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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the €203, €250 and €300 rates of payment per week of the pandemic unemployment payment in tabular form. [28653/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age on the €203, €250 and €300 rates of payment per week of the pandemic unemployment payment in tabular form. [28654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will take in budget 2021 to implement the commitment in the programme for Government to improve jobseeker supports for persons under 24 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28655/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 554. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if increased investment will be provided to youth work services in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28645/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures he will take in budget 2021 to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to continue to invest in youth work recognising its value in preventing harm and in responding to the needs of vulnerable families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28646/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received and approved under the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme since March 2020, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28657/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the development and completion of the apprenticeship action plan 2021 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28658/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices enrolled and participating on each of the 57 apprenticeship programmes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28659/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices enrolled and participating on each of the 57 apprenticeship programmes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28660/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of women and men, respectively, enrolled and participating on each of the 57 apprenticeship programmes in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices aged 16 to 17, 18 to 21, 22 to 24, 25 to 29 and over 30 years of age in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28662/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the introduction of a national access to apprenticeship programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28663/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be provided to local and regional drugs task forces, in particular to deal with the impact of Covid-19, in budget 2021 and in line with the commitment in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28656/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister. He is in an elevated position today, though I know he would never dream of talking down to anybody. The Parliamentary Budget Office figures we have looked at and the Parliamentary Budget Office commentary that arrived on our desks over the last couple of days suggest that a further €7 billion in public spending will be made this year additional to what was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: The Minister spoke about vulnerabilities and the expectations for the kinds of services that we ought to provide in this country. A degree of consensus is building about some of the lessons that have been learned about where there are gaps in public services as a result of the pandemic and how we have responded to it, as well as about the need to improve our public services, particularly our...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (30 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 36. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if the IDA is working to identify a client company to occupy a plant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27682/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. I assure the Minister that I am not throwing cheap, political potshots at the Minister and his Government colleagues on the appointment of a raft of special advisers for junior Ministers. I do not believe it is in my nature to do so and the Minister may know this. The Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: Will the Minister clarify for the record that he does not have any plans to sanction the approval of or appoint any additional advisers? I believe that 64 is more than enough. During the 2011-16 Government the country was in the mire and battling for its very survival and it had 30-plus advisers. For a country with 15 Cabinet Ministers, a Chief Whip, a super junior Minister and probably...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: As a Minister of State, not as a super junior Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Gerald Nash: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the appointment of ten special advisers for Ministers of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26735/20]