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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 960. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [11941/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Burial Grounds (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 991. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 3 February 2021, the status of a site (details supplied). [12054/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 1000. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts across all grades in each hospital and healthcare setting under HSE operation in tabular form including the post grade; and if recruitment is under way. [12110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Broadband Plan (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 1001. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any engagement. [12122/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Broadband Plan (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 1094. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any engagement. [12113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (3 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 1103. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any engagement. [12126/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: I apologise if my questions are repetitive. I wish to ask about the existence of the EU procurement directive. I profess to be somewhat ignorant on this issue but I will seek the witnesses' guidance. I understand that Article 20 of the directive allows for reserved contracts for certain types of entities. I am speaking specifically about social enterprises or those people who operate...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: Am I to understand that the OGP is not obliged to police, a word which I use lightly, whether or not local authorities or public bodies are actually exercising the reserved contracts or the Article 20 provision? Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: Mr. Quinn says that the OGP has transposed the directive faithfully, verbatim, if I understand him correctly. It is not a leading question but it would be worrying if we are not using reserved contracts to encourage certain categories of workers who are able to access them. One would hope that the OGP would be as proactive as possible, especially in the disability sector and social enterprise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: I am in the 1932 annexe to Leinster House, the little-known annexe at the back of the building. I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I will put my questions to the witnesses in a rapid-fire way. The questions are short, and I hope to get short answers as I only have seven minutes. Has there been a discussion internally on the ethical basis on which the SOP has been devised and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: So how would the witnesses characterise the statement that this new SOP is merely a defensive process for legal reasons? Perhaps Dr. Morgan might want to take that question. The implication is that the system was devised using approximately €7.8 million purely for legal reasons to offset the risk of legal action against the HSE downstream.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: I accept the answer. Regarding community child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, and the setting up of interdisciplinary teams, I tabled Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 2 December 2020 asking the Minister for Health for the reasons for the delay in all interventions for children under the age of 18 years of age. The subsequent HSE response to me of 17 December was that in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: How am I on time, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: Parliamentary questions are the limited power Deputies have in respect of getting answers. To be fair to the HSE, I always receive comprehensive replies to my questions. I submitted a parliamentary question in September 2020, which sought the numbers on the initial assessment nationally. The figure that came back was 13,273. I tabled the same question in December and the same cohort had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome this process and see it as being part of an ongoing process of communication with the HSE and Dr. Morgan and the team so I welcome most of the responses. It gives rise to further questions but we will interrogate them in due course. The €7.8 million is still hanging out there for me. I received a reply to a parliamentary question dated 22 December from Dr. Morgan in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if contractors are allowed on site to secure a build that is open to the elements (details supplied). [10658/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the reopening of schools (details supplied). [10651/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Feb 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if early childhood care and education, ECCE, hours are available to children of essential workers across all childcare and early years services. [10656/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (25 Feb 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reinstate the speech and language therapy service at a facility (details supplied) following the loss of the service to the facility in March 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10650/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Feb 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised (details supplied) in respect of fees paid to general practitioners will be examined. [10781/21]