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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a detailed breakdown of where the EU just transition funding is to go; the reason it is being focused solely on the midlands instead of including areas like County Clare that are also losing our fossil fuel power stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27583/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Minister to provide a detailed breakdown of where the EU just transition funding is to go; the reason it is being focused solely on the midlands instead of including areas like County Clare which are also losing fossil fuel power stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: As the Minister has outlined, I understand that significant funding is being made available for Ireland to assist the regions and communities that are most negatively impacted by the transition to climate neutrality and to promote socioeconomic transition. Ireland is assessed to receive €84.5 million up to 2027 and the Government plans to match this funding with Exchequer resources....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate that the midlands needs that extra assistance and I appreciate what the Minister said in respect of Moneypoint, but I have outlined the employment opportunities for the community. Responses to parliamentary questions have shown that when it comes to the construction of the offshore wind farms at Moneypoint, there may be employment of up to 600 positions but outside that,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what his Department plans to do for the people of Palestine beyond merely recognising their right to exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that a €1.2 billion data centre has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála in Clare; if his Department is comfortable with Ireland’s 83 data centres using as much electricity as all urban households combined according to the CSO 2022 figures; his views on whether data...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families and individuals who made contact with local authorities on the basis that they considered themselves to be homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27769/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons over 65 years-of-age that applied for the training support grant; how many were approved, by county for the years 2023 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27770/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 256. To ask the Minister for Health if it is mandatory for junior doctors rotating into UHL to take the HSEL and sepsis training before they work on the ward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27771/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of echo and delta (life threatening) ambulance calls that were received in the Kilrush catchment area; the length of time the ambulance took to reach the patient in each case; where the ambulance that responded to the echo and delta calls was based; how far they had to travel to reach the patient, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 258. To ask the Minister for Health if it is policy to send emergency ambulances on overnight AS3 (non-urgent interfacility transfer) calls; how many times these calls have occurred with Kilrush ambulances in the past twelve months; how many echo and delta calls were responded to while an emergency ambulance was on AS3, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27773/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I wish to raise the issue of the co-ordination of Ukrainian refugees in County Clare. For the last 18 months, 21 refugees have been located in Loop Head. Loop Head, by the admission of Clare County Council, is a community in terminal population decline. It has seen 21 individuals being integrated into that very peripheral community, six of whom are children in school and four are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 428. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced paramedics currently serving in Clare; if there are plans to expand, maintain or reduce advanced paramedic recruitment; the number shifts in the last twelve months have not had an advanced paramedic serving on them in spite of the Government's promise to maintain 24-7 advanced paramedic presence when closing Ennis Hospital; and if he...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I commend the Labour Party on bringing this well-thought-out motion before the Chamber. It allows us to pay tribute again to the fantastic Natasha O'Brien and the focus she has ensured has been placed on this extremely important societal matter. I also pay tribute to all the victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I commend the great courage and bravery they have shown in...

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I want to focus my speaking time on the high levels of demand on refuge centres such as Clare Haven Services in County Clare. In June alone, it received 54 requests for refuge for women and for every single woman and family in refuge, there is another at risk in the community pleading to gain access. Currently, the service can only accommodate six families at any one time and the point and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (4 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 25 January 2024, if he is aware that the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme is limited to family members of the disabled person; his views on whether this restriction is in line with the Government’s commitments to the rights of people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (4 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I acknowledge Deputy Chambers's recent elevation to the post of Minister for Finance and I wish him well in his new role. I have been raising in the House a particular case for the guts of two years. William cares for John in Kilkee, but purely on the basis that they are not related, they have been deemed ineligible for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme. This has had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (4 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I will send on the information about the case I mentioned. I heard in one of the responses earlier that another group will be established and it will report in the autumn. People watching at home will see another group and another report and will ask whether it is absolutely necessary. In a response I received in February, the Minister's predecessor outlined to me that he submitted a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I put it to the Tánaiste that 27% of those who are hospitalised for eating disorders, which is the deadliest mental illness, were in hospitals with no eating disorder trained staff and 83% had no access to a therapist or a psychiatrist after their discharge. Is it any wonder that 41% would be re-admitted for the same problem within two years? Last week we heard from a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has plans for further regional airport development after 2024; if it is likely that Shannon will receive further funding in this or similar schemes from 2025 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28517/24]