Parliamentary questions

School Meals Programme

Michael McNamara

237. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) has not been selected for the school meals scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17780/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

339. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the list of states from which arrivals at ports and airports in the State are required to quarantine clarifying in each case whether the quarantine is required due to the prevalence Covid-19, the prevalence of variants of the disease or both, respectively; and the rate of Covid-19 prevalence or variants’ prevalence, respectively that resulted in each state’s designation. [17846/21]

DEIS Scheme

Michael McNamara

620. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be considered for a DEIS band status following a recommendation from a DEIS inspector who visited the school in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17288/21]

School Staff

Michael McNamara

643. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if she will sanction the retention of a third teacher in a school (details supplied) in County Clare, given that this school is just two pupils short of the required quota and assuming common sense would prevail here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17540/21]

Childcare Services

Michael McNamara

730. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be provided to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17389/21]

Garda Disciplinary Proceedings

Michael McNamara

820. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Justice when the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries following the death of Mr. Patrick Nugent, which she received on 3 November 2020, will be shared with the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17089/21]

Hospital Appointments Status

Michael McNamara

1070. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an urgent appointment at the gastro clinic at Ennis Hospital following several previously cancelled appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17035/21]

Departmental Staff

Michael McNamara

1196. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the person or body that carried out the independent review into the whistleblower allegations made by a person (details supplied). [17520/21]

Departmental Legal Cases

Michael McNamara

1197. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice received from a senior counsel on the practice of obtaining information from treating clinicians of children for the purpose of compiling dossiers on said children with special educational needs in respect of whom litigation was taken against his Department. [17521/21]

Departmental Legal Cases

Michael McNamara

1198. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will send any information obtained from clinicians treating children with special educational needs as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation in respect of the said children’s special needs to those children’s parents, identifying the clinicians who provided the information. [17522/21]

Departmental Legal Cases

Michael McNamara

1199. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will identify all clinicians who provided information to his Department on children with special educational needs under their care as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation. [17523/21]

Nitrates Usage

Michael McNamara

1258. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers by county that are farming under a nitrates derogation; the type of farming enterprise they are engaged in such as dairy, suckler, dry stock and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16635/21]

Nitrates Usage

Michael McNamara

1259. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of slurry farmyard manure that is produced on all farms by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16636/21]

Nitrates Usage

Michael McNamara

1260. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of slurry farmyard manure that is produced in excess of the derogation threshold by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16637/21]

Irish Aviation Authority

Michael McNamara

316. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport the reason, after the long and detailed negotiations with the IAA employee staff panel on the rescue of the deficit in the IAA staff superannuation scheme which resulted in LCR19713 (2010), this major industrial relations agreement was misleadingly represented by the IAA to his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform during 2011 and 2012 as an agreement to amend terms and benefits of the IAA staff superannuation scheme without notifying IAA staff either individually or through their unions until late in 2018, just before LCR19713 was due to end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14797/21]

Pension Provisions

Michael McNamara

317. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport if the Limerick pilotage authority unestablished employees superannuation scheme was ever submitted by the employer to his Department; if so, if this scheme was ever approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14816/21]

Insurance Costs

Michael McNamara

484. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene as a matter of urgency regarding the increasing insurance costs on small businesses and reduce damages for minor injuries by 80% given that the Law Reform Commission has made it clear that direct intervention by the legislature to cap damages will be entirely constitutional subject to certain safeguards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15193/21]

School Transport

Michael McNamara

951. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if a decision has been made on issuing refunds to parents who have paid in advance for transport to schools which were shut; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15849/21]

Vaccination Programme

Michael McNamara

1325. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if there will be a change in the vaccination programme regarding vaccination of persons who have been infected with and recovered from Covid-19 in view of the report by the Health Information and Quality Authority on post-Covid-19 infection immunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13939/21]

Health Information and Quality Authority

Michael McNamara

1333. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the recent report of the Health Information and Quality Authority which found that that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic started on 22 November 2020 during the second lockdown, which lasted until 1 December 2020, undermines his confidence in the efficacy of lockdowns as a means of combatting Covid-19. [13958/21]