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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the pre-emptive support plans in place for the next cohort of leaving certificate students in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36437/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Services (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of public health supports available to both primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36438/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mental health supports available to both primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions were made to accommodate distance learning throughout the pandemic for those in receipt of social welfare payments; and if so, the number of courses available and or number of persons who registered and availed of these courses by county in tabular form. [36242/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the Pathways to Work strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Anti-Racism Measures (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the timeline and objectives of the Anti-Racism Committee that he established several months ago; the status of its operations; and the way it will be used to inform policy in the future. [36258/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe of the publication of the disability capacity review; his views on the causation of the publication being delayed over such a protracted period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29770/21]

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I will comment on several issues relating to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. In Clare, over the course of the last few months, I have been inundated with emails from constituents who were not given appointments in due course as per the stated timeline of cohorts, despite the fact they had underlying conditions and, as such, were told they would be prioritised. I am talking about our...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Yesterday, a meeting involving the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and representatives from the Mayo and Donegal MICA pyrite groups was held. It is most welcome. However, I would like to know why a representative from the Clare pyrite group was not invited and included. This is completely unacceptable, disheartening and, quite simply, not good enough. It has taken 12...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school bus transport scheme issue that has been repeatedly identified in County Clare in particular the concessionary ticket issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35349/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the DEIS band classification of a school (details supplied); if she will allow for a reassessment of this particular school; and if this has been an issue for other schools nationally. [35350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the WALK PEER employment support service model nationally; and her views on the overall use and efficacy of the programme. [35361/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the cost of disability payment will be introduced as committed to in the Programme for Government; the status on the measurement and implementation of the cost of disability payment generally. [35362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is working on plans to combat youth unemployment with specific focus on those not in education, employment or training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30180/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase expenditure on the pandemic unemployment payment if further Covid-19 restrictions are required. [32281/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the University Maternity Hospital Limerick went against a risk assessment carried out by its internal occupational health department which recommended that high-risk pregnant health-care practitioners should not come into contact with Covid-19 suspected patients and therefore are to work from home however to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the way the deliberate dismissal of recommendation (details supplied) has affected maternity restrictions in terms of birth partner presence; his views on whether having high-risk pregnant health-care workers in maternity hospitals is ill-advised and negatively impacting the lifting of restrictions to allow increased birth partner presence in cases in which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 361. To ask the Minister for Health if pregnant healthcare workers and high-risk pregnant healthcare workers are being prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations according to the current priority ordering. [28418/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Institutionalisation and the Inappropriate Use of Congregated Settings: Discussion (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank all the speakers, who offer diverse expert voices through advocacy, academia and direct lived experience. Each of them brings an expertise on the issues of institutionalisation. It is an important topic that we are discussing. Deinstitutionalisation has been on the political agenda for at least three successive Governments, following the HSE’s Time to Move On From...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Institutionalisation and the Inappropriate Use of Congregated Settings: Discussion (1 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank Ms Flanagan for her responses and for all the good work she does through the Clare Leader Forum. My next questions are to Professor McConkey. Based on his comments on the Time to Move on from Congregated Settings report, the failure to implement a no new admissions policy has meant that there has been an almost one-in-one-out door policy with numbers of admissions, vastly...