1795. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will introduce a national screening programme for those over the age of 65 years to identify those most at risk of structural heart disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40481/22]
1794. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the actions that have been undertaken by his Department to participate with other European Union member states in the prevention and detection of cardiovascular disease in the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40480/22]
1793. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when the national review of cardiac services being conducted by a person (details supplied) will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40479/22]
1780. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if families who have been denied respite care due to the fact that no respite care is available in a public facility due to Covid can get financial assistance towards the cost of respite care in a private nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40409/22]
1196. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the regulations governing illness benefit to ensure that workers who were out of work through no fault of their own due to Government lockdown in 2020 and who received the pandemic unemployment payment at the time are not now precluded from getting illness benefit if they are ill or injured as in the example (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39835/22]
1096. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education her views on the need for children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, who attend a special school to avail of a structured school routine throughout the summer months given that the ten-week break causes many non-verbal children to have significant struggles in terms of frustration and behavioural issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40707/22]
1093. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if a primary school teacher may transfer from one regional teaching panel to another due to extenuating family circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40589/22]
967. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cause of the current delay in applications to join the foreign birth register; the steps that he is taking to address the current two-year waiting time and backlog of 39,000 applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40710/22]
100. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he will authorise the payment of the 2% pensionable increase effective from 1 January 2022 to An Post pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40529/22]
68. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a person can apply for windows and doors under the retrofit scheme as a stand-alone measure; if not, if the applicant must carry out other measures to qualify for grant assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39851/22]
605. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the necessary funding to an organisation (details supplied) to source a premises suitable for its needs in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39225/22]
369. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if first time self-build homeowners will qualify for the new home equity scheme announced recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39146/22]
210. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the microgeneration rebate scheme for householders who invested in microgeneration is in place; when they will receive the money due back to them; if this money will be backdated to 1 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39138/22]
819. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the projected cost of providing access to support workers and personal assistants for autistic adults and of legislating for the right to personal assistance for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37196/22]
768. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will endorse a project (details supplied) as a capital project under the Shared Island Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36974/22]
767. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the capital funding that has been allocated to children’s health projects in Ireland under the Shared Island Fund to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36973/22]
606. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce the delays being experienced by school term workers such as school bus drivers who have to sign on during the summer months but who regularly experience significant delays in getting their payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37263/22]
541. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if she will consider changing the rules around career breaks for teachers as teachers who move home within the country and wish to work in a new location are being prevented from doing so unnecessarily; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a teacher who is on a career break and who moves permanently within the country will have to build panel rights from scratch even where the teacher has worked for her Department for over a decade; if she is of the opinion that the Department needs to be more flexible in such cases as teachers feel undervalued and underappreciated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37202/22]
801. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he intends to have an accessible budget for disability in order that individuals with disabilities and their supporters can understand the number of existing and new residential supports, day places and respite supports that will be provided for in Budget 2023; the way that this relates to the needs outlined in the capacity review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35972/22]
800. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when the action plan for the disability capacity review will be published; if he will confirm that it will be included in the budgetary plan for 2023 to ensure that another year does not pass with families and individuals left without any indication of when or the way that the urgent needs that they are experiencing will be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35971/22]
799. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if nurses working in private nursing homes are covered by the pandemic bonus payment in recognition of their crucial role in terms of dealing with the pandemic; if he has plans to increase the numbers of those eligible for the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35969/22]
797. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of refusal rates for primary medical certificates by county; his views on the discrepancy in the approval rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35961/22]
694. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if a review of the nursing home support scheme financial assessment will be conducted; the timeframe that has to elapse before the review can take place; if the value of a second house is capped for three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35559/22]
675. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an organisation (detail supplied); if he will make provision for funding for the organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35502/22]
443. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if (details supplied) a local voluntary group has received any funding from Galway County Council under the 2021 Disability Participation and Awareness Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35497/22]
391. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who was on disability allowance for many years and who took up a position on a community employment scheme can now make an application for the partial capacity benefit after having worked for four weeks on the scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35503/22]
390. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who lives with a sibling can get fuel allowance or if their sibling’s income is taken into account even though they are not a single household; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35500/22]
342. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a teacher who is on exchange for a period of eight years has to revert to the original school when a permanent post is to be filled in that school (details supplied); if she will review the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35501/22]
220. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that people are experiencing difficulties with the Residential Tenancies Board paying their renewal registrations online; if he will investigate this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35498/22]
159. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether Parkinson's disease should be included on the list of conditions that make a person eligible for the primary medical certificate, given that the disease is degenerative and is a lifelong condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35962/22]
130. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport his views on bus companies charging travel pass holders who do not have access to the Internet an additional fee of €3 to manually book a bus ticket; if his attention has been drawn to the practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35499/22]
772. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the status of legislation regarding housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33717/22]
671. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with the Federation of Early Childhood Providers to address their issues around the viability of the business model as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34471/22]
645. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of an invalidity pension and applied for disability allowance but was turned down because of being better off on an invalidity pension yet, as a result, cannot access a household benefits package or a fuel allowance; the way that the Minister intends to address this anomaly in the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33948/22]
639. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if support will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33723/22]
606. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the rationale behind her Department’s decision not to allow teachers on a career break to substitute teach for the full school year; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many teachers who decided to move their location across the country while on a career break had planned on being able to teach as they got established in their new location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33942/22]
226. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to reform and restructure the KEEP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34472/22]
215. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the inequity in the proposals to change the benefit-in-kind which will take account of the C02/kg impact of the vehicle for drivers of company cars given that they have no input into the type of car that their employer purchases or when their employer will change the fleet to electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33675/22]
213. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Finance if he is supports restructuring the key employee engagement programme given that in its current format it remains too complicated and restrictive for use by SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34473/22]
207. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will commission a study to examine the impact and cost-benefit analysis of providing fare-free travel on public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34369/22]
206. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a cost analysis of providing fare-free travel on public transport for a 12-month period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34368/22]
245. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress that has been made since the election of President Joe Biden in rectifying the situation for the undocumented Irish in America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33476/22]
96. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, with the surge in the number of applications for passports and the delays in getting those applications processed, he will consider opening a passport office in the west of Ireland to serve the needs of the population there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33475/22]
29. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the working group established in 2018 to examine ways to improve fish access at Parteen Weir on the River Shannon has completed its work; if so, the agreed outcomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32911/22]
102. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to increase existing public sector pensions to take account of the exceptional increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29036/22]
91. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his intentions in relation to adjusting public sector pay in view if the exceptional increases in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29035/22]
88. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to introduce a new public works contract for the construction industry to ensure the risk in these contracts is shared in an equitable way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29034/22]
1797. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will provide CoaguChek meters and self-test kits free of charge to persons who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30378/22]