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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: 357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the actions his Department has taken in relation to this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6003/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: 358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the changes that have been made regarding Irish-Bahraini relations since the deteriorating human rights conditions have been brought to the attention of his Department by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6004/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in the intellectual disability sector employed directly by the HSE have been excluded from the €1,000 once-off tax free bonus payment to front-line healthcare workers and also section 38 disability workers; if so, if he will reconsider this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6599/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I want to raise a very difficult issue with the Tánaiste this morning which relates to the overuse of and in some cases addiction to over-the-counter medication, in particular, those medications which contain codeine. The context in which I am raising this is the death of a young 39-year-old woman at Sligo University Hospital just over two weeks ago. That happened because of her...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Tánaiste. We all deeply sympathise with the family of Laura Newell. The purpose of this discussion is to ask what can be done about it and how can we prevent it happening again. Her sister talked to me about what happened in Australia. That country banned over-the-counter painkiller medication in 2018 and it has worked for that country. It has not caused many of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: 116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans being put in place to address the findings of the cost of disability research report published on 7 December 2021; and the way in which it is proposed to reduce day-to-day costs for persons with a disability. [5724/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: As the Minister of State will know, Indecon produced a report on the cost of disability in Ireland at the end of last year. What policies is she putting in place to address the issues raised in that report?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister of State. We are all aware of the extra costs people face because of disability. Some of these are once-off costs and some are yearly but largely they are day-to-day and week-to-week costs. This report mentions everything from housing adaption costs to hearing aids, travel costs, utility bills, home help and so on. There is really good analysis of these extra costs in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: This is obviously a work in progress. I will bring two further issues to the Minister of State's attention. The first relates to the Housing for All strategy. Within that, there is a strategy for persons with disabilities. It tells us things like disabled people will be at the centre of decision making. That sounds fine but the question is how is that done and how is it managed? Does...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: Primary medical certificates.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: 336. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to increase the number of emergency refuge accommodation units for victims of domestic violence and their children. [5725/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I am happy to see this Bill reach the floor of the House because it is crucial that our legislation underpins and supports our modernised and vastly changed higher education system, our students who are in that system and all those who work in it. I also want to refer to the fact that yesterday we passed the Technological Universities Act, which approves the merger of Galway Mayo...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I have listened to what the Minister of State said. She talked about the pipeline for jobs in Sligo remaining strong. However, the statistics show that is not the case. In 2017, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation released a document looking at figures from the 2011 and 2016 censuses. This showed the lowest increase of any county in the country, 2%, was to be seen in Sligo....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: Do we have four minutes each?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: Apologies, I did not read my emails properly.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: One minute each.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: It is great to see the Sligo-Leitrim constituency so well represented by Deputy MacSharry and also by Deputy Kenny in raising this extremely important issue. I raised this issue with the Taoiseach yesterday and he agreed it was a hammer blow for the community in Collooney, with a population of approximately 1,700, to lose 80 jobs. It is a massive blow to the workers, their families and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the European Union: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I was in the Dáil earlier. All politics is local so I was dealing with that so I missed most of the discussion for which I sincerely apologise. I did not hear the discussion about academic qualifications but I will gloss over that issue. I genuinely mean it when I say that I am sorry I did not hear all of the discussion. The witnesses spoke about the impact of the debate on joining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the European Union: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I have huge admiration for Professor Tonra. I have no authority to speak on behalf of the fishermen, and while I heard what Professor Tonra said, it is their fishing grounds and their livelihoods. It was a real hammer blow in addition to what has happened in the context of Brexit, as a result of which they lost part of their fishing grounds. It is a positive Irish tradition and part of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: I raise the shock announcement of the loss of 80 jobs at the B. Braun facility in Collooney in County Sligo. This is a hammer blow for the workers, their families and the entire community in Collooney, which is about 1,700 or 1,800 people. B. Braun has said it will retain a specialist research and development unit in Sligo so this may present an opportunity to resource and grow the research...