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Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Cheann Comhairle as ucht deis a thabhairt dom labhairt ar an mBille seo. I welcome this Bill as an attempt to address the issue of religious discrimination in access to education, which has come to the fore in recent times as the school population has become more and more diverse. I am glad Deputies have an opportunity to address it in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to promote apprenticeships. [18561/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (28 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 237. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions he plans to take on tackling climate change and reducing Ireland's level of emissions of carbon dioxide. [16172/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 262. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been means tested for a State pension (dontributory), despite the fact that the person concerned is a Magdalen laundry survivor and provision has been made to allow them to receive an amount equivalent to the State pension (contributory); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18098/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 426. To ask the Minister for Health why local Health Service Executive officials have not met with persons (details supplied) since September 2015 despite stating publicly that they would be willing to do so; if he will order an independent review into the handling of this case; if members of HSE senior management will meet with the family concerned as a matter of urgency to discuss the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 427. To ask the Minister for Health why the recommendations from the disabilities appeals office have not been implemented in the case of a person (details supplied); if he will ensure that these recommendations are implemented as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18310/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: It is envisaged that the heads of the health and transport support Bill will be published in July. Is it on schedule? The discontinuation of the transport grant and the mobility scheme has caused great hardship for people with disabilities. Does the Government envisage that the scheme to be put in place will be put in place by the Department of Social Protection? Will it be a new scheme...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to review the criteria being used by the Dublin homeless executive and the Dublin local authorities to determine whether a household is accepted as in need of emergency accommodation, given the growing number of households being refused emergency accommodation by local authorities only to be subsequently placed in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Carol Nolan: 43. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce additional measures to address the escalating crisis in the increase in child homelessness in May 2016, which is now at 2,177, a 79% increase for the same period in 2015. [18507/16]

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: The disability-equality (miscellaneous provisions) Bill allows for the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. The legislative programme clearly states that pre-legislative scrutiny will commence on this Bill, but can the Taoiseach advise us as to when this pre-legislative scrutiny will commence?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Playgrounds (5 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the funding for a new playground at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19301/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (5 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money allocated to each education and training board for the purposes of youth education in each of the years from 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19483/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce Mandarin Chinese as a leaving certificate examination subject; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19491/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the wind turbine regulation guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19382/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (12 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 32. To ask the Minister for Health the consultation that has taken place with the Department of Health in Northern Ireland with respect to working towards interoperability of cross-Border e-health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20919/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (12 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 90. To ask the Minister for Health following approval to proceed in 2016 with an initial phase that will facilitate the electronic transfer of prescriptions, utilising Health Information and Quality Authority standards developed to date, and the national message broker health link, the current progress with this initiative; the progress being made with phased implementation towards a national...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department retains data on the number of private referrals made by schools to private psychologists, outside of the scheme for the commissioning of private psychological assessments, as operated by his Department, for the purposes of achieving a psychological assessment of the educational needs of students; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists that have been contracted by his Department under the scheme for the commissioning of private psychological assessments in each of the years between 2006 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20629/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (12 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any guidelines, direction or other form of communication has ever been issued by his Department or the National Educational Psychology Service to teachers, school principals or school management advising schools of the number of students that may be referred to the National Educational Psychology Service or the scheme for the commissioning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (12 Jul 2016)

Carol Nolan: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of educational assessments carried out by the National Educational Psychology Service and the scheme for the commissioning of private psychological assessments, by school, for each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20631/16]