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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Fergus O'Dowd: 231. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the contract for IPAS accommodation at a location (details supplied) was cancelled, paused or if the Department have to contractually pay for any invoices received for the premises since the contract commencement date of 17 January 2024, despite no IPAS applicants being on site since 17 January due to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Cormac Devlin: 233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of staff or contractors in his Department assigned to the community engagement unit and their grades on 1 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19997/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 May 2024) See 5 other results from this answer

Matt Carthy: 235. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Minister for State with responsibilities has given a direction to the HSE to consider the purchase of property at Cootehill, County Cavan for the purpose of development of day services for young adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20017/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1049 of 9 April 2024, to clarify when he will publish the material referred to; if it will be before the Dáil summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (2 May 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 243. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration has been given to reintroducing the mobility allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.538 of 13 February 2024, what progress has been made since that reply by his Department regarding the purchase of a hotel (details supplied) to become a community hotel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20056/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 245. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the assessment of needs for a child (details supplied), as their parent has been informed that there is a three-year waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20062/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (2 May 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 247. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants living in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Tourism Industry (2 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: 249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of non-registered Fáilte Ireland tourism bed stock that was contracted to the State for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 through his Department; the up-to-date percentage figure for this year, per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20072/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Niall Collins: 250. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current staff vacancies in relation to occupational therapy and speech and language therapy relating to west Limerick children's services; what is being planned to reduce the long wait times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20078/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I recognise that hospital waiting lists are too long and that many patients including children, are waiting an unacceptably long time for care. I acknowledge the impact this has on patients and their families, and especially the impact on children. As the particular case raised by the Deputy relates to service issues, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...through the next Call for Submissions. All submissions are carefully considered by the Committee as per its work programme. I am acutely aware of how difficult it is for parents, families and children who have received a diagnosis of a rare disease, and how challenging daily life can be for them. This is why I remain committed to the further expansion of screening in Ireland in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the sole EU supplier, the BCG vaccine became unavailable in Ireland. In 2015, the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommended that the BCG vaccine does not need to be given to all children in Ireland. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) published a Health Technology Assessment of BCG vaccine in Ireland in December 2015. This also concluded that BCG...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and resource identification; and - The design of clinical elements for reformed preventative care for adult medical cardholders as referenced in the policy. (Progression of oral healthcare packages for children aged from birth to seven years of age is also an NSP priority for 2024.) The National Oral Health Policy also contains a range of strategic workforce planning actions to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in dealing with the waiting lists of children seeking procedures for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20149/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...and the continuing loss of its graduates outside Northern Ireland. Research by the leading Northern Ireland economist, Vani Borooah, and others, has shown that the Northern Ireland system of education, where an elite 40% of children progress to grammar schools, with most of them going on to university, while the rest go to secondary schools, is very damaging. Too high a proportion of...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

James Browne: ...any holder of an in-person gambling licence from permitting a child to enter or be on premises in which a relevant gambling activity is or may be provided pursuant to the licence concerned. While this seems a common sense protection in respect of children and gambling, that is, not to let them on a licensed premises where gambling is or may be offered, the Bill, as currently drafted, has...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...concern that for those survivors who are resident in the UK in particular receiving a payment of this kind might have an adverse impact on means-tested benefits. The Department of Education is liaising with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on this matter as similar issues arise for those benefiting from the mother and baby institutions payment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: ..., and come back to the Deputy in writing. Deputies Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy raised the issue of homelessness and highlighted a number of cases, including that of Niamh and Anthony and their two children, Jennifer and her two children and a number of other cases. They said I could stand here and reel off facts and statistics and they asked me not to do that. However, behind those...