Questions asked 12 total

• Health 3 questions

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of a recent study (details supplied) that has found strong evidence of a link between autism and gender dysphoria and gender/body incongruence; whether his Department or the HSE has conducted any research into a link between these conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41082/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the policy change implemented in Denmark this summer whereby teenagers who present with gender dysphoria for the first time will be offered counselling rather than be prescribed medication such as ‘puberty blockers’; whether this development will inform the policy of his Department or the HSE on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41084/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate serious concerns regarding a lack of information raised by the parents of a child (details supplied) who has undergone treatment at Temple Street Hospital for hip dysplasia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42025/23]
• Housing 2 questions

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline what legal obligation the State has to provide emergency accommodation to persons who are citizens of countries outside the UK or EEA; whether his Department has examined the reasons for the disproportionate increase in the number of such persons entering emergency accommodation in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41080/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to ban the shooting of woodcock and snipe; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42019/23]
• Justice 2 questions

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí who are currently suspended from duty; to provide a breakdown of how long they have been suspended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41081/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the total cost, by month, from May 2023 to date, of television advertising in relation to her Department's public information campaign in relation to threatening to share intimate images; to estimate the cost, by month, for the remainder of 2023; the total number of individual advertisements that appeared on television, by month; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41088/23]
• Foreign 1 question

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to outline the assistance which Irish citizens can expect to receive from his Department or from Irish embassies or consulates abroad in the event of an emergency hospitalisation while abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41086/23]
• Finance 1 question

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 7 March 2023, to estimate the cost to the Exchequer if the planned increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel does not go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41089/23]
• Social 1 question

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether her Department conducts any research or compiles estimates of the number of people who are entitled to payments under schemes administered by her Department but who have not applied for them; if so, the total savings to the State as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41085/23]
• Further and Higher Education 1 question

  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science whether his Department is aware of any practice in third-level institutions whereby complaints of bullying or harassment are resolved informally by means of non-disclosure agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41083/23]
• Education 1 question

  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify the steps that are being taken to provide the school bus route for children from Shinrone, County Offaly, to Borrisokane, as children were only informed the evening before school started that there was no driver for this route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42031/23]