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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to abolish the means test for those applying for carer's allowance. [26410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of people under 18 are currently waiting on audiometry tests in CHO7. [26405/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for first-time appointments for ADHD assessments in CHO7. [26406/24]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. I recognise the work that went into the review on the modernisation of our criminal justice laws, but to be brutally honest, there is little or no point in doing this until this Government provides sufficient garda numbers to enforce the laws. It is a missed opportunity. The Government has had this, but it has continued to sit on its hands...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague Deputy O'Rourke for the opportunity to shed a little light on this, although perhaps not for everyone. Ireland's electricity prices have been spiralling skywards while the Government has sat on its hands, choosing to give energy credits that swelled the coffers and profits of energy providers while leaving electricity prices at eye-watering levels. Ordinary working...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Over two weeks her pay-as-you-go meter cost her €500 just to run an air-to-water heating system. How affordable is this on an old age pension? The Minister of State and I both know it is not. A young mother with the same heating system was left paying a bill of more than €3,000 to keep her house warm. It is no wonder we have food banks, and we have the Minister of State's...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Fair point, thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the National Broadband Service will be brought to Ticknevin, Carbery, County Kildare, as residents have been told that broadband internet cannot be provided by a company (details supplied) or any other provider, as the unavailability of reliable internet is preventing residents from engaging in business and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans, if any, to add Athy, Monasterevin and Newbridge to the extended commuter area, as the cost of train fares from these stations is more expensive than the cost of driving to Sallins and getting a train from there, thus increasing road traffic and contributing to climate change. [27565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that can be taken to ensure tractors use a by-road (details supplied) specifically provided and not the motorway, thus causing a traffic-road hazard. [27571/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of SENOs in CHO7; and if that number will be increased in light of the current extensive waiting lists for assessments. [27561/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether the irregularities in client accounts at an organisation (details supplied) have been addressed or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27562/24]

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: When the Government came to power in 2020, its programme for Government promised a statutory home care scheme along with various other commitments for fair and affordable home care, removing inpatient charges and medicine costs. Further to that, in 2022 the Government committed to its implementation by 2023 yet here we are, more than halfway through 2024 and close to the end of the...

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight entitled "Examination of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 20th September, 2023. I am happy to introduce the Examination of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report produced by the Select Committee...

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I assure the Acting Chair that I will not take the ten minutes allocated to me. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the stakeholders. Their work was invaluable to us. The amount of work the civil servants have put in has been invaluable. I like to think that, down the road, the report will not be left gathering dust on a shelf but will be implemented and will be a launching pad for a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to extend the national cancer strategy, which has two years remaining to run; and the measures in place to address the €180 million cumulative funding shortfall in the national cancer strategy as reported by an organisation (details supplied) in its report this week. [27567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, in place to address the failure to increase the percentage of participants in the FIT test for the early detection of bowel cancer, which still stands at just 45%, as this failure is being directly linked to a lack of adequate funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care hours undelivered for the years 2023 and to date in 2024 in CHO7 and nationwide, in tabular form. [27570/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests, whom I have met before in my role as Sinn Féin spokesperson for older people. I thank them for being here. I wish to follow on from Senator Conway, who asked about the incidence of loneliness. Like the Senator, I want to know whether the problem existed pre Covid or whether it has emerged since. I have a few questions about the state of mental health among...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: What is the mental health services waiting list for our older generation? If they need to see a psychiatrist or other such individual, are they left waiting for a long period? Are there any statistics on that?