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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 4. To ask the Minister for Health if he will act on the urgent need to upgrade and extend the HSE-owned building from which the Gurteen family practice operates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39546/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Will the Minister act on the urgent need to upgrade and extend the building from which the Gurteen family practice in County Sligo operates? I visited the practice two weeks ago. It is run by Dr. Helen Fitzsimons and was named rural practice of the year for 2024. I saw first hand the urgent need to upgrade the building. Sadly, I wish to extend my most sincere sympathy to Dr. Fitzsimons...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I am pleased to hear that the process will be completed in the coming weeks and a priority application for capital funding will be put forward. When I visited the practice two weeks ago, I could see for myself the urgent need to upgrade the building. The reception area is tiny and cramped. There are three receptionists. There are wires trailing over sinks. It doubles as a kitchenette...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 20. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the reopening of the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38825/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 36. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made not to fund additional hours for home care for service users in Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal; if overtime hours of caregivers are being cut back; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38826/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 37. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will receive surgery (details supplied). [39354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the progress made on the reopening of a hydrotherapy pool (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38685/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: We have had some time to digest the budget and assess its impacts. Yesterday when I spoke, I was happy to recognise some of the positive changes in the budget that will benefit different groups of people. I also said that this is an election budget. It screams it from the rooftops. As the Taoiseach said, he would not apologise for any of the benefits, double payments or early payments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the witnesses for their commitment and work to date. It has been very much part of what is happening and the whole framework. I thank them for their ongoing assistance, for example, to us with today's meeting. Deputy Howlin spoke of the sense of dread when the word "Brexit" was mentioned. I remember as a Member of the European Parliament watching it being played out there and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Exports from here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Can I ask one brief question? Ms Lynch said very clearly that we need a new agreement. Within the context of the Windsor Framework, is that possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Yes, I understand. I should have said that. Is that possible? How would that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: Would it have no impact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: It would, of course. However, will the Windsor Framework not create any barriers or challenges to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: There is a connection but not really. It is just that there is a grace period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The Windsor Framework and Related Matters: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to this Deputy’s previous correspondence on the inclusion of Sligo in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme and the reply received (details supplied), if he can outline the timeline for bringing a motion for resolution to each House of the Oireachtas and, subject to the passing of a resolution, bringing a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Properties (2 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there are no public toilet facilities at the Sligo INTREO office, Cranmore Road, Sligo (details supplied). [39303/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: There was a lot of money available to the Government so there are positive aspects to this budget and measures I agree with, including the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. I actually voted for them in the previous budget and am glad to see they are being continued and that the Government is investing more in Irish Water and in the Land Development Agency....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Food Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister for that. As I said, I have raised this issue many times. I have a sense, and I hope I am not wrong, that we are almost at the final hurdle. It has just taken so long but sometimes you get to a point where you can only look forward and you cannot keep looking back wondering why it has not happened before now. There is a huge level of frustration among the producers....