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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that adequate funding is allocated to primary schools in order to fund a reduction in class sizes, allow teaching principals adequate time to carry out management duties and increase school running costs when Budget 2022 is being framed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 598. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation will be in place to enact the changes to the nursing home support scheme for farm families; if these changes can be applied in the case of a person who entered nursing home care before the legislation is passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44737/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeframe for the announcement of the allocation of sports capital funding grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 217. To ask the Minister for Health when the four currently unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts approved in 2018 will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate and the establishment of a stakeholder group to review safety and risk measures in relation to the prescribing and distribution of sodium valproate, which was announced in November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45513/21]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: The number of men, women and children on waiting lists is truly shocking. I do not use that word lightly or often but "shocking" is an appropriate word to describe the fact that nearly 18% of our population is on a healthcare waiting list. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. While the national figures are stark, the figures in the north west, at Sligo University...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: My time is brief so I will go straight into it. I am not convinced this plan will deliver for renters. Rents are out of control and many people end up paying more in rent than they would on a mortgage. This means, of course, that they cannot even save for a mortgage because they are paying such high rents, and that is a really cruel trap in which to be caught. It is worth noting that a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if information on the stated need to consider environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider setting up an expert panel to investigate and quantify the extent of the use of defective concrete blocks in construction to assist local authorities where relevant, in view of the fact it is viewed as a waste of time and resources if each local authority must individually put that expertise in place....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in providing a broadband connection point under the National Broadband Plan to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46013/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are circumstances in which the fees for an application for naturalisation can be waived. [46347/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; his views on whether psychosocial support in paediatric diabetes care should be available in each team; the reason there is no access to this support outside of Dublin paediatric diabetes services; and if he will...

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

Marian Harkin: 801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding in budget 2022 to provide a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse in all 18 does adjustment for normal eating, DAFNE, certified diabetes centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46644/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if the extra funding required to provide the appropriate diabetes staffing resources to provide access to the dose adjustment for normal eating programme for all persons with type 1 diabetes will be made available in the upcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46645/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place as a matter of urgency to deal with the backlog in the CervicalCheck screening; his further plans with regard to the number of women who are required to have retests due to the time delay in testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46236/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 703. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3083 of 27 July 2021, if the daily transport charge being charged to service users in CHO1 is also being levied throughout all other CHO areas. [46239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Marian Harkin: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position in regard to the full reopening of day centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46570/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; his views on the fact that psychosocial support in diabetes care is not formally embedded as part of diabetes management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46634/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 790. To ask the Minister for Health when the specialist community diabetes teams under the enhanced community care programme be appointed; if it will be available to all persons with diabetes free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46633/21]

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

Marian Harkin: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a diabetes psychology resource to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the Integrated Model of Care for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease Implementation Guide; his views on whether access to psychosocial support in these teams should be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46635/21]