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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...considered for IPAS accommodation, he will outline what the minimum number of refugee spaces his Department will consider for contract accommodation; the specific considerations his Department is applying when reviewing such property offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...details and, once the parent has confirmed these are correct, the subsidy will then start to flow to the provider. If a parent has a CHICK that is coming up for renewal, then the usual process applies: the parent will be contacted with details of how to complete a renewal application process which will generate a new CHICK. The new CHICK must be registered with the provider and the details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the State or outside, may be facilitated by way of Transfer Value taken into an Irish public service pension scheme, subject to the rules of the relevant pension arrangements and the taxation rules applying in the relevant jurisdiction. Subject to the rules governing the relevant superannuation arrangements, it is possible for a person with a UK pension (private or public) to take a...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...medical cards which requires that the HSE consider hardship and inability to pay for required health care when making determinations around eligibility for healthcare services. The removal of the DPS threshold applying on a household or family basis in favour of a threshold applied only on an individual patient basis would present savings to the state as more people would have to meet...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...card and GP visit card holders. Where a person who holds a medical card or GP visit card, experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept them as a patient, that person having unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area (or fewer if there are fewer GPs in the area) can apply to the HSE National Medical Card Unit which has the power to assign a GMS patient to a GP's GMS...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to anyone ordinarily resident in Ireland. The DPS significantly reduces the cost burden for those who are not eligible for a medical card but incur ongoing expenditure on medicines. In some cases, when applying for a DPS card, a medical report for any family member who cannot maintain themselves may be required. Reimbursements under the High-Tech Medicines Arrangement are based on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Hospital Development Board to inform the development of the NMH project. Lessons learned from the NCH have been, and will continue to be, incorporated into the plans for the NMH. The new Infrastructure Guidelines also require these learnings to be applied to all future capital investment projects. The Department of Health is continuing to work to ensure proposals and projects for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (14 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...Apart from the Student Grant Scheme, there are various other supports that may be available to third level students:Students in third-level institutions experiencing exceptional financial need can apply for support under the Student Assistance Fund, which assists students, in a sensitive and compassionate manner, who might otherwise be unable to continue their third level studies due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...arrangements to the learners. In addition, my Department has been advised that an alternative application process has also been made available to learners on an individual basis for those wishing to apply to a large public higher education provider offering a degree programme in Montessori Education. Further information about this alternative pathway was communicated to the learners at a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (14 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to tackle the stigma associated with level 4 certificates, the Leaving Certificate Applied, community training and Youthreach centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21457/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...Programme (SICAP), the Community Services Programme (CSP), the Community Enhancement Programme and the Community Recognition Fund. Many of my Department’s programmes, particularly those that community groups may apply to, are administered by the Local Authorities/Local Community Development Committees (LCDC’s) or the Local Action Groups, allowing greater flexibility at...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State for the new statistics showing that 362 licences have been issued, which is very positive. Recently a patient reached out to me who had applied for a ministerial licence. The Minister for Health will be very familiar with this case because I submitted a number of parliamentary questions on the matter. What has come to light is that because the consultant is...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: .... For example, the national childcare scheme provided a subsidy increase in 2022 and in 2023. It is supporting a record number of children and additional funding I secured in this year's budget will apply from September of this year. That will have meant in two years I will have on average cut out-of-pocket costs for parents by 50%. The universal ECCE programme is supporting more than...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Martin Browne: ...problem. Forward planning on the Department's side appears to be last minute. Six months prior to the start of the school year, the Department is effectively telling parents to start the rush to apply for fewer places than are needed. Under current legislation, the NCSE does not have any power to designate a place for a child with special educational needs or to require significant...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...has left me stuck abroad. Please get me home.” The recruitment embargo the Government has imposed is making matters go from bad to worse. It is impacting every area of our health service. We were contacted by a young pharmacist from Waterford. She applied for a job last year and she was so enthusiastic about this job, but she is now being told that her interview will not be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The same applies to Europe. Sinn Féin spokespeople will sidle off to Europe and have their meetings with the Commission, have their meetings with civil servants and tell them all they have a different view from the one they articulate publicly in the House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...do that in October. We will file our intervention and we are already working on it. Obviously, we want to see the substantive case from South Africa as well, which is exactly the situation that applied with regard to Ukraine.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...there is an important vote at the United Nations General Assembly, which we will support, on a proposal seeking admission of Palestine to the United Nations and to the enjoyment of the rights that apply there. This follows the Security Council's failure and the decision by the US to veto action. Unfortunately, there are legislative issues in the US in terms of tied aid and the provision...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Agreements (9 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...by the Government in February. As I said, I raised it with the then Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, in November. At that point he spoke about agreements between the EU and state of Israel not applying to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. I pointed out that, of course, there are international as well as national agreements. It is not all about whether something is inside...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...'s intervention admissible. Arguing in respect of the commission of genocide would not be our role. Rather, we would be explaining to the court how we consider the Genocide Convention should be applied in this case. We are breaching new ground here in terms of broadening the definition upon which genocide can be judged by the court. The threshold was set very high originally by many of...