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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 1314. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants who work with patients on a scheme (details supplied); how many patients on that scheme they have under their care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48566/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 1315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants who work with patients on a scheme (details supplied); how many patients on that scheme they have under their care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48567/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 1316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the medical card support for those who have obtained a ministerial licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48568/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 1317. To ask the Minister for Health what is meant by a term (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48570/23]

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I apologise. I will quickly move on to my last point. Although there were 70,000 actual hours allocated last year in respect of PA services, that is after 80,000 hours were lost in 2021 with an increase of 46,000 in 2022. In real numbers, the increase in 2023, after the restoration of previously cut hours, is only around 36,000 additional hours secured. I am hopeful this will be increased...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I am delighted to speak on this motion, and I want to thank the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters for its report on aligning disability services with the UNCRPD. First, I want to commend the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte for her comments in her statement this evening, specifically on the call for holding Ministers to account but, more importantly, how that process allows...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Road safety is an issue of acute concern for every Member of this House. As we head into the bank holiday weekend, we are all thinking of the 155 lives lost on Irish roads since the start of this year, an increase of 36 on this time last year. My thoughts are with all of those families today. In the context of fatalities, I want to mention a section of the N67 in Clare. This road sees a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the information the Minister has provided but I also want to talk about late payments. Basic income support for sustainability, BISS, payments were a week late and areas of natural constraint, ANC, payments were a month late. The latter were advertised as advance payments but, in fact, came later in the year than their predecessor payments. Farmers are financially drained. An...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how his Department will cope with the reduction in its budget announced in budget 2024 and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46954/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: How will the Department cope with the reduction in its budgetary allocation announced in budget 2024?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The budget leads me to think a lot about the recession of 2008 and how this country got back on its feet. Farmers were instrumental in that. Since then, a lot has happened - Brexit, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis. We are not spending the corporation tax. I know the budget delivers an allocation that is reduced by 10% for agriculture. It is disgraceful that at a time when all the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on his Department’s allocation of moneys to the Department of Health in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on delayed payments to farmers as a result of CAP 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46953/23]

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I would like to welcome the three electricity credits proposed, but I am incredibly disappointed that the Minister has decided to decrease the credit from €200 last year to €150 this year. These decisions should not be taken in isolation and the decision to slash these credits is one that has been roundly condemned by NGOs and charities, especially knowing that the average...

European Parliament Directive on Victims of Crime: Motion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this issue. Too often when the topic of crime and justice is discussed, the focus is on the perpetrator and the crime and the pain and trauma of victims and their families is an afterthought. The European Parliament sought to remedy this imbalance by adopting the victims' rights directive in 2012, which laid out a set of rights and entitlements...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a scheme (details supplied) will extend beyond March 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (25 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 28 February 2023, what land has been made available to the OPW, by local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46957/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome the increase in the income disregard for the carer’s allowance announced in the budget. I, like many colleagues from throughout the House, lobbied extensively on this, so it is a move I warmly welcome. I note the interdepartmental working group and review the Minister mentioned. Like many others, I met representatives of Family Carers Ireland ahead of the budget. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I was delighted to meet Vicky and Fiona from Family Carers Ireland before the budget and we spoke at length about the importance of family carers and how under-appreciated they are. As the Minister knows, unpaid family carers save the State about €20 billion per year, or the equivalent of a second HSE, a point that is timely given the statements taken earlier in the House. Before I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recent changes to the means test for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46416/23]