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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase the range and diversity of primary initial teacher education (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58460/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide all agreements, covenants and conditions that exist between the trustees, the board of management and her Department in relation to the land of a school (details supplied) from when the school was first constructed in 1970; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58462/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schemes that currently exist in order to help adults with dyslexia; the reason such adults do not qualify for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58463/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Prison Service (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 479. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on prison inspection arrangements during Covid-19; the number of inspections carried out from January 2019 to October 2021 by the Inspector of Prisons; the top ten issues raised in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58464/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legal Aid (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 480. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the current membership and remaining tenure of the Legal Aid Board; the annual budget provided by her Department; the number of applications for legal aid; the number of certificates granted on a monthly basis between January 2019 and October 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a...

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

Cormac Devlin: 577. To ask the Minister for Health when the NIAC advice surrounding the vaccine (details supplied) and the booster programme will be implemented by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58671/21]

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

Cormac Devlin: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the funding application by Children’s Health Ireland to the HSE to help alleviate pressure on Temple Street and Crumlin hospitals, in particular services for children awaiting treatment for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58456/21]

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

Cormac Devlin: 575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dentists in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area currently operating the HSE medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58669/21]

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

Cormac Devlin: 576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on negotiations between his Department and dentists on a new scheme for medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58670/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: My apologies to the witnesses. Like Deputy O'Sullivan, I was also in the Chamber, so I missed the first section and the opening statements. I have some questions. I apologise if they repeat my colleagues' questions. This question is probably specifically for the Society of the Irish Motor Industry. Regarding the electronic vehicles and the supply chain, what level of supply is there for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Is there hesitation from customers to buy second-hand electric vehicles? What is the life expectancy of the battery given it is probably one of the most expensive parts of the car?

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Government's proposed redress scheme for people who spent time in mother and baby homes. As the Taoiseach noted in his apology earlier this year, the State failed these women and children. It did not uphold its duty of care or the basic standards of humanity. An apology alone is not enough. There must be accountability, redress and justice for...

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

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine the Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021. I thank the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and his officials for their work on this Bill and for bringing it before the House. I will be supporting this important change in legislation which ends the era of strategic housing developments. This...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: As we approach Christmas, many people are eager to receive their third or booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Announcements from the NIAC around people aged 50 and over and those with underlying health conditions are welcome. Will the Tánaiste advise when the HSE will operationalise this advice? This week the European Medicines Agency recommended that everybody aged 40 and over should...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Ms Licken and her team. It is good to see many of them at the Committee of Public Accounts. At the outset, I want to refer to the breadth of her organisation. Ms Licken referred to it in her own opening remarks. I note some members have focused in on RTÉ and others on the European Capital of Culture 2020. I will touch on a number of other elements within both the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: On that point, it is the first time I have heard them referred to as "sales". I do not know if the people who pay them would exactly classify them as sales. In terms of the money that has not been collected, is there a plan to try to collect that at some point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: There is a collection agent. Okay, that is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: The Decade of Centenaries is something we have engaged previously on. In terms of the specific projects that the Department is engaged with, can Ms Licken give us an outline of expenditure to date on that topic?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I am familiar with a number of those projects. Ms Licken is correct. It is very important and I recognise Ms Licken's Department's involvement in that. In terms of expenditure, do we have a figure of how much has been allocated or spent to date?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: The witnesses might send us a note on it, if they would not mind.