Parliamentary questions

United Nations

Neasa Hourigan

572. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or his officials plan to attend the UN Food Systems Summit in July 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33871/23]

Mental Health Policy

Neasa Hourigan

681. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health if he will outline in what way the removal of the locked status of unit 3, St. Stephen's Hospital, as reported by the Mental Health Commission in November 2022, can compensate alone for the broader loss of other quality-of-life benefits incurred by a resident who was moved to that ward in July 2022 from another approved centre in breach of a condition of its registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33536/23]

Mental Health Policy

Neasa Hourigan

682. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health if he will outline how the Mental Health Commission can reconcile concerns it raised in its annual report from June 2022 regarding 2,000 people living in congregated settings with their approval in court in November 2022 of HSE proposals to build a 50-bed continuing care and rehabilitation service on the isolated grounds of St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire; under which mental health policy the Mental Health Commission made this approval; in what way this can be said to offset any of the disadvantages incurred by a resident who was moved to unit 3, St. Stephen's Hospital from another approved centre in breach of a condition on the registration of unit 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33537/23]

Health Services

Neasa Hourigan

747. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health if he will outline how each individual CHO funds interpreting services in general practices; if he plans to improve access to interpreters in general practice by establishing a central service for use across all CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33798/23]

Hospital Facilities

Neasa Hourigan

798. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 25 May 2023, if he will explain why three arborist companies (details supplied) carried out assessments of trees outside Cork University Hospital; the reason these assessments incurred no financial cost to the HSE; if he will provide these assessment reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33999/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Neasa Hourigan

799. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health if he will bring the repeated failure on the part of Cork HSE mental health management to provide clarity in responses to numerous Parliamentary Questions on the alleged offering of first-dose Covid vaccines to non-patient-facing corporate staff, including management HSE staff, based in the Model Business Park, Cork in early January 2021, prior to the scheduling of vaccines for some of the most at-risk client and staff cohorts in congregated mental health settings, to the attention of the recently appointed HSE CEO; if the sequencing of vaccines by HSE managers to service-users and staff according to the agreed protocols will form part of the State's inquiry into its handling of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34032/23]

Traveller Accommodation

Neasa Hourigan

248. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason there is such a delay in supplying Dublin City Council with the funds to complete the upgrade work that is so urgently needed in the Labre Park halting site; the reason there is a delay in supplying the funds required to commence the regeneration of the Labre Park halting site; what is causing the delays in paying Dublin City Council outstanding funds for work already carried out in respect of Traveller accommodation by Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33339/23]

Cabinet Committees

Neasa Hourigan

5. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with drugs policy will next meet. [30915/23]

Transport Policy

Neasa Hourigan

14. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Taoiseach the policy in his Department regarding the use of the Government jet. [30916/23]

Departmental Staff

Neasa Hourigan

141. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to outline what training the human resources disability officer in his Department has undertaken and is scheduled to undertake in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32636/23]

Departmental Expenditure

Neasa Hourigan

175. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the full cost of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, in tabular form, to include the cost of policing and security, the use of locations, and the cost of Department staff involvement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32195/23]

Register of Electors

Neasa Hourigan

352. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that there will be no requirement for the provision of a Personal Public Service Number for inclusion on the electoral register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32270/23]

Departmental Staff

Neasa Hourigan

372. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline what training the human resources disability officer in his Department has undertaken and is scheduled to undertake in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32634/23]

Departmental Staff

Neasa Hourigan

467. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline what training the human resources disability officer in his Department has undertaken and is scheduled to undertake in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32635/23]

Health Services Staff

Neasa Hourigan

553. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the number of HSE psychology posts that remained unfilled after being advertised since January 2022, by CHO and by service type, i.e. child disability, adult disability, adult mental health, child and adolescent mental health, primary care psychology and hospital services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32028/23]

Medical Qualifications

Neasa Hourigan

554. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health if he will seek to address the lengthy delays in the process of accreditation of psychologists who trained and qualified overseas and who wish to work in Ireland; what steps he may take to this end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32029/23]

Medical Qualifications

Neasa Hourigan

555. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the rationale for working off a clinical-population based framework of accreditation for psychologists who have trained overseas rather than a competencies-based framework, as is preferred in other countries; if he sees this as a barrier to the efficient accreditation of those psychologists who could take up positions in the Irish health system but who are prevented from doing so through not having had clinical placement experience with a particular care group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32030/23]

Health Services Staff

Neasa Hourigan

556. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health for an update on the funding of counselling psychology and educational psychology training courses as part of a move towards equity of training for psychologists, as well as a means to address difficulties with recruitment and retention of psychologists in particular service areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32031/23]

Industrial Development

Neasa Hourigan

14. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the work of his Department and Enterprise Ireland on the CIRCULÉIRE Programme; the expected outputs of the programme for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31160/23]

Enterprise Policy

Neasa Hourigan

29. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any work or reviews undertaken by his Department on the carbon emissions impact of strengthening the Irish export sector as outlined in his Department's White Paper on Enterprise 2022-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31159/23]