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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (28 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the CIÉ 1951 superannuation scheme; if his Department will take into account the court judgment mentioned; whether those employed under this scheme, who are currently entitled to a pension, will receive their pension increase in a timely manner;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to the contents of a news article (details supplied) regarding Dublin City Council tenants having to live with extensive mould and damp in their homes for long periods of time; the steps his Department is taking to ensure that local councils can better address these issues for their tenants; if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a definitive timeline for the completion of the permanent buildings for a school (details supplied); the stage at which the development is currently; the reasons for the slow progress of the development of the buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23362/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs schools in each of the years since 2019, by patronage, in tabular form. [23476/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the teacher/student ratio for special needs schools in each of the years since 2019, by school, in tabular form. [23479/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending special needs primary schools in each of the years since 2019, in tabular form. [23477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending special needs post-primary schools in each of the years since 2019, in tabular [23478/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what is required of officials working for An Bord Pleanála in respect of disclosing any connections they, either through themselves or through family members, may have to organisations or companies involved in planning or housing construction; the measures currently in place to ensure that members of An Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of each of the 400 new special classes sanctioned for September 2024 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is acceptable for an approved housing body (details supplied) to ask one of its tenants to cover the cost of an attic conversion in a situation in which there is additional housing need due to overcrowding; if this is Department policy; whether it applies to all approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if a report has been published (details supplied); if not, if he will provide a copy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22599/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 617. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the advice from the Office of the Attorney General in relation to the extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22831/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the options paper developed by his Department in response to the report of the Oireachtas Health Committee on the Independent Review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 619. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the total number of BowelScreen invitations issued, by county, in each of the years from 2021 to 2024, in tabular form; the corresponding number of people, per county, who returned a completed FIT test in these same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22834/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 620. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the total number of eligible men and women who are not on the existing BowelScreen register or list which is informed by information supplied by the Department of Social Protection; to outline efforts to target this group with a view to encouraging greater uptake in the screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22835/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 621. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the overall numbers of people aged 59 to 69 who are eligible for participation in the BowelScreen programme and who, as of the end of April 2024, have not been issued with a FIT test in the last two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22836/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will honour his commitment to legislate to ensure women going through a cancer diagnosis or other serious illness during maternity leave can defer that leave while they recover; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22063/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Statutory Instruments (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has responded to a letter from an organisation (details supplied); if in respect of SI 308 of 2023, the European Union (Anti-Money Laundering: Beneficial Ownership of Corporate Entities) (Amendment) Regulations 2023, he will meet this organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Irish nationals who are not ordinarily resident in the State and who do not hold any of the documents specified in section 9(1)(a) of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 are precluded from applying for a gender recognition certificate (details supplied); the rationale for their exclusion; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a letter delivered to his office from an organisation on 23 April 2024 requesting a commission of investigation into baby deaths, maternal deaths and catastrophic birth injuries (details supplied); and if he intends to act on this request. [21804/24]