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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that received an invitation to take part in CervicalCheck on a quarterly basis from quarter 1 2020 to date in 2022; the percentage of persons that accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified periods in tabular form. [9865/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow students who are visually impaired to gain access to their leaving certificate examination via a digital paper; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10159/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 201. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the cost of breastfeeding equipment and supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10146/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Chairman for facilitating this. I will go back to Ms Newman. Gabhaim buíochas léi as a cuid oibre agus as a bheith anseo ar maidin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Ms Newman has done a very good job, along with Ms Lawless and Mr. Gilvarry, in outlining how everybody’s situation is completely unique, how everybody has different family supports, and how everybody’s financial situation is so different. One of the comments she made in her opening statement was how important it was to be able to go at her own pace when she was trying to access...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Ms Newman felt supported. She could take a break when she needed it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will go to Ms Lawless and then I will come to the representatives from the organisations. Ms Newman made important points on her experience of supports going to the institution rather than the person. In this committee we often talk about the UNCRPD being about the person at the centre of everything but still have a model where the supports go to the institution and not necessarily to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to ask a follow-up question. I tend to think of the likes of assisted technology as being like a hard support that is easy to track when it is implemented. Then there are soft supports like peer supports or assistants and I am particularly thinking of people with visual impairment who might need guidance around a campus, for example. Do we have the balance right in how we apply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes. That is what I was getting at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That brings me to my last question to some degree. I am not sure who wants to take this; it might be for Ms Kelly or Mr. McGinn. Mr. McGinn mentioned formal transition planning processes in his opening statement. Based on the conversation we are having this morning I wonder whether he is talking about further education, vocational training or higher education. There is a version of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (24 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review into the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016; if her Department has considered drug offences in relation to this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10616/22]

Planning and Development (Liquefied Natural Gas - LNG) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the amendment of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in order to restrict developments in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure and to remove LNG infrastructure from listing as strategic development infrastructure projects. I want to introduce this Bill today by quoting the Tánaiste in his speech...

Planning and Development (Liquefied Natural Gas - LNG) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CHO 4 mental health service management staff who were offered priority first-dose Covid-19 vaccinations in January 2021 ahead of patients and nursing staff of St. Stephen’s Hospital, Glanmire and the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11096/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the person or persons in the HSE that authorised the offering of priority first dose Covid-19 vaccinations to CHO4 mental health service management staff ahead of patients and nursing staff of St. Stephen’s Hospital, Glanmire and the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, County Cork in January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons transferred from CHO4 mental health services to nursing homes in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will provide the name of the HSE facility from which the person is being transferred in each instance. [11751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 811. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons transferred from the CHO4 mental health services to a nursing home (details supplied) in each of the years 2017 to 2021, respectively. [11752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (2 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 162. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to retain the option to access termination of pregnancy services by telephone or video conference consultation as recommended as an option by international organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11825/22]