Written answers

Tuesday, 7 November 2023

  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Childcare Services
      36. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the measures in budget 2024 to support childcare facilities and crèches; and if he will make a...
    • Children in Care
      37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he considers the €25 increase in the foster carer's payment announced in budget 2024, after a period of...
    • Childcare Services
      38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of child service providers in Cork; the number that have withdrawn; the number that have issued notice...
    • Disability Services
      46. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the work undertaken to assess the impact of annualised funding for disability services; the...
    • Childcare Services
      47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any immediate plans for sourcing a temporary location for a crèche that got flooded...
    • Health Promotion
      51. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the healthy eating policy and practice in early learning and care services; how...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      52. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the abolition of wardship and the operationalisation of the assisted...
    • International Protection
      55. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify if there are plans to ensure that safety inspections are undertaken and oversight maintained in...
    • Childcare Services
      56. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how his Department facilitates childcare providers staying open when there is a change in management. [48400/23]
    • Youth Services
      57. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify when a full breakdown of funding for youth work services for 2024 will be made available, by...
    • Industrial Disputes
      58. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the ongoing dispute around the reopening of a job evaluation scheme between Tusla and the...
    • Childcare Services
      59. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the reductions in pre-primary childcare fees for parents and guardians as proposed in budget 2024; and...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      60. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what engagement he has had on the issue of artificial intelligence in the areas of child protection; and if he...
    • Children in Care
      61. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department or the appropriate body under his aegis continues to monitor the treatment and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      62. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the building blocks grant scheme will open for submission for 2023 and 2024, respectively; and if he will...
    • Youth Services
      63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he or his Department maintains ongoing contact with an organisation (details supplied); if his Department...
    • Childcare Services
      64. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the latest actions he has taken within his Department to improve the working conditions of...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      65. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1492 of 11 September 2023, when the mother and baby institution redress...
    • Childcare Services
      66. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will point to independent economic indicators that childcare fees have fallen in recent years; how much...
    • Care Services
      67. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cause of the delay in delivering care to a child (details supplied). [34588/23]
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      68. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure that the rights of children and adults with disabilities are upheld in line with the UN...
    • International Protection
      69. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update from the cross-departmental group on moving international protection applicants from tourist...
    • Disability Services
      70. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to deal with the crisis in children’s disability services due to lack of early intervention...
    • Childcare Services
      71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has examined the sustainability of different segments of the childcare sector; and how he intends to use...
    • Disability Services
      72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide respite care services for children with disabilities in County Monaghan. [34587/23]
    • Direct Provision System
      73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for the implementation of each of the three recommendations in the special report by the Ombudsman for...
    • Child Protection
      74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he remains satisfied that the interests of children remain to the fore to the greatest extent...
    • Childcare Services
      75. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with officials in his Department regarding a service provider in Cork experiencing an issue...
    • Adoption Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the progress of applications for birth information and tracing, one year on from...
    • International Protection
      77. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of any proposals that he is planning to make in relation to accommodation for BOTPs; and if he...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how he plans to tackle significant backlogs with respect to assessments of need; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he is supporting people with disabilities, especially wheelchair users, to attend medical and other...
    • Departmental Funding
      81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a report on his Department’s engagement in relation to the funding of section 39 organisations;...
    • Disability Services
      82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the lack of engagement with stakeholders such as an organisation (details supplied) on the Roadmap...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Citizens' Assembly
      85. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the timeline for the citizens' assembly on education. [47294/23]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      86. To ask the Taoiseach to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department. [47344/23]
    • Child Poverty
      87. To ask the Taoiseach if part of the work of the Child Poverty and Well-Being Programme Office, which was established in his Department and aims to tackle child poverty and enhance children's...
    • Ministerial Staff
      88. To ask the Taoiseach the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a...
    • Departmental Advertising
      89. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media outlet and local newspaper outlet, for...
    • Official Engagements
      90. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of the Government of Israel, or any...
    • Departmental Contracts
      92. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; and the cost of same to the Exchequer. [48020/23]
    • Middle East
      93. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on his engagements with other EU leaders in relation to the ongoing crisis in Gaza. [48036/23]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47336/23]
    • Passport Services
      96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application (details supplied) for a child will issue on time for travel; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Military Aircraft
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Shannon Airport is being used by the USA to transport weapons to Israel to potentially be used against the occupied territories of...
    • Middle East
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens currently in Gaza; what contacts his Department have had looking for assistance; what efforts are being made to...
    • Departmental Staff
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 18 October 2023, when a person (details supplied) can expect to be assigned the correct pay...
    • United Nations
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his views on the UN Human Rights Council and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and whether their...
    • Ministerial Staff
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite an application for citizenship through the foreign births register (details supplied). [47686/23]
    • Departmental Advertising
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media outlet...
    • Official Engagements
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish Embassy, consular or mission staff in Albania and Georgia, which are designated safe countries, have engaged with any...
    • Passport Services
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will carry out a feasibility study for the need for a Passport Office in the west of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer for...
    • Irish Aid
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the current Irish Aid provided to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and UN Office for the Coordination...
    • Middle East
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update in relation to Ireland’s role and actions in the ongoing crisis in Gaza; the engagements he has had with other EU...
    • Irish Aid
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on any interactions he has had with EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi in relation to EU-Palestinian aid payments; and...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the statements made and actions taken by the Israeli Embassy and its staff in recent days; if he believes that these statements...
    • Middle East
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, given the statement by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, outlining that the ICC has jurisdiction over possible...
    • Departmental Contracts
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Meetings
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he last met the Australian ambassador to Ireland; and when he is next scheduled to meet the ambassador. [48320/23]
    • Consular Services
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons who applied for the post of facilities officer at the Embassy of Ireland in Washington DC. [48322/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48417/23]
    • Middle East
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the plans and procedures in place to secure safe return home for Irish citizens currently trapped in Gaza; and if he will make...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on an application for foreign birth registration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48478/23]
    • Middle East
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to ensure the safe passage of Irish citizens from the occupied Palestinian territories, including those family...
    • Irish Aid
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount that has been given by Irish Aid to support Sahrawi refugee camps located in Tindouf, Algeria, over the past five years; if more...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Postal Services
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an incorrect Eircode for a dwelling (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be corrected; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what options are available to customers of pre-pay energy companies to recoup the Government energy credits if they did...
    • Air and Water Pollution
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of money that has been ringfenced for local enforcement of the national smokey coal ban, given that...
    • Recycling Policy
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a detailed update on the introduction of laws with regard to recycling plastic bottles and aluminium cans; to...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 20 June 2023, when a premises (details supplied) can expect to be...
    • Departmental Schemes
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what additional funding was allocated to the warmer homes scheme in Budget 2024; and the estimated time this additional...
    • Climate Action Plan
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the development of a National Adaptation Framework; the timeline for completion and...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will make a decision on the proposed increase in the P and T, Telecom Éireann, and Eir pensions; and if he...
    • Research Funding
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he proposes to make up the shortfall in the PhD stipend, to ensure that PhD researchers funded by his Department...
    • Ministerial Staff
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by his special advisors in...
    • Electricity Generation
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when commercial customers generating electricity from solar panels will get paid for their surplus production that is...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that the provision of fibre broadband to a medical facility (details supplied) is urgently...
    • Departmental Schemes
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review the eligibility criteria for SEAI grants for solar panels to extend its availability to all...
    • Fisheries Protection
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he has the results of the 2023 salmon survey for the Feale/Cashen fishery; and if he is in a position to...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline what Government grants are available for households to install a wood pellet stove system. [47682/23]
    • Departmental Advertising
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by...
    • Government Communications
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the government of Israel, any...
    • Illegal Dumping
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that have been undertaken by local authorities in terms of CCTV monitoring of illegal dumping, including...
    • Energy Policy
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what changes are proposed to the criteria for SEAI grants; and if those changes will be extended to include windows and...
    • Telecommunications Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will give consideration to bringing in age restrictions on the sale of mobile phone devices (i.e., aged 15 and...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the schemes available to retrofit redbrick and stone-built houses constructed before 1940, mostly categorised as...
    • Energy Policy
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the warmer homes scheme to traditionally built buildings; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the village of Cloone, County Leitrim is not included in the National Broadband Plan, despite a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with stakeholders on a strategy to improve mobile phone coverage for those in the village of Cloone,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to...
    • Inland Fisheries
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a compensation package for draft net fishermen allowed to fish on tidal stretches of the River...
    • National Broadband Plan
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide clarification on an Eircode (details supplied) and its inclusion in the National Broadband Plan...
    • Environmental Policy
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider establishing a long-term, all-estuary vision for environmental monitoring of the Shannon Estuary;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Artificial Intelligence
      182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47331/23]
    • Defence Forces
      183. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that all necessary precautions are being taken to ensure the safety of Irish troops based in Lebanon; and if there is a...
    • Ministerial Staff
      185. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and...
    • Departmental Advertising
      186. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media outlet and...
    • Forestry Sector
      187. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department’s targets for the issuing of forestry licences in 2023 and 2024; the number issued to date in 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces
      188. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the reason the Defence Forces will no longer train officer cadets from Malta at the Defence Forces Cadet School in the...
    • Official Engagements
      189. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of the...
    • Defence Forces
      191. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current number of apprentice carpenters in the Defence Forces; and the supports available to those who are required to temporarily relocate...
    • Departmental Contracts
      194. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer; and if he...
    • Air Corps
      197. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of fish kills caused by the Irish Air Corps since 1991 in rivers near Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, County Dublin, in particular the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      198. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Public Transport
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a service is not providing wheelchair-accessible transport to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons the €170,000 announced for Ballyhaunis under the Smarter Travel funding is no longer available; where this secured...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to sanction a raise in the pension of CIÉ retirees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47252/23]
    • Road Tolls
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ascertain the number of staff employed by the road toll companies since Covid; if the companies can reduce tolls due to the...
    • Road Safety
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the lay-bys are closed on the M17/M18 motorways and the M6 motorway, when drivers are encouraged to rest but there is no place...
    • Road Projects
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Coonagh/Knockalisheen Road project in Limerick; when he anticipates the works to recommence; and if he will make a...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department. [47346/23]
    • Road Safety
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the speed limit reviews being carried out by local authorities are paused pending instructions from his Department,...
    • Driver Test
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive his driving test date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47403/23]
    • Bus Services
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve the establishment of bus shelters in an estate (details supplied). [47416/23]
    • Driver Test
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driving test will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47425/23]
    • Bus Services
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding any Department-led initiatives aimed at increasing the supply of bus drivers to help achieve climate objectives...
    • Road Projects
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Mallow relief road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47511/23]
    • Transport Costs
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in line with the reduced fares on public transport operators, there is a similar rate reduction for private operators servicing the...
    • Bus Éireann
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the bus fleet serving the Bus Éireann 216 and 220 routes; the number of single and double decker buses; the...
    • Bus Services
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any plans to undertake a review of the current Local Link morning service to a school (details supplied), with a view to...
    • Driver Test
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47592/23]
    • Ministerial Staff
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by his special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and...
    • Bus Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional capacity can be provided on routes 216 and 220 in Cork, in both the morning and evening, to ensure that all children...
    • Transport Costs
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason students over the age of 23 years who are not enrolled in full-time education cannot benefit from a student Leap card,...
    • Military Aircraft
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 24 October 2023, whether any steps were taken to establish if an aircraft (details supplied)...
    • Transport Costs
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason two train stations, Balbriggan and Skerries, have been excluded from the TFI 90-minute €2-ticket scheme, resulting in...
    • Departmental Advertising
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media...
    • Rail Network
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the Red Line Luas service from Citywest to the city centre, which a regular Luas commuter has reported to be increasingly...
    • Weather Events
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the extra funding being made available to Cork County Council for the repair of local roads which have been devastated...
    • Official Engagements
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the government of Israel, any state body of the...
    • Driver Test
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an urgent audit of a driving test centre (details supplied) will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47840/23]
    • Road Safety
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what funding streams are available from his Department to aid in the design, reconfiguration and support of pedestrian safety in the...
    • Road Projects
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the N4 upgrade works. [47881/23]
    • Rail Network
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what engagement his Department has had, and what plans are being considered or implemented, to improve the Dublin to Sligo rail service....
    • Driver Test
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times in all driving test centres in Longford and Westmeath; and if additional testers have been allocated to these...
    • Road Safety
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the approach he intends to adopt to setting new speed limits; how he will ensure that there is a focus on dangerous...
    • Bus Services
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any plans to introduce an earlier bus to Dublin from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Military Aircraft
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number permits his Department has issued to the US for transport of weapons via the Irish State in the years 2019 to 2023 inclusive;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer;...
    • Parking Provision
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities adhere to standards (details supplied) when installing disabled parking bays; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the total cost to the taxpayer of the administrative errors incurred by the NTA which have resulted in extensions to the...
    • Driver Test
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the RSA in respect of the official driving test routes at a test centre in the context of their fairness (details...
    • Road Safety
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding ringfenced and drawn down for a project list in an area (details supplied); and if a timeline has been established...
    • Driver Test
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for assistance on a driving test matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48184/23]
    • Taxi Licences
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for a delay in issuing a taxi licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48186/23]
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a driving test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48193/23]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in light of the importance of road safety, he will provide clarification as to the reason his Department does not currently publish...
    • Bus Services
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person will be considered for a transport service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48202/23]
    • Road Projects
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support an application to activate funds to determine the design phase of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what proposals he has to ensure that pensioners who were in the CIÉ and Bus Éireann pension schemes, and have not received an...
    • Bus Services
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure there is an adequate bus service on the 419 bus route from Galway to Clifden and Letterfrack; the...
    • Seirbhísí Iompair
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport cén uair a chuirfear tuilleadh seirbhísí bus, mar a gealladh i ráiteas a rinneadh faoi Connecting Ireland idir...
    • Departmental Contracts
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and details of contracts currently held by his Government Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if using an electric powered scooter or bike is an offence against which Garda enforcement is possible; and whether the new legislation...
    • Bus Éireann
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for an additional Bus Éireann 187 bus route in both directions, seven days a week. [48335/23]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital budget allocation for Transport Infrastructure Ireland in the years of 2022 and 2023; and the expected capital budget...
    • Bus Services
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a bus shelter will be installed at a location (details supplied). [48352/23]
    • Taxi Licences
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will amend the rules to allow a SPSV driver’s licence holder switch from a WAV licence to a standard taxi licence; and if he...
    • Bus Services
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current plans or investigations to improve reliability and cater to the growing commuter demand in Clondalkin, Chapelizod,...
    • Vehicle Testing
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has been notified of vehicle recalls involving category M1 vehicles that occurred to date in 2023; if so, to provide, in tabular...
    • Departmental Bodies
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the relationship he has with the Automotive Market Surveillance Authority; the number and grade of staff working in the...
    • Cycling Policy
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what steps he is taking to facilitate the bringing of bikes on trains, light rail and buses in Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Bus Services
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an additional bus stop will be erected in a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48472/23]
    • Road Projects
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the L2455 road improvement scheme, Lehenaghmore, Cork; and whether funding remains in place. [48483/23]
    • National Transport Authority
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual funding for National Transport Authority for each year since 2016; the allocation for 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual funding for Transport Infrastructure Ireland for each year since 2016; the allocation for 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and...
    • Road Safety Authority
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual funding for Road Safety Authority for each year since 2016; the allocation for 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Bus Services
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the extent to which cancellations and congestion are experienced in the Ratoath area of County Meath, in particular Bus...
    • Traffic Management
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is monitoring the play street pilot introduced by Fingal County Council; if his Department has considered how to facilitate the...
    • Departmental Regulations
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on regulations for the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023; what the regulations include; when they will be finalised;...
    • Bus Services
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the attached complaint on the availability of service, and the ongoing lack of service causing issues for passengers...
    • Road Network
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with TII about improving the safety and maintenance of a stretch of road in County Cork (details supplied); if a...
    • Road Safety
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that TII spent in 2022, and to date in 2023, on installation of crash barriers separating both directions of traffic on both...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that approximately 2,260 of CIÉ's salaried pensioners have not received an increase in their pension in line...
    • Weather Events
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Louth County Council has made a request to his Department to provide the local authority with financial assistance to undertake...
    • Driver Test
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of applicants that pass their driving test at the first attempt in the Nenagh test centre, County Tipperary, for B...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Bodies
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; if he has formally appointed the five new board members; if confirmation has...
    • Tax Data
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of households which have paid the vacant homes tax in 2023. [47277/23]
    • Tax Credits
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the way tax credits are set up for couples who are not married but who are living together and have children (details supplied); and if he...
    • Tax Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance how much projected tax liability the State will generate on the back of a proposal to prohibit income being mandated to GP partnerships or employers, meaning...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47335/23]
    • Tax Code
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to review the chargeable excess tax and standard fund threshold regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47418/23]
    • Insurance Coverage
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider establishing a national insurance company to cover the costs of flooding damage and other associated costs, especially when so many are...
    • Tax Code
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding proposed changes for January 2024 in the way the Revenue Commissioners treat general medical services income within general...
    • Tax Yield
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax yield from the gambling levy for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Policy
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if, considering that the average cost of a house in Ireland is currently estimated at €305,000, and recognising that prices vary significantly in...
    • Tax Code
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will factor overall household income, including all earners in a family unit, for the purposes of calculating lower and higher rates of taxation; and if...
    • Tax Credits
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance if parents who are currently renting themselves and also paying the rent for their children in student accommodation will receive the tax credit once for the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation regarding the income tax free allowance for retired pensioners; if this has increased in recent years; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Staff
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will...
    • Departmental Advertising
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media outlet and local newspaper...
    • Tax Credits
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance how he will ensure that all tenants are able to avail of the tax credit given that they are not responsible for landlords registering with the RTB (details...
    • Tax Data
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of tax liabilities warehoused by companies in the NGO sector under the debt warehousing scheme, and for these NGOs to be...
    • Official Engagements
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of the Government of Israel,...
    • Business Regulation
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance if, given that it has been stated that Irish contract law allows for a shop or other business to place a sign saying, for example, 'card only' (details...
    • Banking Sector
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the banking review; if has considered the merits of establishing a review group to oversee the...
    • Financial Services
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify what protections are in place for persons who feel they are not being treated fairly by so-called 'vulture funds' (details supplied); and if he...
    • Budget 2024
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a scenario analysis post-budget 2024 for a person who is a first-time buyer, single and earning €35,000 per year, and how budget...
    • Tax Code
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to adjusting the flat-rate VAT scheme for farmers (details supplied); if he has engaged with the Minister for Agriculture,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason VAT cannot be claimed back on calf feeders under the TAMS grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48089/23]
    • EU Funding
      325. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual contribution to the EU by the Exchequer in each of the past ten years, including an estimate of the contribution forecast for the whole of 2023;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48309/23]
    • Tax Code
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details on the position taken by Ireland in the European Union's decision to support the OECD's July 2023 Safe Harbour on UTPR; and the analysis...
    • Financial Services
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); if his officials briefed him and-or his immediate predecessor on reported claims made by the senior official; when...
    • Tax Reliefs
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the bike-to-work scheme for people who are self-employed in the interest of meeting our climate targets; and if he will make a...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Revenue Commissioners staff assigned to anti-smuggling activities, across all areas of illicit trade, in each of the past ten years. [48611/23]
    • Tax Code
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to amend the tax treatment of interest-free loans from parents to their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48624/23]
    • Financial Services
      338. To ask the Minister for Finance if a financial institution can request a letter stating that an individual is not a politically exposed person. [48730/23]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • State Properties
      339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the issue of public access from the N4 to Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47321/23]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department. [47341/23]
    • Flood Risk Management
      341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the moneys expended to date in relation to the flood relief scheme for Mountmellick, County Laois; when works will commence; the...
    • State Properties
      347. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW conducted a traffic audit report at the Celbridge entrance to Castletown House following the loss of the M4 entrance; if so,...
    • National Lottery
      348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the Independent Review of the Distribution and Utilisation of National Lottery spending; if he will confirm the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if section 14 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 applies to him and requires him, upon request, to attend the...
    • Oireachtas Committees
      351. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received a request to attend the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action; when he plans to attend; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Staff
      352. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Flood Risk Management
      353. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when works to an embankment (details supplied) in County Kerry will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47688/23]
    • State Properties
      354. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a complete list of all buildings owned by the State or any of the State agencies across Dún Laoghaire, Rathdown; and the...
    • Heritage Sites
      355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a start date has been agreed for the commencement of remedial works on Cairn T, at the Loughcrew heritage site near Oldcastle, County...
    • Departmental Advertising
      356. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media...
    • Flood Risk Management
      357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will expedite a scheme in County Cork by the OPW under the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme (CFRAM) in...
    • Departmental Funding
      360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount allocated to the Standards in Public Office Commission in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and under budget 2024. [47787/23]
    • Flood Risk Management
      361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding available to Monaghan County Council for flood relief projects under budget 2024. [47788/23]
    • Official Engagements
      362. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      364. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 15 November 2022, if he will provide an update in relation to the commitment to undertake...
    • Waterways Issues
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works own the river and costal banks it maintains; if there is a public right of access on these banks; and if...
    • Flood Risk Management
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the final public consultation on the Blackpool flood relief scheme will take place; what format it will take, particularly in light...
    • Departmental Contracts
      367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer;...
    • Flood Risk Management
      368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether a house (details supplied) will be covered by the Glashaboy flood relief scheme. [48081/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has been instructed to identify a site for a Garda station in the Castletroy-Annacotty area of Limerick; what progress has...
    • Flood Risk Management
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the OPW is aware of the need to alleviate flooding near a location (details supplied) by carrying out maintenance work on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Office of Public Works
      376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital budget allocation to the OPW in 2023; the amount of that funding that was spent in the first nine months of 2023; and the...
    • EU Funding
      377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how much of the EU Solidarity Fund is available to Ireland and how much has been drawn down to date by the State; how much has been...
    • Flood Risk Management
      379. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list all of the flood relief schemes that have been identified as necessary by the OPW; to detail for each if they have had their...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      380. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to media reports regarding serious issues with respect to surveillance equipment being procured by his...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons in receipt of sub-minima rates of pay for those aged 17, 18, and 19 years, in tabular form. [47280/23]
    • Work Permits
      382. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of general employment permits (not critical skills employment permits) issued in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      384. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      386. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied with the manner in which a company (details supplied) managed its recent redundancy process, particularly in light...
    • Work Permits
      387. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will extend the critical skills permit to include non-EU healthcare workers whose salary does not meet the income threshold to...
    • Company Registration
      388. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies registered in Ireland in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47527/23]
    • Work Permits
      390. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that the employment permit process and the employment visa process are streamlined...
    • Ministerial Staff
      391. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and to date...
    • Departmental Advertising
      392. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media...
    • Official Engagements
      393. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of...
    • Data Centres
      395. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the Government statement on the role of data centres in Ireland's enterprise strategy was screened for a strategic...
    • Legislative Measures
      396. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the introduction of the Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021;...
    • Redundancy Payments
      397. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times his Department, under the Protection of Employment Act 1977 (as amended), has been notified to date in 2023 of a...
    • Job Creation
      399. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new IDA-sponsored jobs, by county or by region, for the years 2016 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Job Losses
      402. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs lost in Enterprise Ireland-sponsored jobs, by county or by region, for the years 2016 to 2022, inclusive, in...
    • Industrial Development
      403. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on progress being made to acquire an IDA purpose-built facility in Longford town. [47883/23]
    • Budget 2024
      404. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will respond to issues raised in relation to budget 2024 (details supplied). [47922/23]
    • Enterprise Policy
      405. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it has been brought to his attention that approximately 100 engineers have recently come to Ireland from Israel to work with...
    • Departmental Contracts
      406. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Enterprise Policy
      407. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland has the capacity for analysing novelty in the technology space; and if it needs to develop a more holistic...
    • Trade Data
      409. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the overall trade in goods or services exchanged between Ireland and Israel and Israeli-based firms over the last...
    • Trade Relations
      410. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way his Department applies the whole-of-government approach regarding Ireland's policy on differentiation between Israel and the...
    • Corporate Governance
      411. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of complaints he has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency, CEA, since the establishment of the CEA and-or An Garda...
    • Work Permits
      412. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the person appointed by his Department to conduct the strategic review of the labour needs of the meat processing industry; the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      413. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met the CEO or senior officials from a company (details supplied) during his recent visit to Chicago. [48342/23]
    • Job Losses
      414. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and-or the IDA has engaged with a company (details supplied) in respect of reports that the company will file for bankruptcy in...
    • Consumer Rights
      415. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce a measure to protect persons who pay up front for services and the supplier of the services closes their...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      416. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Workplace Relations Commission's Code of Practice, due to be finalised in order for the commencement of Part 3 of the Work...
    • Food Industry
      417. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many meetings have taken place, if any, in 2022 and to date in 2023 between his officials and officials from the Department of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      418. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      422. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with the CEO of a company (details supplied) during his recent visit to South Korea. [48759/23]
    • Legislative Process
      423. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects the Industrial Relations (Provisions in relation to Pension Entitlements of retired persons) Bill 2021 to proceed to...
    • Business Supports
      424. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider, given the frequency of flooding events, putting a form of the emergency business flooding support scheme and the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Contracts
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Patronage
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a timeline for when secondary schools that have been through the process of divestment will actually be divested to new patrons. [47293/23]
    • School Attendance
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown, by county, of school attendance funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47310/23]
    • School Textbooks
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children, by county, who will benefit from the free schoolbooks scheme at second level under the junior cycle scheme for the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline, in relation to a specific case (details supplied), the reason a psychologist has not been allocated by NEPS, despite the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether additional SNAs will be allocated to a particular school (details supplied). [47320/23]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to extend recognition to route 4 training through the Teaching Council for trained staff to work with special needs children. [47324/23]
    • Artificial Intelligence
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47332/23]
    • School Transport
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many school bus services in County Roscommon are currently not running due to lack of drivers or lack of buses; how many children are...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review is being carried out in relation to DEIS; how a school can apply for DEIS status; if additional consideration is given to Gaeltacht...
    • School Curriculum
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department would consider plans to expand the transition year programme to include modules supporting vocational skills and life skills...
    • Special Educational Needs
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed frontloaded SNA allocation model is due to be introduced; how the frontloaded allocation model will work; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); to provide a detailed update on the proposed site acquisition; and if...
    • School Transport
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application by a school (details supplied) for a school bus; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Funding
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ancillary and IT grant for a school (details supplied); the reason the grant has not been issued; when the payment will be...
    • Departmental Data
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 20 September 2023, if she can supply the roll number and name of all new post-primary schools...
    • School Transport
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 10 October 2023, if eligible parents who applied for the special transport grant will be considered...
    • Schools Building Projects
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47447/23]
    • School Transport
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of a school transport service for pupils left without a bus to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the solar panel programme for schools will be rolled out; if she can give an indication to a timeline; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on an issue affecting a school (details supplied); if she will clarify the position regarding the tender process and planned handover...
    • Schools Building Projects
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the management of the construction site for a new temporary accommodation for a school...
    • School Staff
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if some leeway will be given for a school (details supplied) in danger of losing a teacher, in view of extenuating circumstances. [47493/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has sought an update form the NCSE regarding the number of ASD places for primary and post-primary schools in the Ballincollig area; if...
    • School Accommodation
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when officials from her Department will meet with a school in County Mayo (details supplied) as requested by the school; and if she will make a...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to a young person (details supplied) who is responsible for conducting an educational assessment for school enrolment, considering...
    • Schools Building Projects
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 10 October 2023, when the review of the Stage 2A report will be completed in respect of the...
    • School Staff
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify whether a teacher (details supplied) should be on the new or old entrant scale for pay; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an urgent update on school transport for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47581/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) that completed a Stage 2B submission on 2 June 2023 to the building unit of her Department under the additional...
    • School Transport
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the provision of school transport for a child (details supplied) attending a special ASD unit; the specific financial...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a school (details supplied) for DEIS status particularly in light of the student blend; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Admissions
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will guarantee a place for a child (details supplied) for the academic year beginning September 2025. [47610/23]
    • School Staff
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the issue of a shortage of teachers in a school (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47623/23]
    • Ministerial Staff
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by her special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and...
    • School Staff
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an up-to-date response on her Department's engagement with representatives on the issue of post-primary redeployment of teachers....
    • School Funding
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify when schools can expect to receive the schedule of grant payments; if she is aware that some schools are struggling to cover...
    • School Transport
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the situation regarding parental entitlement to school transport for their children for the current school year to either the nearest...
    • Schools Building Projects
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the provision of a new school building (details supplied), given that the current premises were only intended to be...
    • School Accommodation
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether it is the intention to continue with the refurbishment of a school (details supplied), with a view to modernising the school or if it is...
    • School Transport
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a school bus; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of her Department and agencies under the remit of her Department, by national media outlet and...
    • School Transport
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update with respect to a student (details supplied) in County Cork who is receiving school transport under the scheme for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline how many new classes will be established following the completion of the large-scale project at a school (details supplied); if an...
    • Special Educational Needs
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new classes in special schools that are expected to be established at primary level for the 2024/2025 school year in the Dublin...
    • School Accommodation
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47772/23]
    • Official Engagements
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements her Department, or any agency or body under her direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals to provide for full summer special provision in 2024 for children with severe and profound intellectual and or physical...
    • Schools Building Projects
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the high turnover threshold of €1.5 million in order to qualify to tender for the tender entitled "Term Maintenance,...
    • Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach n-íoctar deontas le hábhair múinteoirí iar-bhunscoile, atá ag déanamh cláir oideachais...
    • Schools Building Projects
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department's offer of a two-storey modular unit for a school (details supplied) will impact the school's application to build on adjacent...
    • Education Schemes
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pilot schemes currently underway in education; the nature of these schemes; and the locations where they are underway. [47893/23]
    • School Textbooks
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the review into the schoolbook grant scheme for primary schools. [47897/23]
    • Education Schemes
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering extending the benefits achieved under the North-East Inner City Programme to other areas facing similar...
    • Schools Building Projects
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the additional accommodation project application lodged by a school (details supplied); the reason for the delay in...
    • School Transport
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the School Transport Appeals Board will issue a decision on a school transport appeal submitted by a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to the intended works for the previously approved additional school accommodation application of a...
    • School Transport
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to a school transport case (details supplied), despite the case being submitted on four separate occasions; and if she...
    • School Curriculum
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what plans are in place to introduce educational programmes on the dangers of vaping for students; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal for the allocation of teachers in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47994/23]
    • Departmental Contracts
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of new school buildings for a school (details supplied); the stage that the project is at; and the...
    • School Staff
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when two Leaving Certificate English teacher positions will be filled in a secondary school in County Donegal (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Transport
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a case and provide an update on a family’s application (details supplied); if Bus Éireann can outline whether places are...
    • Schools Building Projects
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department's professional and technical team will complete the review of a report (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be...
    • Departmental Funding
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 25 October 2023, the funding provided by her Department for the annual Stand Up Awareness Campaign...
    • School Staff
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of school secretary contracts; if the allocation model regarding school secretary hours has been progressed;...
    • School Accommodation
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a school (details supplied) in which pupils in one class were told not to attend on a Monday after significant ceiling damage...
    • Schools Building Projects
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48093/23]
    • School Transport
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a concessionary school bus ticket been refused due to capacity to a student (details supplied) in view of the fact that four or five...
    • School Accommodation
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarity on an aspect of a response to a previous parliamentary question (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 26 October 2023, if a school (details supplied) is included in the NDFA campus plans; if the...
    • School Funding
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive funding for its ICT grants and ancillary services; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in providing a modular classroom for a special class in a school (details supplied); when it is likely to be provided; and if...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici an liúntas um múineadh trí Ghaeilge, a bhíodh á íoc le múinteoirí, le tabhairt ar...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici cabhair speisialta bhreise a chur ar fáil do scoláirí ón Úcráin atá ag freastal ar...
    • Scoileanna Oileáin
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici an líon múinteoirí breise atá ar fáil i meánscoileanna ar oileáin a mhéadú...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici an deontas Gaeilge agus dátheangachais a íoctar le meánscoileanna lán-Ghaeilge a leathnú amach...
    • Clár Tógála Scoileanna
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil iarratas curtha isteach ag scoil (sonraí tugtha) ar dheontas airgid le seomra aclaíochta/ilúsáide a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is involved in implementing any of the recommendations identified in the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism Final Report; the...
    • School Funding
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the rates for the capitation grant and the ancillary service grant were last increased. [48331/23]
    • School Enrolments
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of a multi-denominational school in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school catchment area given...
    • School Accommodation
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on progress under the additional accommodation scheme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Funding
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools are getting the ICT (digital) grant this year, noting that there was great disappointment that the grant was not given in 2022; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the funding approval for a school (details supplied) for the building of additional education needs classrooms, considering the...
    • School Admissions
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a parent regarding a school admissions application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to a person (details supplied) when such a situation arises; if her Department can assist the person; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline when building works will commence at a school (details supplied); if she will investigate; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing liaison her Department has had with South Dublin County Council regarding the review of its Development Plan and the need to provide...
    • Schools Building Projects
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school capital project (details supplied) in Mayo; the measures her Department is taking in situations where...
    • Education Policy
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools with a religious ethos are not permitted to ask for certificates showing training in particular religious ideologies, such as the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a modular build project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48543/23]
    • School Transport
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school bus transport application for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48604/23]
    • School Facilities
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 17 October 2023, if she will provide an explanation for why the power and the lights appear to be on...
    • School Enrolments
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the primary school application process submission dates vary from school to school in Limerick, with some schools having an...
    • School Accommodation
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if this application is...
    • School Staff
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the paid leave entitlement of a school secretary (details supplied) given recent changes to terms and conditions. [48625/23]
    • School Accommodation
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the additional accommodation scheme 2019 funding approved for a school (details supplied), particularly regarding...
    • Schools Building Projects
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the tender process for a school (details supplied); when a contractor will be appointed; the timeframe for completion of the...
    • School Enrolments
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what plans are in place to address the pending shortfall of secondary school places for the Greystones area for the September 2024 intake; what...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to recognise a national school (details supplied) as meeting the requirements for a DEIS school. [48647/23]
    • School Transport
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48675/23]
    • Departmental Contracts
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to review the DEIS status of schools now that the results of Census 2022 have been reported; if she envisages granting a new DEIS...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of her 2023 capital budget allocation that was actually spent in the first nine months of the year. [48749/23]
    • Parental Leave
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering making changes to Circular 0054/2019, which governs parental leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48765/23]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Artificial Intelligence
      567. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within her Department. [47345/23]
    • Departmental Functions
      568. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 19 October 2023, if her Department does not have responsibility for the general...
    • Sports Facilities
      569. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the status of the Munster football centre of excellence in Glanmire; the interaction her Department has...
    • Ministerial Staff
      570. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which she was notified by her special advisor (details supplied) that she had applied for a position at the Media...
    • Departmental Advertising
      573. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of her Department and agencies under the remit of her Department, by national...
    • Official Engagements
      574. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagements her Department, or any agency or body under her direction, has had with the government of Israel, any state body...
    • Sports Funding
      576. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the large-scale sports infrastructure fund; the number of projects that were allocated funding in Longford and...
    • Sports Facilities
      578. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update in relation to the investigation by an organisation (details supplied) into the use of the National Stadium by a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      579. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Arts Centres
      580. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how a community should go about trying to secure support from Government to establish a local arts centre; if she is aware of the...
    • Corporate Governance
      581. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since the establishment of the CEA and/or An...
    • Commemorative Plaques
      582. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update of any plans or proposals in relation to the proposed plaque outside the Customs House commemorating the...
    • Business Supports
      583. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if downstream businesses such as restaurants, cafés and gastropubs, that have suffered an equally devastating impact as a...
    • Ceisteanna Craolacháin
      584. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici liúntas breise maoine caipitil a chur ar fáil go TG4 as seo go deireadh na bliana le ligean...
    • Departmental Contracts
      585. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and details of contracts currently held by her Government Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      586. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding her Department provided to each national cultural institution in 2023; and the amount that will be provided...
    • Tourism Promotion
      590. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken by Tourism Ireland to promote tourism here during winter months. [48762/23]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Waterways Issues
      591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated in Budget 2024 to assist with the restoration of the Ulster Canal; and if the route has been an item of...
    • Local Authorities
      592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the preservation of allotment plots in local authority areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Provision
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total new homes recorded under Housing for All progress updates; the number which have gone to market; and the number...
    • Vacant Properties
      595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will send a circular to all local authorities asking for them to allow for an extension of the 13-month period to...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the impact that the slow progress being made in the taking in charge of housing estates is having upon the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the housing assistance payment in order that weekly tenant contributions are calculated as a percentage...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what funding is available from his Department for the establishment of local museums and for the collection and collation of...
    • Grant Payments
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a grant (details supplied) could be paid out in stages for each category of work completed; and if he will make a statement...
    • Waterways Issues
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with a project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Provision
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental tenant in situ homes completed to date for each local authority; the number in progress, in tabular...
    • Departmental Circulars
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason all housing circulars are not published on the gov.ie website as matter of routine; if he will give a commitment to...
    • Housing Schemes
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider including those who wish to down-size to free up a family size home in the 'fresh start' principle for...
    • Departmental Bodies
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has received or approved a capitalisation request from the Land Development Agency for additional...
    • Fire Safety
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the introduction of emergency funding for interim fire safety works in buildings with fire safety and...
    • Departmental Funding
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of Vote 34 in budget 2024, providing the total capital and current expenditure for each individual...
    • Planning Issues
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if section 19 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which imposes a general requirement on planning authorities to make a...
    • Housing Provision
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social housing units delivered by AHBs accessing the CLSS loans where the loans have now been fully...
    • Regeneration Projects
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the €250 million URDF funding announced in budget 2024, by specific funding scheme that is,...
    • Housing Schemes
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the Croí Cónaithe funding announced in budget 2024, by Croí Cónaithe towns and...
    • Planning Issues
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the additional €10 million provided for planning matters in budget 2024; the amount for An...
    • Budget 2024
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the €9 million additional funding announced in budget 2024, detailing how much of this...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2022 and to date in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL,...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the capital allocation of €5 billion for social and affordable housing in Budget 2024 by the...
    • Housing Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of additional housing first tenancies that will be provided in 2024 with the additional capital allocation of...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total approved capitalisation approved by Government to date; the dates on which these capitalisations were approved; the...
    • Housing Provision
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved...
    • Legislative Measures
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason "pandemic" is defined in the Electoral Reform Act 2022 as an outbreak of disease which has been declared by the...
    • Ministerial Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 that have been filed by his special advisers in 2020,...
    • Water Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Uisce Éireann is using circular WSP01/16 as justification for requiring sureties when dealing with...
    • Water Supply
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 564 of 18 January 2023, and given the reissuing of the boil water notice for the...
    • Rental Sector
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details, for each of the 31 local authorities, on the number of inspections for minimum standards of...
    • Departmental Advertising
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national...
    • Local Authorities
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what guidance has been given to local authorities regarding variable rate mortgages provided by the local authorities and...
    • Tax Reliefs
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the mortgage interest relief scheme proposed by his Government will also include those on local authority mortgages...
    • Departmental Schemes
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants to the housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability scheme in the years...
    • Official Engagements
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the government of Israel, any state...
    • Departmental Regulations
      639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 18 October 2023, if the draft regulations have been presented to his private...
    • Housing Provision
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of government funding for all Dublin City Council housing programmes and expenditure in each of...
    • Vacant Properties
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the anticipated changes in funding to local authorities for 2024 in respect of the conversion of voids; and, where a reduction...
    • Energy Policy
      644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the preparations of the guidance document on improving energy efficiency in traditional buildings; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all projects under the ready to build (serviced sites) scheme, whether underway or completed, broken down...
    • Housing Policy
      648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised cost rental equity loan (CREL) guidance document will be published. [48000/23]
    • Departmental Contracts
      649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to update the 2006 wind energy development guidelines relative to the changes in that sector, such as technology...
    • Local Authorities
      652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the discrepancies in the clawback calculations from FOI responses received from Dublin City Council (€24,000)...
    • Defective Building Materials
      654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 10 October 2023, when his Department will establish an oversight committee to...
    • Corporate Governance
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of complaints he has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since the establishment of the CEA and/or An...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to help an organisation (details supplied) with issues over bringing birds to and from...
    • Building Regulations
      657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he anticipates an improvement in terms of accessibility to all new build dwellings in order to facilitate...
    • Housing Provision
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48146/23]
    • Housing Policy
      659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to respond to concerns raised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48154/23]
    • Defective Building Materials
      660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48248/23]
    • Natura 2000
      661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when substitute consent is or is not required to rectify small non-compliances with planning in or near a Natura 2,000 site,...
    • Housing Policy
      662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether it is intended to widen the eligibility criteria for the mortgage to rent scheme; when new guidelines are likely to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and details of contracts currently held by his Government Department with a company (details supplied); and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will be introducing 'use it or lose it' rules to strip developers of planning permission on land they have failed to...
    • Departmental Reports
      666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report from the Housing Commission will be published. [48381/23]
    • Housing Policy
      667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person qualifies for the affordable housing scheme in cases in which the lending institution refuses a mortgage to an...
    • Legislative Measures
      668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government pursuant to section 9 of the Land Development Agency Act 2021, the details of any reports he has received to date from the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) that relate to his Department and an agency. [48431/23]
    • Defective Building Materials
      670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the repair of social houses affected by defective concrete blocks; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Budgets
      671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the capital and current budget allocations for each of the programmes included in Vote 34,...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that all local authority winter homeless initiatives/additional winter capacity are now open; and if he will...
    • Housing Provision
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what power the Housing Agency has with respect to purchasing houses under the tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason only two caravans were granted to Clare under the caravan loan scheme in 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he plans to address a need (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48574/23]
    • Constitutional Amendments
      677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the work of the Commission on Housing regarding the referendum on the right to housing; the draft...
    • Departmental Contracts
      678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Local Authorities
      679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of local authorities that have applied for additional funding for vacant homes officers to date in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Vacant Properties
      683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received for the vacant properties refurbishment grant in each of the last 12 months, the number of...
    • Housing Schemes
      684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the first home shared equity scheme; the number of approvals; the average house price for all...
    • Rented Dwellings Register
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his discussions with the European Commissioner relating to the implementation of a short-term...
    • Meteorological Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE hydrometeorologists working in Met Éireann in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if...
    • Weather Events
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what additional supports his Department is making available to Louth County Council in relation to the clean-up operation...
    • Grant Payments
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority adaptation grants are available to tenants of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Budgets
      690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with respect to the carryover of €240 million to Programme A – Housing Capital in Vote 34 from Budget 2022 to...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the Minister of State with responsibility for Heritage and his Department officials urgently consult...
    • Waterways Issues
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the third River Basin Management Plan for Ireland, to cover the EU Water Framework Directive third cycle, will be...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the State expenditure on long-term leasing to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48841/23]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Payments
      694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the guardians payment for 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; the cost to increase the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47247/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the invalidity pension application for a person (details supplied); when they can expect to receive a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time and longest waiting time for social welfare claims, and separately, for claim appeals; the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if contributions will be allocated to farmers who were in receipt of farm assist between the years 1999 and 2025, in view of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of farmers who have been in receipt of farm assist in each of the years 1999 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken research on the barriers people on disability payments face with finding and entering...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how much weight is given to the person's own account of the impact of their condition on their capacity to work in the...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she and her Department are taking to improve the employment supports available to people with disabilities....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      705. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those who receive a half-rate Increase for a qualified child payment will get the full €100 bonus announced in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within her Department. [47343/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that a person (details supplied) will be awarded the full rate of disability allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements for an Irish citizen who has been living and working in the USA for a number of years and wishes to return...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if precautions are in place to ensure that a person who decides to decline a payment to an applicant is not the person who...
    • State Pensions
      710. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of an issue (details supplied); if she will ask her officials to review the situation; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has any plans to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease for frontline health care workers; and if...
    • Social Insurance
      712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration being given to the recommendations of the Tax Strategy Group's paper in relation to pay related social...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has an entitlement to a payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47477/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will intervene to ensure a fuel allowance payment is awarded to a person (details supplied). [47520/23]
    • Social Welfare Code
      715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would consider changing the means test for benefit payments so that other household incomes are disregarded,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average length of time between an initial application for jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit and the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm whether a person who resumes paid employment after applying for jobseekers, but before their application is...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal submitted (details supplied) on foot of the suspension of a guardians' payment; if an oral hearing is...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualifying criteria for people with epilepsy and other medical conditions who cannot drive but are not in receipt of a...
    • State Pensions
      721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of PRSI contributions by a person (details supplied) in Count Cork; when payment of self-employed...
    • Social Welfare Code
      722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a timeline for the implementation of each of the nine recommendations outlined in the Review of the...
    • State Pensions
      723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of PRSI contributions by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when payment of...
    • Ministerial Staff
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by her special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will expedite a review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47717/23]
    • Departmental Advertising
      726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of her Department and agencies under the remit of her Department, by national...
    • Weather Events
      727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give details of the humanitarian assistance schemes in place for those affected by flooding; if a householder in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the review requested on behalf of a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a State...
    • Official Engagements
      729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagements her Department, or any agency or body under her direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state...
    • Data Protection
      731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department would handle personal data disclosed during the Green Paper on Disability Reform: A Public...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      732. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify if persons in receipt of illness benefit are entitled to any 'bonus payments' that may be issued from her...
    • Social Insurance
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to concerns and proposals (details supplied) relating directly to the introduction of a temporary abolition of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a disability allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider bringing in child benefit payments for those over 18 years in full-time secondary education in 2023,...
    • Corporate Governance
      740. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency, CEA, since the establishment of the CEA and-or An...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48094/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance application in the name of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined and approved as a...
    • Social Insurance
      743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48119/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a living alone allowance. [48155/23]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in regard to the announced expansion of the free travel pass to support people medically certified as unable to drive, if...
    • Departmental Consultations
      747. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the consultations which took place within her Department in the formation of the green paper on disability...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for disability allowance; the number of applications refused; and the number of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on the proposed structure of means testing under the green paper on disability allowance; how cohabitating...
    • School Meals Programme
      754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the name of each company contracted to provide the hot school meals programme, in tabular form; the total cost and duration...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal emailed to the welfare appeals office on 17 September 2023 (details supplied) will be registered; if the backlog...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a jobseeker’s allowance application from a person in County Kerry (details supplied);...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      757. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate for the independent Social Welfare Appeals Office to be holding oral hearings in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the qualifying conditions for the fuel allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Pensions
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number, by each €10-per-week income band, of State pension (contributory) qualified adults in receipt of the total...
    • Departmental Contracts
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal decision for a person (details supplied) will issue. [48378/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance will be awarded to an applicant in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what benefits or social welfare payments an individual who paid class M PRSI contributions can qualify for; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the introduction of pay-related unemployment benefits; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a proposal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48561/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 24 October 2023, the number of applications her Department received and were...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      777. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can clarify the current position with respect to the situation whereby homeless individuals can collect social welfare...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a free travel card for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Contracts
      780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension of child benefit payment to 18-year-olds who are still in school will apply to those whose 18th birthday...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what action her Department is taking to ensure that women engaged in full-time agricultural activities have access to social...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Probate Applications
      786. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she agrees that in relation to the sale of a home, houses where a grant of probate is not in place should not be advertised...
    • International Protection
      787. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend the 2001 Temporary Protection Directive to Palestinian nationals living in Gaza, the West Bank and East...
    • Victim Support Services
      788. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the review of the current two-year allowable timeframe for making a claim to the Criminal Injuries Board compensation scheme...
    • Visa Applications
      789. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision is likely to be reached on a visa extension application (details supplied) in view that the visa is due to...
    • EU Directives
      790. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider not turning the clocks back one hour this winter to facilitate persons who suffer from seasonal affective...
    • Illicit Trade
      791. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who have been prosecuted for illegally selling coal in Ireland in each of the years 2019 to 2022; and if...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within her Department. [47340/23]
    • Prison Service
      793. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of days that educational programmes in prisons were prevented from proceeding, including partial or full closures,...
    • Legislative Measures
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position with the Gambling Regulation Bill 2022; when the Bill will progress through the Houses of the...
    • Prison Service
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and arrange for them to be transferred to Loughan House on...
    • Immigration Status
      796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Immigration Policy
      797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the security checks that are carried out on international applicants immigrating to Ireland; whether the Irish Immigration...
    • Immigration Status
      798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Work Permits
      799. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide information and statistics on the average processing time for granting work licences to nurses from countries...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in processing an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
    • Prison Service
      801. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if male-born sex offenders will be located in the new women’s prison; and if prisoners will have access to communal...
    • Reachtaíocht Teanga
      802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality soiléiriú a thabhairt faoi conas a thug an Rialtas freagra i leith cinntí de chuid na gcúirteanna maidir...
    • Probate Applications
      803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for probate in Cork. [47608/23]
    • Visa Applications
      805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently in Gaza in the midst of the Israeli bombings; if she...
    • Ministerial Staff
      806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by her special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to...
    • Legislative Measures
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 24 October 2023, how An Garda Síochána will decide whether to charge...
    • Citizenship Applications
      808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 403 of 24 October 2023, the progress made in regard to an application for citizenship in...
    • Departmental Advertising
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of her Department and agencies under the remit of her Department, by national...
    • Immigration Status
      810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who had a visa application submitted at the same time as their sibling,...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      811. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm the status of an application for Irish citizenship by naturalisation (details supplied); when a decision is likely...
    • Legal Aid
      812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people granted free legal aid in criminal cases in each of the past five years, by category of main offence which...
    • An Garda Síochána
      813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons recruited to An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Victim Support Services
      817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, further to recommendations on better supporting victims outlined within the O'Malley Report, she plans to introduce...
    • An Garda Síochána
      818. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have taken stress leave in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • International Protection
      820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline her role with regard to Irish Refugee Protection Programme; her role with regard to family reunification...
    • Official Engagements
      821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagements her Department, or any agency or body under her direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state...
    • Departmental Policies
      823. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to require the recording of the nationality of those who have charges entered against them under the Criminal Justice...
    • Prison Service
      824. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to make a statement in relation to the establishment of the Penal Consultative Council, as set out in the Review of Policy...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the reports that the number of checks for dangerous driving have fallen sharply; and if she plans any particular...
    • Work Permits
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied) regarding courses available to those awaiting work permits;...
    • Family Reunification
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in progressing an application for family reunification in the case of the family of a person (details...
    • Departmental Contracts
      828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Legislative Measures
      829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans, if any, that exist for new legislation designed to lower the price and facilitate ease of access to licences for...
    • Visa Applications
      830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on a visa extension application (details supplied) which was submitted on 9 August 2023, over 11 weeks...
    • Corporate Governance
      831. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency, CEA, since the establishment of the CEA and-or An...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      832. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address concerns in respect of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail how a perception test (details supplied) is applied to An Garda Síochána; and if he will provide details of...
    • Peace Commissioners
      834. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish an up-to-date list of peace commissioners that have been appointed in the past year; if she will confirm...
    • Departmental Priorities
      835. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what plans she has to regulate receivers. [48200/23]
    • Daylight Savings Time
      836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make a statement on her representations to her counterparts in Britain and Northern Ireland in relation to daylight...
    • Rights of the Child
      837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 143, 144 and 145 of 5 July 2023, where she replied that "the criminal law (sexual...
    • Prison Service
      840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the different organisations the Irish Prison Service has funded from 2012 to 2022; the value of that...
    • Departmental Data
      841. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of MPV seizures made to date, by county, under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023, in tabular form. [48303/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      843. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE probation officers, by grade, employed by her Department in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 and to date in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      844. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of penal warrants that are outstanding in the Meath Garda division as of 31 October 2023; and the number of penal...
    • Citizenship Applications
      845. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the case of a person (details supplied); if correspondence in relation to the matter will issue to the person as...
    • Prison Service
      846. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average wait time for prisoners to see an addiction counsellor, by institution, within the Irish Prison Service system; the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of “stop and search” operations conducted by An Garda Síochána under the Misuse of Drugs Act...
    • Residency Permits
      853. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) to facilitate residency; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      854. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she intends to extend the operation of the Parole Act 2019 to sentences of more than eight years and less than life; and...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      855. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, following the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly on drugs, her Department and the Irish Prison Service will develop...
    • An Garda Síochána
      856. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of transfer requests submitted by An Garda Síochána personnel...
    • Citizenship Applications
      857. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their citizenship certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      858. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when her Department will host citizenship ceremonies for those recently awarded Irish citizenship. [48626/23]
    • Immigration Support Services
      859. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a letter issued to a person (details supplied) can be reissued as they require it for SUSI; and if she will make a statement...
    • Probate Applications
      860. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of any issues with the probate process (details supplied); if she will request a review of the process which...
    • Departmental Contracts
      861. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Probate Applications
      862. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average waiting time for probate requests through the Probate Office; if additional resources are being allocated...
    • Prison Service
      866. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of different cell or room types of accommodation for prisoners, by metric size, not including the sanitary annex,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      868. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to the Garda water unit as of 31 October 2023; if she will provide the...
    • State Pathology Service
      874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided for the recruitment of WTE forensic anthropologists for the Office of State Pathologist; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      875. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank (details supplied), as of 1 November 2023; if a further recruitment campaign will be...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of her 2023 capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first nine months of the year. [48758/23]
    • International Protection
      881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current contractual arrangements for the appointment or provision of translators throughout the international protection...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Correspondence
      887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 5 October 2023, whether this file has been discussed at Secretary General level of his...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing the balance of the BPS 2022 payment for a farm (details supplied); if the requested ground...
    • Animal Culls
      890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place to cull the wild deer herd, which is causing serious risk to motorists as they are coming onto public roads in...
    • Wildlife Protection
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he would consider a ban on the use of snares in light of the impact they are having on the protected badger population and other...
    • Agriculture Supports
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the plan to provide supports to the group known as Forgotten Farmers, given intentions were set out...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47462/23]
    • EU Funding
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has explored the provision of EU supports to address financial losses experienced by farmers and forestry owners as a result of...
    • Ministerial Staff
      897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) who farmed in 2021 on leased land and is farming again in 2023 is eligible to apply and be considered...
    • Wildlife Protection
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the correspondence he has received in relation to the use of the snare "body restraint", which is causing untold...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the 31 October 2023 deadline for the receipt of claims for aid for the National Liming Programme; and if he will...
    • Departmental Advertising
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media...
    • Departmental Schemes
      902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on a scheme to deal with ash dieback on roadside trees; and if he agrees that a scheme is necessary to...
    • Trade Agreements
      903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his engagements with his cabinet colleagues in relation to the Mercosur Trade Agreement; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Industry
      904. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current hectarage under organic production and the percentage of utilisable agricultural area; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle that were slaughtered originating from a controlled finishing units and the total number of cattle slaughtered...
    • Departmental Data
      906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total hectarage of new afforestation licensed; the total amount planted; the total number of forestry licences issued in each of...
    • Official Engagements
      907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state body of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on TAMS 3 applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47906/23]
    • Animal Breeding
      910. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the siring rating system under the suckler carbon efficiency programme; if he is aware of concerns around rating...
    • Animal Diseases
      911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what consideration he has given to the IBR testing requirement under the national beef welfare scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in receipt of the Sheep Improvement Scheme in 2023, and the number if receipt of the Sheep Welfare Scheme in...
    • Forestry Sector
      913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be taken to address concerns in relation to forestry planted near a property in County Kerry (details...
    • Departmental Schemes
      914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications that were received for the suckler carbon efficiency programme; the number that were accepted to the...
    • Departmental Policies
      916. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on development of the Statutory Instrument under the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and...
    • Animal Welfare
      922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on his commitment to investigate the abuse of calves depicted in a recent documentary (details...
    • Departmental Schemes
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given to providing the tillage sector with supports for unharvested crops, in relation to a €2...
    • Departmental Funding
      924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the €330 million CAP emergency fund provided by the EU; if his Department has sought or...
    • Departmental Policies
      925. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the rationale for designating grain which is imported into the State being as carbon neutral; and if he will...
    • Teagasc Activities
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the provision of a Teagasc representative for the tillage sector; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given to allowing all organic manures to be stored under the 70% TAMS grant for slurry storage facilities;...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine status of an appeal (details supplied). [47995/23]
    • Departmental Contracts
      932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to initiate a specific payment for farmers who have land in SPA and SAC outside the normal payment schemes that are available that...
    • Teagasc Activities
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a barrier to participation in a group (details supplied); and if he would engage with Teagasc with...
    • Departmental Policies
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department will continue to advocate at European Union Parliament level to address the barriers faced by young farmers...
    • Departmental Schemes
      943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who developed riparian zones next to rivers are entitled to ongoing premiums on that land; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Contracts
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of emails and phone calls his Department's animal welfare helpline has received in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of external ecology companies that have a contract with his Department to provide ecologist services to his Department upon...
    • Departmental Investigations
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate an incident (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48382/23]
    • Land Issues
      949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to address land accessibility issues for young farmers, given that this is one of the largest...
    • Grant Payments
      950. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their TAMS III (Tranche 1) application; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fishing Industry
      951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 26 September 2023, if, now that the process of payments to the owners of fishing vessels...
    • Departmental Contracts
      952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and details of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Supports
      955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a 40% grant was paid to persons (details supplied) in County Mayo instead of a 60% grant in view of the fact the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      956. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider establishing an Irish vegetable marketing body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teagasc Activities
      957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider expanding the role of Teagasc to establish a register of Irish vegetable growers and a specific marketing body...
    • Bord Bia
      959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a review of the current Bord Bia criteria and requirements of Irish vegetable growers registered with the food...
    • Horticulture Sector
      960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to ensure that the Irish horticulture sector is a viable option for Irish vegetable growers...
    • Teagasc Activities
      964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider, in conjunction with Teagasc and other independent farm advisors, conducting a review of the current Irish...
    • Agriculture Industry
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to list all current agricultural research and development initiatives in Ireland; the status of these initiatives; the details of...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Bodies
      968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an organisation (details supplied) and its staff are included in the recent pay agreement for section 39, 56...
    • Employment Rights
      969. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the Stop the Stigma campaign to address issues related to menstruation and menopause in the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department intends to increase the early years providers funding or capitation grant, with a view to...
    • Children in Care
      971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason foster allowance reduces at 18 years of age, even if the person is in full-time education; and if he...
    • International Protection
      972. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether there are plans for a centre on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • White Papers
      973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make a statement on the implementation of the White Paper on ending Direct Provision. [47281/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      974. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the plans for making available therapists; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      975. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any plans to provide alternative appointments for children whose physiotherapy...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      976. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when funding will be made available for a day service placement (details supplied). [47376/23]
    • Disability Diagnoses
      978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessments of need within each CH0 awaiting an appointment; the breakdown by each CHO; his plans...
    • Childcare Services
      979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of any funding strands that might be available to creches which are unfinished and need capital...
    • Departmental Funding
      980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding due to be allocated over the next 12 months to agencies within the remit of his Department...
    • Disability Services
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.1346 of 11 September 2023, if the HSE have procured diagnostic ASD...
    • Childcare Services
      985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence from a crèche in Dublin 11 (details supplied)...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an exemption can be considered for a child (details supplied) in order for them to access the ECCE scheme....
    • Childcare Services
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if childcare providers can continue submitting their financial returns for the period 1 January to 31 December...
    • Disability Services
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total amount spent on the ongoing 'Disability Rights are Human Rights' media campaign; if he will provide a...
    • Departmental Funding
      989. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what funding steams are available for a group (details supplied) to be able to deliver a counselling service to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a correspondence (details supplied); his response to the issues raised...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      991. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the mother and baby redress scheme will be up and running; when he expects women to be able to apply to the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      992. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the establishment of assessment of needs hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47613/23]
    • Disability Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider the implementation of a disability home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Staff
      995. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020,...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      996. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and the actions, if any, that are...
    • Maternity Leave
      997. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to bring amending legislation to the Maternity Protection Act 2004 to address the anomaly that...
    • Special Educational Needs
      998. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current situation regarding therapeutic services at a special school in Cork (details supplied); the funding...
    • Departmental Schemes
      999. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of how many qualifying organisations applied for the recent 'Scheme A: Supporting Community...
    • Ukraine War
      1000. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost charged to refugees from Ukraine when accommodation is provided, be it in hotels, guesthouses and...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1001. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his...
    • Direct Provision System
      1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status or leave to remain in direct provision centres...
    • Childcare Services
      1003. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will help a local creche (details supplied) in east Cork which was flooded during Storm Babet...
    • Official Engagements
      1004. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the Government of...
    • Disability Services
      1007. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current staff vacancies in the SDNT in Springfield Mullingar; and the length of time each has been vacant...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1008. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of referrals that have been outsourced to private providers for assessments of need for 2021, 2022...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1009. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider correspondence from a campaign (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      1010. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve the provision of childcare in an area (details supplied) whereby there are waiting lists...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1011. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has entered into a contract with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Communications
      1012. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47944/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the HSE will provide the assessments and services required to an individual (details supplied); and if he...
    • Youth Services
      1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided by his Department to local education and training boards for the provision of youth...
    • Departmental Funding
      1016. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason an application for funding from an organisation (details supplied) has not been granted; if this...
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      1017. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of the 92 guardians ad litem, their relevant agency, where relevant, and the number of cases...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1018. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review correspondence regarding funding (details supplied); if he can provide any advice or alternative...
    • International Protection
      1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application-proposal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48003/23]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1021. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of...
    • Disability Services
      1022. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what is intended under the student sponsorship programmes proposed, under the published Roadmap for Service...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1027. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the National Autism Strategy report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      1028. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average time it takes to access CDNT services in CHO7; the number of children currently waiting to access...
    • Childcare Services
      1029. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason childcare providers are being directed to supply validated financial returns to cover the period...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1030. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are currently any plans for the relocation of families and individuals seeking international...
    • Child Safety
      1031. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he has plans to expand or improve facilities for children with particular reference to...
    • Child Protection
      1032. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which it is intended to develop an early response/alert system to address any issues arising in...
    • Youth Services
      1034. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the need has arisen to develop and expand youth services since the pandemic; and if he will...
    • Equality Issues
      1038. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of cases in respect of which satisfactory integration programmes have been initiated in each...
    • Children in Care
      1039. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in foster or other care in State or private institutions; the extent to which...
    • Child Protection
      1040. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which adequate reporting facilities are available in respect of children at risk; if augmentation...
    • Mental Health Services
      1042. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will arrange an early appointment with CAMHS for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      1044. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied). [48196/23]
    • Disability Services
      1045. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether his Department was consulted as part of the Department of Social Protection’s work on the green...
    • Residential Institutions
      1046. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if adults in residential care settings are eligible for personalised budgets as introduced by the HSE in 2018,...
    • International Protection
      1049. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the number of properties located in Kilkenny that are under consideration for use as...
    • Disability Services
      1050. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the current HSE recruitment pause in regard to management and administration staff, as well as agency staff,...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1051. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the status of the excavation and exhumation of the mother and baby institution site in...
    • Child Protection
      1053. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there will be no further reason not to proceed to ratification of the UNCRC second optional protocol, on the...
    • Childcare Services
      1058. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the compliance and standards that will be required of childminders who seek to participate in the national...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1059. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how the €8.5 million in additional development measures for children's services will be spent in 2024....
    • Equality Issues
      1062. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made on the report he plans to publish summarising submissions regarding discrimination on the...
    • Home Help Service
      1063. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently put in place home help support for a person (details supplied). [48367/23]
    • Family Reunification
      1064. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if assistance will be provided to persons (details supplied) on the basis of family reunification; and if he...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1065. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to reimburse parents whose children have been forced to get a private assessment of need due to the...
    • Child Poverty
      1066. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the Pobal Annual Early Years Sector Profile Report will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Equality Issues
      1067. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the proposed Equal Participation Model; how he envisages it will support children who may be...
    • Departmental Policies
      1068. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has contacted a person (details supplied) regarding an issue; and if he will make a statement...
    • Direct Provision System
      1069. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the introduction of a payment equivalent to child benefit for all children in the...
    • Childcare Services
      1071. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify the position as it relates to the accounting and financial reporting requirements placed on private...
    • Youth Services
      1073. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and his Department have mapped the existence of youth focused community projects and staff across the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1074. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will bring forward from November 2024 to January 2024, the proposed rise in foster carer allowance...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1075. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need by CHO, age category and...
    • Disability Services
      1076. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons on a waiting list for initial contact from a CDNT by CHO, age category and time waiting,...
    • Childcare Services
      1077. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when building blocks Capital grants for childcare facilities will be announced; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on all reviews undertaken by, or on behalf of, his Department that have not yet...
    • Disability Services
      1081. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when disability services will be provided to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1082. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the policy regarding primary care psychology and a child’s eligibility to access this...
    • Disability Services
      1083. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 11 July 2023, if he is aware that there are still school leavers...
    • Parental Leave
      1084. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects his Department to finalise the policy on the extension of parent's leave, as outlined in Budget...
    • School Admissions
      1085. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an assessment will be allowed to ensure a child (details supplied) can be accepted into schools in their...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1086. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a decision has been made on a mother and baby home redress scheme application for a person in County Kerry...
    • Nursing Homes
      1087. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled people under the age of 65 years that have been placed in a nursing home in each of the...
    • Disability Services
      1088. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what more appropriate alternative options are considered before a disabled person under the age of 65 years is...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on Ireland's membership of a treaty (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47616/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [47232/23]
    • Health Services
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of budget provision that has been set aside to fund the seven-day opening of the emergency cathlab suite at University Hospital Waterford; and if...
    • Home Care Packages
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons who have applied for homecare support and who are awaiting the allocation of homecare; his views on the recruitment of homecare...
    • Health Services Staff
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a process to link the pay rates of section 10, 39 and 56 workers with those on a section 38 contract [47282/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47291/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to a concern raised in relation to a hospital carpark (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47292/23]
    • Departmental Reports
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health if the report being commissioned on the future costs of healthcare will use projections to estimate the effect that risk factors will have on the cost burden...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health to provide clarity on the outcome of discussions around concerns on the treatment of GMS income within a contractual GP partnership arrangement and any...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Regional Hospital Tullamore has no equipment to carry out core decompression procedures. [47322/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health how many people are on the waiting list for an MRI in each hospital in Ireland; the average wait time and the longest wait time for an MRI in each hospital in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47338/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the Government’s up-to-date position regarding a scheme to assist those frontline workers who are absent from employment due to long-Covid. [47348/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the status of the new adaptation training programme for overseas nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47351/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health what funding was provided for the training of student psychologists in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47353/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline what measure will be provided in Budget 2024 for trainee educational psychologist completing a doctorate who are currently on placement;...
    • Organ Donation
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health whether paired-organ donations will be permitted under the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022;...
    • Patient Files
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health if patient records from prior to 2001 are available from Merlin Park Hospital, Galway, and University Hospital, Galway; and if so, whether those records can...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a medical appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47360/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sonographers working in Cavan General Hospital; the number of sonographers that work at the weekend, Saturday and Sunday in CGH; the days each...
    • Mental Health Services
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health if community counselling services could be expanded from ten sessions per client to that which is necessary depending on client needs; if he aware that ten...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for a dermatologist in the north west broken down into whether they have been waiting for 6-12, 12-18, 8-24 and over 24...
    • Health Services
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a transport budget within the HSE to assist vulnerable patients attend hospital appointments where public transport may not be an option for them;...
    • Court Judgments
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department fully respects and understands a Supreme Court judgement (details supplied) which was ruled on in March 2020. [47407/23]
    • Health Strategies
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Stroke Strategy 2022-2027 will be funded in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47410/23]
    • Health Services
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health if thrombectomy services will be affected by any funding shortfalls or cuts in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47412/23]
    • Health Strategies
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that failure to fund stroke services in 2024 as part of the National Stroke Strategy 2022-2027 will result in greater numbers of patients...
    • Nursing Homes
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application for a nursing home support scheme package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the stepdown unit in Monaghan General Hospital; if it is fully operational; how many beds are operational; and how many patients have stayed in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47427/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health whether the standard of care in private care homes, as well as the standard of training and vetting of staff, are the same as the standards employed in...
    • Insurance Coverage
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47451/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the considerable pressures on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, he will agree to increase the supports available for parents...
    • Departmental Funding
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding due to be allocated over the next 12 months to agencies within the remit of his Department to support the prevention and early...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of developments internationally to encourage the uptake of parenting support programmes, including the universal funding of programmes; whether...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health how many patients are on the orthodontic assessment waiting list in Galway; how long the current waiting time is; how many patients are on the orthodontic...
    • Mental Health Services
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that community healthcare west CAMHS will have IT-enabled patient administration systems; when it is expected a decision will be made on a...
    • Health Services
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider rolling out minor injury clinics across the country, especially in County Kerry. [47474/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the new 96-bed unit presently under construction at University Hospital Limerick to be completed and operational; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the PCRS will not cover the cost of the drug Fostimon, on the drug payment scheme as prescribed by a fertility clinic and in one case only covers...
    • Nursing Homes
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for the fair deal scheme (details supplied) will be urgently reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47501/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47502/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health if a fair deal application will be urgently reviewed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47503/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health if the national clinical plan will provide support for type 1 diabetic patients under the age of 18 years through the deployment of continuous glucose...
    • Hospital Staff
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff that are currently employed in Letterkenny University Hospital in any capacity for more than one year combined, with the role that...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health what efforts he has made to examine cross-Border co-operation between the public hospitals at Altnagelvin, Letterkenny, Enniskillen and Sligo on a range of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment with Cork University Hospital orthodontics department; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cancer Services
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health if the mobile BreastCheck unit is still operating from Leopardstown Hospital; whether there were changes in its operation; if the service will be restored to...
    • Mental Health Services
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 604 of 25 April and 468 of 18 May and 702 of 27 June 2023, the number of people with severe and enduring mental health...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the planned ending of a special Covid leave with pay arrangement for healthcare workers on 31 October 2023 with the chronic and debilitating...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a patient (details supplied) has been placed at the beginning of another waiting list following the retirement of a consultant in University...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who is currently attending Crumlin Children's Hospital will be provided with a wheelchair, as it is urgently required by them;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been assigned a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47607/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on CAMHS hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47614/23]
    • State Bodies
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a status update regarding the anticipated opening date of the National Home Support Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a status update regarding the rollout of the new ICT system for HSE Home Support Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47627/23]
    • Home Help Service
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps that he has taken to date to address delays in the Statutory Home Support Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47628/23]
    • Care Services
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a status update regarding the establishment of a Commission on Care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47633/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to enable hospitals to block book home care hours, in order to enable providers to plan strategically and ensure that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to establishing a forum with regard to waiting list numbers across Community Health Organisations, for the purposes of...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by his special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the percentage of the health budget that is allocated to mental health in each year from 2019, up to and including Budget 2024; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive surgery in Cork University Hospital; if it would be possible to receive the surgery in either...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department will conduct an inquiry into the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland use of a US institute to conduct animal research not in...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the practice of night-time confinement in all units (except high-secure) at the National Central Mental Hospital, Portrane, continues to...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Clare will be transferred from University Hospital Limerick to CHI, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Strategies
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the reason many women received appointment letters from Breast Health in the Mater Hospital for Friday, 20 October 2023, only to discover upon turning up for...
    • Departmental Data
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people diagnosed with breast cancer from 2020-2023 in Ireland; the average age, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Strategies
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health if, considering that a high volume of breast cancer cases is oestrogen-driven and many women experience hormonal changes from the age of 40 years onwards, he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment for a consultation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media outlet and local newspaper...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health how standards are set for a profession (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47758/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for surgery for a person (details supplied). [47764/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children and adolescents on the waiting-lists of the south Lee primary care services and the north Lee primary care services; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-person client sessions offered by each grade of psychologist - assistant psychologists, staff grade psychologists, senior psychologists and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children removed from the assessment of need waiting list in each of the Cork and Kerry primary care psychology services for each month from 1...
    • Nursing Homes
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding any plans the Government has to reimburse families of nursing homes patients illegally charged nursing home fees; and...
    • Official Engagements
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the government of Israel, any state body of the government of Israel,...
    • Hospital Staff
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the hospital group CEOs across all hospital groups hold other remunerated positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47836/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the introduction of the Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021. [47851/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently attending the paediatric diabetes service in the Regional Hospital Mullingar. [47872/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list, per age, for community psychology in Mullingar primary care centre, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing number of the community psychology team in Mullingar primary care centre. [47874/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies that exist in Mullingar Regional Hospital, per post; and the length of time each has been vacant for. [47876/23]
    • Employment Rights
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021 in relation to fertility treatment and miscarriage leave. [47879/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women awaiting gynaecology appointments, by hospital, in tabular form. [47880/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 579 of 17 October 2023, when the document approved by the National Trauma Programme Steering Group in December 2022...
    • Departmental Funding
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider extra funding for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47907/23]
    • Health Strategies
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health if signage will be erected in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47911/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health the reason management roles (details supplied) are being replaced and tradespeople doing the work on the ground are not as regards HSE maintenance teams in an...
    • Medical Cards
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health if the significant cost of circadin could be covered under the medical card scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47935/23]
    • Undefined
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on access to green space (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47950/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to create a chief pharmaceutical officer position in his Department; his views on the matter; if his Department has examined similar roles...
    • Health Strategies
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the regional health area implantation plan; the level of consultation that took place with HSE management; if south Tipperary and Cork will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on European Reference Networks funding; if funding was committed to in Budget 2024; if he is aware of consultants concerns that they will lose...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the number of winter flu vaccines that have been administered to different cohorts to date in October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Strategies
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the hepatitis C home testing kits; the number of kits that have been dispatched; if the scheme is proving successful; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47960/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be issued to a person (details supplied) regarding their confirmed urgent referral to the urology clinic in UCG Hospital in Dec 2022....
    • Departmental Priorities
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the implementation of the 109 recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism's final Report; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to introduce legislation that bans the use of vaping products in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47982/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the reclassification of a condition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48001/23]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health if homecare workers employed directly by the HSE work Saturdays and Sundays; if weekend home support is provided entirely by external providers, approved by...
    • Departmental Data
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds currently in five hospitals (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48085/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has a full medical card, is being charged for blood tests by their GP surgery; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health if the State can provide assistance in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48087/23]
    • Dental Services
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Kerry who currently accept medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48090/23]
    • Health Strategies
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of cervical screening samples that will be processed in the National Cervical Screening Laboratory at the Coombe, now that the service has...
    • Dental Services
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the national school dentist scheme for 6th class children who have yet to be seen by a school dentist due to Covid (details supplied)....
    • Hospital Admissions
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48100/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health if an MRI scan will be expedited at WUH for a person (details supplied). [48104/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health if special hearings aids will be provided as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [48106/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation regarding medical card holders who wish to transfer from one GP practice to another; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 812 of 13 July 2023, for a breakdown of the more than 25,000 young people refused access to CAMHS since 2020; for a...
    • Health Services
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health how many primary care occupational therapists are in place in Rowlagh, Clondalkin, and Rosse Court, Lucan; and the average waiting time for an appointment for...
    • Health Services Staff
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to pay parity for medical scientists; if pay parity will be delivered in early January 2024 as indicated; and if he...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Strategic Review of General Practice; the areas this review will examine; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposal to develop a 'surgical hub' in Limerick; where exactly is the preferred site that has been identified; when he expects it...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a CT scan and MRI scan at Wexford General Hospital. [48159/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time secretaries working in the ophthalmology department in the Mater Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48160/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults living in County Leitrim waiting for vascular surgery. [48161/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior cardiology dieticians based in Kerry University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48162/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within public car park at Our Lady's Of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Hospital Staff
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior medical scientists in molecular microbiology at University Hospital Waterford in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48164/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated capital and current funding required to double the number of ICU beds at Letterkenny University Hospital. [48165/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation to Roscommon University Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [48166/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract procedures carried out at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of funding allocated to drug addiction services in County Longford in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48168/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance turnaround time at Mullingar emergency department in each month of 2023 to date, in tabular form [48169/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources and personnel that will be provided to Tipperary University Hospital as part of the 2023-2024 Winter Plan. [48170/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for Jigsaw in CHO2. [48171/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant in intensive care medicine at CHI Crumlin in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48172/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health the number hip replacement surgeries carried out in Mayo University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48174/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior vascular physiologist at Beaumont Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48175/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ICU beds at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48177/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health the out-of-hours mental health services that are currently available in County Roscommon. [48178/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse manager 2 in pre-exposure prophylaxis services in Galway University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Hospital Services
      1255. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time from check in to seeing a clinician at Tallaght University Hospital Emergency Department. [48182/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1256. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on an appointment for a person (details supplied). [48185/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1257. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the ceiling a single person can earn as of now to get a GP medical card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48188/23]
    • Health Services
      1258. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent stepdown bed can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); if all efforts can be made to ensure that proper provision for this...
    • Departmental Communications
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health what efforts were made to contact individuals and families who were victims of medical negligence to make them aware of the public consultation on health...
    • Health Services Staff
      1260. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant positions of chair and co-ordinator at the Canal Communities Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force will be filled. [48232/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1261. To ask the Minister for Health the specific policy in relation to prosthetic funding for each community healthcare organisation area; the reason for such disparities in each of the CHO...
    • Nursing Homes
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline under what circumstances the HSE ordered the gathering of information in relation to a nursing home (details supplied) in Dundalk, County...
    • Health Services
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the average and median time that elapses between the receipt of a complaint by the Medical Council and the making of an initial...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in providing a new primary care centre for An Spidéal, Contae na Gaillimhe; the next steps proposed in progressing this; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners, by gender with acute mental health issue on the waiting list for transfer from prisons to the Central Mental Hospital for treatment;...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health when a prisoner (details supplied) will be transferred from a prison to the Central Mental Hospital; the length of time they have been the waiting list for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred to a doctor in February 2023, has yet to receive an appointment; and...
    • Ambulance Service
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE critical care ambulances, by location, in use in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48323/23]
    • Dental Services
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of school dentists based in CHO8 in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48324/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE plastic surgeon registrars based in each hospital part of Ireland East Hospital Group in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48325/23]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1272. To ask the Minister for Health the number of birthing pools in use in each maternity hospital and maternity unit nationwide, in tabular form. [48326/23]
    • Substance Misuse
      1273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general adult psychiatrists with a special interest in substance misuse in the CHO8 mental health service in the years of 2022...
    • Hospital Staff
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialists in inpatient orthopaedics with a special interest in spinal disorders at the Mater Hospital. [48328/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health when the new 96-bed block in UHL is going to be completed and ready to accept patients; how many of the beds will go towards increasing existing capacity and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug ozempic will be made available for GPs to prescribe to diabetes patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48365/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) will have to wait for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48384/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health if the complement of nursing staff at St. Mary's Health Centre, Thurles, County Tipperary, can be increased if more permanent nursing staff could be employed...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1046 of 20 September 2023, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; the status of the land...
    • Abortion Services
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form the number of abortions performed at the Ireland East Hospital Group, broken down by category of the 2018 Health Act (ss. 9-12) for...
    • Care Services
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services can be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for one week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48464/23]
    • Health Services
      1286. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an electric bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48468/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1921 of 11 September 2023, if he will provide an update on the development of the new elective hospital in Merlin Park;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery. [48479/23]
    • Disease Management
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a specialist consultant for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; if not, whether there are any plans to put one in place; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48484/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of young people with autism being treated as in-patients in adult mental health units; the total number of people with disabilities being...
    • Proposed Legislation
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work being carried out by his Department on the proposed pharmaceutical legislation revision being delivered under the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned about medicine shortages this winter; what steps are being taken to ensure that a serious shortage is avoided; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to Section 38 Organisations, whereby a Labour Court support staff evaluation scheme decision has not been fully implemented, in that...
    • Care Services
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed and announced refurbishments, developments and funding for St. Josephs care centre in Longford town, given the first...
    • Mental Health Services
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health the general wait time for accessing CAMHS, by county; and the wait time for those who have an autism diagnosis accessing CAMHS, by county, in tabular form....
    • Nursing Homes
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide HSE funding to a person (details supplied) in order that they can be granted a place in a nursing home. [48512/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1300. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the number of children and the length of time they have been waiting for an assessment by the child and adolescent mental health...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1301. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendees at University Hospital Limerick emergency department in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1302. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of medical staff vacancies, per role at University Hospital Limerick, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48515/23]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1303. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days to date in 2023 that the full capacity protocol has been utilised at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists to persons ratio in each CHO region. [48517/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs to persons ratio in each CHO region. [48518/23]
    • Health Services
      1306. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of some opticians who have not received payment from the HSE for the last number of months to continue the HSE glasses vouchers for children;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds the HSE contracted out (details supplied) in the Mayo area from 2019 to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1308. To ask the Minister for Health what plans his Department has to create pathways for internationally trained health professionals to return to Ireland to work in the HSE (details supplied);...
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health an aithníonn sé na deacrachtaí atá roimh chainteoirí dúchais Ghaeilge i gcóras sláinte a chaitheann leo amhail is go...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the upper age limit for a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48556/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48564/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants who work with patients on a scheme (details supplied); how many patients on that scheme they have under their care; and if he will...
    • Medical Cards
      1316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the medical card support for those who have obtained a ministerial licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48568/23]
    • Health Services
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health what is meant by a term (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48570/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for speech and language therapy by community healthcare organisation, CHO, age category and time waiting, in tabular...
    • Disability Services
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages; the number of persons experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay accessing...
    • Medical Cards
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health if treatment for retrograde cricophalyngeas dysfunction (R-CPD) will be made available on the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the number of invitation letters issued for BreastCheck appointments, and the number of attendances at BreastCheck...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health to extend the cycle of care for children aged under eight years with an asthma diagnosis, to all people under the age of 18 years, with or without a GP card;...
    • Medicinal Products
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to expanding the National Fund for Biologic Medication for severe asthma (to include Anti-igE and Anti-il-4il-1 3 biologic...
    • Health Services Staff
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to expanding the number of advanced nurse practitioners WTE posts by 112 in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Community Care
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Caredoc phone services for St. Dymphna's Hospital, Carlow is run out of Dublin, and not locally in Carlow, and as a consequence, the...
    • International Protection
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to change guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48614/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff currently on secondment to universities in Ireland; how the policy on secondment will be impacted by the recent embargo on recruitment...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to World Stroke Day, he will provide a full update on the funding requirements and overall implementation plans for the National Stroke Strategy;...
    • Health Services
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the HSE in order to prevent total blindness from occurring in a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 548 of 10 October 2023, the status of an application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered positive organisational scholarship as a possible intervention in healthcare settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether individuals with type 1 diabetes who are public patients can access insulin pump technology and continuous glucose monitoring...
    • Departmental Funding
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what vouchers or grants are in place to support parents with the cost of new glasses for their children; if this voucher scheme applies only up to...
    • Gender Recognition
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an open letter to the HSE regarding trans healthcare, to which 20 national and international organisations signed; if he agrees with the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant psychiatrists and senior psychologists in each of the CAMHS teams based in CHO9 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the rate of theatre utilisation in St. James's Hospital for 2022; and if he will provide the rate of theatre utilisation in Tallaght and...
    • Hospital Services
      1354. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that provide a clinical psychology service to heart failure patients; and the proportion of patients identified as requiring clinical...
    • Health Services
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health the status of podiatry services provided by the HSE in County Kildare; the status of the service going forward; and the number of persons on the waiting list...
    • Departmental Policies
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to enable a registered nurse to sign a declaration of death form for a patient who passes away in hospital or nursing...
    • Mental Health Services
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health to provide confirmation in relation to the anticipated start date for the newly appointed psychiatrist in CAMHS Infirmary Road, Cork (which serves the area of...
    • Health Promotion
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the relaunching of a public awareness campaign targeted at mitigating cancer risk, in particular the importance of education regarding...
    • Medicinal Products
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Pembrolizumab, used in the treatment of triple negative breast cancer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48793/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of waiting times for persons referred for MRIs to determine possible breast cancer diagnosis in each of the eight cancer centres;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the additional units being built at St. Mary's hospital, Drogheda; when the units will come into operation; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in assessing the suitability of sites at Palmers Hill, Cashel and land to the rear of St. Patrick's for the community nursing unit,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Covid vaccine novovax which is the only booster vaccine that can be administered to patients with myocarditis or other heart...
    • Health Services
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health the reason employees working for an organisation (details supplied) in a long-term residential house for disabled persons are not assessed as Section 39...
    • Official Travel
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health if he visited any health-related facility during his visit to New York during the recent UN week. [48845/23]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Student Accommodation
      1373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to upscale the provision of student accommodation for those who are coming to Ireland to study from abroad on a short-term...
    • Technological Universities
      1374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details regarding the process for technological universities (TUs) to apply for HEA capital infrastructure funding aimed at...
    • Third Level Education
      1375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to increase the number of places on social workers’ graduate programmes by 25%; how many additional places this equates to; and...
    • Technological Universities
      1376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support SETU’s bid for a new veterinary medicine school at its campus, given that there is only one veterinary school in the...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he agrees that adult education tutors do the same work as their permanent colleagues in the Further Education and Training Sector and should...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47337/23]
    • Third Level Education
      1381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for an Irish student with two years of study done in veterinary medicine in a university in Budapest to transfer to University...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the meaning of 'irreconcilably estranged' in the context of proof of independence from parents for a SUSI grant application; and what proof will...
    • Third Level Education
      1384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way his Department is supporting students with severe disabilities to access and attend third level education and further education...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to accept that those over the age of 23 years are not living at home as independent of their parents, regardless of the type of accommodation or...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by his special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department, by national media outlet and...
    • Official Engagements
      1393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements his Department, or any agency or body under his direction, has had with the government of Israel, any state body of the...
    • Third Level Staff
      1395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department is implementing to address the issues raised by the motion passed by Seanad Éireann (details supplied) relating...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocation of capital grants made available, per ETB, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [47885/23]
    • Education and Training Provision
      1397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the proposed centre of excellence for electric vehicle management in Mullingar. [47887/23]
    • Education Costs
      1399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what financial supports can be made available to graduate entry medical students who are struggling with high course fees and a lack of loan...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Leaving Certificate (Established) is being taken from the College of Further Education and Training, O'Connell Avenue, Limerick,...
    • Third Level Reform
      1401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the University of Limerick's application to become the location for Ireland's second veterinary school (details supplied); and...
    • Student Accommodation
      1402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to his announcement (details supplied) on the new funding that is to be provided by the EIB and HFA for student accommodation, if he...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the necessary funding to Galway Roscommon Educational Training Board for the purchase of a site in Roscommon for the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the Exchequer; and if he...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1052 of 20 September 2023, how many instructors deliver phase 6 training and in how many ETB centres; and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if consideration will be given to this proposal; and if he will make a...
    • Education Costs
      1413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 594 of 10 October 2023, if he will now address the parts of the question not answered which relate to the...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 18 October 2023, to provide a detail of the date of each decision gate, the project budget at each...
    • Technological Universities
      1416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to advise what cut-off date is being discussed within his Department to end formal consideration of the phase two PPP capital delivery including...
    • Third Level Reform
      1418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing process that decides approval for the provision of pharmacy and veterinary faculties and course development (details supplied); the...
    • Student Accommodation
      1419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a framework for the university sector to develop student accommodation will be agreed; the quantum of capital funding his Department plans...
    • Third Level Education
      1420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of higher education in the southeast region, given that unlike other regions, there is no National University; how this deficit in...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of instructors in each training centre delivering phase 2 pipefitting training. [48287/23]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices called at each phase by discipline for ETB training, in tabular form. [48299/23]
    • Third Level Education
      1435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of a case (details supplied); if he can confirm when a permanent suitable support will be in place to facilitate this student...
    • Departmental Funding
      1437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding for Higher Education Authority for each year since 2016; the allocation for 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      1439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that students attending an undergraduate course in a university (details supplied) are not eligible for Student Universal Support...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transport supports that are available for a student (details supplied) with Asperger's, ASD with dyslexia, scoliosis, hip displacement who...
    • Official Travel
      1442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he visited Seoul National University during his recent visit to South Korea. [48755/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      1443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether students who are liable for full third-level tuition fees are eligible for the reduction in fees for the academic year 2023/2024, as...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action his Department is taking to attract women into agriculture specific scholarships, educational programs and third level courses and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Artificial Intelligence
      1445. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within her Department. [47342/23]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1446. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be future calls to establishment remote working hubs in rural towns and village or community centres; and if she will...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1447. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she intends to give a start date for the new Leader Programme to the companies who will administer the scheme; and if she will...
    • Local Authorities
      1449. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the acquisition of a property (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47483/23]
    • Library Projects
      1450. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the status of the upgrade to Mayfield library in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1451. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she can outline the next steps in the completion of the pier in Inis Meáin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Staff
      1452. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by her special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1453. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the building acquisition measure of the town and village renewal scheme will be announced (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1454. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of her Department and agencies under the remit of her Department, by national media...
    • Official Engagements
      1455. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagements her Department, or any agency or body under her direction, has had with the government of Israel, any state body of...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1457. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will complete her review of the CLÁR programme and extend the programme to additional areas in need of support. [47846/23]
    • Local Authorities
      1458. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what plans are in place for derelict building (details supplied); if he will outline the monies allocated to same; to provide a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1460. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the...
    • Corporate Governance
      1461. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since the establishment of the CEA and or An Garda...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1462. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and details of contracts currently held by her Government Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Sports Facilities
      1463. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is any prohibition on the end of use of rubber materials in astro pitches for community groups (details supplied); and if...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1464. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a timeline for the finalisation of the development strategy for the public broadband connection points; when...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1467. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1470. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of her 2023 capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first nine months of the year. [48760/23]
    • Community Development Projects
      1471. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what action her Department is taking to promote gender diversity in rural development programs, particularly in the context of...

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