Results 7,141-7,160 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (11 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of a company (details supplied) continuing to act for the National Treasury Management Agency in bond sales in view of the recent findings of the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken a review of expectations for the number of NCHDs who will be working in the health service in 2022 and the coming years given reports that the 300 new NCHD posts created at the start of the pandemic will be cut and that a further 300 NCHDs are considering leaving the health service due to concerns regarding working...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address the issues raised in correspondence by a company (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13185/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason low-income pensioners who own their own homes are precluded from availing of SEAI home energy grants for wall insulation in cases in which they received support previously for attic insulation in view of the fact that wall insulation was not covered by the grant originally; his views on whether this is fair...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will put additional financial supports in place for the aviation sector in the wake of Covid-19 given recent announcements by airlines of further job losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12784/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Insurance Coverage (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 446 of 24 February, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the lack of insurance cover for teachers and special needs aassistants, SNAs, working under this programme will further disadvantage children with special needs from Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, schools whose...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to support language schools given the dependence of the industry on international tourism for the uptake of classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13477/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 765. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of a lack of proper social distancing outside of busy Covid-19 testing centres; the steps his Department is taking to ensure that social distancing is adhered to outside of testing centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12605/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 767. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 3 February 2021, the basis on which lactation consultant posts are allocated to community healthcare organisations; the steps his Department is taking to ensure a basic level of this service in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that arrived into Ireland in each week from 1 January 2021 to date and declared on the passenger locator form that they had been in a category 2 designated state in the previous 14 days; the number from each category 2 designated state in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13205/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 926. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance in filling out the passenger locator forms on a weekly basis in each of the past five weeks; the number of forms which were correctly and incorrectly completed on a weekly basis, respectively; and the number of persons that refused to fill out the form on a weekly basis in tabular form. [13206/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 927. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of incoming passengers who declared an essential reason for travel in each week from 1 February 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13207/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 969. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding Covid-19 and the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; his response to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13474/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 970. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a paper (details supplied); and if his Department has acted on the proposal. [13476/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 971. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol in place to ensure that students who receive in-school speech and language therapy (details supplied) but do not meet the needs of the children’s disability networks teams do not lose access to these services when their provision is moved to the children's disability network teams; if the removal of in-school supports proposed is for all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 972. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to cut the 300 additional medical intern posts which were created in April 2020 as a result of the pandemic; the consideration that has been given to the impact of such a cut on the health service and on medical graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13479/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 973. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commission a report on the role of vitamin D in immunological health as it relates to same, given the evidence that vitamin D has a causal relationship to SARS-CoV2 infection and Covid-19 disease and the evidence for population supplementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13480/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 974. To ask the Minister for Health the sequence of events including timelines that take place to transport vaccines from the point of arrival into the country on a plane or ship to the point of administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13481/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 975. To ask the Minister for Health if the IT system used to record vaccines administered was upgraded, as expected, in January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13482/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 976. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the IT system used to record vaccines administered; if the IT system is capable of processing upwards of 40,000 records per day as will be required in April 2021 in order to meet the target of 1.2 million vaccinations that month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13483/21]