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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41350/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a surviving person who was jointly assessed with their deceased partner by her Department for all other entitlements is excluded from the widowed or surviving civil partner grant; if she will consider amending the legislation governing the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41714/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the friends of the centre aspect of the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the other centres and counties that have friends of the centre structures; the organisations involved in such structures; the decision-making process; the person or body to which the groups are accountable;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 445. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the feedback and complaints mechanisms that will be available to the new residents of the proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41239/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 446. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be staff trained specifically in dealing with trauma, integration and other well-being areas in the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41240/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 447. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeframe for move-ins he is expecting for the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the consultation he is taking with Government colleagues on ensuring that all necessary infrastructural issues are resolved in Letterkenny in the coming month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41241/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 453. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the ECCE school provision can be broadened to support families who have children with additional needs who at present cannot avail of such. [41454/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the professional qualifications that will be affected from January 2021 when the transitional period for Brexit is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41340/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Data (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 535. To ask the Minister for Health if capacity for early intervention service provision for children with a diagnosis of autism can be listed per geographical area for the Dublin region. [41455/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Data (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 536. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for early intervention services for autism in the Dublin region. [41456/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 559. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doses of the anti-Covid-19 drug remdesivir that have been stockpiled through the EU agreement with a pharmaceutical firm (details supplied); his plans to administer same; the cost of the stockpiling to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Funding (8 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 634. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant or other funding is available for parents of children with autism who seek to avail of early intervention services privately. [41452/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Businesses across the country are coming out of the Covid lockdown. In Donegal, they have been asking me whether the supports they and their staff received while in lockdown would continue if they chose not to open at this time. I have emailed the Tánaiste's office about this matter, but I have not been able to get a response. That is why I am raising it now. Will he respond, please?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Another take on our slowness in ratifying the UN convention would be that we just wanted to drag our heels. Other countries ratified the convention straight away and it may have set a benchmark for them to make sure they could achieve it. I would love to think we will ratify the optional protocol. What is the timeframe for that? I would like to know because I do not believe the Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Buildings in Donegal will today be lighting up for the Purple Lights 20 campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Mr. Gary Kearney wrote to me in October and asked for my assistance in bringing about the campaign. My friend and well-known outstanding disability rights activist, Mr. Frank Larkin, had been due to help Gary with the campaign for Donegal, but sadly Frank...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 88. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the interactions he has had with the collaborative forum for former residents of mother and baby homes since becoming Minister; when members of the forum will receive copies of the sixth interim and final reports of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; his plans for the forum in 2021; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: From what I can tell, the last official meeting of the collaborative forum for former residents of mother and baby homes was this time last year, on 11 December 2019. There were 13 forum members present, including the chairperson, Dr. Gráinne Healy, as well as the Minister's predecessor, Katherine Zappone, and six officials from the then Department of Children and Youth Affairs. From...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his response. It worries me that he talks about it not being possible to have meetings of the collaborative forum. There is the option of video conferencing, which has been availed of by the Oireachtas. That could have been put in place. I am concerned that there is a possibility of the forum being put on hold. In the notes of a previous meeting of the forum,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: Perhaps we should have a question about the role of the Attorney General in the operation of the Department. It seems that everything has been done according to his say in this matter, and that is worrying. The legal view takes a very narrow view of how things can actually be done and how people can be dealt with. These people need a more humane view rather than a legal view. That would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the examinations being undertaken in relation to the instances of Covid-19 compared with the Pobal areas of deprivation throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39849/20]