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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average number of hours worked per week by pandemic unemployment payment recipients by sector; the average net weekly wage of part-time workers by sector in receipt of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9108/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Losses (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of businesses that have notified her Department regarding their intention to consider collective redundancies in January, February, March, April and May 2020; the number of jobs involved by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9135/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount her Department issued in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 in statutory redundancy payments to workers whose employers became insolvent and went into liquidation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to bring legislation forward to give effect to the recommendations in a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9137/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age on the pandemic unemployment payment by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9342/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age who are in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit, jobseeker’s allowance and signing for credits for 12 months or more in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9345/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age who are in receipt of the €112.70, €203 and other varying rates, respectively, of jobseeker’s allowance per week in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9348/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age in receipt of the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9349/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age in receipt of the one parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9351/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of restoring young persons under 25 years of age on the reduced rates of jobseeker’s allowance to the full rate of €203 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9395/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the pandemic unemployment payment which her Department has rejected due to there being no record of the applicant's employment; the steps she will take to investigate those employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9426/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has taken steps to investigate suspected abuse of the pandemic unemployment payment by employers since its introduction particularly relating to the misclassification of workers as self-employed; the number of suspected breaches by employers reported and subsequently investigated; the way in which cases into...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Services (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct local authorities to accept emails in lieu of stamped salary certificates as is the policy of the commercial lenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Road Projects (3 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on a funding application to develop the northern port access route in Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9138/20]

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. The Minister looks like she is about to deliver the votes of the Swedish Eurovision jury. I hope Louth gets douze pointswhen she responds. Earlier, the Minister raised the anomaly in the temporary wage subsidy scheme as it relates to women who are returning to work having spent time on maternity leave. I and my Labour Party colleagues are very pleased that this...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Gerald Nash: That is because you have six talking at the same time. We do not.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gerald Nash: This was said on national radio and it was not denied. It was confirmed.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gerald Nash: I think that individual is well able to defend himself. This is a fact that he has confirmed.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate that and I take the Ceann Comhairle's advice. It is revealing of the attitude of some in our society and is very troubling indeed. Given the preponderance of low pay in this country, with 23% of all workers on low pay, it goes to shows we have a big issue and we need to be careful how we treat the pandemic unemployment payment and the language that we use over the next period....

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the Minister into the Chamber again today to debate these Estimates. We truly are in exceptional and crazy times. I have said time and again over recent weeks that I find it a little unacceptable that we are being asked to provide an additional enormous resource to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection at this point in time without having the full knowledge of...