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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance if a wedding industry fund similar to the Scottish model will be rolled out here. [6492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of efforts to address flooding on the River Inagh. [7282/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take in relation the difficulties being experienced by persons (details supplied) in obtaining a Rebuilding Ireland home loan. [7016/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider restoring geography as a mandatory junior certificate examination subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6387/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project to amalgamate schools in Ennistymon, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6480/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered overhauling the existing post-primary school transport scheme in order that antiquated rules and metrics relating to qualifying distances are removed in favour of a new model based on bus scheduling being centred on local demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate funding will be put in place for PPE and supervision and so on when schools return; and if a system will be introduced by which returning students must complete a declaration of being Covid-19-free, similar to the staff declaration in secondary school settings. [7254/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased pandemic unemployment payment system will be considered for wedding industry specialists to help support ongoing expenses and costs. [6492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 726. To ask the Minister for Health when sexual health screening appointments will resume, in view of the fact that only emergency appointments are being carried out at present. [6436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 761. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a difference in the way patients discharged from public hospitals to nursing homes are considered in terms of the vaccination programme. [6579/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses employed as agency staff who are operating between two or more public nursing homes. [6580/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (10 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 1032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if provisions are being made to issue emergency funding to farmers in 2021 who have been hit by flooding issues. [7281/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm at the outset that I am on the Leinster House campus so I am able to participate in the committee meeting with parliamentary privilege. I join others in thanking all the front-line health service staff for everything they have done. We are approaching a year of this crisis and it looks very much like the situation will be prolonged for a number of months to come. We are certainly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question for Mr. Owens in a similar vein. Many doctors have been in contact with me and told me about the early days when the portal opened in which they had to register for vaccination. Many of them went through the first and second pages of inputting data, but then the system crashed several times. Some of them did not get around to it a second time because of the immense...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Dr. Owens. Dr. Colleran might intervene in a moment, but I wish to make a final point and she can respond to the points generally. My last point relates to long Covid, which a number of people have mentioned today. Typically, in a work environment if one is out for a long period, one is referred to Medmark Occupational Healthcare and there could be certain screening barriers to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Kent for joining us at this virtual meeting. I have a few points that my colleagues would like me to put to him, the first of which is in regard to the Expressway service. He explained with great regret that, due to economic circumstances, some routes have to be pulled. What is some of the reasoning behind that? He stated it was down to flat, baseline economics, but looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: That is welcome. Will it remain a linear route, straight up along the corridor, or will adjacent communities along that motorway corridor, such as Sixmilebridge and Newmarket on Fergus, benefit from it? Is Bus Éireann committing to using the same stops it has always used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: My next point relates to concessionary passes for school buses. While I acknowledge that schools are not open at the moment, a large volume of students this year have not yet been able to reconcile the difficulties they have had with Bus Éireann with regard to school transport. It remains a big issue and I am glad a national review is under way, into which Bus Éireann will have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Forgive me for interrupting. I thank Mr. Kent. Before time runs out, I ask him to briefly comment on potential enhanced services for Ennis and the villages that I mentioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Facing the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Can the Chairman look at the chat contribution?