Results 4,001-4,020 of 6,354 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expand on existing measures to address digital poverty, ensuring all low-income households have access to online teaching and pre-printed resources if required during the academic year as a result of Covid-19 safety measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32967/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the free school books pilot scheme to all non-fee paying primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32969/20]

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

Carol Nolan: 764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will conduct a review on the possibility of ending the voluntary contribution system in non-fee paying primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32970/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to restore the capitation rates to 2010 levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32971/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures taken to support persons with disabilities who are on low incomes and will be financially challenged by recent increases in the carbon tax; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32975/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: 829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support calls for the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities to be improved to boost employment opportunities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32978/20]

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

Carol Nolan: 889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the reform of the child maintenance system; if she will address key issues such as calculation, facilitation and enforcement guided by international best practice and in view of the findings of the Murphy review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32987/20]

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

Carol Nolan: 890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she is taking to prioritise and protect supports for lone parents, having regard to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection’s Report on the Position of Lone Parents in Ireland in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32988/20]

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]