Parliamentary questions

Foreign Policy

Ivana Bacik

364. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions his Department will take to support the humanitarian effort in Yemen. [61866/21]

Foreign Policy

Ivana Bacik

365. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has spoken with his Polish counterpart to discuss the current situation at the Polish-Belarussian border. [61872/21]

Health Service Executive

Ivana Bacik

742. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of new ventilator units that were allocated to Irish hospitals since 1 January 2021. [61869/21]

Hospital Staff

Ivana Bacik

743. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting nine additional full-time ICU nurses for Children’s Health Ireland, Temple Street. [61870/21]

Health Services

Ivana Bacik

744. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the annual spend in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 on maternal mental health services at all stages of pregnancy and postnatal care; the allocation of resources and future plans for same.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61871/21]

Hospital Staff

Ivana Bacik

745. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) which is seeking 100 additional neurology nurse specialists across Ireland, including 17 extra nurses for St. Vincent’s University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61873/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Ivana Bacik

232. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has met with a group (details supplied); and if she has plans to meet with the group in coming weeks in view of the changing situation regarding public health advice. [60387/21]

Foreign Birth Registration

Ivana Bacik

274. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of applications for foreign birth registration that have been received in relation to otherwise stateless children in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [60316/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Ivana Bacik

337. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if mechanisms are in place to enable parents to raise concerns regarding indefinite closures due to Covid-19 of private primary school classes; and if there is a State body or third-party organisation with oversight for private primary schools in respect of raising issues regarding prolonged school closures and the closure of individual classes due to Covid-19. [60388/21]

School Admissions

Ivana Bacik

338. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if her Department measures the effect that the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 has in respect of the prioritisation of children graduating from Gaelscoileanna and seeking admission to a Gaelcholáiste; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60389/21]

Third Level Education

Ivana Bacik

426. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the funding disparity between counselling doctorate programmes and clinical psychology doctorate programmes in third-level institutions; and if he will allocate emergency funding to the counselling doctorate programme in Trinity College Dublin for the 2022-2023 academic year to address that disparity. [60390/21]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

444. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for a certificate of nationality that have been made on behalf of children who have been identified as stateless under section 28 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of certificates of nationality that have been issued to such applicants in each of these years. [60312/21]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

445. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of residence applications that have been made on behalf of children by Tusla in which statelessness has been identified, in each of the past five years. [60313/21]

International Protection

Ivana Bacik

446. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for international protection that have been made each of the past five years; and the number of such applicants who have applied as a stateless person in each of the past five years. [60314/21]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

447. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for Irish citizenship that have been made by a stateless person in each of the past five years. [60315/21]

Departmental Strategies

Ivana Bacik

559. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the strategies he plans to put in place to implement the World Health Organization recommendation that all countries assess the burden of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at a national level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60120/21]

Departmental Inquiries

Ivana Bacik

560. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health when he will implement the recommendation of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre to establish an inquiry for stillbirth and neonatal death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60121/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Ivana Bacik

612. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if he has met with a group (details supplied); and if he has plans to meet with the group in coming weeks in view of the changing situation regarding public health advice. [60386/21]

Child Poverty

Ivana Bacik

17. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for tackling child poverty; if he plans to support the establishment either of a special Oireachtas committee on the subject or a cross-departmental child poverty unit within the Government. [59435/21]

Covid-19 Tests

Ivana Bacik

88. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to offer antigen testing provision to pre-school, early years and after-school facilities. [59436/21]