Questions asked 13 total

• Children 4 questions

  • 2022-02-16 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that are being taken to ensure that all community after-school services will continue to deliver the vital services in their localities as the national childcare service model and its funding plan is implemented. [8693/22]
  • 2022-02-16 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the providers of community after-school services believe that the implementation of the national childcare service funding model of 50c per hour per child will lead to the closure of many such services and thus affect the education and well-being of nearly 500 children in Dublin 8; if there are proposals forthcoming which will help plug the funding gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8694/22]
  • 2022-02-16 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure (details supplied) which comprises of projects delivering vital after-school supports within communities to over 500 children from highly marginalised areas which face multiple inequities including educational inequality and poverty that their access to after school services will not be negatively affected by the forthcoming changes in funding model of such services especially with the employment wage subsidy scheme about to conclude in April 2022. [8695/22]
  • 2022-02-16 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the once-off transition fund works for after-school services; if it will be based on the EWSS model; how the core funding will work; the criteria for core funding; what based on capacity rather than attendance means in terms of core funding; and if the services will still get individual payments for children through NCS. [8696/22]
• Health 2 questions

  • 2022-02-15 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the purpose and future use of the construction supply depot for the new national children’s hospital on Davitt Road, Dublin 12 when work on the hospital concludes; the future plans for the site of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Drimnagh Road, Dublin 12, when the hospital facilities and staff move to the new national children’s hospital in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6696/22]
  • 2022-02-16 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that there may be, in a very small number of cases between receiving a Covid-19 vaccine and shingles in some studies, likely connected to the stress around receiving the vaccine; if such linkage was shown in Ireland; the additional steps that can be taken to make persons more at ease when they are being administered a vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8460/22]
• Transport 2 questions

  • 2022-02-15 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport the dates in the past 20 years for which his Department was informed of military exercises being carried out in the skies above Ireland including above the exclusive economic zone by foreign air forces; the scale of such exercises and the duration of each; the country involved in each case; if Ireland acceded to such a request; if Irish and other airline companies flying through that region were warned by his Department of such manoeuvres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7934/22]
  • 2022-02-17 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to a waiting list of over ten months throughout the country for driving tests for motorcyclists; the steps that are being taken to address this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8839/22]
• Defence 1 question

  • 2022-02-15 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence the dates in the past 20 years about which Ireland was informed of military exercises being carried out in Ireland's exclusive economic zone by foreign armed forces; the size of such exercises and the duration of each; the country or countries that were involved; if Ireland acceded to a request; if the Irish fishing fleet, Irish Coast Guard, marine research, shipping and airline companies operating in that region were warned by his Department of such manoeuvres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7933/22]
• Agriculture 1 question

  • 2022-02-15 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which his Department was informed in the past 20 years of military exercises being carried out in Ireland's exclusive economic zone by foreign navies above and below the sea; the size of such exercises; the duration of each; the country or countries that were involved; if Ireland responded to a request in this regard; if the Irish fishing fleet was given advance warning by his Department of such manoeuvres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7932/22]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2022-02-16 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán an bhfuil sí ar an eolas, in ainneoin an ardaithe breise maoine a fuair Foras na Gaeilge i mbliana, nach ndearnadh an t-ardú ar Scéim Pobal Gaeilge ó €47,000 go €55,000 is gá ionas gur féidir leis na grúpaí sa scéim feidhmiú i gceart; agus an raibh aon chaidreamh idir í féin, a oifigigh agus Foras na Gaeilge faoin gceist sin nó faoi cheist na Scéime Pobal Gaeilge le bliain anuas, agus cad a bhí i gceist leis. [8455/22]
• Education 1 question

  • 2022-02-16 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education if the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) will not proceed until the new campus and facilities are fully ready to receive the students; when same will occur; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8690/22]
• Social 1 question

  • 2022-02-17 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection if local authority workers who were employed pre-1996 and who are paying a D stamp PRSI contributions are being forced to retire with A stamp benefits; if so, the basis for such a change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8928/22]