Written answers

Tuesday, 30 June 2020

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred by the Commission of Investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to date by category; the purpose for which the funding was spent in each...
    • Cabinet Committees
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times Cabinet committee F (National Security) has met to date in 2020; and when the committee will next meet. [13138/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will clarify the public health guidelines in relation to gatherings for weddings and the numbers permissible in places of worship including wedding celebrations, to...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will convene a citizens' assembly to discuss a shorter working week. [13534/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      6. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees. [13554/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of all non-Covid-19 related deaths and cause of death that have occurred for each month of 2020, in tabular form. [13611/20]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Training
      8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of a new electric target range at the Defence Forces training centre; and when the works will be completed. [13139/20]
    • Air Corps
      9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of pilot and air traffic controller posts that are vacant in the Air Corps; and the steps being taken to fill these posts. [13140/20]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if each long-term recommendation within the Public Service Pay Commission recommendations on recruitment and retention in the Permanent Defence...
    • Departmental Staff
      11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13545/20]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Consular Services
      12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12847/20]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a response will issue to two letters dated 23 March 2020 and 2 June 2020 sent by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights
      17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent infringement by Poland on LGBTQ rights and attempts to classify LGBT as an ideology. [13522/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13549/20]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a meeting was planned for early 2020 with those proposing a Hong Kong style, independent, municipality here; if the meeting was cancelled...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he and his officials have taken to prevent the proposed annexation of territory in the Palestinian West Bank on 1 July 2020; the...
    • United Nations
      21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his priorities and the difference in approach and policy his Department and representatives hope to introduce and address following the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Economic Policy
      22. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider defining surfing as a tourist activity in view of the fact that so many surf shops are hives of activity for those visiting coasts (details...
    • Insurance Coverage
      23. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason equestrian centres cannot get day cover for pony trekking companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/20]
    • Tax Reliefs
      24. To ask the Minister for Finance the grants and supports available for making adaptions to cars to help parents travel with children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Living City Initiative
      25. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount allocated in Budget 2019 for the living cities initiative; the amount spent; his views on the effectiveness of the initiative; if he has considered...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      26. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will continue the temporary wage subsidy scheme into 2021 in circumstances in which certain seasonal sectors of the economy have passed their season; and...
    • International Bodies
      27. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on foreign debt (details supplied); his views on the recommendations; and if he will make...
    • Tax Collection
      29. To ask the Minister for Finance if the due date for inheritance tax 2020 will be deferred from 31 October 2020 in cases in which the inheritance consists of property in order to afford...
    • Tax Code
      30. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether persons that have received lump sum compensation payments due to medical negligence and are in possession of a tax exemption certificate...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      31. To ask the Minister for Finance if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [12730/20]
    • Tax Code
      32. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the case of a person (details supplied). [12758/20]
    • Value Added Tax
      33. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 16 June 2020, the reason dentists are excluded from a VAT exemption when many other medical professions are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      34. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) will be taxed on the emergency Covid-19 payment they received for a number of weeks whilst unable to work due to Covid-19...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      35. To ask the Minister for Finance if an employer is obliged to top-up a wage if it is accessing the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Tax Credits
      36. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax credit issue will be resolved for a person (details supplied). [12815/20]
    • Garda Stations
      37. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 325 to 329, inclusive, of 16 June 2020, the Garda stations included in the Garda building and refurbishment programme...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      40. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent on the Commission of Investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he...
    • Mortgage Lending
      42. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures which have been put in place for those that were in the process of buying a home but now find themselves on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and...
    • Tax Compliance
      44. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12929/20]
    • Insurance Coverage
      45. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in respect of hire purchase insurance claims; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mortgage Lending
      46. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to their mortgage application and the subsequent knock-on effects of being placed...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      47. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the temporary wage subsidy scheme in order that companies that were allowed by the Revenue Commissioners to make quarterly payroll returns are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      49. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider an extension of Covid-19 pandemic support schemes to aid those in the photography and videography business sector until such time as the...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      50. To ask the Minister for Finance the position for companies operating the temporary wage subsidy scheme when some employees are brought back to work and other employees are not brought back;...
    • Employment Data
      52. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners collate data on the number of self-employed musicians here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13201/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      53. To ask the Minister for Finance if a decision on a temporary wage subsidy scheme application by a business (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed to allow the business to reopen...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      54. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports and or tax credit support PAYE workers can avail of as a result of having to use their primary residence as a workplace during Covid-19...
    • Mortgage Lending
      55. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps persons (details supplied) can take in relation to a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13241/20]
    • Value Added Tax
      56. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the VAT rate for the hospitality sector to assist the industry with recovery as a result of the impact caused by the Covid-19 crisis; and if...
    • Housing Data
      58. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential units delivered by NAMA or NAMA debtors by county, price and type of building, that is house, apartment, duplex and so on in tabular...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to second-time buyers. [13304/20]
    • Insurance Industry
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made by insurance companies on car insurance premium refunds due to the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is satisfied with the response from...
    • Value Added Tax
      61. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 89, 91, 107, 131 and 142 of 16 June 2020, if he will consider reducing the VAT on yoga services to the permissible 12%...
    • Insurance Industry
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 3 June 2020, if a company (details supplied) is in breach of the voluntary agreement by increasing the premium for...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the calculation of average net weekly pay for the purposes of the temporary wage subsidy scheme may cause an...
    • Pension Provisions
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to allowing the unlocking of private pension funds for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic in the case of unemployed PAYE...
    • Wealth Audit
      65. To ask the Minister for Finance the current mean and median household income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13396/20]
    • Mortgage Lending
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he and major financial institutions are accommodating those in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme with mortgage applications...
    • Tax Reliefs
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reintroduce tax relief on trade union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13535/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13548/20]
    • Mortgage Lending
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if loan-to-value, LTV, exemptions have been stopped since Covid-19; the representations he has made to the banking sector on behalf of homeowners that cannot...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance if a temporary wage subsidy scheme application by a person (details supplied) will be re-examined due to an error. [13624/20]
    • Insurance Coverage
      76. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the insurance industry in relation to the refusal by insurance companies to honour business interruption policies in insurance...
    • Employment Data
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons, earners and tax units who are self-employed and PAYE workers for each of the years 2016 to 2019 by the...
    • Company Data
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies registered here; the number of those that paid corporation tax in the latest available annual figures; the number that did not pay...
    • National Debt
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to refinance the outstanding obligations into long-term debt of the State in view of the historically low borrowing costs; and if he...
    • Mortgage Lending
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to assist applicants that were refused access to a mortgage on the basis they are in receipt of a Covid-19 pandemic payment; and if he...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Projects
      83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the financial management shared services project; the cost for each year since the project was introduced in tabular form;...
    • Heritage Sites
      84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will facilitate the longer opening of heritage sites outside of the traditional season in order to benefit from a potential...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated or full cost of each flood relief scheme for the Glashaboy and Bride rivers in County Cork and the Slaney river,...
    • Public Sector Staff
      86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of administrative officer positions in the public service that will become available in counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim,...
    • Local Authority Funding
      87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided to Kerry County Council to carry out repairs on the cliff at Dromature, Ballyheigue, County Kerry; and if...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when works will be commenced by Meath County Council following a successful voluntary homeowners relocation scheme application by persons...
    • Community Employment Schemes (1 comment)
      89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, further to the passage of the motion on community employment pension scheme on 26 April 2018, he met with unions that represent...
    • Flood Risk Management
      91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a project (details supplied) identified in the flood risk management plan; the part within the ten-year time frame it is...
    • Garda Stations
      92. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost-benefit analysis conducted by the OPW on the decision to divert as planned State funding away from a new Garda station in Sligo...
    • Public Sector Staff
      93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 27 March 2018, if the staff at Shannon Commercial Properties that commenced their employment...
    • Roads Maintenance
      94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if repairs will be carried on a bridge on the River Maine at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff
      95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the clerical officer positions advertised by the Public Appointments Service with an application closing date of 24 March 2020 will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered the introduction of measures to incentivise working from home in view of the ongoing capacity constraints across...
    • Brexit Preparations
      97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the construction of infrastructure projects the OPW is carrying out and-or has appointed a contractor for in respect of Brexit at each...
    • Office of Public Works
      98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review and update the terms of a licence regarding accommodation between the OPW and the Bar Council at the High Court; and...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for the resumption of the Glashaboy flood relief scheme, Glanmire, County Cork; the details of the latest delay; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13552/20]
    • Garda National Immigration Bureau
      102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works plans to refurbish the Garda immigration unit based at Shannon Airport; if so, when the work will...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a person (details supplied) did not satisfy the criteria for the voluntary homeowner's relocation scheme in 2016; the actions...
    • Community Employment Schemes (1 comment)
      104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the community sector high level forum last met; the plans there are for it to meet again to resolve the ongoing issues it was set...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the July provision; when this is expected to commence; if all information has been provided to deal with the issues to...
    • Third Level Staff
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number positions in universities for the academic year 2020-2021 across professions (details supplied); and the intake...
    • Third Level Education
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the provision of in-college summer courses for postgraduate students particularly those parts of courses that do...
    • Special Educational Needs
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if each school will be allocated at least the same number of SNA hours for the 2020-2021 academic year they had for 2019/2020; if so, the reason...
    • Schools Building Projects
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason tenderers for building projects are being requested to provide a quotation for possible Covid-19 related disruptions and compliance on...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if remedial work at a school (details supplied) will be expedited to facilitate provision for children with special needs for the area. [12724/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the reopening of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12725/20]
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the emergency school works application made by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12727/20]
    • Student Accommodation
      114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding third-level accommodation fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12740/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the summer provision 2020; if contact will be made with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding returning to full-time education in September 2020. [12744/20]
    • School Funding
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); when a decision will be made on same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that require temporary accommodation for September 2020; the number finding it difficult to find suitable accommodation;...
    • School Transport
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a proposal from a body in relation to school transport providers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow preschool children starting primary school in September 2020 to attend the July provision this summer; if there is a similar...
    • Tax Credits
      121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of allowing a tax credit or tax allowance for teachers to buy digital technology to assist in remote learning will be...
    • Special Educational Needs
      122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the criteria to attend the summer schemes for children with disabilities is amenable to each child’s individual needs. [12777/20]
    • Student Grant Scheme
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the selection processes regarding SUSI applications in view of the effects from the recent Covid-19 pandemic on employment...
    • School Staff
      124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if payslips can be sent to teachers and other civil servants electronically instead of by post (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned location for a permanent school premises (details supplied); the capacity it is planned to increase the school to; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision will be available to children with learning disabilities in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding schools losing teachers due to the pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will lose a teacher for the school year commencing in September 2020. [12810/20]
    • School Transport
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultation that has taken place between her Department and the school bus transportation sector regarding school transport in September...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with the Teaching Council to ensure that newly qualified teachers that were completing the Droichead programme are not...
    • School Meals Programme
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters (details supplied) regarding the delivery of school meals during Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to children with special educational needs whose usual school and summer camp is not partaking in the voluntary July...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an increased number of special needs assistants will be approved for a school (details supplied) to support the current extra needs of...
    • School Funding
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the request for funding to lease an established outdoor facility for physical education purposes by a school (details supplied) will be...
    • Special Educational Needs
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some schools have decided not to proceed with the July provision in 2020; her views on whether...
    • Schools Building Projects
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a matter regarding a school (details supplied); if the matter will be concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements being made in terms of the school transport providers whose fleet or individual buses have been tied up since the commencement...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the English language industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12883/20]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the resources will be put in place to allow the Teaching Council prioritise registration for soon to be qualified primary school teachers in...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are delays in the registration of home tutors. [12910/20]
    • School Staff
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will remain a two-teacher school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12912/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided regarding the July provision for parents of children that ordinarily avail of a combination of school-based provision...
    • Schools Building Projects
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding schools (details supplied); and the status of the plans for these schools. [12947/20]
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to grant emergency aid to a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that there are genuine concerns...
    • School Transport
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures and support available to school bus operators following Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of DEIS schools and special schools, respectively that have to date opted in to provide the July provision; and the number of teachers...
    • School Transport
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering allowing an extension to the age of vehicles operating school transport services; if she is considering increasing the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children with Down's syndrome, autism and other disabilities that are finishing sixth class in June 2020, will be included in the July...
    • Schools Building Projects
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the building programme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12996/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13012/20]
    • School Transport
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence received from a person (details supplied) in relation to the provision of school transport to a school;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a space will be made available on the summer or July provision for a child (details supplied). [13029/20]
    • School Inspections
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an inspector has been contacted or has contacted a school (details supplied) as raised in Dáil Éireann on 20 May 2020; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a case (details supplied). [13054/20]
    • Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na bearta a dhéanfaidh sí chun a chinntiú go mbeidh caighdeán cuí i labhairt na Gaeilge ag na daltaí...
    • School Funding
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the position of schools (details supplied) in the current capital programme; if both schools have secured capital funding;...
    • State Examinations
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the appeals process for students that were self-taught and did not receive a grade for subjects in which they were self-taught; the reason their...
    • School Accommodation
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the temporary prefabricated accommodation for a school (details supplied) while the permanent buildings are being built; and if she...
    • School Transport
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance available to private school bus operators that have suffered a loss of income as result of Covid-19 and that will not be...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a recently submitted application for emergency works by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding July provision facilities that are being organised by many schools in conjunction with teachers and special needs...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be made available to reduce class sizes in a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that classes are being...
    • Special Educational Needs
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the summer provision programme to allow children transitioning to mainstream schools from an early years setting that have a...
    • Gaelscoil Issues
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if confirmation of the recommendation by a taskforce in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry in respect of Gaeltacht schools will be...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an alternative application process in place for those applying for SUSI that do not have a public services card and cannot organise...
    • Schools Building Projects
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new major refurbishment or construction of new schools that have commenced in County Kildare; the date on which each construction project...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if applicants for higher education grants that worked during the Covid-19 emergency will not incur a reduction or cessation of SUSI grant...
    • Third Level Admissions
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with third-level universities to expand the number of medical training places for students applying through the Central...
    • School Funding
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) to enable it to proceed with the building of a school hall, woodwork room, music room...
    • Special Educational Needs
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she has restricted access to the July provision scheme in particular for those students with Down syndrome, despite assurances that no...
    • Schools Building Projects
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the development of school buildings on a site (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason two developments are being...
    • Teacher Training
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the professional master’s in education can be completed in one year following an undergraduate degree; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines and protocols for the summer provision (details supplied). [13232/20]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will reopen; the reason no date has been given for the completion of repairs to the school; and if she will make...
    • School Accommodation
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when parents will be refunded for school transport fees in circumstances in which the service paid for was lost due to Covid-19 school closures;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children that have Down's syndrome, are deaf or blind or have a moderate general learning disability are excluded from the July...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works at a school (details supplied); and the measures underway to ensure the opening of same is secured for September 2020. [13271/20]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount provided to schools in County Wexford through the summer works scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for emergency works that were refused in 2019 and quarter 1 of 2020, in tabular form. [13284/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if post-primary children that were eligible and received home based July provision in previous years are automatically entitled to same in 2020;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13292/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the decision to limit the number of pupils with Down syndrome that can avail of the July provision; the reason access has...
    • Education and Training Boards
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date of submission of the original planning application to Louth County Council for the new LMETB head office building; the date of granting...
    • Special Educational Needs
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allowing the July provision to take place in mainstream schools that do not have an ASD unit but have students with special...
    • School Accommodation
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the failure to fulfil commitments to a school (details supplied); when the situation will be rectified to the satisfaction of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school transport will not be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal to accommodate their July provision attendance;...
    • Third Level Institutions
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with third-level institutions to ensure that all students are provided with ample notice regarding arrangements for the autumn...
    • Special Educational Needs
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to advance the summer provision; the uptake for the 2020 programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13450/20]
    • Childcare Services
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she has taken to ensure after-school childcare providers which operate within schools can access these premises from 29 June 2020....
    • Special Educational Needs
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to exclude post-primary school children with Down's syndrome from the summer provision programme will be reversed; and if she...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made to continue the education of apprentices that had started their courses in view of the restrictions on attending...
    • Special Educational Needs
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the decision to limit the number of pupils with Down's syndrome that can avail of the July provision; the reason access has...
    • Third Level Institutions
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the results of a survey by a union (details supplied) regarding student experiences of sexual violence, sexual...
    • State Examinations
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarification will be provided on a special case regarding predictive grading relating to the leaving certificate 2020 (details supplied); and...
    • School Staff
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will end the two-tier pay scale for school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13533/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13546/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected timeline for the completion of a school extension for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requirements for schools to have ASD units; if it is demand led; the extent to which this demand is analysed and assessed by her Department...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to schools charging parents for the use of separate stationary equipment for children when they return to school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will issue guidelines to schools in managing the July provision programme in summer 2020; the reason for the delay in issuing...
    • Schools Building Projects
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project (details supplied); the timeline for site procurement and commencement of building works; if the...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be changes in the SUSI grant scheme in 2020 in relation to the financial situation persons find themselves in due to the impact of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time frame of the building of five prefabs for a school (details supplied) which were due to be finished by September 2020 but have been...
    • Special Educational Needs
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the situation of children with additional learning needs that attend a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the anomaly in the SUSI grant scheme by which a student applies initially as a dependent of their parents but subsequently...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make accommodation for instances in which parents choose to delay their child’s start or return to primary school on the...
    • School Staff
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure school secretaries are employed as full-time public servants particularly in view of the contribution they made to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the type of PPE provision (details supplied) that will be provided to schools for the reopening; if the cost of same will be covered by her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students with Down's syndrome entering mainstream primary school or in mainstream post-primary schools are eligible for the July provision;...
    • State Examinations
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to replace the leaving certificate examinations for the class of 2021; the type of assessment the class of 2021 can expect; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a video by parents and guardians raising issues and problems concerning the move of a school (details...
    • School Transport
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school transport that will be available for students in September 2020; and the guidelines for transport for students with additional needs....
    • English Language Training Organisations
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to protect foreign language schools in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the July provision; if it will be made mandatory for schools which cater for persons with special needs to provide the programme;...
    • School Staff
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to refuse the provision of extra teaching staff to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Maternity Leave
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will extend maternity leave for mothers in view of the difficulties they experienced due to Covid-19; and if she will...
    • Departmental Regulations
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will advise on an issue raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Traffic Offences
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding speeding detection fines; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Leave
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is leave to allow family members to take off work in circumstances (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • EU Directives
      274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the 5th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive will be transposed here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13674/20]
    • Citizenship Status
      276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted citizenship in each year of the past five years at the absolute discretion of the Minister based...
    • Direct Provision System
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place and the efforts made to ensure that direct provision accommodation centres are in compliance with...
    • Garda Deployment
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic units assigned by Garda district to County Cork in each of the years 2015 to 2019 inclusive; and if...
    • Coroners Service
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to replace the Coroner in south Tipperary upon their retirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Stations
      282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 325 to 329, inclusive, of 16 June 2020, the Garda stations included in the Garda...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of the backlog in processing EU treaty rights reviews; the number of persons on the list for review; if the INIS is...
    • Alcohol Sales
      288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review legislation relating to alcohol delivery services specifically in relation to the regulation of a number of...
    • Prisoner Health
      290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that access to prisoners by addiction practitioners working for the community...
    • Legal Aid
      292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review the civil legal aid scheme with particular emphasis on the legal aid scheme and its application in family...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a document (details supplied); if she is considering introducing the measures outlined; her plans to engage with...
    • Immigration Policy
      294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 9 June 2020, the procedure now being followed by the immigration authorities to...
    • Football Association of Ireland
      295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in 2020 regarding issuing funding to it; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of joint family visa applications in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Deportation Orders
      298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the request to set aside a deportation order in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider online citizenship ceremonies for naturalised citizens in view of the fact regular citizenship ceremonies...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources she has made available regarding the enforcement of the terms and conditions attached to the locator form; the...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a contract has recently been put out for tender for the supply of new motorbikes for the Garda fleet; and if so, when she...
    • Garda Training
      303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when each specialist training course held at either Garda headquarters or the Garda training college will resume. [13147/20]
    • Student Visas
      304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to further visa extensions for students that are here to study English that have had classes...
    • Direct Provision System
      307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspection visits to permanent and temporary direct provision centres in County Wicklow since March 2020; the way...
    • Immigration Status
      308. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13244/20]
    • Citizenship Status
      309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if citizenship will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residency Permits
      310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if arrangements will be made to grant an emergency GNIB card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Probate Office will reopen to the public. [13278/20]
    • Garda Transport Provision
      312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles attached to the Wexford Garda fleet as of 22 June 2020, in tabular form. [13286/20]
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a staff member of a company (details supplied) is sitting on the anti-racism committee in view of the involvement of...
    • Prisoner Complaints Procedures
      314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the introduction and implementation of the new Prison Service complaints policy; if she will provide same; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the blanket extension which was granted to American citizens, which allowed them to stay here for an extra two months due to...
    • Protected Disclosures
      320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a whistle-blower complaint was received from a person (details supplied) by e-mail on 9 May 2020; if so, the stage at which...
    • Child Abuse
      321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a retrospective child abuse case deemed founded by Tusla is normally then investigated by An Garda Síochána or the...
    • Visa Applications
      322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for a long stay visa will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Garda Strength
      323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and rank of members of An Garda Síochána assigned to County Mayo in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reinstate Garda youth diversion project funding to a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda Strength
      326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda staffing levels in each division prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic; and the increases in staffing since...
    • Equality Issues
      327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to include trade union membership as a prohibited ground for discrimination;...
    • Departmental Staff
      328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic Violence Services
      329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources provided to the services working with those experiencing domestic abuse in counties Longford and...
    • Direct Provision System
      330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the newly appointed manager in a direct provision centre (details supplied) has been appropriately vetted by An Garda...
    • Courts Service
      331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures and steps that a person must take to get emergency access to the family law courts in view of the ongoing...
    • Departmental Policy Functions
      332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she considers An Garda Síochána as falling under the aegis of his Department in respect of Government policy....
    • Prison Visiting Regulations
      333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason visits to prisons are only recommencing on 20 July 2020 when visits to other institutions are being allowed from 29...
    • Garda Stations
      337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a full assessment has been carried out on the refurbishment costs for Sligo Garda station, including costs such as those...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if inquests will take place into the deaths of those that died of Covid-19 in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      341. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount that has been distributed from the restart grant by local authority in tabular form. [12858/20]
    • Co-operative Sector
      343. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of worker cooperatives that received funding in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the amount of...
    • Farm Safety
      344. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to evidence indicating that injuries and fatalities related to agriculture are increasing; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      345. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when guidelines and a time for reopening of business will issue to the beauty sector (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      346. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports being considered for businesses in the autumn and winter months of 2020, when queuing outside will not be possible due to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      348. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will review a case (details supplied); if the business can reopen on 30 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      349. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline a plan of supports for business owners that cannot reopen their businesses owing to social distancing requirements;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      351. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when live music in pubs and venues will be permitted again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12869/20]
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      352. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 9 June 2020, if a further reply will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      353. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a health and safety liability to employers arises in instances in which it has instructed staff to work from home only during...
    • IDA Ireland
      354. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the case of an IDA property (details supplied) in County Tipperary which has been left idle for a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      355. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to provide a grant similar to the Covid-19 restart grant for the taxi sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will amend the relevant regulations to ensure that workplace acquired Covid-19 diagnosis will be considered as a workplace...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      357. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available or being considered for new start-up businesses in a post-Covid-19 economy; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      358. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the safety measures needed for beauticians to reopen their premises and resume business; if they will be allowed to touch faces; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      360. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13541/20]
    • Workplace Safety
      361. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the options available to an employee if they are of the view their workplace is failing to comply with public health guidelines in...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Tests
      362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners tested for the Covid-19 virus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13055/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      367. To ask the Minister for Health when treatment for a person (details supplied) will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13243/20]
    • Dental Services
      368. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 565 of 23 June 2020, the number of dentists operating the dental treatment services scheme that have been supplied with...
    • Disability Support Services
      373. To ask the Minister for Health when day services for persons with intellectual and physical disabilities will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12691/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      374. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been an inspection at a meat factory (details supplied); if so, if workers were tested for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Policy
      375. To ask the Minister for Health if a contrasting document will be produced to highlight the differences between the new Sharing the Vision - a Mental Health Policy for Everyone 2020-2030 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      376. To ask the Minister for Health when an announcement will be made in relation to the timing of the lifting of the quarantine arrangements for those coming here to afford certainty to persons...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not had their waiting time backdated [12728/20]
    • Dental Services
      378. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to dentists turning away medical card holders due to the additional expenses relating to Covid-19 social distancing...
    • Home Help Service
      379. To ask the Minister for Health when regular home help hours curtailed during Covid-19 restrictions will be restored. [12731/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      380. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand care in the community to provide mobile treatment services for chemotherapy and dialysis as is the practice in the UK and other European...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a case (details supplied); if the business can reopen on 30 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12736/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      383. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment to have a MRI will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12738/20]
    • Hospital Procedures
      384. To ask the Minister for Health when elective surgery will resume at University Hospital Galway for a person (details supplied) who is currently awaiting a procedure which has time...
    • Cancer Services
      385. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to eliminate the wait for cancer patients as a result of the reorientation of the public and private health services during the Covid-19 crisis; and...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      386. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request a formal investigation by the EU Commission independent advisory panel on characterising flavours in tobacco products into the continued...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      387. 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. [12755/20]
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      388. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prevent the banned substance MMS from entering the market here and being sold illegally to parents of autistic children; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Properties
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the land at the entrance to an estate (details supplied); if it is under the control of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Chronic Disease Management Programme
      390. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 16 June 2020, the way in which the chronic disease management programme will be rolled out over the next three...
    • Disability Services Funding
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12779/20]
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12786/20]
    • Public Sector Pay
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if HR circular 037/2019 has been fully implemented; if not, when it will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12796/20]
    • Public Sector Allowances
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if HR circular 027/2019 has been fully implemented; if not, when it will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12797/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the current schedule for the construction of the National Children's Hospital; the delays that are expected; if he will confirm that construction is reconvened...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      397. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home staff being tested for Covid-19 will have their results relayed to them directly and not to their managers, in view of the fact that this was...
    • Patient Transfers
      398. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and the reason they have not been transferred to a particular nursing home in view of the...
    • Mental Health Services
      399. To ask the Minister for Health if he has requested the HSE to examine the finances of an organisation (details supplied); if so, the reason for the examination; when the examination will be...
    • Medicinal Products
      401. To ask the Minister for Health if versatis pain patches are prescribed under the GMS scheme for conditions other than shingles; the other conditions these patches are prescribed for; and if...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      402. To ask the Minister for Health when employees of a service (details supplied) will receive computer devices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12837/20]
    • Ambulance Service
      403. To ask the Minister for Health when the €350,000 allocated to the ambulance base in County Carlow will be provided; when he expects works to begin; when County Carlow will have an...
    • Dental Services
      404. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some dentists are telling patients that they are not accepting medical card patients due to the increased cost...
    • Health Services Staff
      405. To ask the Minister for Health if all non-consultant hospital doctors currently working in the health service or that had previously worked in the service that were dealing with Covid-19,...
    • Health Services
      406. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the rat infestation in north-western areas of Dublin; and the role of the HSE in this regard. [12860/20]
    • Physiotherapy Services
      407. To ask the Minister for Health when the intensive physiotherapy department will reopen at Our Lady’s Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Charges
      408. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters will be clarified in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12863/20]
    • Cancer Services
      409. To ask the Minister for Health if cervical testing has been restored to normal levels of activity; if there is a backlog of appointments; if it is normal for patients to be waiting for six...
    • Disability Services Provision
      410. To ask the Minister for Health when a place will be allocated to a person (details supplied). [12873/20]
    • Dental Services
      411. To ask the Minister for Health when dental services for children with special needs will resume in St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny (details supplied). [12894/20]
    • Respite Care Services
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the home share respite project in the south-east; and if the project is on schedule in view of indications by the head of HSE disability services...
    • Health Services
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the average estimated economic loss to the health service for each hour of delay in time-to-theatre for emergency surgery patients in tabular form; if this...
    • Substance Misuse
      424. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to include information on nitrous oxide under the solvent's category on drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12931/20]
    • Midwifery Services
      425. To ask the Minister for Health if a review is being carried out in relation to the midwife-led unit in Cavan General Hospital; if so, the terms of reference for the review; the time frame...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      426. To ask the Minister for Health the plan that was put in place to deal with the health needs of persons on the islands during Covid-19; if a copy of the plan will be provided; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol for Dublin City Council to contact the HSE pest control unit. [12937/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      431. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure sufferers of Parkinson’s disease have access to the necessary services to treat their condition; if he will address concerns...
    • Health Services Staff
      432. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the vacancy for registrar position in St. Mary’s Health Centre, Thurles; and his plans for the position to be filled....
    • Medical Cards
      433. To ask the Minister for Health when he will be increasing the medical card gross income limits for those over 70 years of age which were due to be introduced in July 2020; and if he will...
    • Disability Support Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the person is in receipt of the maximum level of support available under the HSE...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      435. To ask the Minister for Health when an appropriate wheelchair will be made temporarily available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12977/20]
    • Medical Cards
      436. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12983/20]
    • Respite Care Services
      437. To ask the Minister for Health if new initiatives have been provided with respect to respite care in the context of Covid-19 in view of the loss of school time which provided a type of...
    • Cancer Services
      438. To ask the Minister for Health when cancer services, including BreastCheck, will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12999/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new 50 bed unit at Portiuncula Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13000/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      440. To ask the Minister for Health when a report into a hospital (details supplied) will be completed and made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13004/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the status of efforts to licence the drug patiserin in the treatment of hereditary amyloidosis. [13006/20]
    • Cancer Services
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will again provide community cancer screening services despite Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13019/20]
    • Maternity Services
      443. To ask the Minister for Health the stage the HSE plans to allow fathers to be allowed back into HSE pregnancy scans with their pregnant partners; when fathers will be permitted to access the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to assist expecting parents with classes online in the absence of physical antenatal class appointments being offered due to Covid-19; and...
    • Disability Services Provision
      445. To ask the Minister for Health when services will resume for a child (details supplied). [13030/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report to Dáil Éireann by 30 June 2020 on the number of unborn babies aborted under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy)...
    • Primary Care Services
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the range of services that will be provided at the new primary care centre in Athy, County Kildare; the HSE agencies that will operate a service from the...
    • HSE Properties
      449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 16 apartments the HSE leases in a location (details supplied) that are lying vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13060/20]
    • Dental Services
      454. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department and the HSE will provide PPE and a range of other supports required by dental practices nationally; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Occupational Therapy
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if an occupational therapist will be appointed for the areas of Rathmore, Gneeveguilla and the entire surrounding area in view of the fact there has not been...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13092/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in place in the event of the categories of passengers that on arrival at air or sea ports are required to fill in a form and self-isolate for two...
    • Home Help Service
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has had their home help hours reduced from ten to five hours and then to three hours; if the hours will be increased...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      463. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with the special bed for their home due to their long-term illness; when it will be delivered to the home;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      464. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some general practitioners in County Carlow are charging for the taking of blood samples; the steps he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      465. To ask the Minister for Health when those providing complementary therapies, such as reflexology, will be given a definitive indication as to when they can begin to see patients and resume...
    • HSE Funding
      466. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 753 of 3 June 2020, the breakdown of the HSE 2020 allocation of €774 million of capital funding by project in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      467. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and the plans of the HSE for restarting healthcare; if this will be delegated to hospital and local level; if there will be a HSE plan which will be...
    • Health Services
      468. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will raise awareness of a card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13122/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      469. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions are being made for frontline health workers that have been forced to use up their annual leave for childcare purposes and are facing a situation...
    • Mental Health Services
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in June 2018, 2019 and 2020 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Kildare by area;...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      471. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the new National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if this project is the subject of conciliation between parties. [13135/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      472. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number of child and adolescent mental health teams to 88. [13136/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      473. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary funding will be provided for the recruitment of a consultant anaesthesiologist with a special interest in paediatric complex pain management...
    • Health Services Staff
      474. To ask the Minister for Health if doctors (details supplied) have been told that there is no work for them after their three-month short-term contract is up; and the number of doctors that...
    • Mental Health Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Health the funding supports available for community-based mental health charities which provide counselling services and are operated by local volunteers. [13162/20]
    • Medical Cards
      477. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13167/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time he plans to operate a temporary field hospital in the university area gymnasium at University of Limerick; if the field hospital will now be...
    • Disability Services Provision
      480. To ask the Minister for Health when the local centres that cater to adults with disabilities are reopening. [13182/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to doctors in general practice charging parents the same amount for a telephone appointment and assessment as they do for a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      482. To ask the Minister for Health when a disability service (details supplied) can reopen; if the reopening of the service will be delayed; if interim measures can be put in place; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      483. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a procedure; the further length of time they can expect to wait for same; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      485. To ask the Minister for Health if home help will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13187/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      486. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow residents in community houses to leave the houses and travel to and from home; when the families and community houses will be given an...
    • Disability Support Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Health when a facility (details supplied) will resume services; and when services and support facilities for children and or adults with intellectual disabilities...
    • Third Level Education
      488. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the Minister for Education and Skills and work with third-level universities to expand the number of medical training places for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if care workers visiting the homes of sick, elderly or disabled persons will be tested fortnightly for Covid-19 in line with the testing of care workers in...
    • Dental Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will outsource dental appointments for children in order that waiting times to have urgent dental work undertaken can be significantly reduced; and...
    • Pension Provisions
      491. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 608 of 3 June 2020, if the matter will be directed to another office (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn...
    • Hospital Facilities
      492. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary works will be carried out in Belmullet District Hospital, County Mayo to enable patients to be admitted; and if he will make a statement on...
    • HSE Staff
      493. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations (details supplied) of the Labour Court will be implemented; when the additional four staff will be put in place as recommended; and if...
    • Hospital Transfers
      494. To ask the Minister for Health if the contract previously awarded to a company (details supplied) for transfers at University Hospital Kerry considered a request by hospital management to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      495. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out a campaign to highlight the appropriate use of face masks, similar to the campaign rolled out for hand washing and hand hygiene; and if...
    • Disability Support Services
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources and supports that will be implemented through Sláintecare to assist persons living with Parkinson’s disease and their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      497. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects more normal visitations with physical contact to resume for residents of public and private nursing homes and their families that have...
    • Dental Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to orthodontic practices implementing a surcharge on patients of up to €6 per visit for PPE; his views on whether this...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a public hospital patient to make a complaint; the role of agencies outside the HSE and his Department such as the Ombudsman; and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card holders should not be charged by their general practitioners for blood tests; and the steps persons that have been incorrectly charged should...
    • Dental Services
      502. To ask the Minister for Health the reason County Kerry does not have emergency dental cover at weekends (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13303/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      503. To ask the Minister for Health if children awaiting hospital procedures that had surgery cancelled due to Covid-19 and have turned 16 years of age during this period will still be treated...
    • HSE Expenditure
      504. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the HSE has been achieving value for money on medicines through the agreement with an association (details supplied) and bilateral...
    • Health Services Staff
      505. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 439 of 9 June 2020, the reason the HSE is refusing to give permanent contracts to all fully qualified staff working in...
    • Hospital Facilities
      506. To ask the Minister for Health the action taken or arrangements put in place following the submission by the management of Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown on the urgent need to increase...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      507. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hearing aid for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13318/20]
    • Maternity Services
      508. To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for expectant and new fathers to be able to visit their partners in hospital after they have given birth; if uniform rules will be...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13329/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      510. To ask the Minister for Health when non-essential travel to France will be permitted by which travellers will not have to quarantine on their return. [13360/20]
    • Cancer Services
      511. To ask the Minister for Health when screening services such as CervicalCheck, BreastCheck and BowelScreen will resume; if there is a timeline in place for same; if so, if the detail of same;...
    • Respite Care Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the testing of service users under the testing mechanism for all service users as part of respite care packages for service users...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if the roll-out of instructions supposedly being given to drivers on public transport by management to allow family groupings to sit together on buses creates...
    • Patient Deaths
      515. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of the death of a person (details supplied) in a nursing home will be examined; and if a person will be contacted in relation to the matter. [13382/20]
    • Home Help Service
      516. To ask the Minister for Health when the three hours of home help support will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13383/20]
    • Maternity Services
      517. To ask the Minister for Health when partners and spouses will be able to resume visiting maternity hospitals before and after the delivery of their children; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release the findings of the Review of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system undertaken by his Department in 2019; and if he will consider...
    • Dental Services
      519. To ask the Minister for Health if dental patients on medical cards can access the National Treatment Purchase Fund to have pressing procedures undertaken; the waiting list time in the HSE...
    • Legislative Measures
      520. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national research ethics committees Bill; the persons or bodies consulted during the drafting of the Bill; if input from patient advocate...
    • Cancer Research
      521. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with Beaumont Hospital and a company (details supplied) regarding the publicity campaign for the extended brain tumour study opt-out period;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      522. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a scheme by which vulnerable or elderly persons can avail of a badge type identification for use at retail and other outlets...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list for services within the child development team; when the person will be allocated with the...
    • Primary Care Services
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the range of services that will be provided in the primary care centres in Grange and Drumcliffe, County Sligo. [13447/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      525. To ask the Minister for Health further to his response to the contribution in Dáil Éireann of 11 June 2020 by this Deputy, when the number of days since a positive Covid-19 will be...
    • Hospital Equipment
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the contracts which the HSE has with medical device companies; the devices covered under the contract; when the contract commenced; the duration...
    • Hospital Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scoliosis surgeries relating to children carried out in 2020; and the way in which this compares with 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [13459/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the capital expenditure projects planned for Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13469/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative mechanisms CORU and the Social Care Workers Registration Board plan for students of social care that have been unable to complete full...
    • Disability Support Services
      534. To ask the Minister for Health when therapeutic horse-riding may resume for children and adults with disabilities which involves an instructor standing closer than the advised social...
    • Cancer Services
      535. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the restart of smear tests and other cancer screening programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13480/20]
    • Sports Events
      536. To ask the Minister for Health if large darts tournaments involving as many as 600 persons will be permitted in November 2020; the way in which event organisers can best prepare for these...
    • Legislative Measures
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the current policy regarding the issuing of exhumation licences; if a condition is imposed on exhumation licences prohibiting the cremation of unidentified...
    • Mental Health Policy
      538. To ask the Minister for Health if an association (details supplied) was consulted when developing the Sharing the Vision mental health policy; and if not, if he and his officials will meet...
    • Mental Health Services
      539. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a roadmap for the reopening of dementia services; if the roadmap will include guidelines for the reintroduction of services and supports...
    • Cancer Services
      540. To ask the Minister for Health the date that the BreastCheck, BowelScreen and CervicalCheck screening programme appointments respectively, will be reintroduced in County Donegal; and if he...
    • Maternity Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for expectant new fathers to be able to visit their partners in hospital after they have given birth; if uniform rules will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      544. To ask the Minister for Health his views on advising local authorities to ensure that public toilets are kept open and regularly maintained to ensure people have access to hand-washing...
    • Nursing Staff
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional ICU nurses employed in each hospital group between March and June 2020, in tabular form. [13505/20]
    • Mental Health Policy
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if representatives from a college were invited to the launch of Sharing the Vision - a Mental Health Policy for Everyone; and if not, the reason therefor....
    • Hospital Facilities
      547. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed additional accommodation will be provided in view of the increasing demand on facilities at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13539/20]
    • Midwifery Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Cavan-Monaghan unit; if no downgrading of the unit will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13557/20]
    • National Maternity Strategy
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation on the National Maternity Strategy; his views on whether implementation is being carried out within the original timeframe;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the developing situation with nursing and midwifery staff of Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar that are due to return from...
    • Cancer Services
      552. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Longford that have had cancer screening appointments cancelled due to Covid-19; and the additional resources which will be made...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) must wait for an appointment. [13598/20]
    • Cancer Services
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria will be revised for funded access to pembrolizumab in view of the fact that many of those diagnosed with cancer have been medically advised to...
    • Mental Health Services
      556. To ask the Minister for Health when a facility (details supplied) closed since March 2020 will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13601/20]
    • Eating Disorders
      557. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated for the clinical programme on eating disorders in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if he has a concern that work on the National Children’s Hospital site beside St. James’s Hospital has all but ceased and that scaffolding is...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the reason churches and other places of worship irrespective of size are being restricted to allowing only 50 attendees over the coming weeks; the reason the...
    • Hospital Data
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the average weekly bed occupancy rate in each of the 19 private hospitals covered by the deal with the State, for each of the weeks from 1 May 2020; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the public health guidance provided to hospitals in relation to health and safety and infection control in both emergency departments and in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      570. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be investigated in order to provide a satisfactory resolution; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      571. To ask the Minister for Health when chiropody and podiatry services will resume under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13678/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to review the suite of services available to persons with Parkinson’s disease, in particular those with other conditions such...
    • Dental Services
      574. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 565 of 23 June 2020, the number of dentists that have given notice to withdraw from the dental treatment services scheme...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if CAP funds will be limited to €60,000 for corporate farm enterprises and wealthy landowners (details supplied). [13234/20]
    • Beef Industry
      577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 78,000 of beef farmers that are finishers. [12720/20]
    • Felling Licences
      579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a felling licence for persons (details supplied). [12778/20]
    • Land Issues
      580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Ireland does not use the land parcel definition of permanent grazing under established local practices which is used in...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a penalty by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12791/20]
    • Forestry Grants
      582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a response to a broadleaf forestry grant and licence application that was submitted in...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter will be clarified for a person (details supplied) who was unable to source cattle to meet the stocking rate; if they...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a case (details supplied) will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12900/20]
    • Forestry Grants
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant funding is available to farmers that wish to replant felled forestry in their ownership with native broadleaf saplings; and...
    • Horticulture Sector
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an analysis has been conducted on the impact on the horticultural sector following a decision by Bord na Móna decision to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that the €50 million announced for those farmers severely impacted by the economic effects of Covid-19...
    • Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of persons (details supplied) regarding BEEP 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13074/20]
    • Beef Industry
      589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider including Northern Ireland as part the Bord Bia protected geographical indication application for Irish grass-fed...
    • Felling Licences
      591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a felling licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13150/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given to providing grants for farmers and growers that adopt hydroponic or vertical farming; and if he will...
    • Forestry Grants
      593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a forestry application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13216/20]
    • GLAS Issues
      594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid in GLAS payments by county in 2019; the number of farmers in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Data
      596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of commercial forests, woodlands and parklands under the operation of Coillte nationwide by location; the locations...
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter in relation to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13307/20]
    • Environmental Policy
      599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the remuneration available to owners of callow land along the Shannon catchment area. [13316/20]
    • Forestry Grants
      600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if approval and financial support will be provided for a forestry road in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Fishing Industry
      601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated for grants under the fisheries local area group development 2016-2023 for 2020; the actual amount of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work undertaken to commence a pilot scheme in 2020 modelled on the rural environment protection scheme; the estimated number of...
    • Beef Industry
      603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that will be eligible for the emergency beef fund scheme by county in tabular form; the criteria that will be...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a scheme to support farmers that are affected by a shortage of straw in 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Beef Industry
      605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he decided to exclude suckler beef farmers from the €50 million emergency beef fund; if he will publish the advice...
    • Trade Relations
      606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of his interactions with the European Commission regarding the ongoing free trade deal negotiations with New Zealand,...
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs that were imported for processing in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      608. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff employed and the grade of each at Davitt House, Castlebar, County Mayo; his plans to expand the offices; and if...
    • Seafood Sector
      609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on running a promotional campaign to urge consumers and restaurants to purchase seafood from Irish fishermen and women to...
    • Farm Safety
      610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on increasing the provision of farm safety education through practical skills training and continuous professional...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fishermen and women that have availed of the Covid-19 tie-up payment by each category of the scheme and in absolute and...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a BDGP herd payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13528/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13540/20]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when funds will be released related to the TAMS II scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13579/20]
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of bovine animals found to have failed the TB eradication test in each of the past five years to date in respect of both...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      616. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce a bin fee waiver in view of Covid-19 in particular for households on low incomes (details...
    • Waste Management
      617. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will begin the process of remunicipalisation of waste collection services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electrical Contractors
      618. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding pass through charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Broadband Plan
      619. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will intervene in the process of extending the broadband connection to the remaining houses in an area (details...
    • Post Office Network
      620. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the measures outlined by a group (details supplied) to save the post office network....
    • Broadcasting Sector
      621. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the monthly updated account for the Broadcast Authority of Ireland sound and vision fund from May 2019 to May 2020...
    • Bord na Móna
      624. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of his Departments engagement with Bord na Móna prior to and after its decision to suspend all peat...
    • Just Transition Fund
      625. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the drawing up of a territorial plan for the midlands region which is the first step in securing new EU...
    • National Broadband Plan
      626. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied). [13022/20]
    • Electric Vehicles
      630. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will make a roadmap available indicating the plans in place to roll out vehicle charging points to small and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      631. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a location (details supplied) will have access to broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13339/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      646. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Just Transition Fund
      647. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Ballivor, County Meath is excluded from the midlands engagement process and the first call for proposals...
    • Waste Tyre Disposal
      649. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of operators that are licensed waste tyre disposal entities but are not registered with an organisation...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Roads Maintenance
      650. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be provided to Kerry County Council to carry out repairs on the road at Dromature, Ballyheigue, County Kerry (details...
    • Transport Policy
      651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if builders will be instructed to have caps fitted on the revolving drum of all cement trucks in order to prevent spillages (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      652. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the guidelines for pubs and restaurants relating to Covid-19 social distancing measures include outside spaces which may be used for...
    • Driver Test
      653. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the HSE has liaised with the RSA regarding the resumption of car driving lessons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13235/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      654. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver lessons will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12693/20]
    • Electric Vehicles
      655. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if electric scooters are legal to use; if so, the locations in which they can be used;hisplans to make electric scooters legal; the...
    • Air Traffic Control Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding air traffic control fees for military flights using Irish airspace and airports here; if fees are waived for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      657. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if financial assistance will be put in place for self-employed taxi drivers in view of the impact of Covid-19. [12699/20]
    • National Car Test
      658. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason persons that attended for the NCT before the Covid-19 lockdown and could not get the lift test done at the time due to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      660. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there is no representative from the ground transport and scheduled services sector on the tourism recovery taskforce in view...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      661. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered extending financial support or waiving State fees that are imposed on scheduled coach services or bus tour...
    • Rail Network
      664. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No.1069 of 13 May 2020, if a timeline will be provided in relation to the release of the latest rail...
    • Driver Licences
      665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislation in place governing the sale of cars to underage drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12761/20]
    • Road Projects
      667. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected start date and construction time for the north Cork link road. [12763/20]
    • National Car Test
      668. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review and clarify the policy surrounding the NCT and licence extensions in the wake of the Covid-19 public health emergency...
    • Taxi Licences
      669. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter regarding the skills development certificate will be clarified (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Motor Tax
      670. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration given to a rebate of motor tax payments for persons that have been cocooning due to Covid-19, have been off the road...
    • Bus Services
      671. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding bus cancellations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12798/20]
    • Traffic Management
      672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations in Dublin city that have cameras to catch motorists breaking red lights as a result of the NTA trial; the number of...
    • Sports Facilities
      673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a decision will be made on appeals to the large-scale capital programmes; and if he will review an appeal by Westmeath County...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver instruction can take place once again. [12846/20]
    • Driver Test
      675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver tests will resume. [12857/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered using private bus providers to combat the issue of limited capacity on public transport; and if this suggestion will...
    • Road Projects
      677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of works on the Cork to Limerick M20; and the timelines involved. [12877/20]
    • Driver Test
      678. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has sought advice from NPHET regarding the resumption of driver tests. [12902/20]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      680. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the various applicants to which sports capital grants were awarded will have the time within which they are required to complete their...
    • Rail Network
      681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for electrification of the rail line to Maynooth and beyond thereby contributing to reduction of emissions and increase...
    • Public Transport
      683. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged public transport operators regarding contingency plans as public transport usage increases due to further easing of...
    • Ports Policy
      684. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the publication of the Rosslare Europort masterplan; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Football Association of Ireland
      685. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of meetings and or telephone and or video calls he or the Minister of State with special responsibility for Sport has had with...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      686. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver tests, driving lessons, NCT, NDLS and theory test services will resume under the revised Roadmap for Reopening Society and...
    • Driver Licences
      688. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered allowing persons over 70 years of age to renew their driver licence online in view of the ongoing threat of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      689. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the late renewal charge usually levied on those renewing PSV licences will be waived in all circumstances or in limited Covid-19...
    • Driver Test
      691. 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. [13027/20]
    • Sport Ireland
      692. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has allocated €70 million to Sport Ireland to distribute to national governing bodies and sports initiatives; the way in...
    • Football Association of Ireland
      693. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an organisation (details supplied) will have access to a portion of the recent €70 million fund for sports he announced on 19...
    • Road Projects
      694. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of the N4 upgrade; the justification for this spend; his views on whether it would be a better use of public finances to widen...
    • Roads Maintenance
      695. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the landscaping maintenance of level crossing gates (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      696. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when guidance will be available for driving instructors on a safe return to work; when driver tests will resume; and if he will make a...
    • Aviation Industry
      697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the management of an airline (details supplied) and the workers and their trade unions to help prevent the loss of...
    • Sports Funding
      699. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the €70 million in extra funding for the sporting sector; and the areas the funding will be directed toward....
    • Bus Services
      702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the time frame by route for the roll out of a 24-hour bus services in Dublin. [13143/20]
    • Rail Network
      703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the income received by Iarnród Éireann from advertising in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to extending the time period for taxi drivers to renew their licences in view of Covid-19 causing delays...
    • Sports Funding
      706. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding sources available for sports clubs for measures such as CCTV to combat antisocial behaviour and vandalism. [13161/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      707. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action being taken by his Department to aid the recovery of the aviation sector which has been impacted by the Covid-19 crisis; the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      709. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the grounds on which persons taking medication are not allowed to drive vehicles; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Car Test
      710. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the charges for NCT tests at the test centre in Ennis will be waived at the time of next testing to reflect the fact that the...
    • Rail Network
      711. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the numerous accidents that have occurred at the Kilnageer railway crossing between Belcarra and...
    • Bus Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to an extension of a bus route to Carrignavar and Whitechurch, County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      713. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clarity will be provided regarding the return of driving schools and testing as announced in the revised reopening plan to commence on...
    • Bus Éireann
      714. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department keeps records of attacks, verbal or physical, on Bus Éireann bus drivers; and if there have been discussions...
    • Bus Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters raised in submissions by an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the bus and coach sector will receive a response;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      716. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if support is available to voluntary community sporting organisations to assist them in the purchase of hand sanitiser and protective...
    • National Car Test
      719. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a NCT appointment can be made by telephone for persons that are not online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13357/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      720. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if driving instructors are permitted to return to work on 29 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13358/20]
    • Driver Test
      722. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency or prioritised driver test appointments will be provided for persons that are essential carers and or essential workers and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      723. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines set out to the Road Safety Authority and or driving schools as to the way in which testing and lessons are meant to take...
    • Driver Licences
      724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process by which a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can renew their driver licence; the reason their attempts to do so...
    • Aviation Industry
      725. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report of his interactions with an airline (details supplied) concerning the future of same and the protection of...
    • Cycling Policy
      727. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing mandatory helmet legislation for young cyclists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13466/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      728. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the operational expenditure and capital expenditure funding for a facility (details supplied) from 2010, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Road Safety Authority
      729. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff employed and the grade of each at the Road Safety Authority offices in Ballina, County Mayo; his plans to expand the...
    • Cycling Facilities
      730. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the proposed national velodrome at Abbotstown, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13476/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      731. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial supports available or planned for those in the bed and breakfast sector that have suffered losses due to Covid-19...
    • Departmental Staff
      733. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13555/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      736. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the support mechanisms available to assist commercial bus operators that are currently operating services at reduced capacity; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      737. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the work of the Tourism Recovery Taskforce; if the impacts of Covid-19 on the events industry and business tourism sectors...
    • Sports Facilities
      738. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional financial supports which can be provided for local authority sports centres that are facing considerably increased...
    • Driver Test
      739. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting list figures for counties Longford and Westmeath by testing centre and number of persons awaiting driver tests in tabular...
    • Tourism Funding
      741. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional campaigns and resources that will be made available to Fáilte Ireland to encourage tourism and staycations in...
    • Greenways Provision
      742. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by Galway City Council for funding under the carbon tax 2020 fund for the Galway Bearna greenway; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      744. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will be instructed to extend the validity of travel wide annual Dublin Bus tickets purchased prior to the onset of the...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Safety
      746. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will be requesting a review of child safety measures and welfare in an organisation (details supplied) in view of an allegation of...
    • Childcare Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if HSE guidelines for the reopening of childcare facilities from 29 June 2020 prevents parents visiting those childcare settings prior to...
    • Community Childcare Subvention Programme
      749. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the procedure in place for registration of children on CCSP schemes that are scheduled to return to childcare from 29 June 2020; if they...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      750. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional supports that will be provided to childcare facilities that open before September 2020, in view of the fact they face...
    • Childcare Services
      751. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if school age children are permitted in day care and Montessori facilities from 29 June 2020. [12753/20]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      755. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason he indicated on 20 May and 3 June 2020 that the report into Tuam Mother and Baby Home would be published on 26 June 2020, in...
    • Childcare Services
      757. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if childminders can still apply for the childminding development grant; if so, the deadline for applications for the grant; if the grant...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      758. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 904 of 16 June 2020, the spending which may be found to be in breach of spending rules under the...
    • Childcare Services
      761. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is considering measures to increase the availability of childcare for school aged children; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Childcare Scheme
      764. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions being taken to ensure that first-time applicants for the universal subsidy under the national childcare scheme can still apply...
    • Family Resource Centres
      765. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the financial difficulties facing family resource centres nationwide as a direct result of Covid-19...
    • Childcare Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the management and owners of a childcare facility (details supplied) are asking parents if...
    • Child and Family Agency
      768. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a review of the case of persons (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will liaise with Tusla and the Ombudsman for Children in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      769. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address an issue with regard to the second ECCE year for the coming term (details supplied). [13308/20]
    • Child Protection
      770. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when Ireland will ratify the UN child protection protocol. [13315/20]
    • Child Abuse
      771. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of current and retrospective child abuse cases that have been deemed founded and unfounded, respectively by Tusla between May...
    • Child Safety
      772. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a review of child safety measures and welfare in an organisation is requested if an allegation of retrospective child abuse within an...
    • Childcare Services
      774. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if childcare providers using the ECCE or the NCS schemes can avail of a separate stream of funding to cover the cost of renting a premises;...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      776. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be published. [13430/20]
    • National Childcare Scheme
      777. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if parents that availed of subsidies under the national childcare scheme prior to Covid-19 closures will automatically qualify upon the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      778. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has been granted an extension to complete its work due to Covid-19...
    • Childcare Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if school age childcare will be given the same recognition as other preschool childcare services; if it will be recognised that the...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      780. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that of the six family units in the one domestic violence emergency refuge in Cork city and...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      781. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress in relation to the establishment of a refuge for victims of domestic abuse in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff
      782. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13542/20]
    • Childcare Services
      783. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department will reimburse parents from the first day their child attends crèche from 29 June 2020 onwards and until they are...
    • Youth Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if youth services have been advised that their budgets are to be reviewed and funds carried over due to programmes not running during...
    • Childcare Services
      785. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a crèche (details supplied) will open; the childcare arrangements made available to parents and frontline staff in particular...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      786. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a project (details supplied) will qualify for funding in view of its importance to the county; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      788. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of social enterprises that received funding in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the amount of...
    • Community Services Programme
      789. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated amount it would cost in a full year if the current funding for the community services programme increased by 5%. [13285/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      790. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if support is available to voluntary community sporting organisations to assist them in the purchase of hand sanitiser and protective...
    • Community Services Programme
      791. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made on a grant application made through Pobal by a community organisation (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Staff
      792. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13553/20]
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      793. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a plan in place for the survival and viability of social enterprise and funded community service programmes which provide...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
      794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the eligibility criteria for the back to school allowance will be extended due to Covid-19 financial restrictions on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if childcare providers that normally close their service during the summer months in view of the fact that they are ECCE-only...
    • Job Losses
      796. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has been notified of the possible loss of jobs at an airline (details supplied); the engagement she has had with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be extended for seasonal workers and employers that did not have staff in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      799. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employees in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme continue to accrue holiday entitlements; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the backlog in processing claims for and making non-Covid-19 related payments; her plans for dealing with this...
    • Illness Benefit
      802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly by which persons in receipt of a widow's pension can receive the emergency Covid-19 payment...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
      803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for exclusively online applications for the 2020-2021 back to school allowance; and the way in which applicants...
    • Illness Benefit
      804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons that are unable to work due to being high risk and are on an illness benefit payment cannot qualify for...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to provide a top-up pension payment for those post-retirement age that are without a full social...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      806. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider measures (details supplied) to inject life into the events and arts industries post Covid-19. [12875/20]
    • Invalidity Pension
      807. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can qualify for an invalidity pension in circumstances in which they are paying class S contributions and are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment due to have it reduced to €203 as a result of having...
    • Redundancy Payments
      818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid under the redundancy payment scheme and under previous similar schemes in each year of their operation in...
    • Disability Allowance
      819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12973/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if high risk persons, that is, those cocooning on medical grounds, will no longer be eligible for the pandemic unemployment...
    • Disability Allowance
      822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1066 of 3 June 2020, if, as already indicated a review of the applicant’s means...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseekers allowance will be made payable to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend Covid-19 payments to support high risk persons that must continue to follow public health advice and...
    • Carer's Allowance
      825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the means test threshold for entitlement to carer's allowance in €50...
    • Disability Allowance
      826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied). [13039/20]
    • Death Certificates
      828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocols for informing her Department following the death of a pension recipient; the persons from which her Department...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement...
    • Widow's Pension
      833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a widows’ contributory pension claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13094/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      834. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the financial impact of old age pensioners unable to claim the pandemic unemployment...
    • Public Services Card
      835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when face-to-face meetings for the public services card will resume for those applying for SUSI but do not have a card and...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      836. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the electricity or gas allowance from €35 per month to €42 per month...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      837. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing income supports for taxi drivers that are returning to work as the lockdown...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      838. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a decision to seek recovery of an alleged overpayment in the case of a person (details supplied) on the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      839. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which carer’s allowance payment levels have been affected by the pandemic support payments; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      840. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the updated Covid-19 payment for self-employed persons is not calculated over a two-year period similar to that...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person (details supplied) that has total combined contributions here and in Germany that would yield a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      842. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department registers the number of self-employed musicians accessing welfare supports; and if she will make a...
    • Fuel Allowance
      843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Allowance
      844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of the carer’s allowance is planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13240/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payment for four weeks of arrears for the pandemic unemployment...
    • Disability Allowance
      846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Data Protection
      847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which data is protected in cases in which a recipient is switched from one payment to another, for example, from...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 65 years of age that claimed jobseeker's benefit in each month of 2019 and in each month to date...
    • JobPath Programme
      850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 810, 811 and 812 of 23 June 2020, when the report referenced will be finalised; and...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      852. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an increase for a qualified adult State pension (contributory) application submitted by a...
    • Carer's Allowance
      854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s allowance of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate funding for a community employment supervisor and 17 part-time employees at a project (details...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will facilitate women forced to leave their employment due to the marriage rule to avail of contributory pensions;...
    • Departmental Staff
      858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Public Services Card
      859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which parents can apply for a public services card to obtain a MyGovID required to apply to the national childcare...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a group (details supplied) had its community employment scheme workers removed. [13592/20]
    • School Meals Programme
      861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to continuing the school meals programme during the summer months to keep providing food...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to proposals by an organisation (details supplied) for a temporary top-up payment to the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer's allowance recipients; the number in receipt of the half and full rate, respectively; and if she will...
    • Bereavement Care
      866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an augmentation of the bereavement grant will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Property Registration Authority
      868. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the services offered by the Property Registration Authority has been impacted by the Covid-19 crisis; when...
    • Water Safety
      869. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be given to improve the methods of informing persons of do not swim notices along Dublin Bay following...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      870. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessity for the proposed erection of a 22 m high telecommunications mast at Ballymoreen, Littleton, County Tipperary...
    • Departmental Reports
      871. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of the Moorhead Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13287/20]
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      872. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the window restrictors on sale here are safe; if they comply with national and EU regulations; the person or body...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      873. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resources which will be provided to Westmeath County Council to reimburse it for the direct and extraordinary...
    • Departmental Communications
      875. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of the instruction or guidelines issued by his Department to local authorities will be provided with respect to...
    • Heritage Sites
      876. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the purchase of a location (details supplied) in conjunction with Dublin City Council or an AHB for housing use...
    • Legislative Measures
      877. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a more accurate description of the reserved function referenced in section 109 of the Housing Act 1966 listed in a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      878. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the sites in north-western areas of Dublin that have availed of the serviced sites fund. [12856/20]
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      879. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the solutions being considered to address the large amount of urban decay in towns and villages nationwide, in particular old...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      880. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a house must be in a catchment area identified as a prioritised area for action in accordance with the River Basin...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      881. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to announce the successful URDF projects for 2020; if the support of this Deputy will be noted for the port...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      883. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an extension to the three-month moratorium on evictions due to expire on 30 June 2020 has been considered particularly for...
    • Planning Appeals
      886. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of decisions of An Bord Pleanála that have been the subject of judicial review proceedings in the past ten...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      887. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a list of new build social houses will be published for each of the years 2016 to 2019, by local authority; and the target...
    • Building Regulations
      890. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of overall new builds in 2019 and 2020 that have a heat pump; if he has considered updating the building...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      892. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons sleeping rough in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13394/20]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      893. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the numerical definition of an affordable house used by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13395/20]
    • Local Authority Rates
      897. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason local authorities have sent rates demands for the full annual rates bill; the reason the rates waiver has not been...
    • Commercial Rates
      898. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time it takes to process an appeal with the Valuation Tribunal; the reason for such a delay in which a higher...
    • Brexit Issues
      899. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if UK citizens resident here will continue to be allowed to vote in European elections when the UK exits the European Union;...
    • Postal Voting
      900. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to simplify the process to apply for a postal vote to include persons with a letter from their employer asking that...
    • Departmental Staff
      901. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      902. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change co-living regulations to limit the potential to spread viruses such as Covid-19. [13576/20]
    • Foreshore Licences
      903. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the of processing the foreshore licence application by Galway City Council in order that it can commence...
    • Property Registration Authority
      905. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will enquire with the Land Registry Office regarding the way in which a situation (details supplied) could occur; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      907. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if arrangements will be made to automatically transfer persons in receipt of the rent supplement payment onto the housing...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      908. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the running and performance of private homeless hostels in view of evidence to show that some private...
    • Local Authority Functions
      910. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his officials have considered a notice of motion passed by the Shannon Municipal District of Clare County Council in March...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      911. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when it is planned to permit general travel to the offshore islands in view of the fact that phase 5 of the opening of the country...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      913. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if musical societies such as those within a centre (details supplied) are eligible to apply for funding support under the Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      914. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date her Department has identified as the reopening date for cinemas; the restrictions which will be in place in respect of...
    • Departmental Funding
      915. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided by her Department to a museum (details supplied) over the past 20 years; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Maoiniú d'Eagrais Ghaeilge
      916. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén plean atá ag an Rialtas chun a chinntiú nach ndéanfar slad éagothrom arís ar Údarás na...
    • Buiséad Fhoras na Gaeilge
      917. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad iad na bearta a dhéanfaidh an Rialtas chun buiséad líne Fhoras na Gaeilge a ardú, ar a laghad go dtí...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      918. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a compensation package for summer schools (details supplied); if the funding is new funding; if not, if it is...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      919. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she plans to put in place to protect the language and culture of Gaeltacht areas in view of decisions by An Bord...
    • Wildlife Control
      920. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will bring forward policy measures to discourage persons from feeding seagulls in parks and public open spaces generally in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      921. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if concerns (details supplied) raised in relation to the events industry will be addressed; if further supports will be made...
    • Island Communities
      923. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated date for the publication of the islands action plan. [13512/20]
    • Gaelcholáistí Issues
      925. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will establish an enhanced grant scheme to support schoolchildren in attending Gaeltacht courses in 2021 in view of the...
    • Departmental Staff
      926. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has established a working from home policy for its employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Arts Funding
      928. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to correspondence addressed to An Taoiseach regarding arts and culture funding from a fund...

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