Parliamentary questions

Wards of Court

Holly Cairns

691. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the wards of courts system will be replaced with a system compliant with international human rights obligations. [38113/22]

Legislative Process

Holly Cairns

692. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide his response to a letter from a United Nations official (details supplied) concerning the way that he represented that official’s remarks during the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages. [38114/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1110. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to recruit recent psychology graduates for roles in children’s disability network teams. [38116/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1111. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to encourage psychologists who are Irish nationals working in other jurisdictions to take up roles in children’s disability network teams. [38117/22]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

1112. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 573 of 23 June 2020, the number of adults with an intellectual disability residing in acute or long-stay psychiatric settings in CHO4 between January 2016 and June 2022, in tabular form; the basis on which this information on unidentified service-users could constitute a breach of their GDPR rights, as suggested in the response; his views on whether it is the right of such persons with disabilities who are misplaced, sometimes indefinitely, in the psychiatric system to be accounted for in healthcare data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38118/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1113. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the basis on which HSE posts (details supplied) were competed for through local interview and not the nationally agreed recruitment panel process that applies to posts for these care groups; if the HSE's national recruitment service sanctioned the process involved in these appointments; if so, the national recruitment service personnel that sanctioned same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38119/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1114. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March, 840 of 5 April, 308 of 18 May and 234 of 22 June 2022, the way that fairness and transparency could be attributed to a process of expressions of interest in appointments by transfer of mental health psychologists in CHO4 (details supplied); his views on whether these public appointments took place in a manner that was not covered by HR policy and circumvented relevant national recruitment panels and therefore imposed disadvantage on candidates ranked on those recruitment panels who would have expressed an interest in the posts in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38120/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1115. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022 and 1091 of 22 March and 310 of 18 May 2022, the precise specialisms in adult mental health psychology; the exact criteria referred to in the response which are eligible for a bypassing of the national recruitment panel system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38121/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1116. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022, 1091 of March 2022 and 310 of 18 May 2022, if particular specialisms in adult mental health psychology have been agreed to by the HSE national human resources department and trade unions as constituting exceptions to the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; if so, if he will name these specialties; if he will provide a reference for the signing off on these details by trade unions and the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38122/22]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

1117. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 842 of 5 April 2022, 308 of 18 May 2022 and 233 of June 2022, the percentage of appointments to senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers; the exact service locations and the dates of each of these appointments; the reason that this information was not already provided in Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 22 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38123/22]

Parliamentary Questions

Holly Cairns

1118. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his views on the degree to which Parliamentary Questions on matters relating to the Cork mental health services are not being answered and have to be resubmitted repeatedly; and the recourse Deputies have in cases in which Parliamentary Questions are repeatedly not answered. [38124/22]

Third Level Education

Holly Cairns

29. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his engagement with the Minister for Health to increase the number of graduates from clinical therapies, including but not limited to occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and psychology in order to address shortages in disability services. [36282/22]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Holly Cairns

75. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps that he is taking to ensure the roll-out of a sexual violence response programme (details supplied) to all third level educational institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36283/22]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

124. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the process that he has in place to closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities, including children with disabilities through their representative organisations in the development and implementation of legislation and policies relating to persons with disabilities as required under article 4 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [36288/22]

Legal Aid

Holly Cairns

5. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice her response to the annual report from an organisation (details supplied). [35544/22]

Legal Aid

Holly Cairns

9. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice her response to the increasing demand for legal information and advice, as recorded by an organisation (details supplied) in its annual report. [35545/22]

Tax Code

Holly Cairns

171. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on increasing the VAT threshold for small and medium enterprise service providers to €80,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35547/22]

Public Sector Staff

Holly Cairns

195. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on adjusting travel and subsistence rates given increasing travel costs. [35553/22]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Holly Cairns

689. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will provide numbers of the current public patient waiting lists for ophthalmology in Cork University Hospital, including a breakdown of the numbers of months patients are waiting, in tabular form. [35549/22]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Holly Cairns

690. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will provide numbers of the current public patient waiting lists for neurology in Cork University Hospital, including a breakdown of the numbers of months patients are waiting, in tabular form. [35550/22]