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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am delighted to hear that. It is important that the survivors play an important role in this. We have all learned from our meetings with survivors the importance of access to records and that there are no barriers. That is our commitment from this Government, that we will make sure no survivor who wants to access his or her records encounters barrier after barrier. I am delighted that...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In October the mandatory hotel quarantine system was no longer considered necessary and was wound down and mandatory home quarantine requirements were removed. Now, we need them again. Omicron is among us and we have to do what we can to protect the whole of society. When the power to make regulations was introduced it was not expected that the Covid-19 pandemic would last for so long,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank all the witnesses. I will address this to Ms Rogers. I fully support the implementation of the strategy. On the steering strategy, it seems that from 2019 to 2021 the group has met only twice and there has been no meeting this year. That is a concern. I ask that as a committee we write to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Roderic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Does Mr. Hennessy find that when families are applying to the local authority for housing, that autism is a criterion that is put to the top of the list? Whether a person has a medical issue, a disability or autism, does Mr. Hennessy find, from working through the different housing groups, that people are being prioritised?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am delighted that counties Carlow and Kilkenny will get walk-in booster clinics from the end of next week in the Woodford Dolmen Hotel, Carlow and the Cillín Hill Conference Centre, Kilkenny. However, there is some confusion and people have been ringing me. My understanding is that there must be a five-month interval following vaccination before someone can get the booster. I ask...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on the integration of Carlow College, St. Patrick's, into the higher education system in the south-east region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made regarding the Framework for Consent in Higher Education Institutions: Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive: Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans to carry out remedial works to the railings at Carlow courthouse which is being managed by the Office of Public Works on behalf of the Courts Service; if there is an update to tender documentation for the repair of ten sections of the railings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58279/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Schools Building Projects (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new school build for a school (details supplied) given that capital funding has been allocated to progress the design; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58280/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 508. To ask the Minister for Health when primary care services and a new primary care facility will be established in Tullow, County Carlow; the location of same; the timescale for this service to be established; the planned location of the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58295/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 631. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise the publication of the national stroke strategy along with a fully funded implementation plan; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58788/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 654. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of additional space the Carlow Children's Disability Network Team is gaining by keeping the Bluebell Disability Outreach project in St. Dympna's Hospital, Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58842/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the system for the manual submission of documentation currently in place for farmers who are receiving pig slurry is to be extended beyond the 31 December 2021 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58843/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (30 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 773. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated through the LEADER programme in 2020 and to date in 2021, by county; her plans to increase the funding allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58787/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for coming to the House. I have been given the time to raise this important issue and the people of Tullow in County Carlow are depending on me to get answers. In April 2016, a parliamentary question was submitted to the then Minister for Health, the current Tánaiste, on a proposed primary care centre for Tullow, County Carlow. In the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State. I regularly check planning applications to Carlow County Council. We have a good news story coming from Carlow. I have seen a planning application for a 140-bed hospital and I will be speaking to the Minister in respect of that matter. I have not seen a planning application for this primary care centre. While I welcome this, and I assure the Minister of...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: On 16 November 2021, the Government published An Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. I worked closely with the Minister on progressing this action plan and I welcome the redress part of it. However, I must raise immediately the need for an interim payment for those survivors who are older. Time is not on their side. They have...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome this important legislation. It delivers on a key programme for Government commitment not to extend the current fast-track planning arrangements for SHDs. The new planning process for LRDs will replace the SHD provisions. I welcome this. The new process will ensure the delivery of housing developments of 100 or more homes, both public and private. That is so important. We...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett has 20 minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the hot school meals programme; her plans to extend the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58009/21]