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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Speaking of my PA-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is okay. I will speak to Deputy Ó Murchú afterwards.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views with respect to the campaign for better working conditions and pay led by personal assistants working in institutes for further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59672/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: This question relates to the campaign for better pay and working conditions led by personal assistants who work in institutes for further education. They are difficult to recruit and their payments vary depending on the education and training board, ETB, from which they get money. SOLAS provides the overall funding. We need a proper career structure to ensure students with disabilities can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I congratulate the Minister on his commitment, vitality and the way he is changing things. This is a huge area where, as he said, there needs to be a levelling of the playing pitch for people with disabilities. One of the issues we need to determine is how many people, on average, need assistance. We need to make sure there are whole-time equivalent jobs for that. Colleges vary in size...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome those statistics. The Minister knows the issue. I know he is fighting for students with disabilities and that he will do his very best. I am very happy with his response. We also need to address the issue of the percentage of people with disabilities who are employed nationally in State and semi-State bodies. It is a big issue. There was a quota that was very low. We...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Site Acquisitions (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details in relation to the announcement that €100 million is being allocated to fund land legacy debt and €125 million is being allocated to establish a land acquisition fund under the Housing Agency; the way that this will assist in the case of Louth County Council and its applicable sites;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his plans to further develop further and higher education and training for the hospitality sector to entice more persons to consider the sector as a long-term career opportunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59671/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on Louth County Councils plans to develop phase 1 of the Northern Cross Route in Drogheda using NTMA funding; if he will provide an update on recent discussions with Louth County Council on the proposed plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the long-awaited transfer of ownership of the historic Westgate House, Drogheda County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59955/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the long-awaited and much-delayed Westgate vision plan for Drogheda; the expected key project timeline; the expected cost of the initial proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59941/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the long-awaited new fire station for Dunleer, County Louth; the location and details of the development; the key project expected timelines; the total number of staff expected to be employed once complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update in respect of allowing persons studying in Ireland under a student visa to work more than 20 hours per week during term time in order to assist the hospitality and other sectors to fill job vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59937/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Dormant Accounts Fund (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding awarded over the years 2020 to date through the Dormant Account Funds by funding amount, organisation, and location in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update with respect to the progression of the 50-bed St. Joseph’s Hospital development in Ardee, County Louth; when the project is expected to be completed; if he will supply any other relevant information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if progress has been made with respect to recruitment of occupational therapists in County Louth; if neighbouring areas with suitable levels of occupational therapists could transfer or redirect services; if persons will be offered appointments in neighbouring areas, in order to deal with the absolutely unacceptable void in services in the Louth area; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 352. To ask the Minister for Health the number of facilities that have closed and ceased operations by name and location since the payments were awarded, of the recent TAPS payments of nearly €150 million distributed to nursing homes throughout the country to help manage the response to Covid-19; if any nursing homes voluntarily returned monies to his Department for any reason in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Huge resources have been given to the hospital. Since 2015 the number of beds has gone from 357 to 478. A total of €60 million has been spent. It is wrong is to say the hospital is under-resourced. It is not. Nobody is applying for the jobs that are being advertised. This is the difficulty. We need to examine the management in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Our Lady's Hospital...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (6 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister of State’s comments on the updated ambulance bypass protocols. I do not doubt the credibility or the integrity of that decision, nor do I doubt that it will include patients who are critically or seriously unwell or whose condition is likely to deteriorate. This is not a matter of closing the accident and emergency department in Navan. It is a case of moving...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (7 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a response will issue to issues raised in correspondence by a local football club (details supplied) with regard to funding issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61188/22]