Results 4,501-4,520 of 6,354 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that adequate funding is allocated to a named organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40034/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 166. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that funding of at least €40 million is allocated to the disability sector in order for it to maintain existing services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40042/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure 300 extra therapy staff are recruited in order to improve disability services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40043/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider bringing forward incentives for the haulage sector such as grants and capital allowances in order to increase the pace of transition of the national heavy goods vehicle fleet to Euro VI standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40041/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Staff (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 226. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure all childcare workers in the early years sector are paid a living wage of €12.30 per hour; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40035/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to ensure the disability allowance is increased by €20 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase and index link the wage subsidy scheme for persons with a disability to 70% of the minimum wage level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40047/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (2 Oct 2019)

Carol Nolan: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will restore housing adaptation grants funding to 2010 levels; and if he will make provision of an additional €28.38 million for these grants. [40040/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (25 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if a stakeholder forum will be convened on the crisis affecting the provision of rural general practitioner services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38952/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: The issue of home help in many regions has been raised. This targets the most vulnerable. I have been contacted by many concerned families in counties Laois and Offaly. These are people with disabilities and elderly couples trying to care for each other. What is happening is scandalous. We need it sorted out and it has to happen now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the weighting percentages to be used as part of the upcoming HSE FreeStyle Libre review decision making process that will be given to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38950/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if the reimbursement dataset will specifically cover only current HSE funded users of FreeStyle Libre device; if not, if the Health Technology Assessment Group review will compare total blood glucose strip usage spend year on year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38951/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers' Strategy Funding (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate annual funding of €3.2 million in budget 2020 to an organisation (details supplied) to assist it in the delivery of vital core services to carers nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38471/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Support Scheme (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 318. To ask the Minister for Health if he will replace the mobility and transport grant which was withdrawn in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38472/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the general practitioner visit card to carers in receipt of the carer's support grant in Budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38473/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the hours a carer can work or study from 15 hours to 18.5 hours per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reform the means test for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38466/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 to €450 for a single person and from €665 to €900 for a couple; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38467/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the formula for assessing means from capital savings, shares and property for carer's allowance can be increased in line with the disability allowance in which the first €50,000 of capital is disregarded. [38468/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Eligibility (24 Sep 2019)

Carol Nolan: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider excluding carer payments in the financial assessment of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38469/19]