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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 519. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify the steps he has taken to prevent further strike action from members of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42240/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any properties formerly in use as nursing homes have been offered to his Department for use to accommodate international protection applicants or beneficiaries of temporary protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42647/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of proposed 'safe access zones' that Tailte Éireann and his Department estimate will be created by the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42498/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 645. To ask the Minister for Health whether the proposed 'safe access zone' legislation will apply to institutions whereby a healthcare provider is located within a larger campus, for example, a university or hospital complex; if the 100-metre zone extends around the whole institution in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42499/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 646. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed 'safe access zone' legislation will apply to situations whereby a healthcare provider is located within or adjacent to a family home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42500/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: European Parliament (3 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: 654. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department supports the decision of the European Parliament to adopt a common EU framework to allow the sale of human embryos and other bioproducts through its approval of new rules on the management of substances of human origin (SoHO), which took place at a plenary session 12 September 2023 in Strasbourg; if his Department contributed any policy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the steps that are being taken to provide the school bus route for children from Shinrone, County Offaly, to Borrisokane, as children were only informed the evening before school started that there was no driver for this route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42031/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (28 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to ban the shooting of woodcock and snipe; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42019/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (28 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 285. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate serious concerns regarding a lack of information raised by the parents of a child (details supplied) who has undergone treatment at Temple Street Hospital for hip dysplasia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42025/23]

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: While I appreciate that this Bill is largely technical in nature, in that it deals specifically with the need to facilitate the integration of Ervia and Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, and to provide for the transfer of functions and assets from Ervia to GNI, it also raises very serious issues that merit our scrutiny here today, including relating to the delivery of strategic national...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: A few months ago, I attended a meeting in Thurles which was organised by Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners. The meeting was organised to address and highlight the issue of ash dieback, which affects many constituencies, including my own, Laois-Offaly. The Irish Farmers' Journal has reported that 6,000 families are affected and 70,000 acres in total are affected. Will compensation be...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: This issue is about as serious as it gets. It represents a fundamental failure of professional care for spina bifida patients. It has been an absolute nightmare for the children involved and their parents. One can only imagine what they are all going through. It is a betrayal of trust on a scale that is hard to imagine or, indeed, quantify. Of the 16 case files reviewed, 13 patients, or...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the assistance which Irish citizens can expect to receive from his Department or from Irish embassies or consulates abroad in the event of an emergency hospitalisation while abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 7 March 2023, to estimate the cost to the Exchequer if the planned increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel does not go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41089/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline what legal obligation the State has to provide emergency accommodation to persons who are citizens of countries outside the UK or EEA; whether his Department has examined the reasons for the disproportionate increase in the number of such persons entering emergency accommodation in recent months; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether her Department conducts any research or compiles estimates of the number of people who are entitled to payments under schemes administered by her Department but who have not applied for them; if so, the total savings to the State as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 400. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who are currently suspended from duty; to provide a breakdown of how long they have been suspended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41081/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 401. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost, by month, from May 2023 to date, of television advertising in relation to her Department's public information campaign in relation to threatening to share intimate images; to estimate the cost, by month, for the remainder of 2023; the total number of individual advertisements that appeared on television, by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 534. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a recent study (details supplied) that has found strong evidence of a link between autism and gender dysphoria and gender/body incongruence; whether his Department or the HSE has conducted any research into a link between these conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (26 Sep 2023)

Carol Nolan: 535. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the policy change implemented in Denmark this summer whereby teenagers who present with gender dysphoria for the first time will be offered counselling rather than be prescribed medication such as ‘puberty blockers’; whether this development will inform the policy of his Department or the HSE on this issue; and if he will...