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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Training Support Grant (26 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the training support grant by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and the additional financial supports that the applicant would be eligible for to support the person's studies. [39441/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date of the most recent meeting with the landlord of a location (details supplied); the outcome of the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 636 of 3 November 2020, if the current tenant (incremental) purchase scheme 2016 permits council tenants in homes classed as a duplex to avail of tenant purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39678/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected timeline for the issuance of updated development plan guidelines to local authorities; if he will be inviting public consultation on the draft guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40390/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a representative of an organisation (details supplied) can be invited to join the Pensions Commission in order to ensure that a person who is currently living on the State pension will be on the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40490/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time it is taking to deal with traffic offences in district courts in Dublin; if there are undue delays in such cases being heard due to the Covid-19 emergency period restriction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39641/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a copy of the current An Garda Síochána policy on community policing will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40434/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the policy that governs the requirement for women to see their general practitioner in order to get a refill on a prescription for contraception; if it is within his remit to waive the requirement to see a general practitioner for a contraception refill for the remainder of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39640/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 687. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the women's health task force; the steps being taken to improve the diagnosis, management and treatment of endometriosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39870/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to concerns raised by nursing and midwifery third level students in relation to lack of pay; the steps his Department plans to take to address the concerns urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39876/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tribunals of Inquiry (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 768. To ask the Minister for Health the status of talks with a group (details supplied) in relation to the CervicalCheck tribunal; the reason for the breakdown of talks; the steps he is taking to resume talks and address the concerns of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40431/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 769. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 802 of 24 November 2020, if vitamin D is available free of charge to medical card patients over 65 years of age in view of advice from his Department on same; if it will be covered under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40433/20]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: It should bring shame upon the Minister for Health and the Government that our student nurses and midwives are being exploited for cheap labour under the current clinical placement scheme. There is no other way of describing it. This has been a glaring issue for many years now but the severe additional pressure placed on student nurses and midwives this year during the pandemic has brought...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There is a fair degree of caution and concern among the public about what is likely to happen over the next month or so in respect of Covid rates. In that respect, I feel that a lot of the public health messaging is quite weak and needs attention and reinforcement. I prevail upon the Taoiseach to try to get that right because people still do not know what the arrangements are going to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach's response does not inspire confidence. There is a lot of nervousness about the real dangers of the importation of the virus, but the Taoiseach has not provided any reassurance at all. We are into December now and we are likely to have a big increase in travel over Christmas and the new year. What the Taoiseach is saying is that at this point the Government is looking at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy in relation to two-tier pay among university teaching assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40634/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: People have been looking to stay at home and families have been looking for their older members to be able to stay at home with supports for years. The high number of people in nursing homes is a direct result of Government policy, which incentivises it. At various times, a figure has been put on the number of people who are in nursing homes and who should not be there and who do not need...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I would be happy to do that. A number of us raised the waiving of nurses' registration fees with the Taoiseach in the Dáil this morning and he categorically ruled it out. It would be welcome if the Minister tried to change the Taoiseach's mind on that. There are two concerns about the decision to approve and roll out the vaccine in the UK. According to Kingston Mills, this has not...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: This Supplementary Estimate is not just the figures that the Minister has presented today. There has been some moving around of budgets too. One relates to capital spending on the national children’s hospital. We know that there has been an underspend of €166 million. We had the children’s hospital board here to address the delays which have happened for various...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Another area where there have been savings is from the cost of patients, including low-income patients. We were talking about Sláintecare earlier, and apart from reorienting services, a key element of Sláintecare, if not the key element, is removing cost as a barrier to accessing care. There was an announcement in last year’s budget of a number of measures which would...