Written answers

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • IDA Ireland
      21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA visits to Waterford city and county in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15822/20]
    • Business Regulation
      28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to review regulations on business. [15820/20]
    • Legislative Measures
      29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his priority legislation in the area of workers’ rights and employment legislation; if the Employment Permits Act will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the consideration his Department is giving to additional measures that may be needed to support the hospitality, retail, entertainment,...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he is taking to support small and medium enterprises in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Measures
      33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the amending of employment legislation and the Companies Act 2014 will be made a priority in view of a dispute at a company (details...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
      34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list the requests made under section 10(4) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 to the Competition and...
    • Ministerial Priorities
      35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects to combine enterprise and innovation in the context of maximising economic recovery from the Covid-19...
    • Regional Enterprise Development Fund
      36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Enterprise Ireland and his Department have conducted a review of the regional enterprise development fund to identify gaps in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding that has been made available for each of the schemes offered to assist businesses due to Covid-19; the number of...
    • Job Retention
      39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to secure employment in Ballinasloe, County Galway, following a review of operations announced by a company...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding provided to businesses under the business restart grant; the number of companies that have received funding; and...
    • IDA Ireland
      42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the establishment of a regional IDA science and technology park or equivalent for Castlebar, County Mayo, to...
    • Departmental Strategies
      43. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to support remote working within his Department, its agencies and through the funding supports provided to...
    • Brexit Preparations
      44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to deal with a no-deal Brexit; if businesses along the Border will be supported by measures that will lessen the impact of a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      45. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and value of grants disbursed under the restart grant scheme since its inception; the average grant disbursed under the...
    • Employment Rights
      46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to safeguard the pay and rights of construction, cleaning and security workers affected by a recent High Court judgment...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      47. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives his Department is taking to support enterprises with significant reliance on seasonal business; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      48. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider extending the restart grant, which is administered by the local authorities, to include non-rate-paying businesses....
    • Departmental Strategies
      49. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to incentivise behaviour that supports Covid-19 national public health priorities, in particular remote working; and when the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      50. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if measures are being put in place to ensure that companies with sufficient cash reserves are not unnecessarily availing of Covid-19...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a review of the policy with regard to data centres will be undertaken in view of the fact that data centre development is projected...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Commissions of Investigation
      52. To ask the Taoiseach the controls in place to ensure that the commission of investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will achieve its objective in a timely and cost-effective...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      53. To ask the Taoiseach when updated data will be released by electoral division further to the release of Covid-19 cases up to 12 June 2020 by electoral division by the Central Statistics...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      54. To ask the Taoiseach 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. [14853/20]
    • Ministerial Remuneration
      55. To ask the Taoiseach the super junior Minister of State who will not be receiving the extra supplementary payment for sitting at the Cabinet table. [14898/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      56. To ask the Taoiseach the details of his advisers; and the salaries and remuneration they will each receive. [14922/20]
    • Departmental Data
      57. To ask the Taoiseach the additional roles and changes being put in place in the offices of An Taoiseach, An Tánaiste and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport that were not in...
    • Taoiseach's Communications
      58. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken with the President of the United States of America since his appointment as Taoiseach. [15061/20]
    • Public Inquiries
      61. To ask the Taoiseach the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under way; when each will conclude; the cost...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      62. To ask the Taoiseach if planning for phase 4 of the revised Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business retains social distancing measures; if further detail will be provided on planning for...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Farm Safety
      63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to improve farm safety nationally. [14909/20]
    • Horizon 2020 Strategy
      64. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a report on Irish involvement in the Horizon 2020 programme has been commissioned; if so, when it will be published; and if he will...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      65. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of establishments investigated by the HSA for breaches of guidelines on return to work since 29 June 2020 by county and...
    • Trade Agreements
      66. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the support for the Mercosur trade deal. [15566/20]
    • Departmental Functions
      67. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to support remote working within his Department, its agencies and through the funding supports provided to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      68. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the restart grant will be extended to sole traders who do not pay local authority rates in view of the fact that they could not and...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon taking up the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the financial supports available for self-employed persons, including taxi drivers, to assist them getting back to work post Covid-19....
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for trade promotion; and the date those delegated...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      73. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a reply will issue to proposals set out by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15073/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      74. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will give consideration to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      75. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when live music in venues will recommence; the guidelines that will apply to musicians and venues; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      77. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if specific supports are available for travel management companies and travel agencies as a result of Covid-19; and if he will make a...
    • Scientific Research
      78. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the application by Ireland to become a full member of CERN will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/20]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if business support policies can be reviewed to provide greater help to microbusinesses that contribute to the national economy on a...
    • Departmental Records
      80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a social insurance record will be provided to a person (details supplied) that worked in the Department of Industry and Commerce...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      81. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available to sole traders over 66 years of age that are impacted by Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      83. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 872 of 30 June 2020, if he is satisfied that window restrictors on sale as separate items of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      84. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will implement to ensure that small businesses have access to loan schemes that were established due to Covid-19; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      85. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when pubs can organise and host live gigs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15914/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      86. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures in the July stimulus package for taxi drivers and the taxi industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15953/20]
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      87. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects to encourage foreign direct investment in the future in view of Brexit and the international political...
    • Job Creation
      88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to set specific targets for job creation with a view to a major positive impact on the creation of employment in the...
    • Departmental Priorities
      90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the mission statement of his Department in the context of the recovery of Ireland and the European Union following the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps to be taken to bring about economic recovery following the economic impact of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Trade Relations
      92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which alternative markets continue to be found for Irish products in view of the impact of Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund
      93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which he is of the view that the available funding under the microenterprise loan scheme can be made available to a...
    • Industrial Development
      94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which efforts continue to be made to invest in modern industry throughout the island of Ireland with a view to ensuring...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      97. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which he remains confident that Ireland continues to have the ability to attract foreign direct investment at a level...
    • Departmental Schemes
      98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the range of supports that will be put in place to support remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16126/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures being put in place to help business move online during the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Enterprise Support Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific measures being considered to protect businesses facing into the Covid-19 recovery, which will affect businesses long...
    • Brexit Supports
      101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures that will be put in place to protect vulnerable industries, particularly the agrifoods industry, post Brexit in view of...
    • Company Law
      102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures that will be put in place to reform company law in view of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16130/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the business restart grant will be reviewed; if further grant supports for SMEs will be considered in view of Covid-19; and if he...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Electric Vehicles
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the mechanisms in place for persons residing in private apartment complexes to install electric car chargers at their...
    • Crime Prevention
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered measures to reduce thefts of catalytic converters such as requiring proof of vehicle ownership...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Minister that has responsibility for the environment. [14904/20]
    • Energy Efficiency
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the national retrofit plan; if the pilot scheme that was cancelled in 2019 will be rerun; the details of...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional funding will be available to local authorities that have exhausted their trading online voucher...
    • National Broadband Plan
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if fibre broadband will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department...
    • Local Authority Schemes
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if measures will be put in place to make scooter schemes available to local authorities (details supplied); and if he...
    • Postal Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to redrawing the eircode boundaries to keep them separated by county, in view of the...
    • Departmental Functions
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the restructuring of his Department; the agencies and offices that now fall under his remit; the offices...
    • Departmental Budgets
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated budget allocation for his reconfigured Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14959/20]
    • Energy Efficiency
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of applications for the SEAI renewable heat deep retrofit scheme; the number of approved applications from...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that funds from the community benefit funds of €2 per MWh on renewable energy schemes will...
    • Telecommunications Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is grant aid available to a person (details supplied) who needs a mobile booster to receive mobile reception...
    • Television Licence Fee
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process by which the licence fee is paid to RTÉ having been collected by An Post; if payment is made on a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the new renewable electricity support scheme requires the wind farm developer to submit a bid in the upcoming RESS...
    • Energy Efficiency
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the new measures he is planning for those who do not have sufficient financial resources, particularly those with a...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding provided to RTÉ in each of the years, 2019, 2018 and 2017; the sum allocated to RTÉ in 2020; and...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage emissions reduction target set for each of the next five years; the plans in place to achieve these...
    • Recycling Policy
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the recent report carried out by UL and NUIG, headed by a person (details supplied), which has found that...
    • Energy Efficiency
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if energy improvement grants awarded in 2020 will continue into 2021 (details supplied) under the new programme for...
    • Bord na Móna
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when funding will be provided to Bord na Móna for the enhanced peatland rehabilitation scheme; and if he will make...
    • Public Inquiries
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if critical road infrastructure such as the proposed Adare bypass (details supplied) in County Limerick will not be abandoned; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a proposal by a person (details supplied) to boost the tourism sector and ensure small local businesses...
    • Road Projects
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the start date for the commencement of the construction of the J14 link road and Bracken Link Road, Sandyford; and if he will make a...
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding a dealership number in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cycling Facilities
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of daily disinfecting and cleaning the public bike scheme in Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Waterford in each area in tabular form....
    • School Transport
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has approved the cancellation by Dublin Bus of all school transport contracts operated by private bus companies in the Dublin area;...
    • Driver Test
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consultation with driving instructors that has taken place with the view to restarting driver tests; if he is satisfied appropriate...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to support the thousands of workers employed in airlines and the airline industry in view of the huge...
    • Driver Test
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to prioritising front-line workers who are waiting for driver tests due to the postponement during the...
    • Railway Stations
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to conduct an impact assessment on the future limitations to capacity at Connolly Station that the proposed planning...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria for the allocation of Covid-19 funding support for the sport sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15115/20]
    • Public Transport
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Irish Rail Rosslare line service (details supplied); and when the normal schedule will return. [15343/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide grants to private bus companies that have lost all their income since March 2020 as a result of Covid-19 (details...
    • Sports Events
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the reports conducted by his Department into the return to play protocols for contact sports, including medical advice...
    • Tourism Industry
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when tourist offices can reopen under the revised Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business guidelines. [15892/20]
    • Harbours and Piers
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided to each local authority on the transfer of a harbour under the Harbours Act 2015; the date and amount of each...
    • Road Projects
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the M11 and N11 junction upgrade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16097/20]
    • Noise Pollution
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering introducing legislation or providing funding to reduce the impact of noise from motorways in particular the M50; and...
    • Driver Licences
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason driver licence centres will not accept cash; the way in which persons without bank cards are to be accommodated; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the further steps he plans to take to assist tourist and hospitality businesses that are very seriously affected by Covid-19 to survive...
    • Rail Network
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the findings will be published of the financial and economic appraisal of proposals to extend the western rail corridor (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views and advice in respect of a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of timelines for the M20 Cork to Limerick road; and if funding has been ring-fenced for the construction of the road. [14697/20]
    • National Transport Authority
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an NTA office will be created in Cork city to deal with transport infrastructure demands in the city and county. [14699/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure the enforcement of compulsory face coverings on all public transport services; when he expects enforcement to...
    • Driver Licences
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a plastic copy of a licence will issue to a person (details supplied) as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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...
    • Driver Licences
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the issuing of road haulage licences will commence; the number of pending applications; and the anticipated timeframe...
    • Sports Funding
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give final approval to a grant for a project (details supplied) under the large-scale sporting infrastructure scheme in view...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial supports available for self-employed persons, including taxi drivers, to assist them getting back to work post-Covid-19....
    • Road Projects
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparations being made for the development of the north ring road in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14839/20]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next sports capital programme will commence. [14903/20]
    • Road Projects
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timelines for the delivery of the new M20 motorway between Cork; and the milestones he expects to be reached in 2020 and 2021 in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extra funding he plans to provide to national sporting bodies in 2020 to assist with Covid-19. [14918/20]
    • Tourism Policy
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the domestic tourism season in 2019 outside of those already announced to date. [14919/20]
    • Driver Test
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14945/20]
    • Public Transport
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the geographical units used regarding investment by his Department; and the transport co-ordination unit investment delivered in each of...
    • Driver Test
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason driver testers who were employed by the RSA on contract and whose contracts ended on 1 May 2020 did not have their contracts...
    • Greenways Provision
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; if this proposed development will be prioritised in view of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of flights from the United States of America; if his attention has been drawn to a recent EU recommendation on restricting...
    • Bus Services
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when mediation will begin between the National Transport Authority and a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will offer guidance to persons who have booked overseas travel during the period of time when official health guidance is to avoid...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for international and road transport and logistics; and the...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by each local authority on cycling and pedestrian infrastructure; and the details of each scheme by local authority in...
    • Driver Test
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to hire additional driver testers to clear the driver test backlog nationally. [15068/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if employment incentives will be made available to the tourism sector for a new or developing small enterprise; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding the NTA has awarded to Kildare County Council in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; the amount awarded to each individual...
    • Cycling Facilities
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the public bike scheme in Cork should be expanded to county towns on rail links. [15083/20]
    • Motor Tax
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give consideration to the situation facing persons who have not been able to use their motor vehicles during the Covid-19...
    • Aviation Industry
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of the aviation recovery plan through the establishment of the task force for aviation recovery; when the...
    • Rail Network
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to develop a comprehensive policy for commuter services on all existing lines into Waterford, Limerick and Galway; and if...
    • Driver Licences
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that are ordinarily resident here but driving on licences from another country; if he has considered the...
    • Road Projects
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15148/20]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding road traffic accidents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15161/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he is concerned about the risk to the domestic market for the remainder of 2020 posed by entry to the State by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider exemptions to the two-week return self-quarantine for international travel in circumstances (details supplied); and...
    • Taxi Licences
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the regulation that all taxis must be less than nine years old on their licence renewal dates will be extended for a person (details...
    • Sports Funding
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria used to determine if a club is deemed to be in an area of disadvantage for the purposes of funding; if and the way in which...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the decision by the Dublin Airport Authority to seek payment from taxi drivers in August 2020 for the full following year...
    • Public Transport
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Irish Rail and urge it to operate a full Monday to Friday schedule on its DART, commuter and Intercity services...
    • Bus Services
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an instance in which a parent and a child with autism who had attended a hospital appointment were...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all Gaelic games players competing in 2020 will undergo compulsory Covid-19 testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rural Transport Programme
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will prioritise the further rolling out of the LIFT rural transport scheme further to its successful piloting in Keel and...
    • Consumer Rights
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a clear directive will be issued in respect of foreign travel and of moneys paid to airlines should a person not travel due to...
    • Light Rail Projects
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of purchasing 15 additional 55 m long Luas trams. [15366/20]
    • Sports Funding
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which an association (details supplied) will distribute additional funding provided to grassroots football clubs. [15368/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a representative for workers in the tourism industry will be appointed to the tourism recovery task force (details supplied); and if...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for Covid–19 testing within sporting clubs. [15470/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise travel agents that are liable for refunding clients who have booked holidays but cannot travel due to public health...
    • Driver Test
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to ensure the driver theory test backlog caused by Covid-19 is cleared quickly; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sports Funding
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated in June 2020 to sporting bodies; the amount received by each sporting body or sporting governing body; and if he...
    • Tourism Funding
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocation made to Tourism Ireland in each of the years 2017 to 2019, inclusive; and the expected spend for 2020. [15508/20]
    • Driver Test
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the requirement for US citizens and returning Irish emigrants to sit a theory test and take driver lessons and a driver test within...
    • Public Transport
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if even headway profiles are used in bus transport services here; his views on whether this is the best approach in the public transport...
    • Rail Network
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reinstate pre-7 a.m. services from Monasterevin train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15574/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the concerns of a person (details supplied) regarding asymptomatic cases; if he will address the concerns; if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many hoteliers that have not met the criteria for the restart grant find themselves in a...
    • Airport Development Projects
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding previously committed to for extending the runway at Waterford Airport has been released; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if those living abroad with Irish driver licences who cannot travel home to renew same can extend their licence until all travel...
    • National Car Test
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if rain shelters will be placed outside NCT centres (details supplied) to ensure that those being made to wait outside are sheltered from...
    • Transport Policy
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to put hybrid cars back on the plan for limited companies as opposed to just electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a stimulus package or other forms of support for the taxi sector are being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Taxi Regulations
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if regulations will be amended to allow small public service vehicles, SPSVs, taxis and hackneys to pass the required SPSV suitability...
    • Railway Stations
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the reopening of the Killucan, County Westmeath train station; if a decision has been made as to when the station...
    • Rural Transport Services
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an additional bus stop for the Wicklow to Glendalough Local Link bus route will be put in place to facilitate residents of a direct...
    • Driver Licences
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Driver Licence Service did not extend the validity of driver licences beyond 30 June 2020; if the matter will be...
    • National Transport Authority
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the €11.2 million allocated to National Transport Authority under the accessibility retrofit programme was spent...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an aircraft (details supplied) was given approval to land and refuel at Shannon Airport on 1 July 2020; if the aircraft was approved...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide Covid-19 testing for GAA players to prevent outbreaks in the community; if this could be seen as urgent in view of...
    • Rail Network
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the train timetable for Carlow will return to a normal schedule; if services ceased during Covid-19 will be reinstated (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 114 of 7 July 2020, if the advice since February 2020 constitutes advice not to travel; the body a...
    • Sports Facilities
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the relevant meetings with his officials will be organised to progress a proposal (details supplied) in relation to the provision of...
    • Road Projects
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16121/20]
    • Public Inquiries
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under way;...
  • Department of Finance
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if seasonal tourism businesses will be able to avail of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15202/20]
    • Tax Code
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the ring-fencing of the sugar tax to tackle obesity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15480/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to travel management companies and other business travel companies and the extension of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the help-to-buy scheme for persons who build their own home in order that the reckonable limits apply to the cost of the home rather than...
    • Banking Sector
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks have continued to accrue interest on accounts availing of the Covid-19 repayment holiday period without an obligation to do so; the measures he plans...
    • Mortgage Lending
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he has taken or proposes to take regarding persons who have been refused the drawdown of mortgages by the pillar banks as a result of being in...
    • Value Added Tax
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if the VAT rate on sun cream (details supplied) will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14713/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if a matter relating to the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied) will be investigated with the Revenue Commissioners; if contact will be made with...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State at his Department on taking up their roles; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 30 June 2020, the way in which he can reconcile the fact that dividing an annual salary paid monthly by 52 results...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce better regulation of the insurance industry. [14908/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for financial services, credit unions and insurance; and the date those...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance whether a company that has placed employees on the temporary wage subsidy scheme and submitted a questionnaire to the Revenue Commissioners but has not lost...
    • Banking Licences
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that were received for banking licences here in each of the years 2015 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020; and if he will make...
    • Financial Services Sector
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the roll-out of the Ireland for Finance strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15108/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if the top-up payment paid to a staff member under the temporary wage subsidy scheme is a tax-deductible expense for the business owner in view of the fact...
    • Value Added Tax
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance his options in respect of a reduction of the 13% VAT rate currently applicable to the hospitality sector; if he cannot lower this rate below 5%; if that is...
    • Tax Code
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount generated by alcohol excise duty in each year since 2012, in tabular form; if he has considered reducing the rate in order to stimulate businesses,...
    • Value Added Tax
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) relating to custom duties and VAT on the importation of medical devices and protective equipment in order to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter relating to the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15249/20]
    • State Bodies
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacancies by job title in the Office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman as of 3 July 2020; and the estimated full-year cost of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a company (details supplied) is permitted to make staff redundant while availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; if this can be suspended...
    • Tax Credits
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering the introduction of a tax credit to allow persons to buy digital technologies to assist them to work remotely. [15369/20]
    • Credit Unions
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance if a series of matters will be examined in relation to credit unions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15391/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which those self-employed persons now on Covid-19 payments will be taxed in 2020 and into 2021; and the way in which their tax credits will be...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance the methods by which VRT on imported cars are calculated; the mechanism there is for appeal in circumstances in which an error has clearly been made; and if...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to personal injuries claims being taken on the basis of persons claiming to have contracted Covid-19 in specific premises; if...
    • Value Added Tax
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance if yoga studios will be included in the reduced VAT rate group of 9%, matching the reduced rate enjoyed by other sporting facilities and activities; and if he...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are issuing letters to many SMEs which claimed the Covid-19 restart grants...
    • Banking Sector
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the accrual and charging of interest accrued during the moratorium period for mortgage payment breaks issued...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation regarding the rumoured tax bill at the end of the year for those on the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [15967/20]
    • Mortgage Lending
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance if guidance will be issued to banks regarding mortgage applications from persons whose income has been protected by their employer via the temporary wage...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be reviewed to ensure payments being made to employees are subject to the usual PAYE system rather than allowing...
    • Public Inquiries
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when each will...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Private Partnerships
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total and individual Departmental cost in 2019 for public private partnerships for schools and education facilities, hospitals,...
    • Pension Provisions
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position of retired members of An Garda Síochána in respect of pension entitlements following the FEMPI cuts from 1 March...
    • Office of Public Works
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will provide immediate additional funding to assistance and equipment to Leitrim County Council to enable works to be...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the likely timescale for the completion of the tender process for a project (details supplied); when the project is expected to go to...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform 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...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes he plans to make in relation to public procurement procedures. [14905/20]
    • Waterways Issues
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the undermining of a building by a river at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will be investigated; and if he will make a...
    • Freedom of Information
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to improve freedom of information legislation. [14998/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW; and the date those delegated functions come...
    • Pensions Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reconsider the position of his Department in respect of releasing to the public, information on the pension payments of...
    • Office of Public Works
      330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will provide an embankment at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15090/20]
    • Tourism Policy
      331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the plans for the remainder of the 2020 season in respect of Skellig Mhichíl, County Kerry in view of the...
    • Forensic Science Ireland
      332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if construction on the new forensic science laboratory has started; the timeframe for the completion of the project; and the estimated...
    • Architectural Heritage
      333. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter regarding a car park (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Stations
      334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amounts spent by the OPW on the refurbishment of Santry Garda station in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [15364/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      335. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contractor that will be appointed for the construction of a new Intreo centre in the old library building in Tuam, County Galway...
    • Office of Public Works
      336. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a bridge (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15719/20]
    • Traffic Management
      337. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans of the OPW to reopen in the near future the Ashton and Islandbridge gates in the Phoenix Park to traffic in view of the fact...
    • Office of Public Works
      338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will liaise with Leitrim County Council to put a fund in place to help stabilise the situation in Drumkeerin in the wake of the...
    • Departmental Properties
      339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter regarding lands adjacent to a building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Inquiries
      340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigation in process; the length of time each has been under way;...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Wildlife Control
      341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter regarding a seal cull (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14780/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      342. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the Minister who has responsibility for the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [14917/20]
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will be taking to remedy the persistent failure to designate special areas of conservation under the habitats...
    • Invasive Plant Species
      345. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual budget for rhododendron ponticum clearance in Killarney National Park in each of the years 2000 and 2019, in tabular...
    • Architectural Heritage
      349. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the draft national architecture strategy; and if she will consult the incoming joint Oireachtas committee on...
    • National Parks
      350. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter regarding peg holders (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15237/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to financial assistance for aquariums (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Investigations
      352. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of tests carried out in Moanveanlagh Bog in March 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15420/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      353. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for 2020 for each heritage function that will be transferred from her Department. [15467/20]
    • Departmental Investigations
      354. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider conducting an investigation into a possible famine site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      355. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the further steps she plans to take to assist arts businesses which are very seriously affected by Covid-19 to survive financially...
    • Island Communities
      356. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she plans to take to reduce the cost of transporting goods to the islands in view of the disproportionate cost...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      357. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon taking...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      358. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that will be available to the arts industry following the difficulties posted by Covid-19; and if she will make a...
    • Hare Coursing
      359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter regarding the future of coursing (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Waterways Issues
      360. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when service blocks along the River Shannon around Lough Derg will be fully opened by Waterways Ireland. [14997/20]
    • Ministerial Functions
      361. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht and sport; and the date those...
    • Departmental Bodies
      362. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the offices and agencies under the remit of her Department. [15259/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      364. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the scéim pobal Gaeilge funding for County Mayo and rest of the country in view of the fact that there is...
    • Freedom of Information
      365. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of requests submitted under freedom of information legislation to her Department in each of the years 2009 to 2019; the...
    • Archaeological Sites
      366. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by a group (details supplied). [15647/20]
    • Seirbhísí agus Tacaíochtaí Gaeilge
      367. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth gur campaí samhraidh amuigh faoin spéir amháin atá ceadaithe ag an Roinn i mbliana, go...
    • Architectural Heritage
      368. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce a new grant scheme to support the renovation of old and derelict farmhouses or other buildings in rural...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      369. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the events industry can expect guidelines on best practice for events in view of physical distancing; and if so, when they can...
    • Foras na Gaeilge
      372. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici méadu a dhéanamh ar mhaoiniú Fhoras na Gaeilge le gur féidir leis an bhForas a chuid a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      373. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtógfar mná tí a bhí le scoláirí a choinneáil faoi scéim na bhfoghlaimeoirí...
    • National Parks
      374. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the recent destruction in the Mealagh Valley, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Crime Data
      375. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of prosecutions relating to wildlife crimes under the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2012 and the European Communities Birds and...
    • Commemorative Events
      377. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Famine Commemoration will take place on the third Sunday in May 2021 in Buncrana, County Donegal. [16032/20]
    • Public Inquiries
      378. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Commercial Rates
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the three-month rates waiver scheme for businesses forced to shut due to the Covid-19 crisis announced on 2 May 2020 will...
    • Planning Issues
      380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review restrictions on planning permissions for dwellings on the national secondary road network in instances in...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessary works can be completed in the property of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local social welfare offices and staff are exempt from the payment of rates; the local authorities that operate under this...
    • Water Supply
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of lead connections as determined by the Environmental Protection Agency that require replacing by county and...
    • Commercial Property
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action and steps he will take regarding commercial premises in town centres in circumstances in which the owners are...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the income eligibility limits for social housing in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan will be reviewed as a matter...
    • Local Authority Funding
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the financial challenges of Cork City and County councils; and if he is considering direct...
    • Energy Efficiency
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of a planned retrofit scheme to be rolled out by his Department to assist homeowners in improving the energy...
    • Local Authority Functions
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grant funding will be provided to enable the live streaming of local authority meetings (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Planning Investigations
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal; and the action he plans to take on foot...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the Departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon...
    • Planning Issues
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a decision has been made on a developer-provided infrastructure application for an estate (details supplied) in County...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure An Bord Pleanála meets its timelines for making planning decisions. [14913/20]
    • Electoral Process
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for electoral reform. [14914/20]
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of calls under the Project Ireland urban regeneration and development fund; and the timelines for the announcement...
    • Vacant Properties
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of void council units for each municipal district within the Clare County Council area approved for refurbishment...
    • Planning Issues
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if issues in relation to planning will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15000/20]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the provision of an adequate supply of affordable and local authority housing in line with current and growing...
    • Fire Service
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a site has been identified for a new fire service facility in Dunleer, County Louth; when work will commence; the planned...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the status of houses affected by pyrite; if further funding or supports will be provided for...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for local government and planning; and the date...
    • Local Authority Members
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the Moorhead Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15116/20]
    • Seaweed Harvesting
      404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to bring forward new foreshore legislation to update the law in relation to the issuing of seaweed harvesting...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change the salary cap threshold for first-time buyers of houses that apply for State loans; and if he will make a...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set up a new homeless task force; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15138/20]
    • Local Authority Funding
      407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he plans to take to make up the funding shortfall in 2021 in the equalisation fund to both Galway County Council and...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the tenant purchase (incremental) scheme 2016 was completed; when he plans to publish the review; when he...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the frequency of use of the discretionary top-up for HAP payments in 2019 in County Wicklow by municipal district; the average...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of single persons and family units, respectively, in Bray, County Wicklow who presented as homeless to the local...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the social housing list in Bray, County Wicklow; the number on the list in Bray, County Wicklow for...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the latest EPA report detailing problems with 50 wastewater treatment plants nationwide; the reason completion...
    • Rental Sector
      417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a progress report will be provided on the cost rental project at Enniskerry Road, County Wicklow; the estimated rental cost...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a Covid-19 risk assessment has been carried out for wastewater treatment plants and for outdoor workers who clean blocked...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated from the urban regeneration and development fund for the North Quays project, Waterford; when further...
    • Planning Issues
      426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce new legislation to provide for leave to apply for substitute consent in line with the environmental...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most recent average construction and all-in development costs for one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and...
    • Commercial Rates
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost to the Exchequer due to revenue lost in rates and non-rates by local authorities due to Covid-19. [15741/20]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation published in July 2019....
    • Rental Accommodation Standards
      435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections to date in 2020; and the projected increase in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure on HAP in 2019 and to date in 2020. [15744/20]
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total allocation and drawdown of housing adaptation grants in 2019 and to date in 2020. [15747/20]
    • Energy Efficiency
      440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of retrofitting a social home in 2019. [15748/20]
    • Rent Data
      441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the research being conducted by the ESRI on rental debt during the Covid-19 crisis will be published; and if he will make...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if staff working in private homeless services and hostels are required to be Garda vetted; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Building Regulations
      443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the building regulations will be changed in order to ensure that each new building has a non-fossil fuel heating system;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that have been taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in apartment complexes; if property management companies...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the HAP payments being paid on a weekly basis by family dynamics and county; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rental Sector
      447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports available to renters unable to acquire a mortgage to purchase a home; his plans to provide further supports; and...
    • Public Inquiries
      448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Northern Ireland
      449. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for a border poll in the lifetime of this Government. [15140/20]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      450. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when applications for the foreign births register will be allowed again. [15160/20]
    • Northern Ireland
      451. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to implement the commitments made in the New Decade, New Approach agreement in Northern of Ireland and the commitments made by...
    • International Agreements
      452. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has joined or plans to join the Covid-19 technology access pool initiative led by Costa Rica and the World Health Organization;...
    • Brexit Preparations
      453. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the preparations for a post-Brexit deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom; the measures in place specifically if no deal is...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      454. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the diplomatic missions, such as embassies and consulates, that were closed and not reopened as part of cost saving measures in the past ten...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      455. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the recent steps taken by Ireland, the EU and the international community to address the ongoing instability in Yemen; his plans to increase...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      457. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      458. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter regarding foreign travel and self-isolation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      459. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for EU affairs; and the date those delegated functions come...
    • Passport Services
      461. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the turnaround times of passport applications since the resumption of services post Covid-19 restrictions. [15066/20]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      462. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the Chinese authorities regarding events in Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15100/20]
    • EU Data
      463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens who completed an official traineeship in the European Commission in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      467. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will use its membership of the United Nations Security Council to push for resolution in respect of Western Sahara; and if he...
    • Passport Services
      468. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the processing of passports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15189/20]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      469. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the location of each of Irish embassy and consulate across the world; and the staff complement in each embassy and consulate. [15193/20]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      472. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role of embassy staff in the allocation and distribution of overseas foreign aid; and the amount of such aid per embassy in each of the...
    • International Agreements
      473. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legal analysis on the revised international legally binding instrument to regulate in international human rights law the activities of...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      474. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally to his Japanese counterpart to date in 2020. [15264/20]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      475. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the foreign birth registration unit will recommence the processing of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Human Rights
      477. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the recent steps taken by Ireland, the EU and the international community to address the arbitrary arrests of peaceful demonstrators and...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      478. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when it is planned to hold a referendum on presidential voting rights for those living outside the State; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      479. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the ambassador to Russia since 1 April 2020. [15940/20]
    • Public Inquiries
      480. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under way;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      481. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which the aide de camp (details supplied) for the Tánaiste can be justified; and the amount this will cost. [14985/20]
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      482. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of peacekeeping missions until 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15101/20]
    • Defence Forces Representative Organisations
      483. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on an organisation being affiliated to a union (details supplied). [14695/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      484. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      485. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which he plans to increase and stabilise the strength of the Defence Forces at all levels across the Army, Naval Service and Air...
    • Naval Service
      486. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding will be secured for the 20mm secondary gun replacement on each Naval Service ship. [15279/20]
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      487. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding for the upgrade of explosive ordnance disposal robots will be provided. [15280/20]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      488. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when construction works will commence on a new headquarter block for the Army Ranger Wing at the Defence Forces Training Centre; and the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      489. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a full review will take place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15328/20]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      490. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Army has pulled out of selling a house at a location (details supplied) to the tenant despite having agreed to the sale on three...
    • Defence Forces Data
      493. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the Permanent Defence Force as of 30 June 2020; if he will provide a breakdown of each rank across the three services; the...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      494. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the Reserve Defence Force as of 30 June 2020 with regard to each of the three services and each rank; the gender breakdown of...
    • Defence Forces Data
      496. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of additional recruits to the Reserve Defence Force to date in 2020 with regard to each of the three services; the gender breakdown...
    • Departmental Budgets
      497. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the defence budget, specifically Vote 36, is on profile; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15613/20]
    • Public Inquiries
      498. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Student Accommodation
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to third-level students whose private landlords refused to provide rent refunds to students forced to leave accommodation due to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that will be put in place for national schools (details supplied) with regard to children attending from a local direct provision...
    • School Transport
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review whether the age of vehicles operating school transport services can be safely extended to 25 years subject to six-monthly...
    • Special Educational Needs
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the autistic spectrum disorder units at primary and post-primary level being funded in County Dublin in 2019 and 2020; the number, name and...
    • State Examinations
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistical methods which will be used for the standardisation of results submitted by schools in the context of the calculation of grades...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approach she plans to take to ensure that those in fifth year in the 2019/2020 academic year are not disadvantaged by the impact of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the roadmap for a full return to education will be published (details supplied). [14649/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all additional hygiene costs including refuse costs incurred by schools will be carried by her Department and not incurred by the school or...
    • International Students
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reduction in the number of international students expected to attend third-level institutions here in the 2020/2021 academic year than in the...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering expanding SUSI to take into consideration the fact that it has not been increased in recent years and in view of the...
    • Third Level Institutions
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further consideration has been given to or the status of a financial package for the third-level institutions; and if so, if it will include...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which adequate space will be ensured in the CAO process for the 2021/2022 academic year, in view of the fact that there may be an...
    • Third Level Admissions
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether there will be additional places available in third-level places through the CAO process in 2020; and if so, the number....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that has taken place with schools on reopening in September 2020. [14664/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to locate new temporary educate together facilities and buildings on a site adjacent to a school (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports that are available to children that have a dual diagnosis of autism and verbal dyspraxia; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process by which a student (details supplied) can secure a predictive grade for the leaving certificate having studied at home without a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request that private schools provide a partial refund on the fees parents have paid as a result of schools closing during the year in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project planned for a school (details supplied). [14700/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to accommodate funding for science PhD students whose studies were delayed due to Covid-19 (details supplied); and if the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the grant scheme for parents of children included in the July provision to help with transport costs will operate; when the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provisions are being made for applicants to the CAO for undergraduate medicine that completed the leaving certificate in previous years...
    • Special Educational Needs
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) will be allowed to engage in the summer scheme for children with disabilities. [14729/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a clear and consistent approach for the resumption of third-level education will be ensured for students (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has responsibility for SUSI. [14737/20]
    • School Transport
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if refunds will be given for school transport which was paid in advance for the 2019/2020 academic year; if school transport costs will be...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén chaoi a mbíonn scoláire a tógadh sa Ghaeltacht cáilithe do cheann de na háiteanna a bhíonn coinnithe do...
    • School Staff
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give consideration to the measures outlined in correspondence in the case of a school (details supplied). [14790/20]
    • School Enrolments
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14792/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools and parents will be notified of classroom configurations under the guidelines announced for physical distancing on the return to...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of the Departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon taking up each...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a summer works scheme application will be granted due to the circumstances of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Third Level Institutions
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional mental health funding will be provided for mental health services for third-level institutions; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of education is considered an essential service. [14845/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children with additional needs will be subject to further school loss in September 2020 if social distancing is required of children. [14848/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has been included in the school building programme for 2020/2021; if so, if it will be allowed to proceed to...
    • School Transport
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extra funding which will be provided to school bus operators due to the extra costs that will exist in relation to providing school services...
    • School Curriculum
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve sex education in secondary schools. [14894/20]
    • School Funding
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for capital investment in secondary schools in the next three years. [14895/20]
    • Third Level Institutions
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all the recommendations of the Oireachtas Standing Committee of Public Accounts in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020...
    • School Accommodation
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is still considering the temporary accommodation of a school at a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will be making its final decision on the temporary site for a school (details supplied); and when she will be informing the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact made with a school (details supplied) to facilitate it with the appropriate information to allow it to provide the summer provision...
    • Schools Building Projects
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of work on creating a new school (details supplied). [14950/20]
    • School Staff
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a revision to the honours degree allowance for primary school teachers in order that teachers that have qualified with pass...
    • School Funding
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the response to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 30 June 2020; if the very low level of funding required will be provided in...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rate of pay for qualified SNAs providing summer provision; the rate of pay for qualified teachers doing the same work; the method and timing...
    • School Admissions
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be provided for a person (details supplied); the contact details for the school liaison officers that may assist with the...
    • School Staff
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a complaint made to her Department by a person (details supplied) has been investigated; if the claim that they were due eight months' pay has...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an ongoing issue regarding a school (details supplied); and the duration of the lease agreed on the temporary site. [15034/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for special education and inclusion; and the date those delegated...
    • Special Educational Needs
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is such a delay with payments for the July provision (details supplied); if there is an option available to be paid earlier; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a roadmap will be provided regarding the reopening of all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15092/20]
    • School Transport
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the operation of school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15112/20]
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish students who participated in the Erasmus+ programme in each of the years 2015 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020; the...
    • Youth Services
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing mediation services from her Department to help resolve a dispute (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the three dyslexic schools in Dublin will not be closing. [15135/20]
    • Student Accommodation
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a waiver for student accommodation for those beginning third level in September 2020 in view of the fact that some colleges...
    • Schools Building Projects
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review and reform tendering criteria for new school building projects in view of the fact the current criteria effectively...
    • Third Level Institutions
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding committed to third level institutions for counselling services in 2020 will be allocated to ensure students have swift access to...
    • Third Level Admissions
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to improve access to higher education for members of the Traveller community. [15184/20]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidance will be provided for special needs assistants in circumstances in which school staff are required to adhere to the 1 to 2 m social...
    • Schools Building Projects
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied); if the site for the new school has been secured; if not, the stage this is...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be issued for works sanctioned for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15208/20]
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the fact that an organisation (details supplied) provides chainsaw and arboricultural qualifications to a much higher standard than...
    • Residential Institutions
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to present an action plan to execute the judgment in a case (details supplied); her further plans to ensure a formal scheme of redress...
    • School Staff
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment service of a person (details supplied) will be included as pensionable service; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Abuse (1 comment)
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new redress scheme for victims of sexual abuse in primary schools will be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received recent correspondence regarding additional accommodation required for a school (details supplied); and the status of the...
    • Teacher Training
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring grants for student teachers' attendance at mandatory Gaeltacht courses. [15267/20]
    • School Staff
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional teachers required to reduce average size class at primary level from 24.3 pupils to 23.4. [15268/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a permanent school building for a new secondary school (details supplied); the stage the plans are at; when it...
    • Special Educational Needs
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision for an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • English Language Training Organisations
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supports will be provided for ACELS, QQI and MEI accredited English language schools that were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic in March to...
    • School Transport
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided for a person (details supplied). [15306/20]
    • Protected Disclosures
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of protected disclosures from whistleblowers submitted to her Department in respect of institutes of technology; if each of the...
    • School Transport
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus place will be provided for a child (details supplied). [15310/20]
    • School Admissions
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school placement will be provided for a child (details supplied); and the reason her Department holds the view that existing schools can...
    • State Examinations
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if post-leaving certificate students prohibited from undertaking practical exams due to Covid-19 restrictions are to be graded under a predicted...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will be given official advice, not draft advice, on the reopening of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15329/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sanitisation equipment for cleaning schools will be supplied by her Department; if schools will have to source it themselves in view of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if isolation centres for sick children will be supplied by her Department; if so, the person or body that will be required to supervise them; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if substitute teachers will be supplied for teachers out sick with symptoms; if the entire bubble in which the teacher is involved will have to...
    • School Transport
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidelines regarding social distancing and so on will be published for bus companies that transport children from their homes to their...
    • Special Educational Needs
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units within schools in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15355/20]
    • Youthreach Programme
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if statistics on the ethnic background of children accessing youthreach programmes are available and if so, if they will be provided by...
    • School Admissions
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure a person (details supplied) will get a place in a school that suits their needs; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) who fits the criteria of qualification for the July provision is being denied the provision due to the fact...
    • State Examinations
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timing for the sitting of the leaving certificate 2020; if it will be completed in time for college intake in September and October 2020; if...
    • School Services Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval has been received from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to enter into formal discussions within the Workplace...
    • State Examinations
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparations being made to ensure the leaving certificate examinations will take place in 2021; her plans to introduce an additional element...
    • School Staff
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) recently lost an English as an additional language, EAL, post; the reason for this, if it can be appealed;...
    • DEIS Scheme
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can be designated as a DEIS school; the process involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15436/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of a project (details supplied); the deadline for the scheme; the criteria for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a taxi service will be made available for children availing of the July provision in 2020; if so, the application process; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15499/20]
    • School Staff
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is having its teacher allocation reduced by two; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15571/20]
    • School Transport
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional capacity and an extension of a post-primary school transport route will be sanctioned in respect of a service (details supplied);...
    • School Funding
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the ancillary grant of €163 per pupil to €171.50 per pupil. [15615/20]
    • Schools Data
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistics and format used when determining the need for a secondary school in a particular area; and the breakdown of these figures for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15628/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of creating a Covid-19 officer in schools to manage and oversee best practice has been investigated and considered; if so, if...
    • Third Level Institutions
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of institutes of technology or technological universities currently running a deficit in tabular form; the plans in place by each...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the amount which will be required in additional funding for schools to cover issues related to Covid-19 hygiene by category of...
    • School Funding
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the budget for school substitutes by 5%, 10%, 20% and 25%, respectively. [15650/20]
    • School Transport
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered that the cost of delivering school transport to eligible children will increase considerably due to Covid-19 restrictions;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether additional funding for Covid-19 related school costs will cover all costs, including refuse and partitions. [15653/20]
    • School Funding
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget for information technology equipment for primary and secondary schools; the number of devices purchased from this per annum by...
    • School Accommodation
      653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of moving a school (details supplied) to another location; and the setting-up costs associated with same. [15670/20]
    • School Transport
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in respect of the return of schools in September 2020 and school transport; if all students will have full access to school...
    • Schools Administration
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the guidelines for schools on their use of reduced hours for individual pupils will be completed; and if she plans to put in place a...
    • State Examinations
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the process for providing leaving certificate results and the application of points for the entry process to third-level education for...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost per annum to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio in primary and post-primary schools by one point and five points, respectively....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it will be necessary to reduce class sizes in order to facilitate the distancing required for a return to school; the...
    • School Accommodation
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultation that was held with the management and school board of a school (details supplied) prior to the announcement of its relocation to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken for schools to have enough teachers to reopen safely; whether it can be ensured that students with additional needs will...
    • School Textbooks
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the proposed free book pilot scheme due to commence in September 2020 as announced in budget 2020 and referenced in the...
    • Home School Community Liaison Scheme
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of hiring ten additional home-school community liaison teachers. [15850/20]
    • Garda Vetting
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will take over responsibility for and centralise the process of Garda vetting applications from special needs assistants in...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will increase the minimum qualification needed to become a SNA to a level six qualification in order to aid the sector’s...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide increased financial support up front to schools in order to allow for the necessary increase in the number of...
    • State Examinations
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who are ineligible for a predicted grade for the leaving certificate 2020 due to studying independently without a teacher...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools are preparing for the continuation of partial remote learning in September 2020; the supports being put in place for children...
    • School Transport
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on increasing the school transport remote area grant to reflect the cost for children who live on an island and attend school on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 30 June 2020, if a school extension (details supplied) will be built in time for the 2020-21 school...
    • School Staff
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the criteria used by the appeals board to adjudicate on the allocation of teaching posts has been modified in light of Covid-19 and taking...
    • School Costs
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a statement will be issued to each school clarifying the situation with regard to placing additional costs on parents in response to Covid-19...
    • Third Level Admissions
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that progressed onto third-level education in 2019, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision in relation to funding for emergency works at the school; and if she...
    • Third Level Institutions
      681. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if universities and institutes of technology have notified him, either separately or through their representative organisations, regarding their...
    • School Facilities
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools that have access to adequate hot water; the estimated cost to ensure that every school has hot...
    • School Accommodation
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management of a school (details supplied) will be entitled to rent additional space in order to accommodate the students in the...
    • Public Inquiries
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when each...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a Covid-19 crisis payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Job Losses
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of businesses that have notified her Department regarding their intention to consider collective redundancies in...
    • Disability Definitions
      687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a claim for disability status by a person (details supplied) has been granted; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the existing time frame of the pandemic unemployment payment in relation to self-employed persons that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to seasonal workers that were not entitled to the Covid-19 payment in view of the fact they...
    • Gender Recognition
      691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; the circumstances in which it will be permissible for a child to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 rent supplement scheme will be extended beyond August 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will accept self-assessed income for 2019 from self-employed persons as would be accepted by the Revenue Commissioners...
    • Social Insurance
      694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount of additional revenue that would be generated if the 2.6% PRSI of classes B, C or D increased to 3% or a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the small business grant will be open for applications. [15823/20]
    • Youth Unemployment
      697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the development of a youth employment strategy in view of the fact that this sector will be greatly...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the feasibility of a basic income for artists and performers will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase in the pension age to 67 years of age has been deferred; the steps required to implement the policy; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the age and county profile of those that have had their pandemic unemployment payment rate changed to €203 from...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an entitlement to a basic social welfare payment exists in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rent allowance has been increased in line with current rent in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears and back payments will be issued to pandemic unemployment payment claimants; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if this question will be accepted as notice of the appeal against the decision to seek recovery of an alleged overpayment in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      705. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters raised in correspondence by an association (details supplied) in respect of the pandemic unemployment...
    • Proposed Legislation
      706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation to deal with situations in which companies or others engage in asset stripping of a firm...
    • Company Liquidations
      707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet workers of a company (details supplied); the steps she will take to ensure that stock or assets are not...
    • JobPath Programme
      708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the JobPath scheme; when current contracts with providers Turas Nua and Seetec will expire; and if she will...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon...
    • Labour Court
      711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Labour Court recommendations made that relate to Departments; the number of these that have been implemented;...
    • State Pensions
      712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of pension arrears owed to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14852/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has instructed her officials to contact those persons directly in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment to...
    • Carer's Support Grant
      715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a respite payment will be made to a person (details supplied); if the amount will be paid in full; and if she will make...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rent support can be made available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which an entitlement to a contributory State pension exists or can be facilitated in the case of a person...
    • Carer's Allowance
      719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in respect of a decision on a carer’s allowance application;...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount in illness benefit overpayments recouped in each of the years 2010 to 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14991/20]
    • Carer's Allowance
      722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the planned State pension (contributory) age increase to 67 years of age in January 2021 and 68 years...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons over 66 years of age who apply for the Covid-19 payment may have their cases judged on their individual...
    • Disability Allowance
      726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers who are receiving 30% of their wages and are on the temporary wage subsidy scheme are entitled to apply for the...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 payments will be considered as eligible payments to proceed to back to education allowance. [15146/20]
    • Registration of Deaths
      732. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the provisions under the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 to provide for registration of deaths of Irish citizens...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      733. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide pensions for community employment supervisors as recommended by the Workplace Relations Commission some...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the criteria and level of payout for family carers might be revised in view of the hours such persons work and the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when oral hearings as part of social welfare appeals will resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15235/20]
    • Carer's Allowance
      738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      740. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when social welfare payments will revert back to weekly payments as opposed to fortnightly payments; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance
      741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a deduction is being made from the disability allowance payment of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
      742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to facilitate families without Internet access to apply for back to school grants on hard copy...
    • Fuel Allowance
      743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons (details supplied) are entitled to fuel allowance or other benefits. [15314/20]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15345/20]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      745. 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. [15346/20]
    • Disability Allowance
      747. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15349/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment each week since the scheme was introduced by age of the...
    • School Meals Programme
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the delivery of the school meals programme for a school (details supplied) cannot be delivered during the summer...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans and guidelines in place to help employers get their staff back to work; if there is an option to bring staff back...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of each payment made by her Department to recipients of social welfare payments; the budget line of each payment...
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme
      762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for a free hearing test in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was not paid the six week payment following the death of the person's spouse; and if...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce automatic access to free travel for persons with epilepsy who are prohibited from driving due to their...
    • Carer's Allowance
      769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance reviews that have taken place in the past six months; the number of such decisions...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      771. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pandemic unemployment payment will be reinstated to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Child Poverty
      776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures to be implemented to offset the expected increase in child poverty levels in 2020 following on the loss of...
    • Springboard Programme
      778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position of those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in accessing Springboard courses; the reason some who...
    • Invalidity Pension
      780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason contribution conditions for the invalidity pension include a condition (details supplied). [15896/20]
    • Citizens Information Board
      782. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget for the Citizens Information Board increased by 6%. [15952/20]
    • Civil Registration Service
      783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when section 21A of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 will be enacted. [15954/20]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a contributory pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to rolling out changes to social services forms for children, such as child benefit,...
    • State Pensions
      789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a deferral of a State pension payment to a person (details supplied) in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of those aged 65 years of age in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker’s benefit at the end...
    • Citizens Information Services
      791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to secure the future of citizen information centres in an area (details supplied); if there are plans to reduce...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the inclusion of persons over 66 years of age who were at work when the Covid-19 pandemic struck within the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • National Broadband Plan
      793. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the broadband points planned for a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14934/20]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      794. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applicants for the position of chairman of the Western Development Commission; when a decision will be made in respect...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      795. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a personal pendant alarm can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      797. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason each of the rural regeneration development fund second call for category 2 applications by a local authority (details...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      798. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided for the local improvement scheme in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15846/20]
    • Walks Scheme
      799. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made on an application by a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14724/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      800. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon taking up...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      801. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to address the drop of funding and consequent service delivery by critical charities due to Covid-19. [14911/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      802. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for community development and charities; and the date...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      804. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when further funding will be released to local authorities to complete local improvement scheme roads; the amount made available to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      805. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the schemes available to community groups, agencies or local authorities from her Department to assist in the development of walking...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      806. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports in place for voluntary organisations that have been unable to raise funds during the Covid-19 pandemic and are now in...
    • Public Inquiries
      807. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Brexit Issues
      808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current stance on the fishing industry regarding the UK claim to territorial fishing waters and the possibility of Irish...
    • Hardship Grant Scheme
      809. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a dedicated hardship fund will be made available to the farmers affected by the flooding and landslides in Drumkeeran, County...
    • Felling Licences
      810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a felling licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14691/20]
    • Greyhound Industry
      811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of runners, greyhounds injured and greyhounds that died or were put to sleep from 1 January 2020 to date by month in...
    • Forestry Management
      812. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a fence will be erected at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14781/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon taking up...
    • Forestry Sector
      815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a forestry road application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14937/20]
    • Brexit Supports
      816. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if cattle that are exported live will be considered under the formulation of the new beef exceptional aid measure, BEAM, scheme; and...
    • Felling Licences
      817. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/20]
    • Architectural Heritage
      818. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grants available for old farm buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14952/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      819. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for research and development, farm safety and new...
    • Ministerial Communications
      821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken to his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive since his appointment. [15064/20]
    • Departmental Functions
      822. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to re-establish an investigations division in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15086/20]
    • Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme
      823. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal for a beef environmental efficiency programme, BEEP, scheme 2019 will be processed for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Felling Licences
      824. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications on hand for forestry felling licences that have not been decided to date; the years in which these...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications on hand for aquaculture licences; the years that these applications were originally applied for in tabular...
    • Departmental Schemes
      826. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the schemes available to community groups, agencies or local authorities from his Department to assist in the development of coastal...
    • Harbour Fees
      827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to reviewing a charging regime at a facility (detailed supplied). [15246/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be an allocation in 2020 to the national reserve; if so, when the allocation will be made; the monetary value of the...
    • Forestry Sector
      829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place for a compensation scheme for those who have land affected by the ash dieback disease; and if he will make a...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the results of ANC appeals were released; if all failed applicants were given substantial reasons for same; and if he will make...
    • Harbours and Piers
      831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated to Malinbeg pier, Malinbeg, Glencolmcille, County Donegal to carry out maintenance and upgrade the pier to a...
    • Beef Industry
      832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the introduction of an independent pricing regulator for the beef industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Diseases
      833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to ensure all Connemara ponies for sale are tested first for HWSD irrespective of age; and if he will make...
    • EU Regulations
      834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department did not seek to introduce legislation to place those in industry currently responsible for the dispensing...
    • Animal Culls
      835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle culled in each of the years 2015 to 2019 due to tuberculosis for which compensation was payable under the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for introducing legislation to appoint a national food ombudsman. [15713/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe to introduce legislation with regard to the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme. [15714/20]
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the position of Ireland in negotiating the future of the CAP takes into consideration the need for local variance within...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if upcoming tranches of TAMS will include provision for financial supports towards the restoration of derelict farmhouses and other...
    • Animal Diseases
      840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of poultry flocks impacted by an outbreak of low pathogenic avian influenza in 2020 by county, that will benefit from the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is in discussions or the process of securing additional property for sale or lease in Dublin city at present; the...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason dairy farms are excluded from the TAMS grant in respect of solar panels in view of the fact pig and poultry farms are...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has met representatives of organisations (details supplied); and if not, when he will do so. [15890/20]
    • Hardship Grant Scheme
      844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to visit the Drumkeeran area in County Leitrim to witness the damage the recent landslide has caused to farmland; if the...
    • Departmental Staff
      845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount it would cost in 2021 if nine additional full-time ecologists were recruited for his Department. [15966/20]
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      846. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the approximate number of lambs imported in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; his views on whether this undermines...
    • Trade Agreements
      847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Mercosur trade deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15972/20]
    • Brexit Supports
      848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for a BEAM scheme payment will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Fur Farming
      849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding a farm (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16106/20]
    • Felling Licences
      850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be issued on a felling licence application submitted in May 2018 by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Public Inquiries
      851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Funding
      852. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the grants available to childcare centres that hold community and charitable status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15023/20]
    • Early Years Sector
      853. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the national roll-out of the baby box scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15110/20]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      854. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will meet a group (details supplied) regarding funding. [15350/20]
    • Schools Data
      855. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if statistics on the ethnicity of students expelled and suspended from all schools is available; and his views on his Department recording...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      856. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason foster carers employed by the HSE cease to be entitled to contributory pensions for their years of fostering; the reason that...
    • Departmental Functions
      857. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs which Department will have responsibility for youth affairs. [15724/20]
    • Childcare Services
      858. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of providers that opened on 29 June 2020. [14692/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      859. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the providers that did not open on 29 June 2020 will continue to receive the temporary wage childcare subsidy scheme to allow them to...
    • Departmental Functions
      860. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if responsibility for direct provision has been transferred to his Department. [14694/20]
    • Childcare Services
      861. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address a matter regarding childcare facilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14783/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      862. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State at his Department on taking up their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      863. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a crèche (details supplied) is receiving subsidies; if it is eligible for same in view of the fact that at the beginning of July...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      865. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action being taken to assist playschools offering ECCE placements to reopen and remain open; if ECCE placements for children whose...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      866. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for disability; and the date those delegated functions come...
    • Childcare Services
      867. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a decision not to reopen an application for funding for a childcare community facility (details supplied) will be reviewed. [15097/20]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      869. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15323/20]
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      871. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he will bring forward the guardian ad litem Bill. [15520/20]
    • Children in Care
      872. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the removal of children from their breastfeeding mothers at birth by Tusla (details supplied). [15608/20]
    • Departmental Functions
      873. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the revised organisational chart for his Department will be provided. [15720/20]
    • Early Years Sector
      874. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early years professionals by grade who earned below the living wage in 2019. [15784/20]
    • Childcare Services
      878. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average amount of income a childcare provider receives from the State. [15788/20]
    • Early Years Sector
      882. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the income of early years providers received from the State and parents in July and August 2019. [15792/20]
    • Child and Family Agency
      883. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the protocols for notifying a parent that he or she is under investigation as a risk to his or her child; and if he will make a statement...
    • Child Abuse
      885. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will be required to publish data on child abuse cases, including the total number of cases investigated, the number of cases in...
    • National Childcare Scheme
      886. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if guidance will be provided for parents attempting to re-register for the national childcare scheme online but who are unable to do so in...
    • National Lottery Funding
      887. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 575 of 7 July 2020, the amount allocated to the discretionary national lottery funding scheme each...
    • Childcare Costs
      888. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if crèches are allowed to charge parents for holding a place for their child if the facility is drawing down Covid-19 funding...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Maternity Leave
      889. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if maternity leave for new mothers whose maternity leave is due to cease during Covid-19 will be extended; and if she will make...
    • Ministerial Transport
      893. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the former Tánaiste ceded his State car and Garda driver; the reason this was not done automatically when he ceased...
    • Legal Aid
      897. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if moneys paid through the HAP scheme and homeless HAP scheme is considered as means or income for the purpose of calculating...
    • Direct Provision System
      898. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the limited time to seek employment will be extended in respect of residents in direct provision centres, taking into...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      901. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); if the return of original documents submitted as part of the...
    • Immigration Status
      903. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Extradition Arrangements
      905. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position on extraditing persons to states such as Lithuania, which are documented by international human rights...
    • Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
      906. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission an independent inquiry as supported by the Thirty-second Dáil into the circumstances surrounding...
    • Direct Provision System
      907. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to abolish the direct provision system; and her plans to replace same. [14776/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      908. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon...
    • Deportation Orders
      909. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the request to set aside a deportation order in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Prisoner Complaints Procedures
      910. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of category B, C, D and E complaints made by prisoners in 2019 and to date in 2020; the details of the outcomes...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      911. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the number of public health passenger locater forms issued and processed by her officials during their tenure of the...
    • Prisoner Complaints Procedures
      912. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department was notified of a hunger strike or protest in Cork prison in July 2013 by the Prison Service; if an official...
    • Refugee Status
      914. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an error made by her Department in the issuing of a refugee declaration can be rectified urgently in order that the...
    • Deportation Orders
      915. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14987/20]
    • Garda Strength
      916. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the strength of An Garda Síochána, including the Garda Reserve; the degree to which the numbers have fluctuated in...
    • State Pardons
      917. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a presidential pardon (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Protection
      918. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to previous parliamentary questions in the case of a person (details supplied), if the information requested can be...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      920. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for law reform; and the date those delegated...
    • Immigration Status
      921. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding eligibility of residency status, stamp 4 and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person...
    • Garda Data
      922. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of Garda vehicle resources in the DMR; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15111/20]
    • Garda Operations
      923. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of establishments investigated for breaches of guidelines on return to work since 29 June 2020 by Garda division and...
    • Substance Misuse
      924. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received briefings as to the use of nitrous oxide canisters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15133/20]
    • Carer's Leave
      925. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider introducing a statutory instrument to extend carer’s leave and allowance until the end of 2020 for...
    • Direct Provision System
      926. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if plans are under way for the closure of a direct provision centre (details supplied) on the basis that the town is completely...
    • Garda Operations
      927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the seizure of cars by An Garda Síochána; and if she will...
    • Coroners Service
      928. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the two coronial districts of Tipperary north and Tipperary south; the number of cases dealt with by each...
    • Garda Data
      929. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked Garda cars and motorcycles attached to each roads policing unit as of 1 July 2019 and 1 July...
    • Garda Stations
      930. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cells in each Garda station in Dublin as of 3 July 2020. [15275/20]
    • Garda Data
      931. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of cash seized by An Garda Síochána under proceeds of crime legislation returned to the Exchequer in each...
    • Garda Expenditure
      932. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding provided for the building programme of An Garda Síochána under the 2016-2021 capital plan; and...
    • Alcohol Sales
      933. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) to deliver change on drink deliveries; her further views on...
    • Protected Disclosures
      934. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protected disclosures being processed by her Department from employees of the Prison Service; the number of...
    • Seized Property
      935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the moneys that are seized through the proceeds of crime can be ring-fenced and distributed to regions for dispersal to...
    • Deportation Orders
      936. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the appropriate procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      937. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if arrangements will be made to review residency entitlements in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      938. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers stopped and reported for driving without insurance, tax, an up to date NCT and speeding on roads in...
    • Direct Provision System
      939. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision centres both permanent and temporary in County Wicklow; and if she will make a...
    • Immigration Policy
      941. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a scheme to help regularise undocumented workers within the State; the proposed timeline for introducing...
    • Prisoner Welfare
      942. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the publication of the self-harm in Irish prisons 2018 report (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Prisoner Data
      943. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recorded self-harm incidents in prisons by gender from 12 March 2020 to date in 2020; and if she will make a...
    • Legal Aid
      947. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expand the criteria of the means test for civil legal aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15567/20]
    • Gambling Sector
      948. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish a gambling regulator with the powers to regulate advertising; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      949. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if and when naturalisation will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      950. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the impact the EU Court of Justice ruling C-335/17 has had on Irish legislation; her plans to update legislation to bring it...
    • EU Legislation
      951. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to transpose Council Framework Decision 2008/829/JHA and Council Decision 2008/909/JHA into Irish law as...
    • Visa Applications
      952. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the processing of family visit and spouse visas for those visiting loved ones here has returned to full functionality, that...
    • Deportation Orders
      953. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on the residency status of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Strength
      954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the significant drop in the number of community gardaí in the DMR district, in absolute numbers and as a...
    • Inspector of Prisons
      955. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget for the Inspector of Prisons increased by 50%. [15937/20]
    • Garda Data
      956. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 1200cc, 1400cc and 1500cc motorcycles in the Garda fleet. [15939/20]
    • International Protection
      957. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide legal advice and-or assistance to persons seeking international protection; and if she will make a...
    • Forensic Science Ireland
      958. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of a new national forensic science laboratory; the estimated cost of delivery; when the new...
    • Garda Divisional Headquarters
      959. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of new Garda divisional headquarters in Kevin Street and Galway; the estimated cost of their...
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      961. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Garda ICT programme; the estimated cost of its completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prison Building Programme
      962. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the redevelopment of Limerick Prison; the estimated cost of delivery; when it will be completed; and if she will...
    • Court Accommodation
      964. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the redevelopment of the Family Law and Children’s Court complex on Hammond Lane, Dublin 7; the estimated...
    • Departmental Funding
      965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ceiling for capital investment in her Department for 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Immigration Status
      966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay for a review by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, of the EU treaty rights of a...
    • Crime Data
      967. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the incidence of dog thefts reported to An Garda Síochána in 2019 and the first six months of 2020, in tabular form;...
    • Visa Applications
      968. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an appointments system will be instituted in Anglesea Street, Cork, for the renewal of visas rather than a queueing system...
    • Public Inquiries
      969. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been...
  • Department of Health
    • Human Rights
      970. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by LGBTQ parents due to the lack of legal recognition for both parents; his plans to address these...
    • Disability Services Provision
      971. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will introduce to open up full day care services for children and adults with disabilities. [14690/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      972. To ask the Minister for Health if he has responsibility for the Health Research Board. [14743/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      974. To ask the Minister for Health if holidaymakers from abroad are to spend 14 days in self-isolation on arrival; if there are legal repercussions arising from a breach of this 14-day period;...
    • Health Services Funding
      975. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure better funding of section 38 and 39 organisations. [14910/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      976. To ask the Minister for Health if he will relax the 100-person restriction for indoor venues in the case of exhibitions in which very large venues are used in view of the importance of the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      977. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether current timelines for assessment of needs and implementation of services are adequate. [15063/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      978. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review regulations relating to wedding venues to explore if increased guest numbers can be accommodated safely in larger venues; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services Provision
      979. To ask the Minister for Health if a plan will be developed to address the situation in which young disabled persons are being housed in residential care homes against their will by...
    • Disability Services Funding
      980. To ask the Minister for Health if disability funding being administered by the HSE will be reassigned to the new Department of children and disability for distribution in view of the...
    • Disability Services Provision
      981. To ask the Minister for Health when a service (details supplied) will recommence day services and respite care; his views on the fact that no dates have been provided to users to date in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      982. To ask the Minister for Health when guidelines will be finalised and issued for the reopening of day services for adults with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      985. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HIQA inspectors that have received training in infection control per region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15705/20]
    • Protected Disclosures
      987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made by HIQA employees in each year since 2015 and to date 2020; the number of those staff that made protected disclosures...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      989. To ask the Minister for Health when adult day care services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15773/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      991. To ask the Minister for Health when it is envisaged a facility (details supplied) will be allowed resume services for its customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16091/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      993. To ask the Minister for Health when normal services for adolescent mental health and other similar services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16093/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      994. To ask the Minister for Health when normal services for development checks for infants and children will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16094/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      995. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment for surgery at Temple Street Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Help Service
      996. To ask the Minister for Health the home help waiting lists in the various community health organisations by CHO area. [14657/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      997. To ask the Minister for Health the status of works at the national children's hospital; the timeline for the completion of the works; the estimated total cost of the project; the impact...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      998. To ask the Minister for Health the capital infrastructure projects that have had works carried out in response to Covid-19 in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bereavement Care
      999. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate and address the unacceptable miscommunication that has taken place between HIQA and his Department in regard to the availability of a...
    • Disability Support Services
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports that are available to children who have a dual diagnosis of autism and verbal dyspraxia; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health when a resumption of services is planned at a HSE adult disability day service centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment in Cork University Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14679/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a group (details supplied) in respect of adult day services will be examined. [14681/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide Covid-19 testing to persons returning from international travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14684/20]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a difference in policy on allowing the attendance of partners of women giving birth in Cork University Maternity Hospital as compared to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14702/20]
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes closed from January 2020 to date pursuant to section 64 of the Heath Act 2007, by county; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the inequality that is being created by denying patients diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma in the public system to access refunds for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has a legal duty to refer children to the National Council for Special Education or a special educational needs officer in circumstances in which...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health if an appropriate appointment and treatment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14731/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses' positions that have been vacant in the Children's Health Ireland hospital group as of 26 June 2020, in tabular form. [14757/20]
    • Primary Care Services
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO 7 who were waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020; and the numbers waiting from zero to...
    • Medicinal Products
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to licence a drug (details supplied) here and make it available under the general medical scheme; the reason for the delay in the...
    • Medical Cards
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding general practitioners charging for regular blood tests (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); if an appointment will be scheduled as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Data
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health the official figures for autism in an area (details supplied); and the breakdown by age of the figures. [14837/20]
    • HSE Regional Service Plans
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health the expected start date for development of a new elective hospital in Cork city; the possible locations of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that many dentists are refusing to see medical card holders and are only providing treatment to private patients, which is leaving the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health if the 50-person restriction for indoor gatherings refers to the whole building in the case of a gym regardless of its size; if the size of the area in the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health if the national maternity hospital, Holles Street, has received a new scanning machine for mesh implants; and if staff have received training on the way to...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health if he will guarantee that no patient will have to wait more than six months for health treatments here; and if so, the date he expects to be able to deliver...
    • Health Services Provision
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health the number of extra hospital public beds he expects to deliver in each of the years 2020 to 2024. [14862/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health the number of extra hospital consultants that will be hired in 2020. [14863/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health the number of extra nurses that will be hired in 2020. [14864/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health the service providers here for adults with intellectual disabilities; the date each service provider will reopen; and the percentage of services that each...
    • Emergency Departments
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a four-hour target will be applied to all emergency department waits. [14867/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of overall health spending being devoted to the provision of primary care services under the current departmental spending Estimates. [14868/20]
    • HSE Regional Service Plans
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health when he will announce the construction locations and timelines for new elective hospitals that he plans to build. [14869/20]
    • Health Services Reports
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health if he accepts the findings of the de Buitléir report into private activity in public hospitals; and the timeline for its implementation. [14870/20]
    • Home Help Service
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health the number of extra hours of home help he expects to fund in 2020; and the number of hours he is planning to deliver in 2021. [14871/20]
    • Emergency Departments
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an emergency medicine consultant present on a 24-hour basis in each emergency department across all acute hospitals; and if not, when there will...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he plans to end pay inequality for hospital consultants. [14873/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health the extra funding he plans to provide for general practitioner services in 2020 and 2021. [14874/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he will bring forward the reintroduction of all health screening programmes; and the changes he has made since he took up office in order to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE roadmap for reopening health services will be published. [14878/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of extra diagnostics he plans to put into acute and non-acute settings in 2020. [14879/20]
    • Departmental Functions
      1049. To ask the Minister for Health if he has established an office for budgetary responsibility in his Department; if not, when he will establish it; and the resources that will be in the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the full status of the new national children's hospital; the amount spent on the project to date; the revised timelines for the completion of the project; and...
    • Disability Services Funding
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health the extra funding resources that will be put into the disability sector in 2020. [14882/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase antibody testing for Covid-19; and the timelines there are for doing so. [14885/20]
    • Departmental Bodies
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health the process he has in place for appointments to NPHET or its subgroups; and if he has changed that process since he became Minister. [14890/20]
    • HSE Board
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the dates and times of the meetings of the HSE board to date in 2020. [14891/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reason so many healthcare professionals have been infected with Covid-19; and the details of the investigation he will commence to address...
    • Nursing Staff
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the remuneration of nurses in the HSE is fair and comparable to nurses on both a European and global level. [14893/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to employ new methods to ensure nursing homes nationally have enough staff and PPE. [14900/20]
    • Health Services Access
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether an e-health card or number should be introduced; and if so, the timeline he would envisage for such work. [14907/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen St. Michael's unit, Clonmel, County Tipperary. [14920/20]
    • Hospital Services
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health when St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, will reopen as a unit for respite and palliative care. [14921/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health when the general practitioner visit card will be extended to children under eight years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14927/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitment to the building of a second cath lab at University Hospital Waterford will be reaffirmed; if so, the date on which a build contract will be...
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the 2013 decision to end the motorised transport grant with a view to reinstating same (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the feasibility of upgrading Ennis general hospital to a grade 3 facility in order that the hospital can again perform elective procedures...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14935/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health when a chair will be received for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14939/20]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the amount his Department sought in its Estimate bid in each of the years 2017 to 2020 in terms of additional funding to maintain existing levels of service...
    • Medicinal Products
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health if the Spinraza treatment has been stopped for persons (details supplied); and when the treatment will commence [14951/20]
    • Care of the Elderly
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding day care centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14961/20]
    • Legislative Process
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the outcome of the 2019 public consultation in respect of regulations to be made under sections 12 and 13 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act...
    • Health Services Staff
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be offered alternative employment other than in the ambulance service in view of the fact that the person's health...
    • HSE Correspondence
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a contract negotiated by the HSE with a company (details supplied); if he will liaise with the HSE on the matter as the company cannot get a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline to produce and issue a build tender for planned cath lab at University Hospital Waterford; the planned contract close date, build and completion...
    • Hospital Groups
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the seat left vacant on the advisory board of the south west hospital group by the promotion of a person (details supplied) has not been made...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for patients referred to the pain clinic in Galway; the reason the issue of long waiting lists at the clinic has not been addressed; the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health when the births, deaths and marriages office will reopen at St. Mary’s hospital, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health the wait time for funding to be made available for applicants approved for the nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Regional Service Plans
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of the awaited development phase of Naas General Hospital, the new national children’s hospital and other similar...
    • Health Services Provision
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which comparable replacement public hospital bed provision has been provided following the closure of St. Brigid’s hospital, Crooksling;...
    • Hospital Data
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective procedures and appointments, for example, smear tests, test results and meeting a consultant, that had to be cancelled or deferred in...
    • Health Services Provision
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the status of treatment for a person (details supplied). [15015/20]
    • Medical Cards
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are eligible for a general medical card under the new criteria once enacted will receive a refund for prescription costs incurred from July...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15021/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for mental health provision in 2020; the priority areas to which the funding will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding hospital-acquired infection of Covid-19 by hospital and patient outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15035/20]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health the delegated functions assigned to the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older people; and the date those delegated functions come...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration given to those who are hearing impaired and the challenges facing them with facemasks that prevent lip reading and other facial tics that...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a query raised in correspondence regarding assisted human reproduction from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [15084/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care centre at a location (details supplied); if the site selection process has been completed; the planned timeline...
    • HSE Data
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed by the HSE (details supplied) within the administrative and front-line sectors; and the percentage spend on salaries for both...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to legalise cannabis during his term as Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15137/20]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce minimum unit pricing for the purchase of alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15139/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15154/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health if funding can be provided to a person (details supplied) in order to purchase devices; if the exceptional medical circumstances in this case will be taken...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15174/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the provision of a treatment (details supplied) at general practitioner clinics is not covered under the GMS scheme or the long-term illness...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a procedure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15190/20]
    • HSE Correspondence
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct HSE West to issue a reply in respect of a query that was raised (details supplied). [15192/20]
    • HSE Data
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the contracts in place with taxi companies in County Waterford; the duration of the contracts; if the contracts were extended; the tendering processes...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health when his attention was drawn to private hospitals charging for Covid-19 tests prior to treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15200/20]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made contact with Cork University Maternity Hospital on the lifting of visiting restrictions for designated birthing partners; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Funding
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health when a letter will be issued to disability service providers to confirm that the 1% cut earmarked in the 2020 HSE service plan no longer applies further to...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding insurance coverage for Covid-19 tests for patients to access services in private hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding changes to the over 70s medical card income threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will order an independent investigation into the circumstances of a death in a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health when a review of hATTR amyloidosis treatment funding will commence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15228/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be offered to persons (details supplied) regarding the urgent need for an expansion in adult disability services; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an orthodontics appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15242/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15251/20]
    • Hospital Services
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the reopening of St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, for respite and palliative care services; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants by specialist posts that are vacant in each hospital that is part of Dublin Midlands hospital group as of 1 July 2020; the length of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant cardiologist at Naas General Hospital; and the average waiting time to see the consultant. [15271/20]
    • Hospital Expenditure
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year current and capital costs of extending the period the sleep clinic is available at Naas General Hospital from half a day per month to...
    • Respite Care Services
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions will be put in place for those in need of respite care who are unable to access it due to public health advice. [15288/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15291/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the specific timeline for the reopening of adult and child disability services, respectively; the additional supports that will be put in place to support...
    • Hospital Services
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver access to 24-7 cardiac care at University Hospital Waterford, UHW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15294/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a community in County Kerry would apply for a new primary care centre in its area; the points of contact within his Department and the HSE to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the production of television programmes (details supplied); the subhead in the accounts from which the sums were allocated;...
    • Hospital Data
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of hospitals that act as mesh centres at which women who have been injured due to the use of mesh can see a specialist. [15316/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given to the immunotherapy drug osimertinib; if a timeline can be provided for its availability for lung cancer patients; and if not, the...
    • Data Protection
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a full audit of all data transferred with or without consent to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the provision being made to waive the accident and emergency charge for public patients during the Covid-19 pandemic in circumstances in which a patient has...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the effectiveness of the HSE framework for the resumption of adult disability day services; if he will obtain feedback from user groups such as...
    • Hospital Data
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of isolation beds operational and available at South Tipperary General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15353/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation for private patients who, despite paying for health insurance, are being charged for Covid-19 testing on top of their...
    • Disability Services Data
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for access to the early intervention teams covering Dublin 9 and 11; and if plans will be put in place to increase the capacity of...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health when construction work will recommence on the national children’s hospital, if works have stalled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15376/20]
    • Hospital Funding
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding to develop a new endoscopy wing at Cavan General Hospital by the RCSI hospital group has not been allocated to date; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to replace the travel schemes ceased in 2013 due to incompatibility with the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2018; if an alternative scheme is...
    • Hospital Funding
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health the allocations of substantial funding in excess €1 million allocated to hospitals (details supplied) in the RCSI hospital group over the past 20 years...
    • Ambulance Service
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance coverage by county and main towns within each county in tabular form. [15390/20]
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health if an investigation will be undertaken into the death of an elderly person in a nursing home (details supplied); if so, if the adequacy of the response of the...
    • Medical Cards
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation necessary to implement changes to the medical card weekly income limit for persons over 70 years of age announced in budget 2020 will be...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be offered to a person (details supplied) in relation to the urgent need for an expansion in adult disability services; and if he will make...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of terminations of pregnancies that were carried out in each hospital providing the service from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019, in tabular...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [15430/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health when full day-time services for persons with disabilities of all ages will be restored. [15431/20]
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health if requests to investigate allegations of ill treatment in a nursing home (details supplied) have been received; if the matter is being investigated; and if...
    • Hospital Data
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health the inpatient and outpatient wait times in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020 by speciality, hospital group and by zero to six months, six to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired by the HSE to assist in combating Covid-19 by job field and hospital group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients screened as part of BreastCheck from 1 January to 1 June in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds made available in acute hospitals to help combat Covid-19 by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15444/20]
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the powers of HIQA regarding private nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15445/20]
    • Hospital Data
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant beds in the public health system by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15447/20]
    • Dental Services
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for dentistry and orthodontic services disaggregated by region in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15448/20]
    • Hospital Data
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new beds made available to date in 2020 and planned for the remainder of the year disaggregated by hospital group and hospital in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Staff
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent consultant psychiatrists working in the mental health unit in Waterford in each of the years 2018 and 2019 and to date in...
    • Mental Health Commission
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the most recent report of the Mental Health Commission; the actions that will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15452/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health the timetable for the construction and delivery of the second cath lab at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15453/20]
    • Hospital Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans with regard to the provision of 24-7 emergency cardiac care at the primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PCI, centre in Waterford; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 556 of 30 June 2020, when the national guidelines will be published (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • HSE Data
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day centres in Galway city and county that have closed since mid-March 2020 as result of Covid-19; the location of and service provided by each...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the restoration of funding for an organisation (details supplied); if the funding will be restored ahead of the proposed Clonburris development;...
    • Medical Cards
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health the revised income limits due to come into force in July 2020 for medical cards; and if the HSE is now processing applications under these new guidelines....
    • Dental Services
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the possibility of restoring free dental benefits, namely, a free clean and polish, for the over-70s. [15475/20]
    • Hospital Car Parks
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the abolition of car parking charges at public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15478/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the construction of the national children’s hospital; the estimated cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15479/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the expansion of neonatal screening; the action he will take in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15482/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend free general practitioner care for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15483/20]
    • Dental Services
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend free dental care for children; the timeline to deliver this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15484/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to hire additional dentists, orthodontists and dental nurses in the public system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15485/20]
    • Dental Services
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the wait times for orthodontic treatment by region and wait time of zero to one, one to two, two to three, three to four and more than four years,...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners employed in each primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15487/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fully implement the recommendations of the Scally report and, specifically, actions and time frames to deliver it; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health his views on an independent inquiry into the use of sodium valproate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15489/20]
    • Home Help Service
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health his plan to increase home support hours; the number of increased hours he plans to deliver over the lifetime of the Government; if he has a target for each...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the proposed transport support scheme that is due to replace the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant, which both...
    • Health Services Staff
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of active pathologists in light of the fact that there has been a shortage of pathologists in some regions, with post-mortem procedures taking up...
    • HSE Properties
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding and status of a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15500/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and timelines prepared to ensure that day services for adults with disabilities can resume on a full-time basis, in view of the caring burden that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health if overdue surgery will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [15522/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health if building work is progressing on the new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/20]
    • Primary Care Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Home Help Service
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each LHO area at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; the number on...
    • Disability Services Data
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities in receipt of personal assistance hours in each LHO area at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available that were awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005....
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the physiotherapy waiting list in each local health area at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; the number waiting...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list in each local health area at the end of June 2020 or the latest date...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list in each local health area at the end of June 2020 or the latest date...
    • Primary Care Services
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020 or the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care at the end of June 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2020. [15557/20]
    • Home Help Service
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area as of 1 July 2020 or the latest date available; the way in which this compares to target in...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 July 2020 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fully implement the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health recommendations on sodium valproate and foetal anticonvulsant syndrome; and if he will...
    • Home Help Service
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the lack of equality of treatment in respect of home help being funded by the HSE to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Food Safety Authority of Ireland
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in a funding dispute between the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and his Department in view of the fact that the authority has indicated...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a person (details supplied); if the case will be dealt with in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15589/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for residential care by a person (details supplied). [15591/20]
    • Hospital Data
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of inpatient and day procedure beds in place at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15594/20]
    • Emergency Departments
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency department attendances in acute hospitals in each of the years 2018 and 2019 and to date in 2020 by hospital and hospital group in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Data
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients outsourced to private hospitals in each of the years 2018 and 2019 and to date in 2020 by hospital group; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Expenditure
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health the capital expenditure at University Hospital Waterford in each of the years 2018 and 2019 and to date in 2020; and the projects and timelines for completion...
    • HSE Agency Staff
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the agency staff expenditure by acute hospital in each of the years 2018 and 2019 and to date in 2020 by month, hospital and hospital group; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the theatre capacity in place at University Hospital Waterford in each of the years 2018 and 2019 and to date in 2020; the theatres that are operational; and...
    • Hospital Funding
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the closing budget and revenue expenditure for University Hospital Waterford in each of the years from 2007 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent radiographer posts at University Hospital Waterford in each of the years from 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting 15 additional dialectical behaviour therapy teams. [15616/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital-style bed will be secured for a person (details supplied). [15617/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health when a centre (details supplied) for adults with special education needs will reopen following closure due to the Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Funding
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health when funding already pledged for essential maintenance works at New Houghton Hospital, New Ross, County Wexford, will be made available; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health when a response acknowledging receipt of a job application for a child psychologist for County Wexford will be furnished to the applicant; the reason there...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health when full disability services will resume in County Wexford for both adults and children; the additional supports being put in place for those regressing as a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce legislation to make the wearing of face coverings on public transport obligatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15634/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1248. To ask the Minister for Health when adult disability day services will reopen for those that urgently require these services in order that they do not regress further; if there will be a...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health the works underway at the national children’s hospital; if none, when they will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15640/20]
    • Medical Cards
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to situations in which persons in hospital who are being referred to general practitioners for blood tests are being charged...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be assessed for surgery under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15660/20]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      1253. To ask the Minister for Health if a device (details supplied) will be CE approved and available here under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15677/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health the status of works and costs involved for a project (details supplied). [15678/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1255. To ask the Minister for Health if new Covid-19 guidelines will be sought regarding old folks' homes and residential care centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Waste Disposal
      1256. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a national scheme for the proper disposal and or recycling of unused medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15694/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1257. To ask the Minister for Health if those women who donate breast milk for use by the health services are now required to undertake a blood test; if the cost of such blood tests are or will...
    • Emergency Departments
      1258. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commission an examination into the potential for restoring accident and emergency services at Monaghan hospital in view of the pressures evident at...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to appointing a representative from the Mental Health Commission onto the National Public Health Emergency Team expert group;...
    • Medical Cards
      1260. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed. [15730/20]
    • Medical Waste Disposal
      1261. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a disposal of unused medicines properly, DUMP, scheme through local pharmacies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1262. To ask the Minister for Health the status of reopening of private parks that contain playgrounds and other children and family play areas; the person or body that has the ultimate...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private hospitals are charging as much as €275 for Covid-19 testing before patients can access...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for surgery will be provided for a person (details supplied). [15825/20]
    • Home Help Service
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health if additional financial resources will be provided for home support in 2020 in view of the delays in providing these essential supports for many eligible...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health if downloads for the newly launched Covid-19 tracker application on phone models below iPhone 6S or Android 7 count towards total downloads. [15856/20]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for CAMHS in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15867/20]
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retired consultants that were re-employed in the health service in the past year; the amount paid in respect of their salaries in the past year;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the recommendation by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission that his Department should undertake a participative consultation...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the reopening of HSE speech and language therapy sessions. [15884/20]
    • HSE Agency Staff
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health the reason agency nurses being interviewed for permanent posts within the HSE are being offered zero-hour contracts and in cases in which they refuse, are...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that some private hospitals plan to charge patients up to €250 for a Covid-19 test before they can undergo a procedure in the...
    • Obesity Strategy
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health when an initial progress report on each recommendation in the Obesity Policy and Action Plan 2016-2025 will be issued by the obesity policy implementation...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that will be able to attend weddings in September 2020 under the revised Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business guidelines. [15893/20]
    • Disability Support Services
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding day services for persons with disabilities further to the publication of a HSE document, entitled the Framework for the Resumption...
    • Traveller Community
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which the Traveller health advisory committee met between 2010 and 2020 inclusive in tabular form; the date on which it will next meet; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make adjuvant immunotherapy, nivolumab and pembrolizumab available to public patients with stage 3 melanoma; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1286. To ask the Minister for Health when a service (details supplied) in Dublin 13 will reopen to service users. [15927/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1287. To ask the Minister for Health the status of St. Michael's ward in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [15928/20]
    • Rare Diseases Strategy
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new national plan for rare diseases will be completed; if a consultation process will be run to allow input into this plan; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time paediatric occupational therapists and speech and language therapists in CHO 7 in 2019 and to date in 2020; and the number of vacant...
    • Hospital Data
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scoliosis surgeries carried out at Crumlin Children's Hospital in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [15934/20]
    • Home Help Service
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost in 2021 to provide 35,000 extra intensive home care packages. [15935/20]
    • National Dementia Strategy
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons living with dementia and their family carers; his further views on the lack of...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1297. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that same sex couples that received IUI and or IVF abroad will have full recognition of their parentage on birth certificates registered...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a new primary healthcare centre in Arklow, County Wicklow; the expected timeframe for the construction to completion of the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) on use of pelvic mesh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15956/20]
    • Legislative Process
      1300. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding the 2017 assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15960/20]
    • Care of the Elderly
      1303. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can take over a nursing home (details supplied). [15990/20]
    • Disability Services Funding
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health if he is in receipt of a funding request from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will ensure the resumption of services for that entity in each HSE...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1305. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the social distancing guidelines for an organisation (details supplied). [16002/20]
    • National Lottery Funding
      1306. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 7 July 2020, if he will provide the specific total amount made available by his Department and the HSE in 2010;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 health and safety guidelines will be issued to an organisation (details supplied) in respect of private therapist,s such as occupational...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1308. To ask the Minister for Health if increased funding has been provided to drug and alcohol treatment centres in view of the fact that their bed capacity has been significantly reduced in...
    • Home Help Service
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the home services provided by HSE staff and home services provided by agencies for 2019 in terms of hours. [16023/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      1314. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing campaign by families of persons with the hereditary blood disease ATTR amyloidosis; and the status of the...
    • Respite Care Services
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans to restore or increase respite hours in the Cork area for families of children with special needs that had been...
    • Home Help Service
      1316. To ask the Minister for Health when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16031/20]
    • Rare Diseases Strategy
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health when an updated national rare diseases plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16034/20]
    • National Children's Hospital
      1318. To ask the Minister for Health the reason work has stopped on the national children’s hospital; if there are legal proceedings under way on the project; the estimated cost to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1319. To ask the Minister for Health when day services for persons with disabilities will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16111/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1320. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16122/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1321. To ask the Minister for Health the details of facilities that were block booked or taken over in County Mayo for use during the Covid-19 pandemic; the location, capacity and costs involved...
    • Public Inquiries
      1322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been under way; when each will...

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