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Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 620. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce changes to abortion procedures here to provide for pain relief in late-term abortions, medical treatment for abortion survivors and palliative care for abortion survivors; and if he will seek to make the procedure somewhat humane. [39535/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 680. To ask the Minister for Health the body that will be carrying out the inquiry into the use of the epilepsy drug sodium valproate; and if he will provide the terms of reference for that enquiry [39836/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of miscarriages recorded in Ireland in each of the years 2015 to 2019; and if the number or rate of miscarriages is an outlier in terms of other EU or European countries. [40191/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 732. To ask the Minister for Health if an investigation into the number of miscarriages in Ireland has taken place; if these investigations have taken place on a purely case by case basis; and if a review of underlying factors across a number of cases has taken place. [40192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 733. To ask the Minister for Health if responses, policies or initiatives have been implemented by his Department to reduce the number of miscarriages by Irish women; if so, the details of same; and the success of same. [40193/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to investigate the death of a person (details supplied) by his Department or the organisations that report to his Department. [40374/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (1 Dec 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 766. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 25 November 2020, if all 100 of the ministerial notifications received by his Department of terminations carried out here under section 11 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in the year 2019 contained signatures from two medics as required by the Act (details supplied). [40422/20]

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister's response contradicts the behaviour of the Chief Justice and other Supreme Court judges previously who have gone to the Government demanding that it fill positions within the Judiciary. It is not feasible for the Minister to say that she was not asked to fill a role. The Minister is driving the Department. It is the Minister's decision and responsibly to fill that role and...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: We are not being given any qualitative criteria because there are none. It is as simple as that. It is not difficult to understand at all. How many candidates did the Minister consider for the role?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: There were three lists. I wanted to ask how many candidates the Minister considered for the role because we want to bring transparency to this process and if we do not know how many candidates were considered, it is not transparent. The Minister mentioned people who expressed an interest. Outside of them, there was another list of judges who are available and have the experience to do the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not practice to have clarity on this process and one of the reasons we are here is to change that practice. The Minister said on our local radio station recently that she was only asked to fill one Supreme Court position. Who asked her to do that?

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: The Chief Justice asked the Minister to only fill one particular role on the court. Is that correct? Given that there are thousands of cases in the system, increasing by the year, and that the courts system is underpowered as regards judges, it is very hard to understand why, with multiple applicants and access to different lists, the Minister would not fill more than one position on the...

Judicial Appointments Process: Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: Everybody listening to this debate at home will be familiar with the recruitment process for a job and most will have been through some type of recruitment process in their own work. Everybody understands that a recruitment process should be fair, open and transparent and that the person with the best knowledge, experience, character and skill should be selected for the job. We live in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider offering psychological supports and counselling to women who have had abortions and to doctors and medics who have performed abortions, given the findings of a study (details supplied). [38952/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ministerial notifications he has received under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if all ministerial notifications that identify the termination of pregnancy as having taken place under section 11 of the Act had, at the time of receipt by him, been signed off by two medical practitioners. [38953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been contacted by doctors or medics who have expressed concerns regarding failed, botched or unsuccessful abortions; and if so, if he will detail the nature of that correspondence. [38955/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (25 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have been contacted by doctors or medics who have expressed a concern regarding conscientious objection; the details of these concerns; and the quantity of correspondence received on this matter since the rollout of abortion in January 2019. [38956/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to each local authority and to approved housing bodies to construct social housing for persons with disabilities; and the amount provided to each local authority for each of the past five years. [38636/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to face discrimination relating to housing and they are 1.6 times more likely to live in poor conditions. They live in damp housing and housing that lacks central heating and they also live in areas with significant problems. A total of 25% of people forced to live homeless on our streets have a disability. This is a rate far higher...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: It is important to look at the facts. Between 2,000 and 4,000 people with disabilities are living in congregated settings with ten or more people. This is before we look at the hidden homeless, who are people with disabilities living in the homes of family or friends. Many of them have no expectation of independent living because of the fact those homes may not be suitable for them. ...