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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are dates by which a new hire must have been hired by a company to avail of the employment wage subsidy scheme. [22860/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those on the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment are eligible for the springboard conversion programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22801/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (9 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the free travel scheme to all children under 18 years of age and all students in higher level education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22802/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (9 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists hired from each university by the HSE in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of graduates in each year per institution in tabular form; and his views on whether the number of occupational therapists in the HSE is appropriate. [22863/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Timber Supply (9 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a biotic threat potential may be posed by the proposal to import de-barked timber from central Europe, in particular due to the presence the spruce bark beetle in mainland Europe. [22999/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Again, I welcome that the Minister is proactive in respect of engaging with the stakeholders. We know that 79% of early years professionals do not have a sick pay scheme at work. People may not make the link between testing for Covid-19 and a sick pay scheme but if there is a sick pay scheme in situ that is embedded within the system, it gives comfort largely to parents who we are talking...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent reports that delays in Covid-19 testing is having an impact on the ability of childcare providers to adequately provide services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22636/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I have witnessed a degree of anxiety on the part of professionals working in the childcare sector, when they have to be tested for Covid-19, regarding the time it is taking them to get tests in some instances, and then to attain the results. This is worrying for themselves personally, but also where they are reasonably confident of a negative test outcome, as they may be out of circulation...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister for his reply. I appreciate that there is an ongoing engagement between him and NPHET as to the prioritising of testing for those people who are working with children. I reiterate the call that such priority could be given. Nobody in society will oppose the idea of prioritised testing where people are working with children. I also seek the Minister's perspective on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers hired by Tusla in 2020; and the number of those who were hired who are over and above the number who were replaced by social workers who retired or left their posts. [22320/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers that have not reopened; and if he is satisfied that each child that requires a place has access to one. [22316/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Process (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 44. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019 will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [22319/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with An Post regarding the sorting office in Cobh, County Cork. [21980/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has had with LocalLink on providing rural bus services since the outbreak of Covid-19. [21903/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of legislation regularising e-scooters on roads. [21321/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a toll operator will introduce contactless payments at Fermoy, County Cork. [21584/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of legislation to allow electric scooters on roads. [21977/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 310. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been notified by the Central Bank as to the number of credit unions that have saving and lending restrictions in place; and the number, location and type of restrictions that are in place in tabular form. [22508/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (8 Sep 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been notified by the Central Bank that an additional 20% increase in pension contributions is to be awarded to staff at the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22509/20]