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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: The witnesses have heard plain and clearly the recommendation of this committee on the system the Department is putting in place and on how it should work. As I said, it is seldom one gets all-party agreement on a recommendation such as this and on the implications it would have. I would hope the Minister will be as firm as we are in telling the Department to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: The Department can take it as an instruction to the Government and the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (7 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the new school facilities at a school (details supplied). [48771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: 377. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [48766/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: I do not want to ask any questions. They have been well covered by everybody. I thank the witnesses for their presentation, their presence and the responses they have given thus far. I acknowledge the submission they have made to the commission and its contents. It is incumbent upon us members of the committee to reflect the witnesses' wishes as best we can when we respond to that with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with the orthopaedic clinic at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tulllamore. [49244/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: I wish to share time with Deputy Niamh Smyth.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: We have an extra few minutes due to the absence of speakers before us in the debate. We came into government in difficult circumstances. It was about who could coalesce because of the nature of the result. It was about who could best put together an objective to address those issues that mattered most at the time of the election, which were housing, health, climate change and the associated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); when an appointment will be scheduled for orthopaedic surgery at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly. [51569/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (19 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO8; the corresponding figures for each area at the end of June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50607/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (19 Oct 2021)

Barry Cowen: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for home care support in each local health office area in CHO8; the corresponding figures for each area at the end of June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50608/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Policy (3 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: I expect that the Minister of State will confirm that the role and responsibilities of the entities accountable for the energy sector, namely, EirGrid and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, can be summarised as "EirGrid's task is to deliver a safe, secure and reliable supply of electricity now, and in the future" and the "CRU's mission is to protect the public interest in Water,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Policy (3 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State. I respect that he may not be privy to some of the information and queries I have relayed in my presentation. I acknowledge the CRU might well be accountable to an Oireachtas joint committee, but the same cannot be said for EirGrid. EirGrid is the responsibility of the line Minister. On the questions I asked, I am led to believe the amount paid by EirGrid...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: 902. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [52374/21]

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

Barry Cowen: 1130. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a long-stay bed. [53344/21]

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

Barry Cowen: 1133. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when he or she can expect an appointment at the audiology clinic, Portlaoise Hospital, County Laois. [53349/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: 352. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment for orthopaedic surgery at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [53775/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: 354. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment with the nephrology department at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. [53777/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses counties Offaly and Laois, respectively that have registered under the business resumption support scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54373/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Nov 2021)

Barry Cowen: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in each supported by the employment wage subsidy scheme and its predecessor since the start of the pandemic; the value of the support in each county over that time in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54374/21]