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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if concerns will be addressed in relation to the continuing prohibition on the purchase of children’s clothes and shoes, with the exception of online purchases which is having a disproportionate and adverse impact on those with limited access to broadband and those who lack sufficient computer literacy; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 236. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding provided by his Department to An Taisce in each of the years 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18838/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding allocated by his Department from 1 January 2020 to date to each member body of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18839/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 465. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address concerns that there is only one major insurer now available to the leisure industry and adventure tourism sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18299/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns from a person (details supplied) that changes in pension eligibility and contribution rules introduced in 2012 have had an adverse impact on the pension amount they are set to receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19310/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1698. To ask the Minister for Health if it is mandatory for student nurses and medical students on placements and all HSE healthcare staff including fully qualified nurses, doctors and consultants to receive a Covid-19 vaccine; the basis on which such a condition can be enforced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18700/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Advertising (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1942. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended by the HSE on advertising related to Covid-19 awareness campaigns from March 2020 to date in 2021; the print, online and broadcasting media organisations contracted to provide this service; the amount provided to each in the timeframe concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 2185. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the payments issued to date to each of the 352 general practitioners providing termination of pregnancy services within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20058/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (21 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 2237. To ask the Minister for Health the attempts made to reflect the wide diversity of opinion in society on the definition of best practice and an evidence-based approach to pregnancy counselling and unplanned pregnancy when establishing the Clinical Advisory Forum; and the steps he will take to ensure that individuals offering all perspectives are invited to join the Clinical Advisory...

Covid Restrictions Support Scheme Regulations and Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme Regulations: Motions (22 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: I acknowledge and welcome the extension of the Covid restrictions support scheme and the employment wage subsidy scheme. I also point out that, to date, 22,000 businesses have registered for the Covid support scheme with Revenue but it is clear that for a number of businesses, especially those which do not an annual turnover of €50,000, and this has been mentioned here on a few...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Motion [Private Members] (22 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: The proposal from the EU in the form of the new CAP is not sustainable for small farmers and the Minister knows it. We know that proposed changes to CAP include making 10% of money available for landscapes that benefit biodiversity, 35% for environmental and climate related measures as well as direct payments for eco-schemes. The problem with all of this has been well flagged by bodies such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: My first question relates to a multi-stakeholder approach. I notice the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, report makes it clear that tackling antiparasitic resistance needs a multi-stakeholder approach. Currently, 75% of antiparasitic medicines are dispensed with advice from the responsible persons and vet pharmacists but the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine refuses...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: I am happy to speak on this Bill. I acknowledge the great work of parliamentary colleagues who have brought it forward. I acknowledge also the USI, which I understand to have played a significant role in shaping the Bill. I support the basic thrust of the Bill, namely, that students who are unable to access rental accommodation because of Covid restrictions should be able to access...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (28 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 130. To ask the Taoiseach if it is Government policy to encourage the practice of post-legislative scrutiny as previously recommended in a series of Dáil Éireann reform measures from 2011 to 2019. [21889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Data (28 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department collects data on the estimated number of birds killed on an annual basis by coming into contact with onshore and off-shore wind turbines; if so, if he will provide such data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (28 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1022. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE senior trainees that are undergoing international training in the dilation and evacuation procedure (details supplied); the location such training is being provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21888/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (28 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1062. To ask the Minister for Health if the generation of interspecies chimeric, hybrid embryos are subject to regulation here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22099/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (28 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Laois and Offaly currently on waiting lists for home help hours, homecare packages and respite by category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22106/21]

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Carol Nolan: I acknowledge the Minister of State’s hard work and sincerity in addressing her many responsibilities, with more being added by the unprecedented event of the pandemic. I wish to raise a number of issues and would be grateful for any consideration that the Minister of State can give to these issues. All of us here know and accept that the entire Covid-19 experience has been...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Carol Nolan: We are all aware that the current rates of rent are just not sustainable for most working families and those who rely on HAP and other assistance payments. They can be genuinely exploitative. Analysis of recent trends in the Irish residential sales market for the first quarter of this year showed the biggest year-on-year increases in the country are in my own county of Offaly which...