Results 661-680 of 3,337 for speaker:Patrick Costello

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 635. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of foster carers who have ceased fostering in the past 36 months by quarter and local office. [52258/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of foster carers broken down by Tusla local area office. [52700/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of foster carers that are relative carers in each Tusla local area office. [52701/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way the additional funding announced in Budget 2022 to allow the Irish Prison Service to recruit more psychologists and specialist mental health nurses will be allocated; and the projected timeline for implementation. [52222/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 763. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the 2020 Annual Report of the Legal Aid Board will be published; and the actions that are being taken by her Department in relation to its contents. [53012/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 925. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can avail of indoor dining under the EU Digital COVID Certificate requirements in cases in which they received one Covid-19 vaccination which resulted in a severe medical reaction and has been advised not to take a second dose by a medical practitioner. [52486/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 1047. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit funding under the Sláintecare healthy communities fund to a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8 opening access to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53020/21]

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: Like all the previous speakers, I welcome this Bill as a positive step. However, I disagree with the Minister of State’s comments that human trafficking and people smuggling are different. They are hand in glove. People smuggling is often the engine that facilitates the movement in human trafficking. I do not think one can be separated from the other. It is perhaps this false...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: In the interests of transparency, Mr. Logue is representing me regarding a legal action I am taking so he is my solicitor in another context. However, this is separate to the issues we are discussing here today. I have the dubious benefit of being last so many of my questions have already been asked. I thank Mr. Logue and Mr. McGarr for their input. They both spoke about weak enforcement....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: No. It is directed at both.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: While it may seem slightly beyond the scope of the legislation and the issue we are talking about here, if the issue we are talking about is ultimately the fundamental rights of people to their data, as Mr. McGarr said, they need an effective remedy so the effectiveness of the Data Protection Commissioner ties in directly with the effectiveness of the support for these individual rights...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the use of trains (details supplied) for intercity services will cease given the inadequate luggage space available which makes such journeys unattractive and thus sees a decrease in the use of public transport and a correlating effect in terms of meeting climate change targets. [53241/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: Threshold is running a campaign for a statutory deposit protection scheme. Such schemes protect renters and have been shown in other countries to work quite well in protecting renters and their deposits. Such schemes are also promised under the programme for Government. The obvious home for such a scheme would be the Residential Tenancies Board. However, anyone who has dealt with it will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons in each of the past five years who have temporarily or permanently surrendered their driving licence due to a medical condition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54258/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the official policy of his Department regarding the acceptance of requests by civil service workers who wish to remain working from home to prevent exposed health risks entailed by the return to the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline on the establishment of the proposed service for the parents of children in care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department taking to ensure that, once health restrictions allow, children living in Dublin 12 will have access to after-school services in their community which are currently unavailable similar to those available to children in Dublin 8. [54504/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 548. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation recognising international surrogacy alongside retrospective declaration of parentage will be targeted to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53971/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: 630. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria under which the selection and consultations for the Sláintecare healthy communities fund were made. [54521/21]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Strengthening Prevention and Early Intervention Supports to Children and Families Post Pandemic: Prevention & Early Intervention Network (9 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: I apologise that I missed some of the beginning of the meeting because I was speaking in the Chamber. I apologise if I am repeating things. The witnesses spoke in their opening statement about the national policy environment for prevention and early intervention. One of the things I would like to get their insight into is that over the last few years, Tusla has put much effort into...