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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. I wish to put on the record my thanks for their great work and service in a difficult area. Sometimes it can go without saying, but I thank them once again. The Ombudsman for Children report entitled Nowhere to Turn states the interagency working between the HSE and Tusla remains a problem in some areas and with regard to children being left in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will proceed to give permission to MSLETB to proceed with a lease on a portion of derelict grounds at Drumshanbo, County Leitrim to the local community centre committee (details supplied) to develop a new sports facility and playing courts which may not proceed unless matters around the lease are progressed soon. [49491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department would grant the additional funding to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim to pay for the use of the local community centre's facilities which over the years has meant that the said school did not have to invest in new capital buildings for assembly and sports uses. [49492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (9 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 18. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress made to date in expanding community-based care by increasing opening times for unscheduled care, radiology, and diagnostic services. [48867/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 23. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on his Department's latest work in tackling overcrowding in hospitals. [48866/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance, for expressing their views and concerns and for providing this information. The opening statement from the Ombudsman for Children's Office concerned me. Ms Ward stated: Parents have also told us how they are too afraid to admit how exhausted and stressed they are because whenever they have, the HSE has referred them to Tusla and questioned their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric hospitalisations in Ireland associated with chickenpox in 2022 and to date in 2023; the percentage increase, if any, in hospitalisation between both years; the economic impact of such hospitalisations in terms of bed nights on our public paediatric system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 122. To ask the Minister for Health what impact illnesses like, Strep A, RSV and chickenpox are expected to have on the public paediatric health system in Winter 2023; what preventative measures are been taken by his Department and the HSE in advance to limit such impacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48916/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 123. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2024 HSE Service Plan is expected to be published; if it is anticipated to return the publication of this important plan to the year-end period of the preceding year, which was the norm prior to the impact of Covid-19, i.e., December 2023 for the year 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48917/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated for the provision of the primary childhood immunisation programme in the years ranging from 2018-2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48918/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2023)

Frank Feighan: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47777/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: I support Deputy Grealish. The large-scale sports infrastructure fund has been very important and we should have another large-scale sports infrastructure fund as soon as possible. The Minister of State will be familiar with one club in the north west, Sligo Rovers, a co-operative venture owned by the people of Sligo and surrounding areas. They want to apply along with many others in my...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: On a point of clarification, Sligo Rovers will play the Minister of State's club, Drogheda United, on 28 October at 6 o'clock. When he comes to visit his in-laws, he and the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, are more than welcome to call in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Implementation of Inclusive Education in Schools: Department of Education (18 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the witnesses for taking the time to come in here today. I appreciate the great work they are doing in the Department of Education. I have gone through the opening statements and there are a few questions I wish to ask. On the budget, a further 5% of the total education funding brings the area of special education to €2.7 billion. It also provides for an additional 744...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Implementation of Inclusive Education in Schools: Department of Education (18 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: Yes, I think so.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will review and sanction the application for a building extension at a school (details supplied) as the current situation around accommodation for students is not sustainable due to its enrolment at 663 (an increase of almost 50% since its original accommodation was granted in 2019) which includes a co-educational aonad...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: Across from my constituency office on Pearse Road in Sligo is Mercy College, Sligo. On numerous occasions, I have heard nothing but positive references to the parents, teachers and students of this great college. Its enrolment is now at 663, which is an increase of almost 50% since the original accommodation was granted in 2019. It has applied for a building extension and has been informed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister, and I appreciate that the Department has a large number of projects to manage but we would appreciate if the Minister could follow up on our request so this project can be moved forward. Three years on from the announcement of this project, the accommodation remains the same despite an increase of 25% in our student enrolment. When the Minister is down in Sligo and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: I appreciate the demands that are there but we need to keep lines of communication open between the Department and the school. We will do everything to ensure that this happens.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (17 Oct 2023)

Frank Feighan: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department is expected to pay the pension arrears and the exact amount to a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44721/23]