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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ceann de na fadhbanna atá agamsa leis an gcomhairliúchán seo ar fad ná nach bhfuil an t-athbhreithniú déanta ar an teastas sóisearach. Níl sé sin tarlaithe, fiú mar a bhí i gceist, agus tá muid ag bogadh ar aghaidh gan é. An bun-rud agus an bun-fháth go mbíonn daoine ag casaoid faoin Ghaeilge ná mar go ndeir...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Heritage Council: Chairperson Designate (23 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is good to have an opportunity to engage with the Heritage Council again. I have done so as part of the Moore Street advisory committee but also when I was Chairman for a brief time in the previous Dáil of the then Joint Committee on Arts, Culture and Heritage. Culture gets shifted around a little bit. We had a very good engagement with the Heritage Council and at the time, I asked...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy in place increase the number of neurology nurses from its current low base to 100 and in the case of St. James’s Hospital from four to ten which would be the international recommended number based on the hospital’s catchment area. [56313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (17 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that investing in more neurology nurses in the health service is a cost efficient way of improving the efficiency of outpatient clinics, reducing waiting times and ensuring that patients have access to the specialist support they need to manage their conditions; and his views on the current low numbers employed in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The reason I raise this issue is that the workers in placement and the staff in this very successful service located in my neighbourhood of Bluebell, but covering all of Dublin west, have been told that the service is to close at the end of the year. Those who have a physical or mental disability and who were returning to the workplace or beginning work for the first time have been able to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am glad to receive some clarification. I was not sure what the reason was for it, which is why I referred to another reason. If there is a State contract there and it was offered, has it been offered to any other service provider? The nearby EmployAbility in south Dublin or in north Dublin might be able, if resourced properly, to take up the services and perhaps employ some of the people...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimate and outturn for each of the financial votes that he must account for in each of the past five years; the estimate for 2022; the percentage of each vote that is for capital or current expenditure; and the percentage each year spent on salaries and pensions within the current spend. [53523/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Digital Hubs (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that section 15(6)(c) of the Digital Hub Development Agency Act 2003 will be observed and that a representative of the local community be appointed by him with immediate effect to replace the previous representative whose term expired on 2 June 2021 (details supplied). [55629/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on the regeneration of the St. Michael’s site, Emmet Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8 including the finances allocated, the proposed loan from the EIB and other ways that the Government can subsidise this project in order to ensure that the rents are realistic and truly affordable while not compromising on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 595. To ask the Minister for Health the reason holders of full medical cards are not automatically eligible for the flu vaccine given that many of those in possession of a medical card have it on the basis of low income and therefore would find it difficult to afford the €20 to €25 cost of the flu jab in a pharmacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55824/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 594. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has been denied to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55823/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the initiative has been taken to increase the level of the HPV vaccine take up among older teenagers that did not or could not avail of the school based immunisation programme when in first year in school; if consideration has been given to a free or low cost vaccination drive to encourage girls that would have been due to have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 599. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been costings prepared in relation to the possibility of a vaccination programme for the cohort of school going of girls who missed their HPV school based vaccination appointment during the previous years of the programme, given that the cost of having the vaccine administered from the person’s doctor can be a deterrent to be vaccinated,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the regional take up of the HPV vaccination programme for each year since it first rolled out for schoolgoing girls and later boys by percentage and numbers. [55865/21]

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Táim ag roinnt mo chuid ama. Beidh 15 nóiméad agam agus cúig nóiméad ag an Teachta Cronin. Tá sé go maith go bhfuil deis againn labhairt ar an mBille seo. Déanfaidh sé athruithe áirithe do rialacha an bhóthair maidir le gluaisteáin agus na bealaí ina n-úsáideann muid na bóithre agus na cosáin....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the funding provided by the Ulster-Scots Agency to a festival (details supplied) was used to organise centenary celebrations of partition and of the creation of a sectarian statelet in the North of Ireland; her views on the appropriateness of this use of State funds by a Good Friday Agreement body; and her further views on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My question relates to the appropriateness of the use of funding from this State, via the Ulster-Scots Agency, to fund a celebration of partition and an event celebrating the sectarian paramilitary B-Specials.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That has been done. It has also been raised at council level.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am aware of exactly what the Ulster-Scots Agency has stated it funded. However, that is not reflected in the poster for the event. The poster refers to Northern Ireland centenary celebrations and a historical re-enactment of the B-Specials. It states the event is backed up by the Ulster-Scots Agency. That is reflected in the poster. I do not know whether subsequent to this emerging,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As I said earlier, I have raised this issue with my colleague. She is not answerable to me because she is a Minister of the Assembly and the Minister of State needs to bear that in mind. The matter has been raised in the council, which also part-funded this event. I will repeat my supplementary question in the hope I will get an answer this time. Has the Ulster-Scots Agency been asked to...