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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 263. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the day centres in a specific area (details supplied) of the 315-day centres nationwide that are expected to be re-opened before Christmas 2022; if he will provide a timeline for the eventual re-opening of the remaining day centres which will not be re-opened before the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62521/22]

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: This evening, each one of us is being asked to vote confidence in the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. As an Independent Deputy, I try to look at the evidence of how he has performed to date as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I am not interested in the politics or optics or in a call for a general election. That will not build a single house. My only concern is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider issuing medical cards to those suffering with the genetic medical condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61849/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 640. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of waiting times for cancer surgery patients, he will negotiate with private hospitals to deliver these urgent surgeries for public patients; and if he has any plans to do so. [62231/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am again raising the crisis in the private and voluntary nursing home sector, where 17 homes have closed this year. These homes tend to be independent, small and family run. While some of the chains are replacing some of the lost beds, that is not happening in rural or smaller areas where family-run homes are closing. More and more older people will not be able to remain reasonably close...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Social Democrats for raising this important matter. Unfortunately, it is a daily issue for many families and virtually every school. Highlighting it in the Dáil is important because not every school is prepared to come forward and say that it has trouble sourcing teachers, including substitute teachers. Some schools do not want to admit that children are sometimes being...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care of the Elderly (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister of State. She mentioned, as I did, the importance of day care centres which is a social setting. It gives people an opportunity get out of their homes and makes such a difference to their mental health, as well as their physical health. That is all a given. The Minister of State stated that one of the reasons that some day care centres...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care of the Elderly (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: Many day centres in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Donegal and elsewhere have not reopened or only partially reopened since the Covid-19 pandemic. Before I go into detail as to the location of these centres, it is important to make clear why I am raising this matter. It is very simple. Day care centres are a lifeline for many older people. Above all, they provide company, a social...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 115. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in every CHO; and if such teams already exist, the details of the specific location of each. [61054/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank Professor O'Brennan and it is good to see him again. As he said he has been to Brussels a number of times and I have made my way to Maynooth as well for various meetings. One of his proposals was about a visit to the battlefields of World War One. I fully sponsored a programme called "My Adopted Soldier." RTE covered it. There were two half-hour programmes. It was one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: The last point Professor O'Brennan made is true. The number of European officials and MEPs who have been to Ireland on the Erasmus+ programme is substantial. I have yet to meet one who did not have something positive to say about Ireland. People are positively disposed to Ireland. That really does matter. The point about the value of having Irish people in the Commission has to be seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: The fact that is the way the European Commission is supposed to work benefits smaller countries much more than larger countries. One of the branches I dealt with most was the Directorate General for the Environment. There were quite a number of Irish officials there. It was important because they had the knowledge and the perspective. That perspective was not always in favour of the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Opportunities within the European Union for Irish People: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I was going to say something but Professor O'Brennan got it in ahead of me. He used the term "sectoral-specific". From my experience - that is all it is, but I have 15 years' worth - as an Independent, I did not have a party to draw on and if I was holding a meeting and only talked about the benefits of the European Union or how it impacted on the audience, most people were too busy to come...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am substituting for Deputy McNamara.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 801 of 8 November 2022, when funding will be phased in for graduate entry medicine and if a reduction of student contribution fees is expected by September 2023. [60930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 801 of 8 November 2022, if extra Government funding for universities, such as University College Dublin, will be ringfenced to ensure lower student contribution fees going forward. [60931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 505. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 808 of 29 November 2022, if further details of the schemes (details supplied) referred to in the response will be provided. [60992/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (6 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-open the Mater Private Hospital to HSE patients given the backlog of critical cancer surgeries (details supplied). [60242/22]