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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the decision of the Government of Pakistan to deport 1.7 million Afghan refugees, many of whom face persecution in Afghanistan; the action he has taken to date to highlight this issue; if he has made contact with the Pakistan authorities to set out his concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50519/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 26 September 2023, if it is his intention to appoint members of the Social Economic Environmental Association (SEEFA) to the Forestry Programme Consultative Committee, since SEEFA is the largest private sector representative association; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1215. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has a full medical card, is being charged for blood tests by their GP surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the current position in relation to providing a public service contract and access to an incremental salary scale for tutors employed by ETBs on an hourly paid rate; the outcome of discussions his Department has had with trade union representatives on this issue; when an improved contract will be offered; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the supports his Department offers to students living in the Republic of Ireland who are studying in universities and colleges of further education in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review an application for a SUSI grant for a person (details supplied) who returned to third-level education as a mature student; if he will review the requirement that a three year gap occurs between leaving a course and commencing a further course to qualify for a SUSI grant, regardless of personal circumstances; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an additional needs class is provided for a school (details supplied) for the 2024/2025 school year, that this class has been sanctioned and funded by the NCSE but has yet to be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the additional supports her Department will provide to a school (details supplied) which is in an area of obvious economic and educational poverty; if there are any other supports available to this school other than rural DEIS status; the reason this status is of less support than the urban DEIS band 1 status; if she is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence following the successful operation of the Joint Task Force in interdicting a huge drugs consignment off the Irish coast, and acknowledging the importance of having members of An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners on secondment to the Maritime Operations Centre in Lisbon, if it is intended that an Irish naval officer would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the ceasing of the payment of the State pension to a person (details supplied) who suffers from dementia and did not respond to questions posed by her Department due to the condition; if she accepts that the questions asked have now been responded to; if she acknowledges that any delay in restoring this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are an estimated 3,000 trained nurses from India and the Philippines currently working in Ireland; if he plans to allow those who wish to have their nursing qualifications recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and those who need additional language training to progress to recognition as nurses; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (5 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 11 May 2022, if any improvement has been made in filling vacant therapist posts (occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology therapy) in County Wexford’s four CDNTs; the plans he has to ensure that an adequate service for children in County...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of therapist posts, including speech and language therapists, occupational, psychological and other, appointed to special schools to date in 2023, setting out the CHO areas of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43112/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on progress to EU membership of each of the Western Balkan state applicants, the issues to be resolved by each country to advance their applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41901/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the matters raised by him and the responses received, in his meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; if he specifically raised the continued annexation of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers and the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out his views on the EU reform proposals from the Franco-German expert group which were presented to the General Affairs Council on 19 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41902/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2518 of 21 April 2021, if he could update the table provided to include 2021 and 2022 figures and, using the same methods as before, to calculate the CO2 missed capture due to failed afforestation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41471/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if officials from his Department have carried out analyses on the afforestation files on hand that will be affected by new restrictions relating to peat, high nature value farmlands and extended bird exclusion zones; to detail the overall number of applications affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41472/23]