67. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps he is taking in response to an organisation’s (details supplied) findings that 170,000 homes in the country are now predicted to be at risk from radon. [28154/22]
431. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or his officials have engaged with an organisation (details supplied) concerning hare coursing. [27188/22]
406. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to address illegal gorse fires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27194/22]
396. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of staff members by role currently employed and working on children's disability network teams in each area of CHO4 by team; and the number of vacancies on each team in tabular form. [27205/22]
395. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need in each HSE region. [27204/22]
394. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of home births facilitated by HSE midwives in each CHO annually since 1 January 2015, in tabular form. [27203/22]
393. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to address waiting lists for assessments and therapies for the children's disability network teams in the south-west area of County Cork. [27202/22]
392. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that occupational therapy is available in all primary care centres in County Cork. [27201/22]
281. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will remove the current twenty-year cap in the home carers period scheme for foster carers. [27206/22]
231. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has commissioned or funded a survey of the population of wild hares in Ireland since 1 January 2015. [27189/22]
230. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of hares that have been recorded as killed during hare coursing activities annually between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2021, inclusive. [27187/22]
226. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to require mortgage protection practices to accept medical evidence provided by general practitioners or consultants. [27200/22]
215. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the roll-out of high-speed rural broadband in the south-west of County Cork. [27198/22]
214. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps that he is taking in response to the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) that many post offices are facing insolvency from January 2023. [27197/22]
213. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps that he is taking to ensure that all commercial waste companies offer customers compost bins; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27195/22]
212. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps that he is taking in response to rising electricity costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27193/22]
211. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of air quality monitoring stations that are being monitored by his Department in County Cork; the locations of the stations; when they will come online; the new monitoring stations that will be installed until the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27192/22]
210. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he will publish a new energy poverty strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27191/22]
204. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add fishers to the critical skills occupations list to enable them to be eligible for employment under the critical skills permit system, reflecting skills and worker shortages in this vital area. [27190/22]
186. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to assist farmers install renewable energy generation capacities on farms. [26971/22]
180. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to encourage more farmers to produce organic beef. [26973/22]
178. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to prevent the closure of the line caught mackerel fishery in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26969/22]
137. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that the current distribution of the mackerel allocation aligns with the State’s obligations under article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26970/22]
136. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken to address the low prices that farmers are receiving for organic beef. [26972/22]
74. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to provide chiropody services for public patients in CHO4. [26281/22]
248. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that December was omitted from the Brexit temporary tie-up scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26925/22]
247. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to identify and address illegal and unsafe excessive working hours in the fishing industry. [26924/22]
241. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to address the long waiting lists for occupational therapy for adults in County Cork. [26930/22]
168. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide a path to visa stamp 4 and full labour market access for all non-EEA fishers, both documented and undocumented. [26932/22]
155. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if he will permit non-EEA persons to work on any size fishing vessel under the atypical work permit scheme. [26929/22]
132. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will include the entire period that foster carers are on the Tusla panel of approved-foster carers and remain available for receiving a child into foster care for the State pension (contributory) purposes. [26936/22]
131. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will raise the age for the home carers period scheme from the age of 12 years to a minimum of 23 years of age for all foster carers, based on the aftercare supports required by vulnerable children in care. [26935/22]
30. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to reform mortgage protection practices to prevent financial institutions putting excessive and unreasonable stipulations on home buyers. [26927/22]
24. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport if he will extend the Local Link Bus Route 254 route to begin and end in Clonakilty which will provide a regular public transport link between Clonakilty, Bandon and Kinsale as major towns in the region. [26938/22]
13. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will publish the review of the implementation of the Energy Poverty Strategy 2016-2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26926/22]
3. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to identify and address illegal and unsafe excessive working hours in the fishing industry. [26928/22]
606. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his views on the disproportionate representation of women of colour among maternal deaths deemed to be a result of medical misadventure in the period 2008-2022, following the recent death of a person (details supplied) in the care of maternity services at a hospital; if there are existing or planned initiatives to investigate and improve care for women of colour in maternity care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25843/22]
605. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if a group has been established by his office or any other institution under the aegis of his Department or the HSE for the purpose of carrying out investigations into maternal deaths; the rationale for same; the reason that such investigations are not conducted as a matter of course by HIQA; the budget allocated for this group; the source from which it is allocated; the way that the group is constituted; the membership and governance structures of the group; to whom the group reports; if the establishment of the group has been subject to approval by the Houses of the Oireachtas or the Cabinet; and when the reports and findings of the group will be made public. [25842/22]
604. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his response to the high perinatal mortality rates among ethnic African mothers or expectant mothers living in Ireland as recorded in the perinatal statistics report 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25841/22]
307. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who applied for the domiciliary care allowance annually between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2021, inclusive; the number of applications that were successful; the number that were appealed; and the number that were successful on appeal in tabular form. [25578/22]
240. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps that he is taking to encourage local authorities to restrict their usage of glyphosate. [25577/22]
169. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps he is taking to ensure that third-level educational institutions provide teaching and learning materials online, including lecture recordings, to facilitate distance learning. [25212/22]
164. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps he is taking to ensure the roll-out of a sexual violence response programme (details supplied) to all third level educational institutions. [25211/22]
311. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1091 of 22 March 2022, the way that a public appointment to a HSE psychology post can be both in line with the legislation governing recruitment and not covered by HR policy; the exact reference from the legislation in question which allows for appointments to HSE psychology posts that have not been advertised to eligible candidates on the relevant national recruitment panel in the first instance; the exact reference in employment law or HR policy that grants the right for alternative recruitment routes to be decided by each CHO area on the basis of service need for some posts; if this practice has been agreed with unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25326/22]
310. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022 and 1091 of 22 March 2022, the precise specialisms in adult mental health psychology and the exact criteria referred to in the response which warrant a bypassing of the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; if these specialisms and criteria have been agreed to by the HSE's national human resources department and trade unions as constituting exceptions to the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; and if so, the location in which these details are recorded and collectively signed-off in policy form. [25325/22]
309. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March 2022 and 840 of 5 April 2022, his views on the contention by a number of psychologists in the Cork mental health service that they were not informed at their personal development plan meetings or otherwise, of opportunities to transfer into posts outside of the nationally-agreed recruitment process over a period of years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25324/22]
308. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 842 of 5 April 2022, the percentage of appointments to permanent senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers, irrespective of whether the transferring psychologists already had permanent contracts in other HSE services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25323/22]