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Wed, 13 May 2020
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National Broadband Plan
Anne Rabbitte
994. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason an address (details supplied) was not included by commercial operators in regard to the roll-out of the national broadband plan; the expected timeline for the household to be connected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4752/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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National Broadband Plan
Anne Rabbitte
995. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for areas (details supplied) to be connected to fibre broadband as part of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4807/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Departmental Funding
Anne Rabbitte
1071. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the breakdown of capital funding provided to crèches in the past five years by funding stream; and the number of additional places the funding has created. [3966/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Education Costs
Anne Rabbitte
1072. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated capital cost of creating an additional early years place. [3967/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Education Costs
Anne Rabbitte
1073. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated capital cost of creating an additional after school place. [3968/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Commercial Rates Exemptions
Anne Rabbitte
1074. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered exempting early years providers from commercial rates; and if an assessment has been conducted as to the cost of the measure. [3969/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Anne Rabbitte
1075. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of extending the ECCE programme by one, two, three or four weeks, respectively accounting for potential increases in capitation rates of €5, €10, €15 and €20, respectively. [3970/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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School Completion Programme
Anne Rabbitte
1076. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of restoring the school completion programme to peak levels of funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3971/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Departmental Programmes
Anne Rabbitte
1077. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the review into the ABC programme. [3972/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Departmental Programmes
Anne Rabbitte
1078. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full-year cost of continuing the ABC programme. [3973/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Family Resource Centres
Anne Rabbitte
1079. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of restoring family resource centre funding to peak levels on a per centre basis, that is, taking into account the number of centres within the network. [3974/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Child and Family Agency
Anne Rabbitte
1080. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social workers Tusla is seeking to recruit in the next 12 months; and the overall target of Tusla for full-time equivalent social workers in tabular form. [3975/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Child and Family Agency
Anne Rabbitte
1081. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social workers employed by Tusla in tabular form. [3976/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Living Wage
Anne Rabbitte
1082. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of ensuring that staff employed by her Department and agencies under her aegis receive the living wage of €12.30 per hour. [3977/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Departmental Staff
Anne Rabbitte
1083. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full-year cost of hiring an additional social worker. [3978/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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National Childcare Scheme
Anne Rabbitte
1084. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of beneficiary children at each level of subsidy of the national childcare scheme in tabular form. [3979/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Anne Rabbitte
1085. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her policy plans to bring the ECCE scheme under the remit of the national childcare scheme. [3980/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Community Childcare Subvention Programme
Anne Rabbitte
1086. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of grant funding recouped from community childcare services in respect of children attending fewer hours of childcare than was contracted for them to attend under the community childcare subvention scheme in 2019, by county in tabular form. [3981/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Community Childcare Subvention Programme
Anne Rabbitte
1087. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children whose number of childcare hours under the CCS programme was reduced following an audit by her Department of the attendance of the child in tabular form. [3982/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Anne Rabbitte
1088. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her policy plans to allow for the number of ECCE hours that a child is eligible to receive to be contingent upon the attendance of the child at their ECCE service. [3983/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Childcare Services
Anne Rabbitte
1089. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if community childcare services are advised by her Department or an agency acting on its behalf to send their staff home in circumstances in which the expected number of children do not present for their service. [3984/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Anne Rabbitte
1090. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether it is fair for early years services that sign a contract with her Department for the provision of childcare schemes to sign these contracts in advance of receiving a copy of the programme and funding rules for the programme year. [3985/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Community Childcare Subvention Programme
Anne Rabbitte
1091. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered conducting a study into the impact of the recently introduced rule changes by which her Department can recoup funding from a community childcare service in circumstances in which an audit finds that certain users of that service did not attend all childcare hours that the service was initially contracted to provide. [3986/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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National Childcare Scheme
Anne Rabbitte
1101. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date paper based applications for the national childcare scheme will be introduced; if paper based application payments will be backdated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4440/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Public Services Card
Anne Rabbitte
1102. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is considering removing the public services card as a requisite for applying to the national childcare scheme in view of the views of the Data Protection Commissioner on the legitimacy of the card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4441/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Children in Care
Anne Rabbitte
1104. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of unaccompanied minors in the care of Tusla; if these children are placed in direct provision once they turn 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4500/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Departmental Funding
Anne Rabbitte
1107. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the availability of grants or funding for a holistic psychotherapist to provide children focused services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4599/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Child Abuse
Anne Rabbitte
1123. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied with the management of the allegations outlined in an article (details supplied). [5102/20]
Wed, 13 May 2020
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Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
Anne Rabbitte
1232. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the drawdown by each local authority from the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund in 2018 and 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4159/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Voluntary Homeowners Relocation Scheme
Anne Rabbitte
127. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date for relocation payments to families in Gort, County Galway forced to move due to severe flooding in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2985/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Flood Relief Schemes
Anne Rabbitte
129. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 1 October 2019, the status of the flood relief scheme (details supplied); the status of the hydrological modelling which was due to be completed before the end of 2019 with feasibility and route selection assessment expected to be completed by early 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2991/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Flood Relief Schemes Status
Anne Rabbitte
130. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood relief measures identified for Portumna, County Galway in the Shannon Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Plan published in May 2018; if such measures will be introduced particularly in view of recent heavy rainfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2992/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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School Inspection Reports
Anne Rabbitte
203. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the inspector’s report for a school (details supplied) will be published; the reason the report has not been released to the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2790/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Anne Rabbitte
209. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills if temporary provision for a SNA for a person (details supplied) for even just one hour per day will be examined; if there are alternative arrangements in place to secure additional hours mid-way through the school year; if additional hours can be added on compassionate grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2846/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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School Transport Provision
Anne Rabbitte
216. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 209 of 5 November 2019, the alternative options for parents to access school transport services at the school which have been withdrawn, leaving many parents without school transport; the availability of additional funding that either parents or schools can apply to for subvention of transport in such cases; if a review of individual cases can be conducted in cases where parents have been excluded from the transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2950/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Departmental Funding
Anne Rabbitte
217. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the availability of grants for schools to purchase a bus for use for sporting events and other outings; if a primary and secondary school in the same locality can make a joint application for such a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2953/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Information and Communications Technology
Anne Rabbitte
218. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the availability of grants for the upgrading of information technology systems in a secondary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2954/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Immigration Status
Anne Rabbitte
340. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) made to the repatriation section of the immigration and citizenship division. [2952/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Hospital Appointments Status
Anne Rabbitte
571. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list for decompression surgery and a spinal fusion in Merlin Park University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2796/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Autism Support Services
Anne Rabbitte
579. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for intervention support in Galway and Roscommon ASD, by one, two, three, four and more than five years, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2823/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Autism Support Services
Anne Rabbitte
580. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the number of children offered an outsourced assessment by Galway and Roscommon ASD in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2824/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Medicinal Products Reimbursement
Anne Rabbitte
581. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious delays in the reimbursement of daratumumab Darzalex combination therapy (details supplied) for patients with multiple myeloma; the reason for the delay; when the therapy will be reimbursed and made available to patients here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2825/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Health Services Provision
Anne Rabbitte
619. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the provision of an occupational therapist to assist a person (details supplied) as previously recommended by the local HSE services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2955/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Roads Maintenance Funding
Anne Rabbitte
1022. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the availability of emergency funding for roads damaged by recent flooding due to heavy rainfall in Gort and Loughrea municipal areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2993/20]
Thu, 5 Mar 2020
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Roads Maintenance Funding
Anne Rabbitte
1050. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the availability of emergency funding for roads damaged by recent flooding due to heavy rainfall in the Gort and Loughrea municipal areas, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2988/20]
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
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Dairy Sector
Anne Rabbitte
541. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the national dairy herd in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53393/19]
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
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Dairy Sector
Anne Rabbitte
542. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dairy cows in dairy herds that had a calf registered previously that did not have a calf registered in the past 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53394/19]
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
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Beef Industry
Anne Rabbitte
544. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly kill weight across beef processing factories from January 2019 to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53399/19]
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
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Beef Industry
Anne Rabbitte
545. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly import weight of beef from January 2019 to date in 2019, in tabular form; the countries from which the beef is sourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53400/19]
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
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Beef Exports
Anne Rabbitte
546. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly export weight of beef from January 2019 to date in 2019, in tabular form; the countries to which the beef is going to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53401/19]