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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (20 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has read the recent report by an organisation (details supplied) which calls for urgent political leadership from Government by moving the sustainable development goals unit from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to the Department of the Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Investigations (20 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 718. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1312 of 13 June 2023 and as per original question, if he will answer the question on whether "this clear neglect of a vulnerable adult was referred to the gardaí by any the services involved."; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29698/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (20 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 725. 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, in tabular form; if any nursing homes voluntarily returned monies to his Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop and support further and higher education in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes closed by court order under section 59 of the Health Act 2007 since January 2020; if he will list the name, address and operator of such homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29906/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes that received more than two inspections from HIQA in 2022 due to HIQA concerns about the care and welfare of residents; if he will provide details of these homes; if HIQA is now satisfied there are no current HIQA concerns about the care and welfare of residents in these homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29910/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA has undertaken any prosecutions against any residential care facilities, proprietors, persons in charge and entities for any breach of regulations since April 2021; if so, the regulations breached by each such facility, person or entity; the details, including names of persons, facilities and entities prosecuted; the outcome of such prosecutions;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA has undertaken any prosecutions since June 2021 against any residential care facilities, proprietors, persons in charge and entities for any breaches of regulations; if so, the regulations breached by each such facility, person or entity; the name of the persons, facilities and entities prosecuted; the outcome of such prosecutions; and if he will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: The appalling rape of a number of women in a HSE-run nursing home has shocked the nation. Why is the Government failing to protect people? A total of 978 incidents were reported to HIQA in 2022 in relation to the care and welfare of older people in nursing homes and other institutions but HIQA has no regulatory remit to investigate or manage any of those individual complaints. The Minister...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care of the Elderly (22 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and acknowledge her interest in care of older people. My criticisms are not of the Minister of State personally but of the Government, Government policy, the lack of delivery and the lack of hope for people. At 3 a.m. on 3 April 2020, a most appalling and evil act was perpetrated upon an elderly lady who was a full-time resident in a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care of the Elderly (22 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Minister of State and acknowledge, as I stated at the outset, her absolute commitment to her work. I support her and believe she is doing her best, but the Government is not doing enough. I wish to make that clear. Where is the commission on care that was promised in 2020? There is no sign of it. Where is the commissioner for older people? There is no sign of him or her. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (22 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there was a net reduction in the number of refuge spaces available in County Louth from 15 in quarter 3 2022 to 13 in quarter 2 2023, the only net reduction of spaces in the country; how this will be addressed through the provision of additional spaces in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Engagement with An Taoiseach (22 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is special in that as well as having Members of the Dáil and Seanad, all 18 MPs elected in the North to Westminster are entitled to come to speak at our meetings. The majority of these, a total of 12, do so regularly. We have meetings every week. We welcome very much the improvement in the relationship...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Government's promise in the programme for Government of an end-of-life hospice unit in Drogheda was welcomed, as were the allocation of €1 million and the identification of a site at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The people of Drogheda have been waiting for developments since then and I have been waiting ten weeks for a reply from the Minister for Health setting out the progress...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome this debate. It is timely and important. I am speaking primarily as Chair of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and also as a Deputy from a Border constituency who lived through all of the Troubles. If anything is absolutely true, it is that the Good Friday Agreement has worked and the violence has ended. Notwithstanding the fact that more...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome this legislation. I welcome that the energy companies will be returning significant amounts of money to the Government, the taxpayer and indeed the people who pay for the electricity. I agree it is very late in the day, but at least it is here. No Deputy in this House would say we should not proceed with the legislation as quickly as possible now that we have it. Of course,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review current GDPR policies to ensure data sharing is possible and more streamlined between State agencies, where there are serious safeguarding issues highlighted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25161/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond or seek responses to concerns raised by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30500/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has held any further consultation with stakeholders in respect of the increase in toll charges from 1 July 2023; if he will revisit the issue with a view to a further postponement until 2024 to allow for cost of living in other sectors to drop in the intervening timeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31236/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to concerns and proposals from a person (details supplied) in respect of family reunification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30851/23]