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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if details of the academic year 2019/2020 class sizes are available; if not, the timeline for when they will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19377/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 7 July 2020, if information is now available with regard to the impact of Covid-19 on the school building programme; the extent to which the programme will experience delays; the number of schools by county that will not have their school building programme finished in time for September 2020; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special units requested for County Wicklow in each of the past five years; the details of the schools that made these requests; the locations in which these units have been approved in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19458/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the issue of a cut to the pandemic unemployment payment for a self-employed person (details supplied) who was of the view that the 2018 returns would result in a full payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if crèches are obliged to refund fees paid by parents for the two weeks during which there was no service since 17 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 255. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Crowe report will be published and made available; the reason for the delay in publication to date despite the fact that it has been cited as a document that will inform decisions made regarding the childcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19443/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 256. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a costings process has been carried out on the provision of State-funded insurance for the childcare sector; if his Department has carried out a risk analysis; if so, the findings of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that LocalLink has refused a request to marginally alter its bus route to include direct provision residents in a centre (details supplied); if her Department provides transport provision for these residents; if not, the way in which it is expected that residents can travel to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are five weeks away from schools opening and one week away from taking our recess, yet there is still no certainty about how the schools are going to open. Children do not know whether they will be in with their school friends for an entire week or part of a week, parents do not know whether they will have to source childcare for part of the week, and schools, principals and teachers do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 23. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will suspend the issue of hare coursing licences across the entire country in view of the recently reported increase in the spread of the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17046/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Department highlighted and confirmed to me this week that there have been several confirmed additional cases of rabbit haemorrhagic disease identified in hares in Wexford and Kildare and in rabbits in Clare and Cork. In light of this, will the Minister of State suspend the issuing of the hare coursing licences as a precautionary measure until further information on the disease is available?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: I do not think the Minister of State quite answered the question. Will he suspend the licences? We have seen further instances. I am unsure how many hares were found in Wexford and Kildare but there have been confirmed instances. It appears from the response from the Department that the research work promised has not been carried out. The Department has said that it is working with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is disappointing that the Minister of State will not say "Yes" or "No". This area is within the remit of the Minister of State. I would like to see a ban on hare coursing but that is not within the remit of the Minister of State. However, this is within the remit of the Minister of State. From a conservation perspective, we should take the precautionary approach and decide to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if management plans will be developed for each of the national parks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17331/20]

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Deputy Funchion for introducing the motion. I would like to address two issues relating to childcare. The first issue is the short-term needs of the sector post Covid and the second is the long-term reforms that are required. I think we are all in agreement that significant reforms are required in the sector to meet the needs of families and providers. On the short-term issue,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas and Electricity Disconnections (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he has explored and discussed with relevant Ministers the impact a moratorium on utility disconnections will have on those financially vulnerable as a result of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17042/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to the OECD review of the Environmental Protection Agency; his views on whether the current legislative framework for licensing pollution is fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17043/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the sampling regime undertaken by the NPWS to identify prevalence of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus; the research being undertaken into the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17047/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Diseases (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the areas and counties in which the rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 has been detected over the past year; the date on which the virus was detected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17049/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 251. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of hare coursing licences issued by county over the past ten years; the number of hares captured under those licences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17048/20]