Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

eGovernment Services

Holly Cairns

516. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will engage with and assist a public body under his remit (details supplied) with a view to improving their online platform, including the restoration of an online chat query service and a review of the online registration process carried in consultation with the services users [14016/23]

Citizenship Applications

Holly Cairns

522. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will ensure the timely processing of an application for Irish citizenship (details supplied). [12464/23]

Foreign Birth Registration

Holly Cairns

528. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to address the backlog of applications to the foreign birth registry system. [12787/23]

Foreign Birth Registration

Holly Cairns

529. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will address the delays in an individual's application to the foreign birth registry system (details supplied). [12788/23]

Fisheries Protection

Holly Cairns

578. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline his engagement with the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine concerning the State's response to non-Irish registered super trawlers fishing in Irish territorial waters. [13984/23]

Irish Prisoners Abroad

Holly Cairns

582. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to secure the release of an Irish citizen imprisoned in another jurisdiction (details supplied). [14004/23]

School Textbooks

Holly Cairns

617. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify how the free schoolbook scheme will be rolled out; if the scheme will be administered from publishers, wholesalers or bookshops. [12461/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

618. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify her plans for the continued funding and development of early intervention ASD classes. [12462/23]

School Enrolments

Holly Cairns

647. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to address the over subscription to national schools in a town (details supplied). [12765/23]

School Staff

Holly Cairns

648. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure that an additional teacher is assigned to a national school (details supplied) under the criteria alleviating some of the pressure on class sizes at infant level. [12766/23]

State Examinations

Holly Cairns

649. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will provide details on the date set for the issuing of Leaving Certificate results. [12767/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

650. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will immediately make available the SNA allocations for secondary schools in Cork south west for the 2022-2023 academic year. [12768/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

651. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure a student (details supplied) who requires a laptop as assistive technology is provided with this essential equipment. [12770/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

652. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to roll out early intervention ASD classes to all schools who have identified this need. [12771/23]

School Accommodation

Holly Cairns

653. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking in relation to a shortage of spaces in secondary schools in Clonakilty, County Cork. [12772/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

654. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will meet with a group (details supplied) concerning the establishment of a special needs school in the Cork south west. [12773/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

655. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to ensure that all schools in Cork south west have been properly assessed and assigned the necessary number of SNAs an resource hours for their needs this academic year. [12774/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

748. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to ensure that all students with ASD in Cork south west will be supplied with a secondary school place in their locality. [13462/23]

School Curriculum

Holly Cairns

749. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education her views on introducing neurodiversity lessons into the primary school curriculum to help young people learn about different conditions in a structured and inclusive manner. [13463/23]

Teaching Qualifications

Holly Cairns

773. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if she will outline her engagement with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science since 1 January 2021 concerning the disparity for accreditation of similar SNA courses in two different third-level institutions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13692/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

803. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will engage with a group (details supplied) concerning a shortfall in funding the provision of disability support services. [12477/23]

State Pensions

Holly Cairns

804. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a response to an organisation’s (details supplied) call for an €11 increase in the State pension. [12478/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Holly Cairns

805. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide funding for individuals to avail of medical microblading on similar terms to the provision of wigs and hair pieces for people who suffer from hair loss due to disease. [12479/23]

Social Welfare Rates

Holly Cairns

818. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide her response to a recommendation in a report (details supplied) concerning energy poverty calling for the benchmarking of social welfare rates against what it costs to live a dignified life in Ireland. [12804/23]

International Protection

Holly Cairns

819. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps she has taken in response to the recommendation in the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support including Accommodation to Persons in the International Protection Process that full basic supplementary welfare allowance be given to asylum seekers who are not in direct provision and give asylum-seeking children access to the child benefit. [12805/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Holly Cairns

836. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on putting in place a grant to assist blind visually impaired people having difficulty accessing taxi services due to increasing costs [13472/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Holly Cairns

837. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the criteria for the free travel scheme to allow all persons over 66 years of age get free travel for a companion, regardless of martial/civil partnership status, as the current scheme discriminates against single persons. [13473/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Holly Cairns

844. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department corresponds with recipients of weekly social protection to suggest they can receive these payments directly into a current account rather than accessing the payments through the Post Office; if she will provide the rationale for this approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13721/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

868. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) receives the necessary therapies from their CDNT in a timely manner. [14009/23]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Holly Cairns

890. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the provision of community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each CHO. [12455/23]

Refugee Resettlement Programme

Holly Cairns

891. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to oversee the services provided to Ukrainian refugees accommodated in hotels. [12458/23]

Direct Provision System

Holly Cairns

892. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with a group (details supplied) concerning a shortfall in funding for a direct provision centre. [12459/23]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Holly Cairns

893. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address transphobia. [12460/23]

Disabilities Assessments

Holly Cairns

894. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need in each LHO, in tabular form, with a monthly breakdown of waiting times. [12465/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

895. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the staffing to caseload ratios used to calculate the numbers, types and scale of therapists and clinicians required for each CDNT; how regularly these ratios are reviewed; and what processes are in place to reconfigure services according to local needs. [12466/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

896. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if exit interviews are conducted with therapists leaving CDNTs; if so, if the information from these interviews is anonymously collated; and the primary reasons individuals cite for leaving CDNTs. [12467/23]

Health Services

Holly Cairns

897. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide community neuro-rehabilitation services. [12474/23]

Broadcasting Sector

Holly Cairns

914. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications concerning the compulsory provision of subtitles by all television stations and visually based broadcast companies operating in Ireland. [12763/23]

Child Abuse

Holly Cairns

915. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the publication of a report concerning historical abuse in an organisation (details supplied). [12764/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

916. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the provision of community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each CHO. [12796/23]

State Bodies

Holly Cairns

933. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response to individuals being informed that they will not be provided with their personal information with in the statutory 90 days, under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022, by a State body (details supplied). [13050/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Holly Cairns

934. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that funding is put in place for childcare providers to receive a wage all year round. [13051/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Holly Cairns

935. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that AIM funding is provided in a timely manner. [13052/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Holly Cairns

936. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how an individual can receive funding to cover the cost of training hours for creche/childcare staff to care for a young child who requires PEG feeding. [13054/23]

Childcare Services

Holly Cairns

952. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a person can register as an individual childminder with Tusla, rather than requiring a second person to also register. [13226/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

966. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to parents of children with disabilities who require tube feeding to send them to childcare. [13460/23]

Disability Services

Holly Cairns

967. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams and training options available to assist parents in caring for children with disabilities who require tube feeding. [13461/23]

Ukraine War

Holly Cairns

991. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a hotel accommodating Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) immediately receives the outstanding amounts owed. [14002/23]

Third Level Education

Holly Cairns

1012. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the steps he is taking to establish a third-level veterinary course in Munster. [12789/23]

Public Transport

Holly Cairns

1027. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for Transport concerning the provision of public transport services for disabled persons attending vocational training services and post-secondary school-based courses. [13230/23]