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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the proposed devices fund will be administered; if it is to be administered at a local level; if so, the additional staffing levels which will be put in place to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18813/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if requirements for social distancing will be universally applied across higher education institution campuses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18814/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been engagement with the unions on social distancing requirements across higher education institution campuses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18815/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with higher education institutions on library access for students under social distancing requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18818/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will revert SUSI adjacency grants to pre-2011 levels to take account of students that will remain living at home due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18816/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if PPE will be provided to staff across the higher education institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18817/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are proposals to increase postgraduate grants to address the funding gap as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18819/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed review of SUSI eligibility as proposed in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18823/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional mental health supports are being put in place for 2020 leaving certificate students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18820/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend or review the requirements for mature applicants to third-level colleges living at home with their parents due to lack of affordable housing options being assessed based on their parents’ income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18821/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase the fund for students with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18824/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) on provisions to provide extensions and supports for researchers whose research was affected by Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18825/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be made available for research relating to Covid-19 including the wider societal impact; if such research will include the arts and humanities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18826/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans to establish a commission on pensions to examine sustainability and eligibility issues with State pensions and the social insurance fund; when he expects the commission to be formally established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18720/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the proposed review of the back to education allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18822/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 706. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the closure of a crèche (details supplied) in County Louth; if his attention has also been drawn to the circumstances of the closure of the facility; if his Department and agencies are available to assist the service to continue under an alternative management structure; the details of the amount...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 978. To ask the Minister for Health the concerns that led to the HSE and RCSI hospital group taking over operational control of a facility (details supplied) in response to the outbreak of Covid-19 at the facility on 17 April 2020; if the HSE will establish the precise criteria that were applied to prompt such a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18393/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 979. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the correspondence received from the owner and managers of a facility (details supplied) dated 12 April 2020; the response issued to that correspondence; if he will provide a copy of a report on the Covid-19 outbreak at the facility which was created by officials in his Department on 11 April 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1030. To ask the Minister for Health when the revised income threshold for medical card applicants aged over 70 will be enacted following the abandonment of previous legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18811/20]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister to the House and congratulate him on the establishment of this very important Department. The Department has to address some fundamental issues in the third level education sector very quickly. Key stakeholders in the sector have been calling for increased investment for higher and further education for many years now. Third level research is a fundamental part of...