Written answers

Tuesday, 22 September 2020

  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to assist those under 25 years of age who are unemployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension to time limits for workers on community employment schemes in community organisations in rural areas will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made for artists and other freelance workers who may acquire work intermittently but have lost their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for parents if their children are sent home from school due of Covid-19 and who have to miss work to...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a slightly more liberal attitude can be taken in the determination of applications for exceptional needs payments in view...
    • Retirement Payment
      41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the budget has been agreed for the introduction of the State pension transition payment [25008/20]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process for a husband and wife to separate their social welfare payments from their spouse; if the husband and wife have...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a total contributions approach in relation to the assessment of a person’s contributory pension...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation facing employees of a company (details supplied) waiting on payments from her...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of places approved nationwide for community employment schemes; the number of participants on such schemes; and if...
    • Public Services Card
      46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons waiting for a public services card in order to access their entitlements, including the free travel...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the back to education allowance course eligibility due to Covid-19 [25010/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to acknowledge the burden of care undertaken by full-time carers throughout the pandemic and on an ongoing basis in...
    • Poverty Data
      49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the CSO report on Enforced Deprivation published on 2 September 2020; her views on the...
    • Employment Support Services
      50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the report carried out by external consultants to review all current contracted public employment services has been shared...
    • JobPath Programme
      51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her plans to extend JobPath beyond the end of 2020; if contracts with providers Turas Nua and Seetec will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the seasonal workers who were not in employment by 13 March 2020 remain excluded from the Covid-19 pandemic...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the local community employment scheme will be extended to supervisors; and the discretion to extend schemes or to extend...
    • Departmental Staff
      57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the resources in the sections of client identity services and child benefit; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Benefit
      58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if full-time carers who use carer's leave from their employer can go on to access carer's benefit; and if she will make a...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the changes in eligibility for community employment schemes will be clarified; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Climate Change Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the proposed green new deal as part of the climate action (amendment) Bill; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a more definitive timeline can be provided for the rollout of high-speed broadband in County Clare [25109/20]
    • Energy Efficiency
      71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the introduction of a new scheme for retrofitting of homes as of September 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Climate Change Policy
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will establish an interdepartmental working group on climate action and biodiversity issues with the effect of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had in relation to the national broadband plan in seeking to accelerate its rollout as committed...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his objectives in bringing the quality and standard of communication networks here up to best international standards...
    • Telecommunications Services
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to instances in which the rollout of broadband by Eir is stopping just yards away from a...
    • Climate Change Policy
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Climate Action Council will undertake a comprehensive review of the climate mitigation potential of forests;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the areas in County Cork which will be connected first in view of recent announcements regarding the rollout of the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on suggestions that a microgrant scheme will be set up to allow rural households that do not have access to...
    • Mining Industry
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to continue to issue prospecting and mining licences for minerals in or near Natura 2000 sites; and if he...
    • North-South Interconnector
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department plans to engage with communities in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath along the route of the proposed...
    • Climate Change Policy
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding to local authorities will be ring-fenced for the employment of key climate action staff on county councils;...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans in relation to enhancing connectivity in view of the large number of the workforce now working from home; and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to accelerate the national broadband plan to schools in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the planned climate action (amendment) Bill will include a ban on fracked gas and oil; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new connections to homes and businesses that will be completed in 2020 in counties Laois and Offaly,...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the demolition of two ESB midlands stations located at Shannonbridge, County Offaly and Lanesborough,...
    • Electric Vehicles
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to increase the availability of public charging points for electric cars nationwide; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timetable for the roll-out of broadband in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath; the details of alternative provisions...
    • Waste Management
      98. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of plans included in the recently published Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Efficiency
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of additional jobs which will be supported in the midlands through the funding provided in the July Stimulus...
    • Climate Change Policy
      102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the cross-departmental micro generation working group set up under action 30 of the Climate Action...
    • National Broadband Plan
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the rollout of the national broadband strategy in north County Dublin as of September 2020; and if he...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Employment Data
      105. To ask the Taoiseach the number of self-employed persons here. [25259/20]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      107. To ask the Taoiseach the number of small and medium enterprises here in which the definition of an SME is a business that employs between 10 and 250 persons.. [25263/20]
    • Live Register
      109. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons on the live register for more than three and more than six months.. [25525/20]
    • Covid-19 Paindéim
      110. To ask the Taoiseach an scaipfear leagan dhá theangach, Gaeilge agus Béarla, go chomhuaineach ar gach teaghlach sa Stát, den phlean nua náisiúnta Covid-19 a...
    • Seanad Reform
      111. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to reform Seanad Éireann within the lifetime of the 33rd Dáil. [24690/20]
    • Departmental Communications
      112. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or bodies working on behalf of his Department are monitoring social media for those who criticise Government policy. [24691/20]
  • Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
    • IDA Ireland
      113. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of persons employed by the IDA by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24812/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      114. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the measures he is planning to support the hotel and hospitality industry which are at imminent risk of a further 100,000 job losses...
    • State Bodies
      115. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget allocation for Director of Corporate Enforcement increased by 33%. [24921/20]
    • Company Data
      116. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if the address of an employer (details supplied) can be amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24942/20]
    • Company Liquidations
      117. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his further plans to engage with the liquidators appointed to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      118. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the contingency plans in place for the extension of validity for workplace employment permits in cases in which they are due to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      120. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the reason phase one of the restart grant scheme which was advertised nationwide to run until 31 August 2020 was subsequently changed...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      122. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will meet with an association (details supplied) regarding the crisis facing the sector. [25278/20]
    • Regional Aid
      123. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the value of regional aid granted under the regional aid guidelines in each of the past seven years; the value by county or lowest...
    • Local Authority Funding
      124. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment when funding will be issued to local authorities to allow them to distribute the restart grant plus scheme; and if he will make a...
    • IDA Ireland
      125. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 15 September 2020, if the IDA has submitted a revised planning permission application to...
    • InterTradeIreland
      126. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding to InterTradeIreland by 50%. [25312/20]
    • Enterprise Ireland
      127. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding to Enterprise Ireland by 10%. [25314/20]
    • Departmental Budgets
      128. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the estimated cost of trebling the young entrepreneur fund. [25315/20]
    • Company Liquidations
      129. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the steps he will take to ensure that workers with enhanced redundancy payments are provided for by way of collective agreement will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      130. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans to support and safeguard the jobs of 35,000 persons who have been locked out of their employment in the entertainment...
    • Work Permits
      131. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if measures will be put in place to ensure that persons born here post-2005 who are not Irish, UK, EEA or Swiss nationals will not...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      132. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment when the 40% restart grant plus top up for pubs, bars and nightclubs that remain closed will be paid; if extra provisions will be put...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      134. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will engage with workers in a company (details supplied) regarding their current situation and their treatment by their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      135. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if dedicated sector-specific supports will be provided to the forestry sector in view of the impact of Covid-19 on the sector. [25461/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      136. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will engage with the trade fairs and exhibitions sector in order to work out a way for the sector to reopen in a safe and...
    • Health and Safety Authority
      137. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if a workplace accident which resulted in the tragic death of a person (details supplied) was reported to the Health and Safety...
    • Work Permits
      138. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the details of the operation of the employment permit scheme; and the number of employment permits by category including general...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken to ensure a speedy roll-out of the National Broadband Plan to ensure persons in rural Ireland...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if research has been carried out into the potential job creation both direct and indirect in the anaerobic and biogas...
    • Waste Management
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the classification of agricultural waste plastic in view of the costs and restrictions on export...
  • Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
    • Craoltóirí Seirbhíse Poiblí
      145. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment an bhfuil sé ar an eolas go bhfuil athdhearadh déanta ar shuíomh idirlín RTÉ gan comhéadan a bheith ar...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to speed up the process of applications for the warmer homes scheme; if his attention has been...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of correspondence from this Deputy to him (details supplied). [24746/20]
    • Waste Management
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of bringing waste collection services back into public ownership. [24798/20]
    • Telecommunications Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Adelaide Street, Dún Laoghaire will be brought into the State intervention area to provide high speed broadband...
    • National Broadband Plan
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be rolled out in Kiladoran, Delvin, County Westmeath (details supplied). [24909/20]
    • State Bodies
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if further details will be provided in relation to the €100 million in additional funding for the Sustainable...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland will not permit warmer...
    • Waste Management
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reintroduce a grant to help defray the cost of disposing of incontinence products for persons with...
    • Telecommunications Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a family (details supplied) will be provided with a fibre broadband connection; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fuel Poverty
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an ESRI report regarding fuel poverty due to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Environmental Policy
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on introducing ecocide as criminal offence in legislation.. [25202/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of the National Broadband Plan in 2020. [16801/20]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of increasing SEAI funding for supports to businesses for microgeneration and energy retrofitting,...
    • Waste Management
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the evidence base for prioritising the buy-one-get-one-free offers measure in relation to the Waste Action Plan for a...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland has submittedits long-term strategy on greenhouse gas emission reduction to the EU following public...
    • Energy Policy
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if anaerobic and biogas systems form part of the carbon reduction plan as part of Ireland’s obligations under...
    • Air Pollution
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the expanded smoky coal ban will apply to Rush, County Dublin. [25462/20]
    • Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Scheme
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next auction under the renewable energy support scheme will take place; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to make grid connection for renewable energy projects more accessible and affordable; his further plans for...
    • National Broadband Plan
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) will receive assistance with the provision of broadband in view of the effect it is...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he has taken to date or plans to take to accelerate compliance with emission-reduction targets while at the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he expects to move towards accelerating the programme of emission-reduction targets; and if he will...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he expects to reduce dependency on fossil fuels in the next five years by way of renewable energy;...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the communications system nationally is adequately developed in line with the need to compete...
    • Environmental Policy
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he plans to take to reduce dependency on plastic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25545/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected progress in the delivery of nationwide high speed, high quality broadband over the next five years; the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that carbon emissions throughout the EU are measured equally with a view to ensuring that the more...
    • Public Transport
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the cost of producing electricity here compares with other countries throughout Europe with particular...
    • National Broadband Plan
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of the matter regarding the National Broadband...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Public Transport
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of halving all public transport fares and for providing free public transport to all persons in full-time...
    • Cycling Policy
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of constructing one covered bike shelter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24910/20]
    • Road Network
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total spend on roads in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24913/20]
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of licensed State-owned vehicles on the NVDF in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of hybrid and electric vehicles in...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the methodology used to calculate road collisions; if it includes data from An Garda Síochána and insurance companies; if other...
    • Motor Tax
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated annual yield for motor tax projected for 2021; the yield in each of the past five years; the way in which the funds were...
    • Driver Test
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current level of driver tests being carried out per week compared to this time in 2019; when normal testing levels will resume; and...
    • Road Projects
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the feasibility study on the proposed Julianstown bypass, County Meath will commence; when the process will be completed; and if he...
    • Road Safety
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a number of incidents nationally involving cars that have been sold to underaged, unlicensed and...
    • Public Transport
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to restore the CIÉ subvention to 2008 levels. [24796/20]
    • Cycling Policy
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of organisations which wrote to either him or his predecessors or the National Transport Authority in support of the...
    • Travel Trade Sector
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if capacity of the travel agent industry to survive the Covid-19 crisis has been assessed; and if a special range of supports will be...
    • Railway Stations
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Kishogue rail station will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24946/20]
    • Motor Tax
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a reply from the motor tax office. [24955/20]
    • Rail Network
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that Irish Rail communicates the methods used in its MCA matrices to residents affected by the DART+ upgrade in Dublin...
    • Railway Stations
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the location of a commemorative plaque (details supplied) which was removed from Gormanston train station; the date on which it will be...
    • Cycling Policy
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the wearing of helmets by cyclists will be made compulsory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25094/20]
    • Driver Test
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated in relation to a driver test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25153/20]
    • Taxi Data
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the advice given by the National Transport Authority to his Department or other Departments on the issue of taxi drivers and the impact...
    • Bus Services
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of individual service cancellations on PSO funded Bus Éireann services scheduled to have operated from Sligo bus depot...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if TII is in receipt of correspondence from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to a project (details supplied);...
    • Road Safety Authority
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will fill the number of vacancies on the board of the Road Safety Authority. [25403/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual departmental funding allocated to the Dublin bikes rental scheme and other similar public rental schemes operating in counties...
    • Cycling Policy
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered making the wearing of helmets by cyclists mandatory; and his plans to update legislation regarding cycling in view...
    • Taxi Regulations
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be an extension to the National Transport Authority’s rules compelling taxi drivers to replace their cars after...
    • Electric Vehicles
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will be legislating for the use of electronic scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25464/20]
    • Road Projects
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a roads project in County Kildare (details supplied); the timeline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Collection
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns by persons (detail supplied) in relation to the deadline for filing company annual returns and income tax returns; and if he...
    • Value Added Tax
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek to reduce tourism VAT to 9% in order to support the hotel and hospitality industry which is at imminent risk of a further 100,000 job losses...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the payment of the temporary wage subsidy scheme with particular reference to the way in which it applies to workers of a company...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the help-to-buy scheme application made by a person (details supplied). [24893/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance if the employment wage subsidy scheme will be reinstated at the full rate per week for the highly skilled staff and businesses working in the live events...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance when an outstanding renal travel payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25040/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if a matter (details supplied) regarding the employment wage subsidy scheme will be adjusted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25293/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of primary medical certificates to date; and his plans to expand the remit of persons eligible to receive the assistance. [25372/20]
    • Tax Incentives
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes he plans to the tax code to incentivise investment in renewable energy projects and making land use available for such projects; and if he will...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in counties Longford and Westmeath aged between 18 and 21, 22 and 25, 25 and 30, 30 and 35 and 35 and 40 years, respectively in receipt...
    • Bank Charges
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the upcoming changes in banking charges by a majority State-owned bank; if he has had discussions on these charge changes;...
    • Tax Data
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons employed in live action film making as PAYE workers and self-employed in each of the years 2012 to 2019; the income earned for both...
    • Tax Collection
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to relax the income tax returns and CRO deadline, respectively to ensure no business is penalised for a late submission during Covid-19; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the loan moratorium and forbearance initiatives for businesses that are unable to meet current debt obligations. [24846/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if the extension of employment wage subsidy scheme to proprietors and executive directors of small businesses will be considered. [24901/20]
    • Tax Credits
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if the process for claiming tax credits when working from home will be simplified by automatically providing a tax credit or part thereof for each day a...
    • Tax Yield
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be raised by increasing the 2% stamp duty charged on residential property deals worth more than €1 million...
    • Job Creation
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the most up to date figures for the number of jobs created by the Irish Strategic Investment Fund in its commercial partnerships; and the locations in which...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional Covid-19 supports are being considered for sectors whose revenue throughout the period of the new Covid-19 Roadmap are likely to be impacted to...
    • Tax Yield
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in 2019 from pub licence fees. [25276/20]
    • Tax Data
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the demographic breakdown, age, income, location of those who pay capital gains tax by type of assets (details supplied) for the past five years in tabular...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to fast track finance for SMEs to enable them to reopen to the levels required to reintegrate staff and reduce figures nationally of those in...
    • Tax Reliefs
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of restoring tax relief for trade union subscriptions. [25504/20]
    • National Debt
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance the size of the national debt. [25517/20]
    • Exchequer Returns
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated primary Exchequer surplus for 2021. [25521/20]
    • Tax Yield
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue collected through vehicle registration tax in 2019. [25522/20]
    • Tax Collection
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax that was forgone due to the knowledge box in the latest available figures. [25524/20]
    • Tax Yield
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in stamp duty charged on the purchase of stocks and marketable securities of incorporated companies here in 2019. [25560/20]
    • Household Debt
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the most recent figures for total household wealth and the property and financial assets less all liabilities. [25562/20]
    • Motor Insurance Data
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance the most up to date figures for the amount paid out annually in motor insurance claims by each insurance company. [25563/20]
    • Tax Data
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date in 2020 of tax reliefs and exemptions available to property developers. [25564/20]
    • Tax Yield
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount that could be raised by imposing a 2% public health levy on the profits of private human health and pharmaceutical companies here...
    • Property Tax
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of abolishing the local property tax. [25570/20]
    • Irish Stock Exchange
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume of commercial trade that took place in shares here in 2019. [25571/20]
    • Universal Social Charge
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount expected to be raised by the universal social charge in 2020. [25574/20]
    • Tax Code
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue which would be generated by imposing €600 per year tax on all second homes, a €1,000 per year tax on all third...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish a list of the companies that availed of the wage subsidy scheme; the amounts given to the companies; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Workplace Safety
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to protect staff working in open plan offices in Departments; if the advice is for staff to remain working from...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions for workers that have left or were in their final year of service in the public sector when the Public Service...
    • Public Appointments Service
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has conducted a review of the employment practices and interview processes of the civil service in relation to the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the programmes in place to provide beginner, intermediate and advanced Irish language training for staff in the civil and public service...
    • Programme for Government
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions being made to facilitate the remote working policy in State bodies as set out in the Programme for Government. [24755/20]
    • Public Sector Pay
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated full year cost of repealing the FEMPI legislation. [24803/20]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 9 September 2020, the reason the flood defence system installed in 2014 failed in the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter regarding section 52 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and other Provisions) Act 2012 (details...
    • Public Sector Staff
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost in 2021 of recruiting two additional Assistant Legal Advisor at Assistant Principal Officer for the Office of the...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to increase funding to the Workplace Relations Commission by 50%. [25311/20]
    • National Lottery
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount generated in lottery ticket sales for the bi-weekly draw in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020. [25346/20]
    • Freedom of Information
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to exercise his power under section 8 (11)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 to introduce regulations concerning...
    • Office of Public Works
      290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a drain. [25474/20]
    • Garda Stations
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when refurbishment works for the Garda water unit at Athlone Garda station will be completed; and the estimated cost of the project...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to publish specific guidelines forthe leisure, health and fitness sector; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Tourism Policy
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to have the tourism trade back up and running safely by March 2021. [25471/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce. [24845/20]
    • Ministerial Briefing
      308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects her full Ministerial briefing paper to be available and published on her Department’s website [25408/20]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the new applications will open for the next round of sports capital funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce a grants scheme for local football clubs to cover ongoing running and administrative expenses in view of the...
    • Arts Funding
      311. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding of €500,000 will be urgently made available to a centre (details supplied) in order to complete vital work...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      312. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount drawn down by the three main sports from the special Covid-19 assistance fund as announced in July 2020; and if she...
    • Heritage Schemes
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter regarding the deadline for heritage grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Commercial Rates
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of a full year commercial rates wavier for businesses in the hospitality, tourism, leisure and retail...
    • Planning Issues
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to streamlining the planning process for building anaerobic and biogas systems facilities in...
    • Heritage Projects
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up to date position with the development of the Barrow Blueway project in south County Kildare and County Laois; and if he...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of rent support payments in lieu of local authority housing made in the past five years to date; the potential for...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include persons who did not previously register their domestic wastewater system to be included in the grant...
    • Grant Payments
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant assistance available for works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24711/20]
    • Hare Coursing
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the 2020 to 2021 hare coursing licences. [24731/20]
    • Local Authority Housing
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of deep retrofitting all local authority and social housing stock to the highest standard by unit; and the...
    • Building Regulations
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend building regulations to provide for a requirement for all new public buildings and separately private...
    • Mica Redress Scheme
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the mica scheme will be rolled out as per the regulation signed by him and the Minister for Finance; if the scheme as...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the spend in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and the projected spend for 2019 and 2020 on leasing, HAP and RAS agreements...
    • Planning Issues
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the period a planning authority has to inform members of the public that made observations in relation to a Part 8 planning...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital assistance scheme allocation in 2019; the number of bed spaces provided under the allocation; and the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the agency which takes responsibility for the dredging and clearing rivers of fallen trees, debris and so on after the recent...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the terms of the grant for improving private water supply to homes will be reviewed with regard to the need for a house to...
    • Environmental Policy
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied) in relation to a preservation order on lands; and if he will...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if changes will need to be made to environmental impact assessment legislation in view of the European Court of Judgement...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the significant delay in HAP processing times across local authorities and the impact this...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if eligibility of the second time buyers will be considered in scenarios (details supplied) in order to apply for the...
    • Housing Policy
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons that lost their first home due to the breakdown of a relationship and that are in negative equity will be...
    • Departmental Reviews
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the tenant purchase scheme. [25138/20]
    • Electoral Commission
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the initiatives that will be established to encourage more young persons to register to vote. [25141/20]
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cén fáth nár freagraíodh ceist pharlaiminte uimhir 23796/20 as Gaeilge mar a cheanglaítear le hAcht...
    • Defective Building Materials
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concerns regarding the affordability of the defective concrete blocks grant...
    • Vacant Properties
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of each type of void being provided under the 2020 voids stimulus programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Registration Authority
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a requirement to register public and private, rights of way with the PRAI by December 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the long term supports that will be provided to local authorities with Covid-19 related budget deficits; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Reviews
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of schedule 4 of the Valuation Act 2001 will be complete; if the contents of the review will be published; and...
    • Local Authority Staff
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff in a local authority (details supplied); the staff numbers from 2008 to 2020, in tabular form. [25434/20]
    • Waste Management
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken to combat the increasingly regular issue of overflowing waste from sewage treatment plants leading to the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units delivered in an area (details supplied) over the past five years; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next review of housing assistance payments will take place for County Meath in view of the fact the current limits...
    • Housing Policy
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the consultation by a company (details supplied) with planners to increase the number of...
    • Housing Provision
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the suspension period from the housing list will be reduced from one year to six months to those that refuse an offer of a...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Disaster Response
      366. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if foreign aid or assistance will be provided to the plight of the Moria refugee camp in Greece; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      367. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to bring an end to the long-running conflict in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24926/20]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      368. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average wait time for applications in the foreign births register section; the timeline for the citizenship application of a person...
    • Human Rights
      369. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views in relation to reports of the plight of the Uighur population in north western China; if he plans to take action to deal with the...
    • Military Aircraft
      370. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the strict conditions which must be satisfied before permission to overfly the territory of the State may be granted; the thorough and...
    • Disaster Response
      372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of support that will be provided for those affected by the recent floods in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Human Rights
      375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns for the safety of Palestinian prisoners who are vulnerable to Covid-19, with the Israeli authorities; and if he...
    • Diaspora Issues
      376. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider initiating a proactive communication and engagement strategy with the Irish community globally in order to stay in touch...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Review
      377. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is responsible for drafting the terms of reference for the proposed commission on the future of defence; the time frame for the proposed...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      378. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new general service recruitment campaign for the Air Corps will commence before the end of 2020. [24920/20]
    • Defence Forces Investigations
      379. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the review requested by his predecessor into the case of a person (details supplied) by the Attorney General has commenced; and if so, when...
    • Naval Service
      380. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a Naval Service patrol to be carried out by the LÉ Niamh was cancelled due to a crew shortage; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the review into Defence Force technicians pay and grading will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25342/20]
    • Defence Forces Veterans
      383. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will reconsider the awarding of distinguished service medals or military medals for gallantry to the men of A Company, 35th Infantry...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      384. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the percentage of female recruits in the Defence Forces that progress to the upper ranks of Army, Naval Service and Air Corps. [25622/20]
    • Civil Defence
      385. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which the Civil Defence made a successful application under dormant accounts for €1 million for vehicles in 2019; and if he...
    • Army Barracks
      386. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the refurbishment works on the catering facilities at Custume Barracks, Athlone are fully completed [25624/20]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need for an ASD unit in the Kilternan, County Dublin will be examined in order that families do not have to send their children to school...
    • State Examinations
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the systems her Department put in place to ensure that in circumstances in which a student has received a large downgrade, that this downgrade is...
    • School Transport
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the current issue of school buses affecting persons in rural areas (details supplied); and if discretion will be shown in...
    • State Examinations
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process to be followed by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25050/20]
    • School Transport
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering allowing families relying on the Covid-19 payment to access free school transport for the academic year 2020/2021 in view...
    • State Examinations
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the leaving certificate class of 2020 are by no means the only leaving certificate students who will be directly affected by...
    • Schools Building Projects
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage plans are at for a new school building for a school (details supplied); the proposed time frame for the build; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be more seats awarded on the bus from Dromahair to a school (details supplied) for those who have registered and paid; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the leaving certificate standardisation process allows a student to be downgraded in several subjects resulting in a considerable...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and provisions being given to current sixth year students in view of the hardship they experienced during school shutdown and the...
    • School Transport
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the school bus service in the Jerpoint, Thomastown, County Kilkenny has been discontinued without notice to parents (details...
    • School Curriculum
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify that the right not to attend religious instruction can be availed of by students in primary and second-level schools and that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to ensure appropriate ventilation in schools; the person or body that has responsibility for inspecting schools to ensure...
    • State Examinations
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria by which the independent appeals scrutineers will be judging appeals from leaving certificate students for 2020 in the absence of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an assistive technology application by a student (details supplied) will be expedited. [24788/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio to 18:1 by paying all staff on the pre-2011 pay scale.. [24805/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing special education provision by 15% on the 2018 level. [24807/20]
    • State Examinations
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options students have in relation to the downgrading of their marks; and if she will advise the options available to students now. [24815/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific scientific evidence relied on to implement the mandatory wearing of masks in schools; the special arrangements in place for students...
    • School Textbooks
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the weight being borne in school bags by primary and secondary pupils (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport scheme family portal was closed by Bus Éireann as a result of a direct instruction from her or her Department; if...
    • State Examinations
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teacher predicted leaving certificate grades which were downgraded in the standardisation process by more than 10, 20, 30, 40 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary school students are obliged to wear face masks in school in cases in which a student has a condition such as ASD which precludes...
    • State Examinations
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the arrangements for the sitting of the leaving certificate 2020 in November will be clarified; the changes being made to examination content...
    • Special Educational Needs
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child with special needs has not been facilitated (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24898/20]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent site for a school (details supplied) has been selected; and the status of the project. [24905/20]
    • School Transport
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) was not sanctioned for a school transport grant in view of the fact that they have complex needs; if the...
    • State Examinations
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if appeals to the calculated grades for leaving certificate students will be facilitated in instances in which the predicted grades of their...
    • School Curriculum
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidelines will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in relation to practical aspects and fieldwork for geography...
    • School Accommodation
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a new primary school in Crusheen, County Clare in view of the pressure on the existing building which has led...
    • School Transport
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue with school transport for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of students in Gaelscoileanna that received a H1 in Irish in 2020; the percentage of students in Gaelscoileanna that received a H1...
    • School Transport
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus ticket will be allocated to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25071/20]
    • School Staff
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of posts of responsibility needed in primary schools to restore posts at the level which was pertained prior to the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide a post-primary school in Moycullen, County Galway in view of rapid growth in the area; if so, if a Gaelcholáiste is...
    • State Examinations
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of complaints her Department has received in relation to the calculated grades system from pupils whose grades were marked down by her...
    • School Transport
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision to accommodate schools which need substitute bus escorts in cases of a bus escort having to self-isolate due to Covid-19;...
    • State Examinations
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if review options are available to a student (details supplied) whose school awarded grades for the 2020 leaving certificate which were...
    • School Staff
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to establish a supply teacher panel for the south-west Cork areas; her further plans for teacher absences for the area; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process involved to access an autism place for a child when moving from one county to another; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the financial burden being placed on rural families by the cost of school transport; her plans to reduce...
    • School Accommodation
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in granting funding for additional accommodation works for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25242/20]
    • School Transport
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of the school transport scheme will be carried out for students attending a school (details supplied) and for those that have been...
    • Scrúduithe Stáit
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills conas a cuireadh teanga theagaisc na mac léinn san áireamh le linn phróiseas marcála na hArdteistiméireachta i mbliana,...
    • State Examinations
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students from schools that previously excelled at the leaving certificate have had their results downgraded due to that excellence....
    • National Monuments
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Ryan Report recommendation to have a national memorial erected; her plans to have such a memorial erected; the timeline for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a July provision school transport grant payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 15 September 2020, the number of buses sourced to date; the percentage of routes operating at full...
    • State Examinations
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the concerns of the students who were marked down by the algorithm process from the grades assigned by their...
    • School Transport
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to a pupil (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that two of their siblings are being...
    • Home Schooling
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of students that live in communal residential centres; if there is to be an outbreak of Covid-19 in that setting; and if there are...
    • State Examinations
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a bespoke plan including the option to receive predicted grades for current sixth years that have started their final year in...
    • School Staff
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will allocate a teacher to a school (details supplied) for the remainder of the school year; and if she will make a statement...
    • State Examinations
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider levelling up the 2019 leaving certificate grades in the context of the 2020 leaving certificate grade inflation, to remove...
    • Schools Building Projects
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a date has been set to publish a tender for a project (details supplied). [25475/20]
    • School Staff
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will retain its sanctioned developing school posts despite a delay in meeting its enrolment threshold due to...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request for a SNA under a special exceptional review will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [25617/20]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing statutory non-compliance across the ETB sector in respect of the issuing of annual pension...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be reinstated at the full rate per week for the highly skilled staff and businesses...
    • Employment Rights
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is regretful that the Government has failed to legislate for the areas examined by the Duffy-Cahill...
    • Social Insurance
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional revenue that would be raised by adjusting the level of social insurance contributions for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a self-employed person (details supplied) who went on maternity leave on 17 February 2020 and who was not as...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [25329/20]
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when invalidity and similar payments will return to weekly payments as opposed to fortnightly payments; and if she will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a case (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25440/20]
    • Carer's Benefit
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter in regard to a person (details supplied) relating to carer’s benefit; and if she will make a...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community employment and Tús schemes can be extended by six months for participants due to finish in view of the fact...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for the proposed universal basic income pilot that was set out in the Programme for Government. [24713/20]
    • JobPath Programme
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for Jobpath, the administration of the scheme and the contract with the company (details supplied) which was due to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the blind pension or disability allowance will lose their payment if they travel abroad; if so, if...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of State pensions (non-contributory) selected for review each month since the start of 2020, in tabular form; the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to cater for persons who were 65 years of age in 2012 but did not qualify for the State pension...
    • Carer's Allowance
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); if all...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a one parent family allowance in the case of a person...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension payment for a person (details supplied) will be increased. [24895/20]
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 672 of 8 September 2020, if she will discuss with NPHET the possibility of reverting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if special supports for proprietors and executive directors of small businesses for the duration of Covid-19 restrictions has...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to attend a vocational training opportunities scheme course. [24903/20]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) that has been on the temporary wage subsidy scheme since 30 March is entitled to any arrears...
    • Aer Lingus
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are obstacles to processing claims being put before employees of a company (details supplied) by her Department or...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on persons returning to work (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24954/20]
    • Carer's Benefit
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carers benefit application will be reviewed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24978/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused the higher rate of Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment; if further...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the free transport scheme will be extended to include travel to HSE day services across older persons, disability and...
    • Redundancy Payments
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers laid off for extended periods that commence new employment will lose their entitlement to redundancy lump sums...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason 2018 PAYE and self-employed income cannot be combined for the purpose of calculating the pandemic unemployment...
    • Probate Applications
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a solicitor (details supplied) for clearance to take out probate and pay out the beneficiaries of a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on introducing paid domestic violence leave to enable victims of domestic violence to leave their partners, find...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by her Department in exceptional needs payments in each month from January to September 2020, by payment...
    • Departmental Reviews
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the external consultants review of all current contracted public employment services will be published; and if she will...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet with community employment supervisors or their representatives in respect of pension entitlements or...
    • Fuel Allowance
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the weekly income limit for pensioners applying for fuel allowance. [25220/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by a group of self-employed businesses (details supplied) which are...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in a decision on an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the event that the State pension is not payable until 67 years of age, eligibility for the invalidity pension will...
    • Carer's Allowance
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be finalised; if the matter will be...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that there is a six week or more delay on the processing of PPSN applications with some applications...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment available and appropriate in the case of a person (details supplied); if they have an entitlement to a...
    • Departmental Communications
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the income support helpline for Covid-19 of her Department is not free of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be heard [25433/20]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding employees of airline (details supplied) who are struggling to gain access to casual jobseeker payments...
    • Carer's Allowance
      545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance applications over the past three years, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a jobseeker’s benefit application will be approved for a person (details supplied); if this application will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a Covid-19 related payment; when such payment is likely to terminate; and if she will...
    • State Pensions
      549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the State pension in each of the past five years to 31 December 2019; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance
      550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a disability allowance in each of the past five years to 31 December 2019; and if she...
    • State Pensions
      551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a State pension (non-contributory); the extent by which the numbers have fluctuated in...
    • Invalidity Pension
      552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of an invalidity pension as of 31 December 2019 in each of the past five years to date; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she can foresee her ability to address further issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic in the course of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that applied for and received dental benefit in each of the past five years to date; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if waiting times in respect of appeals against decisions taken by her Department can be reduced further with particular...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts being made to speed up the processing of applications for the carer's allowance and benefit, disability allowance...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment will be facilitated for participants in community employment schemes in which sponsors are...
    • Pension Provisions
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to address the pensions issue for persons that have gaps in their...
    • Redundancy Payments
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been made permanently redundant in recent months in circumstances unrelated to Covid-19 and in...
    • Tax Yield
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount that would be raised by increasing the employers rate of PRSI by 2%. [25581/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a payment for nine weeks; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Youth Unemployment
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce youth unemployment and support young persons impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in returning to the...
    • Pension Provisions
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that persons who are required to retire at 65 years of age do not have to sign on; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in counties Longford and Westmeath aged between 18 and 21, 22 and 25, 25 and 30, 30 and 35, and 35 and...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Childcare Services
      580. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of personnel employed as childminding advisory officers; and the locations in which they are based. [24743/20]
    • Children in Care
      582. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of newborn babies under 14 days old who have been taken into care in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [24747/20]
    • Education Schemes
      585. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional supports a crèche can avail of for a child with EBD. [24818/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      586. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early learning and care services that have had a Covid-19 infection amongst staff or children. [24840/20]
    • Childcare Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Pobal decided at 5:30pm on 11 September 2020 to confirm that children who were not back in a service by that day would lose...
    • Child and Family Agency
      589. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the oversight his Department has in place to ensure that failures by Tusla (details supplied) to carry out its obligations will not be...
    • Disability Services Provision
      590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress that has been made in relation to the rolling out of toilet facilities for persons with disabilities (details supplied) [25234/20]
    • National Archives
      591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the Ryan Report recommendations to have a national archive created for all records relating to children placed in...
    • National Childcare Scheme
      592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the HIVE and CHICK registration process will be reformed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25358/20]
    • Childcare Services
      593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to difficulties in securing supports for children despite sponsorship referrals made under section 14 of...
    • National Childcare Scheme
      595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to streamline the national childcare scheme to simplify access for parents with significant variation in their weekly fees and...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
      597. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to ratify the second optional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [25363/20]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the sources of capital funding available to a local group seeking to develop a facility to host an all-day service, a preschool and post...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Admissions
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exceptions being made for those that had sat their leaving certificate in 2019 and applied for college places in 2020 given that average...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing student grants to their highest historical levels. [24808/20]
    • State Examinations
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who missed out on their first choice CAO courses. [24839/20]
    • Student Support Schemes
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider increasing the number of higher education places available through the HEAR and DARE schemes in order to provide students...
    • State Examinations
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a student (details supplied) will be reviewed; and the steps the family can take in relation to the matter. [24952/20]
    • Further and Higher Education
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a recent appeal by a person (details supplied) to the external appeals office will be investigated. [25069/20]
    • State Examinations
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 2020 CAO entrance points will be applied to the leaving certificate 2020 cohort that will be resitting exams in November 2020. [25281/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if dedicated sector-specific supports will be provided to English language schools in view of the fact that the Covid-19 crisis has significantly...
    • State Examinations
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the approximately 8,000 students that sat the leaving certificate in 2019 or before that were directly affected by the increase in...
    • Third Level Admissions
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific courses given extra places from the 2,225 additional third-level places; the number of courses that had unfilled places in 2019; and...
    • State Examinations
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in relation to their CAO application; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Support Schemes
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24951/20]
    • State Examinations
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that did not receive an offer for their CAO level 8 choices in 2020; the number of students that did not receive an offer...
    • Further and Higher Education
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process to be followed by a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration and support for international students studying here prior to Covid-19 that may struggle to pay fees due to not being able to...
    • Further and Higher Education
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the difficulties facing medical students here which is creating a situation whereby doctors that achieved their education through...
    • Scientific Research
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of associate membership of CERN. [25313/20]
    • Student Support Schemes
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures will be put in place to ensure that students that were born here and or have been long term resident in Ireland but are not Irish,...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if apprentices’ off-the-job training can be scheduled in a way that means they will be closer to home in view of Covid-19; and if not, if...
    • Third Level Fees
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial supports or subsidies will be provided to students whose third level course is delivered primarily or totally online; and if he will...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic collisions involving cars driven by underaged, uninsured or provisionally licensed drivers,...
    • Asylum Applications
      628. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Syrians granted asylum to date in 2020; his plans to increase the number of Syrians being granted asylum here;...
    • Immigration Data
      629. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average turnaround time for a Dublin-based online application for renewal of a residence permit; the number of applications...
    • Immigration Policy
      631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to examine a further extension in respect of immigration permissions due to expire between 20 August and 20 September...
    • Immigration Status
      634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for update of travel documents by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Fire Safety
      635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to address the issue of the unsafe and illegal use of fireworks in numerous areas of Dublin and the...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for the supply of a motorised vehicle to a person under 18 years of age from 2010 to 2019 and to...
    • Immigration Policy
      637. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of commitments made in the Migrant Integration Strategy (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Peace Commissioners
      638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of peace commissioners in County Tipperary; the number of peace commissioners in each district; the name and address...
    • Probate Applications
      639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Probate Office will recommence processing CA24 personal probate applications; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Accommodation
      640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured for the provision of in-cell sanitation at block E Portlaoise Prison; the estimated cost of the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full year cost if the budget for the Data Protection Commission was increased by 12.5%; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Training
      642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí trained in public order in each Garda division as of 1 September 2020, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Garda National Immigration Bureau
      643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Court Orders
      644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a dedicated officer with central authority for the recovery of missed court ordered maintenance payments (details...
    • Garda Data
      645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí in Cork from 2010 to 2019 and to date 2020, in tabular form. [24927/20]
    • Crime Data
      647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions under Section 80 of the Explosives Act 1875 from 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020 by region in...
    • Garda Deployment
      648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase garda numbers in Rathcoole, County Dublin in response to the increase in crime and an increase in...
    • Labour Market
      649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that have been received for a labour market access permission since the European Communities...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protective services units for victims of sexual and domestic crime; and the locations in which they have been...
    • Immigration Status
      654. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the refusal of the review of an application by a person (details supplied) will be overturned under the European Communities...
    • Deportation Orders
      655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds upon which a deportation order remains valid and in place in respect of the spouse of a person (details supplied)...
    • Legislative Programme
      656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of legislation to bring the use of CCTV for Garda investigations into GDPR compliance. [24956/20]
    • Garda Resources
      657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Cabra Garda station in August in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the...
    • Work Permits
      662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the contingency plans in place for the extension of validity for workplace employment permits as in the case of a person...
    • Visa Applications
      663. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visas due to expire in September and October 2020; the number of appointments that have been informed to renew...
    • Deportation Orders
      664. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who faces a deportation order despite a large...
    • Immigration Status
      665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the immigration status given to individuals that are waiting for a decision on EUTR review...
    • Immigration Data
      666. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the pending EUTR reviews according to nationality in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      669. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline of the application for a visa stamp by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made on the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      672. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to review and reform defamation laws; the timeline for...
    • Residency Permits
      673. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Visa Applications
      674. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) that wishes to make an application for their spouse to join them...
    • Naturalisation Certificates
      675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of certificates of naturalisation issued in 2019 to persons that were born here; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      677. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 575 of 15 September 2020, if a citizenship application by a person (details supplied) was...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      678. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to concerns regarding an increase in anti-social behaviour in Dublin city centre including...
    • Deportation Orders
      679. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons deported from the State in each of the past five years; the nationality of those deported; the number of...
    • Tax Code
      680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the official State recognition of partners that have been long-term cohabiters; the position regarding...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      681. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the health and safety concerns expressed by the managing solicitor and staff at a law centre (details...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials and representatives from NPHET will accede to the request by a federation (details supplied) for a meeting to discuss its plan to increase the...
    • Health Services Charges
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if a €4 daily charge paid by service users for transport to HSE day services for older persons, disability and mental health services applies to all CHO...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the 113 plus schools experiencing Covid-19 infections and clusters; the breakdown of infection amongst teachers, students, staff and SNAs;...
    • Dental Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for braces for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24699/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      687. 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. [24700/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      688. To ask the Minister for Health when the BreastCheck screening service will recommence; if his attention has been drawn to the importance of early detection of breast cancer in women over 50...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      689. To ask the Minister for Health when his attention was drawn to the HSE decision to suspend Covid-19 testing at food processing plants made on 8 September 2020; the manner in which the...
    • Occupational Therapy
      690. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive occupational and speech and language therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24706/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      691. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24708/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the nursing pay scale in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider ordering an enquiry into the use of the drug epilim by pregnant women to ascertain the number of families impacted by negative side effects...
    • Mental Health Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the guidelines for the reopening of mental health day services and training centres; when the guidelines will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in CAMHS filled or unfilled on a weekly basis from January 2019 to date by CHO area in tabular form; the reason for the empty beds; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has carried out quantitative health risk assessments on the use of face masks; if so, if the results of those assessments are available to...
    • Stroke Care
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the work carried out by the HSE on a costed five-year strategy for stroke in the key areas of prevention, acute care, rehabilitation and restoration to health;...
    • Autism Support Services
      698. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) can expect to get an assessment for autism for their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24730/20]
    • Paediatric Services
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if extra capacity for paediatric beds in South Tipperary General Hospital will be reinstated to pre-Covid-19 levels; when this will occur; and if he will make...
    • Home Care Packages
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of clearing homecare package waiting lists [24758/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to hire 100 speech and language therapists, 100 psychologists, 100 occupational therapists and 100 physiotherapists, respectively [24759/20]
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to clear assessment of needs waiting lists for children with autism [24760/20]
    • Hospital Expenditure
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of adding 1,000 acute beds to the hospital network [24761/20]
    • Medical Cards
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a complete medical card renewal process for persons with conditions that cannot change; the consideration that can be given to an automatic...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if a Covid-19 test centre will be opened in Drogheda, County Louth in view of the ongoing pandemic; the number of persons being referred for testing; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to assist recovery support groups to find alternative facilities for their meetings in cases in which usual meeting places are not...
    • Medicinal Products
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of fluphenazine decanoate as a treatment for schizophrenia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24787/20]
    • Maternity Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the maternity hospitals in which values clarification workshops have taken place from 2018 to date in 2020; the number of HSE staff that have participated in...
    • HSE Funding
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if a funding review of a school (details supplied) will be carried out following a recent visit as there is a large deficit between the HSE funding and the...
    • Health Services Staff
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of hiring 4,000 new nurses on the pre-2011 rate of pay [24793/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      712. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE executive management team will reconsider supporting the reimbursement of dupilumab dupixent for the treatment of moderate to severe atopic...
    • Health Services Provision
      713. To ask the Minister for Health when day care services will resume in locations (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24809/20]
    • Dental Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for orthodontic treatment in the Bagenalstown, County Carlow area (details supplied) [24817/20]
    • Medical Cards
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a pensioner with a medical card who cannot avail of the free blood test in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin due to mobility issues can be charged...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      717. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be allocated a date for advanced cataract surgery [24831/20]
    • Disability Support Services
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties and cuts in supports for the disability care sector due to Covid-19 and the resulting social distance...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of transporting patients requiring psychiatric services at St. Luke’s, Kilkenny and accompanying staff from South Tipperary General Hospital to...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the closure of the Cara Lodge drug rehabilitation centre in west County Cork; and if he will put in place a strategy for the reopening of same...
    • Primary Care Centres
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if the primary care centre in Haymarket Centre, Drogheda, County Louth is still available to the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24848/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson’s disease specialist nurses that will be employed under the enhanced community care fund (details supplied); if there will be an...
    • Medical Cards
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if the higher income threshold for eligibility to a medical card for over 70s introduced in Budget 2020 has been applied; if not, when it will be applied; and...
    • Care Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure persons and their carers receive full-time help and facilities without delay (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Support Services
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the reduced number of hours for a person (details supplied) at a service; if the reduction is due to staff shortages; if so, his plans to...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if the Carmora service in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin is short-staffed; if so, the reason; if the HSE is responding to the need for additional staffing...
    • Respite Care Services
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if the respite hours available to users of the Carmora services in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin have been reduced; if so, the reason for same; and if he...
    • Care of the Elderly
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure the day care centres for the elderly will be reopened safely without further delay (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the reason qualified PHECC registered advanced paramedics are not being recruited into the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to ensure instant communication is made with the HSE when a student is tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24878/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      734. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1007 of 14 July 2020, the criteria the National Women and Infants Health Programme is using to justify the continuation...
    • General Practitioner Services
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some general practitioners are not facilitating the two week and six week post-natal check for women and...
    • Health Services Staff
      738. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of an additional Vascular Physiologist for South Tipperary General Hospital [24922/20]
    • Care of the Elderly
      739. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to support the mental health of residents in nursing homes [24930/20]
    • Suicide Incidence
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that died by suicide by age, gender and CHO area in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Maternity Services
      742. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore maternity services in full for women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24936/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if additional ringfenced funding will be committed to for mental health services for those that have given birth during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the measures taken to date as a consequence of the HSE publication Covid-19 Testing and Tracing: Roadmap to enhance capacity and turnaround...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      756. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an orthopaedic appointment for a procedure at Letterkenny University Hospital; if they are on the routine or...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      758. To ask the Minister for Health when the reduction of prescription charges announced in Budget 2020 will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25043/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if gyms and dance studios will be closed if a county enters phase 3 of the Covid-19 roadmap [25048/20]
    • Dental Services
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that held contracts for the dental treatment service scheme in County Wexford in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • HSE Regional Service Plans
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a new elective hospital for Cork in view of submissions made by the HSE with regards to potential locations; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Funding
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the development of a new elective hospital in Cork by way of the HSE providing a suitable site and that the building will be...
    • Medical Cards
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the reason it is necessary for the holders of medical cards with lifelong medical conditions such as Down syndrome to have to fill out forms regularly to renew...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consult with NEPHET with a view to bringing forward a proposal to the effect that a privately run maths grind class for 30 students can take place...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if regulations or legal requirements are in place to prevent the establishment of rehabilitation centres close to schools, residential areas and public houses;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      771. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 of 15 September 2020, if the trials (details supplied) can go ahead; and if there are certain regulations the...
    • Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme
      772. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to compensate persons that developed narcolepsy as a result of the swine flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25154/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that nurses that answered the HSE Be On Call campaign and were placed in the health service are working on expired...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the relevant authorities, for example, An Garda Síochána or the Health and Safety Authority, responsible for enforcing the provisions of the S.I. No....
    • Diabetes Strategy
      775. To ask the Minister for Health when the resumption of normal diabetes reviews in hospitals and primary care settings will take place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      777. To ask the Minister for Health when day centres that cater for disabled and mental health adults will reopen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25184/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a young child who has been waiting over a year for a crucial operation; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the resources planned as part of the Living with Covid Plan and in the context of Budget 2021 to ensure increases in staffing in mental health services, the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the outcomes or recommendations of the women’s health taskforce for endometriosis patients; the measures in place to deal with long waiting lists and...
    • Health Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health when developmental checks for children previously administered by the HSE will recommence; the estimated number of checks missed; the number of checks and...
    • Primary Care Centres
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the extension of the primary care centre in Ballina, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25227/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the status of testing and tracing capacity here; the extent to which demand is pressing on available resources; the planned additional resources anticipated to...
    • Mental Health Services
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of transporting a patient with a nurse from South Tipperary General Hospital to the department of psychiatry in Kilkenny; the amount spent of the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if provision for a special room to accommodate patients presenting with mental health difficulties can now be provided with the extra investment to help reduce...
    • Hospital Expenditure
      788. To ask the Minister for Health the full cost of refurbishment works carried out at St. Michael’s Hospital, Clonmel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25275/20]
    • Disability Support Services
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding day care services for adults with special needs and disabilities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      790. To ask the Minister for Health the specialist mental health cover being provided at South Tipperary General Hospital; if a specialist nurse and doctor are available at the hospital 24/7; the...
    • Hospital Data
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with mental health difficulties presenting to South Tipperary General Hospital emergency department over the past two years; the numbers...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the average Covid-19 test turnaround by county and nationally from general practitioner referral to communication of results for community testing in each week...
    • Hospital Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if the consultations at the breast clinic in Cork University Hospital are operating at full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25320/20]
    • Departmental Reports
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the 2015 Preparedness of Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland for an Influenza Pandemic: an Infection Control Perspective Report that...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      796. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms that are in place to ensure Covid-19 testing undertaken at private hospitals is shared with the HSE in order that contact tracing can be...
    • Proposed Legislation
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on legislation to amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 in order to end discrimination and obstacles against non-EU trained...
    • Primary Care Centres
      798. To ask the Minister for Health when construction of the Tullow primary care centre, serving Tullow, Rathvilly and Hacketstown, will commence; if it was previously approved for construction...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons tested here for Covid-19 since the beginning of the outbreak [25327/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      801. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that general practitioner practices are facing quantity restrictions on the amount of flu vaccines they can...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      802. To ask the Minister for Health if weekly Covid-19 testing turnaround time data will be published as is done in other jurisdictions similar to the daily and weekly reporting of Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      803. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 infection advice will be provided for a person (details supplied). [25349/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the occupational grade of all persons employed for Covid-19 testing; the number at each grade; the additional hires being provided for as indicated in the Plan...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 700 swabbers and 500 contact tracers outlined in the Plan for Living with Covid-19 that have been hired; the number in a pool; when all 1,300...
    • Health Services Staff
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if staff hired as part of a dedicated Covid-19 testing workforce that come from other parts of the health service will be replaced; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated percentage of the population which lives within one hour of a Covid-19 swab test centre; the estimated percentage which will have access to the...
    • Hospital Funding
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the refurbishment of the accident and emergency department of Tullamore Regional Hospital. [25364/20]
    • Health Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed and a service provided for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25365/20]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      811. To ask the Minister for Health if the practice of redeploying speech and language therapists and other allied health professionals to Covid-19 testing will be ceased; if his attention has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      812. To ask the Minister for Health if he will alter the Covid-19 tracking app to allow users to clearly see the number of close contacts that their app records on a daily basis in order to...
    • Health Services Provision
      813. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to calls by persons living with amyloidosis to take actions (details supplied) with reference to the HSE amyloidosis working...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant cardiologist at St. James's Hospital; and the average waiting to see the consultant. [25402/20]
    • Health Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied); the days the service is operating and the location; if the matter will be clarified; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls made for an ambulance in the area covered by the Thurles ambulance depot between 8 am and 8 pm on 5 September 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      818. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol in place between both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland for contact tracing as it relates to cross-Border workers; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place in circumstances in which a person works here but lives in Northern Ireland and is a close contact of a confirmed Covid-19 case at the...
    • Hospital Charges
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the charge per night for a private patient that occupied a trolley on a corridor at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      823. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1150 of 30 July 2020, the status of the compensation scheme for the families of the frontline healthcare workers that...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      828. To ask the Minister for Health when the planned reduction of the drugs payment scheme threshold will take place; the reason he has claimed that the achievement of this measure predicated on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      829. To ask the Minister for Health if there are specific Covid-19 testing protocols for babies and toddlers; if so, the protocols; and if not, the reason therefor; and if protocols will be drawn...
    • Hospital Services
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an OCG review of a capital approval for a new cath lab in UHW given in September 2018 should now be required (details supplied); the reason it...
    • Medical Cards
      832. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of medical card eligibility has been launched; if so, the number of medical cards under review; the number of cards that have been extended...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      833. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing homes with high levels of vacant beds will be considered for use to alleviate pressure on the hospital system as stepdown facilities in view of the...
    • Health Services
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it will cost to maintain the current pre-Covid-19 levels of service provision across the health service in 2021 in view of demographic...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      835. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to reduce prescription charges by €0.50 [25506/20]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the DPS threshold to €50 and €100, respectively [25507/20]
    • Emergency Departments
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges. [25510/20]
    • Dental Services
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to reinstate the 2008 dental treatment services scheme [25511/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take in order to better facilitate education within the community around Covid-19 to see that the rationale behind guidelines issued to the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      840. To ask the Minister for Health when the 60-bed modular unit will be completed at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25515/20]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      841. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative accommodation has been secured for a service (details supplied) in view of the fact the long-term leases for the properties have expired [25559/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if a deal has been done between an organisation (details supplied) and general practitioners regarding charges for letters to be written [25561/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      843. To ask the Minister for Health when essential services such as early intervention assessment and speech and language therapy will recommence; his views on whether Covid-19 restrictions are...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      844. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25589/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of Covid-19 cases nationally including the sectors and industries that the persons work in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25593/20]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons working in the addiction services that have requested naloxone training; and the number working in the addiction services that have...
    • Hospital Staff
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant radiologists working in Mullingar Regional Hospital [25633/20]
    • Ambulance Service
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time for an ambulance from when a call is placed to emergency services to when an ambulance arrives at the scene; and if he will make a...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the purpose of the review of a centre (details supplied); the date by which the review is due to be complete; and the date on which the centre is due to reopen...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Industry
      863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to address the low price of wool; if the use of wool as an insulation will be incentivised; and if he will...
    • Felling Licences
      864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in recent months to resolve the delays in issuing felling licences; the extra resources and investment put in place...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with farmers to develop an agreed programme that achieves eradication of tuberculosis and reduce the burden of...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the chemical pesticide glyphosate is used on lands owned and managed by Coillte; the quantity of glyphosate used on...
    • Forestry Sector
      869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out any analysis on the potential for job losses in the forestry industry given the current crisis in...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a BPS appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24781/20]
    • GLAS Issues
      873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be an extension of the GLAS scheme beyond 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24830/20]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for TAMS grants submitted to his Department; the number paid out in 2019; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      875. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an area aid application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24875/20]
    • Animal Diseases
      879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle recommended for culling as part of the TB letters issued to farmers recently by county; the number of letters...
    • Agriculture Industry
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of breeding ewes and goats, respectively, by county in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agrifood Sector
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs killed in meat plants here in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the number that were Irish lambs compared to those...
    • Trade Agreements
      882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department engaged in consultation with the EU Commission regarding the recent limited EU-US trade deal which plans remove...
    • Food Marketing Programme
      884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding spent by Bord Bia on the promotion of Irish beef in each of the past five years; the specific funding spent on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if she will provide details of the correspondence between Meat Industry Ireland and his Department about clusters of Covid-19 in...
    • Forestry Sector
      887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the spread of ash dieback disease here; the measures being taken to combat the disease; his plans for awareness...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the introduction of a new early retirement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25237/20]
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the CAP pillar 1 payments to each farmer by county and category (details supplied), in tabular form. [25307/20]
    • Inshore Fisheries
      890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the lobster industry here in terms of landings by weight and value to ports and lobster export value in view of the...
    • Environmental Policy
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc has carried out research and evaluations on the advantages and disadvantages on the use of anaerobic and biogas systems to...
    • Animal Welfare
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a veterinarian will be present on all live export consignments to third countries in accordance with commitments made in the...
    • Forestry Sector
      898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of planting 125,000 hectares of foresting with a mixture of broad leaf and native species. [25516/20]
    • Animal Welfare
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that livestock vessels (details supplied) which were awarded certificates of approvals in...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • CLÁR Programme
      900. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to reintroduce the CLÁR group water top up that was part of the CLÁR programme until 2010; and if she will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      902. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of broadband connection points in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25206/20]
    • Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas
      903. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has read in full the report of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Rural Development Plan
      906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on whether the overarching control and decision-making measures pertaining to rural towns falls between Departments and...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      908. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if successful applicants to the 2019 town and village renewal scheme can have their match funding requirement of 20% reduced to 10% in...
    • Island Communities
      909. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when her Department will take action to remedy the infrastructural deficiencies on Inis Bigil; if her Department has received...
    • LEADER Programmes
      910. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans for the Leader programme for 2021 and beyond; if she will implement findings for a transition programme; when she will...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      913. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which the Civil Defence made a successful application under dormant accounts for €1 million for vehicles in 2019....

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