Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

312. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health his plans to support public health nurses to separate and specialise workload, such as working with infants and children, or caring for elderly persons, in all LHOs within CHO 4. [6414/23]

Official Engagements

Holly Cairns

98. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport to outline his engagement with disabled persons’ organisations concerning legislation regulating e-scooters. [6186/23]

Electric Vehicles

Holly Cairns

99. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport his views on concerns expressed by visually-impaired persons in respect of e-vehicles and e-scooters. [6187/23]

Tax Code

Holly Cairns

114. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance his views on the requests by a representative body (details supplied) seeking the retention of the 9% VAT rate for hair and beauty services. [6183/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

252. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education to provide children with Down's syndrome with early intervention facilities and accompanying home tuition, similar to the schemes available to children with ASD and autistic children [6181/23]

Teacher Training

Holly Cairns

253. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education to provide the same financial support to registered post-primary teachers to upskill in order to teach home economics as is currently being offered to registered teachers to teach mathematics, physics and Spanish. [6182/23]

Medicinal Products

Holly Cairns

468. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a medication for hyperemesis (details supplied) is made available through the drugs payment scheme with a prescription from a GP. [6184/23]

Ambulance Service

Holly Cairns

469. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in west County Cork; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6185/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

85. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to increase the number of places in secondary schools for young people with autism in County Cork. [4782/23]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

112. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to increase the lack of places in primary and secondary schools for young people with special educational needs and disabilities. [4783/23]

Bus Services

Holly Cairns

193. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide interim funding for the provision of a bus service to enable young people in Beara, County Cork, to access day services in Bantry, County Cork, until the permanent service is in place later in 2023. [4800/23]

Work Permits

Holly Cairns

549. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if he will reform the "atypical working visa" to enable doctors providing locum services to reside in the State for longer periods of time. [4799/23]

Health Services Staff

Holly Cairns

748. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if he will work with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to reform the ‘atypical working visa’ to enable doctors providing locum services to reside in the State for longer periods of time. [4801/23]

General Practitioner Services

Holly Cairns

749. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that out-of-hours GP services can recruit and retain doctors, including non-EEA locums, to cover the service requirements. [4802/23]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

803. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) for an equitable allocation of fishing opportunities to small-scale low impact fishers, using Article 17 to reallocate fishing rights to smaller scale, environmentally compatible, economically viable and socially responsible fishery activities, rewarding a positive history of compliance and ending the sole use of track records as the tool for allocating fishing opportunities by member states, and putting an end to the privatisation of fishery resource access. [4798/23]

Wastewater Treatment

Holly Cairns

98. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he is taking to assist communities in improving wastewater infrastructure. [3404/23]

Housing Provision

Holly Cairns

126. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable homes that were built in County Cork in the years 2021 and 2022. [3403/23]

Insurance Coverage

Holly Cairns

80. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance what steps he is taking to reform the provisions of flood insurance. [3064/23]

Insurance Industry

Holly Cairns

152. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce the cost of insurance for the hospitality sector. [3063/23]

Waste Management

Holly Cairns

192. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how his Department will support persons with long-term incontinence with respect to the disposal of medical incontinence wear; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3125/23]