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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: On top of the waiting list figures that have been mentioned, a significant cohort of young people seek referral to CAMHS who, through inconsistent application of standing operating procedures, do not get their referral accepted, and who are told that it is either only behavioural or only emotional and it is not appropriate. Behind these figures of waiting lists there is another significant...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove all tax levied on automated external defibrillators, AED, under European Union Council Directive EU 2022/542 of 5 April 2022 recognising the fundamental need for wider provision of such systems throughout the State. [25677/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will urgently provide an update on the passport applications of persons (details supplied) which are currently one month overdue based on the online tracking form and that are needed for flights on 1 June 2022. [26556/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the results of her Department's research into parental alienation will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any process whereby a person can reclaim the cost of medication which has now been reimbursed by the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (26 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the Departmental guidance, information manuals and training for peace commissioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27016/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a citizenship application of a person (details supplied) will be expedited due the significant delays in processing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27183/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a citizenship application of a person (details supplied) will be expedited due the significant delays in processing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27184/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I have been working with a variety of families who are facing the consequences of foetal valproate syndrome, caused by exposure to sodium valproate medication during pregnancy. This issue has been raised in the House numerous times and there are issues in the past that need to be looked into, but there are also issues that need to be addressed to prevent harm into the future. There are to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I will start by saying I disagree with the Chairman about the outcome of the elections. Clearly I am an outsider from down here looking up. One of the biggest outcomes was the rise of the Alliance Party, which is representative of a rise in the number of people who just want to get on with life, in a way. I will still grieve for the loss of the two Green MLAs, who would also have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: We might stick with funding just for a moment. Many of these funding programmes are often designed by somebody very far removed from the front line. An example down here is the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP. Much of the time good work is done in spite of SICAP and not because of it. Are there roadblocks or poor design in these types of funding? If we do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I understand that it is not necessarily the right forum but it is an underdeveloped piece of youth work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: Unfortunately, funding streams often do not account for, consider or measure these soft outcomes but look for hard outcomes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I acknowledge that I am coming at it from a view down here - a view from Dublin - but we have certainly gone on a journey in community work in Dublin over the past 20 years where we have moved from those emergent and soft outcomes and funding them directly to a much more rigid, hard, outcome-focused approach. It has had that consequence. The person filling in those forms is ticking boxes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I feel I have been gazumped because I was just about to talk about the short- and long-form birth certificate. I have asked my personal assistant to look up why we stopped using short form. It was stated everywhere that a long-form certificate must be submitted, so the short-form certificates kind of became defunct. There are many situations where a private long-form birth certificate with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I appreciate my time is up. I will make two quick points. I am concerned about accelerating the process too much because it then becomes a tick-box exercise, but if it was in the courts it could be sped up and we could have appropriate review through the courts or whatever. To be clear, while I talked about inter-country adoption, I appreciate surrogacy and adoption are not the same thing....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: That comes back to regulating intermediaries. I will stop now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: If a guardian ad litemwere to be appointed, would it be an Irish guardianad litemor one from Ukraine, India or America?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: That is another of the challenges. If a social worker in Ireland were to be appointed, would he or she have the required legal standing? That is something that is on our side of the table. I am just in my head about guardians ad litem; I am sorry.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will give consideration to reducing late filing penalties and-or the introduction of a discretion for the application of penalties by the Companies Registration Office in cases in which an error such as a failed filing fee payment results in a late return as these penalties and requirement for full audited accounts place a...