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Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I wish to ask the Minister about current waiting lists for homecare packages. All Members know the importance of keeping older people and those with underlying health conditions safe in their homes. Where possible, we must ensure that they receive an appropriate level of care at home to meet their needs. Nobody should ever be left waiting for homecare when they have been deemed to need it,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for leaving certificate students that are repeating the year in circumstances in which they have studied some subjects outside of school and had intended to sit exams in those subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for leaving certificate students that are repeating the year in a new school; if advice will be sought from their former school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the July provision; if it is still planned to go ahead; if so, the arrangements that are being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for homecare packages in each county in tabular form. [6171/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 733. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the use of interpreters as part of contact tracing efforts for workers with different nationalities that are working in meat processing factories to ensure that those workers, their families and communities are protected and that language is not a barrier. [6172/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 tests which have taken place to date at hospitals (details supplied); the average waiting time for test results from the hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6173/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 1026. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when VRT offices will re-open to the public in order to allow persons to finalise the sale of vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6473/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 1042. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support local sporting organisations and clubs with funding or grants as a result of Covid-19. [6646/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 1269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6589/20]

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I contacted the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine on 4 May, having been contacted by a constituent who was worried sick for her elderly parents who lived near a meat processing plant, given rumours at that time of positive cases in the plant. The Minister's response was to take a total hands-off approach. He stated in his correspondence to me, and has stated a number of times...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I wish to raise several issues affecting Bord na Móna workers. I raised some of these issues with the Minister by email at the end of April. At that time, between 190 and 230 Bord na Móna workers were laid off due to the impact of Covid-19. That was the reason given to employees in Bord na Móna's direct communication with them. At that time, they put some workers on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied) for a pension abatement waiver submitted in July 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7522/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils necessary in a primary school in order for an English As An Additional Language educator to be employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7936/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the July provision to take place in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7937/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be put in place to clear homecare waiting lists in order to keep persons at home during Covid-19; and the number of persons waiting for homecare packages. [7900/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 594. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Civil Defence which was transporting swabs from designated areas to laboratories (details supplied) and to laboratories in University College Dublin on a voluntary basis has been replaced with a new company which will transport the swabs at a cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7901/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 984. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available to employees that are expected to return to work in cases in which the work cannot be done from home and they cannot access childcare due the fact crèches are closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7898/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment should sign on for credits to ensure that they do not lose out during time out of work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7939/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: 1029. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants available to families that have a family member with a life-long disability to allow them to adapt their home aside from the housing adaption grant available through county councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7899/20]