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Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Departmental Data
Violet-Anne Wynne
422. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of private beds, by unit, in tabular form, at University Hospital Limerick; if those private beds can be used by public patients as a surge capacity measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11442/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Departmental Data
Violet-Anne Wynne
423. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the full list of defined roles under the patient and client care heading of the HSE health service personnel census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11443/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Rail Network
Violet-Anne Wynne
180. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the new rail stations to be opened under a strategy (details supplied); when works will commence on each; when each will be opened and operational, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10438/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Bus Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
181. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the current status of the PSO funding required for the procurement of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10446/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Bus Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
182. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the number of bus shelters currently in County Clare; his plans for future shelters, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10447/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Bus Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
183. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport his views on the shortfall of bus shelters in County Clare; his plans to address that shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10448/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Bus Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
184. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport his views on the number of bus shelters in County Clare with no up-to-date timetables displayed; his plans to replace them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10449/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Bus Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
185. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport what plans his Department has in respect of signs or plaques to denote bus stops on buildings and in areas where buses stop but there is no bus shelter present in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10450/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Bus Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
186. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport if an online timetable will be updated to adequately reflect arrival and departure times (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10451/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Banking Sector
Violet-Anne Wynne
223. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance his views on what work he is undertaking with respect to banks and financial institutions accepting disability allowance and carers allowance as income when an individual applies for a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10442/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Violet-Anne Wynne
450. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the number of applications received for exceptional needs payments from County Clare in the past 12 months; how many were granted; how many were rejected, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10440/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Work Permits
Violet-Anne Wynne
526. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the number of farming work permits taken up in Clare over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10439/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Hospital Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
722. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding maternity pre-natal services to Ennis Hospital; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10441/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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General Practitioner Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
723. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of locum GPs that have been in place in a practice since a vacancy arose (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10443/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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General Practitioner Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
724. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS patients attached to a practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10444/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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General Practitioner Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
725. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the hours of service for each GP practice in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10445/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Health Services
Violet-Anne Wynne
10. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will grant funding for a satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9592/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Health Service Executive
Violet-Anne Wynne
129. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will discuss the issues faced by service users with respect to agencies who contracted to deliver their PA hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9593/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Rights of People with Disabilities
Violet-Anne Wynne
132. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide on update on Ireland's progress in ratifying the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9594/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Customs and Excise
Violet-Anne Wynne
165. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision to introduce an increase in fuel excise on 1 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9884/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Violet-Anne Wynne
206. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education if she will reevaluate and redraft the allocation model for special education in view of the fact that the proposed new allocation model streamlined to three pillars instead of five may exclude children with complex needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9876/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Violet-Anne Wynne
207. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education her views on the proposed plans to reduce the support teaching hours, and the impact that this will have on children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9877/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Electoral Process
Violet-Anne Wynne
217. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 22 February 2024, if any of the inaccessible polling stations referred to are in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9872/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Housing Provision
Violet-Anne Wynne
222. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 22 February 2024, his views on two further applications for affordable purchase schemes in Ennis that were received by his Department in December 2023 and January 2024 and are currently under assessment; if that assessment has now been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9875/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Wastewater Treatment
Violet-Anne Wynne
223. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on his plans in respect of each of the 51 individual settlements in County Clare without wastewater treatment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9879/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Water Quality
Violet-Anne Wynne
224. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the works to improve water quality in west Clare with respect to remedying the continued issues with drinking water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9883/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Law Reform Commission
Violet-Anne Wynne
245. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Justice about the publication of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9873/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Animal Feedstuffs
Violet-Anne Wynne
252. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine about the recent meeting of the Agriculture Water Quality Group and his commitment to immediately implement the flexibilities on concentrate feed and the calf N allocation, which was previously committed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9878/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Forestry Sector
Violet-Anne Wynne
253. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason forestation licence issuances are still not matching the rate of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9885/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Legislative Measures
Violet-Anne Wynne
275. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will revisit the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017 and progress it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9874/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Statutory Instruments
Violet-Anne Wynne
299. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will bring forward a statutory instrument (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6425/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
Violet-Anne Wynne
318. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the reason that a site in Limerick as opposed to a site in Clare was selected for a surgical hub; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Further and Higher Education
Violet-Anne Wynne
31. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will comment on his future plans for the expansion of further and higher education in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9115/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Tax Reliefs
Violet-Anne Wynne
154. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a point of policy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9118/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Legislative Measures
Violet-Anne Wynne
351. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider putting a regulator in place to assist people in availing of the remediation scheme in respect of the not our fault campaign and issues arising with management companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9121/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Departmental Contracts
Violet-Anne Wynne
576. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid to an out-of-hours GP service by his Department under a service level agreement in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9120/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Emergency Departments
Violet-Anne Wynne
577. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the current situation where 450,000-plus people in CHO 3 can only avail of one emergency department at UHL Dooradoyle, which is consistently the most overcrowded emergency department in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9122/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Patient Transport
Violet-Anne Wynne
578. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the cost of transporting patients in CHO 3 to haemodialysis treatment by taxi for each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9123/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Eating Disorders
Violet-Anne Wynne
579. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will comment on the funding provided for treatment centres and specialist community services to support those with eating disorders in CHO 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9124/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Health Services Staff
Violet-Anne Wynne
580. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses and areas covered by each in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9125/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Eating Disorders
Violet-Anne Wynne
581. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of specialist dieticians, nutrition specialists and therapists specialising in eating disorders who work out of Ennis General Hospital through the CAMHS services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9126/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Nitrates Usage
Violet-Anne Wynne
63. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will comment on agricultural sustainability in the context of the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8371/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Electoral Process
Violet-Anne Wynne
165. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an accessibility update (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8541/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Violet-Anne Wynne
178. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 15 February 2024, the number of houses that will be remediated in 2024; the targets he has set in relation to completions for the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8544/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Housing Provision
Violet-Anne Wynne
179. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what proposals have been received from a local authority (details supplied) with respect to support from his Department for affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8547/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Agriculture Industry
Violet-Anne Wynne
235. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the future of Irish agriculture following the ending of the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8545/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Cannabis for Medicinal Use
Violet-Anne Wynne
292. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing patients with a ministerial licence to access the products that are approved under the medicinal cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8542/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Hospital Staff
Violet-Anne Wynne
293. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the annual salary of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8543/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Student Accommodation
Violet-Anne Wynne
302. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the availability of student accommodation in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8546/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Violet-Anne Wynne
60. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update with respect to the Green Paper on disability which has been drafted by her Department and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7912/24]