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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the resources being allocated in the early intervention services and school-age team to assist it to accept the influx of referrals if the assessment of need waiting list is cleared by April 2021 in north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open a school age team in Balbriggan primary care centre and transfer the waiting list and families already attending the services of a clinic (details supplied) in Clontarf, Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35946/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if resources will be allocated to community care teams within north County Dublin to treat additional referrals following the clearing of the assessment of need waiting list by April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35947/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2020: Motion (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I do not have any question, so I will be brief. I compliment the Minister and the Department on this step. It is the second step in an important process for our regions. I have a personal interest in seeing a technological university arrive in the south east, but this meeting specifically relates to the one in Munster and I am delighted to see it happen. As has been outlined correctly, it...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I wish to make a point of order, not to correct the Chairman but to ask if responses to individual queries could be issued to the secretariat as it is committee business.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for attending. I am not sure Ministers would be happy giving up part of their budgets under normal circumstances but, under the current circumstances, we probably welcome it. I have a couple of queries on additional budgets, particularly in respect of the Minister's reference to additional release days for principals and deputy principals, among...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the Minister and Minister of State to the committee and thank them for coming before it. This is a very important, albeit brief, encounter on the establishment of the technological university in Munster, which I am delighted to see. I have a personal interest in the south east, so I look forward to that happening in due course as well. My question is broader, I am sure the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I want to address two areas of concern. I acknowledge the significant contribution that principals, school management, teachers and the Department have made to get schools open and keep them open. I acknowledge the investment the Government has made both during the summer and more recently, with significant additional resources provided. I raise one matter in schooling which Covid has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I have a supplementary question now that the Minister raises that point. Has she analysed regional disparities for those supports across the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: Will the Minister of State address the points that I made about digital supports for children with additional needs, notwithstanding what she said about the July provision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Priorities and the Effects of Covid-19 on the Education System: Department of Education (17 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State.

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to these statements. I note with appreciation both Ministers appearing before the Oireachtas committee recently to create their Department so I express my congratulations on that point. I believe it has to be formalised by the House but that will be a great day for both of them. I know they will be very pleased to formally have a Department in which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (19 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the current backlog of PPSN applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37607/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (19 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department will be in position to resume PPSN allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations being given to the resumption of in person church services upon return to level 3 as part of the resilience and recovery document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (19 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for the implementation of the EU unfair commercial practices directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reskill and retrain workers in the area of climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37968/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 862. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy in place for girls and boys to access the HPV vaccine through the HSE if they declined the opportunity to take it up in school due to the prevalence of inaccurate information regarding the safety of such inoculations but have reconsidered their decision and now wish to proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38409/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 890. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to requesting the retail and public transport sectors to allow specific shopping and travelling times for the older and vulnerable members of society when the current restrictions are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (26 Nov 2020)

Alan Farrell: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of measures being taken to encourage more companies to adopt recommendations made by the task force on climate-related financial disclosures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38073/20]