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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to draw up a fully-costed plan for the provision of therapeutic supports within schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the provision of comprehensive, rights-based training for teachers and SNAs which focuses on understanding the child as an individual and the supports that they require to access their rights (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45706/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on commitments to the further reduction of class sizes over time through the recruitment of more teachers and special needs assistants and support staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support an increase in capital expenditure to ensure that school environments can be inclusive for all pupils, particularly those with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing measures to improve access to employment opportunities for disabled persons, including programmes like the ability programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45702/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 541. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to providing an increase of €600,000 in annual investment in the National Multiple Sclerosis Care Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase sustainable funding for national physiotherapy services for people with Multiple Sclerosis, and other neurological conditions totalling €880,000 per annum across all 9 Community Healthcare Organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 543. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) say there is a need for the provision of a further 100 neurology nurses in order to address unacceptable waiting period, delays with diagnosis and treatment, with at least 20 to be provisioned in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to ensure that there is sufficient supply of fertiliser available within the State for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45652/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (20 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 605. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which an area is designated as 'rural' under the CLÁR Programme; if she is concerned that some areas and communities that would have long considered themselves as rural communities are being denied access to funding under the CLÁR Programme due to the existing eligibility criteria; if she will consider reviewing...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: Let me be frank, the current approach to energy policy and creation is an act of national self-sabotage. It is an absolute disgrace. Indeed the sense that people are getting is that our entire population has been taken hostage by a green hysteria and a demented level of ideological ruthlessness that is not grounded in any sense of proportion or rationality. It is wonderful to hear that...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: The crisis that has emerged with respect to the integrity of An Bord Pleanála at senior management level has thrown a shadow over the work of the entire organisation. It clearly demonstrates the procedures and safeguards that were in place were not only to prevent but also to detect serious conflicts of interest from emerging and it shows us these were far from robust. Thanks to the...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: We can safely say that the only temperature that will be rising over the winter months is the temperature of ordinary people's anger and frustration. That anger has already reached boiling point in many locations throughout the world as people see the collapse in access to affordable heating and energy supplies. Gas and electricity prices are fast reaching the stage of becoming the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (14 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 49. To ask the Taoiseach the expenses paid to Ministerial advisers in his Department in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form [43164/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 636. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forestry Service has official policies regarding forest inspections and forestry application referrals for private and Coillte applications in the interest of transparency, impartiality and public trust; if so, if he will provide the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 637. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forestry Service has an official policy or procedures for recording, investigation and so on in the interest of transparency, impartiality and public trust regarding complaints not appeals made about the Forestry Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 638. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that new mapping requirements imposed on private felling applications and which are causing significant delays and additional costs were not equally applied to Coillte applications in the interest of transparency, impartiality and public trust; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: 639. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the decision to reject 95% of the necessary costs for application for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44548/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Chairman. As a rural Teachta Dála from the constituency of Laois-Offaly, I, like many rural Teachtaí Dála, am very concerned about the impact of what is coming down the tracks and what is being imposed on us. The economic impact report commissioned by the Irish Farmer's Journaland done by KPMG showed us clearly what lies ahead, which is the destruction of Irish...