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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: On a point of clarification, Sligo Rovers will play the Minister of State's club, Drogheda United, on 28 October at 6 o'clock. When he comes to visit his in-laws, he and the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, are more than welcome to call in.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47777/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance, for expressing their views and concerns and for providing this information. The opening statement from the Ombudsman for Children's Office concerned me. Ms Ward stated: Parents have also told us how they are too afraid to admit how exhausted and stressed they are because whenever they have, the HSE has referred them to Tusla and questioned their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric hospitalisations in Ireland associated with chickenpox in 2022 and to date in 2023; the percentage increase, if any, in hospitalisation between both years; the economic impact of such hospitalisations in terms of bed nights on our public paediatric system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 122. To ask the Minister for Health what impact illnesses like, Strep A, RSV and chickenpox are expected to have on the public paediatric health system in Winter 2023; what preventative measures are been taken by his Department and the HSE in advance to limit such impacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48916/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 123. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2024 HSE Service Plan is expected to be published; if it is anticipated to return the publication of this important plan to the year-end period of the preceding year, which was the norm prior to the impact of Covid-19, i.e., December 2023 for the year 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48917/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated for the provision of the primary childhood immunisation programme in the years ranging from 2018-2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48918/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (9 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 18. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress made to date in expanding community-based care by increasing opening times for unscheduled care, radiology, and diagnostic services. [48867/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 23. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on his Department's latest work in tackling overcrowding in hospitals. [48866/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: The witnesses are very welcome today. They have come with some problems but also with some solutions, which is very helpful. I congratulate Mr. Hennessy and thank him very much for his presentation. It was interesting. As he was cycling around Ireland, he decided, with the help of Headway, to start a business. There are issues and Mr. Hennessy has highlighted them. We do not have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: There is only one Fine Gael member here so-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. The witnesses are very welcome. This is an opportune time to talk about the Northern Ireland economy, in the times of all-island economy, and east-west, and being part of Europe. We have discussed universities. I grew up in Boyle in Roscommon. When I left college, out of 60 perhaps three went to university. One went to Trinity and the rest went to institutes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for the great work they and the trade unions have done over many decades in bringing together workers North and South and pursuing workers' rights. They are right. Like us all, we were very concerned about Brexit. I remember being over in the UK with Deputy Brendan Smith, and any time politicians asked us what we thought of Brexit, we would always...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will proceed to give permission to MSLETB to proceed with a lease on a portion of derelict grounds at Drumshanbo, County Leitrim to the local community centre committee (details supplied) to develop a new sports facility and playing courts which may not proceed unless matters around the lease are progressed soon. [49491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department would grant the additional funding to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim to pay for the use of the local community centre's facilities which over the years has meant that the said school did not have to invest in new capital buildings for assembly and sports uses. [49492/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. I wish to put on the record my thanks for their great work and service in a difficult area. Sometimes it can go without saying, but I thank them once again. The Ombudsman for Children report entitled Nowhere to Turn states the interagency working between the HSE and Tusla remains a problem in some areas and with regard to children being left in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (22 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: This is a long-running saga. I recall 30 years ago coming to Leinster House to fight for the survival of the Dublin-Sligo train line. We are very proud of the line but I do not think it gets the attention it deserves. Something is happening in Sligo and the north west. I always say Sligo is the new Galway of the north west. The number of talented young people who have come to our area,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (22 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. This is an issue that many people have brought to my attention and I see it myself. There are times that we want more trains from Sligo going through Ballymote, Collooney, Boyle, Carrick-on-Shannon, Dromod and Longford. If I want to get from Dublin to Longford, that is fine, but we want to get to the north west. I thank the Minister of State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the witnesses. I read the statements with interest and I thank the witnesses for taking the time today to come online. It is very important. I have a number of questions that I want to ask. In the 2016 census more than 209,000 women with disabilities stated they had children and 63% of disabled women are mothers compared with 46.9% of non-disabled women. As the committee has...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I have spent three hours here waiting to speak.