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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the fair deal scheme to include the cost of home care and home supports being provided privately due to the lack of home supports being provided to those who require full-time care and attention in the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42269/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 601. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the €110,000 which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for this new post; if he can confirm if unused funding from budget 2023 will carry over to 2024, while providing a timeline as to when the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 602. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the funding which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit in conjunction with NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for these new posts; if he can confirm if unused...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 633. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be scheduled for their urgent neuro-surgical operation at Beaumont Hospital. [42430/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 223. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will move urgently to extend the current work permits/visa requirements to allow farm operatives to be employed under the work permit scheme to alleviate the crisis facing the pig industry and their inability to recruit staff; if he is aware of the research showing that almost 50% of pig farmers will be forced to exit the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Work Permits (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what immediate efforts he is taking to help reduce the acute staff shortages being experienced by pig farms; if he has engaged with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to have the current work permits and visa requirements extended to allow farm operatives to be employed under the work permit scheme; his views on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to increase the discretionary roads funding from his Department to local authorities to meet the increasing cost of inflation to enable them to continue their daily road maintenance duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40224/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Provision (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of Home Building Finance Ireland's funding support to developers for the construction of housing, by county, annually, since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39585/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have applied for a school transport but are left without transport this September; the urgent steps she is taking to alleviate the issues; if she has engaged with Bus Éireann to increase the retirement age for school bus drivers, which would immediately increase the supply of school bus drivers; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for delays with regard to the new building works at a special education school in County Tipperary; the immediate efforts she will make to expedite this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the croí cónaithe grant timeframe from 13 to 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40007/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify who is responsible to pay the legal fees incurred by the local authority as part of the croí cónaithe grant scheme regarding the legal charge/clawback on the property receiving the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40009/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 889. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate special funding to the healthy homes co-ordinators in local authorities to assist them in their role to help older and vulnerable people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39541/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (12 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services will next meet. [33234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (12 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1053 of 21 March 2023, the reason some groups have not yet received their rebate from Muintir na Tíre; the groups that have not received a rebate, by county, under the headings (details supplied) together with her explanation regarding the non-payment. [34535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (12 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 235. To ask the Minister for Health in terms of the procurement process for the HSE, what efforts are being made to ensure best value for money where potential suppliers can demonstrate that alternative products can meet the technical requirements; the process for examining alternative solutions which can demonstrate adherence to the technical requirements; how product specification is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is such a large discrepancy between the pension entitlement for a primary school teacher and that of an SNA, where both staff pay the same percentage of their salary to their pension and the SNA pension entitlement is two-and-a-half times less than that of teachers; the reason for the discrepancy; if he will urgently review...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 736. To ask the Minister for Health who decided to go ahead with reconfiguration of the mid-west region despite the 600 beds required by the Hanly Report to offer safe patient safety not being in place; if he will launch an investigation into this decision, given that it has caused untold suffering on patients and staff in the mid-west region for 14 years; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 738. To ask the Minister for Health following his comments that reconfiguration was not working (details supplied), if he will put an urgent plan in place to reopen Nenagh, Ennis and St. Johns accident and emergency departments, given the new 96-block bed unit will only actually realise 48-beds meaning that the mid-west region will still not be at the 600-beds needed to provide patient safety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the evidence he relied upon when he stated that reopening an accident and emergency department in Ennis Hospital was inadvisable on safety grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33758/23]