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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if changes to the leaving certificate 2021 are currently being considered; and if a predicted grades option will remain for students that wish to avail same. [31455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31102/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measure announced in the budget to support self-employed persons impacted by the pandemic (details supplied); and if in calculating €480, self-employed persons can deduct operation and material costs which they incur and only consider income which they would normally consider for taxation purposes. [31530/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has secured funding in budget 2021 to replace either the helicopters or aircraft within the Garda air support unit. [31764/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants by specialist posts that are vacant in each hospital of RCSI Hospital Group as of 9 October 2020; the length of time each post has been vacant; and the position regarding the filling of each consultant post in tabular form. [31767/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 814. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans for local development companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31104/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: We may be talking about abstraction but water is not an abstract topic in the city of Dublin where the water supply has reached a critical level. The Bill is a very necessary instrument that will allow us to secure supply for the city. A regulatory regime has been outlined in the legislation and I am interested in hearing the Department’s view on how quickly the regime can be put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask that Mr. Ó Coigligh is allowed to answer my question on the timeline for the regulatory framework to be put in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The issue I wish to raise was touched on by Deputy O'Donoghue. Head 19 refers to the fire services. The 1981 Act allows for abstraction of water for the extinguishing of a fire or the protection of a person or property in the case of fire. Dublin Fire Brigade, which is probably the largest fire service in the country, would be using water primarily for extinguishing fires but there would be...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Schemes (15 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 17. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans for allowing taxi drivers and other self-employed persons access more support schemes similar to other SMEs from which they are currently excluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29973/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 74. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the additional supports provided by his Department to Dublin businesses since the city and county entered level 3 under the living with Covid-19 framework. [30597/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister for outlining the investment made by the Government in some of the youngest in society. Yesterday, Fianna Fáil proposed a budget to this House for the first time in ten years. In so doing, it converted the support and votes we received in February into actions and supports for the people of Ireland. We worked with Fine Gael and the Green Party on a shared...

Other Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the feasibility of pairing students of very high-risk families to very high risk teachers via an online learning platform will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25941/20]

Other Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Like other Deputies, I congratulate the Minister. I am sure, however, she would be the first to tell me to congratulate those in the school community who allowed and facilitated the return to school. It has made a huge difference in the lives of many families. Unfortunately, however, many people have not been able to return to school. They include those in the very high-risk category,...

Other Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome that the possibility of online remote learning pairing is an option for those very high-risk teachers and students. I am speaking, however, about those people with a rare disease. I have had the pleasure of working with many of them. Rare diseases are awfully misunderstood. There is often not a huge degree of knowledge within general practice, and often the patient becomes the...

Other Questions: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I take on board the point the Minister makes and the genuine way in which she approaches this. I wish to raise the case of a specific person, Ms Jann Rynne, who was, sadly, diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, CLL, in 2011. She has been cocooning since February. Two of her older children have moved out of the home and are living with another family member. They have made the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of measures being put in place to improve pay and conditions for school caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25940/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support persons with lifelong or long-term medical incontinence with their household waste disposal charges in view of the fact that more operators are moving towards pay-by-weight contracts. [30380/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for an expansion of the SEAI better energy warmer homes scheme; his plans to allow persons that have availed of the scheme to be eligible again.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30081/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national retrofitting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30082/20]