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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on preparations being made towards the establishment of a citizens' assembly on education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30485/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available to Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) in order to reinstate funding for local authorities to tender pavement projects previously approved, given the request by TII to local authorities to place a hold on tendering pavement projects while an expenditure review is undertaken; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 650. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of funding for the drug palforzia in Ireland being made available to help reduce allergic reactions to peanuts for children aged 4 to 17 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29087/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a provision of a diabetes unit in University Hospital Waterford as the only level 4 hospital without such a unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the sexual health clinic in Waterford is effectively non-operational and local health services are unable to offer PrEP services, for which people have to travel to Cork or Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27673/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (26 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the practice of insurance companies to increase car insurance premium renewals based on specific addresses of the policy owners, while not taking into account security measures such as CCTV, driveways, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27355/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (20 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the streamlining of the process between the work permit system and the Irish residence permit system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24271/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of contractors listed on the OPW’s contractors list over the past five years; the number of applications, the number of additions and the number of removals to the list each year; the value of projects assigned to each contractor; the number of projects per contractor that have been identified as being non-compliant...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the criteria by which contractors are removed from the OPW’s contractors list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26613/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 325. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent ESRI report entitled "Changes and challenges facing the Irish long-term residential care sector since COVID-19"; his plans to address the disparity between funding for public and private nursing home providers; his plans for Budget 2025; if increases to Fair Deal funding are needed to match inflation; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 340. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the requirement of an individual’s eye report for each application for reimbursement for low vision aids and the change in support for one magnifier and one pair of cocoons every year to every three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25971/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Allotments Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 18 April 2024, for an update on the publication date for a guide to the provision of allotments and community gardens by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25851/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish legislation to provide a legal basis for national parks, as outlined in Action 1E2 of the National Biodiversity Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (29 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices and penalty points issued for driving in cycling lanes in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in total and on a geographical basis, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Coverage (21 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if e-scooters and other powered personal transporters are covered by public liability insurance in the same way bicycles are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22610/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Coverage (21 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether regulations surrounding insurance for e-scooters and powered personal transporters of a certain power are forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Research Funding (21 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 9 March 2023, whether research into precision fermentation specifically forms part of any of the successful applications funded under his Department's thematic research call 2023; if research into the area and its potential to disrupt and undermine traditional modes of food production is...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the approval of an increase in optometrists' fees given the lack of increase in fees over 20 years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22859/24]

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 627. To ask the Minister for Health when a national programme for public eyecare for children over eight years of age will be approved to ensure equity of access to eyecare for all children of the State, as committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22860/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the intervention of his Department to progress the reopening of Barrow Bridge in advance of the recouping of costs due to the ship strikes from the insurance companies involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22121/24]