515. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the legislation, Acts or any other constitutional document that indicate that the teaching of Irish in schools is mandatory; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23172/22]
502. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if she will make secondary school qualified teachers available for students in special schools to undertake junior cycle subjects such as art, woodwork and home economics; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some special schools have this allowance and others do not; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22859/22]
501. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education when special schools will be given the same supports as mainstream schools in terms of pupils who come to the school with English as a second language in terms of additional hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22858/22]
190. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applicants for the SEAI better energy schemes are expected to employ a BER assessor and also retain the services of an air tightness consultant which is adding to the cost of any works under the retrofit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22994/22]
493. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the name of the research studies and reports that are being consulted by his Department as part of the review into the revisited model of care for the termination of pregnancy on whether to continue telemedicine abortion measures beyond the temporary pandemic restrictions. [22003/22]
391. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice the steps that she is taking to ensure that the new immigrant investor programme does not make the public donation category more restrictive for public good projects such as hospitals and sports clubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21967/22]
309. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person whose entitlement to the illness benefit is exhausted after two years can sign on for credits in the time between the end of their illness benefit and the making of an invalidity pension application in cases in which that person had full PRSI contributions made prior to becoming ill and who worked in the private sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21969/22]
305. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that disabled artists will not be penalised and will be able to retain their disability payments if they are successful in qualifying for the basic income for artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21874/22]
284. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education the reason section 2.4 of Circulars 52 and 53 of 2019 refer to an Appeal of an Irish exemption refusal when it is only a review of the procedures followed by schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22213/22]
1759. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will bring an end to the practice of remote consultation for abortion advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20855/22]
1758. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when the cancer care hospital for University Hospital Galway will be approved to proceed to full design in accordance with the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20854/22]
1575. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health his plans to change the current regime whereby only students from the richest families can access graduate-entry medicine given the high costs involved of €100,000 and the fact that the only loan provider to this group is now pulling out of the loan provision; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the graduate-entry salary of €36,000 is too low to allow these doctors to live near hospitals and repay high student loan costs; his views on whether the high student costs and low entry salary is contributing to the stark lack of newly qualified doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20176/22]
1572. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that many farmers and self-employed people with disabilities are unable to access medical cards due to the means test which takes into account the value of land owned as opposed to income from such land, and where there is none and such people are not able to work they are losing out on medical entitlements as a result; his further views that the additional costs relating to having a disability should be taken into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20168/22]
1571. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are lengthy waiting lists for persons requiring wheelchairs in this country; if his attention has been further drawn to cases such as one in County Galway in which a man who is paralysed from the waist down has been waiting five and a half months for his made-to-measure wheelchair and gel cushion both of which he requires urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20167/22]
1570. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his Department has advertised the tendering of the manufacture of prosthetic limbs to many countries in the European Union; the countries that have they been in contact with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20166/22]
1569. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if funding is available through the Irish Red Cross for prosthetic limbs in Ireland; if so, if the means tests for Irish residents are similar to those carried out by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20165/22]
1385. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the community nursing home PPP bundle for seven community nursing homes; when a contract is expected to be signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19404/22]
1383. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when the strategic assessment report and the preliminary report will be finalised for the new cancer care hospital in UCH Galway; the timeframe for appointing a design team in order to deliver the cancer care hospital as set out in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19390/22]
1340. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his Department will give due recognition to the role of orthodontic therapists in providing orthodontic care; if he will undertake to train more therapists and provide recognition for the role in order to help alleviate the unacceptable waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19289/22]
1336. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the reason that shared care services were withdrawn from a person (details supplied) without consultation with their family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19252/22]
1334. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the way that he identified the small number of candidates whom he judged as having suitable experience before contacting and inviting them to apply for the role of chair of the abortion review thereby sidestepping an open public procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19241/22]
1116. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to make medical cards available to all survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19696/22]
1033. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to counter the additional burden that very high inflation is placing on disabled persons in receipt of both the disability allowance and the invalidity pension; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the setting of the pandemic unemployment payment at €350 is the minimum level of payment that a person requires to survive; if she plans to extend this level to the 13.5% of the population that are living with one type of disability or more according to the most recent census figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20163/22]
240. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the lease undertaking for a licence (details supplied) will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19403/22]
239. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of a licence (details supplied) in relation to existing authorisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19402/22]
238. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 22 March 2022, the reason that a licence (details supplied) is omitted from the list of offshore licensing extensions currently under consideration when the application for lease undertaking extension was submitted in April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19401/22]
226. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the deep retrofit scheme will be in place and ready for contractors to begin work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19240/22]
413. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the findings related to the provision of telemedicine abortion in the HSEs recent review of the Revised Model of Care for Termination of Pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19067/22]
412. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the objectives for the HSEs recent review of the Revised Model of Care for Termination of Pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19066/22]
339. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a private childcare provider (details supplied) has lost its contract; the way that the service provided by the company will be maintained for the service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19086/22]
199. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to issues (details supplied) in relation to ESB Networks; the action that he plans to take to rectify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19068/22]
937. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an organisation (details supplied) has submitted its final report on the review of the legislation and the full examination of the regulatory system for the forestry licencing; if the report has been finalised, if he will provide details of the findings; when he will introduce the recommended changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17973/22]
220. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if additional funding will be made available to provide loops to connect local towns to the national greenway route from Dublin to Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18261/22]
200. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider extending the recently announced Government support for the haulage sector to address cost pressures arising from current high fuel prices to include own account haulage given that these heavy goods vehicle operators face the same difficulties in terms of rising costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17653/22]
149. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Taoiseach if he is satisfied there are sufficient census enumerators appointed to ensure there is an accurate statistical record for census 2022. [18260/22]
112. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí trained in Templemore in each of the past five years; the number of gardaí allocated to each county in the same years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16905/22]
111. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice if she is satisfied with the level of support her Department is providing to the community alert scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16904/22]
110. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí in the country in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16903/22]
109. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice the number of house and farm burglaries carried out in each county in each of the past five years; the number of convictions for these crimes in the same years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16902/22]
108. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice if she will ring-fence a portion of moneys confiscated by the Criminal Assets Bureau to help victims of crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16901/22]
706. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will engage with unions to finalise the process for the payment of the €1,000 Covid bonus in order that healthcare workers are rewarded without further delay. [16323/22]
695. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the details of the precise steps he took in sourcing and inviting his eventual appointee to apply for the role of chair of the review of the abortion law. [16143/22]
480. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider amending the legislation relating to the living alone allowance to ensure that single persons who were never married are treated in the same manner as widows or widowers and that they can access the living alone allowance if not in receipt of a qualifying payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16321/22]
238. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Transport his plans to deal with the current condition of tertiary roads in County Galway; if funding will be increased to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16046/22]
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a public inquiry into the management, in connection with nursing homes, of the risks to human life and health posed by Covid-19; and to provide for related matters.
835. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when an audiology service will be provided at the primary care centre, Tuam, County Galway; the staffing complement for the centre; the recruitment arrangements in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14034/22]
697. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the significant problems that currently exist in the smaller ECCE-only sessional preschools and the fact that this will be exacerbated by the new funding model; his further views on whether these small independent sessional services, the backbone of the early learning sector nationwide, will be heavily impacted by rising input costs, challenges in recruitment, high waiting lists, Government interference in terms of competition and no increase in the standard capitation level since 2018; his plans to address these significant problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14938/22]
676. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to review the rate of fostering allowance paid to foster carers as recommended by the working group on foster care in 2001 that recommended that the foster care allowance should increase in line with social welfare payments on an annual basis given that this did happen up until 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14462/22]
510. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Education if she will review the fixed price contracts in place with private bus operators to service the school transport system to take account of the unprecedented increase in the cost of fuel prices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14464/22]
317. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the report by the Independent Working Group on defective housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14130/22]