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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members required to sufficiently staff a neurology department within a model 4 Irish hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4373/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he could confirm in tabular form per hospital how many temporary consultants in model 4 hospitals are currently "pending compliance clearance"; how long this process usually takes to complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4374/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an electroencephalographic machine in University Hospital Waterford. [4375/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if, due to the shortage of blood stocks in Irish hospitals, there are any plans within his Department to have full-time blood donation clinics in Ireland; if his Department is considering if the donation of blood could be incentivised in some way, perhaps in the form of vouchers and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4376/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail a timeline and schedule of pre-procurement and procurement activities, including any costs defrayed in respect of the three PPP projects contemplated at SETU Waterford since 2005. [4357/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional college places, by higher level institution, provided in each of the areas in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary since 2020, in tabular form. [4358/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a statement on the original projected costs and now envisaged final total cost in respect of the Cork School of Music and Cork Maritime College. [4359/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a statement on the general decline in student numbers across the technological university sector since the sector was established. [4360/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the nature of the slow and painstaking work in studying and developing of a borrowing framework by his Department for the technological sector. [4361/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the annual payments in respect of the loans provided to IT Tralee and Waterford IT since the loan was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4362/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the progress of new lecturing and research contracts for faculty working in the technological university sector in light of the OECD Report entitled 'A Review of Technological University Academic Career Paths, Contracts and Organisation in Ireland'; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4512/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected date for the publication of the Central Bank NCID (National Claims Information Database) Employers' Liability, Public Liability and Commercial Property Insurance Report 2022 in view of the delay in publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4772/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he could provide an annual breakdown of the total cost incurred to date of the Metrolink North project; to detail the measures put in place to ensure costs are moderated and controlled; if he can offer a forward-looking statement on envisaged expenditure in the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he could please outline the key policy achievements realised and new initiatives taken by his Department in Waterford during 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4967/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the business case for the Waterford Airport runway extension (details supplied) within his Department; if the Department has had sight of same; if so, the reason he has not been included in reviewing it to date, understanding the extremely tight construction timelines pertaining to the project; the expected timeframe he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to further expand the inheritance thresholds in the next budget, particularly where it relates to the estates of single individuals; if he would acknowledge that single people with no children are at a particular disadvantage while estate planning given that their estate will likely be gifted to those in the ‘stranger in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will formally respond to the specific issues raised in relation to the situation of a teacher (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5262/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planners recruited by the Land Development Agency from An Bord Pleanála; if he acknowledges that recruiting staff from the already overstretched An Bord Pleanála only undermines further the Government's planning strategy and exacerbates current waiting times; if there are any plans to outsource...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he could provide details relating to the Cork Event Centre; the estimated costs of constructing the Cork Event Centre during the project timeline; an annualised breakdown of actual direct costs or grant aid supplied in respect of this project; a timeline of the project’s advancement through the public spending...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regional Development (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the statistical measures and controls used across Government Departments to ensure balanced regional development, and that the four largest cities outside Dublin grow at the twice the rate of the capital. [4968/24]