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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Disability Matters
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: Earlier Mr. Cawley spoke about the fact that many videos have captions and auto text. The idea was put forward to have a disabled person on the team. This is a good idea. I suggest, in light of the web accessibility legislation, that this is a real business opportunity. Such a business could be established. An individual Deputy or a small company might not be in a position to employ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (28 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are further supports available to owners of electric vehicles given the escalating cost of electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47463/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Autism
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank all the people who presented this morning. I was speaking in the Dáil so I had to chase out so if I ask a question that has already been asked, please let me know. We are told the obligations and duties of public bodies are clear. They are fairly simple and straightforward. There are common things that people get wrong. How easy would it be to deal with some of the more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Autism
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: Earlier Mr. Cawley spoke about the fact that many videos have captions and auto text. The idea was put forward to have a disabled person on the team. This is a good idea. I suggest, in light of the web accessibility legislation, that this is a real business opportunity. Such a business could be established. An individual Deputy or a small company might not be in a position to employ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: 170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider increasing the income threshold to a minimum of €50,000 to qualify for council housing assistance supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47810/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Sep 2022)

Marian Harkin: 244. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of on-call services for the HSE in the community at weekends from Friday evening until Monday morning (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47678/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: Yesterday, Monday, 3 October, dermatology clinics were cancelled at Sligo University Hospital, SUH. A letter was sent on 22 September by Dr. McKenna, the consultant dermatologist at SUH, to healthcare providers telling them the clinics would be cancelled. The reason we have got to this point is more than 3,500 new patients are waiting for their first appointment and there are 100 new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I raised it already

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: Perhaps raising it here matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank everybody for their presentations. In a way I feel I have a foot in both camps as I was a teacher for a number of years. I agree with our guests that schools are very busy places. We all like to think sometimes that our lives are the busy ones, and indeed they are, but lots of others have busy lives too. The truth is when teachers get to their summer holidays they are looking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: Do Mr. Clerkin’s colleagues in the unions agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: What one can do-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: This is in the context of a system if it is not working. By the way, I do not see this as a failure of teachers but of a system that does not work. If the system is not working, then, perhaps, is it not time to look beyond that? That is very much the question.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am glad to see the Minister here this evening because the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, who is leaving the Chamber, the Minister and I have discussed this on a number of occasions. I very much hope that tonight we can finally get confirmation of the promise the Minister made when he visited Drumkeeran last November. He met farmers, stakeholders, landowners and local politicians etc....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: I will be honest with the Minister. Perhaps it is my naivety but I really thought when I came in here this evening he would be able to say there was a package in place and that it was agreed. I cannot remember exactly the wording the Minister used the last time I raised this issue on the floor of the House but I think the phrase "in due course" was used before. That could have been six or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48641/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify, in the context of a review of solar panel planning exemptions, if planning permission is required for the installation of solar PV panels on listed buildings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Courses Accreditation (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an accreditation issue with a course (details supplied); and the plans that are in place to deal with this matter. [48188/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 727. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the independent review of radiation therapy; if he will provide a timeline for the commencement of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48642/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to deal with the severe shortage of radiation therapists in the HSE, of which currently, 15% of positions are vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48643/22]