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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (30 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is the same reply the Minister gave me last week, or the week before. There has obviously been no change in the Department. I urge the Minister to inquire again into the issue of gender inequality that is arising here. I appreciate her reply but ask her to listen to the point that no girl going to a primary school in Ardee is getting DEIS support, not one, while every boy is. That is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (30 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: What about the girls?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (30 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister is not addressing this. It is discrimination.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (30 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister for Education. I want to explain to her what is wrong with the way the Department is applying DEIS school status in Ardee. There are four schools in Ardee. One of them, a post-primary school, has DEIS status, so every student who is over 12 or 13 and who goes there has DEIS status. They have special educational supports. There are three primary schools in the town....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (30 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will seek assurances that the role of the night-time economy advisers will be decided by an open competition call to ensure specialists in hospitality and night-time economies have an opportunity to apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (29 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently review cases whereby victims of domestic and coercive abuse who are accessing refuge services but who do not meet the criteria for IPAS/IPO status and who have not yet applied or received a stamp 4 status within Ireland, can access a weekly income instead of having to apply for exceptional needs’...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (29 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on urgent concerns relating to new additional energy related costs in relation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59531/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details for the reason that students (details supplied) are having to source and pay a psychologist to complete an assessment report in order to apply for the DARE scheme; and if there are plans to address the matter going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58965/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (29 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on concerns raised (details supplied); if he will arrange for the appropriate officials to progress a meeting request in respect of the role of Personal Assistants who are contracted through ETBs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58770/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (29 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the awarding of a radiology contract, specifically, a DEXA scanner, to a company (details supplied); if a tendering process was required for the award; the date that this agreement was signed; the total cost of the agreement on a yearly basis; the timeline for when the agreement will finish; and if local DEXA scan providers that were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 627. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the name and contact details of the relevant officials within his Department and the HSE that can be contacted by a company to propose solutions to the urgent home care assistant shortages being seen across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the response to the school transport crisis has been satisfactory; when she expects a new streamlined application system to be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of pupils currently accessing SEN units in primary and post-primary schools in the Louth and the east Meath catchment area; if there are plans to increase capacity in the catchment areas, given the significant population growth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58047/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister to the debate. This budget and the actions she has taken as Minister show a caring, competent and concerned Government and Minister at work. This budget has been particularly well received, such as the €12 increase in the maximum rate of all core weekly payments, the €2 increase in payments for children, increases for social welfare recipients and so on....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (23 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a response will issue to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of child poverty figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58276/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet again with persons (details supplied) who lost loved ones during the Covid pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58352/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (22 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the matrix breakdown for the way that the DEIS status assessment was carried out with respect to a school (details supplied) given that there are three other schools in the town and all three schools have DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57569/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I raise for the third time on Questions on Policy and Legislation the plight of some very vulnerable citizens, many of whom are elderly and in poor health, living in fuel poverty and in mobile homes, which are the most inefficient homes for energy in the country. They cannot benefit from the €600 energy credit because they do not have an ESB meter registered in their name. They get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (17 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that are being considered to ensure that childminders can access much-needed supports under the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 16. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that County Louth received the lowest level of funding in the country through the Sport Ireland Dormant Account Funding announced on 27 October 2022 despite the key recommendations in the Geiran Report including the need for greater levels of funding for sports clubs and organisations for Drogheda to address...