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Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Value Added Tax
Brendan Griffin
300. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence in respect of the VAT rate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15227/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Value Added Tax
Brendan Griffin
301. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider temporarily reducing VAT on retail (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15233/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Waterways Issues
Brendan Griffin
325. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the undermining of a building by a river at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14976/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Tourism Policy
Brendan Griffin
331. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the plans for the remainder of the 2020 season in respect of Skellig Mhichíl, County Kerry in view of the acceleration of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business and the enormous economic boost to south County Kerry that reopening the site to visitors would bring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15186/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Departmental Properties
Brendan Griffin
339. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter regarding lands adjacent to a building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16107/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Planning Issues
Brendan Griffin
380. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will review restrictions on planning permissions for dwellings on the national secondary road network in instances in which the proposed dwelling would be located in an area of reduced speed limit such as 80 km/h (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15171/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Planning Issues
Brendan Griffin
391. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a decision has been made on a developer-provided infrastructure application for an estate (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14818/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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School Enrolments
Brendan Griffin
540. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14792/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Youth Services
Brendan Griffin
583. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing mediation services from her Department to help resolve a dispute (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15134/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Schools Building Projects
Brendan Griffin
586. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review and reform tendering criteria for new school building projects in view of the fact the current criteria effectively lock out many localised but capable building contractors as turnover requirements for previous years are set unrealistically high; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15156/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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School Staff
Brendan Griffin
594. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment service of a person (details supplied) will be included as pensionable service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15248/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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School Transport
Brendan Griffin
638. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if additional capacity and an extension of a post-primary school transport route will be sanctioned in respect of a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15592/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Brendan Griffin
705. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters raised in correspondence by an association (details supplied) in respect of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14755/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Brendan Griffin
716. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the applications will be available for the enterprise support grant for businesses impacted by Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14969/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Social Welfare Overpayments
Brendan Griffin
720. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount in illness benefit overpayments recouped in each of the years 2010 to 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14989/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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State Pension (Contributory)
Brendan Griffin
723. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the planned State pension (contributory) age increase to 67 years of age in January 2021 and 68 years of age in January 2028; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15010/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Brendan Griffin
734. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in respect of supports for seasonal workers who had not returned to work by the deadline in March 2020 and that face little prospect of employment for the remainder of 2020; if she is making provision for implications for 2021 due to the fact these workers are not currently in a position to pay stamps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15187/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
Brendan Griffin
771. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pandemic unemployment payment will be reinstated to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15579/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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State Pensions
Brendan Griffin
789. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a deferral of a State pension payment to a person (details supplied) in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be permitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16025/20]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
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Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
Brendan Griffin
803. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application for funding under the rural regeneration and development fund for a group (details supplied); if the current application will be considered for funding in a forthcoming tranche of the scheme; the reason for the failure of the application in the most recent round of announcements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15141/20]