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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (21 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the policy measures being considered by her Department to restrict access to free legal aid by repeat offenders including measures such as requiring them to pay a contribution towards the cost of their defence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44528/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (21 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of providing free legal aid over each of the past five years by county; the average cost per alleged offender; the average payment to legal practitioners over the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44529/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (21 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the categories of victims of crime that are currently entitled to free legal aid; the number that have availed of this service by year; her plans to extend this to other victims of crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 543. To ask the Minister for Health if a second chance can be provided to avail of the HPV vaccine for children who did not have parental consent when it was initially offered but the child wishes to avail of the vaccine when they reach 16 years of age and no longer require parental consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44531/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (21 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a scheme under which a patient who has been prescribed a device (details supplied) can be reimbursed for the cost of the rental of the machine; if the machine is available under the non-medical card item and hardship scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44532/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 649. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further reduce the size of the chapel at University Hospital Galway which had already been reduced in size previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45126/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Exemptions (23 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an exception can be given regarding declaring a vehicle off the road after the fact and a waiver of motor tax arrears for a person (details supplied) who was seriously ill and out of the country for a long period of time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45786/21]

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: He will be looking for more time.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: I welcome this plan, which will offer more people a chance of getting a home in which to live. The sooner it gets off the ground and starts delivering, the better. I would like more attention to be given to the yawning gap, which is getting wider, between groups of people trying to do just that. On the one side are those who can hope to get a house, either by buying one privately, if they...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (28 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to implement the recommendations in the report by the Night-time Economic Taskforce; the timelines for delivery of these actions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social insurance credits will be awarded to self-employed persons who have been in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (28 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the assisted human reproduction Bill which was listed under priority legislation for publication in the summer session 2021; when the Bill is likely to be published and brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement a reablement programme in each community health area as a matter of urgency similar to the successful pilot reablement programme run in north Dublin city in 2013 which proved to reduce the number of persons requiring home help and save money for the health service; if his attention has been drawn to the extent of the proven benefits of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE continues to decline to fund a pilot reablement programme in the CHO2 community health area, despite the CHO2 region making such a proposal as far back as early 2018, based on their stated contention of significant benefits such a programme would bring to patients in terms of maintaining functionality and to CHO2 in terms of reduced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Galway and nationally waiting for an assessment or reassessment for home help hours and for additional home help hours; the number approved but on a waiting list; the length of time each has been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if a shortage of staff is hampering the provision of services under the HSE home support service; if so, the extent of same; the areas that are worst affected; the steps being taken to address the issue; the number of persons employed in the provision of the service; the number of persons required to fully operate the service; and if he will make a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: Plans for the N6 Galway city ring road were lodged with An Bord Pleanála on 18 October 2018, 20 years after the initial application for the official application for the Galway outer-city bypass was lodged and five years after the original project was abandoned. Three years after the initial lodging of this project application there still has been no decision on whether this piece of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons who are currently on waiting lists to be seen by the child and adolescent mental health services in Galway by the length of time waiting and age cohort; the number waiting in the catchment area of each mental health team in Galway city and county by the length of time waiting and age cohort; the amount by which the waiting lists...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting times for new referrals to be seen by the child and adolescent mental health services in Galway city and county and nationally; the number of appointments that are currently held face-to-face or by other means of contact such as phone or online in Galway city and county and nationally; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing breakdown within the child and adolescent mental health services currently by category such as psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, social care, occupational therapy, speech and language, administration and so on and other staff in Galway city and county and nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47648/21]