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Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Those are commercial.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: That is different.

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: It would be regulated. It is a different activity.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the need in the context of the housing crisis to reform the operation of the fair deal scheme in order to encourage participants in the scheme to make their homes available for letting in order to alleviate the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if disability organisations will be provided with funding to allow them to pay the full Christmas bonus to recipients of the rehabilitative training allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50530/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will arrange discussions with the Minister for Health regarding the need in the context of the housing crisis to reform the operation of the fair deal scheme in order to encourage participants in the scheme to make their homes available for letting in order to alleviate the housing shortage; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (4 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce new planning regulations to ensure that cinemas must have railings and or strip-lighting on gangways to assist those with visual impairment or other disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50529/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2020 (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 24 October 2019, the Department or State agency which commissioned official promotional material in respect of budget 2020 which was widely promoted on social media after the budget; the costs involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50861/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans in respect of the long-promised provision of pensions for community employment supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50873/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address educational disadvantage; if the principle of the DEIS approach to targeting resources at such schools in order to counter the impacts of poverty and social exclusion on educational attainment will receive a commitment; if so, the reason class sizes in DEIS band 1 schools have not been reduced in view of the fact other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of the regulation of English language schools in respect of both pay and employment conditions for teachers in the schools and the setting of educational standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50832/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which a campaign (details supplied) is providing health messaging to school students in respect of alcohol; if he has sanctioned the activity; his views on the appropriateness of the alcohol industry being involved in educational content; the existing arrangements for health education in respect of substance misuse; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of the provision of the SPHE programme in schools, by county and school, in which the programme is not being provided; the steps he is taking to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50875/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Juvenile Offenders (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minors referred to the national office on juvenile crime by Garda division in each of the past three years to date in 2019; the number referred to the youth diversion programme for prosecution or other in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50870/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Question Heading for question(s) 139 (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to open up the education and training for solicitors and barristers in order to achieve greater accountability, independence and competition in these sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50871/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the long delay in publishing a report (details supplied) into the orthodontic service; the action the HSE has taken in respect of the issues relating to children that were covered by the report; and if, in the interests of openness and accountability, he will undertake to publish the report without further delay. [50863/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority of Ireland (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the research which has been carried out here on the health impacts of nitrates in processed meats; the consideration which has been given to World Health Organisation research on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50865/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the status of child waiting lists for scoliosis treatment by hospital and length of time on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50869/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of appropriate treatment for a person (details supplied); if a care plan has been agreed for them since the meeting of their family with the hospital on 4 October 2019; the timescale for the treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50874/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Industry (5 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking and the funding being provided to address the proliferation of horses being bred here especially in respect of urban horses many of which are treated cruelly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50867/19]