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Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Departmental Data
Patrick Costello
557. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of special care places nationwide; the number of children currently on the special care waiting list; how many special care orders are active for children who are not currently able to access special care; what is the plan to tackle the growing waiting list for special care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10189/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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National Cultural Institutions
Patrick Costello
127. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the proposed national centre for research and remembrance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9191/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Mother and Baby Homes
Patrick Costello
128. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that older applicants for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are prioritised when the scheme opens as planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9190/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Office of Public Works
Patrick Costello
170. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for an update on the work being carried out by the OPW in relation to research of burials in Kilmainham Gaol with a view to enabling the future exhumation of these persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9795/24]
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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Mental Health Policy
Patrick Costello
127. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health the reason the understanding and managing adult ADHD programme was not chosen for funding by the HSE for 2024, and what supports he intends to provide to it in its place. [9427/24]
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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Health Services
Patrick Costello
128. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 30 January 2024, the specific medications and dosages that are commonly prescribed by the National Gender Service for trans women seeking progesterone. [9429/24]
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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Health Services
Patrick Costello
129. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 14 February 2024, which in particular of the over fifty references in the mentioned interim report are the relevant clinical studies. [9430/24]
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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Health Services
Patrick Costello
130. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 14 February 2024, which specific autism supports are needed by the National Gender Service, and what issues the lack of same leads to. [9431/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Foreign Policy
Patrick Costello
57. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what actions Irish diplomatic representatives in Morocco have taken to support the United Nations process and support efforts to bring about a definitive and mutually acceptable political settlement with regard to Western Sahara; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8882/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Foreign Policy
Patrick Costello
59. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will upgrade the diplomatic status of Western Sahara and, if he will establish an Irish diplomatic presence in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8927/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Diplomatic Representation
Patrick Costello
60. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will establish an embassy in Algeria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8928/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Bus Services
Patrick Costello
105. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport when the new 82 bus route is scheduled to be in place. [8824/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Export Controls
Patrick Costello
176. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of companies in Ireland that currently have dual-use export licences, in tabular form; the export value of each company for 2022 and 2023; the details of the products they are producing; and if he can guarantee that none of these components and weapons are being used for the purpose of the taking of human life, either directly or enabling that process. [8923/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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School Curriculum
Patrick Costello
227. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a list of all second level education institutions aided by her Department in which instruction in higher mathematics was provided from another school by video link rather than being provided on-site; the roll number of each school receiving instruction by video link and the school sending instruction by video link, for each school year since 2010, in tabular form. [9172/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Public Procurement Contracts
Patrick Costello
329. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice if she will establish an owners' management company (OMC) regulator on an interim non-statutory basis to address conflicts of interest issues where OMCs are still controlled by the original builder-developers and inappropriate procurement practices being used in terms of awarding of contracts and payments being made to directors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8684/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Animal Welfare
Patrick Costello
378. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 14 February 2024, if he will acknowledge that the fox hunting codes of practice he referred to do nothing to eliminate the cruelty inherent in the blood sport. [8749/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Legal Services Regulation
Patrick Costello
24. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice how her Department plans to address the growing risk of legal deserts in counties with no or single digit trainee solicitors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8309/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Departmental Schemes
Patrick Costello
391. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department is aware of suspension of the deaf community from the social inclusion fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8033/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Disability Services
Patrick Costello
470. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the imminent risk of closure of WALK’s residential services due to a shortfall in funding from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7415/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
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Broadcasting Sector
Patrick Costello
29. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media how the Exchequer funding model for public sector broadcasting could operate in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6685/24]