Written answers

Thursday, 30 July 2020

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Staff
      6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to schools such as a school (details supplied) which will lose one teacher as a result of a slight...
    • School Accommodation
      11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); the way in which special needs schools will operate when they reopen in view of to...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to significantly reduce class sizes in primary schools in view of the fact that Ireland has the highest-class sizes in Europe and the...
    • Education Policy
      18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if detailed plans will be provided of the implementation of the commitment in the Programme for Government to develop inclusive and...
    • Teacher Training
      19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allowing student teachers some days in August and September 2020 to assist teachers and schools in preparing for reopening in...
    • School Staff
      20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on her moves to regularise the employment rights of school secretaries in line with the demands of a union (details supplied); and if...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cathain atá sé i gceist aici beartas a fhoilsiú maidir le hoideachas trí Ghaeilge taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht; agus an...
    • School Transport
      22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to ensure the operation of the school transport service from 31 August 2020; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed amalgamation of schools in Kanturk, County Cork. [19327/20]
    • School Transport
      24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which school transport will operate as schools reopen; if transport operators will be provided additional funding accordingly; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for immunocompromised students, parents, teachers, teachers that may have immunocompromised children and those that may...
    • School Accommodation
      26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional funding to upgrade school buildings in preparation for the reopening of schools. [19329/20]
    • State Examinations
      28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to expand the choice in exams in the leaving certificate 2021 in view of the loss in teaching time due to Covid-19; if the...
    • Schools Administration
      29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand second-level school places in Gorey, County Wexford. [19284/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational provisions being made for Oberstown Youth Detention Centre in the context of a second wave of Covid-19; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if addiction awareness programmes are delivered in schools; the person or body that delivers same; the person or body that decides the content...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional supports for student well-being when schools reopen. [19330/20]
    • School Staff
      33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a call for Ireland will be committed to for the education sector to employ more teachers to permanently reduce the pupil-teacher ratio and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 21 July 2020, if the decision will be reversed not to grant an exemption for three pupils to allow...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to facilitate school attendance in autumn 2020; if she has considered the difficulties in relation to very young children entering...
    • School Curriculum
      37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the considerations being made by his Department with respect to the RSE curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19400/20]
    • Technological Universities
      38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the establishment of the technological university of the south-east with the provision of a County Wexford campus; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a moratorium will be placed on proposed reductions in teacher numbers in schools as a result of changes in the number of pupils registered in...
    • School Admissions
      41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of additional school places for Swords, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19291/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to ensure the reopening of schools on 31 August 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19034/20]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will now have all urgent repair work carried out on a school (details supplied); and if the school will now be included in the...
    • School Accommodation
      45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate classroom accommodation remains available at primary and second-level schools nationally with reference to those...
    • Schools Building Projects
      46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building or extension projects in south County Kildare including the Portarlington area; the stage each project is at; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school principals will be informed of the arrangements she expects them to put in place the ensure a safe working environment for staff and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school complex (details supplied) at Carrigtwohill, County Cork. [19293/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether underfunding of the educational system by successive Governments resulting in the largest average class size in the EU...
    • Schools Building Projects
      50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further details will be provided on the capital funding, location and timelines for the development of new school buildings for schools...
    • Special Educational Needs
      52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be sanctioned as an ASD specific school for children with complex needs from five years of age and older....
    • School Accommodation
      55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a purpose-built school building in view of the fact it is temporarily based in...
    • School Curriculum
      56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the importance of implementing a scheme on teaching European foreign languages in primary schools to ensure that young persons...
    • School Transport
      57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance available to private school bus operators that have suffered huge losses of earnings due to Covid-19 and are unable to...
    • DEIS Scheme
      60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address literacy and numeracy levels for students particularly those returning to DEIS schools in cases in which there...
    • Schools Building Projects
      61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Costs
      62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reduce the burden placed on parents through voluntary contributions. [19323/20]
    • School Staff
      63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support will be provided and or the suggested recourse for schools vetting new non-teaching staff in view of time constraints and the...
    • State Examinations
      64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the predicament facing leaving certificate students with conditional offers to Dutch and other foreign...
    • Teacher Training
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the spend by her Department on improving school leadership and in delivering in-service training to teachers; the proportion of teacher payroll...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training and further education supports that will be put in place as part of the July stimulus to help jobseekers to upskill and reskill; and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to tackle the lack of special school places and places in ASD units nationally; and the way in which she plans to address...
    • State Examinations
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for leaving certificate students wishing to study at UK institutions through UCAS and other institutions outside of Ireland that require...
    • Third Level Fees
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that those going to third-level education in September 2020 in blended learning settings will not have to pay the current...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure school principals with teaching hours have the flexibility and support to discharge the additional burden which will placed on...
    • School Equipment
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to address the digital divide for schools, teachers and students in cases in which there is a lack of access to digital...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial package that will be made available to allow primary and secondary schools to open in August and September 2020; if such a package...
    • Special Educational Needs
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce additional supports for students with special needs when they return to school in view of the fact that many did not...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the procurement of a site for a school (details supplied). [19326/20]
    • State Examinations
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if contingency planning has commenced in relation to leaving certificate 2021; if certainty will be provided to leaving certificate 2021 students...
    • School Facilities
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she plans to take to ring-fence arrangements for physical education capital projects and to allow unspent grants to be carried forward...
    • School Transport
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the mechanism for allocating school bus places will be reviewed in order that students that live on an existing school bus route can access...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the acquisition of a site for a school (details supplied). [19325/20]
    • State Examinations
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reduction in the curriculum for incoming sixth years and changing the leaving certificate examinations in 2021 has been investigated to...
    • School Transport
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18548/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the establishment of a new section for education research and policy within her Department has commenced as stated in the Programme for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special consideration will be given to children awaiting an assessment of needs to secure an ASD unit placement in September 2020 in view of...
    • School Accommodation
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status the tender and design team for a permanent build of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [17960/20]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme
      88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the credit guarantee scheme announced in the July stimulus package; and if some practical scenarios in which it is...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the package of liquidity and enterprise investment measures worth €55 million which will be put in...
    • Ministerial Communications
      92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he, his Ministers of State and-or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details supplied)....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      96. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received for the restart fund for micro and small businesses in the Kildare County Council area; the funding...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding streams available for newly established businesses specifically to help with advertising. [19795/20]
    • Trade Sanctions
      99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the instances in which the State would cease to trade with another country and-or state such as human rights violations; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the July stimulus package has no grant or support schemes for affected self-employed and-or sole traders in view of the...
    • Job Losses
      108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the alternative employment that has been secured for workers of a company (details supplied); the measures he has taken to secure...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received for the restart fund for micro and small businesses in each local authority in counties Cavan and...
    • Company Law
      111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the work that the Company Law Review Group has been asked to carry out for his Department with regard to examining changes to company...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for the restart scheme by county; the number of applications granted and refused in each county; and the...
    • Data Centres
      115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions his officials have had with IDA Ireland with regard to the development of data centres in line with the policy of...
    • EU Directives
      116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures adopted to date and the measures that he plans to adopt to give effect to the EU Directive 2019/1 (details supplied); his...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
      117. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the performance of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in view of its failure to uncover price fixing or...
    • Employment Rights
      118. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legislation he will bring forward in the next Dáil term to protect and strengthen workers’ rights [20394/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there will be additional measures in addition to the July stimulus brought in to support businesses in budget 2021. [20395/20]
    • Insurance Costs
      120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will work with the Minister for Finance to ensure that legislation is brought forward to reduce insurance costs for businesses...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      121. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications that have been received for the restart fund for micro and small businesses in the Tipperary County Council...
    • Departmental Staff
      126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      127. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received for the restart fund for micro and small businesses in counties Meath and Westmeath by local...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20769/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      130. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received for the restart fund for micro and small businesses in Sligo and Leitrim county councils; the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      139. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Radio Broadcasting
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce quotas to ensure greater airtime for Irish-produced music on the national airways; and if he...
    • Television Licence Fee
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fines that have been issued in respect of the non-payment of television licences from 2015 to 2019 and to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review the current charges for electric vehicle charging points; if he will consider reducing these charges...
    • Bord na Móna
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the multi-year programme to rehabilitate 33,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland as part of the July stimulus...
    • Ministerial Communications
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he, his Ministers of State and-or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government business...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of public electric car charging points in operation around the country; the details of the location of each;...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which commitment to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the 2020-25 strategy and work...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in his...
    • Exploration Licences
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a decision will be made on the five existing applications relating to licensing options and conversions to...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average carbon emissions for a motor vehicle on the total carbon emissions from all ministerial cars in each of the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when e-fibre broadband will be provided to an area (details supplied). [19946/20]
    • Just Transition Commissioner
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of progress in respect of the Just Transition Commissioner's progress reports' aim to develop community...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the additional funding, not already committed, allocated in the July stimulus to the trading online voucher scheme; and...
    • Energy Efficiency
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the additional funding, not already committed, allocated in the July stimulus to the retrofitting of homes; the details...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the changes made to the budget provision for RTÉ for 2020, by area of expenditure in tabular form. [20062/20]
    • Climate Change Policy
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the manifesto by an organisation (details supplied) on climate justice. [20130/20]
    • Radio Broadcasting
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce legislation to address the practice of media owners banning representatives of named newspapers...
    • Data Centres
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions his officials have had with EirGrid regarding the development of data centres in line with the policy...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps taken to date to address concerns raised in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2018 regarding...
    • Proposed Legislation
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the introduction and enactment of the online safety and media regulation Bill; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role that the forestry industry contributes to climate change alleviation here; if he will encourage...
    • Departmental Staff
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20771/20]
    • Environmental Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of introducing a deposit return scheme here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20823/20]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the capital projects his Department will fund in 2020 and 2021; the budget for each in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reports
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reports he has commissioned in 2019 and 2020; the titles of the reports completed but unpublished in 2019 and 2020;...
    • Telecommunications Services
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Cobh, County Cork, has an Internet signal of between 3 Mbps and 1 Mbps...
    • North-South Interconnector
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the issues outlined in correspondence by Monaghan County Council (details supplied)...
    • Just Transition Commissioner
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the work of the midlands regional transition team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20973/20]
    • Climate Action Plan
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the new citizens’ engagement model mentioned in chapter 15 of the Climate Action Plan; and if he...
    • Bord na Móna
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for job creation and redeployment of Bord na Móna workers in the midlands; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Advertising
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Network
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of local authorities that have been mandated to assess their road networks to reallocate space for pedestrians and cyclists to...
    • Road Signage
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the local authorities which have begun works to improve signage for roads incorporating motorists and cyclists; and if he will make a...
    • Airport Development Projects
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed construction of a new runway at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19573/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the correspondence he and his officials had with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive regarding an all-Ireland approach...
    • Greenways Provision
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress of the proposed Sutton to Skerries greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19582/20]
    • Rail Network
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Ballybrophy to Limerick rail line will reopen having been closed due to the Covid-19 lockdown; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Network
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need to upgrade the Hearse Road, Donabate to include road widening, cycle and pedestrian...
    • Rail Network
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the additional 49 rail carriages ordered in October 2019 to service numerous commuter routes including the northern commuter line...
    • Regional Airports
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans on the future viability of the regional airports in particular Shannon airport which has seen a huge reduction in services as a...
    • Olympic Games
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being undertaken to prepare Irish athletes for the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a refund scheme for families that have missed out on refunds arising from the booking of foreign...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Driver Licence Service will only accept credit or debit card payment (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to roll out the new D4 and D5 Bus Éireann services in Drogheda and the enhanced 189 service; and if he will make...
    • Road Network
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding for local and rural roads by 10%. [20027/20]
    • Bus Services
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of expanding rural transport options by increasing funding to LocalLink by 50%. [20029/20]
    • Tourism Industry
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of businesses accredited and registered with Fáilte Ireland under the Tourist Traffic Acts; and if he will make a...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in County Wicklow whose driver licences have expired cannot make an appointment...
    • Legislative Measures
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce legislation to allow cameras in bus and cycle lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20911/20]
    • Greenways Provision
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend or upgrade the Waterford greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19561/20]
    • Football Association of Ireland
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that has been loaned to an organisation (details supplied) through Sport Ireland; the interest rate on this loan;...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he, his Ministers of State or his advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation of...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government, by date, in tabular form (details supplied)....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a new sports capital programme will be launched in quarter 4 of 2020. [19685/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make the Leap card available as a contactless payment application for smartphones; his further plans to cease using physical...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to the Minister and each Minister of State at his Department; and if he...
    • Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated amount that is set aside for 2020, 2021 and 2022 to assist with supporting and providing wheelchair-accessible taxi...
    • Rail Network
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of breakdowns of lifts that have occurred on the DART line, northern commuter line and Maynooth commuter line in 2020; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is mandatory for taxi drivers and their passengers to wear face coverings in line with other public transportation; and if he will...
    • Cycling Facilities
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to Cork City Council for the implementation of cycling infrastructure from 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [19787/20]
    • Football Association of Ireland
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the appointment of the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to meet representative bodies of the taxi industry, not the National Transport Authority, NTA, to discuss financial supports...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Dublin Airport Authority is attempting to change the payment of fees for airport...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if private bus companies providing transit services can avail of the €10 million stimulus package for coach tour operators; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has made contact with airline operators to ensure refunds are issued for persons who paid for airline travel and then cancelled in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of local authorities that have availed of the technical and financial support offered in May 2020 by his Department to deliver...
    • Driver Licences
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take measures to ensure a person (details supplied) can renew their driver licence before the expiry date of same in view of...
    • Road Projects
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will arrange for narrowing of the proposed study area for the M20 in view of the fact it is hindering and restricting a...
    • Cycling Policy
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bike life report will be compiled for other cities and regions of the State other than Dublin. [19990/20]
    • Cycling Facilities
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20039/20]
    • Fáilte Ireland
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount available in adaptation grants from Fáilte Ireland; if his attention has been drawn to a delay in administering the...
    • Cycling Policy
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the cycling manual will be updated; the way in which investments currently being implemented are cost effective in view of the...
    • Road Safety
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the statutory obligations to be implemented prior to the return to school to assure safe routes to school in view of the fact that these...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the bike to work scheme or implement a similar scheme, in view of the fact that its limited nature excludes large...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct the National Transport Authority to establish a dedicated Covid-19 response unit for the taxi sector; and if he will...
    • Bus Services
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the planned eco-friendly bus shelters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20295/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an assistant secretary general been appointed to oversee implementing walking, cycling and carbon reduction measures in his...
    • Public Transport
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation for public transport accessibility for persons with disabilities in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 respectively; if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that the holders of annual taxsaver bus and rail tickets are compensated for the period of months when they were...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will announce details of the Sports Capital Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20450/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Transport if the recent July stimulus package will include additional funding for the Boyne Greenway from Mornington, County Meath to...
    • Bus Services
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the final plan of bus schedules proposed as part of the BusConnects programme have been agreed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to levies on airlines to discourage unnecessary foreign travel; and if so, the other statutory...
    • Driver Test
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will encourage the Road Safety Authority to meet with representatives of driving instructors to resolve issues in relation to test...
    • Departmental Staff
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers arriving here on a weekly basis from 12 March 2020 by country including seaports and airports in tabular form....
    • Bus Services
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that adequate capacity is provided on a bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Meetings
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times he has met with senior management at an airline (details supplied) since coming to office; and if he will make a...
    • Transport Policy
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to a commitment in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a...
    • Taxi Regulations
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a rural taxi driver that may be in an area with no phone or internet coverage will be able to operate electronic card...
    • Departmental Contracts
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20784/20]
    • Road Tolls
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected by each of the TII road tolls and PPP toll road concessions operators in each of the past five years to date. [20787/20]
    • Transport Policy
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to ensure there is adequate and appropriate transport services for adults with disabilities to attend day care...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the arrangements for ensuring adequate contact and monitoring of travellers entering Ireland in respect of the need to restrict their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided to date under the €70 million funding package for sport during the Covid-19 crisis by date and association or...
    • Olympic Games
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the financial struggles international athletes here are facing with the postponement of the Tokyo...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has identified and will implement to increase participation by women in sport; if additional funding will be provided; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if professional tourist guides will receive assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic in view of the difficulties the tourism industry is...
    • Departmental Advertising
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will...
  • Department of Finance
    • House Prices
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to deal with developers increasing the price of new build houses in recent days in view of the recent increase in the help to buy scheme; and if he...
    • Carbon Tax Yield
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual revenue raised from the carbon tax in each year from its introduction up to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mortgage Lending
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to assist homebuyers that are being refused drawdown of approved loans due to one or both borrowers being on the temporary wage subsidy scheme in...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help to buy scheme will be extended to second houses in view of the chronic shortage of new housing developments available to first-time buyers; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for reducing the temporary wage subsidy scheme to €203 from 17 September 2020; if employees will be better off on pandemic unemployment...
    • Aviation Policy
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which his Department has used funds raised by the State from the sale of its stake in an airline (details supplied) the proceeds of which was to be...
    • Aviation Industry
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of direct employees of aircraft leasing firms in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [19610/20]
    • Tax Data
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies with section 110 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 status in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form....
    • Ministerial Communications
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance if he, his Ministers of State and-or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation of the Government; and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details supplied). [19654/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of commencement in their role....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a formal process for appeals for refusal of the temporary wage subsidy scheme payment from the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reintroducing a tax relief on trade union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19798/20]
    • Value Added Tax
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost if the Revenue Commissioners were to apply a zero rate of VAT to face masks using the European Commission decision to allow goods to combat...
    • Tax Code
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance the person or body responsible for stamp duty here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20109/20]
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to first-time buyers buying a second-hand property or home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Claims Agency
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance the legal cases the State Claims Agency is currently handling on behalf of each Department; the stage they are at; the nature of the claim; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will contribute in total to the EU Covid-19 response recovery fund announced by the European Council; and if he will make a...
    • EU Funding
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount Ireland will contribute to the next EU multi-annual financial framework based on the agreement reached at the European Council; and if he...
    • Value Added Tax
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the VAT for the tourism and hospitality sector from 13.5% to 9% for a full year based on VAT intake for the first six months of...
    • Insurance Costs
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance if there will be legislation brought forward to reduce insurance costs for businesses in view of the crippling cost of business insurance [20397/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of individual earners who do not qualify for the stay and spend initiative on the grounds that they have neither income tax nor USC liabilities;...
    • Mortgage Lending
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to help retain lines of credit for mortgages to persons who will be availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      342. To ask the Minister for Finance if he received advice from his officials regarding the distributional impact of the stay and spend incentive; if persons in the lower tax bracket or higher...
    • Tax Reliefs
      345. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for an enhanced corporate tax loss relief to provide additional liquidity supports for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details relating to the issue of liability for income tax on employees availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the way in which the...
    • Departmental Data
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance when the databank of his Department was last updated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20491/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      353. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to employees and employers being impacted by the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      354. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for the help-to-buy scheme for quarters 1 and 2 in 2020; the number of applications approved in the same period; the estimated...
    • Departmental Staff
      355. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and-or recruited and-or...
    • Tax Data
      358. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of persons that have benefitted from guidelines issued by the Revenue Commissioners under which the 183-day rule for tax residence has...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      361. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20776/20]
    • Legislative Measures
      363. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of measures implemented in sections 10 and 11 of the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No.2) Bill 2020. [20842/20]
    • Insurance Coverage
      365. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of the most recent discussions with insurance companies in relation to the need to honour claims for business interruption; and if he will make a...
    • Illicit Trade
      366. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement additional measures to counteract cross-Border smuggling and illegal trade in products such as fuel, tobacco and alcohol; and if he...
    • Departmental Advertising
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will provide the details of...
    • Banking Sector
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that all customers of lending institutions that availed of a Covid-19 related break in their payments are subsequently being treated in...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the development of flood defences on the coastline of County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20752/20]
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Fingal east County Meath flood risk assessment study will be implemented on the drainage network in Fingal and east County...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reopen tours going to Skellig Michael (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19568/20]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government, by date, in tabular form (details supplied)....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of successful tenders above €10 million by domestically owned company and foreign-owned subsidiary, respectively, in...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in his Department; and if he...
    • Football Association of Ireland
      377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the appointment of the Secretary General of his Department to a position on the board of an...
    • Office of Public Works
      378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of operations at a location (details supplied). [20055/20]
    • Public Appointments Service
      381. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the volume of positions that have been filled by PAS in 2020, by month appointed and gender. [20066/20]
    • Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme
      382. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the implementation and funding of the eastern CFRAM study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20221/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      383. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of social clauses included in public procurement contracts since 2013, by year, in tabular form. [20322/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      384. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for sanctioning the engagement of and expenditure on special advisers to Ministers of State who do not attend Cabinet; if he...
    • Departmental Policy Functions
      385. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Public Service 2020 strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20494/20]
    • Departmental Reviews
      386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the programme of organisational capability reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20495/20]
    • eGovernment Services
      387. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the eGovernment Strategy 2017-2020 and Public Service Data Strategy 2019-2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Expenditure Reviews
      388. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the reason the recent Estimates have not contained updated performance indicators relating to new expenditure allocations;...
    • Departmental Staff
      391. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department, appointed...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      392. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of special advisers employed in each Department; and the annual salary of each special adviser, in tabular form. [20718/20]
    • Standards in Public Office Commission
      396. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Standards in Public Office Commission cannot hold investigations unless the six members are in situ and present; and the date by...
    • Departmental Contracts
      397. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20781/20]
    • Coastal Protection
      398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status a report examining coastal protection works at North Beach, Arklow, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Remuneration
      400. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he continues to waive pay increases and restorations available to him under various public sector pay agreements; and his starting...
    • Ministerial Staff
      401. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Ministers that have sought approval to commence their staff on a pay scale higher than the natural entry point; and if a schedule of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      402. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make provision for the payment of a weekly allowance to all public servants working from home as a result of the Covid-19...
    • Departmental Advertising
      403. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will...
    • Ministerial Remuneration
      404. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has approved and or has been notified of requests by a Minister and or Minster of State regarding waiving restoration and or a pay...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Compensation Schemes
      405. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a claim for the turf cutters compensation scheme by a person (details supplied) will be re-examined. [19849/20]
    • Island Communities
      406. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her priorities regarding her responsibilities in relation to the islands; her plans to visit the islands as part of her new role...
    • Environmental Policy
      407. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the implications for farm land arising from the European Union biodiversity strategy; the additional farmland that she expects to...
    • EU Regulations
      408. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the European Union Commission Regulation amending Annex 17 to EC Regulation No. 1907/2006 to ban the use of lead...
    • Waterways Issues
      410. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of unauthorised developments inspected by Waterways Ireland in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, by...
    • Heritage Projects
      412. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will take to collect and preserve a document (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Communications
      413. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she, her Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      414. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings she and her Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      415. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of her advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date...
    • Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      416. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le ceist uimhir 106 ar an 22 Iúil 2020, agus an costais €799,895 luaite aici i dtaobh pleananna a chur i dtoll...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      417. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which commitment to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plan 2020-2025 of her...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      418. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names and salaries of her special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in her Department; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      419. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the performance support scheme announced in the July stimulus package; the persons that are...
    • Oifigí Roinne
      420. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht na pleananna chun oifig na Roinne i gCiarraí a athoscailt agus foireann a bheith ann chun freastal ar phobal na Gaeltachta...
    • Local Authority Assets
      421. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20040/20]
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      422. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Toon Wood, Macroom, County Cork, will be designated as a natural heritage area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      424. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department...
    • Commemorative Events
      425. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to commemorate the counter revolutionary period of 1921 to 1923 and to recognise the atrocities carried out by Free...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      426. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the payments for services or goods by her Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20772/20]
    • Arts Funding
      427. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to the issues raised in correspondence on behalf of an association (details supplied); if it will...
    • Departmental Advertising
      428. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if she...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Commercial Rates
      429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of businesses in County Clare that have had their rates waived; the number that have requested a waiver; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the marine planning and development management Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20909/20]
    • Local Authority Housing
      431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number on the housing list for each local authority in the Dublin area; the occupancy type required by category 1, 2, 3...
    • Housing Policy
      432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for a single person who wishes to avail of first-time buyers' assistance; the way in which eligibility of an...
    • Ministerial Communications
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the roll out of a new affordable housing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19689/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that has been allocated to Kildare County Council to deal with the impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes built in north County Kildare in each of the past five years; the number planned for 2020; the...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans from north County Kildare; the number that have been successful;...
    • Vacant Properties
      443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has invited Kildare County Council to make an application for the vacant properties programme; if such an application...
    • Local Authority Funding
      452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided to local authorities in cases in which there has been a shortfall in rates income over the past...
    • Commercial Rates
      453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of businesses that have been paying commercial rates to each local authority in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and...
    • Local Authority Funding
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding his Department provided for the fire service's Ctrí project in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social houses directly built by planning authorities countrywide over the past five years, in tabular form; and...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons presenting as homeless to local authorities in March, April, May, June and July 2020; the comparable...
    • Local Authority Housing
      472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units which have been leased or purchased in March, April, May, June and July 2020, by local authority;...
    • Housing Policy
      473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the progress which has been made on the national differential rent scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant scheme for local authorities in relation to localised sewerage and wastewater treatment plants; the number of local...
    • Local Authority Housing
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the housing list for County Cavan approved for HAP but not in receipt of same. [20203/20]
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are a large number of landlords that are refusing to accept HAP...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports his Department will provide to homeless persons that may be approved for HAP but are unable to find accommodation...
    • Planning Issues
      480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to planning irregularities at Wicklow County Council; if so, if an...
    • Local Authority Housing
      481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans by Wicklow County Council to build houses on council owned lands at Lott Lane, Kilcoole and Burnaby Mills,...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons with disabilities and families including persons with disabilities that were on social housing waiting...
    • Data Centres
      497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions his officials have had with Gas Networks Ireland with regard to the development of data centres in line with...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation for local authority disability and mobility adaptation grants for council tenants and private homeowners in...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports that some persons are required to sleep rough before they can declare themselves...
    • Commercial Rates
      500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason businesses cannot access the rates wavier due to the fact many county and city councils have not been given...
    • Local Authority Funding
      508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application from Louth County Council for funding to develop the northern port access...
    • Student Accommodation
      509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure refunds are provided to students for all relevant payments of accommodation provided under section 13(d)...
    • Register of Electors
      510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposals to modernise the electoral registration process following public consultation in early 2019 in...
    • Housing Issues
      511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the contribution the forestry industry is making to the housing construction industry from an environmental...
    • Planning Issues
      512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a recent High Court judgment (details supplied); the implications that this case will have...
    • Local Authority Funding
      514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of support allocated, drawn down or requested for the restoration of Fermoy Weir. [20668/20]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new social housing in the Cork County Council area by local area, unit type and whether new build, refurbishment, purchase...
    • Housing Data
      517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total cost of social leasing, rent supplement, RAS and HAP payments, respectively, in the Cork County Council area in each...
    • Water Services
      526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new grants scheme for the upgrading of bore wells; the rates available to applicants; his plans to expand...
    • Housing Issues
      528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large housing development planned for Waterrock, County Cork and the local concerns...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the proposed social housing development at a location (details supplied); his views on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20779/20]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 9 October 2019, if consideration has been given as to the way in which local...
    • Housing Estates
      551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the issue of local authorities not taking in charge parts of estates that have a management company in...
    • Planning Guidelines
      552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the guidelines for planning authorities issued in June 2007 will be updated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if...
    • Foreshore Issues
      561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the body or agency that has planning jurisdiction over the tidal foreshore; the body or agency that has responsibility for...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he anticipates local authority housing or loan qualification income guidelines and conditions might be...
    • Local Authority Funding
      563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which adequate funding and authority remains available to Kildare County Council to purchase and or build...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Ministerial Communications
      566. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation of...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      567. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date, in tabular form (details supplied). [19655/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      568. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      569. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a breakdown of diplomatic personnel from Ireland currently posted overseas (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      571. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions that have taken place with a group (details supplied); if the discussions were in relation to the creation of a new city...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      572. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a flagrant breach of Irish sovereignty off the coast of County Donegal last weekend, when an Irish trawler (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      573. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the planned budget for the Irish Red Cross for 2021. [20161/20]
    • Ministerial Transport
      576. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he requested the use of a State car and drivers; if so, when; and the format in which the request was made. [20368/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      577. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications that he has received from the ambassadors of other member states of the European Union concerning travel advice for Irish...
    • International Agreements
      578. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the reported decision of Poland to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women;...
    • Consular Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the case of a person (details supplied); if he has discussed the matter with the Chinese Ambassador; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      580. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      581. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20777/20]
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      582. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if progress has been made in relation to immigration reform in the United States of America with particular reference to the status of the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      583. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Ministerial Communications
      584. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation of the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      585. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details supplied). [19651/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      586. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same, and the date of commencement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      587. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a report on the role played by the Defence Forces in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      588. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in his Department; and if he will make...
    • Defence Forces Reports
      589. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the person or body that is responsible for drafting the terms of reference for the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces; if the...
    • Defence Forces Data
      590. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of civilian plumbers, carpenters, painters and so on working in each Defence Forces barracks as of 22 July 2020, in tabular form....
    • Naval Service
      591. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new recruitment campaign for the Naval Service will commence in quarter 4 of 2020. [19935/20]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      592. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20095/20]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      595. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans in place for the upgrade of buildings and facilities in the Curragh Barracks; and the budget allocated for same. [20156/20]
    • Naval Service
      596. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the planned capital spend on the Naval Service for the next five years;and the breakdown of same. [20157/20]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      599. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the manner in which overtime or extra duty allowances are calculated for members of the Defence Forces. [20160/20]
    • Civil Defence
      600. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the planned budget for the Irish Civil Defence for 2021. [20162/20]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      601. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the Permanent Defence Forces as of 30 July 2020; if he will provide a breakdown of all ranks across the three services; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      605. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and or...
    • State Claims Agency
      606. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the active and settled legal cases the State Claims Agency is handling on behalf of his Department in the past...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      607. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20773/20]
    • EU Battle Groups
      608. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the PESCO projects Ireland is a participant in or has observer status on; the cost to date of Ireland’s participation in PESCO; and if he...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      609. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason Defence Forces pensions are abated at the State pensionable age unlike other public sector pensions. [20861/20]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      616. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the pay grades for non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel of the Defence Forces; the changes in the pay grades over the past five...
    • Defence Forces Funding
      617. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for investment in the Reserve Defence Forces and for a recruitment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20921/20]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      619. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason no infill licence was applied for in relation to the decision by his Department to fill in the hollow adjacent to a site (details...
    • Departmental Advertising
      620. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will provide...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparation work undertaken to ensure that school buses and bus routes that service schools will have enough capacity when term commences;...
    • Student Accommodation
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will be taking to protect students entering new lease and or licence arrangements for accommodation for the 2020/2021 academic...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the cycle to work scheme will be available for applications from education staff (detail supplied) in view of many school staff wishing to...
    • Third Level Staff
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists employed to work at higher education institutes; the cost of each of these positions annually; and the location each...
    • School Transport
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that all children in need of public transport to their schools will receive same; her plans to address the situation of...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which students that have come to the end of training courses with State bodies such as SOLAS, ETBs and so on are to gain their final...
    • School Services Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide employment contracts to school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16294/20]
    • School Staff
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers and SNAs, respectively in employment funded by her Department by primary and secondary schools; the increase in funding...
    • School Funding
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional funding she plans to provide to ensure schools reopening in September 2020 have sufficient funding to arrange deep cleaning of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be opened as an autism-specific school in view of the fact local families have been campaigning for same...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the three school campus in Buncrana, County Donegal; when it is envisaged that Donegal County Council will complete negotiations...
    • Foirne Scoile
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an mbeidh cead ag scoil (sonraí tugtha)an líon muinteoirí ranga atá acu faoi láthair a choinneáil don scoil bhliain...
    • Bus Services
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to defer or reduce the school bus fares payable at this time of year in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the uncertainty if students...
    • School Staff
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the temporary teacher reassignment system works in both primary and secondary schools; the terms and conditions for its use; if...
    • Ministerial Communications
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her advisers have ever used private email for any form of Government business since her appointment as Minister; and if so, if she will...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of meetings she has had since her appointment as Minister by date and in tabular form (details supplied). [19567/20]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to proceed immediately with a planning application for the preferred choice as outlined in the Donabate Local Area Plan as lands at the...
    • State Examinations
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if alternative arrangements will be made by which there are no provisions for students due to sit exams and due to unforeseen circumstances are...
    • Schools Building Projects
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress of the construction of a proposed new school (details supplied). [19597/20]
    • Ministerial Briefing
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she had a handover briefing from her predecessor; if so, when the meeting took place; and the persons that were in attendance. [19616/20]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SNAs are not being employed in east County Cork. [19617/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when definitive Covid-19 guidelines will be put in place for the return of pupils to school. [19618/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of her advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of commencement...
    • School Staff
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts that remain unfilled around the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19694/20]
    • Departmental Reports
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the forward planning section of her Department will produce a report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19695/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names and salaries of her special advisers; and the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in her Department. [19719/20]
    • Third Level Fees
      653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that have been put in place to help students returning to third-level education who are uncertain as to the way in which they will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ASD unit in a school (details supplied) will be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19750/20]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in north County Kildare awaiting an appointment with a NEPS psychologist; the number waiting less than six, six to 12 and...
    • School Funding
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that will be allocated to schools in north County Kildare in order to provide the necessary equipment and resources to reopen in...
    • State Examinations
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if leaving certificate points awarded in 2020 based on calculated points can be used in future years if a student opts to defer applying to...
    • School Staff
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing release time for administrative and management purposes of one day per week for each teaching principal of a...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in Dublin 7 and 15 who are waiting on a NEPS appointment, in tabular form; the number that are waiting less than six, six...
    • School Staff
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and second-level teachers who were placed on sick leave due to stress or mental illness in each of the years from 2015 to...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Wicklow who are awaiting an appointment with a NEPS psychologist; the number waiting less than six, six to 12...
    • School Funding
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing schools with the resources to run pre and post-school childcare facilities; and if she will make a...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which Ireland's commitment to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in her Department's Skills Strategy and Work Plans...
    • Special Educational Needs
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the campaign by parents in Crumlin, Dublin 12 in relation to the reopening of a school (details supplied) as an ASD specific school;...
    • School Enrolments
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the commitment previously given by the Department, if a full review of secondary education provision and enrolment opportunity in the...
    • School Accommodation
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for permanent school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20098/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the second-level building programme in Maynooth, County Kildare; when the new school building will be complete; the works that will...
    • State Examinations
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures taken to ensure that applicants to the primary initial teacher education that had registered for qualifying exams, which were...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in counties Cavan and Monaghan that are awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological Service...
    • School Staff
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has no permanent English as an additional language supports service despite several requests for same; and...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special needs assistant, SNA, (details supplied) who is working full-time since 25 May 2020 following job sharing ending, in view of...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reviewing the Student Support Act 2011 and the student grants scheme to provide more discretion for deciding officers in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      681. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students from agricultural colleges are excluded from applying for the Covid-19 education fund; if the position will be reviewed; and...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in CHO1 and CHO2 that are awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist; the...
    • School Funding
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to restore the standard capitation rate for pupils in primary schools to €200 which was the rate in 2010 prior to cuts;...
    • Technological Universities
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs expended to date by all agencies on the establishment of the Munster technological university; the estimated expenditure that will be...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if post-leaving certificate students prohibited from undertaking practical exams due to Covid-19 restrictions are to be graded under a predicted...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the National Public Health Emergency Team targets for Covid-19 numbers here that will influence the ability of schools to...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Donegal awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist; the number...
    • Insurance Coverage
      691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school insurance policies for schools, teachers and pupils in view of the current Covid-19 pandemic; if the policies cover the...
    • School Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on pay equality for all teachers; and her plans to deliver on same. [20457/20]
    • Access to Higher Education
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide third level educational opportunities for residents in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education Schemes
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if steps are being taken to roll out the sanctuary scholarship scheme across all higher education institutions; and if she will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that will be made available in higher education institutions to comply with the two metre social distancing requirements in view of...
    • Direct Provision System
      696. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the student survey from an organisation (details supplied) on the second level educational plans of persons in...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed review of SUSI eligibility and adjacency rates as provided for in the programme for Government including the process;...
    • Departmental Bodies
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of agencies that will fall under the remit of both her Department and the newly established Department of Further and...
    • School Staff
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of post-primary teachers expected to retire during the first term of 2020/2021; and if this number has been factored into...
    • Access to Higher Education
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of successful candidates with HEAR and DARE status from the Irish Universities Association, IUA; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 603 of 14 July 2020, if the student will be granted a place on the school bus; if not, if a concessionary...
    • Schools Building Projects
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the redevelopment of or new build for a school (details supplied). [20558/20]
    • School Funding
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a grant to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has been withdrawn in view of the urgent need for the grant; and if she will...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Kerry awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist; the number...
    • Departmental Staff
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department appointed and or...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in counties Meath and Westmeath by county who are awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the service of take out teachers for schools will be continued for pupils with learning difficulties when schools reopen following Covid-19;...
    • Mental Health Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a service will be enabled for mental health awareness when schools reopen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20716/20]
    • School Accommodation
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in recent contact with a group (details supplied); her views on whether moving the school to Citywest is inappropriate in view of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when building works for a new school building at a school (details supplied) will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20734/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, lowest and largest classroom size by county in each of the past five years for primary and secondary schools, respectively...
    • School Transport
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific criteria which applies when assessing a child's eligibility for school bus transport; the way in which the criteria has changed...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payments for services or goods by her Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20774/20]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      717. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in CHO1 and CHO2 who are awaiting an appointment with a NEPS psychologist; the number waiting less than six, 6 to 12 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if personal protective equipment, PPE, will be provided for staff; and if a special needs assistant, SNA, or staff member has grounds to refuse...
    • Schools Building Projects
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline and deadline for the completion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20831/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body in a school setting responsible for the management of and adherence with National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, advice....
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Clare awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, psychologist; the number...
    • School Funding
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the funding of equipment for students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20961/20]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Kildare who are awaiting an appointment with a National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, psychologist;...
    • Departmental Advertising
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if she will provide...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is satisfied that adequate plans are in place to ensure that all schools, primary and post-primary, throughout northern...
    • Schools Building Projects
      745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects at primary school level throughout northern areas of County Kildare in hand or at planning stage that are...
    • School Accommodation
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of the extra required accommodation at a school (details supplied); when the project will proceed; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which school transport issues throughout northern areas of County Kildare have been resolved or are likely to be resolved in the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to meet the necessary school building adaptation requirements as arising from Covid-19 in all schools throughout...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects class sizes and pupil teacher ratios to be affected by Covid-19 provisions in both primary and post-primary...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which an adequate supply of special needs teachers and special needs assistants remain available to all primary and post-primary...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which it is expected to avail of extra buildings to facilitate primary and second-level schools arising from Covid-19 nationwide;...
    • School Staff
      755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the optimum number of teachers remain available to all schools nationwide in primary and post-primary; and if she will make a...
    • Gaelcholáistí Issues
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress towards the provision of an Gaelcholáiste in north County Kildare with the purpose of providing second-level education to meet...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Enterprise Support Services
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the enterprise support grant from businesses in north County Kildare; the number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision has been made as part of the July stimulus package for temporary clerical officers that are on short contracts...
    • Civil Marriages
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria used by registrars under the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 to assess the way in which a proposed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarity can be provided to self-employed persons particularly in the arts sector with regard to the pandemic unemployment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to assist the seasonal workers that were not working in March 2020 and therefore unable to claim the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the other measures being considered to create disincentives to act in a manner which contravenes public health advice further...
    • Company Liquidations
      775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement the recommendations of the Duffy Cahill report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20981/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number or estimated number of workers affected by the policy which states that employed and self-employed incomes cannot...
    • Disability Allowance
      779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance has been received from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance
      780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in assessing applications for carer’s allowance; the result of the appeal of a person...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      781. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a period of time on carer's benefit can be used as a qualifying period of time for the back to education allowance in the...
    • Ministerial Communications
      782. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she, her Ministers of State or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the meetings she and her Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of her advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for a carer's allowance as of 17 July 2020. [19683/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      786. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names and salaries of her special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in her Department;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in April, May, June and July 2020, by Dáil...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing rent supplement to 7,100 extra applications received since March 2020; the average cost per...
    • Illness Benefit
      794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider eligibility for those that took time off work to look after an elderly or incapacitated family members...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying the pandemic unemployment payment at a rate of €250 for those that earned less...
    • Maternity Benefit
      797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending maternity benefit by 12 weeks for mothers whose maternity leave ends between March and...
    • Low Pay Commission
      799. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of running the Low Pay Commission. [19996/20]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing each weekly social welfare scheme by €1 per week in tabular form. [19997/20]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of...
    • Qualified Child Allowance
      802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase for the over 12s by €5. [19999/20]
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the age limit for the one-parent family payment to 14 years. [20001/20]
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing jobseeker’s payments for those aged under 24 years of age to the full...
    • Child Benefit
      806. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of making a one-off annual double payment of child benefit to recipients. [20003/20]
    • Carer's Support Grant
      808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the carer’s support grant to €2,000. [20005/20]
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the cut-off age of the jobseeker’s transitional payment to 18. [20006/20]
    • Working Family Payment
      810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reducing the working family payment hours threshold to lone parents from 19 to 15 hours....
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of raising the cut-off age of the one parent family payment scheme to 14 years. [20009/20]
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of establishing a child maintenance service similar to that available in Northern Ireland. [20012/20]
    • State Pensions
      816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reintroducing the State pension transition scheme for 65 year olds. [20013/20]
    • Employment Support Services
      818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of replicating the WALK PEER programme in each county. [20015/20]
    • Fuel Allowance
      819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending the fuel allowance payment period by one week. [20016/20]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing an occupational pension to community employment supervisors and assistant...
    • JobPath Programme
      823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of immediately abolishing the JobPath scheme. [20020/20]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing for an additional 1,000 places on the community employment scheme. [20021/20]
    • Rural Social Scheme
      825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing for an additional 500 places on the rural social scheme. [20022/20]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding to community employment by 10%. [20023/20]
    • Parental Leave
      832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of men and women, respectively that have taken parent’s leave and benefit since it was introduced. [20070/20]
    • JobPath Programme
      833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath year on year since it was established; and the number of persons...
    • Employment Support Services
      840. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide further details of her plans as contained in the July stimulus to enhance public employment service...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing or extending the three-year rule on community employment schemes as a result of lost time on...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the six-year rule for participants on the rural social scheme and revert to allowing participants remain...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting time for each application for social welfare payments, in tabular form. [20082/20]
    • Rural Transport Services
      846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further invest in RuralLink; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20088/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put in place additional resources, including additional medical staff, to deal with a Covid-19 breakout on the...
    • Pensions Reform
      848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will elaborate on the commitment in the programme for Government to establish a commission on pensions; when this...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of inspections that have been carried out in airports and ports here to enforce a ban on holiday travel abroad...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      853. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements in place to confirm persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and temporary wage subsidy...
    • Youth Services
      855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have participated on the youth employment support scheme since it was established; the number of...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 18 to 24 years of age in receipt of the reduced rate of jobseeker’s payment; the number of...
    • Social Insurance
      858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) which is using the temporary wage subsidy...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment in order to apply for the back to work enterprise...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider relaxing the length of time a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment in order to apply for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 respectively, in tabular...
    • Carer's Benefit
      863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to her Department of removing the means test from carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the rule which restricts persons receiving either carer’s allowance or carers benefit from working...
    • Carer's Support Grant
      865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that received carer’s support grant automatically in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the reduced pandemic unemployment payment by a person (details supplied) can be reviewed in view of the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the means test from the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      869. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of unemployment payments by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the locations in which social welfare officers have carried out random inspections from 7 July 2020 to the most recent data...
    • Parental Leave
      871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending paid parental leave for one parent families which would result in them having the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all social welfare payments will remain in payment while essential travel for three weeks for health reasons takes place...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of and location in which guidelines in relation pandemic unemployment payment recipients leaving the country for...
    • Maternity Benefit
      876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for maternity benefit. [20549/20]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for dental benefit. [20550/20]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the State pension (contributory); and if a response to their appeal will be...
    • Departmental Staff
      879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funds paid to all public transport operators for the provision and operation of the free travel scheme since...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare recipients that have had payments stopped or reduced on foot of operations by social welfare...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments for services or goods by her Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20775/20]
    • Public Services Card
      884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the appeal of the enforcement notice regarding the public services card; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that received a cut to their pandemic unemployment payment; the number that have appealed the cut; and...
    • Employment Rights
      886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the remedy available to those that have returned to work post-Covid-19 lay-off to have different terms and conditions...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of officials by grade from her Department that are located at entry and or exit ports and airports here; the...
    • Working Family Payment
      888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location by county of those in receipt of the working family payment that are paying class H PRSI for the past three...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the number of places available under the rural social scheme in view of the importance of the scheme to...
    • Carer's Allowance
      891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance applications that have been refused on means ground only in the past three years in...
    • Departmental Advertising
      892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a possible termination of jobseeker’s and disability payments in the case of a...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • LEADER Programmes
      894. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing Leader funding by 10%. [20026/20]
    • CLÁR Programme
      895. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding for small-scale rural projects, such as CLÁR by 10%. [20028/20]
    • Rural Development Programme
      896. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated to each county in rural funding in each year since 2015. [20084/20]
    • CLÁR Programme
      898. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received by her Department under CLÁR funding; the number of successful applications; and the number...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      899. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams available from her Department arising from the July stimulus to local authorities for town centre...
    • Rural Development Programme
      900. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the locations identified for the €15 million worth of capital projects in the area of rural and community development as...
    • LEADER Programmes
      901. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is considering a stream of funding for the various Leader programmes nationwide that are coming to the end of their 2020...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      902. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she, her Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      903. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the meetings she and her Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date in tabular form (details supplied)....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      904. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide details of her advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of...
    • Community Services Programme
      906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the community groups supported by the community services programme in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [19886/20]
    • Walks Scheme
      907. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided for a walking project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20521/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      909. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department appointed...
    • Departmental Contracts
      910. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the payments for services or goods by her Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20782/20]
    • Departmental Advertising
      911. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if she...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Timber Supply
      912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the threat to the number of persons employed in timber processing mills throughout the country due...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter in relation to young farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19549/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a scheme similar to the rural environment protection scheme as underlined in the Programme for Government;...
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme
      915. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application (details supplied). [19564/20]
    • Ministerial Communications
      916. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      917. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date, in tabular form (details...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      918. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of his advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the date of...
    • Departmental Funding
      919. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding his Department provided to each State agency under the remit of his Department in 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in his Department; and if he...
    • Animal Welfare
      921. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to prevent puppy farming and the trafficking of animals and pets in and out of the country; and if he will...
    • Live Exports
      922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the views of a number of animal welfare groups that an upcoming shipment of live animals from...
    • Greyhound Industry
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the justification for a decision (details supplied); if this matter will be reviewed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a...
    • Food Industry
      924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 16 July 2020, if his officials based at equine slaughter houses are assisting EUROPOL...
    • Forestry Sector
      925. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry licence applications received by his Department in each month in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the...
    • Fishing Industry
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the environmental, social and economic criteria used by Ireland for allocating fishing quota Article 17 of the Common Fisheries...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the minutes and action points will be provided arising from his recent meeting with representatives of an organisation (details...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the connection between the €10 million to support on-farm renewable energy investments in the July stimulus and the targeted...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the minutes and action points arising will be provided from his recent meeting with organisations (details supplied). [20132/20]
    • Fishing Industry
      934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that a ban on super trawlers fishing vessels from Irish waters is enacted; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Issues
      935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contingency measures he will enact for Irish fisheries to prepare for the prospect of a no-deal Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the support schemes that will be available to Irish coastal fishing vessels to avail of emerging biomass technology and initiatives;...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to request a renegotiation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy with a view to securing additional proportion of quotas for...
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      938. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the waters adjacent to Rockall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20235/20]
    • Forestry Sector
      939. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications granted in connection to forestry in each year since 2015 and to date in 2020, by county; the number...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to continue the convergence process through the CAP transition period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20237/20]
    • Pigmeat Sector
      941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide a bespoke financial scheme to support the pig sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20238/20]
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers that have been vaccinated and culled, respectively, in each year since 2010 and to date in 2020; his views on...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances of tuberculosis reported in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of farms affected; the number of...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the commitment of Ireland to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plans...
    • Agricultural Colleges
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allocate funds to students in agricultural colleges similar to those available to students in other institutions through...
    • Environmental Policy
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of his engagement with the European Commission regarding the prospect of a ban on the use of glyphosate; the contingency...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals for an early retirement scheme in the new CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20247/20]
    • Agriculture Industry
      950. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms that availed of the nitrates directive derogation by county in each year since 2016, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Beef Industry
      951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will pursue a certification for carbon-neutral beef; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20249/20]
    • Harbours and Piers
      952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a deep water quay at Ros A Mhíl Fishery Harbour Centre, County Galway; his plans to pursue the development of the...
    • EU Funding
      955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funds his Department received from the EU MFF in respect of pillar 1 in each year since 2010; the expected return for...
    • Tillage Sector
      959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of acres per county which were planted with rye in each year since 2010 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application by a person (details supplied) for a BEAM scheme payment will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • GLAS Issues
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the GLAS scheme will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20453/20]
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the outcome of discussions at the recent EU Agriculture Council in relation to CAP funding; and if he will make...
    • GLAS Issues
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average amount of hedgerows in hectares; and the average amount of scrubland in hectares per farm taking part in the GLAS scheme...
    • Forestry Sector
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for forestry approval by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was received; and the details of each stage...
    • Live Exports
      966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of live exports in each of the years 2015 to 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20536/20]
    • Rural Development Programme
      969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the rural development fund has been fully allocated; and the allocation made and to whom. [20555/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      970. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if contractors will be allowed to avail of funding under the LESS scheme; if consideration will be given to funding conversion kits...
    • Environmental Policy
      975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work that has been completed with regard to the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030; if materials, correspondence, and reports relating...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the commitment of Ireland to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plans...
    • Forestry Sector
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licenses applied for in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, by quarter and by county; if the...
    • Fishing Industry
      979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reduce the allocation for the sentinel fishery in the Dunmore East box in view of the fact that the stocks have fallen...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20768/20]
    • Coillte Teoranta
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the age at which Coillte pensions are payable [20860/20]
    • Farm Inspections
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason further inspections on farmers are being carried out (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Advertising
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Abuse
      984. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the measures being taken to provide adequate psychological...
    • HSE Data
      985. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who died while in the care of the HSE in 2019 and to date in 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Youth Services
      986. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the youth cafe in Carrigtohill, County Cork; if funding is being secured to keep it open; and if so, when it will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      987. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will issue guidelines to school age care services on reopening in September 2020; if service providers will be allowed to mix...
    • Ministerial Communications
      988. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation of...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      989. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date, in tabular form (details supplied)....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      990. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in his Department; and if he will...
    • Childcare Services
      991. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to establish childcare Ireland; when he expects to have the agency established in order to provide greater support to the...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1001. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the commitment of Ireland to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plans...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1002. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the breakdown of the funding announcement of €300 million on 24 July 2020; and if the funding only covers the employment wage...
    • National Carers' Strategy
      1003. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a new and updated national carers’ strategy will be published with a dedicated budget and time frame to ensure the...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1004. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he proposes to table promised amendments to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and the time frame for the enactment of...
    • Direct Provision System
      1005. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the time frame for the transfer of the direct provision accommodation system from the Department of Justice and Equality to his...
    • Childcare Services
      1006. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to implement the recommendations of the INFORM report previously provided to his Department regarding the introduction of...
    • Departmental Staff
      1007. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1008. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20770/20]
    • Childcare Services
      1009. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the payments to childcare providers; if the payments from his Department will continue following forced closures...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1010. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Parental Leave
      1011. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will extend parent’s leave to 9 weeks as committed to in section 5, Part 8 of the Parent’s Leave and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1012. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of the €24 million allocated for capital projects in the justice sector as part of the July stimulus plan...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1013. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to commit to a timeline for the commencement of all sections of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015...
    • Garda Stations
      1014. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for Rush Garda station to be opened. [19590/20]
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1015. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who arrived here under phase 1 of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme 2015-2019 who have progressed...
    • Garda Resources
      1017. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the provision of additional Garda resources for the Fingal area, which has a growing population and an increase...
    • Ministerial Transport
      1019. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of the purchase of a new Garda car for the Minister for Foreign Affairs (details supplied); the estimated...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      1020. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she, her Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1021. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the meetings she and her Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date, in tabular form (details...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1022. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of her advisers and those of the Ministers of State; the remuneration packages of same; and the...
    • Irish Prison Service
      1023. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she will take following receipt of correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the Irish Prison...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      1024. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 4x4 vehicles currently used by An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legal Services Regulation
      1025. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason it took five years from the EU/IMF agreement requiring reform of the legal profession to the enactment of the Legal...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1033. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names and salaries of her special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in her Department;...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      1034. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of proceeds from crime collected by the Criminal Assets Bureau that will go back into the Exchequer in regard to...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      1035. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic collisions involving pedestrians in Cork city from 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular...
    • Garda Data
      1037. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí placed on sick leave due to stress or mental illness in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date...
    • Legislative Measures
      1039. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the sale of alcohol Bill. [19930/20]
    • Garda Stations
      1040. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when there will be a new Garda station in Cashel, County Tipperary. [20099/20]
    • Garda Data
      1041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the volume and cost of private properties or temporary structures being hired by An Garda Síochána by Garda district...
    • Brexit Issues
      1042. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that the INIS website fully reflects the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great...
    • Immigration Policy
      1043. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the mechanisms by which undocumented migrants can become regularised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20144/20]
    • Legislative Measures
      1044. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 will be reintroduced to make image-based sexual abuse...
    • Human Trafficking
      1045. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported cases of human trafficking in Ireland in the period 1 January 2015 to 30 June 2020, in tabular form....
    • Prison Staff
      1046. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prison officers employed here; the breakdown by place of employment and the ratio of prisoners to prison...
    • International Agreements
      1047. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Lanzarote Convention will be ratified and brought into force here in view of the fact that of the 47 Council of...
    • Prisoner Data
      1048. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in prisons here that are still slopping out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20311/20]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1049. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review commissioned in 2018 into the investigation and prosecution of sexual offences will be completed; when the...
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      1050. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will qualify for naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20603/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      1051. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1052. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have refused to fill in their details on the passenger locator form since it was introduced; the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1053. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the payments for services or goods by her Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20780/20]
    • Bench Warrants
      1054. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants outstanding in each Garda division; the number of bench warrants outstanding for a period of over...
    • Direct Provision System
      1055. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the serious complaints raised by residents in a direct provision centre (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1056. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if...
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      1057. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will be eligible for naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21060/20]
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the correspondence he and his officials had with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive regarding an all-Ireland approach to Covid-19 at Belfast...
    • National Carers' Strategy
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review and update the National Carer's Strategy; if he will engage with representative organisations in relation to the matter; the timeline for...
    • Mental Health Services
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients committed to the Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum in 2019 and to date in 2020 by the courts; the capacity of the hospital; and if he...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ratify the Optional Protocol in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the timetable for ratification; and if he...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personal assistant hours availed of by county and month in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 respectively, in tabular form; if he will increase the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation necessary to fulfil obligations under the recently ratified UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be completed....
    • Health Services
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address inadequacies in HSE diabetic care in County Clare and the UL Hospitals Group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 820 of 7 July 2020, if he will provide further information in relation to each of the properties (details supplied); and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the national forensic mental health service facility in Portrane, County Dublin; the completion date for same; if the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health if the estimated cost of the national children's hospital has increased due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19601/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the progress on a primary care centre for Swords, County Dublin as promised in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19602/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his advisers; the full remuneration package of each; and the commencement date of each. [19606/20]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health if he had a handover briefing from his predecessor; if so, when the meeting took place; and the persons who were in attendance. [19608/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be brought forward for a person (details supplied). [19619/20]
    • Medical Cards
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with a person (details supplied) regarding the provision of medical cards for persons who are terminally ill; if so, when he will ensure...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release the findings of the review of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system undertaken by his Department in 2019; if he will consider...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Ministers of State and or advisers have ever used private email for any form of official Government use since the formation of the Government; and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health the meetings he and his Ministers of State have had since the formation of the Government by date, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • European Health Insurance Card
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons here that have a European Health Insurance Card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19680/20]
    • Medical Cards
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in publication of the clinical advisory report into medical cards for terminally ill patients (details supplied) [19709/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health the names and salaries of his special advisers; the salaries paid to each Minister and Minister of State in his Department; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Sláintecare
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made changes to the timelines for the delivery of Sláintecare; if so, if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health when day services (details supplied) in County Leitrim will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19739/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health when the diabetes team in Connolly Hospital will have full staffing to deal with patients in view of the fact that it is currently operating on reduced staff;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an appointment for a MRI with and without general anaesthetic; the number of children with allocated appointments in a time...
    • Dental Services
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in north County Kildare; the average waiting time for appointments; and if he will...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in north County Kildare; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will...
    • Home Care Packages
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting homecare support in north County Kildare; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months; the average number of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in Naas hospital; the number of persons who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than 90 days,...
    • Hospital Staff
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at Naas hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time that the position has been vacant in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services Data
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in areas of north County Kildare; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in areas of north County Kildare; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more...
    • Respite Care Services
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in north County Kildare over each of the past 12 months, in tabular form; the number provided in each month...
    • Disability Services Data
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Kildare that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; the number that are not in a...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in north County Kildare, in tabular form; the average waiting time for appointment; and if he will...
    • Medical Cards
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed increase in the income limit for medical cards will be enacted [19815/20]
    • Health Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of persons (details supplied) will be addressed [19820/20]
    • Dental Services
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in Dublin 7 and 15; the average waiting time for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in Dublin 7 and 15; the average waiting time for appointments; the number who have been waiting more than six...
    • Home Care Packages
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are waiting on homecare support in Dublin 7 and 15; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months for same; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in James Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15; the number of those persons who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60...
    • Hospital Staff
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time the vacancy has been unfilled, in tabular form; and if...
    • Disability Services Data
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO9; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months, in tabular...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO9; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12...
    • Respite Care Services
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in Dublin 7 and 15 over each of the past 12 months, in tabular form; the number that has been provided each...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in west County Dublin that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; if any of these centres will...
    • Disability Services Data
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres for persons with intellectual disabilities in west County Dublin that have submitted applications for funding in order to...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in Dublin 7 and 15, in tabular form; the average waiting time for appointment; and if he will make...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who received the mammogram results of another patient; and the investigations which have been...
    • Health Services Staff
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to providing a monetary bonus to healthcare workers in view of their extraordinary and heroic efforts, often at great personal...
    • Health Services
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the details of HSE facilities which were block booked for use in County Mayo during the Covid-19 pandemic; the facilities for which contracts were entered...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the occupation of all those that have tested positive for Covid-19, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19853/20]
    • Health Services
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the life expectancy and disability free life expectancy of persons by gender in all counties except County Dublin and by traditional postcode area within...
    • Mental Health Services
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the occupations of persons who were admitted for treatment for any form of mental illness in each of the years 2017 to 2019; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers who were placed on sick leave due to stress or mental illness in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the...
    • Obesity Levels
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children by age and gender diagnosed as clinically obese in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and...
    • Dental Services
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Wicklow; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Wicklow; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will...
    • Home Care Packages
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home care support in County Wicklow; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in the county; the average...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin; the number that have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of the vacancy, in tabular form;...
    • Disability Services Data
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO6; the number that have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO6; the number waiting less than 3. 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Respite Care Services
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Wicklow over each of the past 12 months; the number provided each month since March 2020 to date;...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Wicklow that have reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; if centres will not be in a position...
    • Disability Services Data
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres for persons with intellectual disabilities in County Wicklow which have submitted applications for funding in order to reopen;...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Wicklow; the average waiting time for an appointment, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Nursing Staff
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of Parkinson’s disease nurse specialists in view of the shortage here with three in Dublin and none elsewhere in...
    • Health Services
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve access to essential services for those with Parkinson’s disease such as to neurologists, physiotherapy, speech therapy,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines that have been put in place for general practitioners and other community medical professionals regarding proof of inability to wear masks on...
    • European Health Insurance Card
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that have been made with the United Kingdom for residents in Northern Ireland who hold Irish passports in applying for a EHIC card in view of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered compensation measures for the families of healthcare workers who die as a result of contracting Covid-19 [19910/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to private hospitals charging patients for Covid-19 tests as a requirement to access other treatments; if his attention has...
    • Mental Health Services
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for CAMHS and jigsaw by 10%, respectively [19912/20]
    • Dental Services
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Tipperary; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Tipperary; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will...
    • Home Care Packages
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting home care support in County Tipperary; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in the County; the average...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting colonoscopy in South Tipperary General Hospital; the number who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than 90...
    • Respite Care Services
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families County Tipperary in each of the past 12 months; the number provided each month since March 2020, in tabular...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of day care centres in County Tipperary that have reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; if centres will not be in a...
    • Disability Services Data
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres for persons with intellectual disabilities in County Tipperary which have submitted applications for funding in order to...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of purchasing an extra extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine for both the Mater Hospital and Children’s Health...
    • Hospital Data
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with type 1 diabetes attending the diabetes service at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19953/20]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the commitment of Ireland to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plans 2020-2025; the way in which...
    • Health Services Provision
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans by the HSE to sell the 52 acres of publicly-owned land at a nursing home (details supplied) in the near future; if...
    • Hospital Staff
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the average pay in the public health service acute hospital sector [19964/20]
    • HSE Staff
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the staff numbers employed by the HSE by occupation; the number of staff required by the HSE to meet the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic and fully staff the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown by occupation of the 3,271 staff brought on by the health service to deal with the pandemic; the average pay for each; and the percentage for...
    • Health Services Staff
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 16 June 2020, the breakdown of the potential recruits referenced which identified approximately 2,000 staff...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the average lifespan of a modular unit such as those put in place at UHL; the cost of each; the number of beds per unit; the timeline by stage for these units...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will bring voluntary hospitals under the Parliamentary Questions remit [19969/20]
    • Hospital Expenditure
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of retaining the additional 324 acute beds and 42 ICU beds to the end of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19970/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of repatriating screening services, in tabular form. [19972/20]
    • Counselling Services
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing free counselling services upon general practitioner referral; and the estimated cost of extending available sessions to 20....
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for CAMHS by 10%. [19977/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for jigsaw by 10% [19978/20]
    • Respite Care Services
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for respite care by 10%. [19979/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health the persons covered by free vaccination for swine flu; and the associated administrative and other costs. [19981/20]
    • Home Help Service
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on home support services waiting lists; the estimated full-year cost of clearing these waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the programme for decongregation; the number that remain in institutional settings; the timeline or estimated time frame for completion; the...
    • Disability Services Data
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on personal assistant hours waiting lists; the estimated full year cost of clearing the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of meetings to include date, location and attendees online and in person between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE...
    • Gender Recognition
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the requirements for adult patients undergoing an assessment in the National Gender Service to have parents present, despite this being a concern for patient...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of flu vaccines that the HSE plans to procure for the forthcoming flu season; his plans to make the vaccine mandatory subject to medical advice for...
    • Health Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for patient advocates across various State health committees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20059/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health if the two tier contract for hospital consultants will cease in 2020. [20092/20]
    • National Maternity Strategy
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Maternity Strategy will be fully implemented [20101/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health if the lands of a former nursing home (details supplied) will remain in public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20102/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health if the regulations in relation to wedding venues will be further reviewed to explore if increased guest numbers can be accommodated safely in larger venues;...
    • Health Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of places here for oral immunotherapy for children; the location of each facility in which the treatment is dispensed; his plans to expand the...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children born with neural tube defects in each of the years 2015 to 2019; the number of live births in each of the years; the ratio of neural...
    • Maternity Services
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body with responsibility for developing national clinical obstetric ultrasound guidelines as a whole entity; and the status of the progress of...
    • Dental Services
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and...
    • Home Care Packages
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting home care support in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in the counties;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of these who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more...
    • Hospital Staff
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at Cavan General Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of each vacancy, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Data
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more...
    • Respite Care Services
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in counties Cavan and Monaghan over each of the past 12 months; the number provided in each month since March...
    • Disability Services Data
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; the number that will...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the average waiting time for appointment; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Data
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan that are awaiting an appointment for early intervention by therapy; the number that are waiting less than...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the cost and timescale for fire safety works at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; the provision being made for patients and staff for the duration of the...
    • Disability Services Funding
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health if a multiannual funding package will be introduced to address residential and respite waiting lists to assist those who qualify but cannot access care; and...
    • Proposed Legislation
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health when the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019 and mandatory open disclosure will be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each recommendation in the Roscommon mental health services report published in 2017; the reason for the delay in completing the implementation...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision was made by the HSE to relocate residents from a nursing home (details supplied) to allow for works to be carried out; the consultation...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of day services for older persons and persons living with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20219/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to increase the number of nurse specialists in the field of Parkinson's disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20220/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 13 May 2020, if the reason a person (details supplied) experienced a delay between providing a cervical screening...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health if a device will be expedited for a child (details supplied) in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20280/20]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the approval of transfer for the shareholding of St. Vincent’s Hospital Group to a charity (details...
    • Health Services
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove the pay and increments freeze from employees at a service (details supplied) [20292/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a consultation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20297/20]
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in CHO3 and CHO5, in tabular form; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will...
    • Hospital Staff
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at South Tipperary General Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of the vacancy, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Disability Services Data
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO3; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months, in tabular...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO3; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12...
    • Home Help Service
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for home help by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20321/20]
    • Dental Services
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in CHO1 and CHO2; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1248. To ask the Minister for Health : the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in CHO1 and CHO2; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will make a...
    • Home Care Packages
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are awaiting home care support in CHO1 and CHO2; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in CHO1 and CHO2; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in Sligo University Hospital; the number waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than 90 days,...
    • Hospital Staff
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at Sligo University Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of each vacancy, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Data
      1253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO1 and CHO2; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO1 and CHO2; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO1 and CHO2; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Respite Care Services
      1256. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in CHO1 and CHO2 over each of the past 12 months; the number provided in each month since March 2020; and if...
    • Disability Services Data
      1257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020;...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in CHO1 and CHO2; the average waiting time for appointment, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1261. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for reopening day-care services for persons with disabilities; the timetable for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20369/20]
    • Disability Services Data
      1262. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of day-care services by county and month in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Cards
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to fund medical cards for all persons diagnosed with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20373/20]
    • National Carers' Strategy
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health if a new and updated national carers’ strategy will be published with a dedicated budget and time frame to ensure the implementation of all actions; if...
    • Home Help Service
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the home support waiting list by county and by month in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement...
    • Respite Care Services
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were provided with respite care by county and month in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, respectively; if the provision of respite...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20383/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Covid-19 tracker application can only be used by Irish residents with an Irish credit card on the app...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting lists in north County Dublin [20389/20]
    • Disability Services Data
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for assessments of needs in north County Dublin. [20390/20]
    • Occupational Therapy
      1272. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for occupational therapy in north County Dublin [20392/20]
    • Dental Services
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Donegal; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in County Donegal; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will make a...
    • Home Care Packages
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are awaiting homecare support in County Donegal; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Donegal; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in County Donegal; the number waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than 90 days, in tabular form; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in County Donegal; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of each vacancy, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services Data
      1281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in County Donegal; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1282. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in County Donegal; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in County Donegal; the number that have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more...
    • Respite Care Services
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Donegal over each of the past 12 months; the number that has been provided each month since March...
    • Disability Services Data
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Donegal that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; the number that will not be in a...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Donegal; the average waiting time for appointment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services Data
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Donegal who are awaiting an appointment for early intervention by therapy; the number waiting less than 6, 6 to 12 and more...
    • Respite Care Services
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were provided with respite care by county and month in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 respectively; if he will increase the...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health the time frame for measures to assist young disabled persons currently housed in residential care homes in relocating to suitable accommodation with the...
    • Mental Health Commission
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health if the Mental Health Commission spent its full budget in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively [20461/20]
    • Mental Health Policy
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the Mental Health Act 2001 will be published [20465/20]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health when residential care services will be provided with a sector-specific Covid-19 roadmap in order to enable them to reopen safely. [20468/20]
    • Obesity Levels
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the implications of obesity as a comorbidity for Covid-19; if additional resources are planned to address obesity in this...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of the new HSE residential care unit for older persons (details supplied) in County Louth; when the project will be completed;...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1297. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19 testing centres that are open nationally by county, in tabular form; the centres that have been closed; the plans for testing per county; and if...
    • Health Services Funding
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health when section 39 charities and companies will receive funding allocated to them by Pobal and currently being processed by the HSE; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the 60 bed modular unit under construction at University Hospital Limerick; if a date for completion can be provided; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1300. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20518/20]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      1302. To ask the Minister for Health if persons diagnosed with haemochromatosis will be able to avail of the long-term illness scheme in view of the fact that it is a hereditary lifelong disease;...
    • Medicinal Products
      1303. To ask the Minister for Health when the asthma drug benralizumab will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20534/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up an independent inquiry into the recent deaths of persons from Covid-19 in a nursing home (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will...
    • Alcohol Sales
      1305. To ask the Minister for Health if the timeline for the implementation of measures in retail stores regarding the separation of alcohol sales will be extended due to delays in the...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1306. To ask the Minister for Health the date the order will be signed giving effect to the reduction in prescription charges; and the reason for the delay in establishing a commencement date....
    • Disability Services Funding
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health the reason additional funding of €51,000 requested by a disability service for the care of a person (details supplied) has not been approved; and if...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1308. To ask the Minister for Health further to a previous parliamentary question, if a medical certificate issued to a person (details supplied); the number of times the person's care has been...
    • Counselling Services
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists and assistant psychologists employed by the HSE to provide free counselling services in each year since 2016; and the cost by year...
    • Mental Health Services
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health the progression towards 24-7 community mental health services; the remaining obstacles to this goal; the estimated outstanding cost which has been identified;...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1313. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS beds operational as of July 2020 by CHO and service. [20564/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1314. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult mental health beds operational as of July 2020, by CHO and service. [20565/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1316. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals accepted by the community CAMHS teams during the first six months of 2020 by local health office area; and the equivalent figures for...
    • Mental Health Services
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the expansion of rehabilitation services to respond to the needs of those with enduring mental illness and challenging behaviour; the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1321. To ask the Minister for Health the status of efforts to develop a seven day per week service for CAMHS; the number of CAMHS teams now operating on such a basis; the CHOs in which they are...
    • Mental Health Services
      1323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions in whole-time equivalent terms for children’s mental health intellectual disability teams being advertised for recruitment by...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the CAMHS advocacy model; and the CHOs in which it is available and utilised. [20575/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the roll-out of the agreed minor capital fund to enhance mental health facilities and infrastructure; the projects undertaken in 2020, by...
    • Counselling Services
      1326. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment at the end of June 2020 or the latest date...
    • Mental Health Services
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Emergency Departments
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children presenting at emergency departments here with self-harm injuries, suicide attempts and-or overdoses in each of the years 2018 to 2019...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide face coverings to vulnerable immunocompromised persons or persons with underlying health conditions. [20583/20]
    • Dental Services
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Kerry; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Kerry; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will...
    • Home Care Packages
      1336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who are waiting for home care support in County Kerry; the total number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Kerry;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in University Hospital Kerry; the number waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than 90 days,...
    • Hospital Staff
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at University Hospital Kerry; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of each vacancy in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Data
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in counties Cork and Kerry; the number waiting less than three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in counties Cork and Kerry; the number waiting less than three, three to six, six to 12 and...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in counties Cork and Kerry; the number waiting less than three, three to six, six to 12 and...
    • Respite Care Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Kerry over each of the past 12 months; the number provided in each month since March 2020; and if...
    • Disability Services Data
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Kerry that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; the number that will not be in a...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Kerry; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20601/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in ensuring that the Health Service Executive contact tracing application will be compatible with the application being developed by the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and or recruited and or...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons admitted on a daily basis to the Health Service Executive isolation facility at Citywest. [20630/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults waiting for an outpatient assessment by a consultant psychiatrist each month from June 2019 to date in tabular form. [20633/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services teams established nationwide; the number of consultant psychiatric posts...
    • Mental Health Services
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive specialist community mental health services for older adults teams across the health service nationally; the number of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended by the Health Service Executive on psychotropic drugs in 2019 and to date in 2020, respectively. [20651/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1371. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended by the Health Service Executive on talk therapies in 2019 and to date in 2020, respectively; and the specifications of the type of talk...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff appointed to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, to date in 2020;...
    • Mental Health Services
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2020, by service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20654/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists by age, gender, CHO and local catchment areas in tabular form [20656/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of self-harm presentations by children under 18 years of age in 2019 and to date in 2020, respectively by presenting hospital [20657/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in CAMHS as of 17 July 2020 [20658/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a primary care psychology appointment on 17 June 2020; and the number of such children waiting over 2, 3, 6, 12 and 18 months,...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels of CAMHS for each team operating nationwide [20660/20]
    • Mental Health Guidelines
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each of the recommendations of the national youth mental health task force [20661/20]
    • Suicide Incidence
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age that died by suicide in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20662/20]
    • Health Services
      1382. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the roll out of additional telemental health services in 2020; and his plans for 2021 [20664/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for child and adolescent mental health services in County Cork by individual team or service respectively in tabular form [20665/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1384. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for adult mental health services in County Cork by individual team or service respectively in tabular form [20666/20]
    • Counselling Services
      1385. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for counselling services in County Cork by respective service in tabular form [20667/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the national forensic mental health service facility in Portrane, County Dublin; the completion date for same; if the...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health the average, shortest and longest wait, respectively facing a prisoner awaiting a transfer from the Irish Prison Service to the Central Mental Hospital; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the annual spend for each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 on maternal mental health services at all stages of pregnancy and after; and the...
    • Dental Services
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in counties Meath and Westmeath, by county; the average waiting times for...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in counties Meath and Westmeath, by county; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months;...
    • Home Care Packages
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home care support in counties Meath and Westmeath, by county; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; the number who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more...
    • Hospital Staff
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at Our Lady’s Hospital Navan; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of the vacancy, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Disability Services Data
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in counties Laois, Offaly, Longford, Westmeath, Louth and Meath CHO8 by county; the number who have been...
    • Respite Care Services
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in counties Meath and Westmeath, by county, over each of the past 12 months; the number provided each month...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in counties Meath and Westmeath, by county, that have reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; if centres...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in counties Meath and Westmeath, by county; the average waiting time for an appointment, in...
    • State Claims Agency
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of all active and settled legal cases the State Claims Agency is currently handling on behalf of the HSE in the past six years...
    • Health Services Provision
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department is preparing to auction a nursing home (details supplied); his views on whether this is contrary to the purpose for which the land...
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his Department, the HSE or both were first notified of concerns at a nursing home (details supplied); the person or body that raised the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1418. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a review of the regulations for the intracytoplasmic sperm treatment process for young couples in view of the fact that the cost of such...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20778/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1421. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place for workplaces having to close following an outbreak of Covid-19. [20840/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will produce a definitive timeline for the reopening of adult day care services for those with a disability (details supplied). [20849/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the advice from the EU Commission to member states to commence the flu vaccination programme early in view of the pressure...
    • Dental Services
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Clare; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the CAMHS waiting list in County Clare; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will make a...
    • Home Care Packages
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting homecare support in County Clare; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Clare; the average...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in the University Hospital Limerick hospital group; the number waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than...
    • Hospital Staff
      1431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at the University Hospital Limerick hospital group; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time of each vacancy in tabular form; and...
    • Disability Services Data
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO3 by county; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months in tabular form;...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in CHO3 by county; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months in...
    • Respite Care Services
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Clare over each of the past 12 months; the number provided in each month since March 2020; and if...
    • Disability Services Data
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Clare that have now reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; the number that will not be in a...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Clare; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in rolling out Spinraza treatment to both children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20891/20]
    • Hospital Services
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding radiologists and laboratory departments regionally; the status of conducting and delivering the results of MRI and CT scans regionally;...
    • Medical Cards
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health if he address the issue of reviewing medical cards for terminally ill patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20963/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health if ionafornid treatment in the rare disease progeria will be licensed here; if the State will be providing the financial burden of hospitals providing such...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1444. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide medical grade face masks for citizens of 60 years of age and over in addition to persons with significant health conditions that are...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health if details of the meetings and correspondence he has had with a body (details supplied) will be published; if advice he received from the officials in his...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the flu vaccine free of charge to all persons that request it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20984/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to bring the patient safety Bill to Cabinet with a view to passing it as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20986/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in implementing the recommendations of the Scally report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20987/20]
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sign off on the agreed reduction in prescription charges for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20989/20]
    • Dental Services
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Kildare; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Kildare; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will...
    • Home Care Packages
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting homecare support in County Kildare; the total number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Kildare; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a colonoscopy in Portlaoise Hospital; the number waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and more than 90 days in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Staff
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at Portlaoise Hospital; the grade of each vacancy; the length of time each vacancy has been unfilled in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Disability Services Data
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a needs assessment in CHO7; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months in tabular form; and if he...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in CHO7; the number waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than 12 months in tabular...
    • Respite Care Services
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Kildare over each of the past 12 months; the number that has been provided in each month since...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Kildare that have reopened; the number that will be reopened by September 2020; if any will not be in a position to...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Kildare in tabular form; the average waiting time for appointment; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by same; if so, if he will provide the details of...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health if speech and language and other therapy will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1085 of 14 July 2020, if the proposed or anticipated use of the land and buildings is in accordance with the wishes of...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the national children’s hospital project continues in line with the original contract and specification; the estimated costs...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the progress in relation to the next development phase of Naas General Hospital with particular reference to oncology and endoscopy and other...
    • Home Care Packages
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which homecare packages are likely to be enhanced to ensure best possible treatment for vulnerable age groups throughout the winter months; and...
    • Podiatry Services
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a ophthalmology appointment in primary care as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Audiology Services
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Disability Services Data
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential places for persons with a disability being provided as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available by CHO area in tabular form....
    • Occupational Therapy
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list in each local health area as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available...
    • Counselling Services
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available;...
    • Mental Health Services
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a psychology appointment as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12,...
    • Home Help Service
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; the way in which this compares to target in...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 30 July 2020 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of...

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