Results 4,261-4,280 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which consultants (details supplied) have been employed by the HSE for the purposes of providing consultancy services in response to Covid-19; and the cost of same. [36464/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of virtual otolaryngology appointments that have been made; and the number that have not been completed since the start of public health restrictions by hospital area. [36468/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 836. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation which has arisen in which doctors are not being reimbursed by the HSE for providing abortion services to migrants, international students and others resident here but who do not possess a PPSN; his plans to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36971/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 837. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has a referral policy for cases in which a doctor refuses to provide reproductive health services to patients due to conscientious objection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the commitment in the programme for Government to phase out fur farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36826/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: CLÁR Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 915. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Tallow, County Waterford, is being considered for inclusion in CLÁR. [36358/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Chair. I appreciate him facilitating me and I will be brief. The rate of afforestation in the county of Cork has gone from a high of 14% per annum down to somewhere around 4%. I would like to hear from Coillte, perhaps not now but in writing, how it will address that massive decline. Munster is seeing a collapse in planting, relative to other parts of the country. I would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate the opportunity to make an intervention. I welcome the Minister of State and her statement. I concur with other speakers on the lack of reference to the Mackinnon report. However, I acknowledge the Minister of State has held up the report and recommended we all read it. I have read it, and it makes interesting findings and recommendations. The report states that in 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 294. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [36051/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I received a response on 30 September to a question I tabled in respect of payments to student nurses in the first-year to third-year cohort. The response states: Supernumerary clinical practice placements were temporarily suspended during the initial Covid-19 pandemic response and a temporary scheme was put in place whereby these students were offered employment by the HSE as healthcare...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that the Minister of State is coming at this issue from a higher education point of view. I acknowledge his indication that there is the possibility of taking it up with the HSE, the Department of Health and the relevant line Minister. The fact of the matter is that nurses are productive from the minute they go onto a ward or into an acute hospital setting. That is the point...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a stay will be put for the rest of the academic year on a school (details supplied) due to the loss of a teacher. [35663/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [35626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to a matter (details supplied). [34614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 401. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the approval by the higher planning council of the Israeli Civil Administration of an additional 4,948 settlement units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34889/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to remedy the difference between the level of the pandemic unemployment payment and the return-to-education allowance and VTOS training allowance in order to encourage and incentivise those out of work to retrain or reskill. [34876/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the disparity between the level of the pandemic unemployment payment and the return-to-education allowance and VTOS training allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34875/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason new first year students at third level cannot claim the pandemic unemployment while other full-time students are entitled to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34878/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if student nurses disbarred from other work due to their placement can apply for the pandemic unemployment payment. [34880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a pandemic unemployment payment will not be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34879/20]