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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1735. To ask the Minister for Health the funding spent to date on the national maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1939. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to easing hospital visitation restrictions for long-term patients given the high levels of vaccination against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35911/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 1949. To ask the Minister for Health the variance to the budget of the new national maternity hospital by expense category in tabular form in view of the reports that the hospital is set to cost €800 million up from the original estimated cost of circa €150 million. [35966/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 2859. To ask the Minister for Health the effect the Galway races have on the vaccination programme based at the Ballybrit vaccination centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 2898. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the children’s disability network team for CHO2 – 6; if it is set to go ahead in 2021; the timeframe for it; if it is not going ahead, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 2978. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of the main lead paediatric pain consultant roles in Children’s Health Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39768/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Hopefully, in the post-Covid world, we will try to rebuild the economy on a regionally balanced basis and people who have moved back into rural areas as a result of Covid-19 will contribute to that. Community wealth-building and the inclusion of social clauses would be key to that. It is something I have an interest in and, as the Minister said, if we spend public money, it should have a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: In public procurement, social clauses are legal obligations which require contractors to create some form of added value as part of the contract. That can come in the form of labour activation, promoting the participation of SMEs, an obligation to provide a living wage and so on. What consideration has the Minister's Department given to the role that social and labour procurement clauses...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I am aware the Minister's Department has done work on social clauses. It is one of only seven Departments to have done so. The Minister has mentioned the involvement of social enterprises in the provision of sensory facilities and equipment in public libraries. I welcome and acknowledge that. I also acknowledge that a public body under the Minister's Department, Pobal, has also done work...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a support package for sheep farmers on animal welfare grounds. [38162/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of workers in section 39 agencies that are currently earning below the living wage; and the estimated annual cost of bringing them in line with this. [32879/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh. Go raibh maith agaibh na hAirí chun teacht chuig an gcoiste seo. We are short on time so I will focus on two questions. Would the Chair prefer if I asked the two questions together?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I refer to page 31, table 6, on the budgetary projections for 2020 to 2025. Specifically, I am looking at the capital spending as per the stability programme update, SPU, and the summer economic statement, SES. I notice that next year the difference in capital is only €800 million over what the SPU had projected. We are all aware that it took additional time for this summer economic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I have one more question, but I will comment on that response. I hope Housing for All is ambitious and that I will be shocked when I see it and that it will be positive. The reality is that people are desperate. We had a situation Galway city where, for six-year period, not a single house was built by Government. I am aware that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Go raibh maith agaibh. There are only two minutes left in the meeting, so there is no point me starting to ask another question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Chronic underfunding in our health service left us on the back foot when it came to this pandemic. We recently heard that there is no date in sight for when a planning application might be lodged for the new accident and emergency department at University Hospital Galway, UHG. In the past two weeks, UHG has consistently been the most or second most overcrowded hospital in the State. We...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: There is no date for the new accident and emergency department for the hospital.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons whose driver theory tests have been postponed multiple times; his views on whether this is fair; if a person (details supplied) in such circumstance could be permitted to sit their test at the earliest possible opportunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....