Written answers

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the source of the information outlined in his correspondence of 29 April 2020 in which he indicated to this Deputy the target of 100,000 tests a week was agreed by NPHET...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has engaged with his UK and Northern Ireland counterparts on the implications of the proposed mandatory quarantine period on cross-Border travel and trade. [7582/20]
    • Cabinet Committees
      4. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which each of the Cabinet committees have met in the past three months, in tabular form. [8064/20]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      5. To ask the Taoiseach if a charity (details supplied) has confirmed with him the board members of a company. [8065/20]
  • Department of Defence
    • UN Missions
      6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of Defence Forces personnel on the UNIFIL operation whose return here has been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the efforts...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated full year cost of purchasing 15 extra combat support service armoured 8 x 8 drop vehicles for the Defence Forces; and if he will...
    • Departmental Properties
      8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Napoleonic battery fortress on Carrig Island, Ballylongford, County Kerry was taken into the ownership of his Department after independence...
    • Overseas Missions
      9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of efforts to return two members of the Defence Forces home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7317/20]
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will extend the deadline for applications for cadetships in the Defence Forces until September 2020 due to the Covid-19 restrictions. [7398/20]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on possible illegal activity at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7466/20]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to support the need of members of the Defence Forces for secure long-term housing; if the matter will be addressed through local...
    • Air Corps
      14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the level of capital investment underway and planned for the Air Corps; the aircraft being purchased; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of progress on plans for a peace and leadership institute on the Curragh Camp, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of discussions between his Department and the Department of Education and Skills on a potential site for a new post-primary school for...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • UN Security Council
      18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland’s bid to win a seat at the United Nations Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7135/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a matter regarding travel to China (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7158/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if additional primary legislation is required in the event that the United Kingdom exits the transition period under WTO terms; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to prevent the outbreak of Covid-19 in Syria; the accountability mechanisms through which his Department ensures...
    • Passport Applications
      23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding renewing passports; if there are delays; the average waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage of the EU recovery fund that will be allocated to Ireland; the amount that will be allocated to each sector; and the sectors...
    • Passport Applications
      26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport offices will recommence the processing of day-to-day passport applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the travel advice for families that have booked holidays during the summer months in other EU countries; if families should seek a refund for...
    • Passport Services
      28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he plans to reopen the provision of passport services; the reason the matter was not considered a critical service due to the...
    • Military Aircraft
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace between 1 January 2020 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects the authentications and-or apostilles in the public offices to reopen in Dublin and Cork in the context of the Roadmap for...
    • Northern Ireland
      31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will continue to pursue the matter of EU immigration and family unification rights for Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland with...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which efforts continue in the Middle Eastern peace process in particular with reference to the need for permanent structures to...
    • Passport Services
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the online processing of passports will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8149/20]
    • Passport Data
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the waiting time for a new passport, a renewed passport online and offline, respectively; if the demand is still high from Irish citizens...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens that are still abroad and seeking support for repatriation following the outbreak of Covid-19; the number of...
    • Property Tax
      37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the process in cases in which property owners that sell their homes must pay the local property tax for the full year; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      38. To ask the Minister for Finance if changes will be made to the wage subsidy scheme in order to grant the payment to mothers on maternity leave and due to return to work in view of the fact...
    • Insurance Coverage
      40. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to property insurance during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7450/20]
    • Tax Credits
      41. To ask the Minister for Finance if childminders will continue to be able to access the childminders tax credit if they provide care in the home of the child on a temporary basis as a result...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      42. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the temporary wage subsidy scheme for the tourism and hospitality sector in view of the long-term impacts of Covid-19 for these...
    • Vehicle Registration
      44. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects vehicle registration tax centres to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7974/20]
    • Tourism Industry
      45. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider measures (details supplied) to bolster the tourism sector. [8026/20]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      46. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria for the primary medical certificate will be reviewed and qualification criteria eased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8029/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      47. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on adjusting the calculation for Covid-19 wage subsidy to be based on annual average wages to compensate for seasonal variations in income for some...
    • Health Insurance
      48. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on allowing tax relief on private health insurance for dental treatments to help stimulate the sector when the emergency has passed. [7052/20]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      49. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on directing the Revenue Commissioners to amend the terms of the MED 2 scheme to allow relief at the marginal rate for the remainder of 2020. [7053/20]
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      50. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 17 December 2019, if further consideration has been given to enhanced or expanded tax relief or other forms of...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      53. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an obligation under the temporary wage subsidy scheme on employers to pay employees if the employees have returned to work as certain restrictions...
    • Insurance Industry
      54. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of his discussions and conclusions made with the insurance industry on compensating businesses with disruption cover for infectious diseases on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      58. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports being put in place for professionals such as dentists that are often sole traders, many of whom have had no income or business since mid-March...
    • Revenue Commissioners Staff
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance if the number of staff dealing with customers experiencing difficulties contacting the Revenue Commissioners regarding tax queries will be increased; if the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reviewing the rules regarding accessing the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if the Revenue Commissioners can be given...
    • Credit Unions
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance if an impact assessment has been carried out on the status of credit unions here in view of the Covid-19 pandemic; the supports that can be offered to credit...
    • Home Building Finance Ireland
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for loans to Home Building Finance Ireland since its establishment; the number of loan approvals; the number of loan drawdowns; the...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance when VRT applications will commence. [7535/20]
    • Banking Sector
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will take to ensure that banks which offered term extensions to loans, including mortgages, will not add penalties or recapitalisation or...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is eligible to avail of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/20]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if the administrative officer audit and compliance 2018 panel which expired on 31 December 2018 is still operative due to the fact that the new panel has not...
    • Mortgage Lending
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to home buyers with mortgage approvals based on their pre-Covid-19 financial earnings that are now temporarily on pandemic...
    • Corporation Tax
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance the conditions applied to a member state before it can avail of funding (details supplied); if corporation tax reform in terms of rate, minimum effective tax...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to include seasonal workers under the wage subsidy scheme in view of the fact that their period of employment ordinarily would be during the summer...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to aid small businesses that cannot receive a commercial loan from a bank in spite of the provision of the SME credit guarantee scheme; and if he...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the help-to-buy scheme to second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7963/20]
    • Insurance Industry
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with the insurance industry in relation to rebates for public liability insurance and employer liability insurance for those...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses that have availed of each of the Covid-19 supports put in place by his Department; the number of employees that have availed of each...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the capital acquisitions tax deadline of 31 October 2020 to 31 January 2021 to bring it into line with extensions granted in...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider changes to the cycle to work scheme to facilitate employees purchasing new bicycles and electric bicycles (details supplied); and if he...
    • Company Liquidations
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed the liquidation of a company (details supplied) with a bank that is a shareholder in the parent company; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are planned changes to the preliminary corporation tax and preliminary income tax requirements specifically in view of the current trading environment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      89. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some employers in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme are making the employees continue to work full-time but...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Appointments Service
      92. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that were employed arising from a recruitment competition (details supplied); the number of persons that have yet...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood protection works at Springfield, Clonlara, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8068/20]
    • Drainage Schemes
      94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the necessary funding will be provided as a matter of urgency to carry out emergency improvement works to the embankment at Cromane...
    • Departmental Funding
      96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status on an application by a school (details supplied) under the Public Service Innovation Fund; the timeframe for decisions on...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the income received from each current, former or decommissioned Garda station, site and or building that has a telecom and or...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Enniscorthy flood defence scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7774/20]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 5 March 2020, the progress made in relation to the new guidance on the implementation of...
    • Pension Provisions
      100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a resolution to the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when Safe Pass courses are expected to resume as part of the Roadmap for Reopening Society & Business. [7263/20]
    • School Transport
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has to pay a large amount each year for bus fees; if more school buses will be introduced; and if he will...
    • Medical Qualifications
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in medical schools; the number of Irish students admitted annually; the number of non-Irish students admitted annually; and...
    • Institutes of Technology
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied) for a pension abatement waiver submitted in July 2019; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student based at a network (details supplied) is entitled to the pandemic unemployment payment if already in receipt of jobseeker's; if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial supports and measures will be made available to ensure social distancing measures can be properly implemented on school buses when...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the phase under which educational services and facilities that deliver measures for children with disabilities will be allowed reopen; and if he...
    • State Examinations
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on putting in place a system to monitor the success, challenges and failures of the 2020 leaving certificate arrangements as a case...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when parents and teachers can expect a detailed plan on the way in which they can return to school in September 2020; and if schools will receive...
    • State Examinations
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if junior certificate or leaving certificate examinations material had been already prepared for the 2020 exam; if so, if these papers can be...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recommendations and written instructions from NEPS to students and schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly for those preparing for...
    • School Transport
      115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport scheme for pupils will be reassessed in view of the difficulties facing parents in getting their children accepted into...
    • Special Educational Needs
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision is going ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7086/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional teacher will be appointed at a school (details supplied) to improve the pupil-teacher ratio at the school; and the status of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of the review of the July provision programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7127/20]
    • School Staff
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of providing 10,000 extra release days for teaching principals in primary schools; and if he will make a statement...
    • State Examinations
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the meaning of teachers' estimated marks from each school being adjusted to bring them into line with the expected distribution for the school;...
    • School Staff
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the guidelines previously mentioned to protect teachers and school staff from lobbying and canvassing on behalf of particular...
    • Student Support Schemes
      127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in place for leaving certificate students in 2021 in view of the fact they have lost considerable classroom time and are likely to be...
    • School Staff
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken in schools to facilitate staff that have underlying health conditions and may not be in a position to return to work in...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place for students that are in the final year of their masters for secondary school teaching in circumstances in which Irish...
    • Special Education Review
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ongoing review of the July provision scheme; if the potential for the scheme to run in August 2020 has been examined; and if he...
    • School Equipment
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the procurement of information technology equipment through his Department following an announcement of top-up funding on 22 April...
    • Third Level Admissions
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultation which has taken place to date on the provision of additional spaces at third-level institutions for the coming term; if...
    • State Examinations
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning underway for students that will take leaving certificate exams in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7184/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports which have been provided through his Department to pupils with special educational needs; if additional supports are...
    • School Closures
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has undertaken an examination of the ongoing closure of schools on educational attainment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Websites
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if answers to non-individual specific queries submitted to his Department on calculated grades for the leaving certificate will be published on...
    • Third Level Education
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an additional deadline to CAO applicants for 2020 applications (details supplied). [7189/20]
    • State Examinations Commission
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if staff from the State Examinations Commission have been seconded to the unit of his Department tasked with the adjustment of calculated grades....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the recent advice considerations for school-related public health measures in the context of Covid-19 by the WHO; the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to allow SNAs to provide a service through their existing schools in view of issues identified with the HSE vetting process....
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding apprenticeships (details supplied). [7208/20]
    • State Examinations
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration that has been given to the HPAT exam and the way in which this may adversely affect their predicted grades; if the HPAT score...
    • Education Policy
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will develop a single web platform for online skills learning in line with the recently established skills toolkit in the United Kingdom....
    • Departmental Data
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the units in his Department currently working remotely; the units still in situ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7225/20]
    • School Curriculum
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he accepts the findings of a recent report by the OECD (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7227/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the meetings that have taken place to date on the reopening of schools in September 2020. [7230/20]
    • School Staff
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied) that lost the placement of a mainstream teacher due to falling short...
    • School Accommodation
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the planning and procurement for the installation of appropriate prefabs has been organised for a school (details supplied) to ensure that the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that will be made for students in the third year of college studying social care and who have been unable to complete their 400...
    • Special Educational Needs
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the ASD unit at a school (details supplied) has been delayed in view of the fact all works have been completed at stage 2(a) in the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply to correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pension issue will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7360/20]
    • Legislative Process
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned reform of the Higher Education Authority Act 1971; the consultation process involved; and if a response has issued from...
    • Student Accommodation
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the commencement of the 2020-21 college year; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that students will need to pay...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional special needs assistants will be allocated to a school (details supplied). [7386/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7395/20]
    • Childcare Services
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration being given to fund the wages of childcare workers to ensure reduced costs for parents and improve pay levels for childcare...
    • Schools Building Projects
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school rebuilding project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7434/20]
    • Higher Education Institutions
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address a matter in relation to the recommencement of third-level education (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Student Accommodation
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in the ongoing dispute at the University of Limerick regarding refunds for students that have paid for campus accommodation...
    • Schools Building Projects
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building of the new educate together primary school on Harcourt Terrace; if this project has been impacted by the current...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider offering children with disabilities a return to school before September 2020 as teachers are in place (details supplied); and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a proposal in respect of the July provision (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7497/20]
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students of social care will be given clarity with regard to their placements; if they will not be held up from graduating as a result of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarity on the July provision for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7503/20]
    • Gaelcholáistí Issues
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence regarding a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7504/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in relation to the new build at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7523/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a payment to a person (details supplied) will continue after they reach 66 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7528/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines schools and principals will receive in terms of public health safety before they return to reopen schools. [7529/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional funding resources schools will have in order to pay for the new public health and safety requirements they will have to implement....
    • Special Educational Needs
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision is going ahead in 2020; if not, if it will be facilitated in the homes of the children; the alternate plans he is...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the programme in existence or being planned going forward for apprenticeships in Carlow town or county in view of the fact that Carlow is a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement held with the organisers of a competition (details supplied) in view of Covid-19 restrictions. [7579/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the need for special education summer tuition classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7603/20]
    • School Staff
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of recruiting 50 additional school principal posts in primary and post-primary schools. [7630/20]
    • National Council for Special Education
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources and budget increase being considered for the NCSE to deal with the substantial increase in the needs of children that...
    • School Transport
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus service will be provided for a school (details supplied) in view of its growth in recent years and the resulting increased demand for...
    • Nursing Education
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider increasing the allocation for persons graduating from post-leaving certificate nursing preparation courses to above the...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if it will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7670/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for more ASD places in Ashbourne, County Meath; and his plans to introduce more ASD places in the town. [7685/20]
    • Schools Health and Safety
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the supply and installation of antibacterial and anti-viral door handles in schools; and his plans to install...
    • School Staff
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for removing a teaching post in a school (details supplied) due to the school being one pupil short of the criteria required to...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tutors of children with special needs will be allowed back to tutor children in their homes. [7731/20]
    • State Examinations
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an advisory group was not set up to consult with the stakeholders and develop a plan for all contingencies in relation to the leaving...
    • Special Educational Needs
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been progress in relation to delivering an ASD-specific unit or school for the Dublin 12 area capable of addressing the shortfall in...
    • Schools Facilities
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or the NCSC have had contact with the owners of a school (details supplied) in relation to its future educational use; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work will start on a school (details supplied); the construction timeline; if he is satisfied that the school will be completed and ready...
    • School Accommodation
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will announce a permanent location for the new secondary school for the Blanchardstown village and the Blanchardstown west planning area;...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Teaching Council is operating during the Covid-19 crisis; if it is accepting registration and re-registration applications; and if he will...
    • School Transport
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure adequate special needs school transport supports are put in place without further delay for a person (details supplied). [7763/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on a school building project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7765/20]
    • State Examinations Commission
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ten persons who are normally employed at the State Examinations Commission in order to deal with examination papers. [7766/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the stage the plans are at; when it is anticipated that...
    • Student Accommodation
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing a means-tested intervention to assist student accommodation providers that may not be able to reimburse students...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the redeployment of SNAs has now been scrapped; his plans to reassign them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7789/20]
    • School Staff
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to redeploy a teacher (details supplied) in a school will be reviewed in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a...
    • State Examinations
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the processing of calculated grades, appeals and resits to allow for planning by students and teachers; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Admissions
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students that sit the HPAT in 2020 can use their grade for entry into college in 2021, thus avoiding the associated stress and cost; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special schools and special classes are being considered in the context of plans to reopen schools in September 2020. [7874/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reduction in class sizes is being considered to aid social distancing when schools reopen. [7877/20]
    • Ombudsman for Children
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on inviting the Ombudsman for Children to participate in discussions regarding the safe reopening of schools on a phased basis; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional supports are being considered to support DEIS schools in reopening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7881/20]
    • Student Accommodation
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with third-level institutions to ensure that no student in student accommodation will be made homeless in the summer months;...
    • School Curriculum
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ongoing review of the senior cycle. [7885/20]
    • Technological Universities
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status the development of each of the proposed technological universities. [7886/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision will be extended to cover the month of June; if the provision will be extended as a once-off measure to all other children...
    • Schools Building Projects
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to prioritise the completion of school construction projects in advance of September 2020 to assist with the Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with school management at primary and post-primary level, respectively, to source additional accommodation to...
    • Student Support Schemes
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide for a financial support package to a cohort of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7928/20]
    • School Enrolments
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils necessary in a primary school in order for an English As An Additional Language educator to be employed; and if he will make...
    • Special Educational Needs
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the July provision to take place in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7937/20]
    • Departmental Communications
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter raised in correspondence in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Guidelines on Mental Health
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provisions are being made for children who are struggling with the lack of closure to finish out their schooling as per correspondence...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures introduced to ensure continuity of learning for primary school children during the Covid-19 pandemic in view of the fact...
    • Schools Building Projects
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of a school (details supplied); when he anticipates that both the primary school and a school will commence...
    • Special Educational Needs
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children sanctioned for the July provision for the past five years by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned extensions for a school (details supplied) with regard to the temporary accommodation scheduled for opening in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he envisages the resumption of school based learning services for children and young adults with special needs. [8000/20]
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options for funding available for a school (details supplied) that has a student starting at the school in September 2020 that is wheelchair...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation that applies to students that are not classed as independent for the purposes of the SUSI grant whose parents are temporarily...
    • School Staff
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a school (details supplied) can have its staffing allocation for 2020/2021 reviewed in line with the needs of its staff and...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the planned redeployment of special needs assistants in the context of Covid-19; if there has been consultation with...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in the context of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and...
    • Special Education Review
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the report by the Special Education Review Committee which decides pupil staffing allocations for special schools; when this...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work being done to support English language students here; and if he has had discussions with the Minister for Justice and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided in relation to the July provision due to the urgent need being experienced by children with disabilities due to the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the use of SNA staff to provide the July provision in view of the willingness of many SNAs to provide this support and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeframe for the reopening of primary schools nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8112/20]
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure 2020 post-leaving certificate courses are completed and-or accredited; and the way in which he will ensure that...
    • School Transport
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of private bus operators currently providing school bus services in counties Longford and Westmeath respectively, in tabular form; and...
    • State Examinations
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the entire appeals process that will be available to leaving certificate students that are unsatisfied with their calculated grades in 2020. [8167/20]
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the cycle to work scheme of his Department will be immediately reinstated. [8208/20]
    • Third Level Education
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure higher and further education institutions are facilitating students of courses with practical elements to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which young children will be expected to socially distance from one another if schools resume in September 2020; and if consideration...
    • Home Schooling
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provisions are being made to continue home schooling platforms from September 2020 onwards for parents who wish for their children to remain...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant thresholds are being extended; and if the registration fee has been considered for abolition (details supplied). [8220/20]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Maternity Leave
      303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to extend paid maternity leave as a result of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7083/20]
    • Commercial Property
      308. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the same protection for commercial tenants as for residential tenants in the context of recent evictions by landlords of...
    • Liquor Licences
      312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on provisions for distilleries that do not have a licence to sell directly to the public to be able to make online...
    • Legislative Measures
      313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an overview of the exact change needed in personal insolvency legislation due to Covid-19. [8076/20]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a commercial rent relief scheme will be initiated such as has been introduced in the UK, France, Australia, Denmark and...
    • Court Procedures
      318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on enabling affidavits to be completed remotely to facilitate the Courts services operating as long as Covid-19...
    • Visa Applications
      319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on extending the temporary extension of immigration permissions from 20 May to 20 August 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Immigration Status
      320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if those currently on extended working holiday authorisation can have their visas extended until the phasing process has been...
    • Visa Applications
      321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if advice can be provided to a person (details supplied) who urgently requires a visa renewal appointment due to extenuating...
    • Licence Applications
      322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if clubs seeking fundraising efforts online will be allowed to do so by local superintendents in the absence of District Court...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full year cost of recruiting 20 additional full-time probation officers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Resources
      324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the resources and trained Garda personnel are in place for each of the divisional protection services units established to...
    • Garda Data
      325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order unit vans attached to each Garda division outside Dublin as at 11 May 2020, in tabular form;...
    • Garda Equipment
      326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the issuing of body worn cameras to each front-line Garda; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Recruitment
      327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new competition for Garda collision forensic investigators will be held in Q4 of 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated amount it would cost in 2021 if the budget for Irish Naturalisation and Immigrant Service increased by 6%; and if...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to transfer to an Irish prison under the Transfer of Sentenced...
    • Immigration Status
      331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which persons on stamp 4 or other similar or related categories have had their status updated notwithstanding the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 due in March 2020 will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Recruitment
      335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons approved for recruitment under the Garda recruitment competition which commenced at the end of 2018; the...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to act on the recommendations made by the Insolvency Service of Ireland as part of its section 141 consultation...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the changes have been made to the community return scheme; the reason persons that had their applications made to...
    • Immigration Status
      338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the legal status of those undocumented persons carrying out essential front-line services such as care workers will be...
    • Garda Deployment
      339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Athy, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7471/20]
    • Garda Divisional Headquarters
      340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of the new regional Garda headquarters in County Sligo as set out in the capital plan of his...
    • Legal Aid Service
      341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts spent by the Legal Aid Board on solicitors, barristers and personal insolvency practitioners for applications under...
    • Direct Provision System
      342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address issues related to a direct provision centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Peace Commissioners
      344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the peace commissioners appointed from 1 January 2017 to date; the county and subdistrict of each appointment; and if he will...
    • Direct Provision System
      345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a matter relating to a direct provision centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Inquiries
      346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the statutory inquiry in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Direct Provision System
      347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional support and protection is being provided to LGBTI+ residents of direct provision centres during the Covid-19...
    • Garda Data
      349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Wexford Garda division drugs unit as of 31 December 2018 and 15 May 2020, in...
    • Garda Recruitment
      350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has given consideration to increasing the recruitment age for gardaí beyond 35 years of age; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision System
      351. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community response forums that contain direct representation from persons living in direct provision, including...
    • Garda Recruitment
      352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of applicants in the recruitment process to An Garda Síochána when the Covid-19 crisis and lockdown...
    • Garda Data
      353. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently issued with firearms cards; the equivalent figures in each of the previous nine years; the...
    • Crime Data
      354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested to date by An Garda Síochána in the Dublin Metropolitan Region for being in breach of...
    • Courts Service
      355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay until February 2020 in his Department providing the family of a person (details supplied) with a...
    • Immigration Status
      356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Peace Commissioners
      358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an up-to-date list of peace commissioners and commissioners of oaths in County Meath will be provided. [7864/20]
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 28 January 2016, the progress made in introducing a streamlined process to...
    • Legal Aid Service
      360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the PIA Review...
    • Garda Equipment
      361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda mountain bikes allocated to each Garda district within the Meath Garda division as of 31 December 2018 and...
    • Garda Data
      362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Meath Garda division as of 18 May 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend the personal insolvency legislation to ensure that persons who fall into mortgage arrears can avail of...
    • Immigration Status
      365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in relation to students from abroad whose studies were interrupted who wish to return to complete their studies...
    • Student Visas
      368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work being carried out to support English language students here; if he has considered the suspension of student visas...
    • Prisoner Health
      369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an up to date risk assessment has been carried out in relation to managing the risk of Covid-19 entering the prison system...
    • Prisoner Welfare
      371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to ensure in the absence of visits to prisons due to the Covid-19 pandemic that prisoners have continued access...
    • Garda Data
      374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and percentage of the Garda fleet of vehicles within the Clare division that are less than one, one to three, four...
    • Garda Strength
      375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current level of staffing in An Garda Síochána in counties Longford and Westmeath by rank and station. [8151/20]
    • Garda Stations
      376. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are discussions ongoing regarding the potential redistribution of resources and or the full-time reopening of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of passengers who arrived through airports and seaports to date in May 2020; and the number who filled out a public...
    • Immigration Status
      379. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8179/20]
    • Visa Applications
      380. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the join family visa applications in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Immigration Status
      381. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8181/20]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      385. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Immigration Status
      386. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to ensure provisions are being made for employment permit holders that have been laid off or have had...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Part 7 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be operational. [8238/20]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Work Permits
      388. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to include social work on the general employment permit. [7068/20]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      389. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the procedures pertaining to employment and workplace disputes as a consequence of a number of circumstances (details supplied); and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      390. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has considered the effect large essential retailers opening their drapery and clothes sections will have on smaller retail...
    • Health and Safety Authority
      394. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of health and safety officers employed nationwide; the locations; if additional staff are being recruited or being brought...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      395. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the differences between the current credit guarantee scheme and new €2 billion scheme proposed; and the differences in terms,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      397. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the guidance to date on PPE and in terms of financing supports for those in the hairdressing industry. [7063/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      399. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports that will put in place to help businesses reopen; and the additional measures that will be put in place to help with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      400. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when physical therapists, reflexologists, homeopathists and yoga instructors can return to work; if guidance has been sought from...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      401. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional measures will be put in place to support the hairdressing industry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
      402. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated full-year cost if the budget for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement increased by 25%; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      403. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will work with the Minister for Health to formulate an action plan to safeguard the future of the dental profession and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      404. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the phase personal training falls under regarding reopening. [7157/20]
    • Job Losses
      405. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the support other than statutory redundancy that can be provided to workers of a company (details supplied) that has gone into...
    • Health and Safety Authority
      406. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to hire new HSA inspectors to investigate complaints and enforce social distancing requirements in the workplace; the number...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      408. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the provisions she plans to put in place to protect workers who make complaints to the HSA over breaches of Covid-19 guidelines in...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      409. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of workplace inspections carried out by the HSA in January and February 2020. [7258/20]
    • Commercial Property
      411. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to her written reply to the statement by this Deputy in Dáil Éireann on commercial landlords, if she has received a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      412. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when small independent sports retailers may reopen their premises in line with public health guidance; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      413. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans she has put in place for the reopening of hairdressing salons and barber shops throughout the country in view of the fact...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      414. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will address a matter regarding the hairdressing and beauty industry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      419. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the announced business restart fund and the person or body to apply to; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      421. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when guidance will be issued to hairdressers and barbers regarding the steps they will need to take to protect customers and staff...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      422. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received for the Covid-19 working capital loan scheme by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      423. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if sector-specific task forces made up of key stakeholders will be considered to advice on the measures needed to be introduced to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      424. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will review the criteria required in order to be eligible for the restart grant for small businesses in view of the fact that...
    • Industrial Relations
      425. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will oblige those employers in receipt of Covid-19 business supports to respect Labour Court recommendations relating to trade...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      426. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to amend the current Covid-19 business supports to ensure direct, targeted and low-cost finance to micro and small...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      428. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when weddings can be allowed to be held; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7542/20]
    • Health and Safety Authority
      430. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the average training time for a new HSA inspector; her plans to expedite this process in view of Covid-19; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      431. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she will permit the return of tilers to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7564/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      433. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if startup businesses that began trading in late 2019 or in 2020 are eligible for the restart grant that was confirmed for SMEs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      435. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there are exemptions for workers who travel to Scotland on Mondays and return here on Fridays as part of business travel; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      437. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the criteria of the new restart grant will be changed to across the board and not be based on the commercial rates of 2019 in view...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      441. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will revisit the distinction between homewares and hardware stores with regard to reopening under the Roadmap for Reopening...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      442. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of workplace inspections that have taken place by the Health and Safety Authority in meat factories since the Covid-19...
    • Consumer Protection
      443. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has taken action to seek compensation from car manufacturers over the use of cheat devices; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      445. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if bouncy castle companies are able to reopen in phase 1 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business if they only supply private...
    • Health and Safety Authority
      446. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional powers have been granted to the Health and Safety Authority to deal with the issues posed by Covid-19 in terms of health...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      447. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide a bespoke support scheme for private bus and coach operators affected by the Covid-19 lockdown; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      448. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if businesses that provide a repair service such as jewellers are permitted to conduct drop-off and collection services during this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      452. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if businesses selling hemp products are excluded from the range of Covid-19 business grants available through Enterprise Ireland; if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      453. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) on confirming the situation regarding the return to work of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      454. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to amend the criteria for the restart grant taking into account the needs of recently established businesses that might not...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      456. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if an analysis has been carried out by her Department on the impact on productivity in the construction sector as a result of Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      457. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the rules regarding the restart grant; if the grant is based on 2019 commercial rates; the way in which that impacts businesses that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      460. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of complaints received by the Health and Safety Authority regarding Covid-19 restrictions and social distancing in...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      461. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of inspection requests relating to Covid-19 received by the Health and Safety Authority since 12 March 2020; and if she...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      464. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the business supports she has put in place for self-employed persons with a disability. [8058/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      467. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she and her colleagues have considered putting in place sector-specific task forces to oversee the lifting of restrictions and get...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      468. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department or the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government has lead authority for the restart grant; and the budget...
    • EU Regulations
      470. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is a mechanism to screen foreign investment here being considered by her Department in view of the way the Covid-19 crisis...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      471. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when casual traders can return to work. [8100/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      472. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports in place to benefit bus and coach operators that are parked up as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. [8101/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      473. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding plans to allow persons over 70 years of age who are deemed medically fit for work to be allowed to return to...
    • Job Losses
      475. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she has taken, including meetings or correspondence with management and staff at a company (details supplied) and the IDA or...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      476. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to increase the funding available under the restart grant for small businesses in view of the scale of the financial...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the loan schemes available to SMEs that allow them to borrow at 0% interest rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      481. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if grant funding will be made to cafés and restaurants wishing to operate takeaway services for signage, screens and other...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      483. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has met an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the way in which its industry will safely reopen; and if not, her plans...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      484. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the reluctance of banks to loan to SMEs in order for them to commence the process of reopening their businesses in...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      485. To ask the Minister for Health when a person who teaches music on a one-to-one basis can return to work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7090/20]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      486. To ask the Minister for Health if the land earmarked for the development of the new national maternity hospital will be owned by the State or by a charitable organisation and leased by the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      487. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7294/20]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      488. To ask the Minister for Health when Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (details supplied) will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7461/20]
    • Human Rights
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a human rights impact assessment of the Covid-19 emergency powers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7554/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      490. To ask the Minister for Health the details regarding the proposed mandatory 14-day quarantine period for international travellers arriving here; the date by which this measure is intended to...
    • Dental Services
      504. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that all adults are afforded access to the public emergency dental centres being operated by the HSE in view of the fact...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRSA cases reported to the HSE in hospitals from January to April 2020. [7065/20]
    • Health Services Funding
      506. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be available for community drug teams to access PPE equipment and for premises redesign to allow for physical distancing and risk assessments....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      507. To ask the Minister for Health when ENT outpatient departments will be reopening. [7067/20]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      508. To ask the Minister for Health when the provision of new and upgraded accommodation at a health facility (details supplied) will progress to the next stage; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      509. To ask the Minister for Health if 20 July 2020 is the designated date for reopening of self-catering holiday accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7076/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new primary healthcare facilities in Clondalkin and Rowlagh, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7085/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      512. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to use medical detection dogs in the fight against Covid-19 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7093/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      513. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a hospital. [7099/20]
    • Mental Health Tribunals
      514. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orders made pursuant to section 18(4)(a) and or (b) of the Mental Health Act 2001 as amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7121/20]
    • Cancer Services
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing ten additional chemotherapy slots per day in University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      517. To ask the Minister for Health when mental health practitioners may resume face-to-face patient consultations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7132/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      521. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the FreeStyle Libre device available to all type 1 diabetics under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Health if dentists and their assistants that have remained open to perform urgent treatment on patients and children are covered under the new childcare package for...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the correspondence between the Chairperson of the HSE, the CEO of the HSE, the Secretary General of his Department and him pertaining to...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for a CAMHS appointment at 30 April 2020 or the latest date available in Cherry Orchard, Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Cards
      527. To ask the Minister for Health if it is permitted for general practitioners not to accept medical card patients; and if patients that pay privately for such general practitioners can be...
    • Hospital Facilities
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the purpose of the refurbishment works that are taking place in the Wicklow Municipal District Hospital, Wicklow Town, County Wicklow. [7264/20]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get their primary medical certificate completed in view of the fact it was granted to them in December 2019; and...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the daily capacity for Covid-19 testing; the response time from test application to test to result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7296/20]
    • Disability Support Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a child (details supplied) on the SAT list; and his plans to ensure they receive the help they need from the HSE and for their education [7320/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      535. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been briefed on the matter of hospital discharges into nursing homes (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to specific evidence that...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of care to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7381/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      537. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects outpatient clinics for non-urgent procedures and assessments for children to reopen and accept clients; the impact there will be on waiting...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      538. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure CAMHS is adequately resourced to deal with the increased strain on the mental health of young persons during the Covid-19 pandemic; and the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      540. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered procuring more sustainable PPE equipment that can be used more than once after proper laundering and disinfecting in view of the fact the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      542. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment with the neurosurgical department at Beaumont Hospital,...
    • General Practitioner Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Health when the under-six general practitioner card age will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7438/20]
    • Medical Qualifications
      544. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, PHECC, plans to deal with EMT students during the Covid-19 period and going forward (details...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7447/20]
    • Health Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised by a person (details supplied) in correspondence will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7473/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials have engaged with a person (details supplied) regarding their advice on the significant need to upscale tracing and tracking here in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      551. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment with the audiology department at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly. [7496/20]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      552. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available for the fair deal application by a person (details supplied) whose application has been approved; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the phase under which speech and language and occupational therapists can reopen under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Staff
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if additional recruitment for critical care staff has been planned; and the consideration given to the retention of existing staff to ensure the long-term...
    • Hospital Procedures
      556. To ask the Minister for Health if partners can attend the birth of their child in Portiuncula Hospital; the restrictions in place for the birthing process in the hospital; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publish the review of A Vision for Change carried out during the term of the 32nd Dáil; his further plans for the implementation of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all Covid-19 deaths recorded in the mental health services among prisoners waiting for transfer to the Central Mental Hospital and deaths of...
    • Medical Cards
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the date the medical card weekly income limit for persons over 70 years of age will be increased by €50 for a single person from €500 to...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider conducting trials or contribute to the cost of trials to detect Covid-19 in a scenario (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services Provision
      562. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene with the relevant services in relation to the case of a person (details supplied). [7625/20]
    • Emergency Departments
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that visited the accident and emergency department at Wexford General Hospital in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [7631/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests for Covid-19 carried out in County Wexford; and the number that were positive. [7632/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for the 2018 estimate that three women per day use abortion pills which have been illegally imported; the information sources which were used to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      566. To ask the Minister for Health when day care centres for the elderly or persons with disabilities will reopen in accordance with the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. [7664/20]
    • Health Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5973/20]
    • Maternity Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of antenatal and maternity clinics in County Donegal in each of the years 2000 to 2020, in tabular form. [7696/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE advice on the wearing of masks changed for health workers caring for older persons over recent months. [7698/20]
    • Hospital Procedures
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if the partner of a woman in labour can attend the birth in University Hospital Galway; if an alternative person can attend if the partner is unable to attend;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      573. To ask the Minister for Health when speech and language services for paediatrics and school aged children are allowed to recommence. [7701/20]
    • Medical Cards
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical card weekly income limit for persons over 70 years of age will be increased by €50 for a single person to €550 from €500...
    • Hospital Staff
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to replace a person (details supplied) as a paediatric pain management consultant; the position in respect of this post; if his plans...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been refused a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7729/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if matters in relation to rostering and payments for nurses can be reviewed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7730/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has engaged to reopen SouthDoc services in Fermoy and Mitchelstown, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7749/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plan for the home support services staff that are waiting to be redeployed for Covid-19 crisis purposes; when these workers will be able to...
    • Health Services Staff
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some posts in the HSE are confined to staff employed in the HSE, Tusla or other defined agencies despite the fact that better qualified and more...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      583. To ask the Minister for Health when paediatric occupational therapy clinics will be allowed to reopen. [7777/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assisted human reproduction Bill following recent reports highlighting the impact of Covid-19 on surrogate families and babies. [7801/20]
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      585. To ask the Minister for Health when diabetic and podiatry care will be provided in Summer Hill primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7802/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      586. To ask the Minister for Health when chiropodists can reopen for business again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7807/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the long-running general practitioner vacancy in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare. [7808/20]
    • Blood Donations
      588. To ask the Minister for Health the policy justification for the lifetime ban on donating blood for persons that previously had a gonorrhoea infection that is now cured; the way in which this...
    • Home Care Packages
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for homecare packages by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7846/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has be drawn to cases of businesses that operate an appointment only, physical training facility (details supplied); and if his attention has...
    • Health Services Provision
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the model of care report on lymphoedema and lipoedema treatment here; the details of the communications plan by the HSE for...
    • Home Care Packages
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be put in place to clear homecare waiting lists in order to keep persons at home during Covid-19; and the number of persons waiting for...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Civil Defence which was transporting swabs from designated areas to laboratories (details supplied) and to laboratories in University College...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the policy basis for moving patients without a Covid-19 status or with a Covid-19 positive status from acute hospitals to nursing homes rather than designated...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meat plant staff that were tested as part of a screening programme that have to be retested due to the lack of a result from the laboratory; the...
    • Nursing Staff
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in the community healthcare system by county; and the number of those nurses diverted away from public health nursing duties...
    • Emergency Departments
      600. To ask the Minister for Health when a project (details supplied) will proceed; the range of facilities to be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7959/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the reason testing and tracing is still taking up to ten days while a laboratory (details supplied) is not running at full capacity with staff, many of whom...
    • Medical Qualifications
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if a means will be found for the PHECC to accommodate student EMTs to qualify during this period (details supplied) [7977/20]
    • Statutory Instruments
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if Statutory Instrument No. 541/2019 signed by him on 5 November 2019, has come into effect and is affecting persons whose fertility treatments were cancelled...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason different rates of funding are being paid in respect of wigs and hairpieces to medical card holders residing in different areas in the country; if a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will create a roadmap for the return to practice of podiatry practitioners; if a support package for the podiatry sector will be established similar to...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a brace for a person (details supplied) has been denied; and if funding will be made available for same. [7995/20]
    • Disability Support Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health when vital services will resume for children living with severe disabilities that require regular physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken to ensure section 39 organisations remain available to support their vulnerable customers during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the availability of psychiatric services at James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown for those that present at the hospital with mental...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE addiction tier 4 residential service (details supplied) will be reopened; if the asymptomatic persons presently accommodated in the facility would...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if reassurance will be provided to the thousands of women whose BreastCheck and CervicalCheck appointments have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis that...
    • Vaccination Programme
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to deal with secondary school students that missed their HPV vaccine (dose 2) and MenACWY vaccines and young children that missed...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to deal with the backlog in elective procedures that have built up in University Hospital Waterford and other hospitals nationwide...
    • Medical Cards
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [8106/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied) at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin. [8107/20]
    • Medical Qualifications
      620. To ask the Minister for Health when approval will issue from the Medical Council of Ireland in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8108/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Health when the temporary measures he introduced as part of his response to the Covid-19 pandemic in relation to doctors being allowed to prescribe abortion pills...
    • Disability Services Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if there are grant schemes available to those with medically certified mobility issues to assist in the purchase of mobility scooters. [8159/20]
    • Home Help Service
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Longford and Westmeath that have been approved for initial or an increase in home help hours but have yet to receive them....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied). [8165/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the health workers that have contracted Covid-19 including those that have died by grade and location, that is, acute,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed catch-up programme for screening services such as BreastCheck, CervicalCheck and BowelScreen for the thousands of scheduled...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the private hospital sector is being fully utilised to deal with all procedures throughout the Covid-19 health emergency; the extent to...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the interventions made by his Department and the HSE in meat processing plants in relation to the Covid-19 outbreak; and the inspections undertaken by public...
    • Hospitals Data
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients released from acute hospitals to residential nursing homes since January 2020; if a protocol was in place in relation to Covid-19 in the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that has been given to the protection of persons serviced by the community and voluntary sector in terms of appropriate provision of PPE to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if and the way in which the commitment he made during the debate in Seanad Éireann on the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures...
    • Disability Services Data
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for early years disability services for HSE in south western areas of Dublin; if the waiting time is 29 months from...
    • Home Help Service
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists and the demand for home help nationwide by CHO area, in tabular form. [8245/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      636. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been unusually high clusters of deaths or cases of Covid-19 in public or private nursing homes in south western areas of Dublin [8246/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the charge of €50 applied for a phone consultation with out-of-hours general practitioner services is excessive; if he will work...
    • Health Services Provision
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which source human milk supplies from a location (details supplied); the hospitals which purchase human milk from abroad; the reason for...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of employers that were provided with the Covid-19 test results of their employees; the number of workers involved in each instance; his views on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      640. To ask the Minister for Health when nursing homes can allow visitors once they have outdoor space while visitors would observe physical distancing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff recruited to the health service since the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis; the status of the contracts for these staff including the formal...
    • Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and timeline to permanently increase the capacity in the health service in order that it can run at 80% capacity rather than near to 100% as it was...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      644. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to reopen the greyhound industry as part of the phasing out of the Covid-19 lockdown (details supplied). [7645/20]
    • Meat Processing Plants
      645. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protections in place for workers in meat processing plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7940/20]
    • Veterinary Inspection Service
      646. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of veterinary inspectors recruited in his Department in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include boats licensed for aquaculture within the voluntary fleet support scheme for the fishery sector; and if he will...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      648. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the deadline for the completion of TAMS projects due to the restrictions of Covid-19 in circumstances...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when horse racing will be permitted to recommence. [7273/20]
    • Forestry Grants
      650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding available under the neighbourwood scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the badger tuberculosis vaccination programme introduced in January 2018; his views on its success as a means of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he was requested by persons in government or in a Department or NPHET to give his views on when horse racing should recommence...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      658. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grants available for farmers that wish to extend their cattle holding facilities by way of building additional spans onto their...
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7519/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are grants available from his Department or bodies and agencies under his remit that provide grant funding towards the costs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis of the proposed payment rate for the Covid-19 voluntary fleet tie-up scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Foreshore Issues
      662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the construction of a road approximately 400 metres in length along the foreshore of Lough Foyle...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      664. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a task force involving all meat industry stakeholders to tackle the threat posed by Covid-19. [7636/20]
    • Hardship Grant Scheme
      665. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim who was refused the hardship grant even though their herd is restricted...
    • Beef Industry
      666. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered convening a meeting of the Beef Taskforce remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      669. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is or has previously considered providing funding to local authorities for the installation of seabins following successful...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications to the 2020 national reserve and young farmers scheme by county in tabular form. [7824/20]
    • Forestry Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount received by farmers and non-farmers for forestry payments in 2019 with respect to planting in each county under the...
    • Environmental Policy
      677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the European Commission proposals (COM(2018) 392 final) for the next CAP and reference to GAEC II in Annex III...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meat processing factories in which Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in staff employed; and the number of employees in...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure farmers will have sufficient time to submit applications under TAMS for slatted shed buildings...
    • Agrifood Sector
      681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering the proposal from an organisation (details supplied) to support agrifood companies that export product to...
    • Veterinary Medicines
      682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) with regard to maintaining the current system by which farmers source veterinary...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farm lands with designations such as special area of conservation, special protected area, natural heritage area will be eligible...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      684. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meat plants that have recorded instances of Covid-19; the location of each plant affected; the number of instances per...
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      685. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has concerns that there may be a fodder shortage in 2020; the contingency measures he will put in place for the event; if he...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      686. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reported tuberculosis cases in each year since 2010; the amount spent on eradication programmes in each year in tabular...
    • Hen Harriers
      687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients by county that receive payments under the hen harrier programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients of the sheep welfare scheme by county; the average payment to each recipient by county; and if he will make...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      690. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that current capacity output will continue at meat processing factories and facilities to meet the commercial...
    • Live Exports
      691. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the boat capacity licensed to date for the export of live animals in 2020; if he is satisfied that this capacity is adequate; if not,...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      692. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if agricultural schemes due for payment in 2020 are in line for payment on time in view of the fact that inspections may not be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      693. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a grant similar to the restart grant for livestock marts that had to close during the Covid-19 crisis or were...
    • Agriculture Industry
      694. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to liaise with producers in the beef and dairy sectors with a view to ensuring viability in the...
    • Fishing Industry
      696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which various fish stock at sea and internal waterways have fluctuated over the past five years to date; and if he will...
    • Forestry Sector
      697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the numerous issues raised with him by the forestry industry regarding licences for forestry operations; his views...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applicants under the TAMS grant scheme will be notified of the outcome of their application and the amount being approved; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of visits his Department paid for or were directly carried out by vets, public or private, or other inspectors or...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Electric Vehicles
      700. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1006 of 13 May 2020, if he will identify specifically the locations in which new,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      701. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when leisure fishing can commence in view of the fact that this can be an individual activity. [8103/20]
    • Inland Fisheries Data
      702. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which freshwater fishing rivers and lakes nationwide continue to be restocked on an annual basis; the...
    • Inland Fisheries
      703. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 is not being enforced at the Bohernabreena reservoir, despite representations on the...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      704. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider enacting airplay legislation to ensure a requirement that between 30% and 40% of music played would...
    • National Broadband Plan
      705. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be available in an area (details supplied). [7089/20]
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      707. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional financial supports have been considered in an ongoing review of supports for RTÉ; and if he will...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      709. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he accepts the findings of a recent report by the European Court of Auditors on the better energy warmer homes...
    • National Broadband Plan
      710. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes passed and the number of homes connected through the national broadband plan to 30 April 2020. [7217/20]
    • Plastic Bag Levy
      711. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are impediments to increasing the plastic bag levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7218/20]
    • Environmental Policy
      712. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the introduction of a levy on the use of single use plastics; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waste Management
      713. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the closure of workplaces has led to an increase in the production of non-recyclable waste; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      714. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the units in his Department currently working remotely; the units still in situ; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Just Transition Commissioner
      716. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with the Just Transition Commissioner between 1 March and 7 May 2020. [7223/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      719. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason residents on the N52 outside Mullingar, County Westmeath (details supplied) cannot avail of broadband. [7372/20]
    • Energy Conservation
      720. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding persons who are seeking a grant towards cladding insulation for their house but may have...
    • Postal Services
      721. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the provision of an Eircode postcode for a person (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the fact the...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      722. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe in place to allow previous participants of SEAI to avail of the better energy warmer homes scheme under...
    • National Broadband Plan
      723. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan; when work will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7460/20]
    • Energy Conservation
      725. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in the provision of the SEAI retrofitting grant to a person (details supplied). [7502/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      726. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when homes and businesses in County Limerick with inadequate broadband will receive an improvement in service; and if...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      731. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether afforestation, the use of bog land carbon repositories and wind generated electricity can each...
    • National Broadband Plan
      732. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available in an area (details supplied). [8121/20]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      734. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which he continues to promote carbon reduction policies including the generation of electricity from...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Tourist Accommodation
      735. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the operational guidelines regarding capacity and the use of facilities for guests will be made available and notified to the owners...
    • Motor Tax
      736. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when motor tax offices will reopen; and the arrangements for taxing of cars in place during the coming period. [7536/20]
    • Tourism Industry
      737. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the tourism industry including package operators and hoteliers on the implementation of a mandatory 14-day...
    • Motor Tax
      738. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding motor tax payments for those that have been cocooning since March 2020 due to Covid-19; the rebate options open to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      739. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is specific guidance issued for taxi and minibus companies for reopening their businesses; if drivers will be expected to use...
    • Consumer Rights
      743. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to ongoing issues regarding school tours and parents being unable to claim refunds from travel agencies...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      744. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the NDLS. [7100/20]
    • Driver Test
      745. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver tests will resume; the support that will be provided to those persons on learner permits and are disadvantaged financially...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      746. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times he formally met with either the chairperson and or the CEO of Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Iarnród...
    • Cycling Facilities Data
      747. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of providing 25 bicycle parking racks for a public place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7107/20]
    • Bus Services
      748. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the bus service to Clonaugh, Maynooth, County Kildare in view of the local demand for such a bus service; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      750. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safety measures and support measures that will obtain for private contract school transport coaches with regard to Covid-19 when the...
    • Driver Test
      751. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency driver test appointments will be provided for persons whose planned driver tests were cancelled due to Covid-19 and who are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      753. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the phase boat rentals in harbour areas fall under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. [7235/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      754. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to aid the rural tourism sector in County Wexford; the way he plans to identify recovery steps for the rural tourism sector...
    • National Car Test
      757. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles
      758. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if new measures to ensure that there are enough wheelchair-accessible taxis available for wheelchair users, particularly in the Dublin...
    • Aviation Industry
      759. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to restructure the regulatory functions of the Irish Aviation Authority and the Commission for Aviation Regulation; his plans...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      760. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines for driving instructors with regard to returning to work; when they will be able to return to work; the precautions they...
    • National Car Test
      761. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is proposed to recommence the national car test programme. [7364/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      762. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when high-performance athletes (details supplied) will be permitted to return to training. [7365/20]
    • Driver Licences
      764. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to facilitate online driver licence issuance for first-time licence applicants by which a first-time driver licence applicant...
    • Driver Test
      765. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines in relation to learner drivers, particularly those who have completed twelve driving lessons and have had their tests...
    • Consumer Rights
      767. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons who have flight reservations for flights which are not cancelled but which depart from an airport which is outside of the...
    • National Car Test
      768. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to reopen NCT centres to test vehicles for car dealerships as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      769. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the roads and linked companies that have a traffic guarantee associated with them; the amount of compensation paid under each agreement...
    • National Car Test
      770. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for NCT retests once centres reopen (details supplied). [7422/20]
    • Cycling Facilities Funding
      771. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated for the expansion of public bikes for Cork. [7429/20]
    • Driver Test
      772. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the permit period of approved driving instructors in line with the extension of driver licences (details supplied)....
    • Driver Licences
      773. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the risks associated with the issuing of driver licences without applicants sitting the driver test have been evaluated; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      774. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver testing will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7457/20]
    • Vehicle Registration Data
      775. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of vehicles here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7462/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      776. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if advice will be provided to local sports clubs on reopening their facilities in view of the importance of these clubs in the community;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      777. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide grant aid to the many sports and community clubs that are struggling due to the lack of member interaction and...
    • Rural Transport Services
      778. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a recent request by the National Transport Authority to review a number of rural transport services...
    • Driver Licences
      779. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend the situation in relation to persons (details supplied) with provisional licences during the Covid-19 crisis; and if...
    • Taxi Licences Renewals
      780. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a taxi driver can renew their taxi licence during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      781. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) who is on the emergency list for a driver test appointment can expect to receive same; and if he will...
    • Dublin Bus
      782. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints by cyclists that have been made to Dublin Bus in the past three years; and the actions that resulted from these...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      784. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the Office of Public Works to arrange to survey traffic impacts of closing the Phoenix Park to through traffic in...
    • National Car Test
      785. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to permit the reopening of NCT centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7521/20]
    • Driver Licences
      786. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if issues (details supplied) regarding driver licences for former USA residents now seeking to obtain full Irish licences will be...
    • National Car Test
      787. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the NCT centres will be reopening. [7537/20]
    • Tourism Policy
      789. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to help the tourism industry outside of major urban areas in which seasonality is a factor. [7539/20]
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      790. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of MetroLink and BusConnects in the context of Covid-19 and related economic circumstances; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      791. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports available to clubs (details supplied) in order to put in place adequate health and safety precautions at their grounds. [7577/20]
    • Driver Test Centres
      796. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when RSA offices will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7595/20]
    • Greenways Funding
      797. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide greenway funding to the proposed Sligo-Leitrim northern counties greenway (details supplied); his views on the...
    • Consumer Rights
      798. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if passengers who hold bookings for flights to destinations abroad that have not been cancelled and are scheduled to depart during the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      799. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered specific supports for scheduled services in the tourism sector such as grants to adapt vehicles. [7613/20]
    • Military Aircraft
      801. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of US troops and the quantity of weapons and munitions that have passed through Shannon Airport in each month to date in 2020;...
    • Driver Safety
      802. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if essential and front-line workers that are learner drivers will be allowed to drive on their own without a qualified driver (details...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      803. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on waiting lists for driver tests in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath and nationwide to date; the length of time...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      804. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the phase driving lessons fall under in the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. [7662/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      805. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to assist GAA clubs financially due to the loss of income caused by Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      806. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to implement to clear the backlog of driver test applications when Covid-19 restrictions are fully lifted; and if...
    • Tourism Industry
      808. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the membership of the tourism task force; the remit of the taskforce; the frequency with which it has met; the frequency with which it...
    • National Car Test
      809. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when NCT and CVRT testing will resume; if the NCT or CVRT certificate will be backdated to the date they were due to be tested; if not,...
    • Driver Licences
      810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of expiring learner permits which may lapse while driver tests are unable to be taken due to Covid-19 public health measures;...
    • Driver Test
      812. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to resume driver tests particularly for those persons that urgently require a test in order take-up employment and require...
    • Driver Test Centres
      813. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are parking facilities provided at the RSA testing centre at Carnmore, Oranmore, County Galway; if so, the number of vehicle...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      814. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure that Shannon Airport is not downgraded and that when regular scheduled flights resume, a company...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      815. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish a resilience fund and associated task force to aid in protection and development of sports organisations that were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      816. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when coaches can recommence soccer training for under-16s while adhering to social distancing measures. [7767/20]
    • Motor Tax
      817. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if vans used for domestic purposes can be evaluated for motor tax based on CO2 emissions for private cars rather than the current...
    • Rail Services Data
      818. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the orders made for rolling stock, carriages and engines for Irish Rail; if no orders have been placed, the reason therefor; if orders...
    • Bus Services
      819. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional buses will be allocated to particularly busy routes in Dublin city as restrictions are eased but social distancing must...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      820. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Covid-19 mobility framework; and the reason the process was started two months into the pandemic and not at the outset....
    • Consumer Rights
      822. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to support full refunds to customers who have had their travel cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions; the...
    • Ports Policy
      823. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all major Irish fishing ports will be included on the ports of registry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7865/20]
    • Driver Test
      825. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency driver test appointments will be provided for persons whose planned tests were cancelled due to Covid-19, who are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a sporting event (details supplied); if the event has been reviewed by his Department; if so, if the...
    • Road Safety
      827. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislation which governs the use of quads and scramblers on public roads; the circumstances in which they are permitted; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      828. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if taxi drivers can avail of an insurance break or holiday or a rebate for the Covid-19 period; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      832. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it will be made mandatory for all passengers and staff to wear face coverings on public transport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Car Test
      833. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects national car test centres to reopen; if he envisages a phased reopening schedule to apply; if so, the vehicle types he...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      834. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated backlog of driver tests in each county, in tabular form; his plans for addressing same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Light Rail Projects
      836. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will undertake a light rail feasibility study for Galway in view of climate action obligations and the changes necessitated by the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      838. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) will receive a response in the context of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to cater for drivers who require a CPC to drive a lorry; and if it is possible to complete same online as can be done in the...
    • Driver Licence Applications
      841. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is possible for the purposes to applying for a learner permit with the NDLS to supply a PPS number or another form of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      842. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration is being given to providing special support to the small public service vehicle tourism sector due to the fact that the...
    • Driver Test
      843. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to put in place to assist the 27,500 learner drivers who, due to Covid-19, cannot complete their full driver tests;...
    • Maritime Safety
      847. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a series of matters in respect of the safety of oil tankers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a motorcycle driver with a provisional licence can travel to attend the Garda Training College in June 2020 in view of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      850. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional supports are being prepared including funding for public transport companies impacted severely by Covid-19. [8257/20]
    • Consumer Rights
      851. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to support consumer rights, particularly the difficulties experienced by persons receiving outstanding refunds...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Childcare Services
      853. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the consideration being given to fund the wages of childcare workers to ensure reduced costs for parents and improve pay levels for...
    • Child Abuse
      854. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an independent public enquiry into an organisation (details supplied) will be initiated. [8158/20]
    • School Attendance
      855. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to waive compulsory attendance with regard to primary, secondary and third-level courses (details supplied). [8219/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      856. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration has been given to the need for a sustainability fund in view of the fact that many early years providers are under severe...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      857. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the number of available hours under the ECCE scheme each week by 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours respectively; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      858. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the phased return of childcare facilities, particularly around social distancing and ratios of children; the way in which...
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      859. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration will be given to allowing trainee social workers complete their placement in another way in order that they can receive...
    • Departmental Reports
      860. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will publish the Independent Review of Costs of Delivering Childcare in Ireland; the reason for the delay in its publication; and...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      861. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a decision will be made on home tuition for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7270/20]
    • Child and Family Agency
      862. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a Tusla facility (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7314/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      863. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a proposal (details supplied) in relation to directly supporting partners of frontline workers is currently being considered following...
    • Childcare Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a new public model of funding for the childcare sector (details supplied) will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      866. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when promised childcare for front-line workers will be provided; and if the facilitation of spouses of frontline workers working in public...
    • Child and Family Agency
      867. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the situation regarding 16 and 17 year old children that have emotional dysregulation and urgently need temporary residential care; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      868. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when childminders will be able to recommence providing services to parents that are healthcare workers, essential workers and all parents...
    • Childcare Services
      874. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if ECCE services will be able to operate at full capacity in September 2020; and if not, the percentage of their previous capacity they...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      878. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the definition of essential workers that will be offered childcare under phase 3 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; the way...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      879. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the name and location of the crèches that signed up to the outreach service that was due to commence on 18 June 2020, in tabular form;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      880. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for reopening childcare facilities under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; and the way in which this will be...
    • Childcare Services
      882. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childminders that have registered quarterly in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [7792/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      883. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason an organisation (details supplied) has not been included in talks taking place on the reopening of the childcare sector; the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      885. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she has taken to ensure that all childcare facilities are provided insurance cover for Covid-19 when they reopen; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      886. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures and supports that will be in place for childcare centres when they reopen; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Coverage
      887. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she will take to ensure childcare providers insurance includes cover for Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      888. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposals she put forward at the recent EU meeting of youth ministers in respect of the need to provide additional supports to young...
    • Child Abuse
      890. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to set up a public enquiry into an organisation (details supplied) in view of the publication of a report to establish the facts...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      891. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide childcare for healthcare workers; her further plans to bring forward a suitable scheme without further delay; and if...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      892. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been an increase in demand for refuges for victims of domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of beds and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Burial Grounds
      893. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if new schemes have been announced to provide funding to community groups maintaining cemeteries no longer able to carry out...
    • LEADER Programmes
      894. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the operation of the rural LEADER programme; the amount of rural LEADER funding drawn down to date for each of...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      895. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application for funding (details supplied) will be examined with a view to approving the grant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Community Development Projects
      898. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when voluntary-run community centres can reopen to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7597/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      899. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the deadline will be extended for the Covid-19 stability scheme for community and voluntary organisations, charities and social...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      901. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will introduce a special grant scheme for community and voluntary organisations that are members of the PPN nationwide in view...
    • Rural Development Programme
      904. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he has received applications under the various rural development schemes in the past two years by county; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      905. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the application time for the Pobal Covid-19 stability scheme which opened on 11 May 2020 with a closing date of 20 May 2020 will be...
    • Departmental Funding
      906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will review an application for funding from a project (details supplied) with a view to granting the project financial support....
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Domestic Violence Services
      907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to a response during Leaders' Questions on 30 April 2020, if short-term emergency rent supplement will be progressed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to assist bereaved families of persons who passed away from Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal and regulatory arrangement in force during the period of the Covid-19 crisis regarding redundancy; the legal and...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the details of road passenger transport operators that received payments in respect of the acceptance of...
    • Maternity Benefit
      916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding maternity benefit [7587/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered strengthening Covid-19 emergency legislation in order that an employer will not be allowed to make an...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 payments will be extended to specific industries in relation to the timeframe in which they are permitted to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be legal implications arising from fathers not being able to be added to the birth certificate of their...
    • Employment Rights
      923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department examined proposals aimed at giving a better protection to employees affected by insolvency situations as...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to challenges being experienced by couples attending the public registry offices for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions in place or which will be put into place to continue the pandemic unemployment payment for those workers...
    • Legislative Measures
      928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when sections 19, 24, 25 and 26 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 will come into effect; and if...
    • Public Services Card
      929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the public services card in addition to the action of the Data Protection Commissioner on same; and if she will...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the interdepartmental review into community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employees (details supplied) qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact they are being forced to...
    • Redundancy Payments
      933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to help workers (details supplied) in south western areas of Dublin that are facing redundancy; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to provide supports for those returning here from working abroad due to the Covid-19 pandemic due to...
    • International Students
      937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the PPSN applications of international students that have recently arrived here will be expedited (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal by a person (details supplied) in respect of a pension will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Child Benefit
      944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the eligibility for the child benefit scheme to persons over 18 years of age that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if guidelines have been developed in relation to the temporary lay-offs due to Covid-19; if there is a time limit on the...
    • Disability Allowance
      946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has had their award of disability allowance reduced; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a review of the pandemic unemployment payment will be carried out; if the review will consider persons that were working...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a Covid-19 payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7481/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific measures she is considering to support those under 25 years of age that have been disproportionately affected by...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there are significant delays in processing applications such as the disability allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      952. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can be transferred to the pandemic unemployment payment in order to be in a position to pay bills, rent and so on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to access EU funding relating to the support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency scheme; if so, the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      954. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken an analysis to match skills shortages in sectors affected by Covid-19 with those with...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a domiciliary care allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of pensions, disability allowance, jobseeker's allowance and benefit that do not have access...
    • Pension Provisions
      960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 21 November 2019, if she will provide a further update on the proposed changes...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      961. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a social welfare payment reduction appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Invalidity Pension
      962. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to revert to social welfare weekly payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7716/20]
    • Blind Person's Pension
      968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, in circumstances in which persons become blind and receive illness benefit and the blind person's pension, and...
    • Disability Allowance
      969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Invalidity Pension
      970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance
      972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for disability allowance applications. [7761/20]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      973. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7781/20]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      974. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7782/20]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      975. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7783/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be extended to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance
      978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the terms governing the disability allowance to allow the recipient's pensions to be treated the same as...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      979. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements students that had signed contracts for summer internships which have now been cancelled have in terms of...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a weekly court ordered maintenance payment received by a person from a former spouse is regarded as means for the purposes...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social protection assistance available to a person (details supplied) who lives in Northern Ireland but runs a business...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection offices which have been closed and sanitised due to the presentation of Covid-19 positive...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears payments relating to the pandemic unemployment payment will be made to applicants; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislation under the remit of her Department that is due to expire or lapse in the next three months and needs to be...
    • Carer's Allowance
      992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) within 21 days of a decision of a review request...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the status of being on maternity leave prior to being put on lay-off from employment renders a worker ineligible for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protections in place to ensure the health and safety and terms and conditions of employment of construction workers...
    • Working Family Payment
      997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the requirement for 38 hours or more per fortnight for those eligible for the working family payment in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision is being made for the pandemic unemployment payment to be extended for students with a high-risk health status...
    • Company Liquidations
      1001. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the decision of the owners of a company (details supplied) to transfer valuable assets to...
    • Employment Support Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supports or grants are available for the employment of a person to provide assistance to a self-employed person with a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1003. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is no response in relation to social welfare appeals some of which are dating back to the middle of 2019;...
    • Public Services Card
      1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible for the purposes of receiving assistance from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to supply a PPS...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when jobseeker's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied); if an exceptional needs payment can be arranged in the...
    • Public Services Card
      1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated timeframe for the reopening of the appointment service for allocating the public services card; the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) meets the criteria to receive a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment to residents in direct provision centres who lost their...
    • Company Closures
      1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she plans to take regarding the closure of a business (details supplied); and if changes in legislation are...
    • Redundancy Payments
      1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the law suspending the right of workers to claim redundancy payments to exclude from the law workers...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      1012. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications from counties Longford and Westmeath for the domiciliary care allowance in 2019 and to date in...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
      1013. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be entitled to the back to school clothing and footwear...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1014. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a Covid-19 payment will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1018. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person that requires a verified MyGovID account can set one up during the current Covid-19 emergency in...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      1019. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the uptake of rent supplement; the number of claims received; the speed with which claims are being processed; the level of...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      1021. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of deposits issued in respect of HAP tenancies since the commencement of the Covid-19 crisis. [8231/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that have been made for self-employed persons experiencing reductions in their gross income that are now...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown by profession of working age persons diagnosed with Covid-19. [8235/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1024. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to temporary extensions for those on social welfare payments other than the pandemic...
    • Disability Allowance
      1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the decision in relation to an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Commercial Rates
      1026. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if offices on contract of service (details supplied) with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection are...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1027. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the proposed wind energy development guidelines following the recent public consultation; and if he...
    • Land Development Agency
      1028. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding approved for the LDA in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the amount drawn down by the LDA in each of these years;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1029. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants available to families that have a family member with a life-long disability to allow them to adapt their home...
    • Local Authority Rates
      1030. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider measures (details supplied) to bolster the tourism sector. [8026/20]
    • Local Authority Funding
      1031. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of capital grants provided to Sligo County Council in 2018 and 2019 respectively, under the Social Housing...
    • Rental Sector
      1032. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a process to help ensure that rents for accommodation are set at a level below the cost of a mortgage for...
    • Land Development Agency
      1033. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all staff appointments and all contracts for services by the Land Development Agency have been publicly advertised and...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      1034. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the group water scheme application made by a group (details supplied); the length of time it will take to...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      1035. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider increasing the homeless HAP rate payable for County Wicklow to bring it in line with the Dublin homeless...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1036. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1215 and 1249 of 13 May 2020, if the cost reduced or more affordable ten homes in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      1037. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1215 and 1249 of 13 May 2020, the reason no Part V or no Local Infrastructure Housing...
    • EU Directives
      1044. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of efforts to comply with the European Drinking Water Directive; and his plans to take appropriate action further...
    • Property Registration Authority
      1045. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that the Property Registration Authority resumes processing pending applications; and if he...
    • Local Authority Leases
      1046. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the 1,161 long-term social housing leased units delivered in 2019 by type (details supplied); the average...
    • Housing Data
      1047. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the 6,074 social housing builds in 2019 by category (details supplied); and the average price paid or...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1048. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the 2,772 acquired social houses in 2019 by local authority; the average price paid or approved by his...
    • Planning Guidelines
      1050. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed use it or lose it planning permission that he indicated he planned to introduce to address the...
    • Electoral Process
      1051. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basis for and the origin of the instruction to commence planning and preparation for elections and referenda in the...
    • Fire Service
      1052. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7435/20]
    • Local Authority Funding
      1053. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding made available to local authorities in 2020 in terms of returning vacant housing units to council housing stock...
    • Student Accommodation
      1054. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to meet representatives of private landlords to discuss the issue of students' rent not being returned despite the...
    • Traveller Community
      1056. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason supports for Travellers outlined in a circular to local authorities have not been implemented in full (details...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      1057. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding for the housing adaption grant for persons with a disability and older persons have been allocated to Roscommon...
    • Vacant Properties
      1058. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of unoccupied social housing stock in County Wexford and in each county council in tabular form. [7627/20]
    • Local Authority Housing
      1059. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if county councils will be instructed to decrease the turnover time of houses to within at least a three month period...
    • Local Authority Functions
      1060. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority plans to purchase a house in the functional area of another local authority for the provision of social...
    • Cycling Facilities Funding
      1061. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an allocation has been made to Kildare County Council for a recycling facility in Celbridge, County Kildare; if so, when...
    • Architects Register
      1062. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the implementation of the recommendations of the report of the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture...
    • Property Registration
      1063. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a backlog in registrations in the Land Registry; the remote working arrangements if such a...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      1064. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he envisages a backlog in planning applications and appeals to An Bord Pleanála; and the steps his Department has...
    • County Development Plans
      1065. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific guidance he will provide to local authorities that are required to hold statutory meetings that are open to...
    • Building Regulations
      1066. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Building Regulations Advisory Body was not consulted regarding recent changes to the building regulations...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme
      1067. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the operational guidelines that exist for local authorities in respect of their administration of the rental accommodation...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      1068. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage requirements for social and affordable homes on the Colbert Station quarter development by the Land...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1070. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an analysis has been carried out by his Department on the impact on productivity in the construction sector as a result of...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1071. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which Rebuilding Ireland home loans are available now and in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1073. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the directive given to local authorities in relation to the regulations brought in; the way in which these will affect...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1074. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a loan was denied to Clare County Council to develop a mixed housing development comprising of social and...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      1075. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessary funding will be provided to address a major health and safety matter in respect of an out-of-order sewerage...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1076. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with local authority chief executives and the Minister for Health to ensure that local authorities can...
    • Mental Health Services
      1077. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of plans for the development of the Central Mental Hospital; the involvement of the Land Development Agency in...
    • Land Development Agency
      1078. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Shanganagh Castle development; if the lack of the enactment of the legislation for the Land...
    • Housing Data
      1079. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units he is expecting to be delivered from the Cherrywood SDZ; the timeline for these homes; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1080. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revise guidelines in relation to co-living and ensure that these kind of developments will not be allowed in view...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1082. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to assist zoos and animal parks here following the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Wildlife Control
      1083. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the consultation between her Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Services prior to the decision to rescind the...
    • Gorse Burning
      1087. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider reviewing the existing penalties for those prosecuted for illegal gorse fires in view of the contention of...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      1090. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an organisation (details supplied) is proposing its members should be appointed as Covid-19 safety representatives; and her...
    • Film Industry
      1091. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to plans to develop a new film and television studio in the greater Dublin area; and if so, the...
    • Wildlife Control
      1092. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the details including briefing notes of the briefing provided to her by her Department in respect of the...
    • Hare Coursing
      1096. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a licence will be issued (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7463/20]
    • Architectural Heritage
      1098. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will purchase land to secure the curtilage of a monument (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Irish Language
      1099. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the number of Béarlachas words entering the Irish language even though Irish words and expressions already...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if supports will be put in place for buskers that suffer a loss of income until such a time as busking can recommence; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Paindéim
      1105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh na mbeart agus na dtacaíochtaí atá beartaithe chun dul i...
    • Arts Funding
      1106. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding committed to festivals due to take place in County Clare in 2020, in tabular form; if the funding commitments will be...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current staffing levels by county within the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and the service area these employees are...
    • Arts Funding
      1109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grant funding will be made available to performers and musicians for technical equipment to facilitate livestreaming and video...

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