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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 783. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver on the promise that dentists in independent practice would be provided with personal protective equipment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to the fact dentists have to finance the additional PPE costs, over 200 dentists have decided to resign from the medical card scheme since the start of 2020 with serious...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (24 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment such as former workers of a company (details supplied) who have no prospect of returning to their previous employment, are entitled to access further education and training courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26031/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (23 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 198. To ask the Minister for Health when the threshold for the drugs payment scheme will be changed from €124 to €114 per month as promised in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (22 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when invalidity and similar payments will return to weekly payments as opposed to fortnightly payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25367/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 730. To ask the Minister for Health when dupilumab will be made available for reimbursement in for persons with eczema; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24868/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (17 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the implementation of the Labour Court recommendation that community employment supervisors should be entitled to a pension or gratuity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24499/20]

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: I am sharing time with Deputy Cahill. I welcome this debate which is taking place in the run-up to the budget, which will, presumably, represent the next instalment of Government measures to alleviate the impact of Covid-19. Covid-19 does not discriminate between individuals but it does have a profoundly different affect on different sectors of the economy. In terms of our economy, the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Limerick City Council will be granted an additional three month extension in regard to the July stimulus funding provided to it by the NTA for €10 million which has to be allocated by November 2020. [24278/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (15 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 853. To ask the Minister for Health when restrictions will be eased at maternity hospitals to allow the birth partners of expectant mothers to attend antenatal appointments and early labour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24139/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (15 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there will be no need for increased incineration facilities here in view of his announcement of ambitious new targets to tackle waste and move towards a circular economy, including a shift in focus away from waste disposal and treatment; if, as a result of the new measures, the application for a licence to allow...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons presently in receipt of EWSS; if the Government is prepared to re-examine the conditions for eligibility to EWSS in view of the many critical comments regarding the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23723/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Low Pay Commission (15 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the design implementation and the evaluation of the universal basic income pilot committed to as part of the request to the Low Pay Commission to examine universal basic income committed to under the Programme for Government. [23939/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 747. To ask the Minister for Health when the order will be signed to allow the proposed increase in the weekly gross medical card income limits for those over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23809/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (8 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to change the small public service regulations to accommodate persons whose SPV expires to include persons whose licence expires after 31 December 2020 in view of the adverse impact which Covid-19 has had on their businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21829/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Travel Trade Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been contacted by an association (details supplied) regarding the impact which Covid-19 has had on its business; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it has requested that the temporary wage subsidy scheme be retained at the rate of €350 per week for its employees; if he will consider special arrangements for the business in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gambling Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the licence for on-course bookmakers by year in view of the large loss in income they have sustained as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21560/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the hiring of extra school buses by her Department due to Covid-19 will be under the same terms and conditions including payment as applies to the existing school transport fleet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21723/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reconsider the policy of ceasing the pandemic unemployment payment and other social welfare payments in cases in which the recipients have travelled abroad for non-essential purposes in view of the serious concerns raised by civil liberties organisations and the Data Protection Commissioner; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (8 Sep 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the State pension (contributory). [21247/20]