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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1125. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that negotiations have broken down between the NTPF and some private nursing homes, thereby jeopardising continuing care for many residents; if there is scope for mediation or adjudication on the issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27224/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1126. To ask the Minister for Health if will outline the recent capital investments made in Beaumont Hospital; and the planned investments in the next five years, covering both buildings and additional equipment for diagnostics and treatment. [27228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1127. To ask the Minister for Health If she will outline the progress being made on a 2023 tender for home care services, and on the development of a statutory scheme for home care, which would bring equity and consistency into access; if she is aware of the frustration of some existing care providers on the continuous extension of the 2018 tender; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 1164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the planned developments in the DTSS; and whether discussions are under way with the profession to extend these services. [27575/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 47. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his ambitions for the development of GP care and the challenges in meeting them. [26595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined the impact of initiatives designed to respond to emerging skill needs, such as Springboard, Human Capital Initiative, and Skillnet; and the lessons that can be drawn for policy development from them. [26606/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to engage with key sectors, including the public service, in order to develop a single portal where people can not only get information about apprenticeship options, but apply to participate in a centralised recruitment process for such sectors. [26607/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the potential for alternative energy sources to be developed within local communities, or at the level of a small business or farm under the respective opportunities for solar, small-scale wind, anaerobic digestion, biofuels, and so on; if, in each case, he will outline the potential for energy...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase the capacity for trains to pass through Connolly Station, which is becoming a significant bottleneck in planning the expansion of Dart north and threatens the direct service from Howth to the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27038/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance if the new system whereby tenants deduct a withholding tax from their rental payments where the landlord is living overseas will be applied after the deduction of allowable interest and other chargeable costs; if not, how these legitimate reliefs will be recovered; and if the system has been trialled to ensure that landlords and tenants do not face...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Childcare Services (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the displacement on childcare places, as schools take back spare classrooms to accommodate ASD units and other school needs; the estimated scale of this displacement; and if she can draw up a plan with her colleague the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on how such inevitable changes can be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether there have been any prosecutions under incitement to hatred arising law from protests against asylum seekers; and when she intends that the new offences covering hate crime will be available to gardaí handling such challenges. [27035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a strategy is being developed to provide respite places for families caring for people with special needs, such as those within an organisation (details supplied) in north Dublin; if there are initiatives to ensure that such resources do not get removed to meet emergency situations which often arise; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received submissions raising concerns that future plans of the WHO in coordinating responses to pandemics might overreach the need for local national and community responses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27039/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Capital Expenditure Programme (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 77. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the likely priorities for the national development plan capital budget for childcare. [25581/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the roles which the new childcare development will play; and if it is intended that the programme board will have interim executive authority, pending the introduction of the legislation. [25580/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered extending the warmer homes scheme to persons living in Ireland who are in receipt of the fuel supplement from the British Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26174/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Complaints Procedures (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify whether procedures for the use of section 28 of the Education Act 1998 have been issued; if there are plans to issue them; and whether the lack of such procedures is hampering the fair handling of grievances that may arise in a school setting. [25586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate for each local authority, the number of expressions of interest to his Department; the number of applications; the number of approvals under the Affordable Housing Fund made to date; and the average payment per development undertaken. [25589/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate the number of expressions of interest, of applications and of approvals under the Croí Cónaithe Towns Fund for the development of sites. [25590/23]