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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 586. To ask the Minister for Health when free GP visit cards will be made available to children aged 6 and 7 years and to children in other age cohorts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 587. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of the proposed sodium valproate stakeholder group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3945/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Research Funding (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 588. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has commissioned research into the reasons persons travel abroad for surgery, and the potential associated risks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3946/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 596. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicines that are in short supply; the name of each in tabular form; the reason for the shortage of each medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Incidence (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died by suicide by county, in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3974/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide funding for renewable gas production by anaerobic digesters from grass and slurry on farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure farmers are recognised and remunerated for storing carbon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (31 Jan 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the transfer of local authority veterinary services over to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3979/23]

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on local government. Our councils are some of the most bureaucratic, overstretched and underfunded bodies in the country. They are a shadow of their former selves, with services being cut to the bone to the extent that a council tenant in Kildare with a smoking fuseboard was told on Monday evening that there was no emergency maintenance call-out available...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Guím beannachtaí na féile Bríde ar an Taoiseach. This is similar to the issue raised by the previous speaker. On Saturday, I attended the Care Champions event in DCU. It was clear from listening to the moving and, at times, harrowing testimonies from families, nursing home residents and staff that there is an overwhelming need for a human rights-based inquiry into what...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: This Bill provides a legal basis for the use of body-worn cameras by members of An Garda Síochána, and for the extension of the circumstances in which CCTV and automatic number plate recognition devices may be used by the Garda. These changes were suggested as part of the report by the Commission on the Future of Policing. We in Sinn Féin are in favour of the use of body...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: It is clear from the report that the commission does not support the introduction of a universal basic income, UBI. Before Christmas we saw the reporting on the UBI was very much focused on the headline cost of €50 billion. Will the witnesses give me their opinion on a UBI and details on costs? When we take into account the savings that could be made in administrative aspects of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: What are the witness's views on an alternative policy proposal to UBI? For example, they have an income guarantee in England. How would that work here? What are Mr. Conneely's thoughts on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Does Mr. Brady believe there are other incentives which are more appropriate and efficient in promoting research and development?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I know it is getting late in the evening, so I will finish with this point. Recommendation 9.11 states that the special assignee relief programme, SARP, should be subject to further restrictions, and its continuation subject to regular review as part of the tax expenditure review process. What are the witnesses' views on how SARP should be changed, or should it be removed altogether?

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Genuinely, as a daughter of a mother who was born in a county home, I find Deputy Durkan's contribution incredible, but I will move on. An American writer, Pearl Buck, wrote "Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members." It is clear from this...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Despite what the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, think, there is a severe crisis in housing. Despite very low targets, councils are struggling to provide homes. There are almost 7,000 people on the housing waiting list in Kildare, with a wait of ten to 12 years. My office is inundated with inquiries from people who are couch-surfing, travelling...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will maintain the current reduced VAT rate on hairdressing and barbering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6243/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons housed by way of homes built on that person's own site by each county council in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6245/23]