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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date of the DNA working group established to consider the potential role of DNA in the context of the provision of the statutory tracing service under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department has taken to inform adoptees and mother and baby home survivors of any potential role for DNA technologies in tracing birth information, given the diverse levels of technological literacy across society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on how to approach birth information and tracing policy where a birth parent or other individual with access to relevant information is withholding information or otherwise failing to cooperate with an individual who is seeking out their birth information; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1269. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for a new company providing home support to be placed on the approved providers list in CHO6; if the tendering process only occurs once per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1300. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports that Covid testing laboratory staff employed by private providers were excluded from the Covid-19 recognition payment, although they carried out Covid testing on behalf of the HSE; if it was the deliberate policy of his Department or the HSE to exclude such workers; if so, to supply any details about how this policy was arrived...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1376. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the scopolinem patch; if there are plans to make it available for medical card users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12363/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1570. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has reviewed Water Safety Ireland's recommendations and compared them to those prevailing in Northern Ireland; if she plans to harmonise the lifeguarding season and equipment provisions between Ireland and Northern Ireland; her views on whether Northern Ireland's stringent lifeguarding recommendations play a role in Northern...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is the policy of Dublin Bus, the National Transport Authority, NTA, or any Transport for Ireland, TFI, bus operators to record bus drivers' bathroom breaks alongside identifying information; given the lack of bathroom facilities at some bus termini and the length of some bus routes, if he thinks such a policy is appropriate; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given the duty of care that bus operators have towards their employees, if he or the bus operators have considered the potential impact of any policy to record bus drivers' bathroom breaks alongside identifying information on the mental health of bus drivers on account of compromised privacy; if he or the bus operators have considered...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport which persons would have access to any identifiable records of bathroom breaks taken by bus drivers; what measures are in place to ensure that this access policy is adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11246/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to make bathroom facilities available for drivers at all bus termini; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her agenda for improving Ireland’s drowning rate, with regard to her responsibility for Water Safety Ireland; to provide details of any engagement with lifeguards and lifeguarding groups to this end; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her recent engagements with the board of Water Safety Ireland regarding recommended equipment guidelines for lifeguarding that it issues to local authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 27 February 2024, how Irish medical volunteers can offer their services specifically to communities of individuals displaced from Gaza to third countries, for example, Egypt; the steps his Department will take to assist individuals or groups who contact them expressing an intention to do so;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 27 February 2024, if he is aware of an offer by a group which has a team of over 20 highly qualified specialist doctors, licensed and experienced in various medical fields in Dublin, ready to volunteer their services to communities displaced from Gaza into third countries, for example, Egypt...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 27 February 2024, if his Department has considered the direct deployment of Irish medical personnel in the region, including supporting or facilitating volunteer aid from Irish individuals; what in-kind and personnel contributions Ireland has made for same to European bodies for the purposes of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Woodbrook rail station will be opened and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a State funded event (details supplied) is issuing consent forms to parents of children participants and attendees which states that the consent form is for filming and photography with wide usage allowed for third parties of which include commercial and non-commercial partners; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality which visas are most suitable for Palestinians in Gaza to apply for in order to be permitted to enter Ireland; which visas are most suitable specifically for those with no family here, but who have previously resided in Ireland and for family members of such individuals; her Department's current policy on approving visa...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the form of redress that is available to former residents of an orphanage (details supplied) given reports of abuse and its exclusion from the mother and baby homes redress scheme (details supplied); whether the confessional character of the orphanage has played a role in the State's attitude towards liability...