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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (23 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the situation with respect to stakeholder engagement on free schoolbooks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14246/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I spoke to John, a constituent from Killaloe. His daughter, Livvy, is 11. She is autistic and has a moderate learning disability. At the start of this year, her behaviour took a downward spiral which saw her being suspended from school, attacking her father, his partner and her two brothers. Worse than that, she has recently started to say during these meltdowns that she wants to die....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will seek to amend the current situation in respect of age-related rates of jobseeker’s allowance for under-25-year-olds to bring them into line with rates of payment for those over 25 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to extending the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15181/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide for a veterinary school to be located in the University of Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15779/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Will the Minister share with the House any plans he has to develop a veterinary school at the University of Limerick? Will he make a statement on that matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister for his response and for all the information he has outlined. I appreciate what he has said about the independent process and waiting until the report arrives. For the past five decades, veterinary education in Ireland has been delivered in the one school in UCD. It does not reflect the wider picture. As the Minister mentioned, the school is too small and the course...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I recently attended a community engagement with the ESB in Kilkee at which the board laid out its plans for future developments in the Green Atlantic project at Moneypoint, and potential offshore development in the Shannon Estuary. I am proud of the part that west Clare will play in the just transition and I thank the ESB for sharing its exciting plans. The most important thing is that when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 212. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 9 March 2023, the effect the relocation of homebirth services from community operations to acute operations will have on rural women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15780/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 213. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 9 March 2023, what significant additional investment has been made to assist integration and the delivery of safe and high-quality care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15781/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 214. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 9 March 2023, what provision has been made for post-natal hubs in County Clare, and the wider CHO 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15782/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (29 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 215. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 577 of 7 March 2023, when the evidence-based synthesis will be completed by the Health Research Board; if he will provide a timeline of the expected conclusion of work; when the clinical review group will evaluate that evidence to then make an assessment on whether there is evidence to support the recommendation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (29 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 216. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 578 of 7 March 2023, if he will accept that Ireland now has the most restrictive regime in the EU27 in place, with respect to the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15784/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (30 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 21. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he has undertaken to ratify the optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15777/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to ensure that regional universities and technological universities and institutions will be equipped to train the offshore renewable energy workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15778/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (18 Apr 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the failure rate for employers applying for atypical work scheme permissions by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18085/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (18 Apr 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I wish to raise the atypical work scheme, AWS, and specifically the failure rate for employers applying via AWS by county, and I would be most grateful if the Minister would make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (18 Apr 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State and the officials in his Department for the changes made to the atypical working scheme, AWS, to date. I welcome in particular the shortening to one month of the cooling-off period, which now means two AWS can be availed of in a 12 month period, and there is the ability to spread the 90 days over six months, supporting travel into and out of Ireland. As the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (18 Apr 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. The issue of Garda resourcing in County Clare must be raised again. As the Minister of State will be aware, Clare received the fifth lowest divisional influx of gardaí into its operational area since 2015. Only 51 gardaí have joined the force in Clare in that time. In 2022, only two gardaí were allocated to Clare, and no...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: This week I spoke to Maria from Kilkee. She has a 16-year-old son who is deeply depressed and has had suicidal ideation. She has had to go outside the county to get two private diagnoses in Dublin. Even then, she was still left contending with Clare's extensive waiting list. When her son eventually received an appointment, it was unfortunately cancelled the day before due to a red weather...