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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Complaints Procedures (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify whether procedures for the use of section 28 of the Education Act 1998 have been issued; if there are plans to issue them; and whether the lack of such procedures is hampering the fair handling of grievances that may arise in a school setting. [25586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate for each local authority, the number of expressions of interest to his Department; the number of applications; the number of approvals under the Affordable Housing Fund made to date; and the average payment per development undertaken. [25589/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate the number of expressions of interest, of applications and of approvals under the Croí Cónaithe Towns Fund for the development of sites. [25590/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate the number of expressions of interest, the number of applications and of approvals under the Croí Cónaithe Cities Fund. [25591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the progress to date on the projected affordable housing delivery of each local authority; and the number planned that remain to be developed. [25592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered what it would cost to extend the fuel allowance to persons who have been six months on an assistance payment, and to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 608. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth that available therapeutic resource for children with special needs is properly allocated between completing assessments and delivering therapeutic services; and if he will indicate the key performance targets for the new disability networks, and their capacity to achieve them. [18546/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 747. To ask the Minister for Health when the new means limit for the GP only card, which was due to be in place from April 2023 will come into force; and if he will outline the exact thresholds that will apply. [26099/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the preparatory work being done for the roll-out of community safety plans beyond the pilot areas; if new sources of funding, beyond the proceeds of crime, will be needed to fund initiatives under these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25190/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the support to victims of crime now being provided, including an assessment of the numbers benefitting from supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25191/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Spending Code (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way the price of carbon fixed in the public expenditure code is factored into the design of agricultural policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the review of land use currently under way; the key findings of the work to date; and the implications for future policy development. [25194/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 288. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all sections 38 and 39 organisations that receive funding from his Department or the HSE MHS budget for the provision of mental health supports for the past three years; to provide details on the services being provided by these organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25448/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has investigated areas where there are very high concentrations of claimants of jobseeker’s allowance, one-parent family allowance, disability allowance or other indicators of concentrated need; and if she is considering innovations in these areas to break the cycle. [24636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he believes there is justification for the introduction of a charge on brown bins - and therefore food and garden waste - by waste collection companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24463/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Accommodation (23 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if there are impediments to former nursing homes which are no longer in use being considered for emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24847/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering supports for the construction of affordable homes for purchase along the lines of the supports recently announced for cost rental. [23561/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Electoral Process (16 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will consider adding persons with a disability to the roster of persons who act as election observers in other jurisdictions, as has been recommended by an Oireachtas Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22517/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 45. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has reviewed the operation of the legislation which mandated the preparation of strategy statements, annual reporting against objectives and systematic annual evaluation of a rolling number of key programmes; his views on whether it has achieved its objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (9 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance how the projected surplus can be harnessed to strengthen Ireland's economic and social foundations. [21511/23]