Written answers

Tuesday, 7 July 2020

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of deaths for March, April and May 2020 compared to the same three months over the past five years; and if there is national collection or classification of...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      2. To ask the Taoiseach the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to date; and the costs associated with...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form. [14079/20]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      4. To ask the Taoiseach the details of his most recent discussions and engagement with the UK Prime Minister. [14436/20]
    • Departmental Programmes
      5. To ask the Taoiseach when a unit within his Department will be established to work towards a consensus on a shared island; and the overall remit of the unit. [14497/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his roles, remits and powers afforded to him upon his appointment. [14532/20]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Business Regulation
      7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the potential supports available for a person (details supplied); his views on whether the EU definition of undertaking in difficulty is...
    • Employment Rights
      8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he plans to take in view of the High Court ruling on sectoral employment orders, SEOs, recently; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will address a matter raised in correspondence from a person (details supplied) on guidelines for reopening business; and if he...
    • Work Permits
      17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration will be given to an application for a work permit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the business supports available that are specific to the taxi and small private bus hire sector in the context of Covid-19; and if he...
    • Employment Rights
      19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the removal of a sectoral employment order setting out pay rates, pension and sick pay entitlements in the electrical industry will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will address the issue of the allocation of restart grants by local authorities due to insufficient funding which prevents them...
    • Programme for Government
      25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14023/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the provisions in place for those that are not commercial rates payers but wish to avail of the restart scheme or similar in order to...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications made to the Covid-19 restart grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14138/20]
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to situations in which business owners that do not hold EEA citizen status that had their visas...
    • EU Directives
      34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for transposition of the representative action directive; the body to be named as qualified entity for the purposes of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of SME restart grants granted to businesses for each county to date; the amount awarded to businesses in total to date; and...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount in grants disbursed to businesses under the restart grant since its inception; and the number of grants disbursed to...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Broadcasting Sector
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider the long-standing request of musicians and artists for broadcasters to be required to play a minimum...
    • National Broadband Plan
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the provision of broadband for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter will be addressed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the financial supports in place for a person to set up a solar energy farm; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications for the online trading voucher received and processed from January 2020 to date by the LEO...
    • Inland Fisheries
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements in place to monitor commercial fishing activity on rivers to ensure that regulations are complied with;...
    • Programme for Government
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14025/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a proposal raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding the streamlining of trading online...
    • Local Authority Staff
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of funding allocated to local county councils to enforce air enforcement priorities of local authorities...
    • Bituminous Fuel Ban
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of prosecutions for breaching the smoky coal ban in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make...
    • Internet Safety
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the online safety and media regulation Bill which includes the establishment of an online safety...
    • Waste Management
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role of the price monitoring group in respect of residential waste collection charges; the role of the price...
    • Just Transition Fund
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding provided for the just transition fund; the amount spent to date; the progress to date; and if he...
    • National Broadband Plan
      72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the centres of cultural significance in counties Longford and Westmeath that have low-level internet access, thereby...
    • North-South Interconnector
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if local communities along the route of the proposed north-south interconnector which are of the view that the project...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Heritage Sites
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement between his Department and groups (details supplied) on the closure of heritage sites in the mid-west. [14083/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider providing a local authority fund to assist small, non-profit sports clubs when they struggle to meet their running...
    • Road Projects
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to providing additional funding to local authorities as part of the July stimulus initiative to complete...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason seasonal restaurants are only opening during the summer season in view of the fact those not open when the lockdown was...
    • Parking Provision
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the parents of a child with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and severe intellectual disability are entitled to a disabled...
    • Aviation Industry
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to liaise with the airline industry to ensure that consumers who have been unable to make scheduled flights due to...
    • Driver Test
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for driver tests for classes (details supplied) respectively; the number of tests conducted in each of the...
    • National Lottery Funding
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount made available to organisations through national lottery funding in 2000 and 2010; the amount that will be made available to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Jujutsu classes can return on 29 June 2020 in view of the level of close contact involved and the potential for the spread of Covid-19;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific supports, including financial supports and guidelines or advice provided to those working as taxi drivers or chauffeurs; and...
    • Driver Test
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver instructors can return to work in line with public health guidance in view of the fact they are self-employed and do not come...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available for sports and snooker clubs to help them get up and running again after Covid-19; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if driver instructors and schools for each class of vehicle may return to work on 29 June 2020 in line with the Roadmap for Reopening...
    • Aviation Industry
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the provision of section 18(A)(4) of the Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act 1995 applies to persons who booked a holiday earlier in...
    • Sports Funding
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the direction organisations (details supplied) received with regard to the spending of their 2020 budget; if this direction has been made...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if guidance will be provided on regulations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13934/20]
    • Driver Test
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his officials have consulted driver instructors with regard to their appropriate reopening date in the Roadmap for Reopening Society...
    • Departmental Budgets
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget for green schools travel within his Department increased by 20%. [14003/20]
    • Driver Test
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the advice his Department is giving to driver schools in order to facilitate them reopening in a safe manner as part of the easing of...
    • Programme for Government
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14038/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce measures on public transport to ensure healthcare workers can get to work with capacity likely to become an issue...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if...
    • Football Association of Ireland
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to meet an association (details supplied) in respect of ongoing governance issues and the referral of a report to An Garda...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the tourism and hospitality sector in the context of Covid-19 [14100/20]
    • Trans European Transport Network Programme
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review of the Ten-T maps for Ireland with a view to including more regional development; and if she will make a...
    • Taxi Licences
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxi licences issued since 2015 to date specifically those covering the greater Dublin area, respectively; the number of...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 648 of 23 June 2020, the number of occasions on which each operator undertook the activity...
    • Aviation Industry
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that customers are being charged €50 per person for cancelling their tickets further...
    • Road Projects
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on traffic management works required on the link road from the roundabout at the junction of the M9 and Danesfort through...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports in funding being made available to private bus operators during the Covid-19 pandemic that employ significant numbers of...
    • Driver Test
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Road Safety Authority first announced a change for CPC course providers that all trucks must become automatic by 1 June...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process for getting a self-made mechanically propelled vehicle verified for roadworthiness. [14313/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is proposing to ensure persons using public transport wear face coverings and masks; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the spend allocated and envisaged for the upgrading of the N4 from Mullingar to Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the support package which will be put in place for bus and coach operators in rural and regional economies. [14493/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if immediate and clear messaging will be provided regarding the call for clarity by an organisation (details supplied) in view of the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when details of the sports capital programme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14506/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14533/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if specific programmes of support will be put in place as a matter of urgency to assist the tourism and hospitality sector through...
    • Taxi Regulations
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the request of taxi drivers to give a two-year extension on the ten year rule for public service vehicles that are currently...
    • Environmental Protection Enforcement
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the training, capacity building and investment necessary to support the national maritime oil and HNS spill contingency...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter regarding consanguinity relief (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14254/20]
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will revisit the help-to-buy scheme in terms of its loan-to-value ratio borrowing requirement being 70% when such threshold precludes significant...
    • Mortgage Lending
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the reported refusal by a bank (details supplied) to allow a first-time buyer to draw down a mortgage in August 2020 should the person...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the processing of the revised claim for fuel grant for members of the drivers and passengers with disabilities scheme; if the case of a person...
    • Tax Reliefs
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if relief is available on donations to reconstruct a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13759/20]
    • Value Added Tax
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance when a decision will be made regarding the VAT rate for the hospitality and tourism sector in view of the current crisis the sector faces; and if he will make...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance when the office of the Revenue Commissioners in Cork will reopen to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13783/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider implementing a number of measures (details supplied) in view of the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. [13808/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the temporary wage subsidy scheme evaluates average pay for furlough if unpaid sick leave was taken in December 2019 and January 2020 which...
    • Home Repossessions Rate
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of repossessions of family homes carried out by each of the main banks in each of the past five years to date; the number of multiple residence...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the rate of VRT due on vehicles that are being purchased for use as a taxi and or private limousine service; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if a response to correspondence regarding single person child carer credit, SPCCC, will issue (details supplied). [13858/20]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the resumption of oral hearings for the appeal of the primary medical certificate that needed to be cancelled in April 2020; and if he will make...
    • Insurance Coverage
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the practice that is carried out by insurance companies to impose a limit on the number of years a person cannot have...
    • Value Added Tax
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if yoga studios currently in the VAT rate group of 13.5% can be moved into the second reduced rate of 9% in conjunction with other sporting activities and...
    • Programme for Government
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14030/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to date; the costs...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Universal Social Charge
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of the removal of the 3% USC surcharge on incomes over €100,000 for the self-employed. [14114/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) on the calculation of ANRWP, average revenue net weekly pay, for the temporary wage subsidy...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the concern expressed in a 2018 report from the Oireachtas Standing Committee of Public Accounts that established macroeconomic indicators have...
    • Tax Collection
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have agreed the amounts of refunds due to a person (details supplied); if refunds are due, when payments will be made; and if a...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance the position for businesses that have received letters from the Revenue Commissioners regarding an inspection of their compliance regarding the temporary wage...
    • Tax Reliefs
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if 2020 renovation expenditure on a bed and breakfast can be claimed as tax relief in 2021 (details supplied) in view of the fact there will be no income in...
    • Public Liability Insurance
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if insurance providers will refund the 2020 public liability insurance premiums for seasonal bed and breakfasts which have not opened (details supplied); and...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance if a decision on a wage subsidy application by a club (details supplied) in County Cork will be re-examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector Staff
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of agency staff employed by a bank (details supplied) in which the State is a majority shareholder;; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mortgage Lending
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with banks on behalf of mortgage holders whose mortgage contracts are being delayed due to the fact that they are in receipt of the temporary...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will enact the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14335/20]
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests for information and any other interactions the Central Bank has had with the investigation into the insolvency of a company (details...
    • Value Added Tax
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reducing the VAT rate on personal protective equipment to 0%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14391/20]
    • Tax Code
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the capital gains and other tax liabilities if a person surrenders their property to the financial institution that owns the mortgage; and if he will make a...
    • Mortgage Lending
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if the relationships framework which prevents the State from intervening in the way in which banks manage their day-to-day business, in the case of banks in...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme by county and age cohort in ten-year intervals in tabular form. [14429/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the financial and economic commitments provided for in the programme for Government will be affected in the event of a no-deal Brexit; and...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14525/20]
    • Property Tax
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to extend the 2020 local property tax collection date from 21 July to 18 August 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a tailored wage subsidy scheme for taxi drivers whose industry is facing long-term reductions in incomes as a result of Covid-19 until the...
    • Fiscal Policy
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase general spending as a percentage of GDP in view of the low rate here when compared to the European Union 27; if general spending will be...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the temporary wage subsidy scheme beyond the scheduled deadline; if he plans a comprehensive audit of companies receiving the scheme to...
    • Programme for Government
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to move to a more sustainable tax environment as stated in the programme for Government in view of potential international corporation and digital...
    • Property Tax
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance when he plans to bring forward legislation for the local property tax on the basis of fairness as outlined in the programme for Government; his plans to...
    • Credit Unions
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to enable and support the credit union movement to grow as outlined in the programme for Government; the way in which he plans to help credit unions...
    • Programme for Government
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a national recovery fund; if he plans to use windfall gains as identified in the programme for Government to reduce borrowing requirements; his...
    • Tax Code
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review capital gains tax in each budget over the next five years; his views on the matter (details supplied) by the tax strategy group 2020...
    • Programme for Government
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the self-employed earned income tax credit with the employee tax credit as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make...
    • Tax Code
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the rate and threshold of capital acquisition taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14602/20]
    • Programme for Government
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent European Commission report (details supplied); his views on whether the programme for Government reflects the recommendation of the...
    • Statutory Instruments
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the national register of beneficial owners; his views on the European Commission recommendation in a recent report (details supplied); the way...
    • Tax Credits
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the take-up of the research and development tax credit by small domestic companies; the take-up rate for micro, small, medium and large...
    • Programme for Government
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to assess the code of conduct on mortgage arrears, including the available suite of alternative repayment arrangements and ensure that it has full...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to work with the banking industry and non-bank lenders to support customers during and after the Covid-19 crisis as outlined in the programme for...
    • Motor Tax
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the motor taxation regime to ensure that it adequately captures the harm caused by nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide emissions; and if he...
    • Programme for Government
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase and hypothecate all additional carbon tax revenue as outlined in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Budget Process
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to develop and incorporate measures relating to the distribution of wealth into the budgetary process; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      223. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the dates he received flood defence applications for the Glashaboy and Bride rivers in County Cork regarding the application...
    • Office of Public Works
      224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will remove dangerous trees in a residential area on lands (details supplied) which are falling and are...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the flood relief works will be completed on the Templemore to Borrisoleigh road, County Tipperary, (details supplied). [13954/20]
    • Garda Stations
      226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Meath division that are being refurbished by the OPW; the Garda stations within the division that are due...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide all documents relating to engagement with landowners at a site (details supplied). [14008/20]
    • Programme for Government
      228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14035/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when construction will commence on the Glanmire flood relief scheme. [14117/20]
    • Prison Service Staff
      232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if concerns have been expressed to her Department regarding the operation of the post-1995 pension scheme for prison officers which...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if community-led companies for construction and maintenance contracts and so on can be included in social contracts as part of the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14530/20]
    • Programme for Government
      235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce a set of well-being indices to create a well-rounded holistic view of the way in which society here is faring as...
    • Budget Process
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to incorporate national satellite accounts into the budgetary process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14626/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to instruct the Office of Government Procurement to update all procurement frameworks; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 242
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce a bargaining clause in the new agreement to make progress on sectoral issues; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Wildlife Control
      245. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the impact of urban seagull colonies on communities will be reviewed; if so, if recommendations will be made; if the details...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      246. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are proposals in place to reduce the prevalence of the invasive grey squirrel; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      247. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of conservation rangers and wildlife inspectors recruited by her Department in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      248. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will agree to the requests of agencies (details supplied) to protect all local authority arts and entertainment arts...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      249. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the obligations of the NPWS on proposed natural heritage areas. [14574/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide financial assistance to help dancing groups through the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement...
    • Maoiniú d’Fhoras na Gaeilge
      251. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an n-aontaíonn sí gur féidir léi buiséad Fhoras na Gaeilge a ardú den chéad uair le breis is 10...
    • Covid-19 Paindéim
      252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dóigh léi go bhfuil sé sásúil nach raibh an dara rogha ag Comharchumainn Ghaeltachta, Scoileanna...
    • Inland Waterways
      254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for increasing the level of infrastructure along the Grand Canal from Harold's Cross to Portobello to deal with the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a woodland (details supplied) will reopen; the steps the NPWS is taking in this regard; when work will commence on a new...
    • Programme for Government
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if she will provide documents on those costings. [14026/20]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expenditure her Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form;...
    • Hare Coursing
      259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is considering measures to prohibit or reduce the practice of hare coursing; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when those engaged in the live music industry will be able to return to work. [14150/20]
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí uasdátú ar na pleananna chun bád farantóireachta saintógtha úr a chur ar...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if vital services in the arts and entertainment sector, such as wedding entertainment providers and so on, will be entitled to...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will publish the Departmental briefing paper on her role, remits and powers afforded to her upon appointment to the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Just Transition Fund
      267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided for the aggregated housing upgrade scheme; the amount spent to date; the progress to date; and...
    • Local Authority Rates
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is planned to reimburse councils for the loss of rates since March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pyrite Resolution Board
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Pyrite Resolution Board will take responsibility for ongoing damage to dwellings in County Limerick, caused from the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a submission from Kilkenny County Council on its financial circumstances due to the Covid-19 crisis has been received; the...
    • Water Services
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997 outlined a central funding model for water services and removed the...
    • Planning Issues
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning applications relating to proposed developments on State-owned land that are submitted to a local authority by...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the social housing policy to give tenants who suffer from a long-term illness but have personal savings the...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on providing accommodation for homeless families and persons in hotels and bed and breakfasts in each local...
    • Planning Issues
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the situation regarding a housing complex (details supplied); if his Department has received an application...
    • Programme for Government
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14033/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular...
    • Arts Centres
      281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of funding for the Cork event centre; and the engagement that has taken place with the local authority in the past...
    • Departmental Functions
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the functions and agencies that fall within the remit of his Department; the functions or agencies that were previously under...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of Part V social housing units by local authority in 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [14090/20]
    • Programme for Government
      289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the programme for Government commitment to hold a referendum on housing will be a referendum to enshrine the right to...
    • Water Services
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the efforts by his Department to create a single water utility; and his plans to bring forward legislation to...
    • Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Issues
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the submission by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the Council of Europe on the 17th National...
    • Local Authority Rates
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that small, non-profit sports clubs are having in securing an exemption...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the geographical spread for the 50,000 new social housing builds; and the yearly target per local authority area in tabular...
    • House Purchase Schemes
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing assistance scheme for first-time buyers applies to a once-off building of a home in the countryside; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 876 of 23 June 2020, the nature of the rehabilitation works; and if he will make a...
    • Heritage Sites
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the proposal by South Dublin County Council to spend an estimated €22 million on the development of a...
    • Architects Register
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a report (details supplied); his plans to act on the report and insert the grandfather clause; and if he will...
    • Departmental Circulars
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a circular has been drafted by his Department and is to be issued to local authorities imposing a blanket ban on the...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Residential Tenancies Board will be allowed to recruit more adjudicators; the number of adjudicators that will be...
    • Local Authority Housing
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish an independent appeals process to allow those persons on local authority housing waiting lists that were...
    • Property Registration Authority
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the waiting time to transfer properties with the Property Registration Authority; the length of time the longest applicant is...
    • Commercial Rates
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of commercial rates valuation appeals awaiting a result in each of the years 2017 to 2019; the average waiting time...
    • Housing Policy
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his policy on restrictions on planning for one-off housing in rural areas and the impact it will have on rural populations and...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the target date for ending homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14371/20]
    • Fire Safety
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if appropriate measures are in place in publicly-owned houses, flats and apartments to prevent residential fires; and if he...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the price paid per Part V unit in Dublin and each other county, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Planning Issues
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of approved planning permissions which have construction under way; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is policy to deliver affordable housing at prices between €160,000 and €250,000; if the equity share of...
    • Invasive Plant Species
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Clare County Council to eradicate an extensive spread of Japanese knotweed on public...
    • Environmental Protection Enforcement
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tree preservation orders issued by the four Dublin local authorities in each of the years 2015 to 2019, in...
    • Housing Estates
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of applications by Kildare County Council for funding to complete a housing estate (details supplied) with...
    • Local Authority Housing
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes in counties Longford and Westmeath that have had works completed under the energy efficiency and...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on an amendment to the legislation that results in a child with a profound physical disability not being eligible in...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the funding available for local authorities for the voids programme will be increased for 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for affordable housing including the cost of an affordable house; if he will provide an update on the plans for...
    • Rental Sector
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out cost rental housing; the way in which the allocation of these homes will work; the cost of the rents for...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will discuss with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Department of Education and Skills, the land which...
    • Local Authority Rates
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a rates waiver for all theatres and live entertainment venues until they can reopen; and if he will make a...
    • Programme for Government
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide detailed information on the roll out of the affordable services sites in the programme for Government....
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Conflicts
      331. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made at EU and international level to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen; the steps Ireland has taken in...
    • Human Rights
      332. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken at EU level to protect the LGBT community in Poland; if measures have been taken by the EU against Poland in this regard;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      333. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if changes can be made on the requirements for a working holiday authorisation for a person (details supplied) who was unable to leave the...
    • Passport Applications
      334. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application for Irish passports for the children of an Irish citizen (details supplied); and the way in which the person...
    • Human Rights
      336. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to defend the human rights of the Uighur population in China; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Programme for Government
      337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14031/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      338. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to date;...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      339. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of processing times of foreign birth registrations; if a delay has been caused by the Covid-19 pandemic; his plans for the...
    • Human Rights
      342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussion he has had with his European counterparts regarding reports of evictions and demolition of more than 900 shacks in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an official travel restriction will be considered to allow persons to avail of their travel insurance in view of the strong advice from...
    • Departmental Functions
      346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the new functions, units or work areas his Department has gained; the functions, units and work areas which have been moved to other...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of recent reports of the illegal collation of secret files on civil society organisations, including human rights defenders,...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish the departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14526/20]
  • Department of Defence
    • Programme for Government
      354. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14027/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      355. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to date; the...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      356. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces Records
      357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will supply historic details of the social insurance record of a person (details supplied) that requires this information in...
    • Naval Service
      358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of aircraft handlers in the Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14303/20]
    • Army Equitation School
      361. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the full year cost of purchasing ten extra horses for the Defence Forces equitation school; his views regarding the number of Defence Forces...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      362. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will publish the departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14522/20]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • English Language Training Organisations
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to safeguard the English language teaching sector in view of the difficulties faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the potential...
    • Special Educational Needs
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines for admission to the July provision scheme for children with Down's syndrome; her views on a potential shortage in tutors for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress on a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13749/20]
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is being made available for urgent repair works for a school (details supplied) to ensure the works are completed while the school is...
    • Physical Education
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received applications and-or proposals from local schools or organisations in east County Meath for a municipal sports...
    • Schools Building Projects
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason payment for works at a school (details supplied) has not been issued to the contractor that conducted the works at the school; if...
    • School Staff
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools nationwide which will lose teachers in September 2020 due to the reduction in class numbers by county; the number...
    • Education and Training Boards
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing statutory non-compliance across the ETB sector in respect of the issuing of annual pension...
    • Schools Building Projects
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); the timeframe for progression of same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be prioritised. [13804/20]
    • School Transport
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to ensure the school transport scheme will be able to operate at capacity when schools reopen in view of concerns...
    • Schools Building Projects
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the reopening of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [13811/20]
    • Public Sector Pay
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ending of a two-tier pay scale for teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13813/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to parents of children with special needs who wish to avail of the July provision and in 2020 cannot find a teacher or...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for emergency works submitted by a school (details supplied) will be granted. [13830/20]
    • Third Level Institutions
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a field hospital on the grounds of the University of Limerick will impact on the potential reopening of the university in September 2020; and...
    • Schools Administration
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can repeat sixth class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13835/20]
    • DEIS Scheme
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a DEIS application by a school (details supplied) will be expedited. [13840/20]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if insurance cover will be extended to cover SNAs delivering home tuition during the summer in the homes of participants. [13841/20]
    • School Staff
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to refuse the provision of extra teaching staff to a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Pay
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher is paid only for their contracted teaching time or if it also includes additional tasks required of a teacher which are also open to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the permanent building of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13873/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13879/20]
    • School Transport
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing a permanent subsidised school bus from Watergrasshill village to Fermoy, County Cork, (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of approval for works at a school (details supplied). [13889/20]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Montessori preschool contracted under the early childcare and education scheme which is inspected by her Department comes under the term...
    • Special Educational Needs
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will issue clear guidance to schools relating to the July provision in view of the fact many schools have staff in place but appear to...
    • State Examinations
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the process for out-of-school learners to engage with in order to be considered for calculated grades will be communicated to stakeholders;...
    • Institutes of Technology
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to including Limerick Institute of Technology in plans for the Munster technological university in addition to...
    • School Transport
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to cancel the tender competition for school transport services that issued on 26 February 2020 will mean a new and open...
    • School Staff
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on a staffing appeal by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Correspondence
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address concerns expressed in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13950/20]
    • School Services Staff
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the position with regard to school secretaries and caretakers being made direct employees of her Department; the latest engagement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the situation many students face due to the lack of income and employment available to them over the summer months which might...
    • Schools Building Projects
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of new schools (details supplied); the status of same; the expected delivery times; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make amendments to the retrospective transport scheme for low-income families whose children are accessing summer provision in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the extension to a school (details supplied) under the school building programme; the timeline for the commencement and completion...
    • Physical Education
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) on an athletic track or stadium for east County Meath; and if she will...
    • School Staff
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a further appeal by a school (details supplied); if her Department will use discretion in view of the circumstances and projections...
    • Programme for Government
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if she will provide documents on those costings. [14028/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the policy guidelines for the July provision programme will be reconsidered to include children in secondary school with Down's syndrome...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department from 2018 to date; the...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure her Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend the stability fund for Gaeltacht Irish summer colleges to other foreign language colleges; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus services and on reports of the cancellation of services by Dublin Bus for a number of schools including a school...
    • School Textbooks
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the free schoolbooks pilot scheme scheduled for September 2020; and the additional estimated budget that would be required...
    • School Funding
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated value of voluntary contributions to the education sector; and the estimated required increase in the capitation grant to reasonably...
    • Departmental Programmes
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the functions of the proposed new education research and policy section within her Department; the effect such a body will have on the way in...
    • Third Level Examinations
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter regarding a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14124/20]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14130/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions her officials have had with private third-level accommodation providers regarding a refund of fees due to the Covid-19 closure of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be given permission to go to tender for three additional resource rooms with funding having previously been...
    • School Accommodation
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in respect of the provision of temporary accommodation for September 2020 for a school (details supplied). [14170/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a budget is in place for cleaning and PPE; if not, if it will be put in place for schools returning in September 2020; and if she will make a...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if emergency works grant applications by schools (details supplied) will be expedited to ensure the safe reopening of the schools; and if she...
    • School Staff
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the commitment will be reaffirmed not to reduce teacher numbers in schools (details supplied) for the lifetime of Tascfhórsa Uíbh...
    • Special Educational Needs
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for SNAs to transfer to classroom assistants; when this will occur; and the processes that will be involved. [14231/20]
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI grant criteria will be reviewed to allow funding for part-time courses in cases in which the applicant has a disability preventing them...
    • Schools Building Projects
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14236/20]
    • School Transport
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive a refund of school transport fees. [14238/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow children with severe physical disabilities to access the July provision programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be allocated following an appeal under the summer works scheme for urgent playground resurfacing for a school (details supplied);...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the fact that the counselling doctorate offered by Trinity College Dublin, and fully recognised and accredited by...
    • School Transport
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Bus Éireann will continue to provide school transport for children with special needs; the arrangements she is making to provide these...
    • Schools Building Projects
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the refurbishment and new buildings for a school (details supplied); when these works will be completed; the level of priority...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SUSI grant application of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14333/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will extend the July provision to all children entering primary and post-primary education rather than limiting it only to students who...
    • Education Standards
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to address the concerns being expressed by fifth year students concerning the next year of their education in view of...
    • Language Schools
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the issues facing the language school sector in view of the fact that 70% of its revenue is generated during their peak season from...
    • Student Support Schemes
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the difficulties many students at third-level who have limited broadband capacity at home will face while attempting to partake in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the situation in a school (details supplied) which is experiencing demand on special educational resources that far exceed supply of...
    • School Accommodation
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 23 June 2020, the basis for withdrawing approval of two temporary accommodation units in response to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the summer education programme will be extended to children with special education needs who are due to commence education in September 2020;...
    • School Curriculum
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if African history will be introduced into the junior cycle to raise awareness of the slave trade and colonialism; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if outstanding fire remediation works have been carried out on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14467/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact Covid-19 has had in delaying the school building programme; the number of schools in each county in which the programme has been...
    • Springboard Programme
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the eligibility requirements for Springboard courses will be reviewed to allow persons enrol in more than one minor course simultaneously; and...
    • Schools Health and Safety
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional fire safety inspections are undertaken when schools are accommodated in non-purpose-built buildings; if specific fire safety...
    • Schools Data
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the 280 primary and 125 post-primary schools using, or partially using, rented accommodation by area and patronage. [14504/20]
    • School Staff
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the teacher allocation will be brought forward for new primary schools due to open in September 2020 (details supplied). [14505/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the Departmental briefing paper on her role, remits and powers afforded to her upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14523/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the Red Door Special School in Dún Laoghaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14556/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to commence the Educate Together in Dún Laoghaire; the discussions had with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council with...
    • Departmental Circulars
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will adjust Circular No. 0037/2020 regarding the implementation of the calculated grades model for the leaving certificate 2020 to make...
    • State Examinations
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrangements will be made to cater for the specific needs of students scheduled to sit the leaving certificate exams in 2021. [14577/20]
    • State Examinations Commission
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has spoken formally with the chief executive officer and or chairperson of State Examinations Commission since her appointment as...
    • Special Educational Needs
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children with Down's syndrome, whether attending a mainstream school or a special school, are covered by the summer provision; if not, the...
    • Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici togra tógála a cheadú do scoil speisialta (sonraí tugtha) a bhfuil géarghá aici le...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Child Benefit
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 971 of 16 June 2020, if she will consider using her discretion in circumstances in...
    • State Bodies
      480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons the Citizens Information Board and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, restructuring plan has commenced...
    • Departmental Data
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time it is taking to process applications under the remit of her Department; and if she will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons will receive back payment in cases in which there was a delay in receiving the pandemic unemployment payment...
    • Carer's Benefit
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13789/20]
    • Industrial Disputes
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, further to commitments made at a meeting of the high level forum for the community and voluntary sector in April 2017,...
    • Carer's Allowance
      485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for long delays in assessing applications for carer’s allowance; the reason a person (details supplied) has...
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme
      486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 28 February 2017, if progress has been made on the review of eligibility for the...
    • Illness Benefit
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason those certified as medically vulnerable have been expected to survive on standard illness benefit in view of the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the contracts for new community employment supervisors will be of the same duration as existing contracts; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding bank payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Pensions
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant will automatically receive the greater of the two pensions in circumstances in which they received the...
    • School Meals Programme
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the school meals scheme during July and August 2020 to assist families on low incomes; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance
      494. 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. [13890/20]
    • Employment Rights
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is legal for a company (details supplied) and employers to have control of workers' tips. [13896/20]
    • Disability Allowance
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied): and when they can expect a...
    • Carer's Allowance
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) in regard to a carer’s allowance has commenced; when a decision...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1113 of 3 June 2020, when her officials made contact with the sponsors of the scheme;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial aid will be provided to private homes affected by flash flooding recently; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Pension Provisions
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situation in respect of a person who was living with their partner for over seven years and the partner has died; if the...
    • Public Services Card
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person can arrange an appointment for a public services card in view of Covid-19 restrictions. [13952/20]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the application for a contributory pension and arrears that may have issued or are due in respect of a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a Covid-19 payment will be made available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Programme for Government
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if she will provide documents on those costings. [14029/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to older persons and those that had to cocoon during the Covid-19 emergency and generated greater than...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department from...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure her Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular...
    • Employment Data
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of notified job vacancies in Drogheda town by month from 2016 to date in tabular from; if the figures are...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person over the age of 66 who could not receive the Covid-19 payment but who still has significant financial...
    • Public Services Card
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person can acquire a public services card at present. [14169/20]
    • Carer's Allowance
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the...
    • Social Insurance
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional revenue that would be generated in a full year if the class S PRSI rate increased by 0.6%; and if...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a PPSN, personal public service number, will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the pandemic payment a person who is unable to return to work is entitled to in view of the fact they have an underlying...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a simple procedure for fathers to gain access to their child’s PPSN, personal public service...
    • Carer's Allowance
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the means test for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14337/20]
    • Illness Benefit
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is only receiving four weeks of the enhanced illness benefit; and if she will make a...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if taxi drivers are eligible for the enterprise support grant for small businesses. [14367/20]
    • Employment Rights
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to stop employers from terminating employment contracts and rehiring the same employees on reduced...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the Covid-19 payment by county and age cohort in ten-year intervals in tabular form....
    • Carer's Allowance
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s allowance is means-tested; if the means test disregard has not changed since 2008; her plans to alter...
    • State Pensions
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their pension entitlements since retiring from Connolly hospital in...
    • Gender Recognition
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of revocations of gender recognition certificates made by her pursuant to section 14 of the Gender Recognition Act...
    • Carer's Allowance
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason and criteria under which a person was refused an oral appeal regarding the decision to refuse a carer’s...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the Departmental briefing paper on her role, remits and powers afforded to her upon appointment to the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget for the youth employment support scheme increased by 20%; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment for the weeks ending 5 June, 12 June, 19 June, 26 June...
    • Carer's Allowance
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow persons to exclude savings for a specific purposes, for example, to purchase a home, to be excluded from...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      535. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures that need to be in place for community centres to reopen after Covid-19 closure (details supplied). [13819/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      536. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which a project (details supplied) links in with the national broadband plan; her plans to expand the project to other...
    • Grant Payments
      539. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grant aid available to churches, church organisations, charity organisations and so on which have accrued large expenses while...
    • Programme for Government
      540. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if she will provide documents on those costings. [14036/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      541. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department from 2018 to...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      542. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expenditure her Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      543. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if resource centres that are not in receipt of core funding will have their funding streams improved from the phased roll-out of...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      544. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown of the full year budget allocation of her Department for the Dublin north-east inner city initiative as of 1 January...
    • CLÁR Programme
      545. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress to date in reviewing the CLÁR programme; if there are plans to extend the areas; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      546. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will publish the Departmental briefing paper on her role, remits and powers afforded to her upon appointment to the Cabinet....
    • National Broadband Plan
      547. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which the sites for the Airband technology exploratory initiative were chosen. [14570/20]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure basic payment scheme, BPS, beef environmental efficiency pilot, BEEP, and beef data and genomics programme, BGDP...
    • Animal Sales
      550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to take action to deal with the widespread non-compliance with the Animal Health and Welfare (Sale or Supply of Pet...
    • Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme
      551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a late beef environmental efficiency pilot, BEEP, application will be accepted from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Bord na gCon
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an interest free loan reported to be €250,000 from the Irish Greyhound Board to the private operators of Clonmel greyhound...
    • Greyhound Industry
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will order the immediate closure of Enniscorthy, Youghal, Thurles and Kilkenny greyhound tracks in view of fire safety concerns...
    • Live Exports
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle live exported to Northern Ireland for slaughter since Covid-19 in tabular form; and the number exported in each...
    • Beef Industry
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stakeholders in the beef industry he will be engaging with, aside from the beef taskforce, to ensure the best possible supports...
    • Programme for Government
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14022/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and...
    • Bord na gCon
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an itemised schedule including headings of grants and or funding provided to the Irish Greyhound Board in 2019 and 2020 will be...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 925 of 5 March 2020, the number of investigative officials in his Department in 2018, 2019 and...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 2020 basic payment scheme entitlements of a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [14229/20]
    • Food Industry
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the promised food ombudsman will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14339/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a BEAM, beef exceptional aid measure, type scheme for sheep; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a beef data and genomics programme herd payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Felling Licences
      566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a felling licence application (details supplied); if the licence will be expedited; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Diseases
      567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the decision of the Dutch Government to ban mink farming in view of recent studies that showed an...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet....
    • Beef Industry
      569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason determined by his Department for the large discrepancy in prices secured by beef farmers from processors in this State...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to encourage younger entrants into the farming sector considering that the latest Teagasc figures suggest that one in three...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 611 of 30 June 2020, if he will provide the evidence on which the statement is based (details...
    • Cuanta agus Céanna
      573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén fáth ar fágadh tuairisc a rinne comhlacht (sonraí tughta) don Roinn maidir le Cé Ros a’Mhíl...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      574. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a group (details supplied) has been excluded from the childcare sub-committee convened in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic to...
    • National Lottery Funding
      575. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount made available to organisations through national lottery funding during the first year his Department provided such funding; the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      576. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if ECCE, early childhood care and education, funding will be reinstated in July and August 2020 to allow childcare providers to make up for...
    • Childcare Costs
      577. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has examined reducing childcare costs for parents in cases in which children are sent home from the childcare setting if they may...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      578. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if childcare providers have to provide childcare five days per week in order to qualify for the new funding package to support them...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      579. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1096 of 13 May 2020, if an exception will be made for a child (details supplied) in County Mayo to...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      580. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost to date of the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters; and the cost of the collaborative...
    • Grant Payments
      581. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will review the need to provide grants to new ECCE, early childhood care and education, preschool groups and afterschool facilities...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      582. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an appeal submitted by the family of a person (details supplied) regarding the refusal of an application made for an overage exemption...
    • Childcare Services
      583. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports available for healthcare workers who cannot avail of crèche places due to capacity demand. [13974/20]
    • Children in Care
      584. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children and young persons in a foster care placement, including kinship or relative foster care placements with other family...
    • Child Protection
      587. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children and young persons referred to him due to concerns regarding abuse and neglect by month in 2019 and to date in 2020....
    • Children in Care
      588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children and young persons who entered residential care and children’s homes by month in 2019 and to date in 2020....
    • Asylum Seekers
      589. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of separated children seeking asylum; the number who live in foster placements; the number who live in supported accommodation;...
    • Children in Care
      590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost in 2021 if the foster care allowance of €325 per week per child aged under 12 years of age was increased to...
    • Programme for Government
      591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14024/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to date;...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the Departmental briefing paper given to him by his officials; and the delegated powers assigned to him as Minister....
    • Childcare Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be made available to a group (details supplied) to enable it to continue to provide the service while making a move to...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      597. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of young persons involved in youth organisations due to the loss of the youth affairs title...
    • Disability Support Services
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the LINC, Leadership for INClusion in the Early Years, programme which is designed to support the inclusion of children with...
    • Child Abuse
      599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of retrospective reports of child sexual violence which Tusla has categorised as founded and unfounded for each of the past 12...
    • Childcare Costs
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if childcare providers that are drawing down Covid-19 supports are permitted to increase fees to parents from September 2020 onwards for...
    • Childcare Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the situation facing a childcare facility (details supplied) whose childcare capital grant application was suspended will be examined;...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the removal of youth affairs from the title of his Department; his further views on whether this will result in a lack of...
    • Youth Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the evidence for the commitment to support youth, that is, young persons between ten and 25 years of age who are most marginalised in...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will publish the Departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the Cabinet. [14519/20]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Parental Leave
      607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to draft an order to extend parents leave to nine weeks as outlined in section 5, Part 8 of the Parent’s Leave...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Minister and Department responsible for immigration. [14093/20]
    • Garda Districts
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if discussions have taken place between her Department and the Garda Commissioner to examine the current divisional boundaries...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recourse available to a person who did not receive a satisfactory response to a complaint to a body (details supplied); if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the proposed new restrictions by the EU member states on incoming flights from the United States of America due to Covid-19...
    • Courts Service
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention been drawn to the significant delays in the court system; if priority is being given to the scheduling of...
    • Parental Leave
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider increasing the upper age limit for parental leave by one year, with particular reference to the ongoing...
    • Court Accommodation
      614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the reopening of Wicklow courthouse; the stage the refurbishment works are at; when it is anticipated that these...
    • Immigration Status
      616. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of the case of a person (details supplied) pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration...
    • Wards of Court
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recent deaths out of the total of 85 wards of court that occurred in nursing homes; the number of deaths in the...
    • Programme for Government
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if she will provide documents on those costings. [14034/20]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department from...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expenditure her Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular...
    • International Protection
      622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average wait time between an IPO decision and her letter of confirmation since the establishment of the IPO in 2017; the...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      623. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the prompt roll-out and full funding of the decision support service and further to same, the abolition of...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when consideration will be given to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Immigration Status
      626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an application for stamp 5 has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied); the most appropriate steps...
    • Direct Provision System
      627. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria applied to Garda vetting for direct provision centres in view of the fact that friends of some residents have been...
    • Court Procedures
      628. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional funding will be provided to ensure that swearing in of juries can be conducted while adhering to public health...
    • Departmental Funding
      629. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will meet with the women in a group (details supplied) to discuss matching the funds raised by their release...
    • Immigration Status
      631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); when they will be granted permission to work; and if she will...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      632. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied); and if she will request her officials to treat...
    • Court Accommodation
      634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the courtrooms that have full video link facilities and the capacity to take CCTV evidence; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domestic Violence
      635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases of domestic violence reported to An Garda Síochána in County Donegal in each of the years 2018,...
    • Garda Equipment
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when each piece of Garda public order uniform and equipment was last updated; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Deployment
      637. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to each divisional protection services unit that have been established to date in...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unmarked Garda vans that came into the fleet in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of unmarked Garda vans...
    • Courts Service
      639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the requirement to uphold shared care of children arrangements under the current Covid-19 restrictions; and...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of approved applications for naturalisation that are awaiting a citizenship ceremony; if there are plans in place to...
    • Departmental Functions
      641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the new functions, units or work areas her Department has gained; the functions, units and work areas have been moved to other...
    • Maternity Benefit
      642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase maternity benefit for mothers in the lifetime of the Government; if so, the estimated increase; and if...
    • National Advocacy Service
      645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 16 June 2020, if the National Advocacy Service has been contacted by her officials...
    • Garda Operations
      646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the An Garda Síochána drug-related intimidation reporting programme; and the...
    • Garda Deployment
      648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to K district community policing unit in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date...
    • Garda Operations
      649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish a task force similar to the one in Dublin's north inner city in the Dublin metropolitan region northern...
    • Prison Staff
      651. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ratio of nurses and general practitioners to prisoners in each prison in February 2020; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Prisoner Data
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners on waiting lists to access prison psychology services and addiction services in February 2020; and if...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish the Departmental briefing paper on her role, remits and powers afforded to her upon appointment to the...
    • Garda Reserve
      656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of the Garda Reserve members as of 31 December 2019 that completed the minimum of 208 annual hours per year duty...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      658. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform personal insolvency legislation and ensure that sufficient supports are in place for mortgage holders with...
    • Direct Provision System
      659. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the nature, duration and extent of an agreement between a hotel (details supplied) and her...
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Inquiries
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the advice received in 2016 regarding the missing samples from persons (details supplied) which led to the decision not to hold an enquiry; and the person or...
    • Disability Services Provision
      661. To ask the Minister for Health when physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and so on for children with intellectual and physical disabilities will be returned to a facility (details...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an investigation (details supplied); the cost to the State for the commission of investigation to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      663. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the Departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon taking up each individual role; and...
    • Maternity Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reopening of maternity classes, including breastfeeding and antenatal classes, in Cork University Maternity Hospital; his views on...
    • Health Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reopening of services and support for persons suffering with dementia; when guidelines will be issued regarding the reintroduction...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been denied an appointment with the locum pain consultant at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the number and age category of persons waiting for orthopaedic surgeries in UHK; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      668. To ask the Minister for Health when funding and approval for the immunotherapy drug Osimertinib will become available for persons with lung cancer; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding dental care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13757/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for X-rays and MRIs in hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13761/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the deaths that have occurred due to Covid-19 by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13769/20]
    • National Lottery Funding
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the amount made available by his Department to organisations through national lottery funding in 2010; the amount that will be made available to organisations...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if a directive can be issued to private nursing homes to allow visiting outside normal working hours and also to allow another visitor, for example, a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      677. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with an appointment with the chiropractor in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider relaxing the 50 persons restriction for churches that are able to accommodate more persons while maintaining the 2 m social distance in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the schools vaccine programme; if students who would ordinarily have received vaccinations but did not due to Covid-19 will receive their...
    • Health Services Staff
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a HSE post (details supplied) was withdrawn after it had been advertised and assigned; if the post will be reinstated; and if he will make a...
    • National Children's Hospital
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which construction will commence at the national children’s hospital; the reason for the delay in the recommencement of construction...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent care will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13822/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken and steps planned in respect of each Roscommon mental health services report recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      684. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 26 June 2019, if a person (details supplied) was in receipt of a yearly increment; if the HSE refused to accept...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [13856/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE and private home support staff who were tested for Covid-19 by county; the number that remain to be tested by county in tabular form in 2020;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      687. 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. [13872/20]
    • Water Supply
      688. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); and the measures he will take to address same. [13874/20]
    • Medical Internships
      689. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow medical students to undertake one month summer placements in hospitals in 2020. [13876/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13877/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      691. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 16 June 2020, if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence by the parent of a service user (details...
    • Home Help Service
      692. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the waiting lists for home support hours in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13892/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      693. To ask the Minister for Health when services (details supplied) will be reopening after its closure due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13894/20]
    • Health Services Funding
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for a review to be completed for funding for a care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13902/20]
    • HSE Properties
      696. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for an old HSE building (details supplied) now that the new primary care centre in Bray, County Wicklow, is fully constructed and occupied; and if he...
    • Medical Cards
      697. To ask the Minister for Health when the budget 2020 over-70s medical card income thresholds will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13905/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      698. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term placement will be provided urgently through a service to a person (details supplied); if home supports will be provided immediately in view of...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need for biannual access to neurologists for persons with Parkinson’s disease, more nurse specialists and...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction counsellors employed by the HSE by county in the Saolta group area; the number of vacancies that exist in those counties for addiction...
    • Hospital Funding
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to Roscommon University Hospital to furnish and equip the shell and core unit which is idle since built in 2016 to enable the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13919/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the reopening of betting shops; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      706. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding information technology equipment in the health service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      707. To ask the Minister for Health when gynaecology appointments at Cork University Hospital, which were cancelled as a result of Covid-19, will recommence. [13931/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      708. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure there is a full and independent investigation into the alleged illegal abortion that took place in the National Maternity Hospital in March...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a primary medical certificate was issued to a person (details supplied); the date on which they were notified of the decision; the number of...
    • Medicinal Products
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be subscribed the treatment patisiran or gene silencer on compassionate grounds. [13938/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the reason construction work has halted on the new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13940/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      712. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of advanced and extended practice for medical scientists; the meetings he has had with the representative bodies (details...
    • Home Help Service
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13943/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the closures of mental health facilities by county in the past 20 years; and the amount returned from mental health budgets by county to the HSE since 2010....
    • Health Services Staff
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the full facts regarding the Be on Call for Ireland campaign launched by the HSE; the number of trained healthcare professionals who responded across each...
    • Care of the Elderly
      716. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open day care centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13961/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      717. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects nursing homes to start accepting new residents; when he expects hospitals to commence easing their visiting restrictions; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      718. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13967/20]
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a CORU application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13970/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the resumption of adult disability day services; the date on which services will recommence; if all those that were availing of them will be able...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out here in 2019; the provision of the legislation which each of these abortions were carried out under; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      723. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a date to be assessed by a respiratory consultant at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if residents of nursing homes were given the option of availing of the 'flu vaccine in 2019; his plans on same for 2020; if his Department or another health...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will approve visiting guidance for nursing homes; the name of the organisation that is drawing up the guidelines; the title of the person...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a primary medical certificate was issued to a person (details supplied); the date on which they were notified of the decision; the number of...
    • Dental Services
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if all public orthodontic services will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14000/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the availability of Spinraza to children with spinal muscular atrophy type I, II or III on an exceptional and individualised basis; his...
    • Dental Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthodontic work in County Galway by waiting periods of zero to six months and one to two, three to four, four to...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the reason teenagers are being left to stand outside while waiting to be seen in the CAMHS unit at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; if a temporary structure could...
    • Programme for Government
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the costings carried out on the Programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14032/20]
    • Hospital Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dedicated dementia unit in St. Brendan’s, Loughrea, County Galway; if so, if the unit is accepting new patients; if not, when it will be...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from 2018 to date; the costs...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide advice or information to persons (details supplied) that are being denied the possibility to visit their family members in a nursing home in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his implementation of all aspects of the Sláintecare plan. [14101/20]
    • Health Services Reform
      738. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to continue with the regionalisation of the HSE into separate health boards. [14102/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      739. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE universal guidelines on bras, prostheses and wigs will be published; the funding to be allocated for the implementation of the guidelines; and if...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports in place for communities affected by the increasing intimidation from drug dealers that has coincided with the significant increase in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      742. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility of allowing pharmacists to administer the 'flu vaccine in the homes of persons will be examined. [14113/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to revisit the Drumshanbo health centre in order to reassess the capacity of the building and the need in the locality for expansion...
    • Primary Care Centres
      744. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages diagnostic equipment will be installed in the primary care centre in Tuam, County Galway, in view of the fact his predecessor allocated a sum...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      745. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [14122/20]
    • Medical Cards
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure persons (details supplied) are issued with their over-70s medical card which has expired; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the status of PPE provision and financial support for the homecare sector in view of the importance of the service to older persons in general but also in...
    • Health Services Staff
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the HSE pay policy for the homecare sector. [14145/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the standard treatment plan and drug use for those suffering with stage III melanoma; if he will authorise the use of nivolumab and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent spinal surgery will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); if urgent HALO traction treatment can be accommodated as soon as...
    • Disability Services Provision
      753. To ask the Minister for Health when adult day services for persons with disabilities will reopen in view of the fact the HSE framework for the resumption of adult disability day services...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      754. To ask the Minister for Health the guidance for those aged 70 years of age or over, in particular when those within this age category can return to work. [14154/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant vacancies across the public health service; and his plans to recruit consultants to fill these vacancies. [14155/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who started on a general practitioner training scheme in 2019; the number of places that can be catered for on the training...
    • Health Services Funding
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the level of public investment in healthcare per patient; and the way in which this compares with the European Union average. [14158/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the reason work has stopped on the national children’s hospital; if there are legal proceedings under way regarding the project; the estimated cost to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the current advice regarding meetings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14161/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the 2019 bed capacity programme, which previously included plans for ten additional beds in Mayo University Hospital; when the hospital will...
    • Emergency Departments
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Mayo University Hospital emergency department development; if the steering group provided the requested information to the HSE on...
    • Medical Cards
      763. To ask the Minister for Health when the national medical card unit is to be advised that the new thresholds for medical card eligibility as announced in budget 2020 are to come into effect;...
    • Health Services Funding
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if funding provided to a person (details supplied) can be transferred to a person who would provide similar services in the home of the person as offered to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      765. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct an inquiry into the rate of Covid-19 cases seen in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14176/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      766. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in respect of the availability of drugs for the treatment of cancer for private...
    • Hospital Equipment
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CT scanners per million population; and the way in which this compares internationally with other countries, for example, South Korea, Iceland...
    • Health Services Staff
      771. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow staff recruitment processes to be devolved to local and hospital level. [14191/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the average recruitment time for a nurse to a public hospital in 2019. [14192/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      773. To ask the Minister for Health the average recruitment time for a doctor to a public hospital in 2019. [14193/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the average radiographer recruitment time for a doctor to a public hospital in 2019. [14194/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if the policy of his predecessor will be pursued to allow the building of private treatment rooms in the new national children’s hospital. [14195/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated average theatre, operation and treatment time that will be lost per 12 hour period due to the need to clean theatres and suites after each...
    • Health Services Funding
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the resources that will be made available to increase capacity in the public health sector for access to diagnostics and the urgent recommencement of cancer...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      780. To ask the Minister for Health if medical grade masks will be supplied to persons with serious health issues. [14200/20]
    • Cancer Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to reduce the delays in emergency endoscopy and colonoscopy tests for those showing symptoms of colon cancer. [14201/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been made available to mental health services for additional costs incurred to date due to the Covid-19 crisis; the additional funding...
    • Home Help Service
      783. To ask the Minister for Health if measures will be put in place to maintain financial support for the homecare sector in view of the fact the latest HSE pay policy came to an end on 31 May...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite overdue spinal surgery for a child (details supplied). [14211/20]
    • Medical Cards
      787. To ask the Minister for Health when the increased thresholds for the over-70s announced in budget 2020 will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14219/20]
    • Dental Services
      788. To ask the Minister for Health when children’s dental services will be restored to St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary, after being relocated to Nenagh Hospital,...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      789. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 549 to 561, inclusive, and 674 to 677, inclusive, of 11 June 2019, the reason the persons involved that acted in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent investigation will be conducted into the alleged neglect of nursing home residents during the Covid-19 restrictions; if specific direction was...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      792. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will take place for a person (details supplied). [14239/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to general practitioners for the provision of termination of pregnancy services in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14240/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts vacant in CHO2; the number of vacant posts in the Saolta Hospital Group; the breakdown of the vacant posts; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      796. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 national guidelines will be published to enable the reopening of day services including Alzheimer’s day services in HSE community...
    • Medical Qualifications
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will review the fact that the counselling doctorate offered by Trinity College Dublin and fully recognised and accredited by an organisation...
    • Home Help Service
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if a pay agreement has been reached between the HSE and an organisation (details supplied) to continue providing financial support for the supply of PPE to the...
    • HSE Properties
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to utilising the Sarsfield Court Hospital site in Glanmire, County Cork, for the new acute hospital in Cork included in the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for elective surgery with addresses in north central areas of Cork. [14270/20]
    • HSE National Service Plan
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed bed capacity of the elective hospital in County Cork included in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 has been published; and if he will...
    • Emergency Departments
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the planned emergency department bed capacity for the new proposed acute hospital in County Cork included in the National Development Plan 2018-2027. [14278/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national emergency co-ordination group was not used during Covid-19; the reason for the preference for the NPHET in view of the fact that when...
    • General Practitioner Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health when ShannonDoc services will reopen at St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14287/20]
    • Hospital Services
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the progress within the Saolta Group to progress the development of the acute stroke unit at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Services
      815. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the implementation of eating disorder teams in CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14299/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants signed up for the Be On Call for Ireland initiative; the number of applicants deployed in CHO1 to date in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Maternity Services
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of each antenatal and maternity clinic in County Donegal in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular...
    • Disability Support Services
      818. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14307/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the licensing of patisiran for the effective treatment of nerve damage in view of the circumstances of a person (details supplied) and in further...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred by the HSE during the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14319/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      822. To ask the Minister for Health when full disability services will resume in County Tipperary for both adult and child disability services; the reason for the delay; the services that have...
    • Health Services Provision
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that will be put in place to deal with cancelled surgeries and the provision of services for children with scoliosis (details supplied); and if he...
    • Disability Services Provision
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the reopening of adult day services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14340/20]
    • Hospital Data
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the data from maternity and other hospitals relating to a reduction in the number of preterm births to date in 2020 relative to the equivalent period in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      827. To ask the Minister for Health further to the release of confirmed Covid-19 cases by electoral division up to 12 June 2020, when he will release updated data by electoral division on the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI scanners in St. James's, Mater, Beaumont, Tallaght and St. Vincent's hospitals respectively; the average number of scans carried out during...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      831. To ask the Minister for Health the persons required to quarantine upon arrival here; the way in which quarantine is being managed and monitored; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HIV-AIDS Programmes
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the counties in which PrEP, pre exposure prophylaxis, is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14387/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the long-term plans for a unit (details supplied) following the expenditure of €700,000 on upgrade works; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed national guidelines governing the reopening of services for persons with disabilities in day and respite settings during the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      835. To ask the Minister for Health when suitable IT equipment and systems will be installed at a location (details supplied) to properly access records and allow the services to support CAMHS...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department and the HSE will provide a waiting area for parents and children attending CAMHS at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      837. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will commence an orthodontic treatment plan with the dental and orthodontic services in Waterford Regional Hospital; and if he...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the status of work of the National Screening Advisory Committee; when recommendations on the expansion of newborn screening are expected to be published; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      839. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET has made contingencies to implement localised lockdowns in the event of a localised cluster or outbreak; if so, the level of coordination taking place...
    • Health Research Board
      840. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 515 of 23 June 2020, if he is considering amending the health research regulations for the processing of personal data in...
    • Data Protection
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the person responsible for the implementation of an opt-out publicity campaign (details supplied); and the person overseeing the campaign to ensure that...
    • Programme for Government
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the intended role of the national genetics and genomics medicine network as committed to in the programme for Government. [14417/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      845. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the discriminatory insurance policy offered by a company (details supplied) which forbids general practitioners from providing healthcare...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 tracking app will work on a smartphone that has Bluetooth turned on and can access Wi-Fi at home but does not have access to a phone network or...
    • Health Services Provision
      847. To ask the Minister for Health when paediatric physiotherapy services will resume in a Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14422/20]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Dublin north-east inner city initiative addiction unit and associated staff hires. [14432/20]
    • Disability Services Funding
      851. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the 1% cut to disability services for 2020. [14442/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      852. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a difference in the advice given to social care residential homes and settings, specifically those residential care settings for elderly persons...
    • HSE Data
      853. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mystery shopper inspections carried out under the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 at the end of June 2020. [14450/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time laboratory scientists employed at Connolly hospital. [14451/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      855. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for elective eye surgery at University Hospital Limerick following a previous...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      857. To ask the Minister for Health in the context of Covid-19 relating to the recent guidelines requiring patients to quarantine before surgeries, if this includes elective and emergency...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      858. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment plans in place to address the staffing crisis in child psychology teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14471/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      859. To ask the Minister for Health if advice was provided to healthcare workers and-or patients that they should not use commercial launderettes or dry cleaners during any stage of the Covid-19...
    • Disability Services Provision
      861. To ask the Minister for Health when Lisadell day services, Mullingar, County Westmeath will reopen for day care services for those that, due to profound disability, urgently require this...
    • Hospital Facilities
      863. To ask the Minister for Health if a project (details supplied) will be advanced to the next stage in view of the urgent need to provide much needed additional accommodation at this...
    • Health Services Provision
      864. To ask the Minister for Health if the district nurse service in Maynooth, County Kildare, will be returning to the Maynooth health centre in the Covid-19 reopening arrangements; his plans to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      865. To ask the Minister for Health if pulmonary rehabilitation will be widely and readily available for patients whose pulmonary health is affected by Covid-19; if there are the facilities,...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      870. To ask the Minister for Health when this Deputy will receive a response to correspondence (details supplied). [14515/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recommendations regarding incoming and outgoing foreign travel in the context of Covid-19; the details of testing and tracing regimes at...
    • Health Services Staff
      873. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that nurses and midwives who were awarded a pay rise after the industrial action of spring 2019 are now in receipt of same; and if he will...
    • HSE Agency Staff
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the agreement between his Department and a recruitment company (details supplied) and other recruitment agencies with regard to the Be On Call...
    • Midwifery Services
      875. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruitment of 40 additional clinical midwife specialists in mental health. [14579/20]

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