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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the total additional funding paid to date to nursing homes under temporary assistance payment schemes related to Covid-19; the length of time this will continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3271/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of home help delivered in November and December 2020 and January 2021 relative to 2019-2020 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3272/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccinations administered to HSE staff in the first two weeks of January 2021 by staff category, group and grade for each hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (21 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if he has signed off on the HSE 2021 national service plan; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3310/21]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: I will finish where I started my first contribution by again reading to the Minister some of the first-hand testimonies I have received. When I read them out I want him to bear in mind that I have spoken to hundreds of student nurses and midwives directly. I am not sure how many the Minister has spoken to. The following are some of these accounts and the first reads: In three weeks, I will...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: I move: "That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Government has commissioned two reviews of the pay of student nurses and midwives; — the first review on pay for placements during the Covid-19 pandemic was completed and its main recommendations were published on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) before the report itself was published or issued to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal speed limit for powered wheelchairs; his plans to legislate in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2245/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Management Agency (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the recent graduate recruitment campaign run by the Local Government Management Agency was open to applicants with graduate degrees, including higher diploma, postgraduate diploma and master's degrees; if applicants presenting such qualifications were deemed to have met the stated academic requirement; the rationale used...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or an agency under his remit recognises a difference between honours bachelor of arts degrees and higher diplomas for recruitment purposes to local authorities despite their similar national framework of qualifications level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Qualifications Recognition (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, for employment purposes, there is a recognised difference between BA honours and higher diplomas; his views on whether they should be treated as equivalent, given they are both level 8 degrees under the national framework of qualifications, NFQ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2428/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the position in which National Ambulance Service staff fall in the provisional allocation groups for the Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 451. To ask the Minister for Health the position of dentists, pharmacists and similar healthcare professionals in prioritisation in the Covid-19 vaccine allocation groups, given they are patient facing but are not being addressed as part of the first group of patient-facing healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2218/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 460. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on private ambulances, by hospital, in each month in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2235/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has exact restrictions on speed limits for powered wheelchairs that it provides or reimburses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for each discipline, speciality and sub-speciality for each hospital; the number waiting according to the same monthly categories issued by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, on the basis of the December 2020 waiting list figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2455/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 668. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has purchased additional doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that other countries did not want, as has been done by Germany, France and Denmark; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2921/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (14 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans and views regarding each of the recommendations of the expert group report to review the law of torts and the current systems for the management of clinical negligence claims relevant to her Department and those bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1976/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (14 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: 193. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and views regarding each of the recommendations of the expert group report to review the law of torts and the current systems for the management of clinical negligence claims relevant to his Department and those bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1975/21]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: Of the 700,000, the most up-to-date information given to health spokespersons at the latest briefing by Professor MacCraith, his team and Dr. Colm Henry was that we would get 40,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine weekly until the end of March, although that amount might increase when the additional procurement through the EU comes on stream. Has that position changed? Is the figure of 700,000...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: The 700,000 is the best -case scenario and is based on including the AstraZeneca vaccine and the current number of Pfizer doses increasing. On the day we were briefed by Professor MacCraith, the news came through that 300 million more doses would be procured through the European Commission, of which we would be in line for 3 million doses. When are they likely to arrive? Where does Ireland...