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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has established the estimated costs of fully implementing sections 11, 12, 15, 16 and 38 of the EPSEN Act 2004; if so, the estimated cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8232/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount her Department has spent on legal costs arising from litigation involving children with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if dyslexia assessments will continue to run for children referred by their schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a direct provision centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; when the first families will be moving in following the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7859/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Payment Scheme (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if residents in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in County Donegal will be provided with vouchers for food instead of the points system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has published guidelines for behaviour for persons employed by the State in the health services on the use of social media; the regulations in place; the way in which they are enforced with regard to use of offensive or racist language on online platforms by current staff members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7865/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if those providing HSE home support services are being vaccinated for Covid-19 as part of group 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8397/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 793. To ask the Minister for Health when HSE home support services workers in the St. Johnston area of County Donegal will be vaccinated for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 905. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing and categorising kidney transplant recipients and those on kidney transplant waiting lists as a distinct cohort to be considered for a higher priority grouping under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8736/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I want to return to some issues raised by a number of speakers. In a reply to a parliamentary question issued last week, the Minister stated he had "sought further information from the Chair of the Commission to clarify whether it may be technically possible to recover any recordings or notes made by the Confidential Committee." He went on to state that he was "liaising closely with the...

Dumping at Sea Act 1996 (Section 5(12)) (Commencement) Order 2021: Motion (11 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: Kinsale Energy Limited published a report on the decommissioning of gas fields and facilities project more than two and a half years ago, on 12 June 2018. At that time Kinsale Energy was preparing for the decommissioning of the fields and facilities, which were coming to the end of their productive life having been in production since 1978. It is a very useful and interesting report. ...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: As the Tánaiste is aware, the SUSI grant application process will open next week. It is very important for many students to get support in the college years that are coming up ahead of them. There is a cohort of students whose parents earn less than €24,000 per year and who do not have a social welfare element. It is a very small cohort, but they are not entitled to a top-up,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (11 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 305. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 834 and 835 of 27 January 2021, the process for getting onto the list for assessment; the first steps for those being approved for an assessment of needs; the staffing levels in the different HSE regions for this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7775/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (11 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 306. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 834 and 835 of 27 January 2021, the number of families seeking assessment; the number of families accepted for assessment in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7776/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (11 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 307. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 834 and 835 of 27 January 2021, the reason the numbers for areas 1 and 2 are significantly lower than for the other CHOs; the differences in those areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7777/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (11 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 308. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 10 December 2020, the status of the upcoming review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the terms of reference for the review; if submissions will be requested from advocacy and affected groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7778/21]

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome this motion and the Labour Party getting behind a national aggressive Covid-19 suppression strategy. That sounds unnecessarily negative and scary. I prefer the idea of working towards zero Covid, implementing a zero Covid strategy and supporting the We Can Be Zero campaign. That gives us something positive to work towards together, something to look forward to, something for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (10 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the conditions for the rehabilitation of cutaway bog to wetland habitat attached to the funding described in the memorandum of understanding regarding peat-fired electricity generation, outlined at appendix 8 of the Operational Programme for Economic Infrastructure 1994-1999, is still binding on the Minister and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (10 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the conditions for the rehabilitation of cutaway bog to wetland habitat attached to the funding described in the memorandum of understanding regarding peat-fired electricity generation, outlined at appendix 8 of the Operational Programme for Economic Infrastructure 1994-1999, have been enforced by his Department on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (10 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of compliance with the conditions for the rehabilitation of cutaway bog to wetland habitat, attached to the funding described in the memorandum of understanding regarding peat-fired electricity generation outlined at appendix 8 of the Operational Programme for Economic Infrastructure 1994-1999, by Bord na...