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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for a patient to access a genetic counsellor in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 458. To ask the Minister for Health the medical settings to which positive breast cancer gene patients of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, are referred for surgical opinions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who tested positive for breast cancer gene one and two in 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31386/22]

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate, although I somewhat echo the comments of Deputy Bruton on the retrospective look being a little too far back. I hope we can amend that in future years. I had the opportunity to attend a youth climate action debate in the Seanad Chamber. It was a feature of climate action committee’s outreach on the subject. I am sure the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that his Department has given to banning the sale of flavoured vape products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31174/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his Department’s work with regard to vaping in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31175/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: The marquees in terminal 1 and elsewhere are covering up the disorganised chaos we saw that Sunday in May. It is now organised chaos. While 1,400 people might not have missed their flights, turnaround times at the airport are unreasonably long because the DAA still does not have the necessary staff. The end of the month is rapidly approaching. A commitment from the Government and from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: The difficulty many of us have, which we have articulated here or at meetings of the committee over recent weeks, is that whatever about the redundancies offered in 2020, the DAA knew by 2021 that it was looking at an uptake in numbers. Therefore, it was completely illogical for it to have 1,400 passengers miss flights in May 2022 as a result of its inaction over the previous 12 months. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Costs (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the Minister of State's response. I understand the need to carry out further research when the scheme is bedded in. Two or three weeks ago, I raised the need to ensure certainty for the second half of the academic year in 2023. I encourage the Government to make a policy decision on ongoing fare reductions, as long as it is sustainable to do so, as I outlined in my prior remarks...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: We need to re-evaluate the carrot approach in order to remove people from larger electric vehicles. The electric equivalent of even the smallest combustion engine car on the market is heavier and that applies in the vast majority of cases. The approach of using existing taxation to help people to purchase a particular car because that is their tax point, as well as the taxation effect that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: While BusConnects is controversial in certain places, it really is not in others. We cannot wait for it on the north side, if I am quite honest, although there are a few pinch points along certain routes such as the Swords Road and the Malahide Road. I asked the NTA recently about the Swords Road. It serves Dublin Airport and is critical in serving the emerging city that is Swords. I was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the 20% fare reduction on public transport journeys beyond the end of 2022; if he plans further fare reductions in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30547/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: The response of the Minister of State to the grouped questions is very welcome. The key question for us in the context of a cost-of-living crisis is to ask whether the fare reductions that have already been introduced are sustainable. I welcome the Minister of State's comments that she would very much like to see them being extended into 2023 but that is, I suppose, a budgetary decision...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State again. It is essential that we as a Government support the reduction in the burden on people, particularly in the context of the cost-of-living crisis. I, of course, welcome the 50% existing reduction for students and the 20% reduction for everybody else and I would very much like to see that continue into 2023 and beyond. 9 o’clock If further scope...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail his engagement with Dublin Airport Authority officials; the steps that have been taken to avoid delays at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the critical skills list will be updated in 2022 to include occupational therapists and speech and language therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29240/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current turnaround time for work permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29241/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofitting applications the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland have received to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29237/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofitting contractors that have been approved for the one-stop-shops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29238/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has queried with the Dublin Airport Authority the arrangements it is making for vulnerable or disabled travellers at Dublin Airport given the high volume of passengers travelling through the airport at the moment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29236/22]