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Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services Provision (1 Jun 2017)

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Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services Provision (1 Jun 2017)

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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional extra funding required will be provided to fund a central activities space and staff toilets as part of the development of a new autism unit at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1000 and 1406 to 1426, inclusive, together. Some of the matters raised by the deputy are largely encompassed in the recent Health Service Executive publication entitled Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland: the HSE Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 - 2021. This Action Plan sets out the priority areas to be addressed over the next 5 years to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: A Healthy Weight for Ireland - The National Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP) is one of the key developments arising from Healthy Ireland, the framework for improving health and well-being across the population. The policy acknowledges that obesity represents one of the biggest public health challenges that Ireland faces. The OPAP covers a ten year period up to 2025 and aims to reverse...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Education about health and well-being for young persons currently exists through many avenues such as through the development and implementation of the Healthy Ireland Framework, the Better Outcomes Brighter Futures national policy framework for children and young people, the national physical activity plan, the obesity policy and action plan, and the national healthy eating guidelines....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill has completed Second Stage in the Seanad and the intention is to recommence Committee Stage in the Seanad during this session of the Oireachtas.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Roadworthiness Testing (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 2238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding vehicle payload classification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28293/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (22 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if emergency funding will be provided to carry out repairs on a roof in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29285/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (27 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 329. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocation to a group (details supplied); her plans to increase the level of funding awarded to the group [30101/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (27 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of on-farm inspections that have been carried out by Department staff in the past 24 months, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30097/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when heart surgery will be rescheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30518/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (4 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 377. To ask the Minister for Health if the agreed home care package can be appealed for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31069/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: It is 21 years since the Aarhus Convention was adopted, 16 years since it came into force and five years since we ratified it. What progress has been made in transposing it into legislation to give full effect to the convention in order to give access to information, public participation and decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters to our citizens?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (5 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the lease of a premises (details supplied) for use as a public office for the Department of Social Protection will be open; if tenders have been invited to fit out the building for the Department of Social Protection; when departmental staff will occupy this building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31632/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (5 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision programme includes an arts programme to facilitate children with a severe or profound general learning disability and whose strengths lie in music and the arts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31629/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (5 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive credited contributions for 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31598/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I welcome the opportunity to raise this issue which is of such importance to parents of primary school children in counties Offaly and Laois. I am raising this issue as a result of numerous representations which I have received from parents who are extremely concerned that dental check-ups or screenings are not being carried out as frequently as was the norm in the past by the midlands...

Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, for her reply. I welcome the fact that she stated the Programme for a Partnership Government contains a commitment to introduce a preventive dental health programme for children under 12 and adult medical card holders. The thrust of my Topical Issue matter concerns children in primary school. Children in primary schools in Offaly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (11 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students enrolled in third level courses that are dependent on their parents for financial support may only have income earned during holiday periods disallowed for assessment of total family income under SUSI grant applications; the reason income earned by students during term time is disallowed; and if he will make a statement on...