635. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the number of places that are available for young people with special educational needs and disabilities currently in a school (details supplied); the number of places being resourced for September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34575/22]
567. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps that he is taking in aid of those impacted by the recent earthquake in Afghanistan. [34577/22]
209. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport the steps that he is taking to ensure that all public transport vehicles have the capacity to enable persons who have to use mobility scooters to access the vehicles and store their scooter safely. [34581/22]
448. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will respond to statements from the Clinical Lead for the National Clinical Programme for People with Disabilities at the Oireachtas Disability Matters Committee concerning clinical staff in disability services (details supplied). [33505/22]
382. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is putting in place an appeals process to accompany his policy decision to restrict Ukrainian refugees to a maximum of two offers of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33503/22]
381. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the legislative basis for his policy decision to restrict Ukrainian refugees to a maximum of two offers of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33502/22]
355. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will immediately assist a student (details supplied) who needs to be facilitated in sitting their junior certificate examination due to being diagnosed with Covid-19. [33504/22]
36. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he is taking to assist communities in improving wastewater infrastructure. [32967/22]
18. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department is taking to address cases of untreated wastewater entering streams and rivers. [32968/22]
246. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protections that are in place to preserve the nests of rare birds during nesting season when felling licences are being granted. [33175/22]
245. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking in response to calls from an organisations (details supplied) concerning the continued need for horticultural peat as a growing medium in the horticultural industry. [33174/22]
234. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March, 840 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 2022, the way that fairness and transparency could be attributed to a process of expressions of interest in appointments by transfer of mental health psychologists in CHO4 which were not made known to all candidates through annual personal development plan meetings or by any other formal means and where these opportunities were therefore made known and offered to some psychologists but not others who were equally eligible; his views on the fact that these public appointments took place in a manner that was not covered by HR policy and circumvented relevant national recruitment panels and therefore imposed disadvantage on candidates ranked on those recruitment panels who would have expressed an interest in the posts in question. [33189/22]
233. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 842 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 2022, the percentage of appointments to senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers; the details of each of those appointments by unadvertised transfer, that is, the exact service locations and the date of the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33188/22]
232. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of clinical staff, including breakdown of consultants, in-consultant hospital doctors and therapeutic staff on each CAMHS team in CHO4. [33187/22]
231. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to fill the optometrist role in Cork University Hospital which has been vacant since February 2022. [33186/22]
230. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to add spinal muscular atrophy to the new-born heel prick test. [33185/22]
229. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to encourage speech and language therapists who are Irish nationals working in other jurisdictions to take up roles in Children’s Disability Network Teams. [33184/22]
228. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to recruit recent speech and language therapist graduates for roles in Children’s Disability Network Teams. [33183/22]
148. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the long-term plans for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees currently staying in a hotel (details supplied). [33176/22]
131. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps that she is taking to provide an alternative leaving certificate exam for students who cannot sit the regular exams due to illness or medical appointments. [33177/22]
113. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applications that were made monthly between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2022, inclusive; the number of passport applications in each of those months that were considered not completed by the applicant; and the number of passport applicants who experienced a delay for another reason for those same months; and the number of those that were first-time applications; and the number that were renewals. [33178/22]
66. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to the concerns raised by an organisations (details supplied) concerning the natural heritage and biodiversity of Moylisha Hill in Counties Carlow and Wicklow. [33179/22]
18. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport the steps that he is taking to ensure that all public buses or buses operating public service contracts have the capacity to carry bikes. [33180/22]
80. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Taoiseach if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of his Department or public body and agency that operate under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31754/22]
79. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Taoiseach if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of his Department or public body and agency under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31753/22]
6. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps she is taking to support the live performance sector. [32415/22]
564. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of her Department or each public body and agency that operate under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31768/22]
563. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of her Department or public body and agency under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31749/22]
560. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of his her Department or each public body and agency that operate under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31755/22]
559. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of his Department or each public body and agency under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31736/22]
558. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown by month and track of all greyhound drug testing from January 2020 to date in 2022, in tabular form as a percentage of starters at each track. [31728/22]
556. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to address the ongoing backlog of forestry licences. [31726/22]
551. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of his Department or each public body and agency that operate under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31764/22]
550. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of his Department or each public body and agency under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31745/22]
549. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of cases of Lyme disease which have been diagnosed in the country annually since 1 January 2015. [31735/22]
548. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking in response to issues raised concerning access to prosthetics by an organisation (details supplied) including the cost that persons have to pay. [31734/22]
547. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to provide public Lyme disease diagnosis processes in each CHO. [31733/22]
439. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of her Department or each public body and agency that operate under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31766/22]
438. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of her Department or public body and agency under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31747/22]
437. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the number of visa applications that have been received which relied on paragraph 1.12 of the policy document on pon-EEA family reunification due to the fact that the sponsor did not meet the financial criteria; the number of those applications which were granted and refused, respectively, by country covering the period between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; the number of those applications which involved minors; and the number of those which were granted and refused, respectively. [31732/22]
420. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the reason that English language long-stay study visas are taking six months to process in the Irish visa office, Ankara; the steps that she is taking to address this long processing period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31731/22]
419. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of his Department or each public body and agency that operate under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31763/22]
418. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of his Department or each public body and agency under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31744/22]
417. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps that he is taking in response to concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) concerning the exploitation of international students due to the student accommodation crisis. [31730/22]
413. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of his Department or each public body and agency that operate under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31756/22]
412. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of his Department or public body and agency under his remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31737/22]
406. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of her Department or each public body or agency that operate under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31769/22]
405. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit that operate in direct contact with members of the public have policies in place for members of the public to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur on the property of her Department or public body or agency under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31750/22]
396. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place for employees to report instances of sexual harassment or assault that occur involving other employees or members of the public or on the property of her Department or public body and agency that operate under her remit; if so, if these policies are publicly accessible on the relevant website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31758/22]