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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Apr 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to improve digital literacy among older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18539/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (6 Apr 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the efforts by his Department to improve the supports available to provide alternatives to online access to public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18540/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Apr 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new public nursing home beds that have been made available in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Apr 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 225. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish an age in place support fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Apr 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting time for urgent and non-urgent patients that are waiting on an appointment with the child and adolescent mental health services in County Kildare; his plans to improve this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18555/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (6 Apr 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 264. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position in relation to the development of a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18548/22]

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this topic. Sinn Féin has been to fore in the area of women's health with a number of progressive proposals in our 2020 election manifesto. The area of health has been a sphere in which inequalities are particularly acute for women. From the outrageous wrongdoings of thalidomide and symphysiotomy of the past to the more recent vaginal mesh implant...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. Many of the measures are long overdue. In general, Sinn Féin will support the Bill. We will engage and bring forward amendments, where appropriate, on Committee Stage. The Bill will have far-reaching consequences and a much greater effect than the blunt instrument of carbon taxes the Government is heaping on ordinary workers and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: On page 120, the programme for Government commits to holding a referendum on housing. There are almost 7,000 people on the housing list in Kildare and there is a ten-year to 12-year wait for allocations. There is no sense of urgency in dealing with this issue. We need to build public homes on public land. If there is not enough suitable public land, we need to acquire it through...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I also welcome this Bill. As my colleague Deputy Cullinane has said, it will ensure AHR practices and related areas of research are conducted in a more consistent way and with the oversight of a new watchdog, the AHR regulatory authority. Under the legislation, this new regulatory authority will be responsible for regulating treatments such as IVF and licensing and regulating domestic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: The other matter I was worried about, and I apologise if this question has been asked, is the Central Bank identifying housing and climate action as areas requiring significant public investment. Does it believe the current plans are sufficient in that regard? Does it believe the economy currently has the capacity to absorb those levels of investment?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: Are there specific parts of that plan that are more fundable? What does Dr. Cassidy believe they might be?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: Does the Central Bank have any concerns around overheating in the economy?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I very much appreciate that. I thank Dr. Cassidy for his time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I also apologise. I am running in and out to other meetings so apologies for that. I thank Dr. Cassidy and Dr. O'Brien. In his opening statement, Dr. Cassidy mentioned that rural households are more expensive to run. How concerned is he about this and the borrowing aspect to sustain that cost? I am also concerned that many people where I live in rural Ireland are quite elderly and there...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: On page 25 of the programme for Government there are promises to: - Review the policy framework within which Credit Unions operate. - Enable and support the Credit Union movement to grow. - Support Credit Unions in the expansion of services, to encourage community development. What progress has been made to ensure that our credit unions, which stuck with rural Ireland while the...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: The main purpose of the Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022 is to restrict the total cost of credit on moneylending loans. Under this Government, moneylenders are permitted to charge an annual percentage rate of 187%. That rises to 288% once collection charges are included. When compared with more affordable sources of credit, such as credit unions that have an APR of no more 12.67%,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I visited the Curragh Camp three weeks ago and saw the dereliction at first hand. I am sure the Minister has visited it several times. He will be aware of the filling in of the hollow at Donnelly's Hollow there. It seems to contain the remains of demolished buildings, although there has been a cover-up subsequently. I have asked several parliamentary questions on this matter but am not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I certainly will. That will be no problem.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Patricia Ryan: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to bring the derelict homes at the Curragh Camp in County Kildare back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13286/22]