484. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason seven years after its establishment, Tusla is still not fully decoupled from the HSE; if achieving this decoupling is a priority for his Department; his views on whether the process has been too slow; the date for decoupling to be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29825/21]
483. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Tusla employees who are still using HSE email addresses; the reason the roles are carried out by these staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29824/21]
482. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date when Tusla began to transfer its files to digital format; the number of files on children and families that are held digitally; the date of advertising for the role of a national digital security director or equivalent and the subsequent filling of same; the date of advertising for a national data security director or equivalent and the subsequent filling of same; the number of other digital security and data managers that have been deemed necessary in the management of this sensitive information; when these posts were advertised and filled; the number who have been appointed to date; the number who are currently in situ in relation the digital files of Tusla given the extreme sensitivity of the information Tusla holds on children and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29823/21]
444. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection if the partial capacity benefit will be examined in the situation of a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, RRMS, (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29182/21]
114. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the energy security of the State in the context of meeting Ireland's emissions targets under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 and Just Transition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29410/21]
80. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the studies that have been undertaken to assess the emissions, climate and humanitarian impact of imported gas vis-a-vis Ireland's own offshore gas up to 2030; if undertaken, if he will publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29411/21]
57. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether the excessive wait time for access to housing, healthcare, childcare and educational services and the inevitable damage caused by same is a breach of the State’s responsibilities under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28487/21]
46. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will request that each Department uphold Ireland’s responsibilities to children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the best interest of the child principle particularly in the critical areas of housing, childcare, health, education and special education in which excessive waiting is causing pain, suffering and damage to the lives of children and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28486/21]
202. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will liaise with other Departments to uphold and guarantee the best interest of the child principle in their provision and operation of essential services to children such as in housing, health, education and special education. [25944/21]
192. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the Tusla files that were affected by the cyberattack on the HSE; the current security of same; the number of files held by Tusla; if contact has been made with the data subjects in the case of breach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28469/21]
52. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with other Departments to ensure that designations under the critically important EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 will involve full consultation with farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26943/21]
549. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid to dentists on the PRSI system in each of the years 2017 to 2020, the number of patients treated in the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26196/21]
548. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent by her Department in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, on housing assistance payments, rent supplements and or other payments in the matter of housing or rent in tabular form in north County Kildare and nationally, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26179/21]
527. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of patients availing of non-extraction dental care in the PRSI system nationwide and in north County Kildare in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26200/21]
397. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of long-term leases active in north County Kildare in each year from 2009 to 2020 inclusive and to date in 2021; the annual cost of each lease type for each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26460/21]
313. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if an exception will be made for the backdating of Covid restrictions support scheme payments to their start date of 13 October 2020 in the case of a small business owner (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26474/21]
245. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the sanctions that can and are being directed and applied to HAP landlords who fail or refuse to carry out necessary works on their properties or in the necessary time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25236/21]
198. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport if he will seek assurances from CIÉ in the matter of the 1951 pension scheme and that the organisation will await the High Court application being made by pension trustees before engaging in further discussions in relation to the 1951 scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25311/21]
124. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will liaise with the Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion on the findings of a group (details supplied) that 84.4% of schools surveyed saw an increase in AEN pupils in the past four years with 72.2% reporting that their current SET allocation is insufficient for the AEN needs of their schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25013/21]
122. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department can or will provide financial and or other assistance to a green schools committee initiative in a school (details supplied) to install solar panels; if her Department is currently engaged in or will in the future engage in a trial involving green and sustainable energy in schools, in terms of energy generated, saved and stored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25012/21]
106. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will consider developing and promoting Ireland as the new and automatic events hub for the European tour events crewing industry (details supplied) given that the UK is outside of the EU post Brexit, and in view of Ireland's international reputation in arts and culture; if a fund will be made available to that end; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24853/21]
41. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will actively investigate the possibility of establishing Ireland as the events hub of the EU post-Brexit (details supplied); if a fund will be made available for same; if he will liaise with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24854/21]
728. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if a county specific proactive strategy is in place or will be applied to address the persistently high Covid-19 numbers in County Kildare; if these numbers are attributable to meat plants, food processing, a building site or other known origin; if so, the precise public health steps taken to date to manage and eliminate such outbreaks in order to prevent further local lockdowns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23838/21]
706. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health when Wi-Fi will be made available to patients at Naas General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23742/21]
581. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently awaiting fostering and emergency fostering; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24359/21]
580. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of foster parents and emergency foster parents that have resigned their positions in the past three years; the stated reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24358/21]
579. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason emergency foster parents in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance are expected to be available for work when the demands of their fostering position preclude them from using a childminder in view of the fact that this anomaly is affecting many foster parents within the Tusla system in which paid allowances are to be used for the child only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24357/21]
544. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason emergency foster parents automatically precluded from using a childminder are forced to be available for work or training when they have been assured their welfare payments to the value of that in jobseeker’s will continue in their fostering; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24360/21]
108. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the action she will take to ensure the transfer of home tuition for a child (details below) to a school premises in north County Kildare or its reasonably accessed surrounds as is possible and allowable given the urgent and serious need of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23539/21]
107. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will liaise with the Minister of State with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion in actively facilitating the transfer of home tuition to school premises for certain children with special educational needs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23538/21]
637. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the prevalence of the already used incidence of PPS numbers in the vaccination schedule which is causing dismay to persons with the reasonable expectation of using their own PPS number for their own vaccination; the measures in place to protect persons’ PPS numbers and prevent such misuse; the reason PPS numbers are required for vaccination when they are not required for testing; if PPS numbers were required and used for vaccines delivered inappropriately such as outside of the schedule, for example, at hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23176/21]
366. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the reason her Department is continuing to delay in applying the recommendations of the Labour Court from December 2019 in relation to the public service regularisation of the employment of behavioural analysts who make such a critical contribution to special education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22699/21]
234. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will request the OPW to remove the railings around Conolly’s Folly, County Kildare, in view of the historical, social and cultural importance of the monument to the local community and which is especially valuable given persons will be undertaking recreation outdoors in summer 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23072/21]
507. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if exceptions can be made in the case of persons who require an Irish passport for purposes of work visas overseas notwithstanding the current delay in the issuing of passports in the circumstances of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21502/21]
142. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if new information or clinical presentations are emerging here suggesting that pregnancy does or could put women at particular or greater risk of serious complications or severe illness from Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20951/21]
139. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if there are pregnant women ill with Covid-19 who are currently on life-support or other critical care in a hospital either for their own care and or in order to advance their pregnancies to safe delivery of their babies; if so, the number of women affected from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to date; the strains of Covid-19 involved; the number of hospitals involved in care and transfer, both maternity and general; the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20930/21]
1728. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his recent decision to prioritise vaccinations based on age took full account of the cascade effect in schools in which Covid-related teacher absences and the saturation of the substitute panel with requests is seeing special needs pupils frequently deprived of teachers forced to redeploy to cover such class teacher absences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18816/21]
1727. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if fully vaccinated persons with clear tests will be exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18814/21]
1655. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health when clarity will be provided to couples planning weddings in May 2021 as to their guest numbers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18577/21]
1591. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will prioritise all pharmacy staff for vaccination in which pharmacies will become central to vaccine roll-out not just pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18376/21]
1050. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the rationale for the new revised section 29 appeals process (details supplied); the way in which this revision and demand fit the best interest of the child principle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19909/21]
978. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the cascade aspect of teacher absences in the context of Covid-19 in which the substitute panel is saturated with requests, thereby seeing special needs teachers frequently being required to take over absentee teacher class duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18815/21]
957. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the steps she can take to assist parents urgently seeking places for younger siblings in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18629/21]
1133. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason the community care unit in Maynooth, County Kildare is without a full-time or part-time dietician (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17327/21]
866. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if financial help in the form of grant assistance or waivers will be available to Irish persons of limited means who need to return home from working or living overseas during the mandatory hotel quarantine requirement period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16347/21]
223. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of persons being tested for Covid-19 at a location (details supplied) and elsewhere who do not have PPS numbers; if those persons are from within or without the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16203/21]
196. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of adults living in HSE-run or HSE-funded facilities in CHO7 requiring safeguarding in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of safeguarding visits made to each of the adults in the same period; the number of social workers designated as and or tasked with undertaking safeguarding actions of that cohort in the CHO7 area in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16124/21]
195. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the status of the waiting list for the asthma drug Xolair at Tallaght Hospital; the number of persons waiting for same; the length of time they have been waiting given that some persons have already been waiting more than two years for the drug; the status of funding for the drug at Tallaght Hospital and all hospitals concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16119/21]
102. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the guidance or standards that have been issued to schools on the way they are to notify parents that their children's school absences have been notified to Tusla, particularly in the context of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16122/21]