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

Marian Harkin: Most of the Priority Questions this morning relate to the crisis in student accommodation. That is a strong indication that there has been a failure by Government to plan ahead. In Sligo, for example, we had two apartment blocks that for ten years housed students. Then they were allocated for Ukrainian refugees. That has been stopped for now but the owners have said that they are not for...

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

Marian Harkin: I heard what the Minister said about "grubby behaviour". We will not have the debate now but it is my understanding that this is as much about a failure of co-ordination between Government Departments as anything else. As I said, we will not have the debate now but I will speak to the Minister about it again. I recognise that a lot of good work has been done by the students union and by...

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

Marian Harkin: We also need to look at short-term solutions. We have spoken about the long-term situation with accommodation but we need proper co-ordination and extra bus routes to help get students to ATU Sligo. I am pleased to say that a new Local Link service from Ballymote started this week but we need more. We need to look at extra services within a radius of 40 km to 50 km from Sligo. Time and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 19 May 2022, to provide an update on the long-outstanding issue of regularising the terms and conditions of adult education tutors employed by Education and Training Boards. [40912/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. He did talk about substantial support but he said it himself, that was pandemic support. It was for Covid only. It did not deal with the systematic inequity in the fair deal system. The Minister talked about a 6% or 7% increase, yet the difference in support between the two types is of the order of 60%. It is not enough. I could not name a nursing home in my own...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I welcome back the Minister. I raise with him the critical situation currently being faced by many private and voluntary nursing homes. They provide care for more than 25,000 people in more than 400 locations and provide 80% of all nursing home care. Yet, 31 private and voluntary nursing homes have closed over the past three years with the loss of 915 beds. The crucial issue is that these...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on a work permit and visa application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 982. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply information in regard to the fair deal scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40270/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for citizenship under FBR. [33753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for the provision of a bus for primary school students to an after-school facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for the provision of a bus for primary school students to an after-school facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33812/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Promotion (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the progress in applying for PGI status for boxty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34341/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Referendum Campaigns (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 637. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether an announcement will be made in relation to the proposed wording for the family, care and equality referendum before Dáil Éireann breaks for the summer recess, given the proposed deadline of the end of June 2023 has passed; if not, if the referendum will to go ahead as planned in November...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: The Ministers of State and the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach will have to be patient. I am recovering from a bad bout of laryngitis but I have to speak on this motion. This regulation is the most profound and far-reaching legislation on land use change ever proposed by the European Commission. Even though they do not know it, it will impact every man, woman and child, both rural and urban,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister of State for not just reading what was before her. She gave us lots of statistics but none of them mattered to a child who presented at Galway University Hospital. Anybody under the age of 18 under Irish law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a child and should not be turned away. I can understand that perhaps with rosters that there may have been a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: I apologise to the Minister of State; I am recovering from laryngitis but I really wanted to raise this issue. It is a crucial issue concerning how a 17-year-old, a young person who is a child under Irish law, was treated at an emergency department at the weekend. I received a message from a constituent at the weekend outlining how this young person cut the top off his finger. He was...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (4 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update and a timeline/date for the roll-out of Broadband in an area of County Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32371/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Constitutional Amendments (4 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the referendum on equality and care due to take place in November; whether all three proposed constitutional amendments will be brought forward; and when the Interdepartmental Group will publish its proposed referenda wording in relation to Article 40.1, Article 41.2 and Article 41.3. [32829/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Marian Harkin: 737. To ask the Minister for Health if the part-time psychiatric nurse service, provided to clients in County Sligo, will be re-instated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31256/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Marian Harkin: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the provision of funding for the progression of the N17 Collooney – Claremorris upgrade for the years 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028. [30137/23]