Parliamentary questions

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1023. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) was promised an additional 50 hours in 2019; if the school has been delivered the hours it was promised; if the number of hours currently available to the school are adequate for the SEN needs of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19323/21]

School Funding

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1026. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the practice of music teachers providing unpaid accompaniment and other assistance to students for their music practical examinations, many of which take place on leave days; and if music teachers are allowed to avail of the examinations aide rate of payment within their own school. [19363/21]

School Management

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1069. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the processes and procedures in place to identify and address bullying, harassment and employment discrimination complaints in schools by direct employees of the boards of management in which members of the board of management or senior management of the school are the subjects of the complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20219/21]

Adult Education Provision

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1344. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the funding that has or will be made available by his Department as part of the adult literacy strategy to implement the Labour Court recommendation to regularise the terms and conditions of the adult literacy tutors employed by the education and training boards; when his Department plans to implement the recommendation; the additional budget that will be made available for payment of tutors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20542/21]

Vaccination Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1916. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if CHO7 vaccinated the staff in schools (details supplied). [19293/21]

Vaccination Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1917. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if CHO6 vaccinated the staff in schools (details supplied). [19294/21]

Vaccination Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1918. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if community health organisations have facilitated the vaccination of school staff; and if special school staff were officially registered through the HSE portal for essential frontline workers. [19295/21]

Vaccination Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1919. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if any criteria has been used to differentiate between different schools to facilitate vaccinations for staff in special schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19296/21]

Assisted Human Reproduction

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1924. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if he will re-draft the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill and if his Department will support the amendment of the Children and Family Relationships Act as recommended by the Special Rapporteur for Children (details supplied) in order that children born through AHR have rights and best interests legally protected in Irish law. [19301/21]

Disability Services Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2001. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the number of clinicians inCHO 9 who have been redeployed from early intervention and school age disability teams into assessment of needs posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19546/21]

Disability Services Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2002. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health when the children's disability network teams will be set up inCHO 9; the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19547/21]

Disability Services Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2003. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists working with children directly employed by the HSE and by section 38 organisations in CHO 9 in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19548/21]

Disability Services Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2004. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the number of school age disability teams in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19549/21]

Disability Services Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2005. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times for children to commence accessing services in speech and language therapy, primary care occupational therapy, school age disability teams and psychological therapy in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19550/21]

Disability Services Data

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2006. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the average age of children on the waiting lists to commence accessing services in each of speech and language therapy, primary care occupational therapy, school age disability teams and psychological therapy in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19551/21]

Mental Health Services

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2007. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for Jigsaw; the average waiting time in CHO 9 in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19552/21]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2008. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for CAMHS; the average waiting time in CHO9 in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19553/21]

Vaccination Programme

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

2283. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of persons who were due to receive a vaccine (details supplied) in a location on 15 April 2021 who were over 60 years of age received texts cancelling their vaccination appointments despite having been reassured verbally by the helpline that the vaccination would go ahead; the number of persons over 60 years of age who had their vaccination cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20427/21]

State Examinations

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

568. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the request for the junior cycle exams to take place in special schools for children at risk in June 2021 to allow children who may otherwise leave school without any qualification to achieve a qualification. [16490/21]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

633. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the 2004 report Males into Primary Teaching published by the primary teaching committee; the actions that have been taken by her Department to implement the recommendations; the way in which these actions have been evaluated; the way in which the number of male teachers entering the primary teaching profession in the past five years compares with the data presented in the report; if she is satisfied with the number of males in the primary teaching profession; and if she will consider a taskforce to increase the number of male teachers in primary teaching. [17392/21]