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Mon, 11 Sep 2023
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Mental Health Services
Kathleen Funchion
1812. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if Kilkenny CAMHS teams currently use telepsychiatry; and, if so, if he will provide feedback on its use to date. [38715/23]
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
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Mental Health Policy
Kathleen Funchion
1813. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if there are future plans to roll out dialectical behaviour therapy in County Carlow. [38719/23]
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
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Hospital Staff
Kathleen Funchion
1814. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, in the accident and emergency department at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, as of 29 August 2023; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [38720/23]
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
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Hospital Staff
Kathleen Funchion
1815. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric gastroenterologists based at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38721/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Bus Services
Kathleen Funchion
208. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Transport if he can confirm when the Carlow Connects town bus route will be operational; if, given that a commitment was given for 30 July 2023, he can confirm the actual date the route will open for local people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35993/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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School Meals Programme
Kathleen Funchion
1008. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to roll out the hot school meals programme to all registered early years and SAC services nationally. [36081/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Child and Family Agency
Kathleen Funchion
1024. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that Tusla currently spends on external trauma specialists to assist with its obligations to children in care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36224/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Medical Cards
Kathleen Funchion
1231. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if there is an alternative way for a person (details supplied) to get a medical card. [36185/23]
Thu, 13 Jul 2023
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Kathleen Funchion
661. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if employees in an organisation (details supplied) are entitled to the pandemic payment; if this was changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34840/23]
Thu, 13 Jul 2023
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Health Services
Kathleen Funchion
782. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health what progress he has made in regard to a package of health supports for survivors of mesh surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35235/23]
Thu, 13 Jul 2023
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Cancer Services
Kathleen Funchion
785. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with the NCCP Alliance of Community Cancer Support Centres, CCSCs, to discuss the ongoing shortage in funding to the sector, which is having a knock-on effect on cancer patients, their families and the wider HSE acute hospital service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35247/23]
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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Medical Cards
Kathleen Funchion
253. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health is he aware that there has been no processing of medical card authorisations by the optical department in Kilkenny (details supplied) for approximately four weeks; which is leading to a huge leap in the waiting lists in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34531/23]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Kathleen Funchion
89. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Justice the actions she will take in response to the unlawful gender-based killing of an Irish woman in Spain; if, given the worryingly high levels of gender-based homicide in Ireland, she will now direct the resources to ensure we begin to reverse this horrific trend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33957/23]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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Social Welfare Payments
Kathleen Funchion
449. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the guardian payment for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and its current level of remuneration. [33882/23]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Kathleen Funchion
659. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the €1,000 pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33478/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Kathleen Funchion
165. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the extra social protection payments designed to combat the cost-of-living crisis are adversely affecting the subsidies received by many families under the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32944/23]
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
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Early Childhood Care and Education
Kathleen Funchion
175. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that a significant number of families in receipt of a subsidy under the national childcare scheme have had their subsidy affected due to the extra social protection payments designed to combat the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32943/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Child and Family Agency
Kathleen Funchion
57. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on child protection and welfare practices in publicly funded and run residential care facilities; if his Department monitor cases of suspected abuse; if provision to address issues highlighted by Tusla will be included in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32483/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Child and Family Agency
Kathleen Funchion
58. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will comment further on a recent parliamentary question I tabled on the number of children in care who are awaiting the allocation of a qualified social worker; the measures that he proposes to tackle the shortfall in the number of social workers within Tusla; the measures he proposes to address the deficit in available data in regard to same; if his Department are engaged in workforce planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32484/23]
Tue, 4 Jul 2023
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Childcare Services
Kathleen Funchion
92. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to address the steps he will take in budget 2024 to address disadvantaged children in early years education given the significant levels of child poverty being experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32485/23]