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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: My concern is that this could have the unintended consequence of students experiencing a greater level of stress arising from facing assessment over two years if they are now to sit paper 1 in both subjects in fifth year. Students who may want to go to the Gaeltacht in the summer of fifth year will be put at a disadvantage because, obviously, they will not have had time to do their stint in...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: The lack of access to basic services for children with a disability is shameful and inexcusable. I am particularly struck by a reference to the employment vacancy rate across the children's disability network teams, which now stands at more than 28%, as well as the fact there are more than 17,000 children waiting for initial contact with a children's disability network team and 2,500...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm labhairt ar an mBille seo. Mar is eol dúinn, tá formhór na dteaghlach ar fud an Stáit seo ag fulaingt. Caithfidh an Rialtas seo a sheacht ndícheall a dhéanamh chun cabhair agus tacaíocht a thabhairt dóibh chomh luath agus is féidir. It is vital that all the necessary steps are taken to prevent households from sinking under...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 155. To ask the Taoiseach if the preparations and planning for Census 2027 will include a review of the possibility of including a third gender on the census form. [49156/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average timeframe between the special needs’ assistant exceptional reviews taking place in primary schools and the review outcomes being communicated to these schools in writing for the 2021-2022 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding the remit of the mitigating against educational disadvantage fund to provide rent-related funding to support educationally disadvantaged learners in accessing and participating in third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding has been provided under the mitigating against educational disadvantage fund to support educationally disadvantaged learners in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50096/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to continue providing support to the sheep welfare scheme into 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 788. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to increase participation of young farmers in the sheep welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49895/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 789. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be allocated to deliver a €30 ewe payment on all of the 2.7 million ewes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to strengthen the sheep sector and to ensure its viability, including the indigenous and export wool markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49897/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: My first question is on the prescriptions. What percentage of them are currently being processed on the NVPS? Would the Minister of State and the officials accept that vet-only prescribing will not meet regulations, because there will be no competition? Anyone with a grain of common sense can see that. There will not be competition and it will lead to less availability. Objective 5 of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: With regard to the number of prescriptions, not the number of vets, do we know what is the number or percentage of prescriptions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Could I get that information in a reply to a parliamentary question to me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank Mr Collins. I would need that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: Would the vets not be supplying that information so the Department could get a picture to see it rolled out on a voluntary basis? Would it not have made sense to see how many prescriptions had gone through? What is the reason for not having this information?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: The programme for Government makes reference to supporting our healthcare workers, which is only right. In January of this year the Government announced a bonus payment for the healthcare workers who did Trojan work during the pandemic. I want to know when the workers will receive this payment and if the Taoiseach will ensure all healthcare workers are included in it.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have applied for the exceptional needs payment in counties Laois and Offaly from 1 January to date in 2022; the number of applications that were successful; the number rejected; the total amount paid out through the exceptional needs payment during this time period for each county; and if she will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank the representatives of the IPU and the ILMA for their comprehensive presentations. I will pick up on what Mr. O'Shea said earlier about economic impacts. It is a concerning situation and there will be a wider impact on the local economy of rural communities. If 90% of the anti-parasitic business is transferred to veterinarians, as the antibiotic sales were, would Mr. Ryan envisage...