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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the conditions for the PRSI contributions for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the reason a person would not be eligible for the benefit payment at 65 years old, even if they are eligible and have made enough PRSI payments to qualify for the State pension a year later; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 585. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Minister for Education to ensure that use of publicly funded school buildings is considered and maximised with respect to provision of pre-school, sibling hour and afterschool facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19253/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 586. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Minister for Education with respect to guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours issued by her Department which are now being cited as justification by a board of management for terminating afterschool and sibling hour services at national school (details...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline who has responsibility for the planning, choosing of locations, management and maintenance of the national on-street EV charging network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19605/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of on-street EV charging stations per capita that his Department is aiming to see in place over the next decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19606/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the contract tender and procurement policy around the provision of on-street EV charging stations for State and private operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19607/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount in funding that was utilised under the public charge point scheme; the number of councils that applied; the number of points installed under the same scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19608/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total expenditure in the form of grants or relief given to small and medium enterprises for research and innovation in each of the years 2020 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19619/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the response of her Department to the March 2024 ruling on the legal access of students with visual impairment to the junior certificate exam; if she will outline the provisions her Department will make to vindicate the judgement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19579/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new places for children with special educational needs that has been secured for the 2024/2025 school year following the package announced in Budget 2024 for special needs education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19609/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will begin with the council. I am seeking clarity. The council met the Minister in January. It wrote to the Minister in October of last year. Was that meeting in response to that letter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It resulted in a meeting. Did the Dental Council receive a formal written response?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Further engagement is scheduled.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is good to hear. To go back to the issue of the statutory competency scheme, it appears that the longer established professions have undertaken a number of revisions to their oversight and governance in recent years. I am quite surprised - I am actually shocked - that there is no competency scheme. Is there a system or scheme of continued professional development? Is it mandatory?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is outrageous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: All professionals have an ethical requirement, whether they are constructing buildings or looking after people's teeth, to ensure that they enter into continued professional development, because technology changes. I do not understand how this is the case when every other established profession has mandatory continued professional development.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am intrigued. I do not know how this has passed by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is entirely voluntary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Compulsory CPD is the basic of almost every profession.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How does one secure insurance in a profession that has no compulsory CPD?