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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I think we have exhausted our questions. I hope we have not exhausted the witnesses. It has been very informative, useful and helpful, and I want to thank the witnesses for coming here and identifying issues that we can help and support in, and providing us with information that we can circulate as well. I thank them for coming in, and I wish them every success. We are going into private...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to reflect on the number of people who lost their lives during the conflict, or Troubles, in Northern Ireland. More than 3,700 people died and 47,541 were injured. The majority of those who died were actually innocent civilians, and 68% of those injured were also innocent civilians. Therefore, the Troubles cast considerable shame on all those involved. The Good Friday Agreement is...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: The master's voice.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (26 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek advice on concerns raised by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19693/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ukraine War (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 79. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will announce successful projects under the community recognition fund in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19144/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Centres (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 78. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the work she is doing to support the development of proposals for a new community hub at Moneymore, Drogheda, as recommended by the Geiran report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to points of concerns raised by a trainee psychologist (details supplied) in respect of the proposed changes in funding for trainee educational psychologists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are in a position to assist with the tenant in-situ schemes or other relevant schemes that will provide assistance where a social housing applicant is resident in a neighbouring local authority, and where that social housing applicant has received a termination notice (details supplied); and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail how a request submitted for an Irish national, currently in a prison within the EU, is repatriated to an Irish prison under the new Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023; if advice in this regard has been circulated to relevant advocacy groups to assist families in this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 513. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the drug seroquel being given to nursing home residents in cases in which the resident suffers from dementia; if there are known contraindications for such administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18991/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 540. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to points of concerns raised by a trainee psychologist (details supplied) in respect of the proposed changes in funding for trainee educational psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19083/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to amend defective legislation that denies children over the age of 16 years with a mental illness access to free medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 620. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which he will bring in new legislation to regularise the legislative anomaly, revealed by the Attorney General, where minors between 16 and 18 years of age do not qualify for free medicine for mental illness; the current state of preparation of such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which he will bring in new legislation to regularise the legislative anomaly, revealed by the Attorney General, where people over 18 years of age do not qualify for free medicine for mental illness; the current state of preparation of such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19564/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he and his Department have taken to address CAMHS waiting lists across the country given that figures from that the CAMHS waiting list almost doubled nationally between 2019 and 2022 from 2,327 in 2019 - the last year before the pandemic -compared to 4,293 in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 623. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought an explanation/report from his Department and/or the HSE over the scenario where the CAMHS waiting list almost doubled nationally between 2019 and 2022 from 2,327 in 2019 - the last year before the pandemic - compared to 4,293 in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19566/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 624. To ask the Minister for Health the explanation his Department and/or the HSE have provided for the doubling of the CAMHS waiting nationally between 2019 and 2022 from 2,327 in 2019 - the last year before the pandemic - compared to 4,293 in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19567/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) in respect of personal assistants in ETBs and their long-term working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19103/23]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I do not know where Deputy Tóibín will be. He deserves his place in the House but in what role I will decide later. Where does Sinn Féin stand in respect of the Special Criminal Court? If we look at criminality, and the fear and loathing of people who carry out the most evil crimes in our society, many of them were brought before the Special Criminal Court because of...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: But it is the job of Deputies to express their views-----