Results 641-660 of 4,232 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 759. To ask the Minister for Health if the new children’s hospital will have lactation facilities for HSE employees and a lactation department; if so, if this will include mothers attending with their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9390/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) is being considered by the HSE drugs payment group for reimbursement; and if so, the status of the application. [9487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Offices (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1047. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the facilities available in his Department to facilitate breastfeeding breaks in accordance with WHO guidelines of two years for women in the workplace and as part of the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9365/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1085. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who have burned land during January and February 2021 without the necessary controls and permissions in place will have their single farm payments reduced accordingly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10134/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Community Development Projects (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1092. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will publish a plan to work with local authorities and communities to help develop community gardens, allotments and urban orchards as detailed in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10199/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Offices (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1123. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the facilities available in her Department to facilitate breastfeeding breaks in accordance with WHO guidelines of two years for women in the workplace and as part of the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017-2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9378/21]

Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I want to talk to the Minister of State about the wastewater treatment plant in Arklow. This is absolutely critical infrastructure not only for Arklow and County Wicklow, but for the country. As the Minister of State will be aware, the Avoca river has significant issues with pollution as a result of mismanagement and a lack of infrastructure within the Arklow area. This project has been in...

Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I was hoping for a commitment that this would be fast-tracked. It is a really important project. I understand that all the checks and balances have to be in place and that it is a very large project but, because of its importance, it would be really good to see it prioritised and for it to be ensured that it happens as quickly as possible. An indication of the timeline would also be really...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts his Department is carrying out to ensure a bank maintains communication with customers whose mortgages were due to be sold to a company but are now being sold to another company; if he will advise on the particular case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10649/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has engaged with a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10631/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice she has for parents of children with additional educational needs who cannot find a special needs assistant to engage in the allocation of five hours per week of home-based teaching or care supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish the full minutes of the collaborative forum on mother and baby homes meetings including the full contributions of forum members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10632/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (25 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 193. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of families and unaccompanied children who have arrived in Ireland from the Moira Camp, Greece to date; the efforts being undertaken to accelerate the process of relocating refugees from the camp as residents continue to experience winter conditions, makeshift shelters, insufficient and unstable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I confirm that I am on the Leinster House campus. I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I want to return to the new system that is in place, the standard operating procedure. I can understand the rationale for trying to get a quicker assessment. Reference was made to a rapid assessment and intervention for children. To go from 100 hours in some cases to 90 minutes represents an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am time limited. The key question for me is how many of the assessments have been completed. How many have been deemed inconsistent and have meant children have been put onto a further waiting list?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: The HSE cannot say how many of those children were assessed, whether a diagnosis was determined or given and whether they have now been put onto another waiting list. The whole purpose of this was not simply to get children from one waiting list to another waiting list. The purpose should have been to give them an assessment. I find it unusual that we do not have those figures when we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Of the 3,500 children who have come off the waiting list, how many are now getting their needs met? How many are on another waiting list waiting for further assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: At this point the HSE cannot actually say how many children have received the supports they need. Theoretically, the HSE could have moved 3,500 children from one waiting list onto another waiting list. Is that correct? What I am hearing from clinicians is that 99% of the children they are seeing are not being given any final diagnosis. They cannot give such a diagnosis at this point using...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am really concerned that the HSE officials do not have that data available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is fine. I have a question on the data. I asked a question on 15 February about the number of preliminary team assessments that were completed. The response from Dr. Morgan was that the data was not available and that the databases did not allow for the level of scrutiny in respect of the provision of data on the number of assessments that had been completed. I received that two...