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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (15 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I asked about a potential refund for families. After this backlog is cleared, or even if this backlog is cleared, there will always be demand and the resources will not always follow. The Minister of State will know from her own experience that families are forced into a situation where they are waiting on the public list for an inordinate time. The pressure comes on them to take out a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (15 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: That is an honest and fair answer. I accept that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Brexit Issues (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Common Travel Area under Brexit agreements with the United Kingdom will be extended to allow UK driver licences to remain in operation by residents in Ireland. [42747/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of accommodation units provided under the Traveller accommodation scheme by Longford County Council in each of the years 2017 to 2019; and the targets set for the local authority for each of these years. [42593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by his Department to Longford County Council for the provision of social housing for persons with disabilities in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [42594/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for rent supplement that have been received; the number of applications that have been assessed; the number of applications that have been approved; and the number of applications that have been rejected since January 2020 by month in tabular form. [42595/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Costs (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 313. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has completed a feasibility study on introducing a cap on childcare fees. [42592/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 422. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 178 to 188, inclusive, of 18 November 2020, the cost per external contractor and the number of assessments carried out in each CHO in tabular form. [42685/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 425. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be cold storage centres outside of Dublin for Covid-19 vaccines. [42712/20]

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: The Labour Party will be supporting the Bill. We welcome the Bill, if only because it repeals the section in regard to the pension age. It is something we discussed in the last week on foot of the Sinn Féin motion and we welcome it wholeheartedly. Again, I wish to pay tribute to the Stop67 campaign, without which this issue would not have reached the level of political importance that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements being put in place to ensure that all sectors of society which are insured by UK and Gibraltar insurance providers will continue to offer cover beyond their current period of insurance, particularly as it relates to the bloodstock industry, leisure, hospitality and professional indemnity sectors in view of Brexit negotiations. [42281/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (9 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 166. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he had regard to the strategic housing development planning application on the former Bessborough estate in Cork; if his attention has been drawn to the findings of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes' fifth interim report which found that the burial place of more than 800 children to be unknown (details...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Are the 16 full-time equivalents on permanent contracts? The Minister of State mentioned that she intended to recruit more ecologists. Will they be employed on a full-time equivalent basis? Will there be a permanent staff as opposed to external staff who are brought in on a contractual basis? Will the Minister of State give assurances that all staff hired will be on a full-time equivalent...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional steps he will take to protect the 12,000 jobs under threat in the forestry sector; and the assurances he will give that the deployment of additional resources is sufficient to deal with the current backlog of forestry-related applications. [41874/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: What improvements have taken place regarding licence applications since the legislation was enacted in October? I welcome the fact that the Minister of State has appointed Jo O'Hara to oversee the Mackinnon report and advise the Minister. The industry and anybody who is a stakeholder will welcome that appointment. However, one would have to look at that appointment in a medium to long-term...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Notwithstanding the fact the Minister of State stated there are 16 full-time equivalents now appointed as ecologists and ten new forestry inspectors, what hope can the she give to my constituent, who is probably typical of constituents throughout the country? That person has been waiting more than 900 days for a licence and has been told that, if that person was to expend a considerable...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the online auction for mart sales is working to full capacity. [41619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for facilities in which avian flu has been confirmed here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on Brexit as it relates to his Department; and if he is satisfied that exports of food are sufficiently planned to the UK and the EU. [41620/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he has held with farmers’ organisations in the context of Brexit during December 2020. [41622/20]

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