Results 141-160 of 815 for speaker:Réada Cronin in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to waive taxation arising out of the pandemic unemployment payment given the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic and the consequent sacrifice and financial suffering endured by persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8832/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will extend over a suitably long period the amount of extra taxation due over pandemic unemployment payments to assist workers and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8833/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to protect consumers in relation to the matter of banks (details supplied) giving notice that negative interest rate charges are to apply to solicitor client accounts in conveyancing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8929/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the necessary review of HAP rates will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff and ancillary agency staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8831/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland’s seat on the UN Security Council and reputation on international aid will be used to secure the health of the interconnected world by spearheading and championing the swift distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to poorer countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8834/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid and the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment to date; the amount that has been overpaid; the number of persons who have been overpaid; the systems in place to assist persons to repay possible overpayments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8837/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8838/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authority workers who can work from home are being facilitated in that matter; the checks he has put in place to verify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9307/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the systems in place under the Covid-19 national vaccination strategy to address conscientious objection by doctors to vaccine administration; the reassurances his Department can give patients that this not-unexpected development has been factored into the planning, delivery and communication of that strategy; the guarantees he can give persons that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the public information strategy in place or planned to address comprehensively the safety issues raised in conscientious objection by doctors in order to maximise public trust and public confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines for the best possible public health outcome in the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9067/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to doctors here refusing to refer patients for Covid-19 testing due to deeply held beliefs regarding the virus; the public health systems in place to address a possible refusal to refer patients for testing for any disease on a personal belief basis, including for a virus causing a pandemic; his views on whether a refusal to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have notified his Department, the HSE or other relevant body of their intention not to vaccinate patients against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9069/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the risk assessment that was presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet with regard to building sites and Covid-19 transmission; if a cost-benefit analysis of closure was undertaken and presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet; the information on which public health officials work in relation to Covid-19 transmission in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to support future educators and students on the professional masters of education in primary teaching at a college (details supplied) who are excluded from the Gaeltacht and other grants allowed to their counterparts at State institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific and medical basis on which the safe reopening of schools is being planned while the State is recording high levels of infection and with the new UK variant being dominant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has been liaising with the Department of Health regarding the safe reopening of schools; if it is the date or infection rate regarding the new UK Covid-19 variant dominant that is guiding the reopening decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the frequency with which decisions on school closures are reviewed; if her Department is considering an alteration and extension of the school calendar in the context of the disruption due to the pandemic with the aim of maximising in-school presence and learning; if teachers will be prioritised for vaccination to facilitate reopening and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the new UK Covid-19 variant is being assessed in her plans to reopen schools safely; if she will publish information in order to give parental and teacher comfort and public confidence in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in her plan to reopen schools, she is regarding them as a separate virus ecosystem unrelated to their place and import within the community and to virus transmission rates therein; if not, if the reopening is being assessed in the wider community and viral context, particularly with the UK variant being dominant; and if she will make a...