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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a DCA appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26113/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I welcome the Minister of State's response. I do not for a minute doubt her commitment to this area. However, when we have situation where the State has made capital investments into respite houses and they are not being used 24-7, around the clock, it is simply inexcusable. Nobody should be able to stand over that. A mother of an adult child with a range of disabilities wrote: Robert,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter this evening. I start by acknowledging the role that family carers play, firstly in society, in keeping people in their own home, where the vast majority want to be kept, and secondly in the economy, to which they contribute €20 billion per annum. The State of Caring 2024 report was based on a survey of 2,127...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me in. I welcome the fact the Minister is committing to streamlining and improving the appeals process. As other speakers in the House have alluded to, I deal with constituents who are faced with lengthy waiting periods for having their appeals heard. I suggest the Minister puts a time limit on when appeals can be heard. Any applicant for a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 136.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a company (details supplied) has not increased its service following the discontinuation of another service. [25127/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 256.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24605/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Programmes (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 360.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the application for funding of a group under the cultural capital grant scheme (details supplied). [25203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 389.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason local authorities are now seeking P21s for pensioners in relation to housing adaption and housing aid grants (details supplied); and his views on whether this is waste of resources across various Departments and that local authorities need to be instructed to cease seeking this information. [24801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 595.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a detailed update on the timeframe for the re-introduction of the motorised transport grant. [24591/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 598.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that residents of direct provision accommodation cannot be moved for no justified reason, aware of residents who have resided in the same location for years being transferred without any engagement. [24594/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 599.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure that where a direct provision centre is located in a rural setting or a location with no public transport, transport would be provided at appropriate times to support people into employment and education. [24595/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 600.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure operators of direct provision centres are flexible when it comes the numbers of nights a resident can be away, i.e., a resident living in an isolated centre, with no access to public transport where they find work would be supported, rather than penalised, for finding work. [24596/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 710.To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure orthodontal surgery is expedited for a patient (details supplied). [24788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 788.To ask the Minister for Health if Turas, a mental health course delivered by the National Learning Network, can be made available in Athlone to all residents, given that Athlone is split into two separate CHO regions and, at present, this course is only available to residents in one of these regions. [25130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: 797.To ask the Minister for Health when additional home help hours will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25182/24]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: I welcome the Bill that is before the Dáil today and the opportunity to contribute to it. The Bill is timely. It is important that we bring forward these amendments, which are fair to people who have been working hard and paying their taxes. Therefore, when they fall on hard times there are additional supports available to them. When we are in a time of full employment it is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline funding opportunities to support cultural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place to market the national famine walkway internationally; if there any plans to introduce a grant scheme to support product creation along the route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24302/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing statutory timeframes for the implementation of housing schemes under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Robert Troy: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will convene a forum between senior officials in his Department and senior officials from across the local authorities to examine where housing schemes are not working or need to be amended to ensure Government policy is being implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24308/24]