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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (14 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the recent budget cuts to the national school summer programme, known as the July provision, which supports students with complex needs (details supplied); if she will outline, given that only a third of primary schools are offering this programme, the steps that are being taken to encourage wider participation and ensuring that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (14 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the application for additional accommodation submitted by a school (details supplied) in November 2023; if the Department has considered the request for a new mainstream classroom and accommodation for this new autism class, given the significant demand indicated by the National Council for Special Education and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the level of funding available to private ECCE preschool providers; if he plans to review the funding allocation within this sector; if he is aware of requests for an increase in ECCE rates, in line with inflation from such private ECCE preschool providers (details supplied); his...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth f he will provide an update on an application submitted in October 2023 to the children’s disability fund by an organisation (details supplied); when the organisation will receive a decision on its application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21056/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: The HSE currently has a plan to use the new community nursing home in Nenagh as a step-down facility to tackle overcrowding from University Hospital Limerick, UHL. This initiative is contentious and controversial as it denies the long-awaited opportunity for the transfer of patients from St. Conlon's community nursing unit, which is deemed by HIQA as unfit for purpose. After consultation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance to a school (details supplied) regarding the payment of the 2024 ancillary grant and information that was forwarded to schools on Friday, 26 April 2024; the steps being considered to address the issues highlighted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20455/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance can be provided to a school (details supplied) regarding the ongoing issue pertaining to this school's accommodation needs; what steps are being considered to address the issues highlighted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20495/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance to a person (details supplied) regarding their ongoing issue pertaining to the supplementary panel for the 2023/24 school year under the terms of Circular 0074/2022; the reason this teacher was denied panel rights; what steps are being considered to address the issues highlighted; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance to a school in Tipperary regarding the ongoing issue pertaining to their accommodation needs for an additional ASD classroom; if she is aware that the delay in providing this additional accommodation has resulted in a number of children being denied an ASD place for September 2024 (details supplied); what steps...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance to a school (details supplied); if she is aware that the delay in providing this additional accommodation will result in a large number of children being forced to be educated in overcrowded classrooms for September 2024; if she will expedite the processing of this school’s DES re: R1 Form on health and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of an application for the school meals programme (details supplied); the reason this school did not receive approval in the latest expansion of this initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 567. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the issues highlighted by a person (details supplied); the steps being considered to address the issues highlighted; when the person will receive a detailed response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20480/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (8 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 586. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide assistance to a person (details supplied) regarding the ongoing issue in relation to funding for a Trekinetic GTE wheelchair; the reason why this funding was denied despite the supporting medical information; what steps are being considered to address the issues highlighted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the current school transport system, specifically in relation to the situation faced by the parents of a school in Tipperary (details supplied); the measures being taken to address the concerns of these parents, who rely on the Bus Éireann school bus as an affordable transport option for their children, and who...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: This measure makes no sense at all. It is unnecessary and foolish in the extreme. It is politically mad and counterproductive. The feedback I have got from organisations in my county is that they are absolutely amazed and cannot understand it. They are asking me if this is for real. They are asking if it is possible that this will get through the Houses of the Oireachtas. It is a highly...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: People are saying it did not come from the justice committee and that this measure was never intended to be a part of the Bill. In my county of Tipperary, there is a hospice movement. I was recently at a fundraising venture that raised something like €200,000. That would not have happened if this restriction was in place. It would be outside the law and could not happen. The...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: People's confidence in the Government's handling of migration was low before they learned that newly-arrived asylum seekers to Ireland were escaping deportation from the UK to Rwanda. It was a shocking and worrying revelation that raises serious questions. People immediately wanted to know how suddenly this detailed information had become available. How do we determine the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will postpone the planned introduction of the latest round of carbon tax increases for agricultural diesel from 1 May 2024 until 1 October 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19584/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the measures being taken to address the following concerns for teachers and special needs assistants injured at work; the current provision of immediate financial assistance available to cover medical bills and medications for teachers and SNAs who have been assaulted at work; if she will consider the extension of assault...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2024)

Michael Lowry: 217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 20 June 2023, if he intends this to only apply in situations where the licence has not been actioned (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19746/24]