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Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas le mo chomhghleacaithe a chuir síos an rún seo. There is no doubt that carers and families have been failed right across the State and failed far too often. I commend the fact that Deputy Cullinane has tabled this motion today. These parents and children often find it difficult to have their voices heard. Respite services are not a luxury. They are a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is a blank cheque.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what action his Department and the HSE will take, following recently published HIQA inspection reports, to ensure that the areas identified that require improvement in James Connolly Memorial Residential Unit and St. Anne’s – Naoimh Áine’s are addressed without delay; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been made by people in Donegal wishing to avail of the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme; and the number of applications that have been successful and unsuccessful, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26161/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees who have been settled in County Donegal, broken down by townlands and whether they have come from Ukraine or elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have availed of the Northern Ireland Planned Healthcare cross-Border initiative who have not had all of their expenses fully covered; the number of persons who have had to pay in excess of €1,000, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25640/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to ensure that minimum care provision will be in place at LUH in light of two endocrinologists suddenly resigning and the current challenges in recruiting endocrinologists across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25703/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if a reassessment of a fair deal scheme application is possible where a property valuation was undertaken without entry to the property due to Covid restrictions, and is later found to be incorrect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25873/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 702. To ask the Minister for Health if a reassessment of value of property is required under the fair deal scheme when the family home is sold and a new property is purchased by a spouse or partner of the applicant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25874/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (30 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 732. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent hospital transfer from Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital will take place for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26056/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to raise the issue of what is happening at Dublin Airport. People right across the State have been told that there are no more car parking facilities there, that the car parks will be full in the coming days and that the situation is likely to be the same right through the holiday period, into the summer months. The Tánaiste will know about this from his time as Taoiseach. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste was told last May and the Government rejected both proposals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Níl dabht ar bith ann ach go bhfuil tuismitheoirí agus cúramóirí á ligean síos ag an Rialtas seo agus ní féidir teacht ar sheirbhísí faoisimh do leanaí agus dá ngaolta. Tuigimid gur dhiúltaigh Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte do thogra an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Rabbitte, deich leaba fhaoisimh a athoscailt...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Government is not looking after the child and the family. Julie Anne went on national radio and said that for 16 years, she has not had one night of overnight respite. She puts her pain level between eight and nine and that of her son between seven and eight. She has been failed over and over again. How can the Tánaiste say the Government is looking after the child...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on total Garda numbers in County Donegal; if he will outline his plans to increase Garda recruitment in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25300/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Gaeltacht regions; the number assigned to each station; the number who are fluent in Irish; the same number with respect to each, in each year since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that VAT is applied to the directive charitable donations of goods; if it is possible to introduce a VAT waiver on such donations to support households in the context of the high cost of living, reduce waste and support the circular economy. [25459/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual median earnings in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. [25476/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of individuals who have unsuccessfully applied for their land, with respect to land that is being actively farmed, to be re/de-zoned from residential zoning but have been unsuccessful, and are now subject to the residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25427/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: On the specific issue though, the UN has identified 112 companies that are operating in breach of international law in the occupied territories. ISIF invests in nine of those. Has this come up at board level? Is ISIF going to make a decision now to withdraw its investment from those companies or will it be the case that we, as legislators, need to pass a law to direct ISIF to do that?