Results 241-260 of 1,868 for speaker:Marie Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of custodial sentences that have been handed down for drug possession per year from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23697/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 882. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people have served custodial sentences on foot of their third cannabis possession offence from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all families deemed to have been over-charged by a facility (detailed supplied) in respect of their participation in national childcare scheme were repaid; if the payment was made in full; when that payment took place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23972/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all families deemed to have been over-charged by early years services in respect of their participation in national childcare scheme were repaid in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23973/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the penalties or other actions that have been taken against a facility (details supplied) in respect of its breach of the national childcare scheme and over-charging of parents in contravention of the fee freeze. [23975/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures her Department has taken to ensure no family is being currently overcharged as per the fee structure agreed under the National Childcare scheme. [23974/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1031. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the bed base occupancy rates for each model 3 and model 4 hospital in this State as of 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, or on similar and relevant dates, in tabular form. [23449/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the increase in emergency department (ED) presentations for each model 3 and model 4 hospital ED between 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2025, and their corresponding admission rates for each of these dates, in tabular form. [23450/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1140. To ask the Minister for Health the share of GMS practices that receive the social deprivation practice grant, from the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24080/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive list of support schemes and grants that general practitioners on the general medical services scheme can avail of; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24082/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Hospital Sector (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1210. To ask the Minister for Health the accumulated deficits of each voluntary hospital nationwide as reported to her Department and or the HSE as of 1 January 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Hospital Sector (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1211. To ask the Minister for Health if a voluntary acute hospital (details supplied) carried out a review of services to align them with available funding in 2024; the outcome of any such review; and which if any services, including patient services, were reduced to align with the available funding, as well as the time period for such reduction in services applied; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 1220. To ask the Minister for Health the action she is planning to take on the implementation of alcohol labelling, as per Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; her views on the proposed pausing or delaying of such an introduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23787/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Reviews (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am calling for an urgent and speedy review of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. Many of us recognise and applaud the intent and ambition of the Act in supposedly giving greater power and autonomy to vulnerable individuals and to significantly increasing the numbers registering enduring power of attorney, EPA. The reality has proved very different, however. I want to relay...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Reviews (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for that. It is important to understand and listen to the experience of those who have the working knowledge of how this Act has operated. Five years is simply too long a period for a review of this legislation to take place. I want to relay to the Minister of State some of the views of the Huntington's Disease Association of Ireland, which talks about how the...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Deputy Cummins and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion. They have a long track record in this area. From a Labour Party perspective, I wholeheartedly welcome this motion. It addresses an issue that was close to the heart of our former education spokesperson, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who very much championed it in a cold place when his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of National Treatment Purchase Fund spending per speciality, per year, from 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22983/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by the National Treatment Purchase Fund on the treatment of Irish patients in Northern Ireland and the whole United Kingdom, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 405. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of spending by the National Treatment Purchase Fund of private providers of care, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22987/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (8 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the total sum of money allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund from 2018 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22988/25]