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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are awaiting a home help package in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33727/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 528. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of home help hours granted in Laois and Offaly over each of the past ten years; the number of persons who have availed of home help hours in these counties for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33728/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 532. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons home help hours have been cut by 27% in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33732/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 529. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the orthodontic service in Tullamore is without staff with no relief cover put in place to cover staff leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33729/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Data (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 530. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for child and adult orthodontic services in counties Laois and Offaly; the number of persons on each waiting list; the number of persons waiting six months, one year, 18 months, two years or over two years for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33730/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he intends to address the waiting times for orthodontic treatment in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33731/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are waiting for respite services in counties Laois and Offaly; the number of persons waiting six months, one year, 18 months, two years or two years or more; his plans to address waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33733/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 534. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE midlands area has submitted a request for additional staff in the area of occupational therapy; if this request will be approved by his Department; the timeframe for a decision on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33734/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 535. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 27 June 2017, the number of additional staff that have been requested by the HSE midlands area to address the waiting lists in occupational therapy; the costs of providing the posts requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33735/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 536. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for additional staff made by the HSE midlands area over each of the past ten years; the number of posts sought by grade and division; the number of posts that were approved by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33736/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will be made to a person (details supplied); if the payment will be processed without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33737/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be taken by his Department to ensure that the delay in respect of AEOS and GLAS payments does not arise again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33739/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compensation Schemes (13 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 942. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in providing compensation to the 370 tillage farmers across the State that lost crops in the heavy flooding in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33740/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: I thank all of the contributors to the discussion. This is a huge issue in my constituency which covers County Offaly and north Tipperary and of concern to many parents. I have been contacted by many of them about it even before they have received decisions. The way many of them were treated last year was nothing short of a disgrace. There is no flexibility whatsoever in the system and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: I am disappointed the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, is not here given it is his brief. I do not think it is good enough. I met with Deputy Halligan over the appeals issue and all the other issues that were raised. When will the appeals review be published? Shortly is not god enough. I have constituents contacting me. I have constituents in Rhode, County Offaly, who felt very...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2017: First Stage (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to grant additional functions to the Inspectorate to examine and report to the Minister on the prevalence and standard of individual educational plans for children with special educational needs on an annual basis; and to provide for related matters. This Bill seeks to extend the powers of the...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2017: First Stage (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the unallocated spend within his Department for 2017; the details of expenditure allocated to programmes in 2017 which are due to cease in 2017; the funds which will become available within his Department's expenditure profile in 2018 due to changes in demand for services, goods and or changes to costs within his Department and so on; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount allocated to his Department under budget 2017; the amount of this that remains to be spent in his Department; the headings under which the unspent allocation has been made; the anticipated spend between July 2017 and 31 December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32180/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Jul 2017)

Carol Nolan: 423. To ask the Minister for Health if art therapists are employed by the HSE; if so, the number of same, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32448/17]