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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (28 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of the proposed LMETB headquarters location (details supplied); to indicate if any funding request have been received to progress the plans to the next stage, if so when, can he also indicate when they expect any further progress to be made with targeted timelines provided; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (28 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the contract that was signed between his Department and the D Hotel in Drogheda to provide accommodation services from March included any cooling off period in the contract in which one or both parties can examine, renegotiate or cancel the contract as agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (28 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any contracts signed between his Department and providers of international protection accommodation services have been cancelled within a cooling off period over the years 2020 to date; if so how many; the reasons for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9603/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (28 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he can comment or advise on the best route for intellectual disability students in Dundalk Institute of Technology under St John of God Hospital (details supplied) who have been faced with serious placement obstacles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9546/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 54. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progression and timeline for the appointment of the members of the commission on care for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 63. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects an inquiry into the national Covid response to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9515/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the current discussions within his Department in respect of the dual use proposal for accommodation services within a hotel (details supplied) in Drogheda considering it is the only remaining hotel of scale in the town of Drogheda, the largest town in the country. [9523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to concerns raised by school (details supplied) in respect of the cut to SET resources in terms of the impact it will have on the overall ability of the school to provide appropriate special education to pupils in need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9779/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on queries relating to international protection accommodation services for international protection applicants and Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) [9780/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to seek updates from both Louth and Meath county councils on projected affordable housing units that are schedule or in the pipeline for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10238/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date that the contract to provide accommodation for international applicants in a hotel (details supplied) was signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10606/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a break clause in the contract between his Department and a hotel (details supplied); if so, the notice period for the break clause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10607/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a cooling off period applied to the contract between the Department and a hotel (details supplied) in Drogheda; if so, the associated cooling off dates that were included in the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10608/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 600. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will seek an update from IPAS on the total number of beds nationwide that have been offered to IPAS as ready with certification by a competent person in place, but have yet to be taken up by persons seeking international protection and are awaiting a further inspection and sign off by the fire officer;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 611. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to follow up concerns in respect of mastectomy supports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Deaths (5 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 747. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised in respect of the situation in Cherry Orchard (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10600/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full progress report on the draft wind energy guidelines considering the significant number of applications that continue to be submitted despite the use of outdated guidelines; the expected timeframe for publication of finalised deadlines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 194. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised (details attached); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 309. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 29 February 2024, if he will provide the details on the following (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11223/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (7 Mar 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: We have received no apologies from members. On behalf of the committee I welcome officials from the shared island unit at the Department of the Taoiseach who are joining us today to discuss the unit's work to date and future plans. We are joined by Ms Émer Deane, assistant secretary, British, Irish and Northern Ireland affairs division, and Mr. Eoghan Duffy, principal officer. In a...