Questions asked 23 total

• Health 15 questions

  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the status of Ireland’s ratification with respect to the EU Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33386/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if his Department has provided funding either directly or through the aegis of the HSE in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, to any research facilities and or organisations involved in embryonic stem cell research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33387/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if Irish citizens returning from green list countries must quarantine upon arrival in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34577/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if Irish citizens returning from green list countries via red list countries must quarantine upon arrival in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34578/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in establishing an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; if he will take measures to rectify this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35783/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 1 July 2021, the details of the recruitment process and selection criteria through which the independent expert chosen to lead the review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 is being made; if the independent expert has been selected; if so, the name of this person; the remuneration being provided to the Independent expert; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36886/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 1 July 2021, the details of the stakeholder groups he has met as part of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; when and the locations in which such meetings were held; if they were sought by his Department or by the stakeholder groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36887/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 1 July 2021, the reason he completely ignored the substance of the question that was asked and provided an identical answer as that provided to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 1 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36898/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his Department's 2021 output target to establish a nursing home expert panel and report with a view to developing a bill to enhance the regulation and oversight of nursing homes, including increased enforcement powers and the establishment of licensing framework for the professional home support providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38299/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if the recently announced reforms to the nursing home support scheme include any distinction between land which is farmed versus land which is leased; if so, the different treatments that would apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38300/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if children of farmers that inherit land from a parent who has land and entitlements leased to a non-relative under the tax incentive scheme are to be afforded the same proposed three year capping at 7.5% as other inheritors whose parents did not lease out land under the recently announced reforms to the nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38301/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will address concerns in relation to a child (details supplied) who has been waiting six years for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38302/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the number of initial consultations for termination of pregnancy services that were provided by general practitioners, family planning clinics and women’s health clinics in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38774/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the amount paid to general practitioners for the provision of termination of pregnancy services in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38775/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he plans to revert to the model of care that required physical attendance at a general practitioner practice before a person can obtain an abortion inducing medication once the Covid-19 related restrictions are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39098/21]
• Agriculture 3 questions

  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry felling licences issued each month from August 2020 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39100/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if forestry planting is permitted in areas in which the hen harrier is present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39259/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a system enabling forestry to be planted in areas in which the hen harrier is present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39261/21]
• Housing 2 questions

  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if urgent concerns will be addressed from within the horticulture sector in relation to the lack of availability and access to peat as a growing media which is threatening the viability of thousands of jobs within the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39099/21]
  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the hen harrier threat response plan has been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39260/21]
• Foreign 1 question

  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of funding provided to date through his Department to UNESCO for its programme on comprehensive sexuality education; the countries in Africa that have been and will be supported by such funding; if his attention has been drawn to the actual content of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39189/21]
• Children 1 question

  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of efforts to provide access to paid maternity leave for parents of children born via surrogacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38569/21]
• Further and Higher Education 1 question

  • 2021-07-27 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the departmental steering group review of the student grant scheme; if the review will include a change to the current cap on earnings in order to access SUSI grants, specifically in cases in which an applicant will be enabled to earn more than €4,500 in holiday earnings while in education, without any effect on grant eligibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39262/21]