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Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for highlighting the issues to do with the cost and accessibility of childcare and the need to ensure early childhood educators have a decent salary scale. We also need to ensure the small to medium-sized childcare services run by more than 4,000 women across the country are sustainable in the medium to long term. That is not happening. The Minister made a good start...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: Today is the last day of the operation of the Leitrim community car scheme. It is run by the Leitrim Volunteer Centre out of Carrick-on-Shannon. It has more than 35 volunteer drivers and has transported 533 people in 14 months, 90% of them to hospital appointments in Sligo, Galway, etc. I raised this issue many times with the previous Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: 599. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the €110,000 which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for this new post; if he can confirm if unused funding from budget 2023 will carry over to 2024, while providing a timeline as to when the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: 600. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the funding which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit in conjunction with NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for these new posts; if he can confirm if unused...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: 639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a diabetes taskforce of relevant stakeholders to develop a national diabetes strategy that will ensure the provision of optimum care to every person with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42471/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: 640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding of €5 million available in Budget 2024 to enable increased access to continuous glucose monitoring for people with Type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: 641. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make Freestyle Libre intermittently scanned sensor technology available to all people with Type 1 diabetes, without age restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42473/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: 718. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding, if any, is available for a masters in child and adolescent therapy (details supplied). [42497/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the income threshold for fuel allowance for those in receipt of the living alone allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41939/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (27 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including all glaucoma eye drop medication in the long-term illness scheme for people with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41728/23]

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion to reverse planned fuel increases. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, knows that the planned fuel increases are driving up the cost of inflation. It is not just car owners and car drivers who will feel the pain. It is everybody because that means the cost of other products will increase. How much of an increase in...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: Given that many of these unregulated medical devices were used as early as 2021, has Temple Street hospital’s management given any explanation as to how this happened without its knowledge? This could not have happened without at least some members of a surgical team being aware of it. Has Temple Street conducted an internal review? We have its latest report, which is full of...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: My question is more about timing. This happened quite some time ago. Members of a surgical team had to have known. It could not have happened in front of their eyes without some of them knowing. Maybe management did not know. Has there been any review as to how this could have happened? Is the Minister just saying that the hospital is only reviewing the matter now?

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: Yes. I presume that information will come out. My next question in on the HPRA. It is the notified body and is in charge of what is happening. It is up to the HPRA to ensure the robustness of the supply chain. Has it started an investigation? Has it reported this breach to, for example, the European Commission? What is the HPRA doing? Is it updating any of its processes, including...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: The surgeon did not.

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: The process was not followed. In that context, is the HPRA going to notify the European Commission? Is it going to look right now at what happened to ensure it does not happen again? That is the HPRA’s responsibility as the notified body.

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: Like many of my colleagues, I also want to offer my sincere sympathy to the family of Dollceanna Carter and express my deep concern to the families of those children who find themselves in the middle of this medical crisis. Our role here today, of course, is to ensure that lessons are learned and that action is taken to fully implement those learnings. I listened to the Minister, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I again raise the issue of the urgent need to build a new Garda station in Sligo. While I know it is ultimately the responsibility of the Garda Commissioner, nonetheless a site was purchased by the Office of Public Works, OPW, and funding was put in place before the last election to build a station. Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal were all part of the same Garda division. The excuse given was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: He can do so in a moment.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures he and his Department are putting in place to deal with the student accommodation crisis in Sligo, due to the withdrawal of two student accommodation blocks from the market. [40622/23]