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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Joe O'Brien: I understand that 2020 has been a very difficult year for fundraising across the community and voluntary sectors. My Department has been at the forefront of providing supports to community organisations to help them through this time. A €50 million support package for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Charities and Social Enterprises was launched by Government and is...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Services Programme, or CSP, supports more than 420 community organisations to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP funding is provided as a fixed annual contribution towards the cost of an agreed number of full-time equivalent (FTE) (€19,033) positions including a manager (€32,000), where appropriate. Almost €49m is available to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for sports clubs and leisure centres which operate bars and restaurants on their premises to apply for the Covid restrictions support scheme for those businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1268/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to ensure that banks are not implementing unreasonably punitive measures on businesses that are struggling as a result of enforced closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic especially in relation to loan repayments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1269/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 242. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the Covid restrictions support scheme limit from €5,000 considering the recent move to level 5 and in view of the fact that the €5,000 limit is not sustainable for many medium sized businesses. [1273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has re-engaged with a group (details supplied) in relation to the introduction of a further payment break for borrowers in view of the decision by the European Banking Authority to reactivate its guidelines on legislative and non-legislative moratoria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Protection Areas (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details on monitoring of the Malahide Estuary special protection area 004025 that has taken place in the past five years to ensure compliance with S.I. No. 285 of 2011 since it was enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1267/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the current commercial rates waiver into 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1274/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Issues (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 368. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the decision of the European Council to add two Iranian persons and the directorate for internal security of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the EU terrorist list in the measures set down in common position 2001/931/CFSP in January 2019; the measures Ireland has...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 371. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who has been detained for acts of peaceful protest against the regime in Belarus; the measures the State is taking to opposing ongoing human rights abuses by Belarus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44941/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Accommodation (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of permanent buildings for two schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44844/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Examinations (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to implementing an optional predicted grades system for the 2021 leaving certificate in view of the likely disruption to schooling that Covid-19 will cause in the short-term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, Community Employment (CE) supervisors and assistant supervisors have been seeking for several years, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors who are employed by CE schemes.   CE sponsoring authorities are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) Scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. Throughout the onset of the Covid-19 emergency in March 2020, the subsequent level-5 restrictions introduced...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) Scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. CE participants aged 55 years or older can remain on CE for three consecutive years (four years for those on a disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) Scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. Participation limits on these schemes are necessary to allow for the maximum utilisation of places amongst qualifying persons....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 683. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been refused leave to land at all ports of entry to the State since March 2020, by month in tabular form. [44828/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been remanded to the Irish Prison Service while awaiting removal from the State, not including persons awaiting extradition since March 2020, by month in tabular form. [44833/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community and Voluntary Sector Covid-19 Stability Fund was intended to be a targeted once-off cash injection for organisations and groups currently delivering critical front-line services to the most at need in our society and in danger of imminent closure due to lost fund-raised or traded income as a direct result of restrictions to counter the spread of COVID-19. The criteria of the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I am aware of the challenges faced by many community organisations at this time and my Department has put a range of initiatives in place that provides supports to the community sector during the COVID-19 crisis. My Department currently supports over 420 community organisations under the Community Services Programme (CSP) to provide local services through a social...