Written answers
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Census of Population
64. To ask the Taoiseach if the CSO is giving consideration to asking about sexual orientation in the next census, as the United Kingdom does. [19670/24]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport (details supplied) will be issued before the travel date of 14 May 2024 given the issue with the application was caused by the...
- Overseas Development Aid
67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government provides official development assistance to any countries and governments of countries in which same-sex relations are...
- Passport Services
68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 9 April 2024, the expenditure on staffing of the Passport Service in the years 2020 to date, by...
- Departmental Funding
70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding provided to multilateral international organisations in 2020 to date, by organisation and by year; if the funding was a recurring...
- Departmental Bodies
73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the work of inter-departmental groups tasked by Government with taking forward policy and operational planning regarding...
- United Nations
74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the elections Ireland has participated as a candidate in the United Nations since 2002; the outcome of such elections; and if he will make a...
- International Bodies
75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the international organisations that Ireland is currently considering or in the process of joining on the basis of full membership or...
- United Nations
76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his proposals regarding reform of the United Nations institutions, in particular the UN Security Council and the use of a veto by the...
- Passport Services
77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of appointments available for urgent passport renewal in Cork, Dublin and London, by month, in each of the years 2019, 2023 and...
- Departmental Staff
78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and roles of local staff employed in Irish missions abroad, by mission; the associated cost, in tabular form; and if he will make...
- Departmental Funding
83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional funding provided to facilitate the opening of new diplomatic missions in 2023 and 2024, by capital/current and by mission; and...
- Passport Services
87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in relation to applications for passports lodged by a husband and wife (details supplied); the reason for the...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Electricity Grid
90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the business practice among electricity suppliers to prevent customers from moving back to a flat-rate...
- Departmental Staff
91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department and each organisation under its aegis,...
- Angling Sector
92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a full update on legislation banning eel fishing. [19628/24]
- EU Directives
93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the nature of and current situation with regard to the European Commission's announcement of 24 April 2024 that it was...
- Grant Payments
94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what statistics are recorded regarding the recipients of the solar electricity grant, individual home energy upgrade...
- Departmental Staff
95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of WTE accountants employed by his Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the current fleet of armoured personnel carriers; the year they were acquired; the number of which have completed mid-life...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Legislative Measures
104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to make it a criminal offence for anyone purchasing or selling a vehicle through car dealership or private sale to knowingly...
- Road Projects
105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be allocated to Cork County Council to address the shortfall in funding required to address the works required...
- Electric Vehicles
106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline who has responsibility for the planning, choosing of locations, management and maintenance of the national on-street...
- Road Safety
110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 50km speed limit at a location in County Kerry (details supplied) will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Sector Pensions
111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respect the High Court judgement (details supplied) regarding the CIÉ 1951 scheme; if he will take steps to ensure that...
- Road Safety
112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) into the dangers of headlight glare on road safety; if he will urge the EU...
- Rail Network
114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocation in 2024 by Iarnród Éireann on personnel security within its stations and on its trains; and the...
- Road Safety
115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a status update on the implementation of the legislation required for speed limit reduction, as planned for Q1 of 2024; and if he...
- Bus Services
116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus stop will be provided in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19895/24]
- Department of Finance
- Housing Schemes
117. To ask the Minister for Finance what statistics are recorded regarding the recipients of the home renovation incentive, and the help-to-buy scheme with respect to the value of the relief;...
- Revenue Commissioners
118. To ask the Minister for Finance further to section 39 of the Liquor Act 2000, which states that the recipient of a certificate of transfer must present this to the Revenue Commissioners...
- Customs and Excise
123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider postponing the introduction of carbon tax increase on agricultural diesel from 1 May 2024 to 1 October 2024 due to the additional costs...
- Departmental Staff
124. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected or co-opted to a local...
- Vehicle Registration Tax
125. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19583/24]
- Housing Schemes
127. To ask the Minister for Finance when the help-to-buy scheme will be approved for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19697/24]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Protected Disclosures
128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter in relation to the Protected Disclosures Amendment Act 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Heritage Sites
129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a start date has been agreed for the commencement of remedial works on Cairn T at the Loughcrew heritage site near Oldcastle, County...
- Public Expenditure Policy
131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected Exchequer capital spend for 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027; what the Exchequer expenditure represents as a percentage...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Staff
132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total expenditure in the form of grants or relief given to small and medium enterprises for research and innovation in each of...
- Renewable Energy Generation
134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recommendations of the Report on Offshore Renewable Energy published by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for a sole trader (details supplied) to deal with rates; and what grants are available to them. [19906/24]
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Enrolments
136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolments number as of 30 March 2024 for all post primary schools in County Tipperary. [19806/24]
- Schools Building Projects
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation with respect to her decision to sanction an extension to a school (details supplied); the further permissions her Department needs...
- School Transport
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken by her Department to better manage data on busy school transport routes to ensure that all places allocated are being...
- Schools Building Projects
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation with respect to proposed works for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19567/24]
- Special Educational Needs
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the measures being taken to address the following concerns for teachers and special needs assistants injured at work; the...
- State Examinations
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the response of her Department to the March 2024 ruling on the legal access of students with visual impairment to the junior...
- Social Insurance
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person now resident and retired in the UK who worked in the Irish education system from 1973 to 1976 as a teacher is entitled to a refund of...
- Special Educational Needs
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will agree to implement a pay increase for bus escorts for special schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Facilities
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to instruct her Department to engage with Fingal County Council to provide a long-time parking solution for a school (details supplied); and if...
- Special Educational Needs
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new places for children with special educational needs that has been secured for the 2024/2025 school year following the package...
- Schools Building Projects
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to sanction a new school building for a school (details supplied), as the current building and prefabs are no longer fit for...
- Special Educational Needs
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when and where a child (details supplied) in south Tipperary will be given a school place in an autism class for September 2024; if the NCSE will...
- Home Schooling
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the disparity among home schooled children and children in mainstream education with regard to access to assistive technology...
- Schools Administration
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the updated guidelines/procedures on the use of school buildings outside of school hours will be published; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Building Projects
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review being undertaken by her Department in respect of a stage 2B submission will be finalised and the school (details supplied)...
- Special Educational Needs
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she will meet with parents and staff of a school (details supplied) regarding their sanctioned ASD classes and her Department's refusal...
- School Funding
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 24 April 2024, what steps she will take to speed up the late payment of the ancillary services grant...
- Adult Education Provision
160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department provides grants for e-reader pens in respect of learning support aides to support adult learners (details supplied). [19887/24]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Staff
161. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected...
- Sports Facilities
162. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the construction of a velodrome at the Sport Ireland Campus. [19671/24]
- Departmental Staff
163. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE accountants employed by her Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [19794/24]
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann
164. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received copies of a review (details supplied) concerning bogus self-employment at RTÉ; if not, if she has sought...
- Sports Funding
166. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details regarding the sports capital and equipment programme in Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Policy
167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports available for households that do not qualify for social housing, cannot access a mortgage and live in an area...
- Derelict Sites
168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if progress has been made in relation to an acquisition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Schemes
169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give consideration to increasing the property price ceiling of €400,000 for purchasing houses in Limerick...
- Housing Provision
170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the locations of the 30 sites identified in Housing for All for accelerated builds; if he will outline the plans for the...
- Defective Building Materials
171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm where the legislation for the establishment of defects scheme for apartments and duplexes is currently at and to...
- Economic and Social Research Institute
172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the terms of reference of the ESRI study that he committed to share with Members of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing,...
- Rights of Way
173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns of local authorities regarding the establishment of rights of way in county...
- Housing Schemes
174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the length of time it is taking to complete new social housing applications in County Kildare; and if he...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with Tailte Éireann in respect of valuation reforms for start-ups and established small to medium...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Public Transport
177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider addressing the inequality that still exists regarding the availability of transport in rural areas by...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be urgently reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19538/24]
- Citizens Information Services
179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that staff in the citizens information service have not received a wage increase since 2008; if there are...
- Departmental Staff
180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department and each organisation under its aegis, becomes...
- Social Welfare Appeals
181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a person's (details supplied) appeal; when a decision is likely to be received, as this has been pending for...
- State Pensions
182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the anomaly that some people with less contributions are receiving greater State pensions due to the...
- Social Insurance
183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on her plans to introduce pay-related social insurance benefits for jobseekers; the estimated cost of...
- Gender Recognition
184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she received the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; whether it has been presented to Cabinet or to a Cabinet...
- Citizens Information Services
186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will engage with members of the Citizen Information Board regarding pay equality concerns; if she will...
- Postal Services
187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the section of the regulations outlining the penalties that can be given to post masters (details supplied); and if she will...
- Oireachtas Committees
188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the evidence submitted to an Oireachtas Committee by a person (details supplied) concerning activities in...
- State Pensions
189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a State pension (non-contributory) will be approved immediately for a person (details supplied); if pension benefit is...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Citizenship Applications
190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in issuing minor citizenship certificates; when the minor citizenship certification will be issued for...
- Departmental Staff
191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its aegis, becomes...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new agency (details supplied) will also deal with the issue of sexual abuse of young males and how that affects them, and...
- Mental Health Services
193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has received a copy of the recently published report by Mental Health Reform "Mental health services...
- Visa Applications
194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration could be given to having an emergency humanitarian visa scheme for Sudan to allow Sudanese people living and...
- Prison Service
195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the measures she intends to take to end overcrowding in prisons; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Programme
197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, further to the published summer legislative programme, the provisions that the proposed Intoxicating...
- Legislative Measures
198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the criminal justice - disregard for certain convictions related to consensual sexual activity; and if she...
- Prison Service
199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of remission and temporary release which commenced in Q3 of 2022 will be completed, published and implemented...
- Visa Applications
200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has given any consideration to relaxing the financial criteria in circumstances (details supplied). [19756/24]
- An Garda Síochána
201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of roads policing vehicles; and the number equipped with technology in ANPR and interconnection with Garda...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received for the women farmers' capital investment scheme under the current round; the number that have...
- Greyhound Industry
205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds in the racing dog pool as recorded on the race management system for each month in 2022 and 2023; and if he...
- Agriculture Industry
206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a service of general economic interest exists, or has ever existed, in relation to software for farm management; and if he will...
- Invasive Species Policy
208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on calls for the suspension of log imports from Scotland, in light of the most recent detection of the bark beetle; to...
- Fishing Industry
210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has confidence in the fisheries sales notes system to deliver robust and accurate fisheries data in order that Ireland can...
- Departmental Schemes
217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 20 June 2023, if he intends this to only apply in situations where the licence has not...
- Fisheries Protection
219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he last spoke with the CEO of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority; and the issues discussed. [19811/24]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Housing Provision
220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations of the 30 sites identified for accelerated builds for refugees and other social housing purposes;...
- Departmental Staff
221. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its...
- Departmental Correspondence
222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) can expect a substantive response to her letter to you dated 24 April 2024; and...
- Equality Issues
223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if denying healthcare to a specific group as suggested in a recent article (details supplied) would be in line...
- Departmental Schemes
224. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to ongoing concerns by a group (details supplied); if he is conscious of the...
- Disability Services
225. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his plans for the development of respite services in CHO6 for persons with disabilities and...
- Home Help Service
228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year costs of providing an additional 100 intensive home support packages. [19793/24]
- Disabilities Assessments
229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a child (details supplied) is still waiting on an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement...
- International Protection
230. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify if he is aware that the owner of a property (details supplied), currently being used to house people...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average fees being paid by parents (exclusive of State-provided ECCE funding) prior to reductions and...
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
240. To ask the Minister for Health if the CAMHS redress scheme established in south Kerry following the Maskey Review will be widened to north Kerry families; if he will provide an update on the...
- Hospital Facilities
241. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 28 February 2024, for an update on the development of the new elective hospital in Merlin Park; if the architect...
- Primary Care Centres
242. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 28 February 2024, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway city; the expected timeline for the...
- Disability Services
244. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of all respite beds in County Galway; the locations of same; the number of same that are currently operational and currently closed, in tabular...
- Health Services
245. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date situation regarding physiotherapy services in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19552/24]
- Hospital Staff
246. To ask the Minister for Health if all clinical staff in the emergency department of UHL have received training in the National Clinical Guidelines No. 6 (Sepsis Management); and if not, the...
- Mental Health Services
247. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a timeline for the appointment of an occupational therapist in CAMHS at Nenagh health centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19585/24]
- Hospital Facilities
248. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the timeline for the installation of a public MRI scanner at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Gender Recognition
250. To ask the Minister for Health to commit to ensuring that all international evidence and guidelines are reviewed in the development of evidence-based guidelines and a model of care for...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
255. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the current backlog in the BreastCheck programme following the Covid-19 pandemic; when the programme will be back on schedule; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
256. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will get a date for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19615/24]
- Hospital Complaints Procedures
257. To ask the Minister for Health the reason or reasons for the unacceptable failure in care of a person (details supplied) at Beaumont Hospital which led to the misreading and misreporting of...
- Mental Health Services
258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general adult psychiatrists with a special interest in substance misuse in the CHO1 mental health services in the years of 2023...
- Hospital Charges
266. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in public car parking charges at University Hospital Limerick in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [19638/24]
- Hospital Facilities
267. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rate at Sligo University Hospital for each week in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the number of beds available during this period, in tabular...
- Hospital Staff
268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists working in Louth County Hospital in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [19640/24]
- Suicide Prevention
271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of safe talk programmes that were delivered in County Mayo in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [19644/24]
- Health Services
272. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of palliative care beds in County Westmeath; and if palliative care services will be further improved during the remainder of 2024....
- Hospital Staff
273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE medical social workers based at St. Luke's Hospital Kilkenny in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [19646/24]
- Primary Care Centres
274. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide with regarding to all the planned primary healthcare centres within County Clare; and to outline the various stages of their developments....
- Hospital Staff
275. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeons at Naas General Hospital in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [19648/24]
- Mental Health Services
277. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll-out of CAMHS-ID teams nationwide; and the estimated costs of fully resourcing three CAMHS-ID teams. [19650/24]
- Hospital Facilities
278. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term beds which are opened in each of the community hospitals in Waterford for each of the years 2021 to 2024, in tabular form. [19651/24]
- Health Service Executive
279. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of infrastructure improvements that are included in the 2024 HSE Capital Plan for Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. [19652/24]
- Hospital Staff
280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE suicide crisis assessment nurses in each hospital part of the South/SouthWest Hospital Group in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular...
- Health Service Executive
281. To ask the Minister for Health how many people are employed through HSE in cognitive behaviour therapy in County Wicklow. [19654/24]
- Hospital Staff
282. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE Radiographers by grade working in Roscommon University Hospital in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [19655/24]
- Gender Recognition
286. To ask the Minister for Health If the Government has any policy or guidelines on surgery carried out on intersex infants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19667/24]
- Health Services
287. To ask the Minister for Health how many people are currently availing on the free PrEP pre-exposure profilaxis programme to prevent HIV; if he is satisfied that at risk men can access the...
- General Practitioner Services
289. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen by the SouthDoc service in Clonakilty, by week, from 1 November 2023 to date, in tabular form. [19677/24]
- Health Services Staff
291. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement clinical psychiatrist will be appointed to the Nenagh area in CHO area 3. [19679/24]
- Health Service Executive
292. To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to a matter, he will outline the reason the HSE used a recruitment firm (details supplied) for the recruitment of administrative staff; the...
- Dental Services
293. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists, per CHO area nationally, as of 25 April 2024; and the number of persons under the age of 18 years waiting to be examined by a dentist...
- Medicinal Products
296. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on implementation of each of the recommendations from the review of governance arrangements to support the HSE drug reimbursement process,...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
297. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Midwest Cancer Centre does not have access to a device (details supplied); if a device will be provided to this centre; if this device is...
- Disease Management
298. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline any updates on the possibility of consultation, with the relevant Departments, to introduce a scheme to partially reimburse those with a...
- General Practitioner Services
299. To ask the Minister for Health the translation supports, if any, that are available to GP practices that do not qualify for assistance from HSE primary care or HSE social inclusion but...
- Primary Care Services
300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who are being treated for stage 1 and stage 2 hypertension within the primary care system; the cost of management of hypertension on an...
- Hospital Appointments Status
301. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19745/24]
- Eating Disorders
302. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who presented to the HSE looking for treatment for eating disorders that were referred to non-eating disorder inpatient public acute...
- Health Service Executive
304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason nursing staff, sponsored by the HSE, did not receive a subsistence payment. [19759/24]
- Departmental Priorities
305. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department should be looking at highlighting and promoting proper dental hygiene to the public (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Eating Disorders
306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who presented to the HSE looking for treatment for eating disorders who were referred to non-eating disorder inpatient public acute...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting to see a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Cork University Hospital. [19799/24]
- Health Service Executive
309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of chiropody cards for persons aged over 65 that were issued by the HSE in CHO3 and CHO5 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
- Hospital Facilities
310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgical hubs that have been established; the cost; the staffing requirements; and the capacity of surgical hubs that have already been...
- Hospital Staff
311. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior house officers in vascular surgery based at University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
- Hospital Procedures
312. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lung and heart transplant procedures carried out in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [19803/24]
- Hospital Appointments Status
313. To ask the Minister for Health The status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19827/24]
- Health Services
314. To ask the Minister for Health if any assistance can be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19831/24]
- Health Strategies
315. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether an action plan to implement the recommendations arising from a report (details supplied) was developed; and if it was, if he will provide...
- Health Services Staff
318. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of staff at assistant national director level in the HSE and various Section 38 organisations in the health service on 1 March 2020, 1 March...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
320. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the current waiting times for home support in County Kildare; and the numbers of people waiting. [19847/24]
- Hospital Procedures
321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of shoulder surgeries carried out in St. James's Hospital in 2023. [19848/24]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently waiting on gastric surgery in CHO7, in tabular form. [19849/24]
- Eating Disorders
323. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons there are only three adult beds for people with eating disorders in Ireland at the present; and the reason there was no funding provided for any of...
- Mental Health Services
324. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the current waiting time to receive mental health treatment in Lakeview Facility in Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Staff
325. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the severe staff shortages in all hospitals in the South/South West hospital group; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Cybersecurity Policy
327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of a training programme (details supplied); and if he will meet with the organisation regarding expansion of cyber security...
- Further and Higher Education
329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), he will identify the income that University of Limerick receives per annum from its commercial...
- Third Level Fees
330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a review of the college fees for a person (details supplied). [19839/24]
- Education and Training Boards
331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of apprenticeships (that is, the number of individual apprenticeships that are available, not a...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Burial Grounds
332. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures that are in place to ensure consistent oversight of burial ground management practices across all local authorities; how...
- Departmental Staff
337. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of WTE accountants employed by her Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [19798/24]
- Departmental Schemes
338. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to several Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if she will identify the local authorities referred to in the replies...
- Rural Schemes
339. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is concerned with the vast difference in the average price of LIS roads being improved by local authorities (details supplied);...
