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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 187.To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the implementation of each of the recommendations outlined in the 2022 Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Foundations for the Future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25166/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 188.To ask the Minister for Finance for his view on the potential to introduce a windfall tax on Irish banks given their increasing profit margin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25167/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 336.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether schools (details supplied) have applied to create special education classes or for any other additional special education supports, given the demand within the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25350/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 444.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans there are to enable those who hold a gender recognition certificate to update their name on their child's birth certificate, in order that presenting their child's birth certificate does not disclose the parent's transgender status. [24850/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 445.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans there are to allow Irish citizens born abroad who are not eligible to be listed in the foreign birth register to be granted a gender recognition certificate. [24851/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Animal Welfare (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 542.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the commitment to create new laws to make the theft of a family pet a specific, separate offence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24946/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 667.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25526/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 668.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of vacant whole-time equivalent posts across the 91 CDNTs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 674.To ask the Minister for Health if he will give a formal commitment to an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the Usher's Island development that there will be a commitment to multiannual funding agreements, that a commitment for operational costs for 100 beds per annum is secured and that an increase in health and addiction care services beyond the existing €1.8 million...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 716.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 28 February 2024, what proportion of autistic people start on hormone therapy with the National Gender Service. [24847/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 717.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 28 February 2024, what medical literature underpins the National Gender Service's statement that unsupported autism can lead an increase the risk in a decline in the context of a medical transition. [24848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 718.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 14 February 2024, if the National Gender Service will commit to collecting statistics on how many referrals are triaged as "New Gender Clinic". [24849/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 719.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 23 May 2024, if, in the intervening two years, the HSE will be taking any actions to decrease the number of GPs who are refusing to work in partnership with their transgender patients to order relevant blood tests. [24852/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 827.To ask the Minister for Health if all referring organisations are made aware of the reimbursement parameters around accessing cataract procedures in Ireland under the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25274/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 828.To ask the Minister for Health if the reimbursement parameters for cataract surgery covered under the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme versus the EU Cross Border Directive scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25275/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: 829.To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list and how much it currently costs to receive cataract surgery under the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25276/24]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: Apologies have been received from Deputies Funchion, Murnane O'Connor and Sherlock, and from Senators Ruane, Ned O'Sullivan and Clonan. Deputy Pauline Tully will substitute for Deputy Funchion. We congratulate Deputy Funchion on her recent election to the European Parliament. The Deputy will do an excellent job. I have no doubt the other members of the committee share this sentiment. The...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Minister of State. She has finished where I wanted to start. As Deputy Tully said, I often hear from families who have tried to source an assessment or intervention in the private market and are unable to do so or are still facing long waiting lists. There is a wider issue of recruitment and, as the Minister of State has said, therapists are a finite resource. There is a...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: The apprenticeship model is excellent and will certainly help with recruitment. Again, however, many of social work courses, for example, have vacancies in them. The colleges are not able to fill the courses themselves. It is not like the social work profession or colleges are trying to keep it as a finite resource. Students are not even going into college. One of the big challenges is...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Minister of State. I will open it up to another round of questions and call Deputy Tully.