Dáil Éireann

Written answers

Some recent written answers

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 July 2024)

Gary Gannon:

474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will explain the process by which individuals on illness benefit can transition to invalidity payment; and if measures are in place to streamline this process for those dealing with serious illnesses, such as cancer. [29322/24]

Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 July 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú:

68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to increasing funding for primary schools to align that funding to the OECD average; if consideration will be given to providing primary schools with a consistent funding schedule in order to help them better budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29897/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (4 July 2024)

Robert Troy:

512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the reason applicants cannot take part in ETB courses without a valid work permit, and if he intends to amend the criteria. [28693/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (11 July 2024)

Bernard Durkan:

239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures currently in place or envisaged to combat school bullying in its various forms at primary and second level schools throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30866/24]

Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 July 2024)

David Cullinane:

330. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on intensive home care package waiting lists at the latest available data point for 2024; the number waiting on approval and for funding, in tabular form. [30332/24]

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (9 July 2024)

John Brady:

42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on plans to redevelop and upgrade the Garda station in Greystones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26506/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 July 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan:

496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if free travel can be provided for all means tested social welfare recipients to promote the use of public transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29747/24]

Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (4 July 2024)

Catherine Connolly:

95. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 21 May 2024, the timeline for the NTMA to fully divest from all ISIF global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; the details of the risk analysis which led to the NTMA’s recent divestment from six such companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28386/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 July 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne:

167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been unsuccessful in applying for disability allowance; if her Department will reconsider the application given the available evidence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30124/24]

Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 July 2024)

Holly Cairns:

751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who were on the child psychology primary care waiting list but aged out of the service, from 2018 to date, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29584/24]

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 July 2024)

Martin Browne:

308. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he plans to address the low number of successful applicants who took up roles within CDNTs following the recruitment drive which ended in January of 2024, and the fact that 75 per cent of applicants were already employed in the public health and social care services; the measures taken to ensure that the filling of positions by such workers does not cause shortages elsewhere in the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30649/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 July 2024)

Michael Ring:

277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in respect of an appeal for a person in County Mayo (details supplied), in view of the fact that this appeal is ongoing since 15 December 2022, and the hardship that is being caused to this person by this extreme delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30812/24]

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (9 July 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan:

383. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for reforming the current licence fee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29732/24]

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (11 July 2024)

Barry Cowen:

19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he is taking to advance Ireland's FDI and trade value proposition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30037/24]

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 July 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill:

593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budgetary measures implemented since 2020 to support and improve services for adults with additional needs, including residential beds and assisted living placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29919/24]

Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (9 July 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae:

652. To ask the Minister for Health when the CT scanner at University Hospital Kerry will be fixed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29094/24]

Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (9 July 2024)

Michael Ring:

216. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of USC tax payable, in each of the past three years by a single wage earner, a couple jointly assessed with a gross income of €100,000, and separately a gross income of €110,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29836/24]

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (9 July 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan:

289. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what measures are being committed to by his Department in supporting SMEs and the hospitality and retail sectors, which are experiencing ongoing impacts due to rising costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29806/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (10 July 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae:

99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will fulfil the promise in the programme for Government to develop a 'policy for the Irish language in the education system from preschool to third level' without any further delay, and set up an expert group to develop this policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30213/24]

Department of Defence: Air Corps (10 July 2024)

Catherine Murphy:

32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the flights flown by the Air Corps Pilatus PC-12 in May and June 2024; and the downtime or maintenance periods, if any, arising from such flights or otherwise. [30051/24]