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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for junior certificate and leaving certificate 2022 students recognising the disruption to their education due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a new digital strategy for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13490/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the means testing of carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14824/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: As the Minister knows, carer's allowance is means tested for people living in the State providing care and attention to a child or adult with such a disability that he or she requires full-time care as a result. I know the Government's budget 2022 introduced new measures that will take effect in June. Family Carers Ireland estimates that only one in five of Ireland's 375,000 carers receive...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (23 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I would like to inquire if there will be an increase in the level of funding to local authorities to ensure that the current level of fire service is maintained. In addition, are there plans to bring a voluntary fire service into full-time service and retain a fire service scheme in the Carlow fire service? Virtually every town in Ireland has a local fire brigade made up of experienced...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (23 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State and I am aware of his commitment and that of the senior Minister, Deputy O'Brien. My first concern is that it is a statutory function of individual fire authorities under the Fire Services Acts. That should be addressed and all local authorities should look at this. I ask the Minister of State for a commitment on this. It is about resources and saving lives...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am delighted to join with my colleague, Deputy Ó Cuív, in bringing forward this Bill in the House today. It is an important Bill for the thousands of householders excluded from support for the maintenance and repair of their septic tanks because they did not register their septic tanks by a prescribed date. A registration and inspection scheme was introduced in 2012 for...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome any legislation that seeks to provide a framework for regulating surrogacy and addressing the gaps in the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. It is good that the Bill will provide, for the first time in Ireland, regulation of this wide-ranging and technology-centred area of healthcare. Nevertheless, it is sad that the time spent waiting for this legislation to pass has no...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report of the Pensions Commission including their proposals to remove the PRSI exemption on supplementary pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14825/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 891. To ask the Minister for Health the updated timeline regarding the HIQA health technology assessment on a varicella vaccine; the frequency with which he is updated on the assessment process; if the assessment will be completed in 2022; if his Department is planning and budgeting for the addition of the varicella vaccine to the national immunisation programme in 2023, subject to a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 892. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doses of the pneumococcal vaccine PPV23 that have been administered for free to persons over 65 years of age and at-risk groups in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14244/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 893. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to revisit SI No. 449/2015 relating to the administration of vaccines by pharmacists; if he will increase the number of vaccines permitted to be used by qualified pharmacists; if he has undertaken a review to assess the other vaccines that could be permitted to be used by qualified pharmacists; if he has reviewed the number and types of vaccines...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 894. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the free pneumococcal vaccine programme for persons over 65 years of age and at-risk groups to community pharmacies; if he has undertaken a cost benefit analysis of the extension of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14246/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I, too, have concerns about the plans. I really welcome the work that is being done to welcome Ukrainian refugees but, like other Deputies, I have had several telephone calls from people who have houses available but need more communication and information on how to proceed. I contacted Carlow County Council, which told me it is setting up a forum and gave me a telephone number. I said...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am substituting for Deputy Niamh Smyth. I would like to know the Department's plans to support increased domestic violence refuge provision and the progress in this regard. I am asking the Minister about Carlow, which he will know only too well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. I ask that he get a report for me on Carlow. I have been involved with various networks. A group of us, including all the relevant agencies, has been working together for the past few weeks, particularly since the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, announced Carlow was to have a women's refuge. We have a great network in Carlow but nobody has corresponded with it....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Again, I thank the Minister for answering. The matter is important. I have met the Minister and the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, several times about a women's refuge for Carlow. Particularly in the nine counties that do not have a refuge, the urgency is recognised. Sadly, Covid created a crisis for something we knew was not working properly. In Carlow, we have a network set up....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I ask the Minister to provide an update on measures to make childcare more affordable and sustainable.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister. I hear regularly from constituents who raise issues around affordability and availability of childcare and it is an issue that is becoming more pressing now. When we welcome so many young children to Ireland from the Ukraine, we also have to provide for them. It is very important that we address the affordability issue here. Many more childcare workers tell me of how...