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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: Like many others here, I have been inundated with concerned parents who are heartbroken, physically broken, who have been worn down by the constant fight by being on the receiving end of that adversarial and hostile response that Senator Clonan talked about and by being forced to fill the gaps in services themselves. In attempting to paper over the cracks, we have tried to make parents the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: No one else was limited. I have been waiting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: I appreciate that but I am speaking much less than did other Deputies and I do not intend to come back in. I will just finish this point. Parents who have been trying to get their statutory rights have been going to court and being dragged through that process, only for the court case to not be contested. That seems like a deep waste of resources, both time and money, for everyone...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (21 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 4 May 2022, if he will provide a further update on the timeline to confirm the statutory instrument to give effect to the changes agreed in the CIÉ regular wages scheme. [32134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give consideration to the extension of deferred sitting of exams in future for those who suffer an episode during an exam (details supplied). [32182/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the extension works to be carried out at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32521/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: On Tuesday, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera told journalists that the effort to reform the Energy Charter Treaty will fail to ensure alignment with the Paris Agreement and the objectives of the European Green Deal. On the same day five young Europeans, went before the European Court of Human Rights to challenge their governments' membership of the Energy Charter Treaty as a...

Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Bill entitled an Act to amend the Litter Pollution Act 1997 to provide for public health and cleaner streets. Dog fouling may seem like a very small issue for our national Parliament but it is a huge issue in my local area and nationally. We have seen figures recently from Cork, Dublin and Tipperary showing that a paltry...

Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (23 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider an amendment to the Credit Union Act 1994 to permit credit unions to include a statement when issuing the notice of the AGM to each eligible member in the notice to the effect that the annual accounts may be obtained on the website of the credit union or at the registered office of the credit union (details supplied); and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (23 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 202. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of St. Andrew's Church, Suffolk Street, Dublin 2 which is owned by Tourism Ireland and that has been vacant and on sale for over five years; the number of offers that have been received for the site; the works that are being carried out to maintain the structure and prevent dereliction; if her Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: International Agreements (28 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 128. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that have been taken by his Department in line with European Union to ensure that the European Union-Morocco Association Agreement does not cover territory in occupied Western Sahara. [33560/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: International Agreements (28 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 129. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that have been taken by his Department in line with the Court of Justice of the European Union decisions to ensure that the European Union agreement with Morocco on additional liberalisation of trade in agricultural and fish products does not cover territory in occupied Western Sahara. [33561/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Agreements (28 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that have been taken by his Department in line with European Union law to ensure that Ireland's bilateral agreement with Morocco relating to double taxation does not cover territory in occupied Western Sahara. [33559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Jul 2022)

Patrick Costello: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the first line treatment for hyperemesis gravidarum is reimbursed on the drugs payment and medical card schemes; and if he will provide an update same. [36726/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Patrick Costello: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the early intervention special therapy programme for schools which was launched in 2018; the schools currently included in the Dublin South Central area; and the plans for a wider roll-out of the scheme. [35423/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (12 Jul 2022)

Patrick Costello: 89. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the exclusion of vulnerable individuals such as newly arrived asylum seekers, from access to abortion services without charge on the basis that they do not have a personal public service number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37248/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jul 2022)

Patrick Costello: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed implementation of ASD classes and units in Dublin 12 in the schools currently without any (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jul 2022)

Patrick Costello: 602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s consideration of proposals regarding extending free travel eligibility for people with epilepsy who are unable to drive as a result of their condition; if these proposals will be considered in the context of the upcoming budget; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Patrick Costello: 664. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the provision of specific pathways of support to reach under-represented minorities within the autism community including members of Traveller, ethnic minorities and LGBTQIA+ communities. [37131/22]