Results 821-840 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO3; the corresponding figures for each area at the end of June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for homecare support in each local health office area in CHO3; the corresponding figures for each area at the end of June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 255. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50359/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council of Ireland is refusing to give full registration to previously registered music teachers unless they do a postgraduate diploma in further education at significant cost to the persons concerned; her views in whether these already highly qualified persons should not lose their posts with music schools, such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who applied for the working family payment received an email confirming that they were entitled to €114 per week and the following day received an email stating that they did not qualify for the payment; the legislation which defines the term dependent child for the purposes of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 781. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are only three neurology nurse specialists based at the mid-west regional centre for neurology in UHL instead of the recommended 11; his plans to deal with this shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50686/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 838. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many of those that are over 70 years of age have to pay €50 or more in general practitioner fees for a medical examination in order to renew their driver licence even though they have become eligible for a free licence; if he will consider allowing the medical examination required for a driver licence...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 216. To ask the Minister for Health when a specialist diabetic nurse will be appointed to St. John’s Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50356/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allow persons who become disabled after finishing their degree, masters or PhD, to access a SUSI grant again in order to allow them to change to careers that are more in keeping with their new medical situation and in order to encourage more people who are disabled to return to third-level education and the workforce; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes aged 18 years and over who are waiting on a first appointment to the outpatients diabetes clinic in any of the UHL groups; the number of those persons who are waiting six to 12, 12 to 18 and 18 to 24 months, two to four and over five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49549/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 590. To ask the Minister for Health if University Limerick Hospitals Group is included in the remaining six diabetes centres to become dose adjusting for normal eating licensed in 2022; if a centre in the mid-west is included in the remaining six centres becoming licensed in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49619/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding in budget 2022 to provide a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse for the adult diabetes clinic in the University Limerick Hospitals Group to enable insulin pump therapy initiation for persons who are clinically suited to this treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49620/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (12 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 18 years of age that are attending University Limerick Hospitals Group adult diabetes service and using insulin pump therapy to manage their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made to deal with the rising tide of animal cruelty; the number of cases that have been prosecuted on indictment for animal cruelty; the number of sentences of imprisonment that have been imposed for the mistreatment of animals in the past five years; the average fine imposed upon conviction in the past 12 months;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the increase in the State pension and other social welfare rates that will be required in Budget 2022 to match inflation since the last increase in rates. [44885/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (7 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available in Meentulla, Murroe, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48785/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for the back to education allowance by a person (details supplied) was refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48503/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (6 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 717 of 24 February 2021, the progress that has been made in relation to this matter; when proposals to deal with this issue will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48524/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: In view of yesterday's announcement, I want to ask about an essential piece of infrastructure, namely, the proposed Cork-Limerick or, as I prefer to say, Limerick-Cork, motorway. I am as wise today as I was yesterday. What I seek is an assurance that this will actually happen. If it is to happen, can the Minister give us a clue or his opinion as to what year it might start? I am inundated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: 447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the full rate of disability allowance will be restored to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47755/21]