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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the new national safeguarding policy for the health and social care sector, as promised in budget 2023, with particular emphasis on the safeguarding of adults and older people, if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional adult day care places for older people and dementia/Alzheimer's sufferers provided in CHO7 since Budget 2023, in tabular form; and the locations and accessibility for service users of those places, as such centres play a vital role in enabling older people and others with disabilities to live independently at home, while being able...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 170,000 additional meals on wheels allocated to CHO 7 in budget 2023, covering 34 services, which have been drawn down in the intervening time, in tabular form. [25474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 292. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has developed and-or instituted a medium three-to-five-year-term recruitment plan aimed at increasing direct provision of home care support and to ensure the HSE has a minimum capacity in each CHO or RHA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government has any plans for the development and installation of motion sensor street lighting on Irish streets and roads. [26356/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cars currently awaiting NCT tests in Kildare; the availability of timely appointments; the earliest appointment available at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26358/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures and-or plans that he or the Government have in place, or intend to introduce, to assist the many struggling mortgage holders who find themselves again facing uncertainty following the sale of their mortgage to a vulture fund by the original lender; the options available to these mortgage holders if the vulture fund fails or refuses to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of family home mortgages, by county, that are now in the hands of vulture funds in 2023, in tabular form; the number of those mortgages that are or were the subject of alternative payment arrangements or split or shelved portion mortgages prior to their being sold to vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or the Government have plans or intentions, given our increasing ageing population, to establish a distinct unit to operate together across both his Department and the Department of Health to provide for a joint plan to ensure the provision of age-friendly independent and supported-living environments; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that have been delivered, per county, in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26361/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has plans to review the criteria for home care workers' entitlement to DSP payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25551/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dementia advisors there are for each CHO area, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [26360/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 785. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 20 April 2023, the number of hours that were provided in 2022 on intensive home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for an eye-specialist/optician appointment for each CHO area, in tabular form; the reason there is a delay in such appointments being allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Water Pollution (1 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Environmental Protection Agency tests all rivers for the quality of the water to establish their suitability for swimming and water activities. [26763/23]

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I too thank the Deputies for bringing forward this Bill. I welcome the opportunity to speak on legislation that seeks to abolish the age-based discriminatory practice of underpaying workers under the age of 20. Sinn Féin has long advocated for the removal of these discriminatory pay rates. We brought a motion before the Seanad last term but it was voted down by Fianna Fáil and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: That is okay. I apologise. I was late because I was in another meeting. I have been reading statements. I thank everyone for their time and indulgence. If I ask a question that has already been asked, I apologise for that as well. When defining which wealth and assets would fall under the umbrella for higher or equitable taxation, what cost factors to the economy and to the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thought we had ten minutes for questions. I was just about to ask a second question when the Cathaoirleach moved on to another speaker. I apologise if I picked that up wrong. May I ask one more question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. In Oxfam's briefing paper, Survival of the Richest, recommendations 2 and 3 talk about imposing the highest possible tax on the 1%, that is, the richest of the richest. How does Oxfam envisage stopping those obscenely rich folk from merely avoiding taxes? It is one thing to tax wealth that is measurable in the form of assets and goods in the State. Is it...