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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 579. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that were engaging with Tusla or that Tusla had identified as at risk, who suffered a violent attack or sexual assault after the point in time when Tusla had begun engaging with them or identified them as at risk in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [30718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 580. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of mothers of children in foster care and separately children in foster care that have died in each year since 2015 in each of Tusla's 17 service areas. [30719/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 581. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of mothers of children in foster care that have died in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2023; and the number of mothers that died in each of the 17 service areas of Tusla. [30720/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 582. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances over the past ten years in the State that had previously engaged with Tusla or who Tusla had previously identified as at risk. [30721/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 583. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the purpose of a Tusla practice assurance and service monitoring team report; the number of PASM reports that Tusla has carried out since the agency was established; if he will list the primary pseudonym used in each report; the PASM reports that he has read or been briefed on since he took...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 591. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has either met with or corresponded with managers of direct provision centres since he took office; and the dates on which these meeting or instances of correspondence occurred. [30891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the companies that have been contracted to run or manage direct provision centres in the State, either currently or in the past; and the amount paid to each over each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [30892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to any instances where the owner of a building which is or was operating as a direct provision centre, is alleging that the company contracted by the State to manage or run the centre is not paying their rent to the owner of the property; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if IPAS or his Department collate data on the number of times asylum seekers living in direct provision have attempted to take their own lives; and if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with such data, in tabular form. [30894/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish this Deputy with the details of capital funding for a second CT scanner and build under capital submissions for the RCSI hospital group to be completed by December 2023; when plans were drawn up in relation to Connolly Hospital; when a project manager and design team was established; and if he will provide an update on the progress made...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any delay with the progressing of a second CT scanner for Connolly Hospital; and if his attention has been drawn to the long delays being faced by critically ill patients in terms of diagnosis due to the lack of a second CT scanner. [30497/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 614. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been spent in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, by Connolly Hospital on the outsourcing of scans and tests to the private sector; if his Department has ever sought to determine what delays are entailed in patient treatment are due to the outsourcing by the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30498/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (27 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 777. To ask the Minister for Health the projected total cost of the completion of the new National Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30826/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to reduce class sizes in primary schools throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31846/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If we were to reduce class sizes by just two pupils throughout the country, it would make an enormous different to the lives, education and future of children. The Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, has said it would only cost €13 million in budget 2024 and would bring us into line with the rest of the EU. This would be particularly important for DEIS schools and children...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It sounds like a small thing to reduce a class size by two or even just by one, but it is something that will make a significant difference to children in the State. Primary schools are significantly neglected in funding when compared to secondary schools. Primary schools receive a capitation grant and, when that is calculated, it translates to approximately €1 per child per day to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I wanted to raise a slightly related issue, if I can, because of the volume of parents who have called my office in recent times on this issue. The Government is imposing a new SPHE curriculum on children as young as 12 years old in secondary schools. Much of the content of this is ideologically based and is not scientifically based. The textbooks that have been published have actually...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It did not listen to the consultation from parents.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Sure.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That is exclusionary.