346/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP and RAS recipients, respectively, by council area at the end of 2017, 2018 and in 2019 to date; the projected full year numbers for 2019 in view of the fact the information is not available on the website in this format; the full year costs of each scheme in each year; and if he will make a statement on the...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I presume the Minister has not been an idle onlooker up to now. She has a draft agreement on her desk now.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: Yes, but that is the framework. The framework is there.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I said the framework is there. If we are not talking about the framework, why is the Commission publishing EU-Mercosur data and the details? Presumably the Government knows the impact sector by sector and has made a discernment that, on balance, it is the right thing. The Minister is saying there are impacts that are good-----

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: I have listened to the Minister say it is not all bad and not all good. She has, therefore, done the analysis that tells her-----