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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to extend the access-and-inclusion model support beyond the three hours for children with additional needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29144/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1171. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the access-and-inclusion model payment of €14 per hour to a maximum of 15 hours will be increased to cover the employer shortfall on employer PRSI and accrued leave given the increase in salary scale due to the impending employment regulation order. [29145/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who were referred to Tusla in 2021; and the location from which they were referred; the person or body that referred them; and the reason they were referred. [29404/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to an increase in the number of children being referred to Tusla in each year; if his Department has undertaken any study as to the reason that the number is increasing; his views on the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1383. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment of need for a child (details supplied) will be expedited. [28857/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1407. To ask the Minister for Health if a positron emission tomography scan can be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will address the reason for the long waiting list for the particular scan involved in this case. [29028/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1462. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled hospital appointments in the State broken down by individual hospital in each of the past five years and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [29231/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1466. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the 314,000 additional public patients on waiting lists are on the waiting lists due to postponed or denied treatment because of health service closures during Covid. [29253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1495. To ask the Minister for Health if an investigation has been undertaken by his Department in relation to the person or body that made the decision to close the emergency departments in Nenagh and Ennis hospitals; the way this has contributed to the record overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick; and if a person or body will be held to account for these decisions. [29446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1514. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 29 March 2022, if a marketing company (details supplied) has submitted a pricing and reimbursement application; and if it will be made available to medical card holders if medically indicated by a doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (14 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the assessment of need for a child (details supplied) who will be unable to access their right to education through an ASD unit within a school setting without a formal diagnosis and intervention supports and who is not eligible for the domiciliary care allowance. [29727/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to give credit to all the various community organisations and groups, including churches and State organisations, that have so far made resources available to people from Ukraine who have come to this country. There has been an enormous amount of work. It is important to give credit and recognition to those who have offered the céad míle fáilte to people fleeing what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the Minister give us some information on the number of pledges by the general public of accommodation for people from Ukraine and the number of pledges that have been accepted in this regard? Has the Minister any information on the number of vacant homes repurposed to allow Ukrainian refugees to live in them? The issue of vacant homes has been a serious bugbear of mine for a long...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any protocols or structures in place for dealing with persons who contact it and who have made retrospective abuse allegations or disclosures relating to their time as children in State care. [27576/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We are all familiar with the horrific detail that came to light in the Grace case, specifically with regard to the State's response to the allegations and the abuse suffered by the person known as Grace. Are there any other cases that the Minister is aware of which are similar in nature to that of Grace?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: With respect, the Minister has not answered my question at all. Since the establishment of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in 2014, some 13 internal case reviews have been carried out by it. My parliamentary assistant has been handed two of these reports by two women who suffered sexual abuse as children. The reports are deeply upsetting to read. In the 1990s, gardaí and social...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Abuse (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: The content of these reports is deeply shocking. I want to know what happens to these reports. Where is the oversight and accountability in respect of them within the Department? Can the Minister confirm to me, if somebody comes forward to report retrospective child abuse pertaining to a period when they were in State care or in foster care, whether all other adults who were previously in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian nationals who have entered the direct provision system in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [27575/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the first time in the 11 years I have been in the House that there has been no other Deputy present to ask a Minister a parliamentary question. The Minister will agree with me that the direct provision system has been a disaster. In a country that looks back continuously at wrongs the State has done, the fact that the direct provision system is currently still functioning is a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has informed himself or conducted any research in relation to the number of the road fatalities out of the total number and percentage of fatalities that involve motorcycles in each of the past five years including to date 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28622/22]