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Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
164. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a space will be made available on the summer or July provision for a child (details supplied). [13029/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Health Services
Chris Andrews
428. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the protocol for Dublin City Council to contact the HSE pest control unit. [12937/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Health Services
Chris Andrews
429. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the approved contractors used by the HSE for pest control. [12938/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Health Services
Chris Andrews
430. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE pest control unit will not sanction the use of bait boxes for use in the Dublin City Council area in view of the fact it does so in other Dublin local authority areas; the person that makes the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12939/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Disability Services Provision
Chris Andrews
445. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health when services will resume for a child (details supplied). [13030/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Transport Policy
Chris Andrews
651. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if builders will be instructed to have caps fitted on the revolving drum of all cement trucks in order to prevent spillages (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12908/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Electric Vehicles
Chris Andrews
655. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if electric scooters are legal to use; if so, the locations in which they can be used;hisplans to make electric scooters legal; the timeline for legislation in relation to same; and ifhewill make a statement on the matter. [12695/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Childcare Services
Chris Andrews
766. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the management and owners of a childcare facility (details supplied) are asking parents if they want the facility to not comply with the public health requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13224/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Childcare Services
Chris Andrews
767. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a childcare facility can disregard the childcare health requirements in the provision of the service; if so, the consequences of a childcare facility that disregards public health requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13225/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Water Safety
Chris Andrews
869. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a commitment will be given to improve the methods of informing persons of do not swim notices along Dublin Bay following wastewater leaks; if the use of local media will be arranged to provide information of such a health warning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12906/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Homeless Accommodation
Chris Andrews
908. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is satisfied with the running and performance of private homeless hostels in view of evidence to show that some private homeless hostels do not Garda vet some staff, in view of the fact that legislation stipulates that persons working with children or vulnerable adults must be Garda vetted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13695/20]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
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Homeless Accommodation
Chris Andrews
909. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the hiring of staff for privately run homeless hostels without Garda vetting is an issue to which his attention has been drawn; the measures he plans to put in place that will prohibit such practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13697/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Passport Services
Chris Andrews
25. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Passport Office will be reopened for applications and urgent passport appointments; and the length of time an applicant will have to wait to receive a passport from the original date of application. [12046/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
160. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow autism classes to take place in schools that are in temporary accommodation. [11965/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
185. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request that schools in Dublin 2, 4 and 6 put in place classes for children with autism and make resources available for same if necessary. [12073/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
207. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a place on the summer provision scheme will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12209/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
224. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) will be granted special needs assistant support. [12337/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Visa Applications
Chris Andrews
308. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the restrictions on accepting new visa applications will be lifted. [11708/20]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
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Housing Assistance Payment
Chris Andrews
865. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the housing assistance payment; and when a decision will issue in relation to the case. [12066/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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International Relations
Chris Andrews
21. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the administration of the United States of America; and if he will write to President Trump outlining his condemnation of recent police action against civilians (details supplied). [10503/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Chris Andrews
42. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Finance if staff can remain on the temporary wage subsidy scheme as a transition or if they revert back to ordinary employment immediately. [10555/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
206. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in a process as part of the provisions under section 37A of the Education Act 1998, to ensure schools in the Dublin 2, 4, 6 and 6W areas open autism special classes and that it is implemented effectively to begin to address the imbalance and exclusion that persists. [10721/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Disability Support Services
Chris Andrews
465. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the supports planned for children with disabilities and their families that are suffering during the Covid-19 lockdown and require support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10507/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Trading Online Voucher Scheme
Chris Andrews
775. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there a shortage of funds for the trading online voucher; the funding allocated to the scheme; the amount allocated to each local enterprise board nationally for the scheme; and the reason so many persons are being refused funding through the scheme. [10992/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Waste Management
Chris Andrews
786. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the introduction of an annual grant for persons with lifelong and-or long-term medical incontinence that will help persons meet the average annual cost of disposal of incontinence products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10684/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Wastewater Treatment
Chris Andrews
1043. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the impact the raw sewage that is being released into the sea by the wastewater treatment plant in Ringsend is having on the water quality in Dublin Bay and the surrounding environment; and if the sewage releases from the wastewater treatment plant are contributing to the increase of the algae ectocarpus on Sandymount Strand in view of the fact it is not believable that the raw sewage released into Dublin Bay is having no impact on the environs. [10784/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Wastewater Treatment
Chris Andrews
1044. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has considered whether raw sewage being released into Dublin Bay has Covid-19; if there is a process for testing if it has Covid-19; and if the sewage can be tested if that is not already being done. [10785/20]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Chris Andrews
1053. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures put in place for those who were in the process of buying a home but now find themselves on the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [10621/20]
Tue, 9 Jun 2020
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Environmental Schemes
Chris Andrews
382. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the action he will take to set up a special unit in the environmental health department to help tackle a rat infestation in an area (details supplied); and if he will work with the unit to resolve this issue. [10074/20]
Tue, 9 Jun 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Chris Andrews
658. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be issued. [10038/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Ministerial Meetings
Chris Andrews
28. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the US Senate Majority Leader, Mr. Mitch McConnell to date in 2020. [9011/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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English Language Training Organisations
Chris Andrews
181. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers and students will be included as stakeholders in the active Covid-19 working group for the English language education sector (details supplied). [8589/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
189. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) will be awarded a SNA support. [8666/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Chris Andrews
453. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the benefits a business which is approved for the business continuity voucher receives for €2,500; the costs that the enterprise board incurs in delivery of the €2,500 grant for a business; and the amount mentors are paid per hour. [8840/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Chris Andrews
557. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be given an urgent date for an assessment of needs to be carried out by CAMHS. [8519/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
Chris Andrews
639. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the funding provided to each regional drugs and alcohol task force in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [9013/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Carer's Benefit
Chris Andrews
1067. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review application for carer’s benefit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8418/20]
Wed, 3 Jun 2020
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Data Protection
Chris Andrews
1109. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of personal information sharing and-or exchange between her Department and An Garda Síochána. [9012/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Special Educational Needs Staff
Chris Andrews
167. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if additional special needs assistants will be allocated to a school (details supplied). [7386/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Chris Andrews
175. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider offering children with disabilities a return to school before September 2020 as teachers are in place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7486/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Chris Andrews
182. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines schools and principals will receive in terms of public health safety before they return to reopen schools. [7529/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Chris Andrews
183. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects to be able to issue schools with public health requirement guidelines for the reopening of schools. [7530/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Chris Andrews
184. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills the additional funding resources schools will have in order to pay for the new public health and safety requirements they will have to implement. [7531/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Commercial Property
Chris Andrews
308. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the same protection for commercial tenants as for residential tenants in the context of recent evictions by landlords of businesses will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7489/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Chris Andrews
971. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the pandemic unemployment payment until August 2020 for persons that are not due to return to work until phase 5 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. [7759/20]
Wed, 27 May 2020
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Wildlife Control
Chris Andrews
1097. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the scientific grounds on which she refused to sign the derogation permit in 2020 which allows farmers to shoot pigeons as part of their crop protection. [7693/20]
Wed, 20 May 2020
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Special Educational Needs
Chris Andrews
158. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to consider an arrangement for children with extra needs, such as autism, to return to school between now and September 2020 as it would greatly benefit such children that rely on structure and normality. [5583/20]
Wed, 20 May 2020
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Long-Term Illness Scheme
Chris Andrews
718. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health if organ transplant patients are excluded from receiving medications under the long term illness scheme and the drugs payment scheme; and if so, if transplant patients that require life-saving drugs for the rest of their lives will be made eligible to receive their medication under these schemes. [6043/20]
Wed, 20 May 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Chris Andrews
743. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health if employees of a company (details supplied) are being treated in a hospital for Covid-19. [6211/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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National Office for Suicide Prevention
Chris Andrews
737. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Health the budget allocation for the National Office for Suicide Prevention in 2019 and 2020, respectively in tabular form. [5044/20]