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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that amendments to the Housing Act 1988 will not narrow the definition of homelessness or restrict access to emergency homeless accommodation and other supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to create a single scheme that combines the current reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme into one scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52146/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to review the application processes for reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme with a view to making it less complex, user-friendly and to ensure that it is aligned with a needs-based approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52147/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to provide approval in principle for employers and jobseekers applying for reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme to assist their planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to extend the supports provided by reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme to other employers in the community and voluntary sector and commercial State-sponsored sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52149/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to extend the employee retention grant so that it also available to new recruits and employees with pre-existing disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52150/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to enhance the disability awareness support scheme to offer wider training that also includes employers who currently do not have a disabled employee on staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52151/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to increase the number of support hours (interpreter, in-work support, and so on) eligible for funding under reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52152/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to ensure there are changes to reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme to allow for equipment, software, and assistive technologies to be made available where the need arises, including blended working arrangements and full-time working from home...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to develop a communication plan to ensure targeted and accessible promotion of any reforms to reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 843 of 20 September 2023, if he will provide an update on the engagements he has had with a charity (details supplied) in relation to its funding situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 563. To ask the Minister for Health when the harm/benefit analysis of proposed animal experimentation projects are conducted, whether his Department considers the utility of the product to be tested on animals, or the utility of the product a component substance of which is to be tested on animals, as a factor in that harm/benefit analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51870/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 621. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 791 of 1 February 2022, if he will provide an update on his plans to promote and advertise the use of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive scheme to help alleviate waiting lists for medical procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52240/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: First, I thank the Minister for her earlier comments in which she clearly differentiated the perpetrator of the tragic incident last week on Parnell Square from those who inhabit the streets of my constituency, Dublin-Central. There is an increasing appetite for scapegoating people in addiction or who are forced to live on the street, often due to the failures of us in this House, and to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for the two confirmations of those two important approvals. I take her point that community use is a matter for the parish, but what we are talking about today is how in use the building is. As the Minister will know, the hall closed in 2020, ostensibly for fire-safety reasons - there are some differing views on that - and there has been a hard fought local campaign, as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for that information . I know she met the group from the school and the area and has engaged with the issue. I welcome that and the further information about the project manager framework. We will monitor its progress with a view to ensuring it is done as urgently as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (29 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagements he or his Department have had with representative governments or civil society organisations from the global south, particularly those heavily impacted by war and conflict, in consideration or development of proposals regarding the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (5 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland’s position at the United Nations and other relevant international forums regarding lethal autonomous weapon systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (5 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 29 November 2023, if he can confirm whether he or his Department has had any engagement with representative governments or civil society organisations from the global south in consideration or development of proposals regarding the triple lock. [53897/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance whether his Department has issued any guidelines to the National Treasury Management Agency with regard to ethical investment, particularly the need to not invest in the arms industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53947/23]