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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many additional driving test examiners have been put in place in County Kildare. [54017/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to increase the number of train services to Monasterevin Train Station, County Kildare to make it a more commuter-friendly town. [54020/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to Kildare County Council’s housing aid grants for older people, if he can investigate a grant application for persons (details supplied). [54016/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 172. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 230 of 22 November 2023, if he will provide further details of the process by which the decision will be made to discharge/transfer elderly patients who no longer need of hospital treatment to clinically appropriate nursing homes, and what if any, input the patient concerned and their loved ones/families may have into the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details and application criteria of the €10 million fund, as announced by him recently in Dáil Éireann, to enable small not-for-profits to be HIQA compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54015/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the circumstance where an urgent MRI scan in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin is now taking a minimum of six to eight weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54018/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the fact that a person (details supplied) who was referred in August 2023 for an urgent appointment for a thyroid/ENT consultation to the Mater Hospital Dublin, has received an appointment for 21 March 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54019/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any continuous supports for elderly people who are dependent on electric-powered medical devices with regard to constant increased and unaffordable energy bills (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the doubling of the cost recently of alternative heating materials, for example, wood pellet stoves (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52626/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the parameters for the use of tractors and agricultural vehicles on motorways; which vehicles are permitted to use motorways; the speed limits, if any, that apply to same; and if any specific prohibitions apply to their use of motorways. [52630/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to the increasing and concerning number of road traffic accidents and fatalities on Irish roads, his views on the percentage of those accidents which involved left-hand-drive vehicles; if left-hand-drive vehicles and drivers more accustomed to driving on the right side of the road is, or could be, a factor in such accidents;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers in County Kildare who stand to benefit from the USC reduction as provided for in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently stationed in Monasterevin Garda station, Monasterevin, County Kildare; and the opening hours of the station. [52629/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult mental health beds in CHO7; the location of each; and the number that are currently available for patients. [52624/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers removed or frozen at Naas General Hospital, Naas, County Kildare as a result of the HSE CEO's recent memorandum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52627/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers removed or frozen at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athy, County Kildare, as a result of the HSE CEO's recent memorandum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52628/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending the mortgage-to-rent scheme to require vulture funds which seek repossession of family homes to offer long-term tenancies as an option for those borrowers in arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, with regard to applications for carer’s allowance benefit, she will clarify the reason people already in receipt of another social welfare payment are cut off from receiving that payment immediately from the date of their application for the carer’s allowance, as carer’s allowance applications are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 229. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the precise terms and conditions applying to the new HSE policy on discharging elderly patients from hospitals to nursing homes; and if the elderly person’s (and their family’s) wishes will be taken into account where the transfer place may be clinically appropriate, but may not be preferable or convenient to the elderly person or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 230. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the precise terms and conditions applying to the new HSE policy on discharging elderly patients from hospitals to nursing homes; and if the elderly person’s (and their family’s) wishes will be taken into account where the transfer place may be clinically appropriate, but may not be preferable or convenient to the elderly person or...