Dáil Éireann
Written answers
Some recent written answers
- Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 January 2025)
- Niamh Smyth:
1556. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) needing advice on obtaining a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1458/25]
- Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (22 January 2025)
- Barry Ward:
463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase provision to improve Gaeloideachas, including possible tax incentives for teachers who teach through Irish only in all-Irish medium schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2013/25]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Care Packages (22 January 2025)
- Peadar Tóibín:
1216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of any instances where home care agencies outsourced from the HSE are requesting that persons with a disability who have a live-in carer to provide food and cover other living expenses for their carer; if so, if any such policy is decided by the HSE or by the agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1167/25]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (22 January 2025)
- Rose Conway-Walsh:
306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the annual allocation of capital and current spend and the annual drawdown of capital and current spend by each local authority for each of the years from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [2085/25]
- Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 January 2025)
- Duncan Smith:
1367. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a drug shortage (details supplied); the steps that will be taken to address this shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46537/24]
- Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 January 2025)
- Thomas Gould:
1433. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children awaiting a CAMHS appointment, by wait time, in tabular form. [46806/24]
- Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 January 2025)
- Niall Collins:
340. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the inheritance tax thresholds for 2025 and any planned changes to same in subsequent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1397/25]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 January 2025)
- Rory Hearne:
1236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to correspondence received by a childcare service in Dublin 11 regarding damage to its premises (details supplied), the immediate supports that will be offered to the service to ensure as little disruption to staff and families as possible; if his Department will liaise with the relevant officials, including Dublin City Council, in relation to the matter; what plans are in place to ensure the service can fully reopen with full services available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1325/25]
- Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (22 January 2025)
- Eoin Ó Broin:
1697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current surplus in the National Training Fund; the impediments to its spend; the spending that was applied in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46318/24]
- Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 January 2025)
- Emer Currie:
533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to extend the period of time an SNA can apply for leave following an incident in school as provided for under Circular 0062/2017 which currently stands at one week and is not enough time if a staff member is out of work and needs assistance with the process. [46670/24]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (22 January 2025)
- John Connolly:
162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of front of school projects on the safe routes to school scheme across the country that have been fully completed since the initiation of the scheme in 2020. [46332/24]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (22 January 2025)
- Barry Ward:
297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will safeguard trees in Shankill village that are under threat from BusConnects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1849/25]
- Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (22 January 2025)
- Malcolm Byrne:
552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have indicated that they will offer classes in Foreign languages from September 2025; and the languages offered [46749/24]
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (22 January 2025)
- Paul Donnelly:
845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the rates for breakfast increased from 75c to €1 per person, cold lunch increased from €1.70 to €2.10 per person, dinner increased from €2.50 to €3.10 per person and hot school meal increased from €3.20 to €4 per person under the school meals programme. [46304/24]
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (22 January 2025)
- Michael Healy-Rae:
85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to publish the renewable heat obligation scheme; the reason for the delay in publishing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1033/25]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (22 January 2025)
- John Connolly:
259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if adequate additional resources will be provided to local authorities to enable them carry out essential road gritting works on all local and national routes during extreme weather conditions as experienced recently (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1539/25]
- Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (22 January 2025)
- Michael Cahill:
1393. To ask the Minister for Health to consider the urgent need for additional nursing staff/home carers to cater for our elderly loved ones, as there is a huge shortfall of required caring staff in Kerry, with Dingle, the Iveragh peninsula, south and east Kerry being particularly badly affected; if he will provide additional nurses/carers to visit them regularly because if the present staff shortage is not dealt with people will need to return to a hospital setting, with all associated additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46639/24]
- Department of Health: Health Promotion (22 January 2025)
- Carol Nolan:
1581. To ask the Minister for Health for the costs incurred to date in the development and rollout a public awareness campaign (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1603/25]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (22 January 2025)
- Holly Cairns:
1288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of any public contracts in his Department provided to companies or individuals who do not pay tax in Ireland, including the names of the contractor, value of the contract and purpose of the contract, in tabular form. [2029/25]
- Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (22 January 2025)
- Paul Murphy:
1445. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to make melatonin available for children with autism diagnosis under the hardship scheme for medication, and not part of the DPS with a GP prescription; and if he will ensure that there is no requirement for a consultant script for access. [46855/24]