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Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (20 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 706. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to reduce the maximum amount paid monthly on the drug payment scheme from €124 to €114 on 1 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31506/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for Covid-19 care at Citywest, County Dublin. [31563/20]

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

Emer Higgins: This time last year we were facing into a very different economic future. Business was thriving, cafés were full and a ticket for a concert or a GAA final could not be got for love nor money. What a difference a year makes. Today there are no concerts, no bustling cafés and in mid-October we still have not had a 2020 all-Ireland final. There is hope, however, and this budget...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce free GP care for children under 12 years of age; and the timeline for the phased roll out of same. [30853/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support measures she will put in place to help private bus operators transport children to and from school in view of the fact they cannot operate at full capacity resulting in some operators not providing services going forward (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25036/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (14 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the situation for persons over 70 years of age who have been approved for SEAI grants to ensure warmer homes and so on and who are now being told they cannot get the work done, as over-70s are deemed at risk according to HSE guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30404/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (14 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 130. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports being put in place for sport and sporting organisations, that is, national governing bodies, particularly in respect of women's sport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30427/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pandemic unemployment payments will be made to persons over the age of 66; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30393/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 273. To ask the Minister for Health if scouts groups can meet in outside pods in the way that GAA players can for training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30475/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status and timeline of plans for the delivery of the Luas to Lucan, County Dublin. [30185/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to address the increasingly high cost of motor insurance, in particular for young drivers and drivers of vehicles such as caddies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 134. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason dance has been excluded from new guidelines issued by the arts unit in her Department on the activities allowed children’s arts and culture under level three restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30168/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a sector (details supplied) is included in the Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19 for Schools, Early Learning and Childcare services, and Higher and Adult Education. [29897/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 417. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 590 of 6 October 2020, if all owners of a management company that pay service charges to the annual AGM of the company attend the AGM. [30296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: 484. To ask the Minister for Health if rapid antigen testing 15 minutes will be considered as part of the long-term strategy to live with Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29900/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: My topic, and that of Deputy O'Donoghue, did not make it onto the Chairman's second list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: Is it helpful if we make suggestions on the topics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: Yes. I was just asking whether it would be helpful for us to have information for the Chairman by the time we get to discussing those issues. That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: In line with what the Chair has been doing throughout this meeting, I have gone through his list and suggested which categories they might fall under.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Emer Higgins: One thing I would like the committee to look at is collaboration with the Departments of Finance and Health to incentivise people who are on the fair deal scheme to rent out their unoccupied home. Many unoccupied homes are not in use because it does not make any sense for people on the fair deal scheme to rent them out as so much of that income immediately goes back to the State. We looked...