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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that is being made for the growing demand for Irish medium education for learners in the Fingal area; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is not a sufficient number of places at primary or secondary level to meet demand; the plans she has in place to address the issue; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support that will be given to third-level educational institutions to reconvene in-person classes safely for the upcoming academic year. [46587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 827. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1175 of 9 September 2021, if he can provide details of the four units not providing phase III cardiac rehabilitation services; the reason these services are not being provided; when the services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46750/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 828. To ask the Minister for Health the status of cardiac rehabilitation services in each hospital that is supposed to offer the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (30 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the situation facing many cardiac patients, who are no longer able to access insurance products as a result of their medical condition, particularly after Brexit, given many insurance providers no longer offer services to the Irish market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the status of any review of eligibility policy for medical services as outlined in Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47237/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the way that patients with progressive, life-limiting conditions will be able to access medical cards in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47238/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman and our witnesses for coming in and for the comprehensive presentation. This is very technical, so I have written my questions down to ensure that I can keep some order to them. My first question relates to the ten categories that are listed, which Dr. Cahill has informed us are in the region of 1,850 and there are 50 types of dual-use items. Can Dr. Cahill give our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Part 3, the section on military controls, states that the Bill seeks to set high common standards for the management of and restraint in the transfer of military technology and equipment. Key to that, the general scheme tells us that this is “to prevent the export of military technology and equipment which might be used for internal repression or international aggression or contribute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Am I correct in saying that the guidance, in the first instance, comes principally from the Department of Foreign Affairs? I understand that there are international considerations, etc., across the European Union but in the first instance the advice and guidance that Dr. Cahill's Department would seek in this comes from the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: In appendix 2, on assessing licensing applications, the Department states that 22 export licences were denied in 2020 and 38 were denied in 2019. Could Dr. Cahill give us the reason for those denials? I note that in his presentation he mentioned concerns about end use, protection of human rights, the risk of diversion and EU sanctions. Are there specifics on which he could elaborate to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: In head 5, under the section Offences and Penalties, subhead 14, it states that "authorised officers will have discretionary powers to impose administrative penalties in lieu of criminal prosecutions for violations of control of export laws". Could Dr. Cahill give us an update on this? To me, that is fairly wide-ranging. I am not suggesting at all that any person involved would come with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: These powers are quite substantial. I would not like to think - and I am pretty sure it was not Dr. Cahill's intention to give this impression - that somehow this authorised officer might look at a situation and think that because criminal prosecution is very expensive and heavily resource-dependent, he or she will go for something else. The resources need to be made available if a criminal...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend my colleague, an Teachta Funchion, not just on this motion but on all the work she has done and continues to do with regard to childcare. The cost of childcare has come up often in my time in this Chamber. It is one of the most recurring issues we discuss week after week. The crisis across the childcare sector has been raised in this House and, indeed, across the airwaves. It is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not mean this disrespectfully in any way to the people who sit opposite, but it is regrettable that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is not here to take this Topical Issue. Anyone from the Dublin Fire Brigade who is watching will not be surprised. They have sought a meeting with the Minister. I would be very grateful if the Minister of State could pass on that request directly to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: As the Ceann Comhairle said to me once here, a Deputy is entitled to a reply but not necessarily an answer. We asked what would be done to future-proof and to ensure Dublin Fire Brigade has not only the physical resources it needs but also the manpower and womanpower it will need to do its work. The Minister of State gave a list referring to recruits and the recruitment campaign. I have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Outside this building shortly, thousands of women and their partners will be protesting the failure to resolve the harmful maternity hospital restrictions. We are now almost 20 months into the pandemic yet women are labouring alone and seeing their partners leave after a mere hour spent with their newborn child. The demand of the campaigners is to return to pre-Covid circumstances for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not what this is about.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Who is in charge here?

Organisation of Working Time (Workers' Rights and Bogus Self-Employment) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to prohibit the practice of designating employment as self-employment; to bring the Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and doctors in training under the protection of the Act; to limit the race to the bottom on workers’ rights by extending elements of the Act...