Written answers

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and cost in...
  • Department of Defence
    • Overseas Missions
      2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to evacuate members of the Defence Forces from the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the worsening security situation in the...
    • Air Corps
      3. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a full health and safety audit will be carried out on the entire Air Corps fleet of AW139 helicopters and other craft if deemed necessary in...
    • Overseas Missions
      4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Defence Forces replacing those serving on UNIFIL missions by rotation will serve the full length of missions and receive...
    • Departmental Staff
      5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or his officials had an input into the drafting of the job specification for the recently advertised role of Secretary General of the...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date...
    • Defence Forces Data
      7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces that have exited the services by retirement and resignation in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the targeted admission of new recruits for 2020 and 2021 to the Defence Forces. [10084/20]
    • Army Barracks
      10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount that has been spent on refurbishment and maintenance to Finner Camp, County Donegal in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in...
    • Defence Forces Data
      11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel that re-enlisted in the Permanent Defence Force since 1 April 2020; the areas of the Permanent Defence Force these...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel serving in the Permanent Defence Force; his plans to bring personnel numbers to the approved establishment strength of...
    • Defence Forces Review
      13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the high level Strengthening our Defence Forces – Implementation Plan; the progress to date in implementing the 15 projects...
    • Army Barracks
      14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if foliage emanating from Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, Dublin 6 onto the lane at the back of the houses at 16 to 30 Grosvenor Square,...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Ministerial Communications
      15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in contact with the President of the United States of America and-or the US ambassador in view of the recent events in the US...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration in respect of a person (details supplied) in Qatar. [9666/20]
    • Human Rights
      17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address the human rights concerns arising from the decision by China to impose new national security laws on Hong Kong; if he has...
    • Brexit Issues
      18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 27 May 2020, if he will provide more specific details on the legislative measures that will be...
    • Passport Applications
      19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when persons will be able to apply online again to renew adult and children’s passports respectively; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will support the WHO and Costa Rica proposal on a global pooling mechanism of Covid-19 related health technologies (details...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to...
    • Visa Applications
      22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the advice being given to a person (details supplied) attempting to return from New Zealand before the end of their work visa; and if...
    • International Bodies
      27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contribution made by Ireland to the World Health Organisation in 2019; the increase in funding being made available to the organisation...
    • Ministerial Communications
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally to his New Zealand or Australian counterpart in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Brexit Issues
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his UK counterpart following the publication by the UK Government of the approach to the Northern Ireland...
    • Human Rights
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continued targeting of human rights and labour activists in Columbia resulting in hundreds of murders. [10307/20]
  • Department of Finance
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      39. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure on the temporary wage subsidy scheme in respect of childcare providers and staff in each week since its establishment in tabular form. [9872/20]
    • Tax Reliefs
      40. To ask the Minister for Finance if a further extension of five years will be granted for consanguinity relief for non-residential property at the current rate of 1% on all qualifying...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      42. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that have availed of the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced by year; his plans to further enhance the scheme or modify it in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      44. To ask the Minister for Finance if third-level student accommodation providers that have refused to refund accommodation costs to students forced to leave college due to the pandemic will not...
    • EU Funding
      45. To ask the Minister for Finance if there will be conditions assigned to the €750 billion stimulus proposal by the European Commission, specifically in relation to corporation tax or...
    • Tax Code
      47. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of BEPS 2.0 in the OECD and the proposals for a minimum effective tax rate and for a digital tax at OECD level; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Value Added Tax
      48. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 104, 105 and 112 of 20 May 2020, if it is permissible under EU rules to zero rate VAT for medical equipment for...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      49. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary wage subsidy scheme for the tourism and transport sector will be continued into the medium- term; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      50. To ask the Minister for Finance if the restoration of the fuel rebate will be considered for the transport sector in view of the collapse in the tourism and transport sector; and if he will...
    • Value Added Tax
      51. To ask the Minister for Finance if the reclassification of VAT status will be considered for the transport sector to harmonise the VAT system on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Yield
      52. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax deducted from wagering at bookmaker offices here on greyhound and horse racing in 2019; and the estimated loss of revenue from this source in...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      53. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of tax to be received from employees in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the way in which the amount of tax due will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      55. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 863 of 27 May 2020, if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      57. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost in income tax foregone of income tax relief granted in 2019 on superannuation contributions, excluding the additional superannuation contribution paid...
    • Mortgage Lending
      58. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to cases in which mortgage customers that had received mortgage approval in principal from a bank prior to the Covid-19 crisis...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and...
    • Credit Unions
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance if concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10073/20]
    • EU Legislation
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance the role of Ireland in relation to the support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency scheme proposed by the European Commission; if legislation is...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will raise an issue regarding the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10298/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      69. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected tax due from the pandemic unemployment payment for 2020; the way in which the Revenue Commissioners plan to collect this tax; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered increasing credits in 2021 to cater for those that have received the temporary wage subsidy scheme or the pandemic unemployment payment...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected tax due from the temporary wage subsidy scheme for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10315/20]
    • Apple Escrow Account
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of an account (details supplied); the amount that was originally deposited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10318/20]
    • Rainy Day Fund
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the Rainy-Day Fund; if there is consideration to avail of the resource; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10319/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      76. To ask the Minister for Finance if the pandemic stabilisation and recovery fund is established and operational; if it requires primary legislation; if the fund is to be used as a last resort;...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of loans provided by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland in each month of 2020, by type of loan product in tabular form; and if...
    • Banking Sector
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans for the reopening of closed branches of a bank (details supplied) in County Clare and nationally. [10333/20]
    • Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance if the office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman has experienced a significant increase in complaints received during the Covid-19 pandemic...
    • Carbon Tax Yield
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated from carbon tax on liquid fuels, mineral oil tax and VAT on liquid fuel products in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date...
    • Tax Yield
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of instances and the value of tax involved in which divisions of the Revenue Commissioners (details supplied) issued reassessments of the amount of...
    • Tax Code
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to the carry back for tax purposes of losses incurred by businesses; his plans to make changes in this area to support the cashflow of...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered legislation, as has been implemented in other EU jurisdictions, that would prohibit the accrual of debt for the period of moratorium for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with the insurance industry in relation to business interruption caused by Covid-19 and in the event of further outbreaks of Covid-19...
    • Tax Yield
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated from the land zoning windfall tax when previously in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10442/20]
    • Tax Exemptions
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a once-off measure that each PRSA holder will be allowed to take a once-off withdrawal of €7,500 from their PRSA irrespective of...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pensions
      89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public service pensioners and the average pension before tax deductions, excluding those receiving spouse’s and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which he will report on his review of the allowances of members of the Houses of the Oireachtas. [9772/20]
    • Garda Stations
      91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to sell the obsolete Garda station building in Broadford, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9946/20]
    • Office of Government Procurement
      92. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of approved suppliers listed regarding the supplier list that the Office of Government Procurement maintains for the cycle to...
    • Fire Stations
      93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10022/20]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the formal confirmation process of the Enniscorthy flood defence scheme; the person or body that manages the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an extensive campaign aimed will be undertaken at encouraging civil servants to switch to roles at locations closer to their homes...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available for families of third-level students that received no refunds for accommodation from private accommodation providers for...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures undertaken to alleviate the situation facing workers whose safe pass accreditation expired prior to 1 March 2020 and that cannot now...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the matter of mandatorily including workers on task forces set up to reopen sectors of industry, for example, English language schools will be...
    • School Transport
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of private school bus operators (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10100/20]
    • Education Policy
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is providing supports for children progressing from sixth class to first year; if he will consider a national graduation day...
    • Special Educational Needs
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to run the July provision in 2020; if so, if it will be made available to all children with disabilities that have been out of school...
    • State Examinations
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when examination fees will be refunded. [9654/20]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9662/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for the English language sector post-Covid-19. [9663/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied). [9675/20]
    • School Accommodation
      108. 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 the...
    • Language Schools
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allowing stakeholders representing both teachers and students in the English language education sector to participate in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supports will be provided for ACELS, QQI and MEI accredited English language schools which were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic in March...
    • Special Educational Needs
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to securing a place at a special primary school for a child (details supplied) with special needs for the 2020/21 school...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the distanced teaching work newly qualified teachers are doing online at home will qualify towards their probation process; and if he will...
    • School Accommodation
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be operating at a temporary location on a greenfield site in Ballycullen, Dublin 24 in September 2020 and...
    • School Staff
      114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to manage teacher absences through certified illness and leave when schools reopen with regard to the already significant layers of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on advancing to the construction phase of the new school buildings for a school (details supplied). [9782/20]
    • Student Grant Scheme
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional income provided to students that were working part-time and are now in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be...
    • School Staff
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be no reduction in teacher numbers in primary schools for the 2020/2021 school year even if there has been a reduction in pupil...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine correspondence from a school (details supplied) and address the serious concerns raised regarding special needs assistant's...
    • Language Schools
      122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if English as a foreign language courses will be permitted to return to operation sooner than regular primary and secondary school operations in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building school for a school (details supplied). [9817/20]
    • Language Schools
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the Covid-19 Working Group for the English...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrangements for the return to national schools in September 2020 are in place; and when the boards of managements will receive details of...
    • State Examinations
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that did not engage in the predictive grading online registration; the way in which this figure compares to students that...
    • Public Sector Pay
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) that qualified here and is registered with the Teaching Council and worked in Bahrain for a number of years, can...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will restore the allocation of special needs assistants to five, as it was in September 2019, instead of the reduced amount of four after a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when works will commence on a new school building for a school (details supplied); when the construction of same will be completed; and if he...
    • Language Schools
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the timeframe for the reopening of English language schools; the supports his Department can provide to the sector in view...
    • Special Educational Needs
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide ASD units to secondary schools and feeder schools in Blessington, County Wicklow. [9931/20]
    • Education Policy
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for blended learning for primary school and secondary school pupils for the recommencement of the 2020/2021 academic year in September...
    • School Accommodation
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement his Department has had in relation to concerns regarding the school building and the prefabricated temporary accommodation at a...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which students that are taking part in a post-leaving certificate course and have yet to complete their practical exams due to...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date...
    • Schools Building Projects
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the temporary buildings for a school (details supplied) will be ready by the start of the academic year 2020/2021; the schedule for the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional year or term of school will be provided to those that attend a special school for their secondary education and that missed the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if contact will be made with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10040/20]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10044/20]
    • State Examinations
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for mature leaving certificate external candidates; and if, in circumstances in which an external candidate is being...
    • Special Educational Needs
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been further development on the summer development programme which will serve as an alternative to the July provision in 2020. [10051/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to provide a school (details supplied) with temporary classrooms for the coming year; if the planning application will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supports will be put in place for seasonal workers (details supplied) that are out of work as a direct result of Covid-19; and if he will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in County Kildare that have received funding as part of the 2020 capital funding allocation for development works; and the stages...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship places that were taken up in County Kildare in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, by sector. [10085/20]
    • Student Grant Scheme
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the eligibility criteria for SUSI grants will be changed to take account of changed financial circumstances that parents of students are...
    • State Examinations
      155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that recently took their HPAT exams; his views on whether these exams took place in and around the time of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be examined. [10105/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10112/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is putting in place contingency plans now for the possible scenario by which children are not able to return to school as normal in late...
    • School Transport
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be included in the school transport scheme. [10116/20]
    • School Curriculum
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) in County Cork can benefit from online teaching for the 2020/2021 school year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location a new primary school (details supplied) in County Cork will operate out of for the 2020/2021 school year; the status of the plans...
    • State Examinations
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support students that are due to take the leaving certificate exam in 2021 in view of the fact they have missed out on a long period...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial assistance is available for a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10129/20]
    • State Examinations
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the considerations or special exceptions that will be made when predicting grades for leaving certificate students that have had low attendance...
    • School Transport
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children and young persons travelling to primary school from offshore islands will be provided with adequate funding in line with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has commenced consultation with principals, teachers, parents, students, SNAs and other stakeholders regarding the reopening of schools;...
    • School Transport
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refunds will be issued in respect of school bus fees paid for the period of school closures as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special arrangements will be made for sixth class students to return to their primary schools for a period before they commence secondary...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an additional budget provided for schools to ensure that the increased hygiene needs of schools when they reopen will be met,...
    • School Curriculum
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional provision will be made for online access and access to devices for teachers and students; if an element of schooling will take...
    • Education Policy
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies he is putting in place for ensuring that educational disadvantage is not exacerbated during this time. [10184/20]
    • Third Level Education
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to, and his views on a document (details supplied); if he will be in a position to provide additional funding to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which may...
    • Special Educational Needs
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of national schools that provide ASD classes for children with special educational needs in Dublin 4. [10260/20]
    • Teacher Training Provision
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he has taken in response to the recommendations by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in relation to his Department...
    • Institutes of Technology
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decision to downgrade the LYIT school of tourism to a department within the school of business; the plans in relation to the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children with Down's syndrome will be granted access to the July provision in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10268/20]
    • State Examinations
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accommodate students that wish to take a written leaving certificate exam by allowing them to do so in August 2020 (details supplied);...
    • Education Policy
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide schools and students with the necessary software to accommodate blended learning in schools in September 2020; and if he...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide training for teachers that may have to implement a blended teaching approach in September 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific mental health and well-being resources available to students at this time; the resources available to leaving certificate students...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial resources that will be made available to schools for the 2020/2021 academic year to facilitate the meeting of Covid-19 stay safe...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make training available to staff, management and school communities on best practice implementation of Covid-19 stay safe measures...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra resources will be made available to schools to ensure students will not have to share resources, for example, library books and so on....
    • Special Educational Needs
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the implementation of traditional summer programmes for children with additional needs; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrangements for the leaving certificate in 2021 are being explored in view of the loss of class time in 2020 and a likely similar scenario in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the extension of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10292/20]
    • School Transport
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an extension of the school bus service will be provided for the 2021 school year from Annascaul village to Inch, County Kerry to accommodate...
    • Special Educational Needs
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to roll out a summer education programme for children with additional needs; when the details will be finalised and announced; and if...
    • School Transport
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the status of bus route D520 Enfield to Maynooth remains the same; and if it has been revised or has been considered for revision to more...
    • Schools Building Projects
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the overall capital construction cost of schools (details supplied) in County Meath. [10353/20]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure by year incurred in the rental of past and present premises since the opening of schools (details supplied). [10354/20]
    • State Examinations
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if predictive grades will have an impact on the points reduction offered to students that are eligible for the higher education access route....
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children that applied for the July provision in 2019 and to date in 2020 that were unable to source a tutor; the number of home...
    • Teachers' Panel Rights
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision will be reviewed on a supplementary panel application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need to maintain 2019/2020 teacher allocations will be addressed; and if teacher allocations will be increased for the 2020/2021 school...
    • School Accommodation
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate provision is being made in primary and second-level schools throughout County Kildare to accommodate the needs of children that are...
    • Direct Provision System
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of financial support provided from March to May 2020 to ensure children in the direct provision system have access to information...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Maternity Leave
      209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the position of women that are on maternity leave and provide an extension of maternity leave and benefit...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on proposals raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding reopening businesses in the...
    • Drugs in Prisons
      213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps, for example, replacing netting and Garda presence during yard time, he is taking to reduce the incidence of drugs...
    • Garda Reports
      214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 272, 273, 274, 275 and 276 of 15 October 2019, when the report referred to will issue to...
    • Prison Inspections
      216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the decision has been made to move the office of the Inspector of Prisons from Nenagh, County Tipperary to Dublin;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new households created by IPAS since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak here, households being persons not...
    • Citizenship Applications
      219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications outstanding; and the average timeframe for decisions in relation to citizenship...
    • Garda Reserve
      220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda Reserve programme will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9936/20]
    • Garda Operations
      221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug searches that have taken place in County Cavan since the beginning of 2019; and the number of arrests and...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was...
    • Direct Provision System
      223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address concerns outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9996/20]
    • Garda Recruitment
      224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures taken to date to achieve strategic priority 3, outcome 5, of the An Garda Síochána Diversity and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the housing situation of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Direct Provision System
      228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of units of PPE provided to each direct provision centre for staff use and for use by persons seeking international...
    • Garda Deployment
      231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to County Wexford by rank and district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10090/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the proposed draft legislation to replace sworn affidavits with statements of truth; and the difference between...
    • Crime Data
      233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of racial crimes and the rate of prosecution between January 2015 and December 2019, inclusive in...
    • Direct Provision System
      234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has been in negotiations with a private company regarding the supply of direct provision or emergency...
    • Garda Stations
      235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ensure the reopening of Emyvale Garda station, County Monaghan following a previous fire at the site; the time...
    • Direct Provision System
      236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is examining the abolition of the direct provision system and the replacement of same with a form of international...
    • Courts Service
      238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has had with the Courts Service to ensure speedier hearings of court cases in relation to asylum and...
    • Immigration Data
      239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision that have been given permission to remain under a stamp 4 visa; the reason these...
    • Asylum Applications
      240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that sought asylum here in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, by country of origin; and...
    • Immigration Data
      241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications by asylum seekers given a final decision on their cases in each year since 2010; the number of these...
    • Garda Resources
      242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of evidential intoxilyzer machines in each Garda division as of 1 June 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Equipment
      243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured to update the batons available to gardaí; when batons were last updated; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Operations
      244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Donegal Garda divisional protective services unit will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Alcohol Sales
      246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of alcohol test purchases that were carried out within the Donegal Garda division; the number of premises that were...
    • Direct Provision System
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address concerns raised by residents of a direct provision centre (details supplied); if urgent action will be taken...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the problem in many communities in which it is unwise and not safe to walk due to the use of...
    • Direct Provision System
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which persons in direct provision are being supported in terms of being able to social distance, PPE provision and...
    • Prison Staff
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered introducing flexibility in the retirement age for prison officers with the capacity and the willingness to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for the processing of citizenship applications in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020;...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 27 May 2020, the provisions which will be contained in the short urgent Bill...
    • Departmental Funding
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of funding for an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2008 to 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision System
      256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if provisions will be made for residents in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in County Clare to access suitable...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide statistical information in relation to section 115A of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (details supplied)....
    • Immigration Status
      260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination for residency and naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) who is...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      263. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of requests and the details that the Health Safety Authority has received regarding a safety site inspection and audit at...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      264. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will address a matter regarding caravan parks (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9781/20]
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      265. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the necessary health and safety inspections by the HSA of workplaces will commence; and if the HSA has been resourced with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      266. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the restart grant for small businesses is open to golf clubs that are privately owned and operated through limited companies; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      267. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the phase of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business which ice cream trucks fall under; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      268. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding available for persons that operate businesses from their own homes further to the introduction of start-up grants for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      270. 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 in order to get their businesses...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the options available to businesses in non-rateable properties, for example, heritage buildings or those which were not in business in...
    • Work Permits
      273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to release additional horticulture or similar employment permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9771/20]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will encourage the employment agencies of the State to proactively engage with the private and community enterprises across...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      275. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the WRC appears to be making no preparations to redeploy its workplace inspectors to...
    • Language Schools
      278. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason all English language schools are expected to gain ILEP listing yet Enterprise Ireland only promote schools that achieved an...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      279. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position in relation to the business continuity voucher scheme; if the scheme is still open for applications; the number of...
    • Brexit Preparations
      280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans and the plans of the agencies under her remit to minimise the impact of Brexit on the supply of medicines; the engagement...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Enterprise Ireland retail scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which clothing shops are to operate when they reopen with specific regard to trying on clothes and returns. [9912/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      284. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports and grants available to small businesses, self-employed persons and tradespersons that conduct their business by way of a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when or if sector by sector guidelines which will be required to be put in place will be issued; and if each sector will be given...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if clothes shops may reopen their changing rooms as they reopen in line with public health guidance; if persons will be allowed to try...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a matter relating to the online trading voucher for businesses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she can take to encourage consumers to buy Irish products and services in shops and retail outlets and which are sourced...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is satisfied that the number of persons entering a location (details supplied) are safe; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason applications made by companies (supplied supplied) for business continuity vouchers were rejected; if the applications can...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of HSA inspections that have taken place at meat factories up to and including 5 June 2020; if the inspections were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has considered making supports such as the business restart grant available for non-rate paying businesses such as bed and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if sector specific guidelines are available to businesses for a safe reopening of same; if businesses are required to tailor...
    • Enterprise Data
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies that have entered examinership, receivership or liquidation each month since February 2019, in tabular form;...
    • Legislative Process
      300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of legislation needed for the credit guarantee scheme to be set up; if the Bill has been drafted; and if she will make a...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and value of loans provided by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland by bank or lending institute for each type of...
    • Job Losses
      302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts made by her Department and the IDA to replace the 500 jobs lost by the decision of a company (details supplied) to close...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports being made available to private bus and coach companies negatively affected by the Covid-19 crisis; and if she will make...
    • Enterprise Data
      304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of firms that have applied for each enterprise support measure and scheme since 1 March 2020 in response to Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding the return to work safely protocol. [10465/20]
  • Department of Health
    • Labour Court
      306. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to sign-off on the Labour Court recommendations which were endorsed by the HSE regarding the completed wage review for chefs’ grade...
    • Paediatric Services
      307. To ask the Minister for Health when paediatric occupational therapists and speech and language therapists can reopen their centres and begin operations again; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medicinal Products
      308. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn to the report by an organisation (details supplied); his views on whether greater reforms are possible to achieve more sustainable...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      310. To ask the Minister for Health if an exemption will be made to the requirement for passengers to self-isolate for a passenger that has recently tested negative for Covid-19 by the public...
    • Disabilities Data
      316. To ask the Minister for Health the time frame for moving all persons with disabilities out of congregated settings in view of the fact the time frame in the national policy Time to Move on...
    • Mental Health Services
      317. To ask the Minister for Health when appointments for outpatients are due to resume at the department of psychiatry in St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny [9665/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      318. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be given to priority testing for employees in meat plant factories in view of the close proximity of the working conditions; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      319. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9682/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      320. To ask the Minister for Health if refunds are available for those that were charged for an over the phone consultation with their doctor regarding potential Covid-19 before the decision was...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      321. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many persons are experiencing anxiety and stress while waiting for cancer screening services to resume; if a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns that non-Covid-19 patients are being adversely impacted by the HSE contract with the private hospital sector; if a matter will be...
    • Hospital Services
      323. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Kenmare Hospital and Covid-19 patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9722/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      324. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is in discussions with the UK in terms of making a Covid-19 vaccine available to both jurisdictions if and when trials are successful that would run...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      325. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9727/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      326. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9729/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      328. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9750/20]
    • Dental Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in dealing with the issues outlined by an association (details supplied); if financial support will be provided to assist the sector due...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      330. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place and the situations in which cannabis can be provided on a medicinal basis; the number of persons receiving same; and if he will make...
    • Medical Cards
      334. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a situation (details supplied) regarding the medical card. [9773/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      336. To ask the Minister for Health the impact analysis carried out before the decision on a two week quarantine was taken; if consideration was given to the impact this will have on those...
    • Hospital Services
      338. To ask the Minister for Health when outpatient appointments will recommence in view of the cancellation and postponement of many due to the Covid-19 crisis. [9794/20]
    • Paediatric Services
      339. To ask the Minister for Health when paediatric occupational therapists and speech and language therapists can reopen their centres and begin operations again; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to allow gynaecologists to return to operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9805/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      341. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to allow general practitioners to return to operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9806/20]
    • Health Insurance
      342. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to persons that have private health insurance but are unable to access same due to the State contract with private hospitals; and if he...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      343. To ask the Minister for Health if a risk assessment was carried out in relation to the cessation and or pause of routine cancer screening services; if he has developed a roadmap to the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      344. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care centre at a location (details supplied); when construction can begin on the site; and the facilities which will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have died from Covid-19 by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9827/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      346. To ask the Minister for Health the consultation he or his officials have had with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to medicines supply in the context of Covid-19; the steps...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      349. To ask the Minister for Health the stage of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business the seaweed baths businesses individually and separate from spa treatments and associated services...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      350. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has conducted a risk assessment in relation to the indefinite postponement of breast and cervical screening due to Covid-19; if...
    • Cancer Services
      351. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for the National Cancer Control Programme by 5%, 7.5% and 10%, respectively. [9902/20]
    • Dental Services
      352. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9904/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      353. To ask the Minister for Health if a person in the business of furniture repair, who works alone, which entails calling to persons' homes, is permitted to recommence this work on 8 June 2020...
    • Bituminous Fuel Ban
      354. To ask the Minister for Health the status of work to secure the implementation of a nationwide smoky coal ban; if he has engaged with officials from the Department of Communications, Climate...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      355. To ask the Minister for Health when NPHET's vulnerable people subgroup was established; the details of its meetings to date; the details of its members and their roles; and if the minutes of...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant ENT surgeons in each of the RCSI hospitals in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and the number of consultant ENT surgeon hours provided...
    • Hospital Services
      357. To ask the Minister for Health when adult day services will resume. [9930/20]
    • Dental Services
      358. To ask the Minister for Health when personal protective equipment will be provided to dentists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9938/20]
    • Disability Support Services
      359. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to disability services and the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business;...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons on a waiting list for CAMHS; the number of young persons that have contacted CAMHS for support since March 2020; if additional...
    • Health Services
      361. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to enhance schemes such as a programme (details supplied). [9949/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      362. To ask the Minister for Health the penetration rate of generic medicines in 2010 and in the most recent year for which figures are available; the penetration rate of biosimilar medicines;...
    • Hospital Services
      363. To ask the Minister for Health when he will allow private hospitals resume their normal activities and deal with operations and surgeries that were scheduled to happen before the agreement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      364. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility will be explored of allowing families to visit their loved ones that are end-of-life in hospices but that are not actively dying (details...
    • General Practitioner Services
      365. To ask the Minister for Health when SouthDoc Blackpool in Cork will reopen. [9961/20]
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      367. To ask the Minister for Health if advice is being provided regarding isolating within households in which one member has returned from travel abroad and other members have not; and if he...
    • Direct Provision System
      368. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Covid-19 cases in direct provision centres and a centre (details supplied); and if the centre is included in the overall figures for direct...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      370. To ask the Minister for Health the location a drive-in cinema in which patrons are isolated in their cars and staff are safely socially distanced may reopen under the Roadmap for Reopening...
    • Physiotherapy Services
      371. To ask the Minister for Health if physiotherapists and reflexologists can reopen as part of phase 2 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; if so, the restrictions under which...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      372. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug sativex will be included in the drug payment scheme for a person (details supplied). [10017/20]
    • A Vision for Change
      373. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publicise the revised A Vision for Change document with immediate effect. [10021/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      374. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the number of rare health conditions which are tested for under the heel prick screening process for newborn babies; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      375. To ask the Minister for Health if he will continue the two-metre physical distancing as advised by NPHET; and if at any stage the advice changes to one-metre, if the wearing of cloth face...
    • Mental Health Services
      377. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the need to facilitate parental visits to children currently receiving inpatient mental healthcare here; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      378. To ask the Minister for Health if rural hotels will be allowed open a takeaway food service in phase 2 of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business in circumstances (details supplied)....
    • Primary Care Centres
      380. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the provision of primary care centre in counties Laois and Offaly; and his plans to provide them in each municipal district of the...
    • Health Services Provision
      381. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the future provision of healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he has considered specialist Covid-19 units in order that other hospitals...
    • Environmental Schemes
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to set up a special unit in the environmental health department to help tackle a rat infestation in an area (details supplied); and if...
    • Hospital Services
      383. To ask the Minister for Health if persons under 18 years of age that are admitted to the adult section of Tallaght Hospital will be permitted to have a parent or guardian stay with them...
    • Hospital Data
      384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons cared for in Clane General Hospital under the agreement between an association (details supplied) and the HSE. [10078/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      385. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultants working in Wexford General Hospital; the number of vacancies that exist at consultant level; the number of permanent and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      386. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the HSE to inform retailers of wigs and hairpieces of the additional headwear grant available to medical card holders that cannot...
    • Hospital Services
      387. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the scheduling of operations in private hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10103/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      388. To ask the Minister for Health if the NPHET will allow the resumption of video fluoroscopy procedures at CHI at Temple Street as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Support Services
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the reopening of day services for persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10131/20]
    • Air Ambulance Service
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if establishing a helicopter pad for the safe landing of the air ambulance in Castlerea, County Roscommon will be considered; the estimated associated costs to...
    • Mental Health Services
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if using the unspent money in the mental health budget to assist and support an organisation (details supplied) to ensure its services can continue will be...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if the list of high-risk nursing homes drafted by HIQA and sent to the HSE at the end of February or early March 2020 will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Patient Transfers
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the nursing homes to which the 45 patients were transferred to from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, County Louth from 1 March to 6 May 2020; and if he...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the nursing homes whose operational control was taken over by a hospital group; the nature and extent of the assistance provided by the hospital group; the...
    • Hospital Groups
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which CHO8 made a determination to contact the RCSI hospital group and for the group to take over operational control at a nursing home (details...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      398. To ask the Minister for Health the dates for which he approved of and appointed each member of NPHET in tabular form. [10144/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that applied to be part of the Be on Call for Ireland initiative; the number that were subsequently recruited into the health service via...
    • Hospital Staff
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed at the cardiology and the orthopaedic departments at Letterkenny University Hospital; the number of vacancies; the estimated...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      406. To ask the Minister for Health when he will reinstate the Keltoi rehabilitation unit, St. Mary's Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin 20; and the number of service users that have been adversely...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the grants available for housing adaption for persons with a disability apart from the grant available through local authorities; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      408. To ask the Minister for Health when the contingency plans and protocols in place since 14 March 2020 to allow SouthDoc services respond to the challenges posed by Covid-19 will be reviewed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine opening up physiotherapy for those with severe conditions and those with a disability that rely on a physiotherapist to administer treatment...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to continue providing free HIV screening services for high-risk groups; if consideration has been given to distributing rapid HIV test kits to...
    • Departmental Projects
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the projects that have received State funding to date under the Sláintecare integration fund; the amount of funding already provided to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of small, medium and large-sized gatherings in view of the fact this information is vital to those in the process of planning weddings and other...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being put in place to address waiting lists in the health service for non-Covid-19 related appointments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      416. To ask the Minister for Health the monthly expected capacity of public hospitals across waiting lists for inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy appointments. [10294/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      417. To ask the Minister for Health when the cervical smear test screening programme will be resumed; his views on whether other life-saving elements of the health service cannot be neglected...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the reopening of adult day services; the arrangements being put in place in relation to transport services for persons travelling...
    • Home Help Service
      419. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase home supports for 2020 in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10342/20]
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      420. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase funding for programmes in 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10343/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      421. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend nurse prescribing to include opioid substitution therapies such as methadone in order to alleviate pressure on services arising from...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      422. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 486, 502 and 519 of 27 May 2020, the action the State plans to take when the 99-year lease for the land on which the new...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      423. To ask the Minister for Health when cancer screenings will resume. [10360/20]
    • Memoranda of Understanding
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being implemented on an all-island basis following the agreement on a memorandum of understanding between his Department and the Department of...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity for testing for Covid-19; the average turnaround time for test results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10394/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      426. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Finglas primary care centre. [10398/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be an investigation into high levels of Covid-19 infection among healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10401/20]
    • Home Help Service
      428. To ask the Minister for Health if further home help hours will be offered to a person (details supplied). [10407/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      429. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take in relation to the need to access a drug by a person (details supplied). [10413/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the guidance the Health Protection Surveillance Centre wrote for the nursing home and homecare sector on Covid-19 infection and transmission...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the programme to test and keep testing homecare workers that work with the most vulnerable of persons; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Alcohol Treatment Services
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that have been given to alcohol delivery services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10431/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      434. To ask the Minister for Health when cancer screening services such as CervicalCheck which were postponed due to Covid-19 will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10435/20]
    • Legislative Measures
      435. To ask the Minister for Health when the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019 is likely to be restored to the Houses of the Oireachtas with a view to early...
    • Hospital Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Health when St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary will be returned to its normal operations; the reason the hospital has been kept idle when the...
    • Medicinal Products
      437. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to problems in procuring epanutin 50mg infatabs for patients prescribed same; if his attention has further been drawn to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is working with health facilities to deliver measures to allow for some level of visitation by family members; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      439. To ask the Minister for Health if all healthcare workers on a temporary contract will be offered a permanent job. [10457/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      440. To ask the Minister for Health the current average end-to-end time for testing and contact tracing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10458/20]
    • Defibrillators Provision
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE in each of the past five years and to date in 2020 for funding for automated external defibrillators by families with...
    • Emergency Departments (1 comment)
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if the emergency department charge will be waived for the provision of post-exposure prophylaxis through emergency departments in view of the fact that in many...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      443. To ask the Minister for Health when screening for cervical cancer, particularly for those with a history of cervical cell changes, will recommence; if a risk assessment has been carried out...
    • Cancer Services
      444. To ask the Minister for Health when BreastCheck will recommence, particularly for those in the higher-risk category; if a risk assessment has been carried out in relation to delaying these...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      445. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will now be assessed under the schools list; the arrangements in place to provide these assessments as a priority for children...
    • Maternity Services
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to facilitate the safe face-to-face attendance when appropriate by women that are pregnant for regular...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      447. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a person to conduct an independent inquiry as to the way in which the issue of protecting patients in nursing homes from Covid-19 was...
    • Health Services Funding
      448. To ask the Minister for Health the additional financial support provided to section 39 organisations from March to May 2020; the measures he is taking to ensure the future viability of such...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Horse and Greyhound Fund
      449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the planned funding for the horse and greyhound fund in 2020; and the amount contributed to horse and greyhound racing in each of the...
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the increase in funding planned for 2021 for the organic farmers scheme; if changes are planned to the minimum qualifying score which...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suspected Covid–19 cases at a meat plant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9667/20]
    • Greyhound Industry
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason greyhound tracks here were denied the opportunity to stage greyhound race meetings nationally from the same date as horse...
    • Pesticide Use
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to the use of an active substance (details supplied) used in essential herbicide crop protection products;...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether all further inspections of meat plants should be carried out unannounced; and if not, the reason for having...
    • Hen Harriers
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payments made to landowners in counties Limerick, Cork, Kerry and Tipperary by county in circumstances in which land has been...
    • Food Quality Assurance Scheme
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a review of quality assurance payments in view of the fact that they are perceived as unfair to farmers that sell...
    • Beef Industry
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason factory fit cattle pricing fell approximately €150 a head to €3.53 per kilogram and the price drop was not...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the introduction of a subsidy scheme for farmers will be considered to encourage them to spread ground limestone on their land...
    • Forestry Sector
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding forestry groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9873/20]
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Functions
      465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the work of a cross-Departmental group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9911/20]
    • Greyhound Industry
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a resolution will be found to a situation (details supplied) regarding the greyhound industry in County Tipperary; if an...
    • Felling Licences
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an application for a felling licence by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Greyhound Industry
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of runners, greyhounds injured, greyhounds that died or were put to sleep and the causes of the injuries and deaths in...
    • Departmental Reports
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the €3.6 billion of imports of prepared consumer foods referred to in the trade factsheet on page 11 of the...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason trotting racing will not resume on the same day as thoroughbred racing behind closed doors (details supplied); and if he...
    • Sports Events
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if assurances will be provided to the organisers of pigeon racing that birds from Northern Ireland can be transported here for the...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that projects that have commenced and are continuing to progress will be given a deadline extension for a...
    • Fire Service
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a series of matters in relation to recent gorse fires during the June 2020 bank holiday weekend (details...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to planned construction at a Coillte site (details supplied); and if his attention has been further...
    • Horticulture Sector
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a scheme (details supplied) to deal with the surplus of potatoes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Coillte Teoranta
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of the Coillte contract for the private hire and use of helicopters for firefighting on Coillte land; the amount spent on...
    • Forestry Sector
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Growing for the Future document is still the strategic plan for the development of the forestry sector here. [10151/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appraisal has been carried out of the outworking of the mandatory reduction obligation contained within the BEAM scheme; if he...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason trotting racing is operating to a different reopening schedule than that of thoroughbred racing in respect of the easing...
    • Beef Imports
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications of the Chinese suspension of beef imports from Ireland following confirmation of an atypical case of BSE; and if he...
    • Beef Industry
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for developing PGI status for grass-fed beef here; if this will result in clear labelling to distinguish grass-fed beef...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the EU emergency measure will be implemented that will allow payments of €5,000 to be paid to farmers experiencing cash...
    • Beef Industry
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler calves born in each of the past ten years by county; and the number of farmers in the sector by county in the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in each county that received 2019 CAP payments by amounts (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason horse trotting racing, that is, harness racing behind closed doors is not being permitted to start at the same time as...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated to Ireland under the present Common Agricultural Policy; the estimated amount of funding that will be...
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the AEOS and GLAS schemes in each year to date since AEOS was introduced; his plans to open a new...
    • Rural Development Programme
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount provided for in the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 for GLAS and TAMS respectively; the amount expended to date; and...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the proposals he put to the EU Commission in relation to the need to increase the proposed budget for CAP post-2020;...
    • GLAS Issues
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the GLAS scheme will reopen for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10253/20]
    • Agriculture Industry
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for reviewing the licence for the use of a wood preservative (details supplied) for agricultural activities; the factors...
    • Beef Exports
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when beef exports to China will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10334/20]
    • Departmental Reviews
      496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to implement the recommendations within the Review of Approval Processes for Afforestation in Ireland commissioned...
    • EU Funding
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the latest EU Commission MFF budget and CAP funding proposals; if he will provide a breakdown of total EU funding...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Infrastructure
      498. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the detail of the commitment to the establishment of the proposed gas import facility at Ballylongford, Tarbert, County...
    • Energy Data
      499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of residential holdings in each local authority area; and the estimated number of residential properties,...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason accommodation businesses are excluded from applying for the trading online voucher scheme in view of the...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      505. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the review on the SEAI scheme to consider revisits for additional works under the scheme will be completed; when...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if each application to the trading online voucher scheme for businesses impacted by Covid-19 will be fully honoured;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Broadband Plan; when the roll out will commence in County Sligo; and if he will make a...
    • Litter Pollution
      510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider introducing a refund charge on bottles due to the ever-increasing littering issue (details...
    • Bituminous Fuel Ban
      511. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of work to implement a nationwide smoky coal ban; if he has reviewed the recent report from the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      512. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when deep sea angling can commence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9933/20]
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since...
    • Inland Fisheries
      514. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for Inland Fisheries Ireland to ensure safe passage for salmon at a location (details supplied); and if...
    • National Broadband Plan
      516. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the analysis conducted on broadband capacity for addresses (details supplied) which resulted in them being transferred...
    • Bord na Móna
      519. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if confirmation has been received from Bord na Móna that its health and safety plans and procedures have been...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to make assistance available to voluntary community radio stations to support them during the Covid-19...
    • Telecommunications Services
      522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the fact that Eir remains under the universal service obligation (details supplied); and if the terms and...
    • Climate Change Policy
      523. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date on the draft national energy and climate plan; when Ireland will be submitting the national...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Aviation Industry
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take steps to help safeguard jobs at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9736/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support the aviation industry here following the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10028/20]
    • Travel Trade Sector
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to help and compensate those that have paid for holidays that they cannot now take; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is examining or proposing new legislation in the area of the use of scramblers, mopeds and quads in parks and greens....
    • Taxi Licences
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the exemption will be extended for taxis whose licence runs out after 13 June 2020 when the first extension expires; and if he will...
    • Job Losses
      532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on potential job losses in a company (details supplied). [9656/20]
    • Bus Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to extending the bus service in Grenagh, County Cork in view of the fact the service is perceived as...
    • Aviation Industry
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an airline announced a significant number of redundancies here and across Europe; if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the introduction of a turnover-linked direct grant will be considered to assist with liquidity for the tourism and transport sector;...
    • Bus Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider increasing direct support to scheduled bus services to ensure that social distancing can be properly observed while...
    • Public Transport
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the establishment of a public transport recovery task force will be considered to be independently chaired and include all key...
    • Bus Services
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the installation of a bus shelter at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Electric Vehicles
      539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review the legality of electric scooters and bikes here in view of the fact many are seeking alternative transport during...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when all public tennis courts will reopen (details supplied). [9725/20]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      542. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve funding for proposals for a low-cost safety scheme at Killard, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Motor Tax
      543. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review motor tax policy by which the car of a person is outside their parent’s house since lockdown and they are 180km...
    • Driver Test
      544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken with the Minister for Health regarding healthcare workers impacted by the suspension of driver tests; and if he will...
    • Sports Organisations
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether it is appropriate that an organisation (details supplied) does not operate on an all-island basis. [9766/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 765 of 27 May 2020, the way in which he plans to address the situation of a front-line health...
    • Driver Test
      549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the recommencement of the driver test system nationwide. [9792/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a policy will be supported to provide more space on roads and footpaths for pedestrians and cyclists in the suburbs of Dublin during...
    • Road Safety Authority
      551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting theory test appointments in each administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9811/20]
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when persons will be able to apply again to the NDLS for a learner permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9826/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department and agencies under his remit are taking to minimise the impact of Brexit on the transportation of medicines...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to the bus and coach sector here will receive a response; and if he will...
    • National Car Test
      556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the reopening of national car test centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9880/20]
    • Marine Casualty Investigations Board
      557. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the mechanism that exists to ensure that in circumstances in which the Marine Casualty Investigation Board makes a recommendation, they...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects restrictions on airlines providing services for passengers that are to commence regular non-essential work here will be...
    • Public Transport
      560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budgeted spend in each of the next three years to make public transport wheelchair accessible including vehicles, stations and so on....
    • National Car Test
      561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if national car test centres will open again on 12 June 2020; the position regarding vehicles requiring a taxi vehicle licence test in...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a sports capital grant will be reviewed and released (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9935/20]
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the activities that have been underway at Shannon Airport during the course of the lockdown; the airlines that have been...
    • National Car Test
      564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting the national car test since the closure of centres; the location of those waiting by county in tabular...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      566. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced...
    • State Bodies
      567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the vacancies on the board of the Shannon Foynes Port Company; if these have been advertised to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Travel Trade Sector
      568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if airlines will be instructed to refund families their tickets already bought for travel ahead of the pandemic in which families cannot...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the requirement for passengers flying here to quarantine for two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10030/20]
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual amount of subsidy paid to operators on PSO routes in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; if he has projections...
    • Driver Test
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deal with the backlog of driver tests; and when instructors will resume lessons. [10036/20]
    • Tourism Industry
      575. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an organisation (details supplied) was considered for membership of the Tourism Recovery Task Force in view of its international...
    • Taxi Regulations
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when protective plastic screens will become mandatory for taxis. [10120/20]
    • Memoranda of Understanding (1 comment)
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a memorandum of understanding signed between the Port of Cork and a company (details supplied) to develop Cork LNG...
    • Driver Test
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects driver tests to resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10171/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bespoke support scheme will be provided for private bus and coach operators affected by the Covid-19 lockdown; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to address the impact of Covid-19 on the bus and coach sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Organisations
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the steps he is taking to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) and its clubs are sustainable. [10187/20]
    • Departmental Reports
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to publish the report on the western rail corridor from Athenry to Claremorris prepared by a company (details supplied);...
    • Tourism Industry
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Tourism Recovery Task Force will issue its report and recommendations; when a package will be announced to assist this sector of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports he plans for the restaurant sector, including reduced VAT, business interruption grants and so on in order to ensure the...
    • Departmental Projects
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects his Department submitted for funding through the Connecting Europe Facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations of wheelchair accessible and non-wheelchair accessible bus stops within County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tourism Promotion
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had conversations with Coillte regarding extending its recently announced makeover project in view of the benefit of such lands...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding driver tests and the reopening of the NDLS (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) who recently returned from abroad will be assisted in obtaining a driver licence; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to publish guidelines for the tourism and hotelier sector; the supports being put in place specifically; when they will be...
    • Taxi Licences
      594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans in relation to licence renewal for taxi drivers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10428/20]
    • Road Projects
      595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the N25 Waterford to Glenmore scheme project; the Exchequer and EU funding allocated to the project; the total project...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when NDLS centres nationwide are due to reopen to the public under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports being made available by his Department to private bus and coach companies negatively affected by the Covid-19 crisis; and if...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Youth Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if potential schemes are being examined to support local youth involvement in social and community affairs in view of the fact that...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce changes to the ECCE scheme to provide all year round funding for those involved in the provision of ECCE services...
    • Childcare Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to recoup the 15% sustainability only being paid to childcare and early years providers. [9664/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that for many childminders reopening will not be feasible or sustainable if they can only...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expenditure of her Department on the overhead payment to childcare providers following the closure of crèches due to Covid-19 in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if additional funding will be provided to childminders and-or centre-based childcare settings to purchase additional PPE materials. [9871/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is seeking for childcare providers and staff to be deemed as essential workers in order that they can plan and prepare for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for services which normally open for term time once the 12 week wage support scheme ends; the way in which such services will be...
    • Childcare Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for essential workers that do not use a centre-based setting and do not have access to a childminder on 29 June 2020; if such...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advice she has received from NPHET in relation to social distancing in centre-based settings; if NPHET has suggested that reduced...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to commit to a clear set of guidelines which will allow the childcare sector to return to work safely and as soon as possible....
    • Childcare Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the criteria to become a member of the advisory group established for the childcare sector. [10046/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the continuity of funding for the access and inclusion model will be confirmed. [10049/20]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if correspondence from Gaisce regarding a person (details supplied) has been considered; and if she will reject the recommendation to...
    • Youth Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for UBU youth service projects to ensure projects will not face funding cuts in 2021. [10079/20]
    • Childcare Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is taking to address the significant shortfall in childcare spaces in Maynooth, Celbridge and Kilcock, County Kildare....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full year cost of recruiting 40 extra full-time educational welfare officer posts; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Years Sector
      617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the early years supports at present; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons employed on each childcare committee; the role of each; the way in which their role is changing to reflect the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of engagement there has been with the childminding sector; if she has considered the use of childminders in early phases for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      623. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the schemes or grants available for community and voluntary groups, for example, active retirement groups which have experienced a...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      625. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      626. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding provided to volunteer centres in each local authority area to enable the community call scheme; and the amount...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      627. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of county councils that have provided a list of roads for approval under the LIS allocation for 2020; the counties...
    • LEADER Programmes
      628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the allocation by LAG for projects under the present Leader programme; the amount allocated to date by each; the amount spent to date;...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension of the operation and funding for the school meals scheme will be considered beyond the end of June 2020 to...
    • Civil Marriages
      630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the Covid-19 guidelines to permit small civil marriages on and after 8 June 2020 with...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment of €350 will be suspended in view of the fact it was a 12-week temporary payment;...
    • Employment Rights
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual leave entitlements childcare professionals and workers are entitled to during the current Covid-19 pandemic period...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that are regarded as high-risk and unable to return to former employment due to cocooning can continue to avail of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if points raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be examined; if a response will issue in relation to same; and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review into entitlement to the State pension (contributory); the number of cases reviewed to date; the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a contract will be extended for a person (details supplied). [9719/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in relation to self-employed persons whose main or sole income relates to unearned rental income qualifying for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the period of exclusion to claim redundancy due to temporary lay-off and or short time during Covid-19 is due to be...
    • Respite Care Grant
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter in relation to a respite care grant application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 863 of 27 May 2020, if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details...
    • Carer's Allowance
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if required, if an oral hearing...
    • Disability Allowance
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be made on an appeal for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [9881/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an alteration will be made to the pandemic unemployment payment conditions in order to allow a person in receipt of the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reply will issue to correspondence she referred to the Social Welfare Appeals Office (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the circumstances; and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the contract of community employment supervisors that are obliged to retire at 66 years of age...
    • Public Services Card
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person can obtain a public services card during the Covid-19 pandemic due to restrictions. [9969/20]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an 18-year-old person cannot sign on for jobseeker’s until after they receive their leaving certificate...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement applications received from 13 March 2020 to the most recent date for which figures are...
    • Child Benefit
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the period within which child benefit can be paid up until the end of full-time...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will be issued. [10038/20]
    • Civil Marriages
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will permit civil marriage ceremonies to commence again particularly in certain circumstances (details supplied); if...
    • Working Family Payment
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if family income supplement will be approved for persons (details supplied). [10065/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supports will be put in place for seasonal workers (details supplied) that are out of work as a direct result of Covid-19;...
    • Public Services Card
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the situation by which persons are unable to access services on the MyGovID.ie portal due to the fact...
    • Invalidity Pension
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [10111/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will not be subject to forms of clawback in the future. [10148/20]
    • Illness Benefit
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the enhanced illness benefit for more than two weeks to those that cannot return to work due to the...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the progress of the judge-led group announced as part of Budget 2020 to examine and make recommendations in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 payment will be reinstated to asylum seekers in direct provision; if an increase to the rate of the daily...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are delays being experienced to the processing of PPS number applications as a result of Covid-19 compared to the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the time frame for the commencement of the protection afforded under section 5(7)(c) of the Emergency Measures in the Public...
    • Fire Stations
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10022/20]
    • Property Registration
      690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Property Registration Authority and or Land Registry will be operational again (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Road Safety
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities will be encouraged to provide more space on roads and footpaths and in public open spaces in the suburbs...
    • Land Development Agency
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if capital expenditure by the Land Development Agency is not subject to the Public Spending Code, Cost Effectives Analyses or...
    • Local Authority Leases
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time of the 733 Part V leases delivered in 2019; the average cost of the leases; the number of these...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in relation to the Sienna Valley urban regeneration development fund project submitted to appeal by Louth County...
    • Property Registration
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a Land Registry application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be completed; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will be offered a home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9956/20]
    • Planning Issues
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering an exemption for self-catering holiday homes that have been inadvertently affected by planning rules...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      700. 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). [10000/20]
    • Irish Water
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1301 of 13 May 2020, the discussions he has had with Irish Water regarding drought...
    • Rent Pressure Zones
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for rent pressure zones and the exemptions that exist enabling landlords to increase the rent by more than 4%; if...
    • Local Authority Contracts
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the tender process for local authorities for the hiring or purchasing of plant machinery; if contracts for plant machinery for...
    • Local Authority Funding
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to implement to assist local authorities with their funding programmes due to the serious reduction that...
    • Local Authority Members
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a report (details supplied) will be published; the reason for the delay in publishing the report; and if he will make a...
    • Fire Stations
      708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the fire stations within County Donegal that were refurbished or extended; the number of fire appliances supplied to Donegal...
    • Direct Provision System
      709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of community response forums which contain direct representation from persons living in direct provision including...
    • Building Regulations
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Building Control Act 2007 will be amended to include a grandfather clause for those with acquired rights to enable them...
    • Housing Data
      711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of public housing units built by local authorities and approved housing bodies since the foundation of the State;...
    • Local Authority Housing
      714. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resources provided to local authorities in Dublin city and county in the past 12 months to assist them with the...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that lived in shelters or emergency accommodation in each of the years 2008 to 2019 and to date in 2020;...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the CEO of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority will be appointed as per SI No. 188 of 2020; the process for...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken since November 2019 to ensure the State is compliant with the judgment of the European Court of Justice...
    • Rental Sector
      719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place to protect tenants in house share arrangements whose housemates have left due to Covid-19 leaving them...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which will be taken to deal with Covid-19 related rent arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10391/20]
    • Local Authority Housing
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average construction and all-in cost of building 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom public houses by region including Dublin, Cork,...
    • Housing Estates
      722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the case of a housing estate (details supplied) will be investigated. [10404/20]
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recommendation of a report (details supplied) that a refuge centre be established in...
    • Local Authority Funding
      724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to acquire the 21 units at a location (details...
    • Local Authority Housing
      725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of council house completions across the four Dublin local...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      726. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will make contact with the Spanish Government to offer assistance to Valladolid City Council and the team undertaking works...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      727. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is in receipt of correspondence from a group (details supplied); and her views on the measures outlined in the plan. [9920/20]
    • Hedge Cutting
      728. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to a local authority breaching hedge cutting laws during nesting season (details supplied). [9883/20]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      729. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9922/20]
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      730. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was...
    • Built Heritage Investment Scheme
      732. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the 2020 decision on the built heritage investment scheme will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      734. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports in place to support the bean an tí in the Donegal Gaeltacht in 2020 in view of the fact that all summer courses...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      735. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons employed on an agency basis in each State agency under the remit of her Department in 2019 and in quarter 1...
    • Arts Funding
      736. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views regarding a potential cut in the arts allocation in the budgets of local authorities following a downturn in the economy...
    • Architectural Heritage
      738. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the local and national campaign to save the remains of a cottage (details supplied); and if her...
    • EU Funding
      739. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of the structural funding from the EU that will be ring-fenced for culture and arts here. [10358/20]
    • Wildlife Protection
      740. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the investigation into the death of 23 buzzards in County Cork will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Wild Fires
      741. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of illegal burns that have occurred to date in 2020 on land owned by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if...
    • Waterways Ireland
      742. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the provision of matching funding for the Barrow Blueway, County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...

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