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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 967. To ask the Minister for Health the reason podiatry services are no longer available for residents in Ashbourne and Dunshaughlin, County Meath, given that now the closest primary care centre offering podiatry services is 28 kilometres away in Trim; his views on whether this presents enormous challenges for residents who have limited physical mobility and no means of transportation such as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1048. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time urology nurse specialists at both CHI Crumlin and CHI Temple Street in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased. [53037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1049. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of an additional full-time consultant neurologist with a special interest in sleep medicine for St. James's Hospital. [53038/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1050. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €1.4 million new funding for crisis resolution services will be spent in 2022. [53039/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1051. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided in 2022 for the recruitment of two additional full-time craniofacial surgeons. [53040/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1052. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time mental health intellectual disability consultants working in CHO 8 in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [53041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1053. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant vascular surgeons attached to St. Vincent's University Hospital in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [53042/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1054. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time advanced nurse practitioner allocated to paediatric neurosurgery services in CHI Temple Street in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased. [53043/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (2 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 1246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital projects that were carried out at each fishery harbour centre under the remit of his Department in 2021; and when each project will be completed in tabular form. [53046/21]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. As numerous Deputies have said, there is barely a household breast cancer has not affected, not to mention their extended families. I worked in cancer diagnostics for years. There is no screening programme for many cancers but there is one for breast cancer because we have a very good diagnostic tool and an effective treatment in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ports Policy (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to ongoing delays at Dublin Port relating to inspections by his Department; the measures he is taking to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50767/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 54. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that were introduced in Budget 2022 to support the organic sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a time-limit on the eSPV grant meaning that vehicles that are not delivered and registered as taxis before the end of the year will not be covered; if he will review this situation in view of the well-documented delay in vehicle delivery related to shortage of semi-conductors and so on; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to address the shortage of school bus transport places; if the current 50% loading limit will be lifted after 22 October 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51764/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses. I am also a member of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action, which met on this and came to the conclusion that there was a need for a reasoned opinion on behalf of the committee and I am of the same opinion in regard to this. It is a significant package and it has major implications for policy here. I would question about subsidiary and the control...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: In respect of the aviation sector, the proposals mention the use of blended fuel up to 2050, more or less. Is hydrogen not an option there? Is that view coming from the industry? Where is it coming from? The use of blended fuel up to 2050 seems to me to be fairly carbon-intensive. It is hard to see how it is not, or perhaps I am not picking it up correctly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: We can see what is happening between Poland and the EU currently in terms of where the authority or the law stands. If this proposal is adopted as a policy at a European level, is there not potential for European policy to supercede Irish policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: So, potentially that could be the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I appreciate that.