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Wed, 28 Jun 2023
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Work Permits
Patricia Ryan
42. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Transport what assistance measures he can put in place, or what measures he would consider, to assist bus companies (details supplied) with the high costs of applications for work permits for drivers, having had to source them from outside this jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31500/23]
Wed, 28 Jun 2023
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Work Permits
Patricia Ryan
60. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expedite the process of issuing work permits to drivers at a company (details supplied) in order that the company can address chronic staff shortages which are causing significant problems with providing an efficient reliable bus service between County Kildare and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31499/23]
Wed, 28 Jun 2023
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Housing Schemes
Patricia Ryan
85. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 14 June 2023, if he will clearly indicate the amount of funding given to Kildare County Council to purchase homes under the tenant-in-situ scheme since the lifting of the ban on no-fault evictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31498/23]
Wed, 28 Jun 2023
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Vacant Properties
Patricia Ryan
86. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, with regard to the vacant property refurbishment grant, he can clarify how people who wish to apply for the grant but cannot get a mortgage on the vacant property concerned due to its not being 'habitable' (i.e. no working kitchen) will be able to avail of the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31501/23]
Thu, 22 Jun 2023
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Departmental Expenditure
Patricia Ryan
18. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if he can explain the reason that, despite his Department having an underspend of €97 million on transport and infrastructure, this Deputy has been informed by Kildare County Council that there "are no funds" to repair and resurface dangerously deteriorated sections of road in Kildare South; when, if ever, he intends to allocate these funds to already financially pressed local authorities to be used, or if those funds have or are intended to be re-allocated for other purposes; and if so, what purposes. [30211/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Road Projects
Patricia Ryan
69. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Transport when he intends to allocate funding from his Department’s €97 million surplus for road maintenance; how much of that will be allocated to Kildare County Council, which, in response to representations made by this Deputy, has stated that it has nothing in the budget to fix a very badly deteriorated and pot-holed section of road in Monasterevin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30213/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Approved Housing Bodies
Patricia Ryan
132. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide, in tabular form, the numbers of social housing units allocated to approved housing bodies in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the methodology used for such allocation; and what measures could be taken to ensure smaller approved housing bodies with specific remits, such as (details supplied) and other such smaller AHBs, have an equal chance of being allocated properties in Part V developments. [30215/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Deportation Orders
Patricia Ryan
154. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Justice the number of deportation orders granted in the State in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; of those orders, how many have been fully executed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30212/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Patricia Ryan
225. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if he can clarify the reasons employees of a company (details supplied) have been deemed ineligible to receive the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30214/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Nursing Homes
Patricia Ryan
226. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health how many private nursing homes have closed in County Kildare in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [30216/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Health Services Staff
Patricia Ryan
227. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health to provide the locations of the 47 community specialist teams, 60 in total, currently operating in each CHN or CHO, in tabular form; and the locations and projected dates of coming into operation of the remaining 13 teams. [30217/23]
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Patricia Ryan
228. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed there is a minimum waiting time of eight weeks at the Mater Hospital in Dublin to receive an urgent ultrasound to their throat; if he will explain how urgent something has to be when a two-month wait is required before such urgent treatment can be accessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30218/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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Energy Prices
Patricia Ryan
51. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures or reliefs he could consider or put in place to prevent pensioners and others on low fixed incomes being further energy-impoverished by "standing charges" imposed on them by gas providers, even when there is no gas being used, as a €20 standing charge per month is a significant sum out of a pensioner's income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28787/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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School Staff
Patricia Ryan
88. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education the reason that a school (details supplied) is to lose a teacher for the coming school year, resulting in the two largest classes having to be divided up, despite enrolment numbers in excess of 25 for the past two years; if anything can be done to prevent this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28786/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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Housing Schemes
Patricia Ryan
109. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of additional funding that has been given to Kildare County Council to purchase homes under the 'tenant in situ' scheme since the lifting of the 'no fault' eviction ban on 1 April 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28788/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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Child and Family Agency
Patricia Ryan
131. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider intervening in the very serious case of a young mother (details supplied); the measures he can take to help this woman and her family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28789/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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Health Services
Patricia Ryan
165. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists and physiotherapy services available to MS sufferers, and those with other neurological conditions in CHO7 for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the cost of funding same. [28790/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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Nursing Homes
Patricia Ryan
166. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if, with regard to the revoking of the ban on nursing homes transferring their business and converting to providing accommodation for people under temporary protection, he has considered the consequences of that revocation on the number of available places in nursing homes for people who really need them, given that families are already struggling to find suitable nursing home places for their loved ones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28791/23]
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
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Medicinal Products
Patricia Ryan
167. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that Solpadine and its generic equivalents can only be dispensed in capsule form, usually in 60 capsule packs, and not in soluble form to medical card holders to whom it has been prescribed, which is causing problems among those for whom swallowing capsules/tablets would be difficult, if not impossible, and that pharmacists, having informed the medical card holder of this issue, are saying to the person that they can sell the soluble version to them over the counter at a cost of approximately €14 per pack of 24 (details supplied); if he can arrange for the soluble version to be available on the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28792/23]
Thu, 1 Jun 2023
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Water Pollution
Patricia Ryan
147. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the Environmental Protection Agency tests all rivers for the quality of the water to establish their suitability for swimming and water activities. [26763/23]