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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on extending the pandemic unemployment payment to those who were in full-time employment prior to the crisis and are now full-time carers as a direct result of the pandemic. [11528/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (16 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 1026. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide additional exceptional payments for carers to access equipment to enable them to safely and effectively work, for example, PPE and additional work clothing. [11530/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (16 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 1027. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance who have availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [11532/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 9 June 2020 and her contribution to the Dáil debate of 28 May 2020, if she will clarify the position regarding the future clawback of the pandemic unemployment payment (details supplied). [11533/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (16 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 1085. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on encouraging local authorities to suspend commercial rates for hotel and hospitality businesses when they are closed for the winter months; and his further views on providing local authorities with funding to make up a shortfall. [11546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 1112. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expected date non-resident travel to offshore islands can resume under the reopening roadmap. [11534/20]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: I am disappointed by the absence of tourism in the annual transition statement. An ambitious domestic tourism strategy could be environmentally and economically sustainable and has become urgent in light of the effects of Covid-19 on the industry. We need to enhance and incentivise domestic tourism for the next few years; it is the only way the industry will survive. Greenways,...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: I am not aware of that.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: To clarify, is that an acknowledgement that the Minister does not plan to reduce the emissions but just plans to work further on emissions efficiency?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: Does the Minister acknowledge that some food production sequesters carbon and that his statement that all food production increases emissions is actually incorrect?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: Crops, horticulture.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: In respect of overall reduction of emissions, which is what we are talking about, it is untrue to say that all types of food production will increase our greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: I have a statement and three questions for the Minister. Thus far, not only has the State’s response to the climate crisis been wholly inadequate, the manner in which it has been carried out has created fear. It has made farming and fishing communities fearful of climate action. I often end up asking the question as to whether farmers should be more worried about climate action or...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to convey the condemnation of persons here of the actions of the President of the United States of America and those that seek to fuel racial tensions and racial inequality in the United States of America and elsewhere. [10154/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the considerations or special exceptions that will be made when predicting grades for leaving certificate students that have had low attendance or struggled with class participation due to mental health related issues. [10147/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children and young persons travelling to primary school from offshore islands will be provided with adequate funding in line with the principles of the primary school transport scheme through a mechanism such as a remote area grant to ensure they are not disadvantaged in accessing their education. [10149/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of racial crimes and the rate of prosecution between January 2015 and December 2019, inclusive in tabular form. [10150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Growing for the Future document is still the strategic plan for the development of the forestry sector here. [10151/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 626. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding provided to volunteer centres in each local authority area to enable the community call scheme; and the amount returned by each volunteer centre in tabular form. [10153/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: 666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will not be subject to forms of clawback in the future. [10148/20]