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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 599. To ask the Minister for Health when persons in cohort 7 will receive their Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 601. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1103 of 31 March 2021, when the final report (details supplied) will be published. [23028/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2021: Waiver of Pre-legislative Scrutiny (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman. I thank both officials for the briefing they provided. It was very useful. I fully appreciate that this is an urgent situation. I am very concerned, as I think we all are, by the idea that hearings cannot now proceed and that an awful lot of people have been left in limbo. We teased out some of these concerns at our meeting but, for the purposes of the record, I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: We in Sinn Féin have been constantly raising with the Tánaiste and the Government the issue of sky-high, extortionate rents being paid by workers and families. The average rent in Dublin is now €1,745 a month, while the average across the State is in excess of €1,200. These rents are absolutely eye-watering, as is the €1 billion the State will pay to private...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Answer the question and do not try to deflect.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: This does not reflect well on the Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste said most businesses will open. Most will, but some will not. Most workers who were in work in March 2020 will go back, which is fair enough, but some of them will not. Those workers are absolutely terrified by the date of 1 July because they do not know what is coming. We should bear in mind that many of these workers were doing the kind of work, facilitated by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to take a moment to also offer my congratulations to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and her husband on the wonderful news of the arrival of their baby boy this morning. As my grandmother used to say, a baby brings their own luck. I wish the Minister, her husband and their new baby all of the luck in the world. I remind the Tánaiste that the Minister herself said before she left...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has engaged with mobile phone network providers regarding the actions they are taking to tackle the practice of criminals using their mobile phone network to send phishing or smishing text messages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22497/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 104. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the review and revision of Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland: the HSE Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 – 2021; if a new plan will be developed for the period from 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22369/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 105. To ask the Minister for Health if clinical midwife and nurse specialist lactation consultants have been appointed within all Irish maternity and paediatric hospitals, according to a determined births to support staff ratio, with dedicated CMS / CNS lactation in NICUs; the proportion of CMS / CNS whole-time equivalent per births in maternity units and per admissions currently; the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time lactation consultant posts in each CHO; the cost of meeting the deficits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 123. To ask the Minister for Health if persons working in the Covid-19 testing centres as volunteers or paid have access to high-quality masks of a similar grade to that used in a clinical setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if persons working in the Covid-19 testing centres as volunteers or paid workers have access to high quality face masks of a similar grade to that used in a clinical setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22522/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 160. To ask the Minister for Health when frontline staff at a facility (details supplied) will receive their vaccine given they are an outlier in not receiving the vaccine by comparison to their peers in similar facilities. [22573/21]

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this important legislation. It is timely that legislation has been brought forward to implement the recommendations of the Supreme Court in the case of Wayne Ellis v. the Minister for Justice. As Deputy Martin Kenny outlined, this is only part of the wider picture. It all depends on the mechanisms by which legislation is enforced. The personnel...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when businesses will be able to apply for and draw down funds under the music entertainment business assistance scheme which was launched on 9 March 2021. [21231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (28 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 1001. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the short-term five-year targets for overweight and obesity as outlined in A Healthy Weight for Ireland (details supplied); if the targets for 2016 to date have been met in achieving the downward trend per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21733/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 1008. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of persons that can attend a wedding once a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine has been rolled-out nationally. [21786/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I doubt if I will need 14 minutes. I just have two very quick questions. I have high hopes that it is very unusual for people of 16 and 17 years to be requested to work overnight or engage in heavy-duty work. It is probably unfortunate that we are in the space where that requires regulation. If my understanding is correct, this is about the transposition of a directive so there is no, or...