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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 applicants associated with these claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance how many homebuyers in each county have availed of the help-to-buy scheme since July 2020, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17672/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Court Accommodation (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 major works on the dome were completed in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18004/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 matter. [18051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 Irish schools at primary level and at post-primary level, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17607/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 stakeholders in March to discuss a change to the (optical) treatment benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 the hot meals scheme announced on 15 April 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17606/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 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 Social Protection's treatment (optical) benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (18 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recent approval of AI legislation by the European Parliament; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16888/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recent Supreme Court ruling in relation to the personal injuries guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in regard to her press release of 10 April 2024, which references that 800 school building projects have been completed since 2020 and 300 other projects are under construction, she will detail the number of school building projects that have been completed, by county, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of the total number of projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the minor works funding provided for each county in each school year 2020-21 to 2023-24, inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17065/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the summer works funding provided for each county in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if an Irish citizen who graduates with a medicine degree from a Northern Ireland University can be funded and return to work in the HSE notwithstanding the fact that they are classed as a tier 2 applicant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (16 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will adopt and promote the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021; and if not, the measures to increase penalties for knife crime she will introduce. [16559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 640. To ask the Minister for Health how many public health nurses there are in the CHO6 area and the extent to which they provide care in the community as opposed to private healthcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16064/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I will start with a question about the digital grant for schools. On the last occasion the Minister was before the committee, I raised the schools excellence fund. One of the issues I had with it was that priority was not given to DEIS schools. Will such priority be given in respect of the digital grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I remember on the last occasion - I think it was in respect of the schools excellence funds - there may have been a lottery used, such were the numbers that applied. That is probably something the Department did not wish to do, but does the Minister envisage that happening in respect of the digital grant or will there be a more equitable way of doing it?