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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that will be taken to remedy the anomaly which prevents small businesses and companies which employ seasonal employees from availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11424/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to serious concerns relating to the quality of online classes being delivered by many English language schools as a result of social distancing measures, many of which are flagrant breaches of the interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP; if he will consider in conjunction with the Minister for Justice and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Foirne Scoile (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an gcinnteoidh sé nach gcaillfidh scoil (sonraí tugtha) an ceathrú múinteoir i Meán Fómhair 2020, ag féachaint go háirithe do na dualgais bhreise atá ar an bhfoireann scoile maidir le Covid-19; an ndéanfaidh sé é sin a dheimhniú don Phríomhoide chomh sciobtha agus is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 390. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of the inspection of an emergency direct provision centre (details supplied) on 5 June 2020; the findings of the inspection; the steps being taken on foot of the inspection; the person or persons who carried out the inspection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 391. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 20 November 2019, the number of applications received, granted and refused, respectively, for labour market access permission; the number in employment; the number residing in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11410/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 392. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated extra cost in 2021 of increasing the number of sworn gardaí to 15,000 by the end of 2021; the estimated cost in 2022 to increase the number to 15,585; the estimated cost in 2023 to increase the number of sworn gardaí to 16,200; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11412/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 680. To ask the Minister for Health when the statutory registration of psychotherapists and counsellors pursuant to S.I. No. 21 of 2019 of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 28A) (Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board) Regulations 2019 will commence; the body charged with such registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11416/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychotherapists and or counsellors registered pursuant to S.I. No. 21 of 2019 of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 28A) (Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board) Regulations 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11417/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 682. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that CORU is adequately funded to undertake its function as the body required to undertake the statutory registration of psychotherapists and counsellors under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (as amended); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 683. To ask the Minister for Health when breast and CervicalCheck screening services will be reinstated; the length of time for which they have been suspended; if the risk assessment conducted by the HSE on the postponement of these checks has been completed; if so, the findings; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11419/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 685. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2021 of increasing the annual general practitioner training intake to 305 in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11421/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 686. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of all vaccines; the vaccines included under the childhood vaccination programmes; the vaccines included under medical programmes; the cost of vaccines that require payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11422/20]

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

Catherine Connolly: 882. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken in respect of the crisis in the bus and coach sector arising as a result of Covid-19; if he has met with representatives of the sector; his views on the issues raised by the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11425/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 883. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a tender to construct a new national velodrome and badminton centre has been published; if so, when construction works will commence; the estimated duration of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11426/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 921. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11413/20]

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

Catherine Connolly: 1017. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost in a full year to provide two extra weeks of fuel allowance to persons in receipt of the allowance for those over 80 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Na hOileáin amach ón gCósta (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 1108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh beartas a fhorbairt do na hoileáin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [11414/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I want to zone in on the private and the public hospitals in Galway and their underutilisation. I welcome the decision to review the contracts in question at the end of June. I have raised it many times already. The Minister described the virus as a villain. I do not think it is helpful to contribute human characteristics to a virus. A virus is a virus. It is a matter of our reaction to...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: It took years to make the rehab unit state of the art. My own family benefited from it. It has been closed down to benefit the private hospital to justify the Minister's contract that we never saw because it is commercially sensitive. To try to understand this, really it is like something from Kafka. We put its public patients into a private hospital. It is mind-boggling. I am not here...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the clarification that there will be an independent monitoring body. I do not agree with the Taoiseach that A Vision for Change ran out. The date ran out - 2006 to 2016 - but the vision contained therein and the implementation, and what they set out on every sector, and the fact that it was a partnership with the community and with families, and to rebalance the power in the...