Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Primary Medical Certificates

Holly Cairns

176. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider expanding the criteria for the primary health care certificate to include persons with a single upper body amputation; if there are plans to update the criteria more broadly to reflect modern living and working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24809/24]

School Staff

Holly Cairns

285. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to reports from schools that this year's ancillary grant is insufficient to cover the cost of staff not on her Department’s payroll that is, cleaners; how the reduction in the ancillary grant has been calculated; if it took into consideration the move of school secretaries to her Department’s payroll; and the details of the process followed in the recalculation of this grant. [24895/24]

School Staff

Holly Cairns

286. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if the cost-of-living grant awarded to schools can be used to cover shortfalls in the ancillary grant [24896/24]

School Funding

Holly Cairns

287. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education to provide a schedule of all upcoming grants for national schools; and if this schedule has been provided to schools. [24897/24]

School Funding

Holly Cairns

288. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education if there are multi-annual financial plans open to national schools; and if not, if she will consider implementing such a measure in order to allow schools to plan ahead financially [24898/24]

School Funding

Holly Cairns

289. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the details of all upcoming grants for schools (details supplied); and the details of previous grants awarded in each school year since 2020. [24899/24]

Rental Sector

Holly Cairns

390. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to consider extending the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board to cover all tenants under the rent-a-room scheme; to detail any work undertaken by his Department on this issue to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24810/24]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Holly Cairns

730. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the reason the waiting-list initiative in operation in the Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services; the date this initiative commenced; how it differs from standard efforts to work through waiting-lists in those services; if it constitutes a separate waiting-list; and if so, the number of clients and wait-times that apply to it. [24905/24]

Health Services Waiting Lists

Holly Cairns

731. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, and their grade, recruited to the Cork primary care psychology waiting-list initiative for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the form of recruitment used that is, local or national panel; the rationale in each case; if psychologists were recruited to this waiting-list initiative, in each case, from other Cork primary care psychology services; and if not, if additional staff were recruited from external services. [24906/24]

Mental Health Services

Holly Cairns

801. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 204 of 22 May 2024, what data of clinical activity are recorded by individual psychologists of the CHO 4 primary care services; if the information in table 1 of the response refers to both individual and group client sessions; and if he could clarify if the figures cited in Table 1 of the response are limited to clinical sessions with clients or include other forms of contact such as phone calls. [25194/24]

Mental Health Services

Holly Cairns

815. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health for an itemised breakdown of how the 2023 mental health budget allocation was spent; what percentage of the allocation was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25246/24]

Eating Disorders

Holly Cairns

816. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health for an itemised breakdown of the cost of funding one adult eating disorder team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25247/24]

Health Services

Holly Cairns

830. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of clients referred to the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [25277/24]

National Broadband Plan

Holly Cairns

105. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of households that were included in the NBP intervention areas, in error (details supplied); what engagement they have had with households, NBI and commercial providers on this issue; and the steps being taken to resolve it. [23708/24]

Work Permits

Holly Cairns

342. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if the recent extension of stamp 1G permissions can be extended to spouses of non-EU PhD students, given the contribution such students make to the Irish economy and education sector. [23985/24]

Mental Health Services

Holly Cairns

374. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1355 of 9 April 2024, the number of young people on the assessment of need waiting lists in the HSE areas of north Lee, south Lee, west Cork, north Cork and Kerry; and if these waiting-list figures are separate from or part of the figures provided for CHO4 primary care psychology services in response. [23706/24]

Mental Health Services

Holly Cairns

375. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the longest exact wait time for an assessment of need in each of the HSE areas of north Lee, south Lee, west Cork, north Cork and Kerry, in tabular form. [23707/24]

Mother and Baby Homes

Holly Cairns

400. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason St Patrick's Guild, Temple Hill, Dublin, has been excluded from the mother and baby payment scheme. [23705/24]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Holly Cairns

407. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of actions related to female genital mutilation in the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23989/24]

Female Genital Mutilation

Holly Cairns

481. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the status of actions related to female genital mutilation in the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23988/24]