Results 4,921-4,940 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the criteria to attend the summer schemes for children with disabilities is amenable to each child’s individual needs. [12777/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works at a school (details supplied); and the measures underway to ensure the opening of same is secured for September 2020. [13271/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the tendering of works at a school (details supplied) can be fast-tracked to ensure the school is open for September 2020. [13309/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 346. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports being considered for businesses in the autumn and winter months of 2020, when queuing outside will not be possible due to weather conditions; the engagement that has taken place with local authorities in relation to same; and the local authorities with which there has been engagement. [12696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 379. To ask the Minister for Health when regular home help hours curtailed during Covid-19 restrictions will be restored. [12731/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 410. To ask the Minister for Health when a place will be allocated to a person (details supplied). [12873/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of works on the Cork to Limerick M20; and the timelines involved. [12877/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 678. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has sought advice from NPHET regarding the resumption of driver tests. [12902/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 753. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if guidelines have been issued to providers for staff wearing masks when childcare facilities reopen. [12878/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the eligibility criteria for the back to school allowance will be extended due to Covid-19 financial restrictions on households. [12904/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (30 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a widows’ contributory pension claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13094/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the contributors here this morning. I want to start with the 18 May deadline. That was the deadline that was fixed in the minds of all of us here in terms of the expectation that childcare for healthcare workers would be provided at that point. I am talking about the roadmap. That deadline was missed. What I find extraordinary, and this what I would like to get a view on from...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that. The message to take away for us, as public representatives and Teachtaí Dála, is that the issue of the clawback of parental leave needs to be addressed. There has to be recognition of healthcare workers in respect of the amount of parental leave and other leave that they have taken to meet their childcare needs. The State owes them a service or favour in that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I join others in thanking the witnesses for their contributions today and for the clarity of thought they bring to these proceedings. The messages they are imparting to us are well rehearsed, perhaps, in that they have spoken on these challenges previously. My first question relates to the temporary wage subsidy scheme. If it is the case that public funding accounts for approximately 58%...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I have only two minutes left.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Ms Byrne and gaibh mo leithscéal for intervening. Is that shared by the other witnesses?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I apologise to Ms Daly but I have very little time. That is a "Yes".

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I take it that is a "Yes" from all the contributors here. We need a launch pad for a proper wage commensurate with people's qualifications across the sector. Public funding accounts for 58% of childcare providers' income. This is what we will be told later on by officials from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. We therefore, as a society, need to grasp that nettle. I will...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I will gladly take the balance of the Green Party member's time, if I could.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Deputy Costello is very kind. I thank the witnesses for appearing before us. I want to go back to the staff ratios. There are two stories here; there is the 29 June scenario and the September onwards scenario. What is the Department's assessment of the level of demand in percentage terms for 29 June onwards with regard to staff? Will 50% or 40% be back? I ask the witnesses to give us a...