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Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Dental Services
Richard Bruton
1366. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health the provision that is being made in 2023 to fund waiting list initiatives for child orthodontic work; and if new categories will gain access to the option of private treatment. [63948/22]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Nursing Homes
Richard Bruton
1420. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if the indexation-up of outstanding amounts under the fair deal scheme is being reviewed in view of the fact that the rate of inflation is now far in excess of interest rates and the cost to the State of funding the outstanding amounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1181/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Health Services Staff
Richard Bruton
1423. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he intends to extend the enhanced travel and subsistence scheme for student nurses and midwives to student doctors also known as medical students, who face the same costs in relation to meals, subsistence, scrubs purchase, laundering and travel to placement sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1197/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Health Services Staff
Richard Bruton
1424. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if, as part of the Government's commitment to retaining doctors in Ireland, a medical intern doctor job will be made available to every eligible graduating doctor in an Irish medical school in 2023 similar to that which was offered during the Covid-19 pandemic. [1198/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Disability Services
Richard Bruton
1428. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to address the urgent need to recruit additional staff for children's disability network teams in order to address lengthy waiting lists for early intervention in the north Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1232/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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General Practitioner Services
Richard Bruton
1433. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he is in a position to indicate a start date from which free GP care will be extended to those under eight years of age. [1250/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Medical Register
Richard Bruton
1661. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the backlog in re-registering Irish doctors who seek to return to work in Ireland; and if steps will be taken to urgently clear the backlog in view of the urgent needs at present. [2011/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Vaccination Programme
Richard Bruton
1720. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the case for making the flu vaccine free to accelerate uptake at this time of acute pressure. [2370/23]
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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Pharmacy Services
Richard Bruton
1721. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the FEMPI changes, which were introduced affecting the income of pharmacists; if there is a process in place for considering the restoration of such changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2371/23]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Broadband Infrastructure
Richard Bruton
50. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has assessed the potential of the high-speed broadband network to create potential for rural development; and the number of projects emerging for support from her Department's programmes which utilise its potential. [62743/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Rural Schemes
Richard Bruton
67. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has an early indication of the uptake of connected hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62744/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Richard Bruton
110. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has considered the policy implications of the ESRI's assessment of the embodied emissions in Irish imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62746/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Richard Bruton
113. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has received any early indications of the trend in emissions during 2022 and the factors influencing those trends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62747/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Departmental Funding
Richard Bruton
145. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding that was provided by county from his Department in 2022, broken down by project in tabular form. [62872/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Flood Risk Management
Richard Bruton
212. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the risk of flooding in Sutton and Baldoyle has been assessed a part of his nationwide flood assessment; if measures are being considered which would reduce this risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63092/22]
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
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Fire Service
Richard Bruton
218. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if some members of the Dublin Fire Brigade have been excluded from the €1,000 bonus for front-line workers; if so, the reason for same. [63093/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Public Sector Pensions
Richard Bruton
32. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has a role in deciding whether the pension fund in the State bodies under his authority are providing sufficient increases to their members to match rising costs of living, where the fund has adequate resources to pay more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62550/22]
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
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Water Services
Richard Bruton
74. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the risk to public health caused by blockages on private drains which are no longer addressed as an environmental health hazard by the environmental health officers attached to the HSE, and which are not addressed by the councils or by Irish Water; and his views on whether this lacuna should be addressed by giving local authorities the power to serve a notice on all the houses connected to a blockage informing them that they have an obligation to address a potential public health hazard. [62769/22]
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
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Business Supports
Richard Bruton
90. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the new mandate for local enterprise offices will improve services to small business and enhance enterprise sustainability; and his estimate of the job potential of the initiative. [62030/22]
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
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Departmental Schemes
Richard Bruton
96. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the early experience with the small company rescue scheme is demonstrating that it has the capacity to allow viable businesses restructure arrangements in order that jobs and livelihoods can be sustained. [62031/22]