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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children in ASD units receive follow-up assessments and checks to ensure their educational needs are met; the way in which this is monitored and reported; if separate funding is made available for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42589/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact the cut to the education capital budget will have in view of the 471 schools that are in temporary buildings and numerous other schools promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42588/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child currently has access to a SNA but is told that reassessment is required to continue to qualify for access, but the assessments are not within six months due to resource and staff shortages, the way in which the child is to be supported in school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42653/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools that are part of the school inclusion model, that is, the 75 schools in counties Kildare, Wicklow and south County Dublin areas currently participating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42654/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if staff in NEPS who take leave or maternity leave are replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42656/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments Waiting Times (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time children who suffer a bereavement are expected to wait on waiting lists to be seen and assessed by psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42657/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children being home schooled at primary level; if they are all in receipt of the home tuition grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42658/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if all school age teams have a full complement of specialists to allow multidisciplinary assessment and interventions; if, in particular, a team (details supplied) has the complement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42649/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which children are prioritised for the school age team assessment; if it follows the national policy for prioritisation for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42650/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if assessments of needs by school age teams have a long waiting list; if parents can have private assessments done and still avail of interventions and supports from the appropriate specialists on the teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42651/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if each child has to have a second full multidisciplinary assessment after having one with the early intervention team when moving to primary school when the child reaches the age of five; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42652/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in the early intervention and school age teams are replaced while on leave and maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42655/19]

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seventy nine years ago, the Nazis extradited Lluís Companys i Jover, the Catalan President, to Spain where he was executed by the fascist Franco regime for rebellion against the Spanish state. In the past few days, the Spanish Prime Minister has suggested that this action by the Franco regime was legitimate as he commented on the Spanish Government's right to imprison leaders of the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a positive suggestion in the context of something the Department could do, namely, take the lead role in the area of disability rights and services. Even today, two Deputies raised various issues of mental health and disability services on Leaders' Questions while carers were protesting outside about what they did not get in the rather miserable budget. This morning, two disability...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not campaign for Brexit.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not us.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not us.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is hardly corruption to try to save jobs in the North.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when the Cabinet committee on Brexit, foreign and European affairs is next scheduled to meet. [41383/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I noted the Taoiseach's earlier comments on the need for politics in the North not to be defined simply as nationalist or unionist. Not surprisingly, he did not mention People Before Profit in his list of all-Ireland parties with-----