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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the difficulty prospective trade apprentices experience in finding an apprenticeship employer in view of the skills shortage in construction; if a system to match prospective trade apprentices with apprenticeship employers exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42978/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1306. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the Irish Nurses and Midwives' Organisation, INMO, compensation claim; if he has responded to the INMO; the steps he is taking to recognise the contribution of healthcare workers during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42408/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1155. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the closure of applications for the pre-exposure prophylaxis scheme in a number of hospitals (details supplied); the steps he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41881/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1168. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to persons who, for medical reasons, cannot receive a first and or second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine; the steps he will take to ensure they are not unfairly discriminated against in the rollout of the Digital Covid Certificate or in the return to workplaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41929/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1307. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1195 of 31 March 2021, the status of the review of the 12-month blood donation ban for gay men, bisexual men, transgender men and men who have sex with men; if an individual risk-based assessment is still under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42409/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1352. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the sale of a company (details supplied); the implications of the sale on Irish DNA samples collected by the company; if he has engaged with the company in relation to their controllership of genomic research databases following this sale; if GDPR allows for the private sale of Irish citizen’s genomics data; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1259. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Maternity Hospital project board is required to comply with the updated Public Spending Code lifecycle by submitting three separate business cases, preliminary, intermediate and final; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42252/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1260. To ask the Minister for Health the position the business case submitted to his Department by the National Maternity Hospital project board in December 2020 currently lies in relation to the Public Spending Code life cycle decision making process; if the National Maternity Hospital business case submitted in December 2020 represents a preliminary business case seeking approval in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1261. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Maternity Hospital business case has been progressed since December 2020; if so, the way in which it has been progressed in relation to the Public Spending Code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42254/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Information and Communications Technology (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1264. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards for the implementation of The National Medical Laboratory Information System project which was promised to begin roll-out in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42266/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1274. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address excessive consumption of unhealthy foods in preschool settings particularly in relation to celebrations (details supplied); if guidance has been issued to preschools on the consumption of unhealthy foods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42306/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for mental health services by CHO and age category; and the breakdown by the length of time they have been waiting in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42514/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1354. To ask the Minister for Health the reason data on adult mental health waiting lists is not captured nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1377. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for MRI scans for the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; the steps being taken to address the backlog with MRI scans and to improve the waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42636/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Abuse (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1385. To ask the Minister for Health if any retrospective complaints have been made regarding the sexual abuse of minors in a hospital (details supplied) which may have occurred from the late 1970s until the end of the 1990s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42681/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1412. To ask the Minister for Health the areas in which the additional €10 million allocated to mental health due to the impact of Covid-19 in 2021 announced in February 2021 has been spent to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42868/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1413. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of expenditure of the €10 million allocated to mental health due to the impact of Covid-19 in 2021 announced in February 2021 spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42869/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1414. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the 2021 budget for mental health that has been spent in 2021; if he will report on any funding still to be allocated or spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42870/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 1424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive care beds that have been provided since he announced the expansion of critical care capacity to 446 beds in December 2020; the locations in which these beds have been provided; the timescale for providing the outstanding beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42977/21]

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I commend Deputy Mairéad Farrell and Sinn Féin on bringing forward the motion, which is important. There is no doubt that the FOI legislation is in need of review. I welcome the Minister's statement and his commitment to ensuring that a review takes place. It is curious that we are talking about a review of freedom of information this week, given all that has happened in recent...