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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to including assistance for broadband connection as part of the household benefits package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14847/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 887. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation will be considered for the recognition payment for frontline healthcare workers (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14216/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 935. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Covid-19 recognition payment; when it will be paid; the frontline workers and healthcare workers that will be included in the scheme; the amount of Exchequer funding that will be ring fenced for these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 1137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years from 2018 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14372/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 1138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of Departmental audits that have been performed on the use of Exchequer funding allocated to affiliate animal welfare organisations from 2018 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14373/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 1139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of calls received by his Department's animal welfare helpline by county from 2018 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 1140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspectors in an organisation (details supplied) by county from 2018 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14375/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 1163. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a town regeneration officer will be assigned to Ballyhaunis, County Mayo under the town centre first programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15024/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. Reid. I want to focus specifically on the progressing disability services for children and young people, or PDS, programme. Last year, the committee heard met with witnesses from the Psychological Society of Ireland, the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists. They indicated that the current recruitment...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Is there no flexibility in terms of how people are appointed? There is a difference between having an approved post and having a post where a person is in place, which may not happen for a lengthy time until that person is actually hired. Is this where the difficulty lies or is it in regard to the advertisements around the grade or seniority of the positions the HSE is seeking to fill?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I welcome our guests. I acknowledge Mr. Reid's opening statement in terms of the HSE commitment around providing the appropriate services and support for children in the State and the acknowledgement that the HSE regrets the negative experience of families where the current services may fall short of what is required to meet the needs of children and their families. I will try not to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I commend the Minister and the commission on its work on the independent commission's report on the Defence Forces, and the commitment of the Government to ensure the Defence Forces are fit for purpose in the immediate term and seeking to develop a long-term vision beyond 2030. There have been calls for quick movement on the recommendations within the report, and I am aware the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: On a day that an expert-led discussion on cybersecurity is happening in Dublin around new attack vectors and around geopolitical tension, I draw the Minister's attention to how we should be significantly strengthening the military intelligence and cyber defence capabilities of our Defence Forces. The commission believes cyberspace is a dynamic and rapidly evolving area and will be a key...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the next steps regarding the Commission on the Defence Forces report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13330/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I ask the Deputy to allow Mr. Reid to speak.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Deputy, please allow Mr. Reid to speak.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I welcome the witnesses. My first question concerns the appointment of a national lead for youth mental health. Has there been any progress in this regard? Second, may I have an update on the appointment of heads of youth mental health within each of the CHOs?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I would like to put it on the record that this is most obvious question the HSE witnesses could have expected to be asked at this meeting in terms of our priorities. Perhaps one of the witnesses from the Department of Health will come in on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Does Mr. Hempenstall know whether a national lead has been recruited?