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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools who were asked but declined to open special classes in their schools, per county, in tabular form. [29305/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who were offered places in special classes or schools in September 2024 but have not commenced school in September 2024, per county, in tabular form. [29306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes that have opened per start of the academic school year, per county, in each of the years 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [29307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants, per school and per postcode in Dublin, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [29308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has reviewed, or is intending to review, the nutritional standards set by his Department in relation to the school meals programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29352/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the interdepartmental working group to oversee and make recommendations on the operation of the school meals scheme, including in relation to nutrition inspection and evaluation, will report their recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29353/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current nutritional standards set by his Department in relation to the school meals programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1397. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing all prescription charges under the general medical service scheme. [29493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1398. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €72, €50, and €0 respectively. [29494/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1399. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the State to fully subsidise the cost of all prescribed inhaled asthma medications and related devices. [29495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1400. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the review of the long-term illness scheme included as part of a review of the current eligibility framework carried out under commitments within the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy; to provide a timeline for the publication of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1404. To ask the Minister for Health the intentions of the HSE with regard to a nursing home (details supplied); if this facility will continue under the control of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29516/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1420. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is considering a review of pay scales for clinical radiographer practice tutors to align with salaries for comparative tutor grades in other allied health professions, as noted in HR Circular 004 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29599/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1458. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a protocol governing the treatment of referrals on the waiting lists when they are being referred back to primary care from a CDNT. [29746/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when discussions regarding the alignment of the Youthreach calendar year with the second level calendar year will conclude; when an announcement will be made regarding those discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29587/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: My thoughts are also with the loved ones of those on the flight from Ahmedabad to England. I have friends in Ahmedabad and we are very worried about them today. I also offer condolences on behalf of the Labour Party to Deputy Conway-Walsh on the loss of her mother. One of the most difficult decisions a family will ever have to take is to put a loved one into a nursing home. This...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The Tánaiste was the Minister for Health when the report of the inquiry into private nursing homes was published in 2020, with regard to the failures that happened in nursing homes. The Tánaiste was the then Minister for Health who saw those very clear recommendations, which have not been implemented. We have a plethora of reports within the Department of Health post-pandemic,...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome that we are having this debate today but we should not be here. I give huge credit to the "RTÉ Investigates" team for putting together that programme. If HIQA had been doing its job, we would not have had to have it. Clare Doyle should not have had to take that enormous step on her part to tell the stories that had been relayed to her. I would argue that we need to hear...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 224. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is consideration underway to reduce the hours of operation of military flight operations due to shortages of qualified air traffic controllers; if so, to set out the nature of the reduction, the impact these changes will have on emergency patient transfers from Casement Aerodrome, and separately the impact this will have on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (12 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 289. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners have ended the annual VAT filing facility for micro SME’s with the introduction of a variable direct debit facility; if he accepts that this will increase business administration costs for small firms that are ordinarily tax compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31527/25]