Results 4,721-4,740 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Commission (30 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 1292. To ask the Minister for Health if the Mental Health Commission spent its full budget in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively [20461/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (30 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 1293. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the Mental Health Act 2001 will be published [20465/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (30 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 1294. To ask the Minister for Health when residential care services will be provided with a sector-specific Covid-19 roadmap in order to enable them to reopen safely. [20468/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the duration of community employment schemes due to Covid-19. [18550/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Can the Minister give me her perspective on community employment schemes? We know that 3,000 extra places were announced on State employment schemes in the July stimulus package. We are all receiving representations from individuals and from administrators of schemes who are seeking extensions to individuals’ tenure on those schemes, which are adding exceptional value. Can the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate the Minister’s point and understand that one must allow for other people to come on to individual schemes. Will the Minister allow for individual cases to be made, where there is a solid case and where there is not a demand at a local level for an additional person or a replacement to come on to the scheme? Will she allow for some discretion if that business case for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate the Minister’s response and understand that one has to allow for throughput in these schemes, which we all accept. Deputies and Senators will have all received representations from administrators of schemes. If the business case is made and it stacks up to scrutiny, if there is no demand for another person to come onto a scheme and if the work being carried out has an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has had on pension rights for community employment supervisors. [18480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has had on pension rights for community employment supervisors. [18480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the duration of community employment schemes will be extended. [18483/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the eligibility criteria for community employment schemes. [18479/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be included as a qualifying payment for the back to education allowance. [18481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the roll-out of the school meals programme. [18482/20]

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I previously asked about the status of the Social Insurance Fund. I may have missed the Minister's response. In her speech, she said: "This is an accounting mechanism that does not have any impact on the entitlements of claimants." This is, however, to be paid for from the Social Insurance Fund. What exact figure will be extracted from the fund? It is vital in funding retirement and this...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I support the amendment. The Government has said this stimulus package is worth more than €7 billion. For a sum that would be quite small relative to the cost of the stimulus package, although the figure is indeterminate at present, the livelihoods of those within the sectors for which we have all spoken over the last number of hours could be sustained. The most vulnerable could be...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: -----will have been relegated to the lower tiers. The Government has an opportunity to recognise the sectors that we celebrate and which export this culture as part of the soft diplomacy of international relations. We sell this globally as a major comparative advantage economically, and we are doing the culture and entertainment sector a disservice by not supporting it. I appeal to the...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I am very conscious of Deputy Gannon's earlier intervention. On the point the Minister made, in my earlier contribution I said that there were questions about the regulation, as the travel advisory on which it is based has no legal standing. People were not informed of the changes so there was potentially a legitimate expectation they could travel under the normal rules that previously...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: All the world is a stage.

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Let us be 100% clear. Joan Burton had nothing to do with the changes to the PUP brought by the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection on 12 July through the statutory instrument, SI 242/2020. With no public notice, the Minister changed the rules for the Covid-19 PUP and for other unemployment payments meaning that recipients could not take holidays abroad. Previously, they...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 Jul 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the National Broadband Plan. [18314/20]