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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Feb 2022)

Michael Lowry: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to issue guidance advising general practitioners and other medical practitioners that graded exercise is no longer recommended for ME/CFS patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7124/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Feb 2022)

Michael Lowry: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to support women and pregnant persons with hyperemesis who face significant financial costs to access HSE recommended treatment of pyridoxine and doxylamine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7137/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Feb 2022)

Michael Lowry: 412. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to support women and pregnant persons with hyperemesis who face significant financial costs to access HSE recommended treatment of pyridoxine and doxylamine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Lowry: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available regarding fibre broadband at a location (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason this property cannot be connected to the fibre broadband infrastructure that is already provided in the area by commercial providers; the steps his Department has taken to provide access to full-capacity...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Lowry: The Taoiseach is aware the HSE has a plan in place to dramatically alter the distribution of elderly care long-stay beds in north Tipperary. The existing 25 beds in the Dean Maxwell Community Nursing Unit will be transferred to Nenagh in order to justify a bigger unit. The HSE has consistently ignored all representations to correct this absurd and unacceptable situation. It is obviously...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Lowry: 43. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary can obtain consent from his Department to apply for the one person one salary scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5270/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (27 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a form of funding that can be applied for by a person that works as a personal trainer and that wishes to establish a community gym which will deliver fitness, health and wellness programmes as well as inclusive classes and fitness programmes for persons with disabilities; if funding can be made available for such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: We have had much media attention and there is much optimism out there in the public that this can be delivered. They may read negativity coming through in the structure of the company. I accept today the explanation given that nothing has changed in the structure and the ultimate ownership of the consortium. It is also very important the message gets out today that the company has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: May I ask a question about procurement? Mr. Malone stated that there will be additional contractors but does the company book and supply materials to contractors or is it depending on contractors to do their own procurement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: The company is in control of that.

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: The stories of growing up in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s sound like fables to the young people of today. Life in those times revolved around the home and school, which were not always safe places. It was the era of children being seen but not heard. Poverty and hardship were rife and young people bore a significant brunt of the suffering. It was uncommon for young people to receive any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: I welcome the Minister and his officials to the meeting. Yesterday we had a very good presentation on NIFTI. That gave us a clear understanding of the framework for the future of planning, investment and infrastructure, and how that can be compatible with environmental objectives. From that perspective, we understand the role and importance of it. A couple of issues have been raised. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: Our understanding is that in Tipperary town, the bypass will form a link with the new N24 and will be the first part of the new N24 to be built. Will the Minister clarify whether that is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: I am satisfied once the town has been bypassed and the N24 route forms a link to the town as the first part of the new route.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available regarding broadband at a location (details supplied): the steps taken in relation to full capacity fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband to this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available regarding satellite or mobile broadband at a location (details supplied); the steps taken to engage with satellite and mobile companies to provide a quality broadband connectivity to this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a campaign organised by a disability group (details supplied) to improve the availability and quality of parking bays for disabled users in local authority managed carparks and on street parking; if he plans to devise a national policy and or guidelines such that 5 % of total parking bay provision is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of the campaign to improve the availability and quality of parking bays for disabled users, he has plans to ensure that disability parking bays are provided in line with international best standards, as set out in Building For Everyone: A Universal Design Approach (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will process an incremental credit claim from a teacher (details supplied) without delay given that such a delay in this case will cause financial hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Michael Lowry: 668. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme applications submitted to his Department in 2021; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no approvals for the scheme were issued in 2021, given many section 5 exemptions were forwarded by farmers as requested by his Department; the reason no reconstitution and...