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Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Assets (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance if financial safeguards were put in place to protect the State's investment in a company (details supplied); the estimated loss to the State on its investment to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42513/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if businesses can refuse access to indoor hospitality to customers using the HSE vaccination card, with photo identification, as their primary proof of vaccination and not an EU digital COVID certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42227/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons with a disability are eligible to apply for a Rebuilding Ireland home loan; the number of persons with disabilities who have been granted an loan to date since the scheme’s introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 461. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a passport application by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42729/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 462. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a passport application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42730/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to address long delays in waiting for passport applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41854/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 455. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport express will open for applications; if the service will be able to provide the normal turnaround time for passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give urgent attention to serious matters of concern raised by a community organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Promotion (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 758. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address excessive consumption of unhealthy foods in preschool settings particularly in relation to celebrations (details supplied); if guidance has been issued to preschools on the consumption of unhealthy foods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42307/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when English language schools will be permitted to enrol international students; the reason English language schools are being treated differently to university English language programmes in respect of international enrolment and student visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42353/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current progress on plans for a barbering apprenticeship scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42637/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the difficulty prospective trade apprentices experience in finding an apprenticeship employer in view of the skills shortage in construction; if a system to match prospective trade apprentices with apprenticeship employers exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42978/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1306. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the Irish Nurses and Midwives' Organisation, INMO, compensation claim; if he has responded to the INMO; the steps he is taking to recognise the contribution of healthcare workers during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1155. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the closure of applications for the pre-exposure prophylaxis scheme in a number of hospitals (details supplied); the steps he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41881/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1168. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to persons who, for medical reasons, cannot receive a first and or second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine; the steps he will take to ensure they are not unfairly discriminated against in the rollout of the Digital Covid Certificate or in the return to workplaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41929/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1307. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1195 of 31 March 2021, the status of the review of the 12-month blood donation ban for gay men, bisexual men, transgender men and men who have sex with men; if an individual risk-based assessment is still under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42409/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1352. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the sale of a company (details supplied); the implications of the sale on Irish DNA samples collected by the company; if he has engaged with the company in relation to their controllership of genomic research databases following this sale; if GDPR allows for the private sale of Irish citizen’s genomics data; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1259. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Maternity Hospital project board is required to comply with the updated Public Spending Code lifecycle by submitting three separate business cases, preliminary, intermediate and final; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42252/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1260. To ask the Minister for Health the position the business case submitted to his Department by the National Maternity Hospital project board in December 2020 currently lies in relation to the Public Spending Code life cycle decision making process; if the National Maternity Hospital business case submitted in December 2020 represents a preliminary business case seeking approval in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (9 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1261. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Maternity Hospital business case has been progressed since December 2020; if so, the way in which it has been progressed in relation to the Public Spending Code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42254/21]