Written answers

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • EU Directives
      13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what plans are in place to deal with the ending of the Temporary Protection Directive in March 2025; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Reviews
      14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 22 February 2024, the status of the independent review of part 4 of the Criminal Law...
    • An Garda Síochána
      15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí working in road policing in Cork city and county at present; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received from the Judicial Council the sentencing guidelines committee's three-year work plan for sentencing...
    • Crime Prevention
      17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will implement the recommendation of the Hamilton report to introduce a standard of recklessness into fraud offences; and...
    • Drug Dealing
      18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are adequate legislative measures to deal with the scourge of drugs, with particular need to counteract effectively the...
    • Inspector of Prisons
      19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when existing unpublished centre reports (details supplied) will be published. [17832/24]
    • Crime Prevention
      20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures her Department has taken to date to tackle cybercrime; her views on whether enough resources have been allocated to...
    • Drug Dealing
      22. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional measures, if any, she will introduce to deal with the scourge of illegal drugs throughout the country; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits allocated to counties Roscommon and Galway following the latest passing-out ceremony in...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what resources are available to the roads policing unit at present to deal specifically with the illegal use of scrambler-type...
    • Visa Agreements
      28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reconsider joining the EU's Visa Information System in a bid to tackle migration and security challenges; and if she...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions she has had with the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland since the reappointment of the Executive there; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of the number of Garda officers, by rank, attached to all Meath East Garda stations in 2020, 2021, 2022,...
    • Departmental Priorities
      32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her priorities for the year ahead; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17719/24]
    • Departmental Strategies
      33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the operation of the youth justice strategy; her plans for further developments in this area; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which provision is being made whereby the throughput of gardaí from Templemore is being increased to meet...
    • Family Law Cases
      36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider reviewing the penalties that can be issued by a judge for non-compliance with a court order (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently detailed for community policing in Dundalk, Drogheda and Ardee stations, respectively,...
    • Crime Prevention
      38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a weapons amnesty to help take more guns and knives off the streets and generate greater awareness about...
    • Middle East
      39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 22 February 2024, the number of people currently in Gaza who have permission to...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the provision of refuge spaces to underserved areas under the zero tolerance strategy. [17546/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times she has met with the Garda Commissioner since she took office. [17651/24]
    • Immigration Policy
      43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 11 and 26 of 22 February 2024, her Department's progress with regard to granting spouses...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Development Plan
      47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on the national development plan priorities for enhanced regional accessibility in the south east; and if he will make a...
    • State Properties
      51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the State-owned unit 153 in Shannon Business Park, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15647/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of all means tested payments and supports in 2024; if any Departments are seeking to expand such payments by revision...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the differing pension entitlements that exist for members of An Garda Síochána based on joining the force pre-...
    • Public Sector Pay
      63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efficiencies to be achieved under the new public sector pay deal; how these are to be measured; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Staff
      64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will be bringing forward legislation to increase the mandatory retirement age for certain public sector workers; and if he will...
    • State Properties
      65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has plans to upgrade the State-owned motor taxation office in Shannon, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Heritage Sites
      66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on progress to retrofit traditional and historical buildings; if district heating will play a role; and if he will make a...
    • National Development Plan
      67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the national development plan has sufficiently considered and is adequately resourced to deliver community and cultural amenities...
    • Flood Risk Management
      68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date in 2024 in relation to the CFRAM scheme for County Louth; the current timelines for the delivery of the...
    • Heritage Projects
      70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the works being carried out at the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park; and the timeline for completion and its opening as a...
    • Heritage Sites
      71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts his Department is making to liaise with An Garda Síochána regarding policing of road speed within the Phoenix Park....
    • National Development Plan
      72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the delivery of national development plan projects in County Monaghan. [17713/24]
    • State Properties
      73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a plan or strategy in place for the Office of Public Works to reduce the reliance on leased properties; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the progress made to date with respect to flood relief schemes for Castlemartyr and Mogeely, County Cork; and if he will make...
    • Coastal Erosion
      76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date with the survey of coastal erosion damage on Inishbofin Island; when a decision will be made on funding...
    • An Garda Síochána
      77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress on the new Garda station in Bailieborough and if there is an estimated completion date. [8319/24]
    • Flood Risk Management
      78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the OPW’s response to ongoing flooding and rising waters at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon. [17597/24]
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he continues to identify best practice in respect of public expenditure and reform, having regard to prevailing...
    • Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
      80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of extending his remit to cover commercial...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the lower Lee flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15531/24]
    • Flood Risk Management
      83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action being taken to strengthen flood defences in Athlone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17795/24]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a flood defence scheme (details supplied) will advance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17785/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has made an application to his Department for increased funding in budget...
    • Flood Risk Management
      87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the criteria in terms of cost benefit used to assess flood mitigation works in areas subject to coastal flooding; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received communication from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth requesting...
    • Public Services Provision
      89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the initiatives he plans to promote better planning to promote a longer and more fruitful retirement, across all of government,...
    • Court Accommodation
      90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions his Department has had with the Courts Service in relation to the courthouse in Kanturk; and if he will make a statement...
    • Flood Risk Management
      91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact construction inflation has had on the cost of delivering flood protection projects; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Trade Data
      92. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of exports to Israel in the months of February and March 2024, by value and type of export, in tabular form. [17299/24]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      94. To ask the Taoiseach the reasons for his decision to appoint two joint chiefs of staff to his office; the reason one chief of staff was not sufficient; and how decisions will be made on a...
    • Office of Director of Public Prosecutions
      95. To ask the Taoiseach the increases that have been made to funding to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for the years 2020 to 2024. [17250/24]
    • Cabinet Committees
      96. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the new Cabinet committee on disability; and if the Minister for Health will sit on the new committee. [17897/24]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17436/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite an application for foreign birth registration from a parent who is an Irish citizen (details supplied); and provide a...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the embassies and missions within north Africa; the ambassadors accredited to north African states whereby no mission is present in a state;...
    • Departmental Meetings
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the government of Algeria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17771/24]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has considered opening an embassy in Algeria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17772/24]
    • Humanitarian Aid
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the humanitarian assistance Ireland has provided to Algeria to support and assist refugees from Western Sahara; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget allocation for the Emigrant Support Programme in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [17808/24]
    • Passport Services
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in relation to a passport application (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing same; and if he...
    • Military Aircraft
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 16 April 2024, to clarify the steps taken to ensure that US Air Force C17 Globemaster aircraft...
    • European Court of Human Rights
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will include the murder of a person (details supplied) in the current case being taken against the British government in the European...
    • EU Membership
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on Türkiye becoming a member of the European Union; his views on the human rights situation in the country; and if he will...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Inland Fisheries
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline what role Inland Fisheries Ireland plays regarding the by-catch in relation to bass, sea trout, salmon,...
    • Waste Management
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a scheme has been established whereby persons with medical conditions that result in the generation of high volumes...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to investigate the reason NBI sought approval for the erection of a pole directly in front of a person's house (details...
    • Departmental Schemes
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details of the number of SEAI warmer homes applications received in the past three years for County...
    • Fuel Poverty
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps taken by his Department and agencies under the remit of his Department (ESV, ESB Networks, Eirgrid, CRU,...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the SRESS; when he expects details of the scheme to be announced; and if he will make a...
    • Fuel Poverty
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he and his Department have taken in the past 12 months to use surplus renewable energy to help reduce energy...
    • Departmental Schemes
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current number of people, by county, approved for the warmer homes scheme and awaiting initial assessment; and the...
    • State Bodies
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff working in the warmer homes section of the SEAI; if additional staff and resources have been...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the inland fisheries division within the Minister’s Department is introducing new secondary legislation...
    • Grant Payments
      127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process in place to check the standard of work carried out by contractors where an SEAI grant is being paid; and if...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the connection of high-speed broadband to Glendalough (details supplied) is facing an additional...
    • Climate Action Plan
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether payments have been made in Cork city under the community climate action plan. [17674/24]
    • Water Pollution
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the preparations his Department is making to ensure there are adequate measures in place to mitigate the risk of toxic...
    • Departmental Staff
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of WTE attachés with responsibility for cybersecurity from his Department based at the Irish Permanent...
    • Air Quality
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if wood products are permitted to be burned in urban areas; and if they are subject to particular conditions nationally...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline his policy with respect to the development and utilisation of hydrotreated vegetable oil in Ireland; the...
    • EU Directives
      135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the exact nature and current status with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 24 January 2024...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the exact value of fines that will be paid to the European Union if Ireland fails to reach the targets set for...
    • EU Directives
      137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the exact nature and current status of the European Commission’s announcement of 24 January 2024 that it was...
    • Departmental Offices
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the work of the climate action regional offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17936/24]
    • Post Office Network
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the disposal of public assets through the sale of An Post offices is consistent with his Department’s policy....
    • Departmental Schemes
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a non-profit district heating scheme in Ireland; and his plans to transition existing schemes to...
  • Department of Defence
    • Commemorative Plaques
      142. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 18 January 2023, if an update will be provided. [17311/24]
    • Defence Forces
      143. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to examine a query regarding the retirement age in the Defence Forces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17343/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department's capital underspend, if any, in 2023; and his Department's projected spend in 2024. [17418/24]
    • Air Accident Investigations
      146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of unpublished military air accident investigation reports that exist covering the years 1990 to date in 2024. [17604/24]
    • Defence Forces
      147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his further plans to increase the retirement age for members of the Defence Forces and the Reserve Defence Force beyond the current age limit;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update in relation to the strategic defence review and provide a timeline on the publication of this review; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Traffic Management
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to deal with increased capacity for traffic at Bray train station in light of BusConnects proposals for the area; and...
    • Rail Network
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress of the assessment for the reopening of Avoca train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Measures
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if changes to legislation will be looked at when it comes to purchasing a boat for tour trips outside of Ireland (details supplied); and...
    • Rail Network
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann will have onboard catering facilities fully restored on trains in time for the busy summer period. [17408/24]
    • Driver Test
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times for a driving test in Clifden, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17428/24]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the CIÉ pensions 1951 scheme, concerning a potential increase of 2.6%; if he will advise on a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract to a company (details supplied) to deliver driver theory tests has been extended; the mechanism under which the contract...
    • Road Projects
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allocate Monaghan County Council the additional €5.9 million necessary to restore local roads to an acceptable level of...
    • Electric Vehicles
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the reasons for the disparity between domestic electric car charging unit prices and the rate per unit charged for...
    • Tax Exemptions
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow for a VAT exemption on the purchase of new buses for deployment in passenger transport given the overarching benefits to...
    • National Car Test
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the large number of cars that have come into the State from outside the European Union are subject to the same NCT and insurance...
    • Rail Network
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nature of refurbishment works carried out at Kilkenny and Carlow train stations in the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the...
    • National Car Test
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost to recruit an additional 25 NCT testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17620/24]
    • Driver Test
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost to recruit an additional 25 driving testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17621/24]
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a regulatory impact assessment was carried out before he signed S.I. No. 703 of 2022 implementing Article 7.3 of Directive 2014/94/EU;...
    • Statutory Instruments
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if industry was consulted, with particular reference to small and medium enterprises, before he signed S.I. No. 703 of 2022 implementing...
    • Bus Services
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the proposed coastal local link bus service serving towns and villages between Arklow and Greystones; and if he will...
    • Fines Administration
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider making changes to payment methods for those issued with speeding fines in Ireland but who live in a foreign country,...
    • Road Network
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is intended to publish the preferred route corridor for the N4 Mullingar to Rooskey. [17740/24]
    • Driver Test
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driving test appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17747/24]
    • Rail Network
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided to upgrade Thomastown railway station, Kilkenny, to make it disabled-friendly and to include modern toilet...
    • Driver Test
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures a person can take in a situation (details supplied) in order to apply for the driver theory test. [17827/24]
    • Road Safety Authority
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter with regard to advertising by the RSA (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that has been allocated to Kerry County Council through the safety improvement works programme on regional and...
    • Digital Archiving
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the digitisation of railway records similar to those of the Land Commission. [17932/24]
    • Departmental Strategies
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the development of a national strategy for camera-based enforcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a road project in Cork (details supplied); if considerations will be given to fast-tracking the project due to the amount...
    • Traffic Management
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any statistics on the impact that school traffic has on commuting times; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of locations at which 23 noise measuring systems will be located by the DAA as directed by the Airport...
    • Bus Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the installation of new bus stops at Portmarnock train station; if local school buses will be...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on CIÉ pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18086/24]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers disqualified in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, by county; the number who surrendered their licence to the Road...
    • National Transport Authority
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of performance-related penalties issued to each public transport provider by the National Transport Authority in 2023. [18122/24]
  • Department of Finance
    • Motor Industry
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the significant delays for motor traders in securing registration appointments to import cars from the UK, which is causing major business...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide further details on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/24]
    • Vacant Properties
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of dwellings eligible to pay the vacant homes tax in Cork, by local area, in tabular form. [17364/24]
    • Tax Code
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the working group established to consider the taxation of funds, life assurance policies and other investment products; in...
    • Tax Exemptions
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claimants of a tax exemption on renting a room up to €14,000. [17479/24]
    • Tax Code
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to reform the current taxation amounts applying to the deployment of HVO and biofuel for HGVs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance for a schedule of the disposal of shares held at a bank (details supplied) by the State, together with the date, transaction value and volume for each...
    • Tax Data
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost, in cumulative terms, of not proceeding with scheduled increases in the carbon tax in each of the years 2025 to 2030, inclusive....
    • Tax Exemptions
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide for a pre-registration VAT exemption status for qualified and accredited members of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Insurance Coverage
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken in respect of the provision of premiums by insurance companies to persons in homes that are not designated as a flood risk; and if his...
    • Financial Services
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered making individual savings accounts (details supplied) available to Irish savers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17661/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form, on a county-by-county basis, the number of help-to-buy claims approved since 1 July 2020, along with the number of...
    • Tax Exemptions
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance given there is an RZT exemption on land with leases in place prior to January 2022, if consideration could be given to a similar exemption for someone who has...
    • State Claims Agency
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the claims on, and settlements made by, the State Claims Agency in each year since 2011, broken down by category; the amount and percentage...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if a scheme (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17810/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance the current position in regard to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; if new members have been appointed; if so, from what date; their terms and...
    • EU Directives
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the exact nature and current status with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 24 January 2024 that it was sending Ireland a formal...
    • State Bodies
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify whether the ISIF holds Israeli government bonds; if so, if he will provide details of same, including their value; and if the ISIF no...
    • Insurance Coverage
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reform flood insurance in Ireland; his views on insurance cover for persons living in areas with demountable flood defences; his views on...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pensions
      218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if she plans to review the rules of the supplementary pension whereby, if a person takes up any paid employment of any duration, they...
    • Public Sector Staff
      219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to ensure those suffering from long-Covid are not penalised in the public sector (details supplied); and if he...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in light of the announcement of the proposed changes to mandatory retirement age in An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces...
    • Commemorative Plaques
      221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will erect an additional plaque in Kilmainham Gaol regarding the Civil War executions that took place there in order to...
    • Flood Risk Management
      222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will provide new stacked timbers, known as stoplogs, or wooden panels known as flashboards, to a person (details supplied);...
    • Insurance Coverage
      225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if home insurance companies can utilise OPW flooding maps in the context of underwriting insurance for homes. [17559/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation will be published on the management of the River Shannon as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Properties
      228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans the OPW has for a farm (details supplied) which was previously acquired for the Garda College; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works
      229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE staff by job title working within the health and safety division in the OPW as of 16 April 2024, in tabular form....
    • Communications Masts
      231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount raised in revenue from third parties taking a leased fixing on a Garda communications mast in 2023 and to date in 2024; if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on the review his Department is undertaking regarding the budgetary treatment of EPCs; when he expects this review to be...
    • Public Sector Staff
      233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason interviews for a position (details supplied) which is to be located in Galway and where all the applicants come from the...
    • Court Accommodation
      234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the works that are now being conducted on the dome of the Four Courts; the reason further works are necessary, in light of the fact that...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the full cost of development of modular homes for Ukrainians since 2022 to date; the cost per development and the cost per...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he remains satisfied that good practice in terms of public expenditure and reform remains in place and capable of...
    • Public Sector Staff
      238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expectation in respect of future recruitment throughout the public sector in 2024 and thereafter; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Economic Policy
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he remains satisfied that policies of his Department continue to reflect well on economic performance, with...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he continues to meet targets in public expenditure and reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18071/24]
    • Project Ireland 2040
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date in respect of the delivery of various projects set out in Project Ireland 2040; the extent to which the projects...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his preferred options to meet ongoing social and economic requirements in the context of current and capital expenditure, in line with...
    • Departmental Contracts
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has undertaken an assessment with other Departments of the ending of work by an organisation (details supplied). [18124/24]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      247. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to consider adding fishermen to the critical skills list (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17320/24]
    • Corporate Governance
      248. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions being taken by the Companies Registration Office and the Corporate Enforcement Authority in relation to the...
    • Personal Injuries Assessment Board
      249. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17326/24]
    • National Minimum Wage
      250. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is proposed to transpose the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive into Irish law; when he proposes to publish the required...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures put in place by his Department to support innovators and entrepreneurs, in particular where start-up businesses are...
    • Business Supports
      252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address an issue regarding the increased cost of business grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Maternity Leave
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering changing the maternity leave policy to include surrogacy leave after the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction)...
    • School Transport
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport pick-up point can be changed to facilitate nine children on a particular road in County Mayo (details supplied); and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will receive the support they need in an educational setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter in relation to a school bus application (details supplied) [17380/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an emergency works application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17381/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the cuts to the special education teacher allocation hours at a school (details supplied); the reasoning for this decision...
    • Schools Building Projects
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a date for when the permanent school building project at a school (details supplied) is due to proceed to tender; if she can...
    • Departmental Staff
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE structural engineers employed by her Department as of 15 April 2024; and if she will provide same figures as of 30 September...
    • Schools Building Projects
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects refurbishment works at (details supplied) to be completed; and the estimated cost of these works. [17405/24]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider assigning a school (details supplied) in Galway City with DEIS status; if she will explain in detail the reasoning behind...
    • School Transport
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look at a case (details supplied) where a pupil who was promised school transport has not been able to start secondary school because...
    • School Admissions
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when a school place in the local Gaelscoil can be accommodated in the case of a child (details supplied) whose parents wish to have them...
    • Schools Building Projects
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm if her Department is indeed putting an expedited plan for the provision of a new gaelcholáiste or gaelcholáistí in the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when DEIS status will be granted to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17450/24]
    • School Transport
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what happens to parents who are unable to apply for a school transport ticket before the closing date of 26 April 2024 as their child has yet to...
    • Health and Safety
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will assist the board of management of a school (details supplied) to ensure that the entire site at the school is surveyed and...
    • School Staff
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extra resources she has dedicated to implementing the new policy on breastfeeding breaks for teachers; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Meetings
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her offices received correspondence on 8 April 2024 on behalf of the parents association of a school (details supplied); if she will meet with...
    • After-School Support Services
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an alternative venue can be sourced to facilitate a club (details supplied) which is due to close in June 2024; and if she will make a...
    • School Funding
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will become available for a school (details supplied) to progress with the resurfacing of the school yard; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what assistance can be offered to a school (details supplied); when this school will be provided with a modular unit; the plans to increase the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to increase the provision of ASD places in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update and details of her plans to construct a new primary school in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; and if she will...
    • School Enrolments
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment numbers at 30 March 2024 for all national schools in County Longford. [17592/24]
    • Teacher Training
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to expand a programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17594/24]
    • School Enrolments
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail, on a county-by-county basis, as of 15 April 2024, or the latest date available, the number of Ukrainian pupils enrolled in...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17639/24]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17641/24]
    • School Transport
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a replacement school bus service for children attending a school (details supplied) was not put in place when the existing service was...
    • School Textbooks
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the roll-out of the primary school book grant scheme; and to confirm when the revised guidelines for 2024/2025 will be...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to request that the Teaching Council addresses an issue raised with me by a person (details supplied); if the Council will set out the precise...
    • School Accommodation
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure an ASD unit is added to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17746/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the special education teaching hours allocated to a school (details supplied) have been reduced by ten hours; if she will reallocate...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on an application for incremental credits submitted by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional funding for a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17833/24]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 20 March 2024, if the Teaching Council will introduce new measures to allow teachers who have...
    • School Transport
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of proposed changes to the school bus transport system, when the new changes will become effective (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received an application for additional accommodation for a primary school in County Leitrim (details supplied); when the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered supporting the installation of ASD units in school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Residential Institutions
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a letter (details supplied); the options available to this person to assist them in locating their family member’s remains;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); and if approval will be issued as soon as possible. [17941/24]
    • Physical Education
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if every school providing physical education will be adequately funded to meet the needs of those participating and to include PE equipment; and...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a school requests a NEPS assessment for a student. [17949/24]
    • School Accommodation
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation regarding a request for approval for a modular classroom at a school (details supplied). [17951/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the construction of a permanent building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the delivery of the new school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason several parents in an area, including one couple (details supplied), have been denied places for their children when they had...
    • Water Services
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a cancellation of a debt to Irish Water in the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18002/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to expand the number of places for special education class provision at preschool, primary and secondary level for those with...
    • School Accommodation
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position on a classroom extension to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18033/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a planning application by a school (details supplied) with Fingal County Council; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is working on plans to enlarge a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18036/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18037/24]
    • School Enrolments
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work her Department has undertaken to assist the primary schools in Portmarnock, County Dublin, with oversubscriptions for 2024-25; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism class school places that will be available in Dublin Fingal East for the school year 2024-25; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 14 February 2024, the progress made with respect to the application for additional accommodation for...
    • School Transport
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will liaise with the relevant authorities to introduce a school pupil's free travel scheme bus pass, similar to the free travel...
    • Water Supply
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the share of all primary schools in the country that have access to drinking water from the mains, local water scheme or their own well; and if...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Funding
      334. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding and grants available to communities that wish to establish community arts centres; and if she would consider the...
    • Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta
      335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an míneoidh sí cén uair a bheidh na toghcháin do bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta ann; cén dul chun...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's capital underspend, if any, in 2023; and her Department's projected spend in 2024. [17421/24]
    • Tourism Schemes
      337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Fáilte Ireland has received an application (details supplied); if so, the date the application was received from the local...
    • Sports Funding
      338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expected date of the sports capital funding announcements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17616/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the supports, if any, made available by her Department to fund international research projects on significant...
    • Sports Facilities
      340. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the response by South Dublin County Council (details supplied); to outline the facilities being proposed by governing...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 20 September 2023, the amount her Department has paid to date to a company (details...
    • Departmental Reviews
      343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the commencement dates for each of the reviews commissioned by her Department (details supplied); the number of days that have...
    • Sports Funding
      344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount allocated to a county (details supplied) under the 2023 sports capital equipment programme; the number of clubs that...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Funding
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications received for the community monument fund 2024, by county, in tabular form; if there is an...
    • Housing Policy
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to ensure older people who wish to downsize or right-size are able to do so; the assistance...
    • Local Authorities
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total amount requested by each local authority in Ireland in respect of reimbursement, following the...
    • Housing Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people in receipt of the housing assistance payment in Cork, by local area, in tabular form. [17365/24]
    • Housing Provision
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 11 April 2024, to provide a breakdown of the number of houses each local authority...
    • Planning Issues
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he agrees that planning applications for sites within industrial estates should be required to prominently display...
    • Departmental Schemes
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a scheme (details supplied); and when he expects it to be open for applicants with water ingress issues to be...
    • Grant Payments
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the number of grants issued by local authorities under each of the grants for older people, housing aid,...
    • Departmental Funding
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider making an increased allocation to Castleblayney care group through the capital assistance scheme in order...
    • Derelict Sites
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work of the Derelict Sites Act working group; the engagements it has had and plans to have...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the European Commission's announcement of 7 February 2024 that it was sending Ireland a letter of formal notice...
    • Research and Development
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update in respect of research his Department is funding regarding activities by Met Éireann; if he...
    • Housing Policy
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms and conditions for purchasing your own home from Westmeath County Council; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Planning Issues
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 30 May 2023, if he plans to provide city status for the town of Drogheda; if he...
    • Local Authorities
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process in place to check the standard of work carried out where a grant from a local authority is being paid; if he is...
    • Vacant Properties
      366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to consider allocating grants based on energy ratings for vacant houses, particularly in cases where the...
    • Housing Policy
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policies and supports in place for individuals who previously met the threshold for a cost-rental property and who are...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when payment will issue to a person in County Mayo (details supplied) for work this person carried out in view of the length...
    • Planning Issues
      370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing developments still undecided by An Bord Pleanála; his plans to ensure the backlog of...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update (details supplied) on the scheme targeting the wastewater collection and treatment needs of villages and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Carlow County Council has applied for inclusion in the enhanced defective block remediation scheme; when the scheme will be...
    • Commercial Rates
      373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter in relation to rates appeals (details supplied). [17870/24]
    • Departmental Data
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential property developments currently owned by investment funds within each local authority area; the name...
    • Commercial Rates
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a reduction or waiver regarding the cost and payments of commercial rates for businesses that are impacted...
    • Water Fluoridation
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is the policy of his Department that all public water schemes are fluoridated; if not, the schemes that have...
    • Housing Policy
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to alter the means test condition based on previous 12 months of income for approval for social housing supports...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on MPA legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17947/24]
    • Departmental Regulations
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the European Union (Planning and Development) (Displaced Persons from Ukraine Temporary Protection) Regulations 2022...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to develop modular homes for the homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18026/24]
    • Statutory Instruments
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to introduce a statutory instrument to exempt developments of rapid-build modular homes for Irish citizens...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to provide adequate wastewater treatment facilities in the towns of Kilconnell, Caltra and Castleblakeney...
    • State Bodies
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of disputes lodged with the Residential Tenancies Board regarding alleged failures to pass on the electricity...
    • Housing Schemes
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the tenant-in-situ scheme to introduce mandatory local authority purchase for certain tenants who are...
    • State Bodies
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the average wait time for a response from the Residential Tenancies Board to landlords seeking to...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what action has been taken to monitor and reduce food waste and packaging waste in the school meals programme; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision on a rent supplement application (details supplied) by a person who had to leave the family home will be...
    • School Meals Programme
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list, by county, of all primary schools now providing hot school meals following this week's expansion,...
    • Community Welfare Services
      394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade, working in the National Community Welfare Contact Centre as of 15 April 2024. [17415/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension that were refused by her Department in the years of 2023 and to date in...
    • Departmental Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of all assistant secretaries and principal officers in her Department, with their current responsibilities....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of the review for DCA in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a change to the eye examination fee for contractors is now under consideration after Department officials met with...
    • Tax Reliefs
      399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of claimants who are availing of the exemption from the means test of the renting of a room...
    • School Meals Programme
      400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provenance of meat, vegetables and other ingredients for the hot school meals programme; if the ingredients are sourced...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment of carer’s allowance will be urgently restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determining an appeal (details supplied); when a final determination is likely to issue; and if she...
    • School Meals Programme
      403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the schools (details supplied) announced for the hot school meals programme can expect the meals to be rolled out; and...
    • Social Insurance
      405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the scheduled increases in PRSI between 2024 and 2028 are factored into table 2 (showing cashflow projections with respect...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to expand the training support grant to cover longer-term courses and those above QQI Level 6; and if she...
    • School Meals Programme
      408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail, on a county-by-county basis, a breakdown of the 150,000 children that will benefit from the expansion of...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons prosecuted for social welfare fraud in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer to increase child benefit by €10 per child in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carer’s allowance submitted on 15 February 2024 (details supplied)...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is proposed to reduce the weekly social support payment for those already here under the temporary protection...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is only receiving €130 in carer’s payment, given the circumstances....
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 16 April, the date her Department will launch the reformed scheme combining the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a domiciliary care allowance review for a person (details supplied). [17933/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity appeal will be urgently expedited for a person (details supplied). [17935/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application (details supplied). [17948/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether any interim payment is available in the case of a person (details supplied) who is a HSE worker who contracted Covid...
    • Social Insurance
      420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person on class D contribution within a State agency is unable to change to class A contributions; if she has...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 9 April, how an assessment is conducted with respect to determining the extent...
    • Registration of Births
      422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the making public of the stillbirth register; if she has further plans for reform to support families through...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a domiciliary allowance payment, which was submitted on behalf of a person (details supplied) in November 2023, will be...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality , further to Parliamentary Question No. 921 of 9 April, if further clarification will be provided on what specifically the...
    • Immigration Status
      425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for advice and-or clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17319/24]
    • Legislative Reviews
      426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she would be willing to carry out a review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 and issues relating to the operation of...
    • Legislative Measures
      427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in instances where residents feel aggrieved by decisions taken or feel owners’ management companies are acting outside...
    • Immigration Status
      428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person can apply for citizenship (details supplied). [17372/24]
    • International Students
      429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of English language schools that were inspected for compliance of the ILEP in each of the years 2016 to 2023, in...
    • Legislative Measures
      431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is her view that existing legislation is sufficient to deal with the issue of rising knife crime, including the carrying...
    • An Garda Síochána
      432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on the replacement of ballistic shields for use by An Garda Síochána in 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Visa Applications
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); if this application...
    • Court Procedures
      434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 375 of 17 October 2023, the breakdown for the current wait times for an initial hearing...
    • Departmental Data
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the number of convictions secured for knife-related crimes for 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Departmental Consultations
      436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 27 February 2024, to confirm if officials in her Department have reviewed...
    • Prison Service
      437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost if an extra 185 prison officers were recruited; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Alcohol Sales
      438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspections Gardaí within the Carlow-Kilkenny division carried out on pubs, clubs and so on, to ensure full...
    • Asylum Seekers
      439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new refuge accommodation units delivered and opened for each of the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular...
    • Prison Service
      442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the progression unit in Mountjoy Prison, which was previously used only for model generic prisoners but...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide in tabular form a Statewide list of community probation teams, by area, the number of staff employed in each and the...
    • Prison Service
      445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure other addiction counsellors are sourced as a matter of urgency for the prison service; her views on the...
    • Departmental Data
      447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a tabular breakdown of the number of cases involving knives and prosecuted under section 9(1) of the Firearms and Offensive...
    • An Garda Síochána
      448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding is available this year for the issuing of mobile fingerprint devices to be issued to frontline gardaí. [17802/24]
    • Seized Property
      450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on Garda Operation Meacan; the number of electric motorbikes seized; and the amount cash and the amount of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the 2023 transport budget for An Garda Síochána has been fully spent; if not, if the underspend 2023 transport...
    • Immigration Policy
      452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department helps fund the costs associated with repatriation for beneficiaries of temporary protection; and if she will...
    • Departmental Data
      453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions have been initiated in respect of alleged offenses under section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004; the...
    • Deportation Orders
      454. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in respect of whom a deportation order has been made that are currently in the State insofar as her...
    • Public Sector Staff
      455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forward legislation to extend the retirement age for prison officers to 62 years given some of the current...
    • Legislative Reviews
      456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the establishment of an independent examiner of security legislation following the enactment of the Policing,...
    • Immigration Status
      457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise their status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce legislation to improve the governance of owners’ management companies; if she will appoint an...
    • State Bodies
      459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent to date on establishment and operation of the Office of the Gambling Regulator. [18007/24]
    • Youth Services
      460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of funding provided to Garda youth diversion projects in an area (details supplied) in each of the past five...
    • Citizenship Applications
      463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for applications for citizenship/naturalisation; the extent to which plans are in hand to improve...
    • An Garda Síochána
      464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women currently serving in An Garda Síochána; the extent to which these numbers have fluctuated in the...
    • Judicial Appointments
      465. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate judges are being appointed to the various courts in order to minimise delays; and if she will make...
    • An Garda Síochána
      466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which gardaí injured in the course of their duties are being compensated or are in the course thereof; and...
    • Child Abuse
      467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she proposes to strengthen the law in regard to child sexual abuse; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Gangland Crime
      468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which tackling gangland drug activity continues to be a priority item, with specific intentions with particular...
    • Prison Service
      471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which educational and rehabilitation facilities remain available in all the prisons throughout the country; the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which cold cases continue to be under observation and investigation; the extent to which modern forensics are...
    • Coroners Service
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting times for the completion of an inquest, by coronial service area, in tabular form. [18064/24]
    • Work Permits
      474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for processing applications for labour market access permits for international protection applicants;...
    • Legislative Measures
      475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she proposes to extend the remedy under section 14 of the Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offenses) Act 2021 where...
    • An Garda Síochána
      476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time equivalent gardaí currently stationed at Kevin Street Garda station, Irishtown Garda station,...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process to accommodate farmers that want to withdraw from the young farmers’ scheme; if sanctions or penalties are...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the processes or measures in place for horses retiring from racing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17387/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's capital underspend, if any, in 2023; and his Department's projected spend for 2024. [17419/24]
    • Tillage Sector
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering allocating funding to address the tillage vision stakeholder group report; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that farmers along the Shannon Callows in Redwood, Ballyea and Ballymacegan, areas of County Tipperary who were...
    • Harbours and Piers
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for details of piers and harbour funding allocated in an area (details supplied) from 2019-2024; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Domestic Pets
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all pets including cats and dogs that have come into the State from abroad have been the subject of the veterinary checks that are...
    • Departmental Data
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of family farms acquired by international investment funds, with the quantity...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many hectares of land farmers applied for under the hay meadow measure in ACRES 2023; how many hectares of hay meadow his...
    • Animal Welfare
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure the protection of the old Irish goat, which according to reports (details supplied), is being hunted for sport...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 organics payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Prices
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on fuel excise increases given the financial pressure many farmers are facing at this...
    • Agriculture Supports
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the provision of meal vouchers in light of the impact of the inordinate weather on the farming community; and if...
    • Harbours and Piers
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered approaches to resolving the ongoing issues at Helvick Pier in An Rinn, where the silting up of the harbour...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of each harbour master currently located in each fishery harbour centre under his remit; and when each harbour master was...
    • Foreshore Issues
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an application for a foreshore licence (details supplied); if it is lawful to carry out acquaculture...
    • Forestry Sector
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1056 of 20 March 2024, to outline the progress made by his Department in presenting the ash...
    • Fisheries Protection
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what research has been carried out on the link between the decline in the sea trout population and sprat fishing in south Kerry; what...
    • Departmental Staff
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 541, 542 and 543 of 16 April 2024, the annual cost of staffing of the forestry division,...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will refer matters raised in an email (details supplied) to the HSE estate management team for a review...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is considering filling vacancies as notified by the owners for an accommodation establishment...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in privately residential care for unaccompanied minors; the number that have not been...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of survivors estimated to be eligible for the mother and baby institute redress scheme; his...
    • Youth Services
      507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of youth workers per education and training board area and youth worker vacancies per ETB area. [17369/24]
    • Children in Care
      508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to reports (details supplied) whereby a child with complex needs was placed in a special emergency...
    • Disability Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were...
    • Youth Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can provide an update on the development of a youth services action plan to provide a strategic direction...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full cost of providing modular homes for Ukrainians to date; the proposed commencement date for the...
    • After-School Support Services
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an alternative venue can be sourced to facilitate a club (details supplied) which is due to close in June...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any application has been made to move Ukrainian refugees into accommodation (details supplied); and if he...
    • Disability Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail, with regard to the findings of the Disability Capacity Review to 2032, the number of...
    • Youth Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided, per education and training board, broken down by local authority area, for youth work...
    • Departmental Policies
      543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to commission research into the support needs of persons with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. [17595/24]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the long time it is taking for a non-verbal child (details supplied) to receive an assessment of...
    • Childcare Services
      545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding or grants available to support the establishment of a childcare facility in Bantry (details...
    • Disability Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the adult and children overnight services that are currently operating in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if...
    • Childcare Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its ongoing funding issues. [17629/24]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees and international protection applicants, respectively, housed in each local...
    • Disability Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application for long-term residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Equality Issues
      551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has finalised his policy and legislative proposals for a tenth equality ground of socioeconomic status;...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide advice to the mother of a young child (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for...
    • Departmental Contracts
      553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department ever had a contract with a company (details supplied) in 2023 and to-date in 2024; if so, what...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      554. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an assessment of needs will take place for a child (details supplied) who is four years of age and on the...
    • Disability Services
      555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when HSE funding will be allocated for approved assisted living for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      563. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17912/24]
    • Childcare Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action he is taking to address the chronic shortage of places in the childcare sector in Kilkenny; if he...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of individual Tusla registered early learning and care services that have participated fully on the...
    • Childcare Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the shortages in childcare staff in the short and long term; and if he will...
    • International Protection
      570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1166 of 20 March 2024, if he will clarify statements (details supplied);...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      571. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the plans for use of modular homes built for Ukrainians should there no longer be a requirement for...
    • International Protection
      572. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has approached the Department of Justice to acquire Thornton Hall in north County Dublin to house...
    • Childcare Services
      573. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the introduction of public provision of childcare, as recommended by the expert group report...
    • International Protection
      574. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of accommodation centres for international protection applicants that were subject to inspection by...
  • Department of Health
    • Care Services
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a building (details supplied) is not currently open and operating; when he expects the service to resume; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 21 November 2023, if an update will be provided. [17310/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the number that applied for the position of ambulance base supervisors with the National Ambulance Service; the number of applicants that had a formal...
    • Health Services
      578. To ask the Minister for Health when the amyloidosis model of care, which was approved by the HSE in 2022, will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for surgery (details supplied). [17333/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the current ambulance response times across west Cork; the number of ambulances available in the area; and the number of paramedics assigned to the area. [17350/24]
    • Health Services
      581. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17388/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant paediatric ophthalmologist at CHI Temple Street. [17409/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Mullingar Regional Hospital in the years 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17410/24]
    • Health Services
      584. To ask the Minister for Health how the €1.4 million new development funding in 2024 for the expansion of the newborn bloodspot screening will be spent. [17411/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant urologists and urology registrars part of each hospital in the Ireland East Hospital Group in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Departmental Data
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the number of births in the maternity unit of Mullingar Regional Hospital in the years 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17414/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      587. To ask the Minister for Health if there are longer-term plans to bring the vacant units in Cherry Orchard Hospital back into use in the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      588. To ask the Minister for Health when the diagnostics for bloods will be reinstated for GPs in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17434/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17440/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that approximately 15 retired GPs over the age of 72 unhesitatingly responded to the pleas of the HSE to remain in their posts, given the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the extraordinary situation where it seems to be the case that the primary care reimbursement service, despite contractual obligations,...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      595. To ask the Minister for Health when it will be possible to increase the COSS eye exam fee payable to contractors to ensure parity with that payable for a similar exam under the Department of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      596. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive botox injections into lower lumbar region as the person has been waiting for same over three years; and...
    • Medical Internships
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give equal status to medical graduates who received funding from the State to study in Northern Ireland when applying for an internship programme...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a HSE reimbursement application was refused for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17472/24]
    • Health Strategies
      599. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a diabetes taskforce to develop a National Diabetes Strategy; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the details of any analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department into the number of hospital-based...
    • Primary Care Centres
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials will meet with local residents’ groups in Drimnagh to discuss the timeline for construction of the Drimnagh primary care centre;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the most common technology aids provided under the medical appliances scheme offered by the HSE; the number sanctioned in each of the past three years; if an...
    • Public Sector Pay
      605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction the pay award recommended to senior health managers when Report 42 was issued and approved by the Government in 2007 and which has also...
    • Health Services Staff
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the recruitment embargo on cardiac services; the number of positions that cannot be filled; if services will be affected; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if GP visit and medical card holders with underlying conditions should be charged for blood tests by their GPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      609. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) and expedite surgery urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17544/24]
    • Public Sector Pay
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Caredoc staff in County Carlow have not been listed by the HSE / KOSI for payment of the Section 39 payrises, despite being informed that they are...
    • Patient Transport
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if measures can be put in place to assist nursing home patients to attend hospital appointments where they can only be transported by ambulance as currently...
    • Eating Disorders
      612. To ask the Minister for Health when the eating disorder outpatient facility is due to open in Mount Carmel; the operational capacity of this facility; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant respiratory medicine and respiratory medicine registrars based at Beaumont Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Data
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients aged 40 years and younger diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant paediatric ENT surgeons working in the public health service; his plans to expand this number; the international recommended best...
    • Health Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a hospice for the midlands region; to outline the level of funding available; and the approximate timeline for...
    • Cancer Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of the promised new cancer care centre in Galway University Hospital; the timeline for the construction of the new centre; and if...
    • Health Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Ireland currently screens newborn babies for fewer diseases than 75% of EU member states; if he is aware that only one new test has been...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology and the waiting times under primary care in counties...
    • Mental Health Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of services and supports currently available in a service (details supplied) for young people and for older people under psychiatry of later...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      624. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what engagement has taken place with other Departments to discuss supports that can be made available to healthcare workers with long- Covid who are...
    • Home Help Service
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns raised by HSE home support service workers who fear the recruitment freeze in the health service is accelerating the privatisation...
    • Medical Cards
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if a person in receipt of a medical card should be paying for Vitamin B12 injections in their local GP service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      633. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) will get sanctioned for funding from the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      634. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for vestibular physiotherapy at Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the process for a disabled person to apply for a personal assistant through the HSE; if it is the same process in all CHO areas; what is the process for...
    • Primary Care Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the audiology clinic in Tuam primary care centre, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to a request via email dated 15 April 2024 for a meeting from the Donegal branch of an organisation (details supplied) to discuss diabetes...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by HSE to meals on wheels service providers in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17816/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time healthcare assistants employed by the HSE working in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO7 in the years...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE for a meals on wheels service for individuals via the public health nurse in 2023; and the percentage of those requests...
    • Hospital Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant gastroenterologists and WTE gastroenterologist registrars based in St. James's Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Human Trafficking
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking indicators; the level to which this training has...
    • Mental Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers and nurses employed by CAMHS mental health intellectual disability...
    • Care Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE-funded day care centre within CHO 7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form. [17823/24]
    • Hospital Admissions
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been admitted to CHI Crumlin and have been in the hospital for 28 or more continuous days in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in...
    • Childcare Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a matter (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17856/24]
    • Local Elections
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if a HSE worker who is currently employed at the grade of general dental surgeon: 1597, is eligible to run for local election; if there is a list of specific...
    • Law Reform Commission
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to the recommendations made in the recent report by the Law Reform Commission on the need for the Government to establish a regulatory...
    • Health Services Staff
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to have a specialist nurse in Kerry for the many people who have Parkinson's disease and at the very least need to have access to a...
    • Primary Care Centres
      655. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE became aware that construction work on the development of Ballyhaunis primary care centre was to come to a halt in 2021; the reasons cited for...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the services purchased by St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, under the national treatment purchase plan for the years 2021-2024; the breakdown...
    • Public Sector Pay
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give urgent attention to a serious issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17895/24]
    • Health Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17903/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17919/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      663. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital procedure will be scheduled for a person (details supplied) who has been waiting for a number of years for same.; and if he will make a...
    • Substance Misuse
      664. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 22 February 2024, if hexahydrocannabinol is defined as a psychoactive drug under existing legislation and relating...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if a battery pack for a wheelchair will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17934/24]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      666. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 18 April 2024, if his attention has been drawn to delays in the establishment of a register of counsellors and...
    • Departmental Data
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the incidence rate of shingles for those aged under 50 and over 50 years, respectively, for each of the past five years to date. [17942/24]
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the meals-on-wheels service operated by the HSE in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny; if each recipient of the service has been consulted on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the reason reimbursement support for Ozempic® (Semaglutide) is only available to those with eligibility under the general medical services scheme or the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason dermatology services at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital have not been included as priority areas of focus in the...
    • Hospital Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with type 1 diabetes attending the adult diabetes service in Letterkenny University Hospital; the number waiting fewer than 12, between...
    • Medicinal Products
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the approval of fenfluramine for the treatment of dravet syndrome (details supplied). [17972/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      674. To ask the Minister for Health whether any interim payment is available in the case of a person (details supplied) who is a HSE worker who contracted Covid on the frontline during the...
    • Health Services
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the lack of community rehabilitation and support services for...
    • Medical Register
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiation therapists registered by CORU in each of the years since 2017, in tabular form. [17979/24]
    • Hospital Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with type 2 diabetes who attend the adult diabetes service in Letterkenny University Hospital; the number of those who are waiting less...
    • Medicinal Products
      680. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the funding of a fenfluramine for a child (details supplied) on compassionate grounds. [17985/24]
    • Health Services
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the myalgic encephalomyelitis working group established by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Patient Transport
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of cuts to a vital service which is affecting patients with ongoing sight issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      683. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 29 November 2022, to provide an update regarding the boarding out scheme; and if his Department has considered...
    • Nursing Homes
      684. To ask the Minister for Health when and how did the HSE contact HIQA to inform them they were not going to be applying for registration of the new Nenagh community nursing home in 2024....
    • Health Promotion
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the reason there is currently no funding plan for a Healthy Food Made Easy programme in County Clare; the reason no facilitator...
    • Hospital Staff
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide details of the current levels of staffing for Cork University Hospital's paediatric epilepsy services; the number of positions which are...
    • Dental Services
      688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline plans his Department has to recruit dentists into the HSE dental service so that the huge backlog of children awaiting dental treatment in...
    • Health Service Executive
      689. To ask the Minister for Health to arrange for a proper boundary wall to be erected between Lakepoint housing estate and the HSE building in Lakepoint, Mullingar, as there is currently a...
    • Health Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) in Donegal to address the current crisis in the service; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Internships
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the current anomaly whereby Irish medical students who studied in Northern Ireland are classed as a tier-two applicant for the internship...
    • Hospital Facilities
      692. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned disposal of the St. Brigid’s Hospital Campus in Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18117/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      693. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the staffing required for the new 50-bed ward block at Portiuncula University Hospital; whether such requirements will be met when the new ward...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Period Poverty
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the €200 thousand share of funding for Naughton + Smyth framework for the provision of period products to...
    • Third Level Education
      695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on Trinity College’s policy (details supplied) which prevents any external tour guides from using the campus and/or Book of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's capital underspend, if any, in 2023; and his Department's projected spend in 2024. [17422/24]
    • Research Funding
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allocate increased funding across all career stages for researchers; and his views on the importance of basic or frontier research...
    • Grant Payments
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SUSI grant will be rolled out for part-time courses from September 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17562/24]
    • Third Level Education
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the closure of a college (details supplied) and the impact it is having on students and their families; and if he will engage...
    • Grant Payments
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants or scholarships available to Irish students studying for masters degrees in UK institutions. [17591/24]
    • Period Poverty
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, following the success of his pilot scheme of free period products in further education/training centres, his Department has engaged with the...
    • Research and Development
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the members of the Steering Group, Implementation Forum and Advisory Forum of Impact 2030: Ireland’s Research and Innovation...
    • Medical Research and Training
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans or actions he has taken to attain membership of the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine; and if he will make a statement...
    • Third Level Education
      707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what options are available to an Irish student (details supplied) whose studies were impacted by Covid lockdowns; what avenues are available to...
    • Further and Higher Education
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he is taking to retain current and future personnel in the construction sector, and from being recruited internationally; the number...
    • Third Level Education
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the work of his Department to secure places for students from this jurisdiction in medical schools in Northern...
    • Third Level Admissions
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17944/24]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Community Development Projects
      712. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding and grants available to communities that wish to establish community arts centres; and if she would consider the...
    • Departmental Funding
      713. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided to the community and voluntary pillar in each of the years 2014 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      714. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of youth work organisations who made successful applications to the community centre investment fund under categories...
    • Control of Dogs
      716. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1726 of 9 April 2024, if she will confirm a number of details about a group (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Schemes
      717. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline, in tabular form, each individual project awarded funding in County Westmeath since January 2020 under the rural...

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