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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 405. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the budget for the recently announced €2 million autism awareness plan will be spent; if there will be a reduction in the budget for autism services due to the awareness plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43473/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 406. To ask the Minister for Health if the school age team for the Dublin 15 area is without an occupational therapist, physiotherapist, social worker or access to psychiatry; if so, the steps being taken to address the shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43474/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he and the HSE plans to provide the appropriate support and services to ASD units which will open in a number of schools in Dublin 15 in the coming months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43475/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Records (17 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if documentation requested by a person (details supplied) as part of the person's residency application will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42741/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure a child (details supplied) with ASD and other diagnoses has access to the necessary interventions and assistance the child requires and that the cut to the child's SNA allocation will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42790/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if there is funding for patients approved for the medicinal cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42704/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (16 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 238. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he will take in respect of a community centre (details supplied) which urgently requires funding to address health and safety problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42444/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: I have to attend another meeting and I am not sure if I will be back on time. I thank all of the delegates for their very helpful presentations. I appreciate the time they are giving to the committee. Deputy O'Callaghan will now take over.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development (16 Oct 2019)

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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (15 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Civil Defence uniforms were collected by his Department in 2017; the locations in which they were collected; the locations where they were stored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42019/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. I will start with the Department of Defence. Unfortunately, the Minister of State at the Department of Defence, Deputy Kehoe, has left us, but he brought spin about his supposed €32 million. It is important to contextualise that, based on last year's budget but also on what the allocation is this year. According to the response...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (10 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 56. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for homecare package applications in west County Dublin; the number of open homecare package applications being considered in the area; the number of individual homecare packages being provided in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41305/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (10 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 95. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he is incorporating demographic changes into budgetary planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41304/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (10 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 1 October 2019, the reason the terms of paragraph 31(1) of Defence Forces Regulation R5 have not been utilised to promote RDF officers commissioned after 1 October 2005 to the rank of captain or the Naval Service equivalent or above; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41400/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I want to start with Twitter. In recent days we have heard about the experience of a family, Ms Fiona Ryan and Mr. Jonathan Mathis, who felt they had to leave the country because of the content published about them on Twitter's platform. They received death threats and racist abuse and were subjected to shocking commentary online. They made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: What does Twitter do then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: If someone tweets something that is evidently racist and results in a family questioning its habitation in, or having to leave, a country, is deleting that particular tweet sufficient enforcement? Should there not be a greater consequence for the person who publishes that tweet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does Twitter think that is sufficient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does Ms White not agree that, from the point of view someone who has been made subject to hateful content and the consequences of it, a simple deletion of the offending tweet is a really weak enforcement consequence for the person who has brought such hatred to other people's lives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: With respect, Twitter promotes that content to a considerable audience. Would Ms White agree that Twitter is one of the-----