Results 441-460 of 2,406 for speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal of a review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; if this will be a full legislative review; if it will update all of the provisions within the Act to better reflect the contemporary understanding of disability and best practice for inclusive education as outlined in the UNCRPD; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider establishing a working roadmap to fully amend and implement the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 which will include appropriate resourcing and costings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36390/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the pre-emptive support plans in place for the next cohort of leaving certificate students in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36437/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Services (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of public health supports available to both primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36438/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mental health supports available to both primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions were made to accommodate distance learning throughout the pandemic for those in receipt of social welfare payments; and if so, the number of courses available and or number of persons who registered and availed of these courses by county in tabular form. [36242/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the Pathways to Work strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Anti-Racism Measures (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the timeline and objectives of the Anti-Racism Committee that he established several months ago; the status of its operations; and the way it will be used to inform policy in the future. [36258/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe of the publication of the disability capacity review; his views on the causation of the publication being delayed over such a protracted period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29770/21]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome the opportunity to comment on this motion, which offers inroads to diversifying the range of services provided through post offices, including renewals of motor tax, offline services for people who struggle to process their paperwork online and personal banking services, among others. I support all these suggestions. The post office network has shown its adaptability and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Taoiseach to engage with the Department of Education, the Minister for Education and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, as the issues and dire circumstances experienced by the only Educate Together school in my constituency in Clare require urgent and interdepartmental attention. In the programme for Government there is a commitment to ensuring plurality and delivering...

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: This Bill essentially seeks to address the unused legislative powers under section 28 of the Education Act 1998 that gives the Minister powers to intervene and have more of an active role in resolving disputes and complaints that are lodged by parents in respect of schools and their operations. It stipulates that the Minister will engage with stakeholders and prescribe procedures for dealing...

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: This Bill seeks to extend the operation of the CervicalCheck tribunal until January 2022 and to provide for an additional extension to July 2022, available at the discretion of the Minister for Health. Of course I support this Bill. It makes sense for the period of time in which a compensation claim can be lodged to be extended significantly if we consider the fact that, up to two months...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been provision made for the third-level students who cannot for physiological reasons avail of the Covid-19 vaccine but wish to return to campus physically in the 2021-2022 college year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider establishing an engineering certification in the Ennis campus of Limerick Institute of Technology in order to provide qualified engineers which will be needed in the region in the close future with the development of green energy infrastructure such as green Atlantic at Moneypoint project. [36526/21]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Sinn Féin is against a property tax, generally, and would dispose of it in favour of a wealth tax when in government. However, the fact that the Act is being amended at this time deserves some scrutiny. The local property tax was designed to pay off austerity-era banking debt and has no place in our society. It has never taken the ability to pay into account and it does not represent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 71. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to financial, service-based schemes to provide for the growing needs of community mental health and to ensure that Covid-19 crisis and emergency mental health teams are better resourced going forward in view of the fact that mental health support services were inundated pre-pandemic and that there are studies providing evidence that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 143. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the reinstatement of ShannonDoc services in County Clare, specifically in Ennistymon, Kilrush, Killaloe and Shannon, areas geographically challenged in their own right (details supplied). [23060/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (13 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the pyrite remediation scheme that encompasses counties Mayo and Donegal and has not as of yet included County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37599/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (13 Jul 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will acknowledge the submission from the local authority in County Clare that conclusively outlined the presence of pyrite and the prevalence of defective blocks in the random samples across the county. [37600/21]