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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will involve an organisation (details supplied) in the consultation process when proposals are put forward in relation to the development of a new transport support payment scheme in order to ensure that the needs of persons that are blind and vision impaired are fully considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4547/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 608. To ask the Minister for Health if the new transport support payment scheme will not only provide transport to health related appointments but will also be available to those that need transport to and from work in cases in which they are unable to drive a car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4575/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if one cane per year will be funded for each blind or vision impaired person that needs to use one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4543/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 599. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will be supported in extending the personal assistant service to include persons that are blind and vision impaired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4544/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 600. To ask the Minister for Health if personal assistant services for blind and vision impaired persons will be funded regardless of their area of residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding allocation to an organisation (details supplied) will be restored by at least 16%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Support Scheme (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if the financial resources will be provided to introduce a subsidised taxi transport scheme for persons with sight loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4553/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 605. To ask the Minister for Health if one single national budget will be considered for an organisation (details supplied) to facilitate equal access to services nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4562/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blind Welfare Allowance (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider lowering the 100% taper rate of the blind welfare allowance in view of the fact it is regarded as too steep and creates an income plateau for some persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4567/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blind Welfare Allowance Data (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 607. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will digitalise its records in order that it can easily retrieve statistics on the number of blind and vision impaired persons that have received its supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4571/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will resource local authorities in order that they can subsequently ensure that the accessibility needs of persons that are blind and vision impaired can be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4587/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 614. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that each local authority puts an access officer in place in line with the Disability Act 2005; if the necessary resources and training will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4589/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 615. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will ring-fence adequate funding to facilitate a project (details supplied) and its associated costs in continuing to better support the evolving access needs of students with print disability in further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4592/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will seek to officially recognise and support an organisation (details supplied) as a complementary service provider to support and strengthen the structures to become more individualised, equipped and responsive to the needs of children with impaired vision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board since it made its decision to pursue legal action against a company (details supplied); his views on the action being taken by the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5251/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 793. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the National Immunisation Advisory Committee has no representative from a society (details supplied); the length of time the position has been vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5252/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 794. To ask the Minister for Health the work being carried out with respect to revising the model of care applied to terminations of pregnancy; the person or body he has assigned to revise the model of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5254/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 801. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 13 November 2019, if an independent external facilitator to engage in a consultative process in respect of Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise has been appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5330/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken to date to resolve the ongoing issue relating to delays in the processing of felling licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4050/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicines (13 May 2020)

Carol Nolan: 935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will re-examine regulations that would prohibit merchants from selling and administering animal preventative remedies without a prescription from a veterinary surgeon in view of the present significant challenges that the Covid-19 crisis is generating in the agriculture sector and in further view of the fact that the...