Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Clare Daly

426. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the remit of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be extended to include pregnant women and girls detained in psychiatric hospitals in order to determine the outcomes for them and their children. [22544/19]

Household Benefits Scheme

Clare Daly

450. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the reintroduction of the household benefits package for carers who do not live with the person they care for in view of the low level of financial support that they receive for such an important role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22396/19]

Home Loan Scheme

Clare Daly

493. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to extend the criteria for the Rebuilding Ireland scheme to allow persons who previously had a property, which they lost, to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22562/19]

National Children's Hospital

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a private facility that cannot be accessed by all children will be included as part of the new children’s hospital which is funded from public funds. [22162/19]

Commissioner of Valuation

Clare Daly

205. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the connection between small business owners in Fingal being notified by the Valuations Office of a reduction in the valuation of their premises from 2020 and within days notification from Fingal County Council of a significant increase in their AVR from.150 to.191, negating the relief small businesses received from the reduced valuation. [22143/19]

Foreign Naval Vessels

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 8 May 2019, the action that will be taken against those involved in or permitting the exercises in question (details supplied). [22015/19]

National Council for Special Education

Clare Daly

270. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) whose parents have applied to 42 schools and still cannot secure a placement for their child will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21962/19]

Coroners Service

Clare Daly

439. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the body to which concerned families can refer for accountability in circumstances in which a post mortem report contains serious inaccuracies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21899/19]

Hospital Acquired Infections

Clare Daly

441. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent case of CPE on a children’s ward in University Hospital Limerick; and his views on the fact that the hospital is not fully equipped to prevent the spread of CPE in view of this latest case. [21966/19]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

451. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a free foot assessment service for persons with diabetes has been withdrawn from north County Dublin; and the steps he will take to reinstate same. [22009/19]

Driver Licences

Clare Daly

580. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason drivers who hold a B category driving licence and an automatic licence for a bus or truck category cannot have their licences upgraded to allow them to drive manual buses and trucks, as is the case in other European countries such as the UK; if such a move is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21802/19]

Residential Institutions

Clare Daly

606. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of teenage girls who became pregnant while in residential care in each of the years from 2015 to 2018, inclusive. [21653/19]

Child and Family Agency Investigations

Clare Daly

607. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be a formal investigation into a person (details supplied) and his or her work with Tusla. [21685/19]

Child and Family Agency Policy

Clare Daly

612. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to request that Tusla maintains a record of the number of girls in residential care who become pregnant while in care, in view of the fact that Tusla does not keep such records. [22011/19]

Child Safety

Clare Daly

613. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the safeguarding of children in residential care in view of the fact that young boys and girls are regularly housed together in residential care houses and 24-hour supervision is impossible. [22012/19]

Child Benefit Reform

Clare Daly

640. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend child benefit to children over 18 years of age who are in full-time second-level education in view of the fact that children are starting school later and in many cases transition year is mandatory. [22016/19]

Prisoner Privacy

Clare Daly

11. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when his attention was first drawn to unauthorised surveillance of prisoners meetings with their solicitors and or surveillance of prison staff; the action he plans to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20938/19]

Prisoner Privacy

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to publish the Inspector of Prisons report into unauthorised surveillance of prison officers in view of recent comments in the media in which he stated that his attention was drawn to a person (details supplied); the rationale for the action he took; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20939/19]

Prison Service Staff

Clare Daly

75. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to improve the wages and conditions of nursing staff in prisons; if he will address the anomaly in which they have not benefitted from recent improvements awarded to general nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21246/19]

Food Labelling

Clare Daly

136. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if fish produced at a farm by a company (details supplied) that was in excess of the permitted harvest limit has been awarded organic status. [21178/19]