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Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: The process was not followed. In that context, is the HPRA going to notify the European Commission? Is it going to look right now at what happened to ensure it does not happen again? That is the HPRA’s responsibility as the notified body.

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: Like many of my colleagues, I also want to offer my sincere sympathy to the family of Dollceanna Carter and express my deep concern to the families of those children who find themselves in the middle of this medical crisis. Our role here today, of course, is to ensure that lessons are learned and that action is taken to fully implement those learnings. I listened to the Minister, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I again raise the issue of the urgent need to build a new Garda station in Sligo. While I know it is ultimately the responsibility of the Garda Commissioner, nonetheless a site was purchased by the Office of Public Works, OPW, and funding was put in place before the last election to build a station. Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal were all part of the same Garda division. The excuse given was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: He can do so in a moment.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures he and his Department are putting in place to deal with the student accommodation crisis in Sligo, due to the withdrawal of two student accommodation blocks from the market. [40622/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: Most of the Priority Questions this morning relate to the crisis in student accommodation. That is a strong indication that there has been a failure by Government to plan ahead. In Sligo, for example, we had two apartment blocks that for ten years housed students. Then they were allocated for Ukrainian refugees. That has been stopped for now but the owners have said that they are not for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I heard what the Minister said about "grubby behaviour". We will not have the debate now but it is my understanding that this is as much about a failure of co-ordination between Government Departments as anything else. As I said, we will not have the debate now but I will speak to the Minister about it again. I recognise that a lot of good work has been done by the students union and by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: We also need to look at short-term solutions. We have spoken about the long-term situation with accommodation but we need proper co-ordination and extra bus routes to help get students to ATU Sligo. I am pleased to say that a new Local Link service from Ballymote started this week but we need more. We need to look at extra services within a radius of 40 km to 50 km from Sligo. Time and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 19 May 2022, to provide an update on the long-outstanding issue of regularising the terms and conditions of adult education tutors employed by Education and Training Boards. [40912/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. He did talk about substantial support but he said it himself, that was pandemic support. It was for Covid only. It did not deal with the systematic inequity in the fair deal system. The Minister talked about a 6% or 7% increase, yet the difference in support between the two types is of the order of 60%. It is not enough. I could not name a nursing home in my own...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: I welcome back the Minister. I raise with him the critical situation currently being faced by many private and voluntary nursing homes. They provide care for more than 25,000 people in more than 400 locations and provide 80% of all nursing home care. Yet, 31 private and voluntary nursing homes have closed over the past three years with the loss of 915 beds. The crucial issue is that these...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on a work permit and visa application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Marian Harkin: 982. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply information in regard to the fair deal scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40270/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for citizenship under FBR. [33753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for the provision of a bus for primary school students to an after-school facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for the provision of a bus for primary school students to an after-school facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33812/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Promotion (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the progress in applying for PGI status for boxty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34341/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Referendum Campaigns (11 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: 637. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether an announcement will be made in relation to the proposed wording for the family, care and equality referendum before Dáil Éireann breaks for the summer recess, given the proposed deadline of the end of June 2023 has passed; if not, if the referendum will to go ahead as planned in November...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: The Ministers of State and the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach will have to be patient. I am recovering from a bad bout of laryngitis but I have to speak on this motion. This regulation is the most profound and far-reaching legislation on land use change ever proposed by the European Commission. Even though they do not know it, it will impact every man, woman and child, both rural and urban,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister of State for not just reading what was before her. She gave us lots of statistics but none of them mattered to a child who presented at Galway University Hospital. Anybody under the age of 18 under Irish law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a child and should not be turned away. I can understand that perhaps with rosters that there may have been a...