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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out in tabular form, the number of employees of education and training boards working directly in the area of community education; the number of employees of education and training boards with the title of community education facilitator; the number of employees of education and training boards with the title of community...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the process he plans to undertake in the grade realignment of community education facilitators employed by education and training boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16736/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the issue that has arisen in relation to healthcare assistants who came to Ireland from abroad to work in nursing homes and in hospitals who have nursing level 7 or level 8 qualifications and who are now being told that the HSE will require them to hold a level 5 qualification despite the fact that they already hold the higher level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when final sanction will be issued to a school (details supplied) to build an additional urgently needed classroom for which all documentation has been submitted to her Department, a builder on standby to commence work and full permissions from planners received; if she accepts that any delay in providing this vital classroom will have a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the State pension entitlement of a person (details supplied) on a total contribution approach, having regard to all their paid and credited contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15048/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (28 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that funding under the mitigation against educational disadvantage fund will be made available this year for an important social project (details supplied); if he accepts that this project provides a valuable sports outlet and training for leaders and instructors to be self-sustaining over a period of years; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (23 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the recently purchased naval vessels from New Zealand will commence operation; the progress to date in obtaining a replacement flagship vessel for the L.E. Éithne; his view on the optimum number of naval vessels and naval personnel and his plans to achieve this objective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13682/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (23 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of functioning aircraft currently in service with the Air Corps; when additional aircraft will arrive and begin service here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13681/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total military provided accommodation available at present for Defence Forces personnel; the plans he has to extend this provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13683/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has any plans to review the triple lock process for authorising Irish military participation in overseas deployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the assistance provided to Turkey and Syria following the recent earthquake; the amount of aid that has been disbursed; the plans for further assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13612/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the government of Moldova; if any assistance has been offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13615/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of bilateral aid provided to Ukraine in 2022; the amount committed to in 2023; the additional supports or funds Ireland has made available this year; if he has sought an increase in assistance above the current allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he has put in place to ensure there are no delays to the issuing of passports this summer; the number of applications that are on hand at present; the current processing time for a passport application for an adult and for a child, respectively; the number of passports that have been issued in each month of the past year; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the current waiting times for applications to SEAI (details supplied); his plans to shorten the waiting time for applicants to SEAI for these urgent environmental works; the resources he will provide to SEAI to expedite these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 327. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the application of the rental tax credit, to ensure that the children of a property owner who are registered tenants in the property with the RTB paying a market rent, can avail of this credit on the same basis as any other renter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13140/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) who was denied a place on the school bus to their secondary school in 2022 although they availed of this bus for the previous three years, is provided with transport in the coming school year, which is their only means of getting to school; if she will review the circumstances of this case;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 946. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be put in place for CHO5; if funding has been allocated in 2023 to provide this service; when recruitment for this team will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13130/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a liaison public health nurse, LPHN, for the children's disability network team in Wexford will be provided; if he is aware that in the absence of this post, the home support resource manager is unable to provide home support workers for people in urgent need of this support; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1359. To ask the Minister for Health given the urgent need to fast track the re-build and restoration of Wexford General Hospital, and ensure that vital services are restored there as soon as possible, if he will use the powers available to him under Section 181(2)(a) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to remove the necessity to go through a planning process in the reconstruction of the...