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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (18 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 25 January 2022, when legislation will be forthcoming to give the Workplace Relations Commission jurisdiction to hear complaints of breaches of the Working Time at Sea Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25100/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (18 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of referrals that were made to the Workplace Relations Commission’s mediation process in the past four years; and the outcome in each case. [25302/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I welcome the Minister of State's response regarding the need to register psychologists with CORU. As a social worker, I spent a lot of time registering with CORU. I found the process painless. It provides reassurance and support to the families social workers engage with. CORU has said that there is no regulation of psychologists but that it will be coming soon but, as happens in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: The Minister of State knows well the struggle experienced by many parents of children with disabilities in regard to assessment of need. We have spent a long time in the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and in the Chamber debating what the Ombudsman for Children referred to as the "unmet needs" of these families. They are dealing with significant...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle had seen the look on these families' faces as they cried in front of me-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: -----about their vulnerable children not receiving-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disabilities Assessments (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: These families stood in front of me with tears in their eyes as they spoke about how they had tried the best for their children, and how they had saved money they did not have and tried to spend it on getting an assessment and having the needs of their children met, and they did not get it. We need to fix the assessment of need service. We need to ensure families will get the assessments...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: It is Bike Week. Can we expand the bike to work scheme to people who are not PAYE workers, to the self-employed, the unemployed, pensioners and students? A shift to a subsidy- or voucher-based scheme would bring in many people who currently are not eligible for it and it would be a very good thing to announce during Bike Week.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that the incidence of sentence miscalculation arose in Castlerea Prison which was highlighted in the Castlerea Prison Covid-19 Thematic Inspection, published by her Department on 28 April 2022, which reported that 30 prisoners had their sentences extended while in custody; the steps that were taken to ensure that all...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the Castlerea Prison Covid-19 Thematic Inspection, published by her Department on 28 April 2022, if any other prisons had incidences in which the miscalculation of sentences occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners under sentence in the Dóchas Centre and in Limerick Female Prison who received methadone maintenance treatment over the past two years by prison and by month in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners under sentence in the Dóchas Centre and in Limerick Female Prison who received medically assisted symptomatic detoxification over the past two years by prison and by month in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of Irish information retrieval legislation which was included in the 2021 autumn legislative programme and subsequently the spring legislative programme for 2022, given the UK Government’s commitment in the Queen’s speech to legislate for the independent commission on information retrieval. [24747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average wait time for consideration of appeals to refusal of short-stay holiday visa applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Workplace Relations Commission (12 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of referrals made under the National Referral of Mediators in the past four years; and the outcomes arising from same. [23937/22]

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: Given that this is my first time to speak in the Chamber today, I will take a moment to mark the passing of Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian journalist who was shot while trying to cover a raid by Israeli occupation forces in a refugee camp in Jenin. The shooting of a journalist trying to document truth is a tragic and deliberate crime that violates all international laws and norms....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: I raise the issue of staffing in HSE psychological services. I have been contacted by a young man in my constituency who, to put it simply, has been strung along by the HSE and given no real therapeutic supports. This, of course, is a wider issue and not just in my constituency. Initially, the young man was seen by a psychologist in training, but when the training period ended, the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (10 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the roll-out of the electric vehicle apartment charger grant support scheme following the public consultation carried out by the SEAI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22762/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (10 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding allocated to and staffing levels in the National Educational Psychological Service in each of the years from 2005 to date in 2022. [22559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 623. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the progression of the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021. [22748/22]