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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the Covid credit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the assessment and ultimate decision on the hydrogen strategy by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52169/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Official Engagements (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to participate himself or send a representative on behalf of his Department to engage with the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Consultation Forum currently under way that has been organised by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the expenditure and programme of construction and repair of the accessible elevators at all DART stations across Dublin by Iarnród Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52170/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance if any change has taken place over the past 12 months in relation to the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52171/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52168/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal by the National Council for Curriculum Assessment in relation to the leaving certificate for Gaelscoileanna, Gaelscholáistí agus an Gaeltacht; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 836. To ask the Minister for Health the volume of Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 tests sequenced by the National Virus Reference Laboratory over the past six months in tabular form; the position regarding variants of concern and variants under investigation circulating in Ireland as detected by the National Virus Reference Laboratory over the past six months with particular reference to the AY.4.2 delta...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds in the public system by category in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 838. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the restoration of services and systems following the cyberattack earlier in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 839. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each CHO area who have received an assessment and are now waiting on home help packages for more than three, six and 12 months and one, two and three years as of 1 April 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52166/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Those are very positive remarks as we approach the end of the meeting.

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the introduction of the Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021. The purpose of the Bill is to give full effect to the Taoiseach's announcement on 27 June 2020 that oversight of certain education and welfare functions would return to the Department of Education. Those functions, namely, the functions vested in the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for her attendance and for her opening remarks on breast cancer awareness month. I welcome the opportunity for all the Deputies in the House to join with many other colleagues to discuss this very important issue. Breast cancer remains one of the most common causes of invasive cancer in women in Ireland, after lung cancer, and is the second most...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Gloster and his team for being with us this morning. In his opening statement Mr. Gloster said he had been in situwith Tusla for 24 months. I congratulate him on that, but I can imagine it has been a tumultuous 24 months, particularly for Tusla and all of the staff in the organisation with the work they do. We acknowledge that. Recently I asked two parliamentary questions about...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Is that for the current year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I presume this is probably what happened with the 23 who are listed here. Would I be right in saying there are 600 social workers now in situin post across Dublin or has that figure changed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Those figures would be good to have, including the breakdown by area. Some of the figures were supplied to me in response to a parliamentary question recently, just about two weeks ago, so I have that. I also note from the figures that, as of December 2020, there were 1,169 staff members.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Yes, and there were also 34 from agency. I might get to that later on in the second round questions because I am very limited for time. Mr. Gloster mentioned the 99 new recruits, which is very welcome. Based on a significant proportion of the staff working as front-line social workers, does Mr. Gloster feel there is adequate supervision and training, given that more than the 20% of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: Of course. I appreciate what Mr. Gloster said earlier about those who leave the organisation in under two years or under five years. Given the area in which some are working, be it the volume or types of caseloads, I appreciate this is going to be a challenge for some of them. I turn to more operational matters. In the accounts there is a cost of €34 million for administration,...