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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: We are due to finish at 8.30 p.m. so I propose that, having dealt with that group of amendments, we adjourn and resume our next meeting with amendment No. 70.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: In the face of Covid, many of the education and training boards, ETBs, delivering prison education services adapted to blended learning, including the use of an in-house television channel. The logical conclusion of this is that we should start to provide in-cell technology and computers for prisoners. That is exactly what has been done in Berwyn Prison in Wrexham. It promotes prisoner...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Rights (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 129. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the progress made to date with regard to the decision of the IDA to appoint a business development consultant in Israel; if his Department has monitored the IDA's implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as well as the human rights due diligence guidance published by the Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 130. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the overall value of goods imported into Ireland from Israel for the past five years; the value of imports from the Palestinian Territory in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will detail the latest launch of retrofitting funding as it primarily relates to houses, the available energy saving schemes for apartment buildings and apartment complexes. [10946/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Sanctions (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of instances and the value of goods that were refused entry to Ireland in the past five years because they originated in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine; the details of the efforts being made including the mechanisms in place to ensure that goods from illegal settlements are not mislabelled as Israeli; if he is fully satisfied that no...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children under the age of 12 years in residential care by TULSA area office. [11331/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for the female ex-prisoner Outlook Programme since it opened in July 2020; the number of admissions and refusals; the reasoning for refusals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the last time the rules for temporary release sheets were reviewed; and when the next review is due to take place. [11660/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons on protection in the Irish Prison Service since 2015 to date broken down, by prison and by ethnicity [11654/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who asked to be placed on protection in the Irish Prison Service since 2015 to date, by prison and by ethnicity. [11655/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the last prison census was taken; and when the next one is due to take place. [11656/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of overtime hours provided to the Irish Prison Service, broken down by prison. for the period of 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2021; and the dates on which they were fully allocated. [11657/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of days educational programmes were prevented from happening due to staff shortages in the Irish Prison Service since 2015 to date, by prison institution. [11658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of days prison workshops, such as woodwork and metalwork, were closed since 2015 to date, by prison institution; and the reason for closure. [11659/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Patrick Costello: Yesterday, I met the PhD workers' alliance, which was looking for fair treatment and an end to the exploitation of PhD researchers. Will the Government take steps similar to those taken by other EU countries like Belgium, Sweden and Holland, which have moved to recognise PhD researchers as workers with employee status, contracts, pension contributions and collective bargaining rights?

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Patrick Costello: These recent reports by the Police Ombudsman are very important. They tell us again how the search for truth and justice still eludes us and indicate the efforts required to establish the truth so there can be justice and, from justice, healing. Many of the Deputies today and the Minister have rightly spoken against the British Government's proposed amnesty. It is not about truth or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (23 Feb 2022)

Patrick Costello: 178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children receiving aftercare allowance in the State by Tusla area office. [10196/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick Costello: 567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will order a review of the foster care committee to ensure its procedures are in line with HIQA guidelines. [9152/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick Costello: 568. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reform the foster care review programme whereby Tusla requires foster carers to pay for their own medical examination. [9153/22]