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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I am stepping in for Deputy Haughey.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (3 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: My apologies; I thought a message had gone to the Chair. The mental health Bill which the Minister of State is working on will be the first in two decades. I seek a progress update on it. What are the Minister of State's thoughts on the legislation? I would like information on the resourcing plans to go with it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (3 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I want to acknowledge the Minister of State's work on this and in the whole area since she took up the role. Since 2001, there has been a sea change around the understanding, treatment and acceptance of mental health issues. We still have a long way to go but let us hope that the legislation reflects that sea change, the change in treatments and the fact that people have greater power and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (3 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister of State's clarification but I think it should be specific to particular scenarios and not a general policy. We have all seen Bills pass through with the best of intentions. Will the money go with the Bill? I know the Minister of State secured huge investment in mental health through the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, in last year's budget. Have those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (2 Dec 2021)

Dara Calleary: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to the proposed National Maternity Hospital; if he will respond to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59539/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made under the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 to promote access in apprenticeship for traditionally under-represented groups including women, migrants, those with disabilities and mature applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the take-up of the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme; the details of the new grant for employers of apprenticeship participants who are not benefitting from direct off-the-job training allowance payments as announced in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for improvements to an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit and improvements to a sensory room at a school (details supplied) is been processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58281/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific arrangements he is putting in place to assist childcare operators in the voluntary and in the private sectors to manage the current phase of Covid-19 and Covid-19 regulations and the consequences for staff in their operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58798/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 519. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dentists who currently as of 22 November 2021 provide treatment under the medical card scheme in counties Mayo, Galway, Sligo and Roscommon in particular emergency treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58349/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 687. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline and the process for the proposed review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the proposed methods for public input; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58963/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that three trees per hectare is all that is being considered with regard to tree planting in the new CAP 2023-2027; his views on whether this will assist Ireland in meetings its climate change commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58253/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether CAP 2023-2027 is an ideal opportunity to incentivise afforestation to meet both the Programme for Government, Food Vision 2030 and the Climate Action Plan Afforestation targets which have not been met for many years due to the exclusion of afforestation from CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 743. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has declined to introduce the urgently required frost recon scheme to support owners of woodlands affected by detrimental frost damage that has been the subject of many Parliamentary Questions over the past number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58255/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: We touched on the changes to the means test for carer's allowance earlier and I wish to probe those further. How many extra will qualify and how many extra existing carers will qualify for the increased payment the Minister referred to earlier? Given the crisis in caring at present with regard to getting people into caring, has the Department any plans to promote these changes?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: There was a great deal of information in that. I acknowledge that substantial changes have been made for carers, particularly with the carer's allowance. I welcome those but to quote a phrase that was previously used in these premises, "A lot done. More to do.". The work that carers are doing is extraordinary, particularly at present when it is very difficult for people to get carers even...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: I was not intending to come in on this question, but I get really frustrated at the narrow view of the Department that CE is an active labour market programme. It is much bigger than that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: Those on the scheme may not participate in what the Department defines as the active labour market, but they are providing a service to their community and they have a purpose in their life. In that context, we need to look at the six-year rule. We need to look at the services being provided. If there is that level of vacancies within CE at the moment, that means that services are not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who no longer qualify for the fuel allowance due to their living circumstances changing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and relatives returning to live with them due to care services closing, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the strategy for the procurement of public employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58002/21]