Results 5,521-5,540 of 5,627 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria for the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be redefined to ensure that seasonal workers and businesses are not being left to struggle alone with no supports as they reopen in line with advice [13814/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be extended to seasonal workers; and if not, if a specific measure will be put in place to support such workers to allow them have an income stream and to ensure hotels and restaurants have a full complement of staff for the reduced tourist season. [14421/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if a reduced VAT rate will be implemented for the tourism sector similar to the steps taken during the last recession to help businesses survive as they reopen post Covid-19. [14398/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Plant Species (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Clare County Council to eradicate an extensive spread of Japanese knotweed on public lands in Kilkee, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14389/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue guidance to third-level institutions on when they should reopen in view of the fact many students are now in the position in which they need to be looking for accommodation but they are not sure when they will be back at college. [14285/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to including Limerick Institute of Technology in plans for the Munster technological university in addition to Cork Institute of Technology and IT Tralee. [13937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider transport options for those availing of July provision as a matter of urgency in view of the fact parents are under significant strain (details supplied). [14018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (7 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 783. To ask the Minister for Health if measures will be put in place to maintain financial support for the homecare sector in view of the fact the latest HSE pay policy came to an end on 31 May 2020. [14203/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider defining surfing as a tourist activity in view of the fact that so many surf shops are hives of activity for those visiting coasts (details supplied). [12804/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a proposal from an organisation (details supplied) in order to boost the school transport sector. [12945/20]

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

Cathal Crowe: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided regarding the July provision for parents of children that ordinarily avail of a combination of school-based provision and home help and now must choose between them, therefore leaving them with less support than in previous summers. [12944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make accommodation for instances in which parents choose to delay their child’s start or return to primary school on the grounds of Covid-19 health concerns, in so far as enrolment figures required for the retention of teachers are concerned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13639/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda staffing levels in each division prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic; and the increases in staffing since the outbreak of the pandemic in each division in tabular form. [13527/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of Garda staffing levels in each Garda station across the Clare Garda division prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in tabular form; the details of increases in staffing in these stations since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13637/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of Garda staffing levels in each Garda station across the Limerick Garda division prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in tabular form; the details of increases in staffing in these stations since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13638/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 469. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions are being made for frontline health workers that have been forced to use up their annual leave for childcare purposes and are facing a situation in which they no longer have time to take off despite fronting the national effort to overcome Covid-19. [13126/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time he plans to operate a temporary field hospital in the university area gymnasium at University of Limerick; if the field hospital will now be wound down earlier than initially expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13174/20]

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

Cathal Crowe: 555. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria will be revised for funded access to pembrolizumab in view of the fact that many of those diagnosed with cancer have been medically advised to access the drug are being informed they are unable to do so due to the stage of their illness [13600/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant funding is available to farmers that wish to replant felled forestry in their ownership with native broadleaf saplings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12930/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 620. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the measures outlined by a group (details supplied) to save the post office network. [12928/20]