97. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide information to individuals and families impacted by the commencement of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [6120/23]
95. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to support workers in the childcare and preschool sector. [6116/23]
71. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response the delays experienced by individuals seeking personal information under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022. [6118/23]
35. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking to increase the pension entitlements of full-time family carers. [6115/23]
469. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in west County Cork; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6185/23]
468. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a medication for hyperemesis (details supplied) is made available through the drugs payment scheme with a prescription from a GP. [6184/23]
253. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education to provide the same financial support to registered post-primary teachers to upskill in order to teach home economics as is currently being offered to registered teachers to teach mathematics, physics and Spanish. [6182/23]
252. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education to provide children with Down's syndrome with early intervention facilities and accompanying home tuition, similar to the schemes available to children with ASD and autistic children [6181/23]
114. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on the requests by a representative body (details supplied) seeking the retention of the 9% VAT rate for hair and beauty services. [6183/23]
99. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport his views on concerns expressed by visually-impaired persons in respect of e-vehicles and e-scooters. [6187/23]
98. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport to outline his engagement with disabled persons’ organisations concerning legislation regulating e-scooters. [6186/23]
112. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to increase the lack of places in primary and secondary schools for young people with special educational needs and disabilities. [4783/23]
85. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to increase the number of places in secondary schools for young people with autism in County Cork. [4782/23]
803. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) for an equitable allocation of fishing opportunities to small-scale low impact fishers, using Article 17 to reallocate fishing rights to smaller scale, environmentally compatible, economically viable and socially responsible fishery activities, rewarding a positive history of compliance and ending the sole use of track records as the tool for allocating fishing opportunities by member states, and putting an end to the privatisation of fishery resource access. [4798/23]
749. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that out-of-hours GP services can recruit and retain doctors, including non-EEA locums, to cover the service requirements. [4802/23]
748. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will work with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to reform the ‘atypical working visa’ to enable doctors providing locum services to reside in the State for longer periods of time. [4801/23]
549. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if he will reform the "atypical working visa" to enable doctors providing locum services to reside in the State for longer periods of time. [4799/23]
193. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide interim funding for the provision of a bus service to enable young people in Beara, County Cork, to access day services in Bantry, County Cork, until the permanent service is in place later in 2023. [4800/23]
126. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable homes that were built in County Cork in the years 2021 and 2022. [3403/23]
98. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he is taking to assist communities in improving wastewater infrastructure. [3404/23]
661. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) to provide for specific small-scale fisher infrastructure investment to improve facilities in landing areas, strengthen short supply chains and food security, and prioritise decarbonisation of the small-scale fleet. [3123/23]
660. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided for afforestation annually for each of the years 2018 to 2022 inclusive, in tabular form, including a breakdown of the amounts provided to farmers, private forestry companies, community/non-profit groups, public/semi-state bodies, and any other relevant category. [3122/23]
659. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of European Union Brexit funding that has been made available to the fishing sector, including a breakdown of all the relevant schemes; and his plans to provide further funding from EU Brexit funding to the sector. [3120/23]
596. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will immediately provide the necessary capital funding to retain 18 beds in the acute mental health unit in Bantry Hospital. [3129/23]
595. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if a group has been established by his office or any other institution of his Department or HSE for the purpose of carrying out investigations into maternal deaths; if so, if he can clarify the rationale for such a group; the reason that such investigations are not conducted, as a matter of course, by HIQA; the budget for this group; the source from which it is allocated; the way that the group is constituted, including membership and governance structures; the person or body that the group reports to; if the establishment of the group has been subject to Houses of the Oireachtas or Cabinet-approval; and when reports and finding of the group will be made public. [3128/23]
594. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to address the ongoing risk of medicine shortages. [3127/23]
593. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify that the contract for the national standardised list of community-funded aids and appliances and prescribing criteria is in place; and if he will outline the requirements for the equitable distribution of aids and appliances in each CHO for people who are blind or vision-impaired. [3126/23]
446. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on a report (details supplied) concerning students with disabilities on placement. [3124/23]
192. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how his Department will support persons with long-term incontinence with respect to the disposal of medical incontinence wear; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3125/23]
398. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) regarding the differentiation of small-scale fishery products in the market through traceability, community-supported fisheries and direct, short-chain marketing schemes, empowering fishing organisations to become price makers. [2682/23]
384. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to retain and recruit recent nursing graduates to address the staffing shortage in the HSE. [2684/23]
270. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will facilitate persons living on offshore islands to remotely sign on for jobseeker's payments. [2686/23]
238. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on introducing regulations concerning the use of rock-breaking equipment. [2685/23]
211. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance if he will adjust the tax credit for renters to include students renting in a ‘rent-a-room’ or ‘digs’ type arrangement. [2683/23]
201. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport the steps he is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of staff in NCT centres. [2687/23]
142. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [2093/23]
59. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport his views on ensuring that Castletownbere is classified as a larger town within the Connecting Ireland plan to ensure that the Beara peninsula is assigned the necessary scale of routes. [2091/23]
1890. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of EU Brexit funding that has been made available to the inshore fishing sector; his plans to provide further funding from EU Brexit funding to the sector; and to outline his engagement with inshore fishing representative bodies on this matter. [2416/23]
1889. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) for fair access to restored and co-managed fishing grounds. [2415/23]
1885. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to address the programme for Government commitment to ensure that inshore waters continue to be protected for smaller fishing vessels and recreational fishers and that pair trawling will be prohibited inside the six-mile limit. [2264/23]
1884. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to ensure that the Common Fisheries Policy supports inshore fishers. [2263/23]
1883. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to support the inshore fishing sector. [2262/23]