Questions asked 18 total

• Health 12 questions

  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the way that he identified the small number of candidates whom he judged as having suitable experience before contacting and inviting them to apply for the role of chair of the abortion review thereby sidestepping an open public procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19241/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the reason that shared care services were withdrawn from a person (details supplied) without consultation with their family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19252/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his Department will give due recognition to the role of orthodontic therapists in providing orthodontic care; if he will undertake to train more therapists and provide recognition for the role in order to help alleviate the unacceptable waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19289/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when the strategic assessment report and the preliminary report will be finalised for the new cancer care hospital in UCH Galway; the timeframe for appointing a design team in order to deliver the cancer care hospital as set out in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19390/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the community nursing home PPP bundle for seven community nursing homes; when a contract is expected to be signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19404/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if funding is available through the Irish Red Cross for prosthetic limbs in Ireland; if so, if the means tests for Irish residents are similar to those carried out by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20165/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his Department has advertised the tendering of the manufacture of prosthetic limbs to many countries in the European Union; the countries that have they been in contact with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20166/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are lengthy waiting lists for persons requiring wheelchairs in this country; if his attention has been further drawn to cases such as one in County Galway in which a man who is paralysed from the waist down has been waiting five and a half months for his made-to-measure wheelchair and gel cushion both of which he requires urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20167/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that many farmers and self-employed people with disabilities are unable to access medical cards due to the means test which takes into account the value of land owned as opposed to income from such land, and where there is none and such people are not able to work they are losing out on medical entitlements as a result; his further views that the additional costs relating to having a disability should be taken into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20168/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health his plans to change the current regime whereby only students from the richest families can access graduate-entry medicine given the high costs involved of €100,000 and the fact that the only loan provider to this group is now pulling out of the loan provision; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the graduate-entry salary of €36,000 is too low to allow these doctors to live near hospitals and repay high student loan costs; his views on whether the high student costs and low entry salary is contributing to the stark lack of newly qualified doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20176/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health when the cancer care hospital for University Hospital Galway will be approved to proceed to full design in accordance with the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20854/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health if he will bring an end to the practice of remote consultation for abortion advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20855/22]
• Environment 4 questions

  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the deep retrofit scheme will be in place and ready for contractors to begin work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19240/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 22 March 2022, the reason that a licence (details supplied) is omitted from the list of offshore licensing extensions currently under consideration when the application for lease undertaking extension was submitted in April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19401/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of a licence (details supplied) in relation to existing authorisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19402/22]
  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the lease undertaking for a licence (details supplied) will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19403/22]
• Social 1 question

  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to counter the additional burden that very high inflation is placing on disabled persons in receipt of both the disability allowance and the invalidity pension; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the setting of the pandemic unemployment payment at €350 is the minimum level of payment that a person requires to survive; if she plans to extend this level to the 13.5% of the population that are living with one type of disability or more according to the most recent census figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20163/22]
• Children 1 question

  • 2022-04-26 Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to make medical cards available to all survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19696/22]