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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of social care students and their ongoing difficulty fulfilling placements.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Correspondence (27 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 706. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which general practitioners nationwide were invited to the mass vaccination centres during the weekend of 16 and 17 January 2021; if general practitioners were invited by county; if not, if they were randomly selected and so on; the process to ensure they are vaccinated as soon as is possible in cases in which they were not invited; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on Fisheries Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am grateful for the invitation to attend. I represent a Border constituency like that of Deputy Mac Lochlainn and I am Chairman of a committee Deputy Mac Lochlainn serves on, the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. I am here today to show my appreciation of and concern for what is an issue that affects all of our island, even though we have different...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which the home of a person (details supplied) will be connected to high-speed broadband under the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2982/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Import Costs (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) about duties will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3343/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 308. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on measures to scrap an €80 charge for venesection clinics that was introduced for haemochromatosis patients who do not have access to medical cards; the discussions that are taking place to eliminate the charge, which may deter patients from venesection treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2972/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 309. To ask the Minister for Health if he has explored the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines outside the standard EU collective agreements in the way Germany is doing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2983/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that will be made to ensure nursing home residents will receive the Covid-19 vaccine before 24 January 2021 in circumstances in which there is an outbreak of Covid-19 in a nursing home; if decisions have been made in cases in which Covid-19 free nursing home residents should not receive the vaccine due to the fact they are living in a facility...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 359. To ask the Minister for Health if information is available on whether nursing homes are observing the recommendation of the nursing home expert panel report which highlighted the fact that nursing home staff should not cross over from one facility to another to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission in view of the extreme staff shortages that have now been highlighted in nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 393. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) diagnosed with motor neurone disease, MND, and the person's need for vaccination priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 436. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the traumatic and tragic incident discussed; if the current policies can be reviewed in view of the correspondence in order to allow partners to support in their loved ones when there are non-routine and non-scheduled serious health checks on expectant mothers; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 456. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in relation to vaccination of nursing home residents in cases where there is currently an outbreak of Covid-19 among residents and-or staff; the number of homes in which vaccination has not proceeded as a result of such outbreak; the location and names of such homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3400/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outbreaks of Covid-19 in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities since 1 January 2021 by county and the ownership and management of such facilities, that is, private, HSE or not-for-profit; the number of fatalities in each such category since 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3402/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 458. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the vaccination of all adults aged 65 and over who are residents of long-term care facilities were not vaccinated in the very first instance and as a top priority as proposed in the Covid-19 vaccination programme as published; the persons or bodies consulted in relation to the change in policy; the person or body that made the decision to change...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 461. To ask the Minister for Health the policy followed by his Department and the HSE in relation to the allocation of vaccines to cover all front-line staff in each hospital; the reason all front-line staff at major acute hospitals, such as Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, were not vaccinated due to shortage of vaccines supplied to them initially; the reason for the shortage of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Apiculture Industry (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if concerns raised by a person (details attached) in respect of non-native honeybees will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3290/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (21 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 520. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the category 1 rural regeneration funding application submitted by Louth County Council in respect of the Omeath project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3255/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is an important report and an important debate. I have listened carefully to what Members have said. I do not disagree with the fundamental point that an appalling crime was visited on all these families, in particular children. Something in the report struck me more than anything else, namely, the unacceptably high infant mortality rate in the first year of life, which was higher...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (20 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider expanding the applicable criteria of the better energy warmer home scheme to recipients of the invalidity pension considering the long-term nature of the payment and the associated incapacities of the applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2249/21]