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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made to date in achieving the target for overseas development assistance of 0.7% of gross national income by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43722/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defibrillators Provision (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide funding to ensure that defibrillators are in place in all special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43662/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding and grants available to schools for ICT infrastructure, such as desktop PCs, projectors and printers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43687/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the research his Department has undertaken to examine the experiences and impact of in-work homelessness; if he will outline the supports in place for people who are working whilst experiencing homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43696/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 469. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce mandatory fortification of foodstuffs with folic acid following his Department's Folic Acid Policy Committee report on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43498/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 489. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 27 September 2022, if he will outline which five recommendations are still in progress as part of the full implementation of the Chief Medical Officer’s report on The Use of Uro-Gynaecological Mesh in Surgical Procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 512. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to ensure that defibrillators are available in public places, such as community centres and schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43663/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (10 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 515. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure hospital pharmacy technicians are subject to a statutory professional regulatory regime and that their qualification is standardised across the various providers of pharmacy technician education and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43709/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the name of the external supplier procured by his Department in conjunction with the Public Appointments Service to assist in the search of a permanent replacement for the role of chief executive of Dublin City Council; the cost of the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has ensured that the infrastructure associated with the deposit return scheme will be universally accessible, in particular for wheelchair users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43020/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that local authorities are prevented from using national active travel funding for the repair and upgrade of existing walking routes, including where there are existing footpaths and walkways; if he is aware that this is having a negative impact on investment in walking infrastructure vis-à-vis other active travel...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to raise criminal legal aid fees paid to solicitors to pre-2008 levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if any investigations will be considered in light of findings from the Data Protection Commissioner that officials in his Department kept dossiers in a manner that was unlawful and unnecessary, containing sensitive information on families of children with autism who had previously engaged in litigation with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 137. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline how the new child poverty unit within his Department will address the data deficit in terms of regional mapping of child poverty; what means the unit will use to assess where there are higher concentrations of child poverty; and what ethnic identifiers the unit will use to assess which populations are most at risk and to ensure that culturally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to re-introduce additional payments for teachers who gain extra qualifications, such as a special education qualification or a doctorate degree; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schemes and funding streams available to assist schools green their external spaces, with, for example, trees and landscaped green areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42650/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 12,483 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between January 1st 2021 and December 31st 2021 that were registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland only, taking onboard that under the terms of the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, the Irish Coursing Club is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 11,698 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between January 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022 that were registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland only, taking on board that under the terms of the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, the Irish Coursing Club is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Government’s plans to provide for regulation of the translation and interpreting sectors and establish industry standards, to ensure interpreters who work in hospitals, in international protection, in Garda stations, in the courts, and so on, have appropriate training in how to interpret in those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the spending of the €110,000 which was allocated in the budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register; whether unused funding will carry over to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42295/23]