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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 40. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify whether he will reconstitute the Curragh forum, to include local residents, to discuss their concerns in relation to the Curragh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify when or if the budget will be provided to Kildare County Council to address the rapidly deteriorating condition of the road between Bolton Hill and Sheriff Hill, County Kildare (details supplied). [8403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will comment on the discrimination present in travel insurance policies vis-à-vis those under 65 years of age and those over 65 years of age where the cover period - 60 days and 31 days, respectively - is dramatically different, and whether such differences are permissible under legislation and constitutionally. [8401/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look into enrolment challenges currently being experienced by a school (details supplied) where, even though it has the physical space for the children applying to enrol, departmental regulations mean it cannot employ the necessary extra teacher required until 2025, which means it is having to turn away children who have already...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify if there are any plans for the possible construction of a secondary school in the area around Prosperous-Clane-Derrinturn and south Kildare; and, if so, if her Department has identified any possible site and what stage the process is now at. [8397/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of arrests effected in the vicinity of the Curragh Camp and firing range, specifically arising from road closures associated with the Curragh Camp and firing range, for January to December 2024 and to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8398/24]

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Ward and his team for all the work they have done on this issue. Children's mental health services are in crisis. Instead of addressing the problem head on, the Government has allowed a crisis to become an emergency. In my constituency of Kildare South, 417 people are waiting to access CAMHS, with 27 of them waiting more than a year. This is totally unacceptable. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 59. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he and his Department have in place to address the severe shortage of GPs in the south Kildare area, to address the fact that there is an almost two week wait to obtain a GP appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for his failure to respond to multiple emails from this Deputy requesting details on all sites to accommodate people seeking temporary international protection in south Kildare, to include those currently in process, or being considered for such sites, and the number planned to be accommodated at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for his failure to respond properly and fully to multiple emails and phone calls regarding the installation of facilities to house people seeking temporary international protection at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9738/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she has taken to resolve the serious situation with school bus places which resulted in children being left at the side of the road, for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9741/24]

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Tá bród orm a bheith ag labhairt faoi Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan. Irish women are famous the world over for many things. We have world champions like Katie Taylor and Sonia O'Sullivan making us proud. On the international political and humanitarian stages Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese are shining examples of womanhood. Let us not forget our historical heroines -...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Tully for her work on this Private Members' motion. I welcome Shane Scanlan of the nursing homes alliance to the Gallery this evening. People with disabilities and their carers deserve so much better than the raw deal the Government is currently giving them. These people already deal with so many difficulties in their daily lives. They need access to supports and services,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (6 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the number of Garda officers, by rank, attached to all south Kildare Garda stations for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form ; the number of Garda officers who retired from Kildare south Garda stations in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if a Kdoc service could be located in the primary care centre in Athy, County Kildare, to serve the people of Athy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11096/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the reason people in Athy, County Kildare cannot avail of the services of the Caredoc services in County Carlow, with an average round trip of approximately 36km, but can only avail of the Kdoc services in Naas, which involves an average round trip of over 80km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11097/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (6 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the subsistence payment of €1000 per academic agreed to be paid to nursing and midwifery students, and to be backdated to 2022, has not yet been paid to many students in the Southeastern Technological University, Carlow, where payment was due to be paid in instalments in November 2023 February 2024, but no payments have been received; when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (6 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentist vacancies in south Kildare, and surrounding areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11099/24]

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague, Deputy Cullinane, for introducing this important motion and giving me an opportunity to raise the issue of serious pressures on GPs in my constituency. After more than a decade of chronic underfunding by successive Fine Gael- and Fianna Fáil-led Governments, local GP and healthcare services are creaking at the seams. We have staff shortages, increased workload,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests. I will ask two brief questions. With regard to the ECB interest rates and any reductions, what measures will the Central Bank consider to force vulture funds to pass on the reductions to those who have mortgages?