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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine supports for the coach and transport sector (details supplied). [7690/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (11 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to invite service providers to provide their feedback and observations as part of the current review and evaluation of the AIM. [7685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (11 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the review and evaluation of the AIM will reconsider the qualification levels of AIM workers and SNAs for early years education (details supplied); and if the SNA course will qualify them for these positions, making it easier for early years providers to recruit and retain staff. [7686/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (11 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the review and evaluation of the AIM will explore an apprenticeship-style model of recruitment in the early years sector (details supplied). [7687/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 273. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to long-term dialysis patients in terms of their ranking in the groups for Covid-19 vaccination (details supplied); and if the group will be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. [7603/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (10 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 805. To ask the Minister for Health if first class pupils in County Longford who did not receive an appointment with the school dentist in 2020 due to Covid-19 will be facilitated in 2021 alongside 2020-21 first class pupils (details supplied). [6791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 857. To ask the Minister for Health if there are provisions to facilitate parents who have to accompany a child on a flight to the UK in the context of Covid-19 restrictions and polymerase chain reaction, PCR, test requirements (details supplied). [6987/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (9 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I am fine. I will let the others in.

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: A review is under way into the access and inclusion model, AIM, but we are unlikely to see an outcome from it for another two years. In the interest of vulnerable special educational needs, SEN, children in particular, it has to be fast-tracked. I am aware of an early age manager from County Longford who has been in touch with the Minister and the Department. She is desperately seeking...

Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Joe Flaherty: Covid has visited significant pressures on mental health services. For all of us, isolation and restrictions have been a considerable challenge, but for those battling their way through life, it has been nothing short of a nightmare. In August, I first spoke in the House about the following young constituent. His family desperately wanted to get him out of seclusion, but at the time, St....

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I acknowledge the major strides the Minister has made to date in the provision of housing. It remains the biggest challenge facing the country. Now more than ever, I am reassured and convinced that we will finally get to grips with this crisis with this Minister at the helm. I raise the issue of index-shared ownership loans. In the pre-2003 version of the shared ownership scheme, the...

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I also feel it is very important to send a message to the staff of the Department of Social Protection that underscores how appreciative we are as a nation of their tremendous work and commitment over the past ten months. While they are not directly on the battlefield, as such, they are very essential front-line workers and they responded tremendously to a national emergency, pulling out all...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of approved just transition projects given recent confirmation that the stipulations for drawing down funding requires the project promoters to provide an unrealistic 50% in match funding for projected project costs. [4839/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with the ESB and request that the €6 million earmarked from the company for the just transition funding will be ring-fenced and allocated directly to the 30 plus projects struggling to meet the matching 50% funding requirements under the draw-down criteria for just transition approved projects....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Health if all CHO8 staff involved in Covid-19 testing and swabbing and specifically at the Mullingar and Longford test centres have received the Covid-19 vaccination; and if not, when vaccination is planned for same. [4848/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that his Department monitors and tracks the development of the new drug omaveloxolone which presents the first real breakthrough treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia patients (details supplied). [4849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Colleges (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will insist on the suspension of the student placement component as part of the certificate in agriculture QQI level 5 and QQI level 6 courses in view of the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied). [4874/21]

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: The country is tired and weary as it looks to get past Covid. There is no doubt that the crisis has utterly transformed much of everyday life in Ireland. I am conscious and deeply appreciative that a range of supports have been put in place to support businesses throughout the lockdown and that, in the main, they are proving very effective. The reality, however, is that many businesses...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have applied for and are awaiting their driver theory test by county (details supplied); and the number waiting at 31 December 2019, 31 March 2020, 30 June 2020, 30 September 2020 and 31 December 2020, by county in tabular form. [4094/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for each county for the driver theory test from 31 December 2019 to end December 2020 by month. [4095/21]