262. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time, specifically-qualified climate scientists employed in his Department; the level of qualification of each, for example, post-doctoral and so on; their specific areas of expertise within climate science; if he will list their peer-reviewed specialist publications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11632/23]
207. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health whether any neurological, dermatological, respiratory or oncological illnesses are reported in higher proportion around Coillte planted areas than others; whether public health undertakes any evaluation or data collection on same; if not, if his Department will commit to doing so; if he will publish any data available on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11676/23]
51. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of specifically qualified climate scientists employed by his Department; the level of qualification of each; their specific areas of expertise within climate science; if he will list their peer reviewed, specialist publications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11635/23]
40. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Taoiseach if each Government Department now has a full-time, dedicated climate scientist on its staff; and if they do not, the reason therefor. [11634/23]
581. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health based on the HSE flow chart (details supplied), where in North Kildare the community can access treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11042/23]
465. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will examine raising the age of children from 13 years for parents to qualify for parental leave, given the high number of parents with mid-teenage children who want the opportunity to take such leave and in the context of Tusla's insistence that children under 16 years cannot be left alone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10989/23]
363. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education when parents in Kilcock can expect confirmation of school-places, locally, for their children starting primary education in 2023, given the understandable anxiety regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10923/23]
167. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport if he will examine matters in relation to the CIÉ 1951 scheme (details supplied), given he has been satisfied by the trustees as to the liquidity of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10653/23]
120. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 23 February 2023, if she will publish communications with the European Commission on the matter of recognising long Covid as an occupational injury, together with her correspondence with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10317/23]
40. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 23 February 2023, the independent environmental evaluations and assessments undertaken in the matter of any planned of storage facilities (details supplied); the international credentials of those bodies undertaking such assessment; if he will publish their findings regarding same; whether any such planning and development of such facilities have been and will be undertaken within the context of Ireland’s Aarhus responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10331/23]
599. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will examine the case of persons (details supplied) who were categorised as essential warehouse workers by the HSE, and are now being denied the pandemic bonus payment, on the basis of a technicality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9803/23]
447. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the delay in the publication of the Shannon Report into historic abuse at an organisation (details supplied); when the publication of that report can now be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9763/23]
275. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the urgent care clinic for children at Connolly Hospital, open since July 2019, and designed as a walk-in clinic to treat children with emergent illness and injury as its title implies for example sprains, vomiting, minor cuts, mild asthma and so on and with the purpose of seeing 25,000 patients per year in addition to 17,000 outpatient appointments, appears set to operate on an appointment-only basis, though 'urgent' care need of a child, by its nature, cannot be foreseen; the plans his Department has to prevent or correct this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9415/23]
172. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will publish the instructions and environmental and biodiversity-impact requirements his Department has issued in the matter of certain storage facilities (details supplied) planned in the State; the regulator he has appointed; the stated regulations that will oversee and guide the operation of any such facilities; if he is satisfied that any such facility can guarantee operation at a standard that will not adversely affect biodiversity; if he will publish the advices on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9425/23]
107. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when his Department will move to recognise long-Covid in healthcare workers and others as an occupational injury, after they contracted Covid-19 on the front line, often when PPE was sparse; the current liaising that is taking place with the Departments of Health and Social Protection on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8519/23]
212. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will revisit the apparent decision to relocate the Naas antenatal clinic attached to the Coombe Hospital to Portlaoise hospital, thereby duplicating services at a hospital that already has its own maternity unit where women will deliver locally, but leaving Kildare women who will deliver at the Coombe without their much relied-on clinic in Naas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8934/23]
211. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with a group (details supplied) at his earliest convenience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8933/23]
135. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way and the reason the proposed Planning and Development Bill 2022 appears to remove the requirement for local authorities to reserve land for communities to use for cultivation as allotments, along with the definition of allotment itself, and the regulation, promotion and facilitation of the use of this land for such purposes, leaving the current 2,500 allotments and community gardens without a legal framework (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8924/23]
133. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline his Department's position on how the proposed Planning and Development Bill 2022 appears to remove the requirement for local authorities to reserve land for communities to use for cultivation as allotments, along with the definition of allotment itself, and the regulation, promotion and facilitation of the use of this land for such a purpose, and further, leaving the current 2,500 allotments and community gardens without a legal framework (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8925/23]
271. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the solutions her Department is proposing for children in Kilcock starting school, including those who have had two years ECCE and are school-ready and who now have no school-place locally having been refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7846/23]
267. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education what solutions her Department is proposing for children in north Kildare who cannot get a secondary-school place locally and where there is no adequate school transport or public transport system to get them to a school in another area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7833/23]
266. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education what solutions her Department is proposing for local children in Kilcock and Maynooth who have been refused local secondary-school places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7832/23]
591. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the pathway to access treatment and support for people suffering from avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, a new diagnosis in the DSM-5, previously referred to as selective eating disorder; when a clinical lead will be appointed in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6586/23]
553. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation on the availability of, and access to, the hyperemesis gravidarum drug, cariban; how access in Ireland compares to that of other countries; the reason it cannot be prescribed by a GP when the majority of pregnant women can get to see a consultant only after the twelfth week of pregnancy; the number of scripts for cariban processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6521/23]
178. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 1 February 2023, if she will outline in detail the way the extra €10 million allocated to school transport has been spent, providing a list of initiatives or services undertaken; the location, purpose and cost of each; the way each is alleviating the serious pressure due to lack of places; if that money allocated has been spent; if not, the reason therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6340/23]
419. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the situation of oversight in some private nursing homes, whereby patients are charged automatically for activities in which, due to incapacity, they cannot meaningfully partake; if a system is in place for these charges to be refunded to the patients and-or families; if an audit can be undertaken of the charging of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5878/23]
124. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her Department’s plans to address the current shortage of places in secondary schools in north Kildare and to build the capacity of same in the longer-term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4823/23]
123. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will publish interim reports on the review of the school-bus allocation system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4822/23]
122. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education when she will publish her Department’s review with the Department of Transport of the school-bus allocation system, given that parents are now trying to decide which schools their children should apply for to be based on the school-bus service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4821/23]
121. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will list the additional services for which the €10 million announced regarding school transport has been provided; the areas the services are in; the number of additional children accommodated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4820/23]
254. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will examine the situation whereby a young worker, already struggling with exorbitant rent, the high cost of fuel, and a cost-of-living crisis generally, is now struggling even more, given the increases to benefit-on-kind on their company car, which they regard as essential to the fulfilment of their employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4070/23]
253. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3792/23]
72. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the number of driving tests cancelled in north Kildare due to the usual testing roads not being gritted during the recent cold snap; if such gritting will be undertaken as a normal activity in the future in the event of ice forecast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3542/23]
376. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will sanction the provision of a neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 7 for persons affected by neurological injury or disease, given only two of the nine teams promised have been delivered (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2654/23]
1310. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason that there is no current pathway from paediatric to adult care for persons aged 16 years and above with neurofibromatosis; the date on which such a pathway will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63688/22]
1309. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will allow the current neurofibromatosis clinic to accept an OCT machine privately-funded and fundraised by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63687/22]
1308. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason that the current neurofibromatosis clinic is without a resident specialist dermatologist, neuro-psychiatrist and psychologist given that these specialisms are deemed integral to the need and treatment of children with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63686/22]
1307. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will supply a date by which the lack of appropriate staff and diagnostic equipment at the neurofibromatosis clinic at CHI Tallaght will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63685/22]
1306. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason that the condition of neurofibromatosis and medical centres to treat children with the condition do not receive the State’s attention and funding of other neurological conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63684/22]
1305. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the date on which access to the current neurofibromatosis clinic will be restored for all children in Ireland living with neurofibromatosis and therefore requiring its care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63683/22]
1304. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there will be a designated neurofibromatosis clinic at the new children’s hospital; if he will ensure that this designated neurofibromatosis clinic will have the full complement of specialisms to include consultant dermatology, neuropsychiatry, psychology and associated teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63682/22]
1303. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason that the current neurofibromatosis clinic has been left understaffed and underfunded, that it is now closed to new patients, and with an inability to access treatment of serious import to children, their health and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63681/22]
1265. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the steps that his Department will take to address the fact that applications to CORU for registration by key healthcare workers are taking three years to process (details supplied); the reason that CORU will not provide updates on the status of such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63612/22]
1230. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health Ireland’s position in the EU in terms of waiting list length and the numbers waiting for a specialist consultation as a proportion of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63489/22]
1229. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if the attention of his Department has been drawn to reports that neurologists in private practice have closed their lists to new patients such is the extent of the backlog; his plans to rectify this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63488/22]
1228. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to recruit more neurologists given the unacceptable and potentially dangerous length of time that patients are forced to spend on waiting lists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63487/22]
712. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if Australian teaching qualifications held by Irish emigrant citizens are recognised by the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63704/22]
709. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will examine the reason the criteria for home tuition in north Kildare in some cases appear to have changed and now require a psychologist’s report (details supplied); if her Department will take steps to address this unexpected demand and the practical difficulties that have been caused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63690/22]
73. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason the daily standing charge on electricity bills from Electric Ireland has increased to 0.9563 cent per day, which is reported to be treble the recent cost, meaning there is a charge of €56.42 before one unit of electricity is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63431/22]