Results 221-240 of 3,599 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if details of the academic year 2019/2020 class sizes are available; if not, the timeline for when they will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19377/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 7 July 2020, if information is now available with regard to the impact of Covid-19 on the school building programme; the extent to which the programme will experience delays; the number of schools by county that will not have their school building programme finished in time for September 2020; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special units requested for County Wicklow in each of the past five years; the details of the schools that made these requests; the locations in which these units have been approved in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19458/20]

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

Jennifer Whitmore: 223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the issue of a cut to the pandemic unemployment payment for a self-employed person (details supplied) who was of the view that the 2018 returns would result in a full payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if crèches are obliged to refund fees paid by parents for the two weeks during which there was no service since 17 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 255. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Crowe report will be published and made available; the reason for the delay in publication to date despite the fact that it has been cited as a document that will inform decisions made regarding the childcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19443/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 256. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a costings process has been carried out on the provision of State-funded insurance for the childcare sector; if his Department has carried out a risk analysis; if so, the findings of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (29 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that LocalLink has refused a request to marginally alter its bus route to include direct provision residents in a centre (details supplied); if her Department provides transport provision for these residents; if not, the way in which it is expected that residents can travel to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: The programme for Government "seeks to move beyond division and discord and find shared solutions". The Social Democrats have committed to providing a constructive Opposition in this Dáil term. It beggars belief that the Government has come together as one with Sinn Féin to exclude voices of the Social Democrats, Solidarity-People Before Profit and Independent groupings from the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is undemocratic and unfair. It is very disappointing that Sinn Féin has joined the Government on this front.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is important that we can all represent our constituents. We cannot be squeezed out of our speaking time. I ask that the Tánaiste and Sinn Féin reconsider this decision because it does not bode well for the future of this term if dissenting or Opposition voices will be squeezed out of the discussion.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will expand the national childcare scheme to include children with varying degrees of disadvantage currently outside the definition of extreme vulnerability to ensure that specific, ring-fenced evidence-based supports are provided for in childcare settings to children in disadvantaged communities. [22248/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of GDP that he hopes to achieve in terms of investment by the end of the term of this Government in line with the programme for Government commitment to increase investment in early years and school age childcare; and if he will increase investment year-on-year to achieve this goal. [22247/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Tests (8 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 47. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if rapid testing for Covid-19 will be arranged for childcare sector workers in line with testing arrangements for teachers and staff in schools. [22246/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the arrangements being made for the childcare sector in circumstances in which staff are tested positive for Covid-19 and substitute staff will be required to maintain the child ratios. [22249/20]

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

Jennifer Whitmore: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the designated cycling officers in each local authority; the official contact details of each; the suitable qualification for the role; the form of coordination, communication and reporting that will be carried out between his Department and the cycling officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22190/20]

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

Jennifer Whitmore: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the details of the commitment to adopt a high-quality cycling policy including assessments of the roads network will be provided by county; and the progress to date in the development of cycle network plans by each local authority. [22191/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clarification will be provided on limits for indoor and outdoor classes; if the same limits apply, if these classes are held as part of a gym complex as the indoor and outdoor limits for yoga, pilates, ballet and dance classes in view of recent health guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22192/20]

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

Jennifer Whitmore: 239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will introduce to address the lengthening waiting lists for driver tests in County Wicklow; the waiting by county for August 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22204/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 376. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if clarity will be provided for videographers and photographers on the most recent HSE guidelines within the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22184/20]