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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister of State believe the strategy is working?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: So, there are more people looking for treatment now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is why I asked whether the Minister of State thinks the strategy is working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about the structures within the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: And not letting other Departments off the hook, too.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the increased payments to retired An Post pensioners have still not taken effect; the timeline for payment of these increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of plans to increase payments to retired An Post pensioners; if his Department is still considering this matter; the timeline for payment of these increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 23 October 2024, if she will clarify what exactly the design tender is, referred to in her previous reply; where that tender can be viewed; the timescale for tenders to close; the likely timescale for the design work on the promised school to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of fire trucks currently in Dublin Fire Brigade fleet; the number that are operational; the age of each fire truck; the date each was procured; and whom they were procured from, in tabular form. [45349/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to procure additional fire trucks for Dublin Fire Brigade; if so, if those being considered are new or second-hand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45350/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will conduct a full audit of the standard of the Dublin Fire Brigade fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45351/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Inquiries (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 67. To ask the Taoiseach to outline his plans for a specific module on long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes, with respect to the evaluation of the State's response to the Covid-19 pandemic; if this will include a mechanism for individuals, families and groups to meaningfully participate in the process and recount their experiences; if this process will review the State's elder...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the 2020 Programme for Government commitment to reform and consolidate the ethics in public office legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45262/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Religious Discrimination (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a denominational primary school should uphold the child and family’s constitutional rights (details supplied) where just one child is formally opted out of religious education and whose parents do not wish them to be involved in any doctrinal activities, and the entire school and all teachers are undertaking a visit to a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Religious Discrimination (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the Department of Education Inspectorate inspect the teaching of religious education in primary schools with a denominational patron and, in , whether, and how, they inspect the educational experience of children who are formally opted out of religious education as per their constitutional right. [44942/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for details of which HSE Health areas will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an organisation (details supplied); if he will arrange for the organisation to be contacted directly to provide point of contact and liaise with them in relation to each of their applications; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people aged under 65 residing in nursing homes in each of the years since 2020. [45263/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 999. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to no longer prescribe a treatment for Covid-19 in high-risk patients (details supplied); the basis for this decision; the engagements he has had with patient representative groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1094. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed timeline for the initiation, progress, and finalisation by his Department of the Steering Group for the National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services. [44282/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (5 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1095. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a schedule of meetings of the Steering Group for the National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services; and to provide a schedule of meetings between his Department and representatives of the steering group. [44283/24]