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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I welcome the Minister of State's response. I do not for a minute doubt her commitment to this area. However, when we have situation where the State has made capital investments into respite houses and they are not being used 24-7, around the clock, it is simply inexcusable. Nobody should be able to stand over that. A mother of an adult child with a range of disabilities wrote: Robert,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter this evening. I start by acknowledging the role that family carers play, firstly in society, in keeping people in their own home, where the vast majority want to be kept, and secondly in the economy, to which they contribute €20 billion per annum. The State of Caring 2024 report was based on a survey of 2,127...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me in. I welcome the fact the Minister is committing to streamlining and improving the appeals process. As other speakers in the House have alluded to, I deal with constituents who are faced with lengthy waiting periods for having their appeals heard. I suggest the Minister puts a time limit on when appeals can be heard. Any applicant for a...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: I welcome the Bill that is before the Dáil today and the opportunity to contribute to it. The Bill is timely. It is important that we bring forward these amendments, which are fair to people who have been working hard and paying their taxes. Therefore, when they fall on hard times there are additional supports available to them. When we are in a time of full employment it is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline funding opportunities to support cultural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place to market the national famine walkway internationally; if there any plans to introduce a grant scheme to support product creation along the route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24302/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing statutory timeframes for the implementation of housing schemes under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will convene a forum between senior officials in his Department and senior officials from across the local authorities to examine where housing schemes are not working or need to be amended to ensure Government policy is being implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24308/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied). [24569/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the pilot public transport proposal between Delvin and Mullingar. [24565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that have been taken to address an issue (details supplied). [24564/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently review the practice of switching off sections of motorway junction lights in the interest of public safety, given particular concerns have been raised regarding the lighting of junctions on the M6 at Kilbeggan and Moate. [24253/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department entered into any negotiations with a book provider to reduce the cost, rather than passing it over to the parent, considering the reduction in the schoolbook grant (details supplied). [24223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason no penalty system is in place for property owners who are leaving their properties unoccupied long-term, leaving them to fall into disrepair but not derelict, so they cannot be placed on the derelict sites register. [24158/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the inclusion of housing association/body properties in the tenant purchase scheme (details supplied). [24251/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of drug reimbursement recommendations contained within a report published in March 2023 (details supplied); the reason the recommendations contained have not been implemented to date, resulting in substantial financial pressure being placed on families, in particular the sanctioning of fenfluramine for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently expedite the approval of fenfluramine for the treatment of Dravet syndrome (details supplied). [24161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the funding of a specific drug for a child, on compassionate grounds (details supplied). [24162/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with schoolbook publishers to achieve necessary savings for the free schoolbooks scheme rather than reducing the rate paid per student to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she accepts recommendations by NCSE regarding school places; if so, if she will ensure the school building unit implement such recommendations in a timely manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23802/24]