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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider adding graduate-entry medicine students to the SUSI grant scheme to help alleviate the costs of that programme for low-income students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54150/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the omission of graduate-entry medicine students from lowered contribution fees for higher education students announced in budget 2023, during a time of a shortage of doctors and medical staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54151/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to students to alleviate the high cost of the graduate-entry medicine programme at University College Dublin (details supplied); the plans in place to bring the fees down in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54152/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 952. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have been recruited in Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital as of 24 October 2022 to implement the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 966. To ask the Minister for Health when named day centres (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Freedom of Information (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 968. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that his Department will take to supply information requested under a freedom of information request to a named person (details supplied). [54416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 1015. To ask the Minister for Health the number of house-bound persons still awaiting a second Covid-19 vaccine; the plans in place to administer the second and third booster vaccinations to this cohort (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54573/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 1018. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a second booster vaccine; the reason that this has not happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 1043. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will be extended for a person (details supplied). [54661/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 1087. To ask the Minister for Health following an agreement of the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work on the need to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease, if he plans to make Covid-19 an occupational injury in Ireland; the plans that are in place to support those suffering long term effects of Covid which was contracted in the course of their work during the height of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 1262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that the forestry appeals committee provides him with an explanation as to the reason the committee will not receive appeals against forestry licences through electronic means, given the very narrow window for making an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54553/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the percentage payment for the temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, to SMEs that are highly energy-dependent and where their energy bills are a significant portion of their outgoings. [53732/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: Will the Minister consider increasing the percentage payment for the temporary business energy support scheme, specifically to SMEs that are highly energy-dependent and where their energy bills form a significant portion of their outgoings? I accept the Minister has moved to help businesses, but in truth, a lot of businesses are in trouble and the help is not enough. I also accept there are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I hear what the Minister said. He has to look after the money, as it were. We already know from many businesses that they are in trouble. The Minister knows that in his constituency, as I do in mine, businesses are closing. A very well-known butcher in Sligo closed one of its shops yesterday. They said it was because of increased electricity and operational costs. They are just one of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: What I am asking is that the Minister would keep it under review, because as I said, businesses are struggling. The Minister will be very well aware that even though he is bringing in this scheme and he decreased the VAT rate, the VAT payments on energy bills for most businesses is now greater, even at 9%, than it was a year or two ago. He has extra money. I want him to look at the reality...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Special Educational Needs (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 February 2022, if she will include the CHO 1 area in the extension of the pilot of the school inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55681/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date for the publication of the Child Maintenance Review Group Report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55754/22]

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: On behalf of the Independent Group I extend my heartfelt sympathy to the family and friends of Vicky Phelan. Death always comes too soon, but at 48 and after suffering so many years of pain, both physical and mental, it was just heart-breaking for Vicky, for her husband Jim, for her children Amelia and Darragh, for her wider family, and her friends in the 221+ support group. Vicky will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I want to raise the inadequacy of the service provided by the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital. Over the past two years, I have submitted a number of questions about this service and the most recent response stated that the HSE had received funding to establish the clinic on a permanent basis. Previously it was established on a pilot basis. However, 11 months after the pilot...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: Last Sunday I joined an energetic and happy group of people, mainly families, heading into in Atlantic Technological University Sligo, ATU Sligo, to attend one of the first programmes of Sligo Science Festival 2022. I could hardly believe the crowds and the real interest that so many people had in all of the different events from the exploration dome to the Its Like Magic but Real event,...