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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the challenges identified with the volumes of referral for assessment of needs in CHO DNCC which are stated to be among the highest in the State. [8910/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to address the challenges identified with the recruitment and retention of staff in the disabilities sector in CHO Dublin north city and county. [8911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to address the significant waiting lists for therapeutic interventions in CHO Dublin north city and county. [8912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the roles that are currently filled and the vacancies that are unfilled within the children's disability network team servicing CHO Dublin north city and county in tabular form. [8913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications received for an assessment of need in CHO Dublin north city and county in October, November and December 2021 and January 2022. [8914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of overdue assessments of need on hand in CHO Dublin north city and county as defined by the Disability Act 2015; the number of these applications that are at stage 1; and the number that are at stage 2. [8915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the number of post-2021 model preliminary team assessment model applications for an assessment of need that are on hand in CHO Dublin north city and county at stage 2. [8916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of applications referred to as an outstanding historical assessment of need in CHO Dublin north city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8917/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints received in each of the years 2016 to 2022 regarding the failure to carry out an assessment of need in line with standards in each CHO area; and the number of complaints that were upheld in tabular form. [8903/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints officers who are currently employed to deal with assessment of need related complaints in each CHO area; and the location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8904/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the way the funding made available to address overdue assessment of need applications was distributed across CHO areas; the reported impact of this action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8918/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [6124/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last month, the Taoiseach announced that the Department of Justice will assume overall responsibility for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, services and policy. I understand the Minister brought a memorandum to the Cabinet this week on the very long-awaited Tusla review into the provision of accommodation for victims of domestic violence. Will the Tusla report be published...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will finish now. Could the Taoiseach clarify the purpose of this agency and give some reassurance about addressing the chronic shortage of refuges and that the funding of services will not be delayed by its establishment?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach again the closure of the Keltoi rehabilitation unit at St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park. As the Taoiseach will be aware, this has been raised consistently by Members of the Oireachtas over the past two years and, indeed, by people working in addiction services, locally and nationally. Currently, the facility is closed and is hosting a social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the British Prime Minister. [7523/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: I spoke to the Taoiseach after the publication of the latest report of the Police Ombudsman. Having due regard for the fact that this is just the latest in a series of damning reports that shine a light on collusion, the actions of the British state, the targeting and murder of citizens by agents of the state, I said that it would be important that we have a full, comprehensive response from...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: The parents and staff of Scoil Naomh Cholmcille in County Louth are at the gates of the Dáil today. They are protesting the failure of the Government to provide the school with an adequate number of special needs assistants, SNAs, for children with autism spectrum disorder. They have just one SNA to share between 12 kids. It is by no means a unique situation. SNA provision is in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: In those circumstances the Taoiseach and his Government are failing miserably in their task. I do not accept his excuse this is a consequence of Covid. For example, he said he would eliminate waiting lists when he was Minister for Health 20 years ago. We now have 900,000 people waiting on lists. In 2015, the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach's partner in government and a former Minister for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: Taoiseach, answer the question.