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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a scheme (details supplied) will be extended beyond 24 April 2024 to all permitted residential development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14616/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13980/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carer’s allowance appeal (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be reached; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13988/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Leave (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the duration of paid maternity leave to facilitate more women to continue breastfeeding for longer than they otherwise would have had they returned to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14235/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 793. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection is she will give due consideration to raising the full rate of the State pension (contributory) in order to restore it to its 2020 spending power, as a further step towards benchmarking the rate at 34% of average earnings, which should be achieved by 2026 as a 'living pension' alongside the introduction of the new national...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the maximum rate of the State pension (non-contributory) to bring it to the same level as the State pension (contributory) and benchmark both the contributory and non-contributory State pension against 34% of average earnings, to reduce gender pension inequality; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 796. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take the necessary steps to implement benchmarking and indexing of the State pension and reinforce this by commissioning a comprehensive analysis of the costs associated with ageing, and the cost-of-living for all older people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to raising the income thresholds for the State pension (non-contributory) to take account of inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to the provision of a €5 per week digital allowance to those older persons who cannot afford digital devices or internet subscriptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 892. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Irish citizenship by naturalisation applications received by her Department for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the number of applications which have reached a decision for each of these years; the number of applications that are still processing for each of these years; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s recently published report (26/02/24) on the uptake of the HPV vaccine for the academic years 2022/2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13634/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1213. To ask the Minister for Health what steps he will take to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine in the school immunisation programme in consideration of the findings of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s recently published report (26/02/24) on the uptake of the HPV vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1214. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recently published Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s report (26/02/24) on the uptake of the HPV vaccine does not include information regarding the percentage of uptake achieved through the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up vaccination programme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health what steps he will take to address delays in diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases in light of the fact that more than a third of people with such conditions go for more than five years without a diagnosis and in recognition of the 300,00 people living with such diseases in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the up-to-date position regarding the location for the new genetics and genomics laboratory in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1336. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if the new genetics and genomics laboratory will be located at the new National Children’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14228/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1337. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm what interim measures are in place, if any, to ensure genetics testing continues to be carried out during relocation from its current home in CHI Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14229/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1338. To ask the Minister for Health when the addition of screening for SMA and SCID to the newborn bloodspot screening programme will commence given the fact that screening for SMA and SCID is not scheduled to take place at the current lab in Temple Street, but rather at the new National Children’s Hospital. As the new NCH is not due to open until at least Q2 2025, and an interim...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1339. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm when newborn babies will be screened for SMA and SCID as part of the newborn bloodspot screening programme; and where the testing for these conditions will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14231/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1340. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to the establishment of an infant feeding communication forum across departments that is, with responsibility for children, health, and marketing of commercial formula milks and the Health Service Executive to align government policy, funding and Health Service Executive practices for the purposes of increasing...