Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Child and Family Agency

Réada Cronin

677. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that social care and child protection practitioners functioning as supervisors in Tusla have adequate length and breadth of experience themselves for the complexity and sensitivity of the supervisory role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37572/22]

Child Protection

Réada Cronin

678. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the stated minimum length of service required to be appointed a social work, social care and child protection supervisor; the performance levels required for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37573/22]

Child and Family Agency

Réada Cronin

679. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average age of a social care and child protection practitioner in Tusla; the average number of cases or families dealt with in a year and at any one working period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37574/22]

Departmental Data

Réada Cronin

680. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently without a designated social worker in each age group and social work area in each year of the past five years by area and age group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37575/22]

Prison Service

Réada Cronin

740. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice if her Department will examine the number of phone lines and operators that are available in each prison for booking phone calls (details supplied); the number of prisoners who are eligible for visits in each facility; if the PPSN card is deemed suitable identification for a visit; if not, the reasons for same; the reason that family parcels with essential items cannot be accepted on the day of a visit subject to the usual checks; if her Department will consider the effect of these barriers and delays given the impact on children of prisoners who feel they too are being punished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37525/22]

Home Care Packages

Réada Cronin

918. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if those persons who have been sanctioned carer hours through care at home could go ahead and source a carer from a separate source; the HSE funding for the hours that are sanctioned given the current personnel shortage notified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37524/22]

Education and Training Boards

Réada Cronin

85. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the reason some long-term public sector workers in the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board will not have their 32.5-hour contract restored, as agreed under the Haddington Road Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34657/22]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

592. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education when there will be a permanent building for a school (details supplied) given that first-year ASD provision in the form of a dedicated class is reportedly dependent on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33606/22]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

618. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the number of children with SEN that are currently sanctioned for home tuition on the grounds that they do not have a school placement or an early intervention class placement; the same data for the past five years in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34298/22]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

619. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the number of children with SEN who are awaiting assessment to be sanctioned for home tuition in the absence of a school placement or early intervention class placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34299/22]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

620. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the number of children with SEN in County Kildare who are currently sanctioned for home tuition on the grounds that they do not have a school placement or an early intervention class placement; the same data for the past five years in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34300/22]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

621. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the number of children with SEN in County Kildare who are awaiting assessment for sanction for home tuition on the grounds that they do not have a school placement or an early intervention class placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34301/22]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

622. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the cost to the Exchequer of providing home tuition to SEN children on the grounds that they are without a school placement or an early intervention class placement; if her Department can compare and contrast such cost with that of an in-school place per child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34302/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

757. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if Naas General Hospital will be established as a centre for the treatment of long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33686/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

758. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the reason that public health is still only measuring Covid-19 impact in terms of deaths and hospitalisations given the growing international evidence on the emergence of long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33687/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

759. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the public health advice on the reason it is not necessary to introduce mitigations to contain the spread of Covid-19 infection and reinfection in the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33688/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

760. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the current reinfection rate of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33689/22]

Housing Provision

Réada Cronin

215. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has satisfied itself that there are a sufficient number of affordable properties in the north County Kildare; if he will publish the methods used to reach such a conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33298/22]

Housing Provision

Réada Cronin

216. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has examined the impact of the housing crisis on single persons who are automatically at a serious disadvantage in relying on one salary in order to rent or buy given the now-exorbitant costs of both; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33299/22]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Réada Cronin

164. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if her Department will examine the process by which car registrations can be purchased without applicable proof of car ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31961/22]