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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 137. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline how the new child poverty unit within his Department will address the data deficit in terms of regional mapping of child poverty; what means the unit will use to assess where there are higher concentrations of child poverty; and what ethnic identifiers the unit will use to assess which populations are most at risk and to ensure that culturally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to re-introduce additional payments for teachers who gain extra qualifications, such as a special education qualification or a doctorate degree; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schemes and funding streams available to assist schools green their external spaces, with, for example, trees and landscaped green areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42650/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 12,483 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between January 1st 2021 and December 31st 2021 that were registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland only, taking onboard that under the terms of the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, the Irish Coursing Club is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 11,698 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between January 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022 that were registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland only, taking on board that under the terms of the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, the Irish Coursing Club is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Government’s plans to provide for regulation of the translation and interpreting sectors and establish industry standards, to ensure interpreters who work in hospitals, in international protection, in Garda stations, in the courts, and so on, have appropriate training in how to interpret in those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the spending of the €110,000 which was allocated in the budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register; whether unused funding will carry over to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42295/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment of a programme manager to assist in the development of a diabetes register; whether this process has stalled as a result of a HSE recruitment embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42296/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the spending of funding allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit, in conjunction with NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study; if he will provide an update on the recruitment of a programme manager and data analytics staff who were required to commence audit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 655. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 664 of 20 June 2023, the number of complaints submitted for review under the Dignity at Work policy by HSE employees and subsequently screened out by HSE employee relations personnel as not meeting the criteria for this process, in each CHO and hospital group area in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 706. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1045 of 20 September 2023, the specific requirements for the advertising of local recruitment competitions, as opposed to national panel recruitment competitions, for HSE staff grade and senior grade psychology posts, such that they are compliant with the Commission for Public Service Appointments and the HSE's own...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 707. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1045 of 20 September 2023, the difference between internal and external appointments in respect of HSE psychology recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42847/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I am. I am contributing from my office. I have a sick child on a couch, unfortunately. I thank the witnesses for their time today. I have several questions, some of which are quite short. We were expecting a workforce planning document from the Department this month. Unfortunately that seems to have been delayed. In response to parliamentary questions the Minister had indicated that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Does HIQA not set the national standards for safer better healthcare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: So HIQA has no role in the workforce planning document they are creating for the next ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Into the future - not in the current ten-year plan the Department is trying to create - I will take it from what the witnesses have said that HIQA has not met with them. No. Okay, thank you. Would it be possible to get a quick update on the expansion of cancer screening programmes? HIQA is tasked with looking at the age range eligibility for bowel screening and BreastCheck.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Could we get a timeline for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Does it come to BreastCheck after that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that also a 15-month process?