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

Gino Kenny: 620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that sets the income threshold for persons to apply for local authority housing; and if the income threshold is set by his Department or the local authorities. [33145/20]

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

Gino Kenny: 621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the year the current income threshold for applicants on local authority housing list was set. [33146/20]

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

Gino Kenny: 622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department allows local authorities to set their own income threshold for persons applying for local authority housing; if his Department monitors each authority; the way in which this is monitored; and the year each local authority set their current income threshold for the local authority housing list. [33147/20]

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

Gino Kenny: 623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria and factors taken into consideration to determine the income threshold for persons applying for local authority housing. [33148/20]

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

Gino Kenny: 624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if national average wage increases, minimum wage increases and increases in the private rental market are taken into consideration when setting income thresholds for persons applying for local authority housing. [33149/20]

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

Gino Kenny: 625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to increase the income threshold for persons applying for local authority housing. [33150/20]

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

Gino Kenny: 918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department plans to centralise and gather information from INTREO offices to obtain a national picture regarding complaints made by persons applying for a social welfare payment or persons in receipt of a social welfare payment in order that her Department gathers all complaints to her Department relating to the...

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

Gino Kenny: 919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department does not, to date, centrally gather information from INTREO offices relating to complaints made by persons applying for a social welfare payment or persons in receipt of a social welfare payment to her Department in order that her Department can monitor application processes, review processes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I thank all the speakers for their contributions. I have a number of questions. The second has largely been answered. The first is on testing and tracing in schools. Obviously, the imperative over the past couple of months has been to keep schools open for everybody involved. In the State's primary and post-primary schools, there are 939,000 pupils and 66,000 staff, including teachers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: Will the witness quantify from that number of staff and pupils how many have tested positive, particularly since September?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: Deputy Shortall touched on this but there was a really good article in The Irish Timestoday by Dr. David Joyce and Professor Eilish McAuliffe. They wrote about the SQ80, which I had never heard of before. It describes 80% end-to-end turnaround from symptom development to testing being carried out and contact tracing being completed. They argue that testing and tracing can be put right in...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputies Bríd Smith, Boyd Barrett and Barry. We are at the beginning of another lockdown, the second. The vast majority of people have adhered to the guidelines. They have made enormous sacrifices of their liberty with financial, family and health implications and they will continue to make them. In some ways a second lockdown was almost flagged. If we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I have two sets of questions. I thank everybody for their contributions. My first question is for Ms Clyne and it concerns non-EU doctors. They now make up 53% of all doctors and more than one third of doctors in the health service are trained abroad. Those doctors are highly trained and highly motivated, but there seems to be a glass ceiling for them regarding career paths and achieving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I would like Ms Ní Sheaghdha to comment on student nurses. They are working as de factocare assistants. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic they are not allowed to take second jobs, which presents a huge financial burden. How does Ms Ní Sheaghdha feel about the exploitation of student nurses in the health system at this time? My second question concerns infection rates among healthcare...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: If one takes away all of the headlines over the past number of days, because an immense amount of money has been thrown at the economy due to Covid-19, one sector that this pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on are services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and psychology. Of these services, most people were waiting for 12 months or more prior...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Legislative Measures (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 13. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans to introduce legislation to allow for a mechanism for workers to be prioritised as creditors in the event of a liquidation in the future; if legislation that stops workers seeking redundancy in certain circumstances will be ended or extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30568/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Industrial Disputes (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 62. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he has discussed a dispute (details supplied) with the Minister for Finance; if so, if he has discussed the proposal that the State and the Revenue Commissioners stand aside as creditors to allow the liquidators prioritise former workers in order to achieve a resolution of the dispute; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 71. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will respond positively to calls from nurses and other healthcare professionals to reinsert the requirement that infectious diseases, including Covid-19, are reported by employers to the Health and Safety Authority as infectious diseases in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23678/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in secondary and primary schools confirmed as having contracted Covid-19 since schools reopened; the procedures for their return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30252/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (14 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools that have lost a teacher as a result of a reduction in the September 2019 numbers of pupils can apply to her Department for support in recruiting a replacement teacher if they find it difficult to enforce Covid-19 safety guidelines in their school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30251/20]