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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2072. To ask the Minister for Health the consultation that has taken place with his colleague Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to the recent NPHET recommendations; the preparations that are underway made to address any potential impact that an increase in the delta variant will have on further and third-level settings; the measures that are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2073. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE review of the epidemiological profile and public health response to Covid-19 in educational settings further to the recent NPHET recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36493/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2075. To ask the Minister for Health if health authorities have communicated with church dioceses regarding first holy communion and confirmation ceremonies following the recent update to the Government’s plan Recovery and Resilience: The Path Ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36495/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2156. To ask the Minister for Health if health authorities have communicated with church dioceses regarding First Holy Communion and Confirmation ceremonies following the recent update to Recovery and Resilience: The Path Ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36684/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2076. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the public health guidelines now in place regarding First Holy Communion and Confirmation ceremonies scheduled to take place prior to 5 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36496/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2077. To ask the Minister for Health when first holy communions and confirmation ceremonies will be permitted under Recovery and Resilience: The Path Ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36497/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2157. To ask the Minister for Health if the public health guidelines now in place regarding First Holy Communion and Confirmation ceremonies scheduled to take place prior to 5 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2158. To ask the Minister for Health when First Holy Communion and Confirmation ceremonies will be permitted under Recovery and Resilience: The Path Ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36686/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2580. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restructure the National Oversight Committee of the National Drug Strategy into a number of sub-groups and to appoint Health Service Executive managers or Department of Health officials to chair each of the sub-groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38143/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2566. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to review the drug and alcohol task force handbook; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38124/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2567. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to pilot the replacement of the drug and alcohol task force handbook chairperson appointment process with one that is led by his Department and the HSE for the purpose of limiting appointments to applicants from the private, business and enterprise sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38125/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2579. To ask the Minister for Health the annual core funding allocated by his Department to the drug and alcohol taskforces in each of the years 2008 to 2021, in tabular form. [38142/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the sports capital grant will open for applications. [42884/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene and seek an urgent resolution to the matters halting the progression of a school building project (details supplied) in County Dublin. [42334/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if potential funding streams have been explored by her Department to address the matters that have arisen in the course of progressing a school building project (details supplied) in County Dublin. [42335/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 774. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ratify the second optional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the details of the outstanding issues that need to be resolved by the Government to enable ratification [42542/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 788. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department will publish legislative proposals for paid leave relating to domestic violence as agreed on 8 December 2020. [43164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1196. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2066 of 27 July 2021, if NIAC has reviewed further information or studies available regarding the use of mixed heterologous vaccine schedules; if NIAC made any updated recommendations on vaccination policy to the Government on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42078/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1197. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to address the challenges facing Irish citizens resident in Canada who have received a mixed mRNA vaccine approved by Health Canada yet do not meet the specific definitions to be considered fully vaccinated for the purposes of travel to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42079/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 1359. To ask the Minister for Health if the Strengthening Disability Services Fund of €20 million announced in 2020 has been distributed in full; if not, the amount currently available in the fund; and the number of organisations that have received moneys from the fund. [42540/21]