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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Assessments of Needs for Children with Disabilities: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (1 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: Is there a standard international metric of the cost of assessment per child? The new standard operating procedure for assessment of need was addressed in a reply to a parliamentary question of mine, which stated that the HSE has developed a standard operating procedure for the assessment of need process to ensure that children with disabilities and their families access appropriate...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I first wish to express my concern at reports that the out-of-hours GP services in the Fermoy and Mitchelstown area will cease shortly. We are being told that a stricture is being put on that service on the basis that if a GP is over the age of 60 or is pregnant, the service may no longer be sustainable. This is very worrying news and if taxpayers' money is being used to fund the SouthDoc...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the response insofar as the Minister of State has stated on the Dáil record that, "There are no plans at present to change the provision of SouthDoc out-of-hours services in Fermoy and Mitchelstown." I welcome the fact that any service provision changes would have to be subject to discussion. It seems the Minister of State's response acknowledges that this is a private...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I ask for a bit of latitude. I know of no Irish College of General Practitioners guidelines on the exclusion of GPs from delivering front-line healthcare on the basis of being over the age of 60 years or pregnant. I would caution the Minister of State not to use that line with us, please. I would also caution against the use of the word elderly in characterising certain GPs.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan in Cobh, County Cork. [40549/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the public health guidelines under which she could allow the resumption of pod swimming classes [40547/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for a tender to be published (details supplied). [40517/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is a reduction in SNA activity in a school; and if she will examine matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [40600/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 17 November 2020, if she has discretion to intervene in a manner such that no student would be put at a disadvantage given that the school year has started and that there is precedent in cases in which a school bus service was provided by a private provider in the north Cork area due to exceptional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the overall delay on all interventions for children under the age of 18 years [40599/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Functions (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 213. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has had regard to contracts of employment within the sectors under her remit; and if she is in receipt of correspondence on concerns raised by those sectors. [40548/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 85. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the engagement he has had with the Minister for Finance or the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on rates of pay and conditions for the early years education sector. [41064/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I want to keep the pressure on the Minister in respect of pay rates in the childcare and early years education sector. We have sight of a report, Pathways to Better Prospects: Delivering Proper Terms and Conditions for the Early Years Workforce in Ireland, of which the Minister will no doubt be aware. It was produced by the department of work and employment studies at the University of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister's response but I want to pin him down a little more in respect of what he said about joint labour committees. He stated that work is progressing, but it would be useful if we had more definitive timelines and if we knew what the expectations are for a successful outcome to that such that it can be guaranteed that there will be an improvement in the pay and conditions...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: I believe the Minister to be genuine in the agenda he is pursuing on this. I welcome his reply and fully acknowledge that he cannot give a definitive timeline, and it is useful for us to have some sense of the workings, but we want this to end up as an interminable process that outlives the potential mandate of any sitting Government. The workers in the sector expect clear timelines and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if dependents of pandemic unemployment payment applicants can be added to their claim. [39988/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of legislation to stop the increase in the pension age. [39992/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Student Grant Scheme (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has met with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on the status of Covid-19 payments and the way in which they will impact SUSI applicants. [39990/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of inspections carried out by inspectors by county since the start of public health restrictions. [39989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (3 Dec 2020)

Seán Sherlock: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has met with the Pensions Commission since it was announced. [39991/20]