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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the uptake of the employer wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38071/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps his Department and the Revenue Commissioners have taken to support businesses through Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38072/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Eurozone Issues (26 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 202. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the latest meeting of the Eurogroup; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36652/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland has availed of or applied to the SURE scheme to help support the economy through the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36653/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (26 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work her Department is conducting to create new pathways for long-term undocumented persons and their dependants who meet specified criteria to regularise their status within 18 months of the formation of the Government, bearing in mind EU and common travel area commitments; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Extradition Arrangements (26 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts that have been made to secure an extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39419/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (25 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to encouraging more frequent public transport timetables, given the reduction to 25% capacity, in order that students and essential workers can complete their journeys without undue delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38974/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if flexibility can be applied to students who are recommended by an educational psychologist to access reasonable accommodations in the certification examinations, RACE, in the junior certificate exams but are marginally above the cut-off point for a spelling, grammar and punctuation waiver; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on Future of Europe and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (25 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I have a few questions and I want to pick up some of the points colleagues have raised. They are consistent with the discussions we have had with the academic and societal experts who have come before the committee so far. Will the Minister of State elaborate on when we expect a conference chair to be appointed? Much seems to depend on who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on Future of Europe and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (25 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: I imagine Deputy Howlin will remember when Martin Schulz came to Dublin in 2009 to campaign for the Spitzenkandidat. The whole Spitzenkandidat process is not something familiar to our electoral system. It may apply to certain continental member states but what if we had a directly elected European Commission President? I mean someone who was really directly elected rather than a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Prevention (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the response of the Minister of State, including the written response and all the detail and acknowledge that the Minister's response focused on the Criminal Assets Bureau and its work. I have talked the point to death at this stage in respect of using cash seized by An Garda Síochána and the extra cash seized this year. I will leave that with the Minister for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Prevention (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the opportunity to raise this matter. I thank the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in advance not only for responding here but also for his responses to my parliamentary questions and letters on this issue. I hope he, along with the Minister for Justice, can tell how passionate I am about my proposal. I believe it involves a common sense approach to dealing with the...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: I rise to speak in favour of the Minister's amendment to this Private Members' Bill. Before I do so, I commend Deputy Mairéad Farrell on presenting her first Bill. It is something that I hope to do in due course. It is not exactly Deputy Doherty's first Bill but I extend that to him. I was struck by Deputy Farrell's earlier contention in a Sinn Féin press release that Fine...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: What about the questions I asked?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had any engagement with local authorities regarding the safe practice of Christmas markets in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38067/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Strategic Infrastructure Provision (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the strategic housing development programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38068/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 136. To ask the Taoiseach the number of public engagements that have been held to date under the shared island unit of his Department. [37760/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 137. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which he has engaged with political parties in Northern Ireland in relation to the shared island unit of his Department. [37761/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 138. To ask the Taoiseach the staffing breakdown of his Department's shared island unit. [37762/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Shared Island Unit (24 Nov 2020)

Neale Richmond: 139. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which he has engaged with the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to his Department's shared island unit. [37763/20]