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Wed, 31 Mar 2021
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Departmental Legal Cases
Michael McNamara
1198. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will send any information obtained from clinicians treating children with special educational needs as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation in respect of the said children’s special needs to those children’s parents, identifying the clinicians who provided the information. [17522/21]
Wed, 31 Mar 2021
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Departmental Legal Cases
Michael McNamara
1199. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will identify all clinicians who provided information to his Department on children with special educational needs under their care as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation. [17523/21]
Wed, 31 Mar 2021
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Nitrates Usage
Michael McNamara
1258. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers by county that are farming under a nitrates derogation; the type of farming enterprise they are engaged in such as dairy, suckler, dry stock and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16635/21]
Wed, 31 Mar 2021
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Nitrates Usage
Michael McNamara
1259. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of slurry farmyard manure that is produced on all farms by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16636/21]
Wed, 31 Mar 2021
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Nitrates Usage
Michael McNamara
1260. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of slurry farmyard manure that is produced in excess of the derogation threshold by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16637/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Irish Aviation Authority
Michael McNamara
316. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport the reason, after the long and detailed negotiations with the IAA employee staff panel on the rescue of the deficit in the IAA staff superannuation scheme which resulted in LCR19713 (2010), this major industrial relations agreement was misleadingly represented by the IAA to his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform during 2011 and 2012 as an agreement to amend terms and benefits of the IAA staff superannuation scheme without notifying IAA staff either individually or through their unions until late in 2018, just before LCR19713 was due to end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14797/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Pension Provisions
Michael McNamara
317. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport if the Limerick pilotage authority unestablished employees superannuation scheme was ever submitted by the employer to his Department; if so, if this scheme was ever approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14816/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Insurance Costs
Michael McNamara
484. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene as a matter of urgency regarding the increasing insurance costs on small businesses and reduce damages for minor injuries by 80% given that the Law Reform Commission has made it clear that direct intervention by the legislature to cap damages will be entirely constitutional subject to certain safeguards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15193/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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School Transport
Michael McNamara
951. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if a decision has been made on issuing refunds to parents who have paid in advance for transport to schools which were shut; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15849/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Vaccination Programme
Michael McNamara
1325. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if there will be a change in the vaccination programme regarding vaccination of persons who have been infected with and recovered from Covid-19 in view of the report by the Health Information and Quality Authority on post-Covid-19 infection immunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13939/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Health Information and Quality Authority
Michael McNamara
1333. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the recent report of the Health Information and Quality Authority which found that that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic started on 22 November 2020 during the second lockdown, which lasted until 1 December 2020, undermines his confidence in the efficacy of lockdowns as a means of combatting Covid-19. [13958/21]
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Vaccination Programme
Michael McNamara
1713. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health when cardiac patients will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15196/21]
Thu, 11 Mar 2021
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Hospital Staff
Michael McNamara
245. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the additional intern jobs created in 2020 which allowed every graduating doctor the chance to stay and work in Ireland are being discontinued in respect of the 2021 cohort of interns as a result of which the vast majority of international graduating doctors will be forced to leave Ireland to work as doctors. [13827/21]
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Michael McNamara
344. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if supports are available or will be provided for businesses (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12844/21]
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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Primary Medical Certificates
Michael McNamara
880. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate application by persons (details supplied) in County Clare; when an assessment on this application will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13037/21]
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Michael McNamara
992. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if there is an explanation for the extraordinarily high incidence of Covid placentitis of which there were eleven cases reported worldwide up to November 2020 and four suspected cases in Ireland announced on 4 March 2021; and if he will provide any such explanation. [13514/21]
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Michael McNamara
993. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the four stillbirths in Ireland suspected to be linked to Covid placentitis were recorded as Covid-19 related deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/21]
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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Animal Diseases
Michael McNamara
1023. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will prioritise making equine herpes a notifiable disease in light of an outbreak of EHV-1 in Valencia, the most serious outbreak in Europe for decades and the imminent possibility of the virus arriving in the State with horses being transported from Spain; and if so, when. [13134/21]
Wed, 3 Mar 2021
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Work Permits
Michael McNamara
19. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly figures for employment permits provided in respect of persons from Brazil in the agri-food sector and overall for the period of March 2020 to January 2021; if he will provide monthly figures for the same period from March 2019 to January 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11072/21]
Wed, 3 Mar 2021
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Work Permits
Michael McNamara
39. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly figures for employment permits provided for persons to work in various sectors by sector including the agri-food sector and by country of nationality of the permit holder for the period March 2020 to January 2021 and from March 2019 to January 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11712/21]