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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That could happen on Friday. That is what they are looking for and that is what will prevent industrial action.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 83. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health doctors required and the number of these posts which will be at consultant level in respect of his undertaking to increase the numbers of public health staff; his plans in respect of the recruitment of additional public health nurses; his plans in respect of other public health staff; and the timeframe to which he is working for...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Prior to Covid, most people had not heard of public health doctors, although they did essential work in terms of population health, prevention, screening, vaccinations and all of that key work. Since Covid, many of them have been occupied entirely with critical Covid work. At the same time, they have been treated as the poor relation of medicine. It is now time to address that and to fund...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That all sounds fine. The reality, however, is that the discussions with the Department have not been successful. The Minister is talking about a framework which is all fine. We need commitments on this, however. Ireland is an outlier. There are 72 public health doctors who are specialists. They have the same qualifications as all other consultants and yet they are the only specialty...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 195. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if essential retail outlets that also sell non-essential goods must close those departments and sections of their store that would be deemed non-essential under level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33211/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for Covid-19 testing at ports and airports; and the timeframe to which he is working. [33916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the position regarding driver lessons during the Covid-19 emergency period level 5 restrictions; if persons including essential workers and family carers going for driver tests during the restrictions can go ahead and take their lessons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33045/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers arriving into Ireland on a weekly basis from 5 October 2020, by country of departure including seaports and airports in tabular form. [33894/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 389. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to the disabled drivers scheme and the VAT and VRT off the fuel for scheme recipients if a disabled driver purchases an electric car; if they will receive their VAT rebate if their car is powered on electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33440/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 439. To ask the Minister for Finance the recent discussions between him, his officials and banks regarding the fact that mortgage applicants who are in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme are having their mortgage applications turned down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33403/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 451. To ask the Minister for Finance if employees in relation to recent changes around tax relief for those working from home were able to claim the daily rate of €3.20 as a remote worker in which the employer was not paying this directly to them has ceased since the introduction of new regulations; if this is the case, if remote workers are eligible to apply for the daily rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 452. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis on the changes in tax rebate policy for eworkers and home workers in relation to the rules in place from March to October 2020 and then from October going forward to ascertain whether this would result in a negative change for families’ financial positions; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 6 October 2020, if he will reconsider granting an order to extend planning time periods in view of the introduction of level 5 restrictions nationwide. [32616/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position on his Department’s instructions to local authorities regarding applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan who are on the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33404/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the tenant purchase scheme review; his plans to amend the scheme to allow tenants in homes classed as apartments and duplexes to avail of tenant purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the lack of educate together school places to serve families in the Finglas, Dublin 11 area; the steps she will take to address same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has issued advice to primary school principals instructing them that if a child must isolate on grounds of the Covid-19 emergency period public health advice and is continuing to do their school work at home, that they would no longer be marked present on the school’s roll book, but instead should be marked...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing the rules around maternity benefit in order that persons that have been on jobseeker’s benefit payment since before the beginning of the Covid-19 emergency period can have the same rules applied to them as applies to recipients of Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability claim which has been upheld on appeal by the social welfare appeals office (details supplied) will go into payment; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33441/20]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1115. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance in filling out the passenger locator form on a weekly basis from 5 October 2020; the number of forms which were correctly and incorrectly completed on a weekly basis; and the number of persons that refused to fill out the form on a weekly basis, in tabular form. [33892/20]