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Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: As the Sinn Féin spokesperson on older people, I am delighted to speak in broad support of this motion, and I thank the Independent Group for bringing it before the House. According to the 2022 report by Age Action, “Reframing Ageing - The State of Ageing in Ireland 2022”, one in four adults in Ireland is aged 60 or older. When expressed in numbers, that is more than 1...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (9 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 24 April 2024, when exactly the monies under the ICT grant will be paid to schools that are now short on funds due to expenditure on ICT and special needs equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the urgent case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the position around any special conditions and planning requirements for log cabins in County Kildare. [20997/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to investigate the reason a person (details supplied) has had their carer’s allowance cut. [21000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 292. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the waiting times for appointments for the dermatology clinic in Peamount Hospital in Dublin. [20999/24]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this motion. A few short weeks ago amid the celebrations for the new Taoiseach, the Minister's Government colleague, Eamon Ryan, stated that the Minister had turned around the housing crisis. If by that he meant the Minister had turned it into a complete shambles, he was right. The figures do not lie. House prices are skyrocketing, with the price of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 24 April 2024, what steps she will take to speed up the late payment of the ancillary services grant and ICT digital strategy grant to schools that are out of pocket due to having bought such equipment, her response merely set out the details of the grants, and did not provide a date or commitment to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the length of time it is taking to complete new social housing applications in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19853/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the extraordinarily long time that it is taking to complete and award HAP applications, following approval for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19854/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a child (details supplied) is still waiting on an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19846/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 230. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify if he is aware that the owner of a property (details supplied), currently being used to house people seeking temporary international protection, is being paid the sum of €75 per person per night; to clarify if that is not the sum, if he will clarify the correct sum; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 320. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the current waiting times for home support in County Kildare; and the numbers of people waiting. [19847/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of shoulder surgeries carried out in St. James's Hospital in 2023. [19848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently waiting on gastric surgery in CHO7, in tabular form. [19849/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons there are only three adult beds for people with eating disorders in Ireland at the present; and the reason there was no funding provided for any of the past six years. [19850/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the current waiting time to receive mental health treatment in Lakeview Facility in Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19851/24]

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: The Ireland of today may seem to be a million miles away from the Ireland that the survivors of these institutions remember. This was the Ireland where, as children, their daily lives consisted of abuse, neglect and distress. They were shunned by society and failed by the State. That Ireland will not be gone, however, until the survivors get the recognition and redress they deserve. These...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: As Sinn Féin spokesperson for older people, I am delighted to take the opportunity to speak in support of this motion. I thank the Regional Group for bringing it before the House. In data compiled by the Central Statistics Office, a carer is defined as someone who provides unpaid assistance to others. Almost 500,000 people, women, men and incredible children under 15 years of age,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definite location for the proposed special school in County Kildare; the current status of the process; and the timeline for completion of same. [18220/24]