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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of senior management liaison forums meetings held as per the joint working protocol between Tusla and An Garda Síochána, broken down by local area office, for 2021, 2022 and 2023. [57396/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of national children first liaison management committee meetings held as per the joint working protocol between Tusla and An Garda Siochana for 2021, 2022 and 2023. [57397/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers who have done training in relation to specialist interviewing relating to Section 16(1)(b) of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1992, in each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023. [57398/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1680. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider banning smoking/vaping in cars in line with many EU states considering the negative health impacts it has on additional passengers and the impact holding a vape/cigarette has on the driver’s ability to control the steering wheel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1336/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct HIQA to carry out research relating to gender affirming care in Ireland comparing it to international best practice as the body previously did for long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1872/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: I attended this morning's launch in the Oliver Bond flats of the report into respiratory health. It is disgraceful that someone living in the Oliver Bond flats has double the likelihood of suffering a respiratory illness. Promises have been made about regeneration and there has been plan after plan, yet still nothing happens in terms of regeneration. It is not good enough that Dublin City...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: We need to step up and ensure the promises and plans are actually delivered.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: We have spoken a lot about genocide. It is important to underline that genocide turns on intention to kill or destroy. It is not about the numbers, the method used or the time it takes to happen. Before the current brutal phase of this long conflict, we saw the brutality of the occupation, with settlement building by Israel in contravention of international law, land confiscations, land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Chair and I welcome the witnesses. I have a couple of questions around the practicalities of the New Zealand and the Australian models. Can assessment be started before the six-month period that was referred to? Can a person start the assessment and make the application, so that they have their ducks in a row, so to speak, for when they reach the six-month threshold? ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department whose fee status has changed from fee-charging to non fee-charging since 2000, indicating the year the school entered the free scheme, the school roll number and school planning area in each case. [2435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department whose school gender has changed from girls to mixed since 2000, indicating the year the school began admitting boys, the school roll number and school planning area in each case. [2436/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department whose school gender has changed from boys to mixed since 2000, indicating the year the school began admitting girls, the school roll number and school planning area in each case. [2437/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department whose ethos/religion has changed from catholic to inter-denominational or multi-denominational since 2000, indicating the year the school changed ethos, the school roll number and school planning area in each case. [2438/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department, indicating the school roll number and school planning area in each case. [3072/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of the 170 second level education institutions in Ireland whose students were assessed in the PISA 2022 survey, indicating the school roll number in each case; and to provide lists of the second level education institutions whose students were assessed in the PISA 2018, PISA 2015, PISA 2012, PISA 2009 and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports submitted to her office by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons that have not yet been published; the date of submission of each of these reports; when such reports will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (24 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason why Kilmainham Gaol has moved from a seven to five day a week opening hours; when this last took place (excluding closures for national holidays and pandemic related reasons); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3157/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (24 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of tour guides who formerly worked in Kilmainham Gaol, on both seasonal and permanent contracts, who are now working in other OPW heritage sites. [3158/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (24 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the recruitment issues for guiding staff in heritage sites, as evidenced by multiple seasonal calls in 2023, if his Department will move to a model which ensures that the majority of guiding staff, that is those below head guide/supervisor levels are employed on a full time basis in sites which are open year round such as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 17 January 2024, when the next round of applications will open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3166/24]