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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 405. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be put in place for CHO 5; if funding has been allocated in 2024 to provide this service; when recruitment for this team will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9145/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (22 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the pension abatement of a person (details supplied) who worked on occasions for WWETB after his retirement was calculated on a daily basis; when a daily calculation of days worked, regardless of hours worked, was introduced by her Department for pension abatement purposes; if this method of calculation applies to all employees...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, pending the submission of additional information requested for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied), she will allow continued payment of the allowance until eligibility has been established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8438/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 275. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that it is now virtually impossible for any new patient in Wexford town to be accepted by any of the existing GP practices, which are at capacity in terms of service delivery; the plans he intends to put in place to address this critical health issue, which is having a significant impact both on the health and well-being of the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance when the revised disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be introduced; when the criteria for issuing a primary medical certificate for his scheme will be revised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on the application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) who applied to her Department for citizenship on 19 February 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7194/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government accepts that Israeli settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is a breach of peremptory norms of international law, including in particular international humanitarian law; if the Government recognises the obligation of the State not to recognise the illegal situation created by this breach, and not to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any contact with the government of South Africa to discuss that country's legal case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, concerning the carnage being inflicted of the people of Gaza; if he sees a role for Ireland in assisting or supporting this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3127/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the issues he raised with the Mexican Foreign Minister on his recent visit to Mexico; if he will provide details of the meetings he had there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the issues he raised with Columbian officials on his recent visit to Columbia; the role Ireland will play as guarantor of the ongoing peace dialogue there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade why there is a difference in duration in the validity of a card passport and a book passport; why both cannot run for a full ten years, which would reduce the necessity of renewal applications and the workload of the Passport Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the number and location of fast electric vehicle chargers currently available in the country; the number expected to be in place in each of the next three years; if it is his intention to have a common pricing system for chargers across the country in order to encourage greater E.V usage; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering the excluding of maintenance payments made by social welfare recipients in the calculation of weekly means in determining eligibility for the free fuel allowance; if she considers it fair and reasonable to include such regular outgoing payments as means; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available to enable international protection applicants, long-time resident in direct provision centres, to undertake courses of study to acquire skills that will be useful to enable them to find employment if their applications are approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2440/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 435. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the new minimum salary requirements for general employment permits announced by his Department will also apply to existing permit holders when they apply to renew their permits to work in this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1213/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (17 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 1679. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time it normally takes between the registration of an application with CORU for professional recognition as an occupational therapist and the verification of such an application by CORU; the number of such applications currently awaiting verification at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1331/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 1681. To ask the Minister for Health when a registration with CORU for a qualified occupational therapist (details supplied) will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1345/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Dec 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a bus driver licence will issue to a person (details supplied) who has passed all relevant tests and is urgently required by their employer to begin work as a bus driver; the length of time, on average, it takes to issue a bus licence following the successful completion of all test; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the decision of the Government of Pakistan to deport 1.7 million Afghan refugees, many of whom face persecution in Afghanistan; the action he has taken to date to highlight this issue; if he has made contact with the Pakistan authorities to set out his concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50519/23]