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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (3 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure technological universities have access to a borrowing framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42151/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Childcare Qualifications (3 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to enumerate the number of childcare courses nationally; furthermore, if it is possible to attain a figure to establish how many of these graduates go on to work in the childcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (3 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Higher Education Authority and/or universities to give consideration to additional special degree and masters programmes for students pursuing qualifications in early years in order to provide full immersion as Gaeilge in early years' settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the steps that are being taken to incorporate nutrition on an inclusive basis into the curriculum, at both primary and secondary levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43335/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (17 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: I am delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is here as I know she is very much on top of her brief. This is evidenced by her presence throughout the country, including Donegal where she has visited a number of facilities in her time as Minister of State. I raise this issue on behalf of the Special Needs Parents Donegal Network Group. Public representatives met with them...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (17 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate her honesty. It is a sign when a Minister of State deviates from his or her script. It shows a bit of respect to the people who raised this issue. It is a very dignified thing to do; she is talking from her own personal interactions with officials and she has obviously thought about this issue. There are ways forward. I thank the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (18 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that there should be a moral obligation on food retail outlets, large or small, to sell fresh fruit, that is, individual fruits, a whole banana, apple, pear, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45374/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the status of ongoing plans in terms of addressing the concerns raised by the general practitioners in Donegal (details supplied); if he will meet them to discuss these concerns as requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time from check-in to seeing a clinician at Letterkenny University Hospital emergency department; the national average for this figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45447/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 259. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the average wait time from arrival at the emergency department at Letterkenny University Hospital to admission; what the national figure is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45450/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 560. To ask the Minister for Health if the option is available for suitable patients in County Donegal in need of intravenous therapy to be facilitated in their own community setting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46450/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (26 Oct 2023)

Joe McHugh: 269. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the terms of reference for the work EU consultants are carrying out at Letterkenny University Hospital currently; the duration of the contract, and contracted price for said work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47054/23]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Joe McHugh: I want to acknowledge the accession status of Georgia. We have to be very vigilant because Russian aggression has not stopped. My colleague, Deputy Ó Murchú and I were out near South Ossetia. There was an innocent man killed by the Russian army while he was going to church on 6 November. We are pushing, supporting and encouraging democracy in Georgia, and that is the pathway and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Food Industry (7 Nov 2023)

Joe McHugh: 417. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many meetings have taken place, if any, in 2022 and to date in 2023 between his officials and officials from the Department of Health to discuss the range and quality of food offerings in the retail sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2023)

Joe McHugh: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Nov 2023)

Joe McHugh: 933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to initiate a specific payment for farmers who have land in SPA and SAC outside the normal payment schemes that are available that is, similar to the top up payment that Islands got a number of years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Joe McHugh: 1344. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered positive organisational scholarship as a possible intervention in healthcare settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48667/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Joe McHugh: It is by pure chance that I am getting to speak because I am not a member of the committee and as it happens, there are no Independent members here. As I do not have the Fine Gael Whip, I appreciate this opportunity. I also acknowledge the Chair's inquiries and his interest in the area. We sit beside each other in the Dáil Chamber and he is always asking about it. I thank the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Joe McHugh: I welcome our witnesses. Some of the faces are familiar as we worked together in the past. I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to speak as I am not a member of this committee. I welcome Mr. Ó Coigligh's statement that the Department has nothing to hide. The public needs to hear those words. On page 3 of his presentation, Mr. Ó Coigligh said the implementation steering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Joe McHugh: My apologies to Mr. Kelly for interrupting him but I will give him the script from Engineers Ireland as there is a specific request-----