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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the locations in which the 400 cost rental homes will be built; and his plans for future developments in the years thereafter. [4593/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility criteria for the cost rental scheme; and the income thresholds for single applicants and couples. [4594/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the cost rental homes will be new dwellings or if existing dwellings will be repurposed and used for these developments. [4595/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role that local authorities will play in the provision of cost rental homes; and the agency which will have oversight for the provision of cost rental homes. [4596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the other jurisdictions with cost rental accommodation which have been examined in drawing up legislation. [4597/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding from his Department that will be allocated to the roll-out of cost rental affordable accommodation. [4598/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 261. To ask the Minister for Health when clarification will be provided to the medically vulnerable as to the category they will be included in under the vaccine roll-out programme. [4745/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 693. To ask the Minister for Health the position of veterinarian staff under the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Meetings (27 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 768. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, further to correspondence from this Deputy over the past three weeks, he has not met or engaged with academics who have a proposal that could reduce Covid-19 ICU admissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3976/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 796. To ask the Minister for Health if supports are available to access PPE by persons who are caring for an elderly person or a person with a disability in their home who has contracted Covid-19 in order to protect the carer. [4113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 865. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination categories that paramedics, ambulance staff and fire brigade staff come under. [4426/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Treatment (Abstractions) Bill 2020 and Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: I will go next, if that is okay. I thank everybody who worked on this legislation. It is an exciting piece of reforming legislation which has the potential to transform electoral registration and empower more people to become active participants in democracy. People in Dublin had the opportunity to trial voter.ieand it has been a huge success and has proven to be user-friendly. Students'...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if community centres can avail of the Covid restrictions support scheme initiative. [3136/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide certainty to leaving certificate students regarding the way their results will be determined in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3142/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 514. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial supports in place to help community centres stay afloat during Covid-19. [3135/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority of Ireland (20 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 653. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department requested the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to fast-track its recommendations on vitamin D supplementation in older adults due to emerging evidence linking low vitamin D levels with increased Covid-19 infection and severity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2842/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority of Ireland (20 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 654. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department asked as to whether vitamin D supplementation in adults rather than just older adults is being considered as advisable in the context of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2843/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Education and Training Boards (20 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: 715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will facilitate ETB network to facilitate agriculture courses for farmers in areas such as derogation of nitrates. [2841/21]

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: In many homes throughout the country right now, children with special educational needs, sadly, are regressing. For them, education is not just about learning a curriculum. It is about learning at their own rate, practising coping mechanisms and having a routine. For their parents, it is not just about school; it is also about respite. Caring for children with additional needs 24-7 is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jan 2021)

Emer Higgins: This Government has made a commitment to increase social housing stock. Last month, Sinn Féin councillors voted to delay 19 new-build social homes in Clondalkin by a month. The party's national housing spokesperson said this was because 19 homes were not enough. Locally, however, Sinn Féin was saying the opposite. This week, Sinn Féin councillors proposed to reduce that...