Results 3,941-3,960 of 6,286 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to address food poverty in children and to ensure that no child goes hungry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will continue to support the annual Social Inclusion Forum as an important means of promoting engagement between persons experiencing poverty and exclusion, the community and voluntary sector and Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32990/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has considered supporting the introduction of returnships in partnership with employers to support women that have taken time out of work to raise their families or care for loved ones to re-enter the labour market through new education, training, and personal development programmes; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider equalising the income thresholds for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance for one and two parent households and introduce tapering for the allowance to provide greater access to support with school costs for working poor households and to reduce poverty traps; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider making child benefit payable to families with children over the age of 18 enrolled in secondary school in recognition of the higher cost of education in the senior cycle and as a measure to prevent early school leaving; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32993/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Special Educational Needs (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 951. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide funding to support Down's syndrome language development for young children aged three to six years of age in preschool. [32964/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 991. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that less than 5% of adults with Down's syndrome secure meaningful employment due to barriers in accessing further education; the measures he is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32965/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 992. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is developing a strategy for re-engagement of learners unable to participate in further and higher education during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32968/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 993. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the income thresholds and means test to qualify for the SUSI grant and increase the value of the maintenance grant levels to 2011 rates in recognition of the increase in the cost of living and loss of part-time work for students due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Assistance Fund (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 994. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider increasing the student assistance fund allocation by 20% to address the needs of students affected by Covid-19 income loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32973/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 995. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand eligibility for the SUSI grant to part-time students studying in publicly funded further and higher education and training institutions to provide financial support to non-traditional, mature and part-time learners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32974/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1387. To ask the Minister for Health the specific evidentiary basis for the restrictions on public worship; if he will reconsider permitting physical attendance at religious services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33499/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1287. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the 5 km travel limit for persons who live in rural areas in view of the unreasonable restrictions this will place on persons who reside in isolated or low-population density areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32933/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1293. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding has been assigned in budget 2021 to address the digital divide to ensure that persons with disabilities and other disadvantages are not left behind during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32976/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1294. To ask the Minister for Health if additional support will be provided for specialist training providers for persons with disabilities such as National Learning Network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32977/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1295. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be given to fully implementing the report on the role of voluntary organisations in the provision of public disability services and to providing sufficient funding to address pay inequality among section-39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32979/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1296. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is only one dedicated nurse, focused on those aged 0 to 18 years that specialises in Down syndrome; if he will provide investment for a dedicated specialist nurse in each of the nine CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32980/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Suicide (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1297. To ask the Minister for Health if personnel or section within his Department or the HSE have ever conducted an ethical review of the Groningen protocol which originated in the Netherlands and which permits the active euthanasia or physician assisted death of premature and severely ill newborns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32981/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1298. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and position regarding the use of do not resuscitate orders within the health care system here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32982/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 1513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32664/20]