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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a provision of a diabetes unit in University Hospital Waterford as the only level 4 hospital without such a unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on preparations being made towards the establishment of a citizens' assembly on education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30485/24]

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chair has covered most of the ground but I want to pick up on the vaccination programme, particularly insofar as it relates to badgers. It sounds very much like we are going in the right direction. I am delighted to hear that and that our practice is underpinned by research that indicates vaccination is no less effective than culling. If you cull a badger, you create movement within...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I was going to ask about the flip side, namely the deer-management strategy. Maybe the officials will have the figures dug out afterwards. Am I correct that we have not implemented the deer management strategy yet and are still formulating it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does the Department of agriculture speak to the NPWS? Surely that will be a central plank of our deer management strategy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Would Mr. Gleeson be aware of the number of deer culled? Has the Department spoken to the NPWS to get its hands on those figures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there any differentiation between sika and red deer in that the red deer are native and sika are non-native. Would I be right in saying that the sika are much more problematic in terms of moving across landscape?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Let us say there is no specific instruction to the people who would be involved in deer culling to cull one but not the other.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could we return to that wildlife element if Mr Blake has had the opportunity to pull the figures out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is still less than one eighth of the compensation programme. It represents very good value for money if we can prevent paying out a compensation programme by investing more in our vaccination programme. That seems to me to represent good value for money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Although "straightforward" may not be the word I would use to describe the management of a deer population, a deer population is managed through culling in an Irish context because the deer have no predators. Is it the Department of agriculture which is responsible for issuing licences for deer hunters? Where does that lie?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 120.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a process in place to support, encourage and monitor use by local authorities of CCTV and mobile recording devices (drones) to assist in tackling fly-tipping and dumping, as provided for in the Circular Economy Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35250/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 443.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform , further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 20 June, when a comprehensive response will issue to the question.[35620/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 444.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform , further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 20 June, when a comprehensive response will issue to the question; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1056.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is undertaking a review of the family reunion policy; if so, when the review is due to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[33871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1211.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether a departmental investigation into the animal cruelty aspects of an RTÉ programme (details supplied) has commenced; if not, if it will commence; the date it will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33904/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1879.To ask the Minister for Health when a community intellectual disability nurse will be allocated to Waterford, the last county in CHO5 without such; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35571/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1880.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund and appoint a community neurorehabilitation team for HSE community health organisation area 5, now one of only two CHOs without said service; if he intends to include it in his Department's budget asks for Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35572/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1881.To ask the Minister for Health when a suicide crisis assessment nurse will be appointed to Waterford to fill the vacancy created by recent retirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35573/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the publication of the marine protected areas legislation, with an anticipated timeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36076/24]