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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the contact tracing and follow-up situation for a person who is normally resident in Ireland, but flies into Belfast airport and travels across the Border; if this person will be followed-up by contact tracing teams based either in the north or the south of the island; if he is satisfied that the level of follow-up checks on those required to restrict their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the contact tracing and follow-up situation for a person who is normally resident in Northern Ireland, but flies into Dublin airport and travels across the Border; if this person will be followed-up by contact tracing teams based either in the north or in the south of the island; if he is satisfied the level of follow-up checks on those required to restrict...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage rate of passengers who received a follow-up phone call having previously completed the passenger locater form in October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons to date who have refused to complete the passenger locator form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40880/20]

Pre-European Council: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: In my contribution, I will raise the issue of vaccines and the recent positive news in that regard. I will also refer to Ireland's role on the European stage, and Europe's role on the global stage, in ensuring that, as a point of principle, nobody is denied free access to a vaccine based on location, financial means or any other discriminatory criterion. There have unfortunately been 1.4...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some employees of a company (details supplied) are still awaiting arrears to be paid for social welfare payments that they were prevented from accessing earlier in the year while on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; when these arrears will be paid; and if she will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairs Designate of the Road Safety Authority and Dublin Port: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: I wish Mr. Grant and Ms O'Donnell well. I have some questions for Ms O'Donnell. I welcome the push to recruit 80 additional driving testers but is it not the case that we have fewer driving testers employed today than we had on 31 December last year? The figures I have show that we had 145 testers at this time last year and that we now have 139. I heard the Minister of State say that 18...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairs Designate of the Road Safety Authority and Dublin Port: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: In fairness, these are essential workers. They are not mammies and daddies. Workers are entitled to some degree of dignity when they go to work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I wish them all well in their endeavours. I am sure they are in competition with each other, but from our perspective we would all like to see some degree of co-ordination and a successful outcome for the State and the country as a whole. I will direct my questions to Mr. O'Reilly. He has outlined the scale of the challenge. It seems quite a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: The Revenue Commissioners do not have staff on-site. Is Mr. O'Reilly asking Revenue to commit to having staff there 24-7?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: Better information and data about the processes are needed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she will address the shortage of secondary school places in County Meath ahead of the 2021-22 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus transport; the number of children accommodated in 2020 compared to previous years; and the efforts to address unmet demand notwithstanding the challenge of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38750/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of State investment planned for investment in offshore wind energy projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39778/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for State owned offshore wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39779/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current level of energy produced from offshore windfarms; the projected level of energy that will be produced from offshore windfarms in each year from 2020 to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39780/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated daily volume of demand for airport testing in Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports during December 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39913/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that arrived in Dublin, Cork and Shannon airport in each week from 1 November to 22 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39914/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the membership of the taxi advisory council; the number of vacancies at present; the method and expected timeline by which they will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Census of Population (1 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the 2016 population figures for County Meath are an appropriate population estimate to base the Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 on; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this could cause significant issues given the demographic changes in the county since 2016; and if he will make a...