Parliamentary questions

Departmental Data

Violet-Anne Wynne

422. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of private beds, by unit, in tabular form, at University Hospital Limerick; if those private beds can be used by public patients as a surge capacity measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11442/24]

Departmental Data

Violet-Anne Wynne

423. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the full list of defined roles under the patient and client care heading of the HSE health service personnel census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11443/24]

Rail Network

Violet-Anne Wynne

180. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the new rail stations to be opened under a strategy (details supplied); when works will commence on each; when each will be opened and operational, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10438/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

181. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the current status of the PSO funding required for the procurement of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10446/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

182. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the number of bus shelters currently in County Clare; his plans for future shelters, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10447/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

183. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport his views on the shortfall of bus shelters in County Clare; his plans to address that shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10448/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

184. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport his views on the number of bus shelters in County Clare with no up-to-date timetables displayed; his plans to replace them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10449/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

185. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport what plans his Department has in respect of signs or plaques to denote bus stops on buildings and in areas where buses stop but there is no bus shelter present in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10450/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

186. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport if an online timetable will be updated to adequately reflect arrival and departure times (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10451/24]

Banking Sector

Violet-Anne Wynne

223. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance his views on what work he is undertaking with respect to banks and financial institutions accepting disability allowance and carers allowance as income when an individual applies for a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10442/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Violet-Anne Wynne

450. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the number of applications received for exceptional needs payments from County Clare in the past 12 months; how many were granted; how many were rejected, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10440/24]

Work Permits

Violet-Anne Wynne

526. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the number of farming work permits taken up in Clare over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10439/24]

Hospital Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

722. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding maternity pre-natal services to Ennis Hospital; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10441/24]

General Practitioner Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

723. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of locum GPs that have been in place in a practice since a vacancy arose (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10443/24]

General Practitioner Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

724. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS patients attached to a practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10444/24]

General Practitioner Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

725. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the hours of service for each GP practice in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10445/24]

Health Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

10. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will grant funding for a satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9592/24]

Health Service Executive

Violet-Anne Wynne

129. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will discuss the issues faced by service users with respect to agencies who contracted to deliver their PA hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9593/24]

Rights of People with Disabilities

Violet-Anne Wynne

132. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide on update on Ireland's progress in ratifying the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9594/24]

Customs and Excise

Violet-Anne Wynne

165. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision to introduce an increase in fuel excise on 1 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9884/24]

Special Educational Needs

Violet-Anne Wynne

206. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education if she will reevaluate and redraft the allocation model for special education in view of the fact that the proposed new allocation model streamlined to three pillars instead of five may exclude children with complex needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9876/24]

Special Educational Needs

Violet-Anne Wynne

207. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education her views on the proposed plans to reduce the support teaching hours, and the impact that this will have on children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9877/24]

Electoral Process

Violet-Anne Wynne

217. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 22 February 2024, if any of the inaccessible polling stations referred to are in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9872/24]

Housing Provision

Violet-Anne Wynne

222. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 22 February 2024, his views on two further applications for affordable purchase schemes in Ennis that were received by his Department in December 2023 and January 2024 and are currently under assessment; if that assessment has now been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9875/24]

Wastewater Treatment

Violet-Anne Wynne

223. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on his plans in respect of each of the 51 individual settlements in County Clare without wastewater treatment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9879/24]

Water Quality

Violet-Anne Wynne

224. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the works to improve water quality in west Clare with respect to remedying the continued issues with drinking water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9883/24]

Law Reform Commission

Violet-Anne Wynne

245. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Justice about the publication of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9873/24]

Animal Feedstuffs

Violet-Anne Wynne

252. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine about the recent meeting of the Agriculture Water Quality Group and his commitment to immediately implement the flexibilities on concentrate feed and the calf N allocation, which was previously committed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9878/24]

Forestry Sector

Violet-Anne Wynne

253. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason forestation licence issuances are still not matching the rate of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9885/24]

Legislative Measures

Violet-Anne Wynne

275. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will revisit the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017 and progress it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9874/24]

Statutory Instruments

Violet-Anne Wynne

299. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will bring forward a statutory instrument (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6425/24]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Violet-Anne Wynne

318. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the reason that a site in Limerick as opposed to a site in Clare was selected for a surgical hub; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/24]

Further and Higher Education

Violet-Anne Wynne

31. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will comment on his future plans for the expansion of further and higher education in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9115/24]

Tax Reliefs

Violet-Anne Wynne

154. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a point of policy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9118/24]

Legislative Measures

Violet-Anne Wynne

351. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider putting a regulator in place to assist people in availing of the remediation scheme in respect of the not our fault campaign and issues arising with management companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9121/24]

Departmental Contracts

Violet-Anne Wynne

576. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid to an out-of-hours GP service by his Department under a service level agreement in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9120/24]

Emergency Departments

Violet-Anne Wynne

577. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the current situation where 450,000-plus people in CHO 3 can only avail of one emergency department at UHL Dooradoyle, which is consistently the most overcrowded emergency department in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9122/24]

Patient Transport

Violet-Anne Wynne

578. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the cost of transporting patients in CHO 3 to haemodialysis treatment by taxi for each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9123/24]

Eating Disorders

Violet-Anne Wynne

579. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will comment on the funding provided for treatment centres and specialist community services to support those with eating disorders in CHO 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9124/24]

Health Services Staff

Violet-Anne Wynne

580. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses and areas covered by each in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9125/24]

Eating Disorders

Violet-Anne Wynne

581. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of specialist dieticians, nutrition specialists and therapists specialising in eating disorders who work out of Ennis General Hospital through the CAMHS services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9126/24]

Nitrates Usage

Violet-Anne Wynne

63. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will comment on agricultural sustainability in the context of the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8371/24]

Electoral Process

Violet-Anne Wynne

165. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an accessibility update (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8541/24]

Defective Building Materials

Violet-Anne Wynne

178. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 15 February 2024, the number of houses that will be remediated in 2024; the targets he has set in relation to completions for the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8544/24]

Housing Provision

Violet-Anne Wynne

179. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what proposals have been received from a local authority (details supplied) with respect to support from his Department for affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8547/24]

Agriculture Industry

Violet-Anne Wynne

235. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the future of Irish agriculture following the ending of the nitrates derogation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8545/24]

Cannabis for Medicinal Use

Violet-Anne Wynne

292. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing patients with a ministerial licence to access the products that are approved under the medicinal cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8542/24]

Hospital Staff

Violet-Anne Wynne

293. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the annual salary of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8543/24]

Student Accommodation

Violet-Anne Wynne

302. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the availability of student accommodation in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8546/24]

Social Welfare Code

Violet-Anne Wynne

60. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update with respect to the Green Paper on disability which has been drafted by her Department and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7912/24]