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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question relates to the 39 schools that were directed to provide special classes. Has every support that the Department and its officials can provide been provided? Can we get an assurance that the Department has responded to every request for additional resources and space that the schools have made recently and previously? Be it down to a difficulty or unwillingness on the part of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate her commitment to the issue. I wish her every success in that work and it is fantastic that she is in that seat. I wish to raise a linked matter with the Minister for discussion with her colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The greatest issue that will face the education sector is that of children who have not received...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that commitment and the Minister's support. This matter is something that Deputies will have to raise time and again because it is of such concern, which the Minister recognises. I would welcome it if the Minister reverted to the House and updated us on the progress she has made, perhaps at the occasion of our next education Question Time. We will raise the matter with the...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for immunocompromised students, parents, teachers, teachers that may have immunocompromised children and those that may live with immunocompromised persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19403/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister. As I understand from her answer, these were people who were already in receipt of the allowance and who would have expected to be in receipt of it again. However, for that cohort of people on the Covid payment who have not gone through this process previously, how many people does the Minister believe that will apply to in those circumstances? The Minister confirmed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be eligible to apply for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18809/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wanted to ask about the back to school clothing and footwear allowance. I have already heard the Minister state that it is going to be extended to people on the PUP. She might outline the way in which they might go about making the application and the timing in which they might get it. For some on the Covid payment this might be the first time they have applied. Will the social welfare...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures included in the July stimulus package to tackle youth unemployment and support young persons to return to the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18810/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a provision to exempt persons with small pension funds from the 4% drawdown requirement currently applicable to PRSA funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18729/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the further delay in leaving certificate results; if the delay will not negatively impact some university offers from the United Kingdom for students (details supplied); the communication she has had with the UK to ensure that students here are not disadvantaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18929/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work commenced in March 2020 on the development of interim guidance to support the teaching of social, personal and health education, SPHE, and relationships and sexual education, RSE, at primary and post-primary levels; the status of the guidance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to a person (details supplied); if the person is in receipt of the maximum level of support available under the HSE personal assistant service in view of the fact that the supports being received are shared with a sibling and that the current level of support will enable each of them only to shower and get dressed and do nothing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 929. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the prescription of Epilim to pregnant women will be reviewed; his views on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18148/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank our guests for attending and for the work they have been doing during this period. Will they outline the financial difficulties their organisations are facing? How many employees do the DAA and Shannon Group have at the Dublin and Shannon airports and how many of them are on the temporary wage support scheme? Have there been any job losses during the pandemic?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not want to seek to many details in the context of matters that are the subject of privacy. However, will Mr. Gray indicate the proportion of the cash reserves that has had to be used?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Both organisations pay significant amounts in rates. There is the rates waiver but I appreciate that it merely involves not incurring a cost rather than managing to achieve a saving.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to discuss some of the experiences within the airports, particularly Dublin. Other members will focus on Shannon and Cork. I am interested in the number of people who have been coming through Dublin Airport. Obviously, there has been an enormous fall-off in passenger numbers. From what locations have people been coming through the airport in the past couple of months? There are...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is that-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I apologise for interrupting. We are not in the same room so we cannot see each other. The number of people coming through per day was 600 to 700, so when did it increase to 15,000?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: So there are 200 flights per day at the moment and, by the sound of it, that has increased from two or three flights per day in June.