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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to provide approval in principle for employers and jobseekers applying for reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme to assist their planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to extend the supports provided by reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme to other employers in the community and voluntary sector and commercial State-sponsored sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52149/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to extend the employee retention grant so that it also available to new recruits and employees with pre-existing disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52150/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to enhance the disability awareness support scheme to offer wider training that also includes employers who currently do not have a disabled employee on staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52151/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to increase the number of support hours (interpreter, in-work support, and so on) eligible for funding under reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52152/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to ensure there are changes to reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme to allow for equipment, software, and assistive technologies to be made available where the need arises, including blended working arrangements and full-time working from home...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date to develop a communication plan to ensure targeted and accessible promotion of any reforms to reasonable accommodation fund grants and the disability awareness support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 843 of 20 September 2023, if he will provide an update on the engagements he has had with a charity (details supplied) in relation to its funding situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 563. To ask the Minister for Health when the harm/benefit analysis of proposed animal experimentation projects are conducted, whether his Department considers the utility of the product to be tested on animals, or the utility of the product a component substance of which is to be tested on animals, as a factor in that harm/benefit analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51870/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 621. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 791 of 1 February 2022, if he will provide an update on his plans to promote and advertise the use of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive scheme to help alleviate waiting lists for medical procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52240/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I am trying to get a sense of some of the resources mentioned in Mr. Gloster’s opening statement. I do not know if he has all the numbers in front of him. I will throw a few questions out on that issue. Our meeting in June was one of the first we had when Mr. Gloster was appointed. We talked a little bit about the community healthcare networks, CHNs, and the community specialist...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I have the same question on the community intervention teams, CITs. There were 21 in June. Where are we with those? I would be interested, perhaps selfishly, in something that comes up on the doors a bit about medical cards. We had some numbers in June on the number of medical cards currently issued. If we had those numbers, it would be useful. Sorry, I am throwing many questions at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, Mr. Gloster, I wish to clarify that with regard to the numbers provided in June, no new CHNs or CSTs have opened since.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I asked a broader question on the public-focused vaccination programmes and the uptake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Henry said lower numbers than 94%. Do we know an indicative lower number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I accept Dr. Henry's point about the three months and I know that people are still getting Covid-19 but that would also have been the case last year. Has there been a similar spend this year on the communication campaign, in comparison to last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Would the numbers be similar for lower age groups? We talked about the 50+ group-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The number there is 18%. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: One in ten is a very low rate.