Results 601-620 of 13,162 for in 'Written Answers' speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal against the refusal to pay out the pandemic special recognition payment for a group of front-line healthcare workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19278/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (25 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the review of Ireland's terminations of pregnancy law; the timeline he is working towards; if he will present the review to the Oireachtas Committee on Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19489/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (20 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 48. To ask the Minister for Health if the new home care tender will be in place by 1 May 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Hospital Staff (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the funding that will be provided to incoming first-year trainee educational psychologists; if this funding will be provided to all first-year trainee educational psychologists from September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18573/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Hospital Staff (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to provide funding for current trainee educational psychologists, separate to the one-off bursary for trainees in their third year of professional training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been treated in long-Covid and post-acute clinics since they were established, by clinic, in tabular form. [18517/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a waiting list for long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by clinic and wait time, in tabular form. [18518/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by role, in tabular form; the number of vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18519/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the date at which he intends to commence the Health (Amendment) Act 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is being detained abroad; if his Department has engaged with authorities in the country in which the Irish citizen is detained in relation to this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17531/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has liaised with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities on the issue of energy companies reducing electricity and gas prices for their customers, given the significant fall in European wholesale gas prices over recent months; when it is expected such reductions will take place; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Qualifications Recognition (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 478. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if non-Irish healthcare assistants with level 7 or level 8 relevant equivalent qualifications will only be permitted to renew their employment permits if they complete the NFQ level 5 apprenticeship for the occupation of healthcare assistant, once this has been established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Family Reunification (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 494. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is being given to reducing the minimum salary for family re-unification concerning non-EEA healthcare assistants, under the general employment permit, in view of changes to the scheme in 2021 which set the annual minimum salary at €27,000 for such healthcare assistants; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 495. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of healthcare assistants who have been granted a general employment permit since changes to the scheme in 2021, which set the minimum salary at €27,000; the number of these workers who have the relevant level 5 qualifications required under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18226/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 810. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the latest available data on the number of vacant properties by county, in tabular form. [17403/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 821. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to concerns regarding the energy efficiency retrofit programme being carried out by a local authority (details supplied); if he will liaise with the local authority to explore ways in which individual homes that are in urgent need of insulation works can be prioritised; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 829. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a centralised platform or website to advertise all the various cost-rental schemes open for applicants nationally; the reason the Government decided that daft.ie was the appropriate platform to advertise cost-rental schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1768. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that healthcare assistants working in Ireland under the general employment permit are not compelled to complete a QQI level 5 healthcare course to renew their permit in situations where their existing international qualifications and experience meet or exceed level 5 qualifications; the steps he is taking to address...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1411. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation ten from the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants; the engagements he has had with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on this matter, in view of the proposal to establish a NFQ level 5 healthcare assistant...