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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Regarding the impediment that the Department will not negotiate with the IDA, Mr. Hourihan said in his presentation that there was a similar impediment to the IMO and that was resolved. Why has it taken so long? The IMO found a way around that in 2014. Why has that problem not been addressed before now? That is a long time ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: The people in need of dental care are not a priority. Mr. Hourihan said the IDA provided a proposed framework agreement, which he presented to the Department in November. Has he had any response to that whatsoever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: In terms of how we can be helpful in these circumstances, is putting the issue of finding an agreement around a framework to the Department the most pressing issue we could assist with?

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It is important to remember that at the heart of this issue is that the State has been quite happy, down through the years and continuing to today, to fight children who have special needs and their families. This is about a denial of basic rights to people with special needs. If successive Governments had not pursued that policy, this would not have arisen. Despite the 2004 Act, the 2005...

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I agree that the vaccination programme has the potential to be transformative, but only if it operates properly. I do not have confidence that it will operate properly. For probably the sixth week in a row, I ask the Minister to publish a plan for the roll-out of the vaccines. I agree with the points made earlier by Deputies. One sometimes wonders what the point is of coming in here on a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the way in which she plans to address the anticipated increase in early school leavers in the area; if there are plans to provide more NEET supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a DEIS band 1 school (details supplied) which is set to lose a teacher despite increased enrolment for the 2021-2022 academic year; the way in which she plans to address this matter in view of the educational, social and economic disadvantage in the area; if she will review the threshold; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the steps her Department is taking to address food poverty in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17788/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to address increased drug and alcohol misuse among young persons in an area (details supplied) particularly in the home; if additional supports and funding will be provided to community and youth services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17786/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests for Covid-19 undertaken daily in each of the walk-in testing centres since they opened; the positivity rate in each centre; if the positive cases from the walk-in clinics are being contact traced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of positive cases for Covid-19 that are contact traced; the number of days on average that contact tracing goes back to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the total population of agency nurses and healthcare assistants; the number of these who are vaccinated; the way in which the remainder will be identified for vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18026/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that arrived here in each week from 8 March 2021 to date and declared on the passenger locator form that they had been in one of the 33 designated states in the previous 14 days; the number from each designated state in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18027/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if the private security contractor overseeing compliance in mandatory hotel quarantine has expertise in or has had training specific to policing quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18029/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 371. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to comply with the request from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health that he make the senior counsel report on the allegations of a whistleblower (details supplied) available to the whistleblower immediately and publish it a few days later. [18050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide further post-primary schools in addition to increased provision within existing schools for the Dublin 9 and 11 areas given the increase in population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extremely disadvantaged students in five schools for children at risk will be afforded the opportunity to sit their junior certificate examinations in June 2021 in view of the fact that no leaving certificate examinations are being held in these schools; if she will engage directly with the schools on this issue; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to update relationship and sexuality education in primary and post-primary schools; if she will ensure that reform of the curriculum will be LGBTQ+ inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 735. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department is taking to implement the LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 736. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department is taking to implement the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17517/21]