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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1702. To ask the Minister for Health if new applications for intensive care packages are still being accepted; and if so, the procedure by which families can apply for this support for their family members suffering from dementia. [34992/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1846. To ask the Minister for Health his policy in relation to defibrillators for schools; and if consideration is being given to making defibrillators mandatory in all schools. [35646/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1947. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry into the anti-epilepsy drug sodium valproate; if the inquiry has commenced; when engagement with families affected by disabilities associated with the drug will commence; and the timeline for the delivery of the report. [35963/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2056. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on homeless services by his Department and agencies under his remit for each year since 2013; and the estimated spend for 2021. [36414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2085. To ask the Minister for Health if there are exemptions to persons being charged for mandatory hotel quarantine; if so, the exemptions; the body to which a person can apply for the exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2086. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to ensuring both breasts are rescreened in the case that a person is recalled for assessment in relation to the BreastCheck programme. [36506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2125. To ask the Minister for Health the public health rationale behind delaying the holding of Confirmations and First Holy Communions while allowing weddings; and if this decision was based on public health advice from NPHET or some other advice. [36594/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2296. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for assessments of needs by CHO area; the average waiting time for assessments in each CHO area; the number of children on each of the waiting lists for special needs supports including speech and language, occupational therapists and so on by CHO area; the average waiting time length for each service in each CHO area; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2388. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the possible extension of the Covid-19 vaccination programme to persons under 16 years of age particularly to those with underlying conditions; and if it is likely those at risk will be vaccinated before the return to school. [37661/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2883. To ask the Minister for Health if intensive care packages are currently available to persons in need of such supports; and the procedure for persons to apply for such intensive care packages. [39476/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 2990. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the reopening guidelines and timelines governing bingo halls and snooker halls. [39794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 3146. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the exclusion of babies and young children from vaccination centres when their parents are being vaccinated is properly communicated to parents when they receive their appointments; and if this exclusion for parents will be reviewed in for particular single parents who are unable to access childminding when their vaccine appointment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair and confirm that I am in Leinster House. I thank Mr. Hogan for his presentation. The understatement of the day is the description of there having been some criticism of the SHD process. Most of us are of the view that it has been an absolute disaster in the context of the lack of commencements of grants of permission, the level of judicial reviews and just the general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go through the questions one by one rather than giving the witnesses a big list. Whatever we do not get to, we can return to later. The witnesses said they will provide some statistics later. It would be great to get the percentage of individual units commenced of the 52,000 units in total. Likewise, it would be great to get a breakdown of the judicial reviews of residential SHD...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On head 5 with respect to pre-planning, I am a strong supporter of a statutory timeline for this. Was any consideration given to providing some level of public consultation and access to documentation during pre-planning? If not, is the Department confident that the proposition outlined in this head is Aarhus compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: On head 8 and the Minister having the power to prescribe the specific issues that can be addressed by way of further information requests, one of my concerns is that if we restrict what additional information can be requested at that stage, after the substantive decision by the planning authority, we may run into trouble with our obligations under EU environmental directives, for example, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a bad record in the meeting of some of those obligations and we are currently being fined for some of them on planning grounds. We are trying to make sure that we do not make the mistakes of previous planning legislation and planning decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one last question. Why are we giving the board an opt-out from meeting its statutory timeline if it feels it cannot meet it? What is the rationale for that? We expect the local authorities who make the principal assessment of the application, which is much more onerous in my view, to meet their timeline. Why is the board, under head 9, subsection 3, getting that slight flexibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Why would the board be given that opt-out? Is Ms Gallagher saying the Department will remove that opt-out and it will simply be sanctioned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Have I time left or have I run out?