Written answers

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

  • Department of Finance
    • EU Budget Contribution
      40. To ask the Minister for Finance the net contribution Ireland is expected to make as part of the European recovery fund; his views on the affordability of the contribution; and if Ireland will...
    • Tax Code
      43. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent Central Bank report on household wealth; his views on the growth in the net wealth of the top 20% of households from €560,000 to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      45. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons that received the temporary wage subsidy scheme will be liable for a lump sum of tax at the end of the year despite only receiving the maximum of...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      46. To ask the Minister for Finance if cuts made to the employment wage subsidy scheme, in comparison to the temporary wage subsidy scheme in September 2020, will be reversed in view of the...
    • Legislative Process
      48. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25965/20]
    • Mortgage Lending
      49. To ask the Minister for Finance the meetings he has had with the main banking and lending institutions in relation to the Covid-19 mortgage moratorium; the measures he will take to extend the...
    • Public Liability Insurance
      51. To ask the Minister for Finance her plans to address the rising costs and limited access to public liability insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24340/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      52. To ask the Minister for Finance the contingency planning that has taken place within his Department about an indefinite period of restrictions on VAT generating sectors of the economy such as...
    • Tax Code
      53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reform inheritance tax rules for agriculture by which the relief can be extended to favourite successor relief to reflect the changing demographics...
    • Brexit Issues
      57. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects the economy to remain competitive in the short to medium-term notwithstanding the impact of Brexit and the Covid-19 virus; and...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek to introduce significant reductions in vehicle registration tax in Budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26524/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of funds expected to be drawn down by Ireland in 2021 from the Brexit adjustment reserve announced as part of the EU multi-annual financial...
    • National Debt
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he plans to avail of the favourable debt dynamics as cited in the recent Central Bank Governor’s pre-Budget letter; his views on the...
    • Corporation Tax
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance the sectoral breakdown of the €1.7 billion increase in corporation tax receipts for the first half of the year as shown in the June fiscal monitor; and...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance if taxi drivers will be transferred to the employment wage subsidy scheme in view of the fact that the income from their business has been greatly reduced and...
    • Tax Code
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a wealth tax in budget 2021. [26790/20]
    • Property Tax
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the local property tax and replace it with an enhanced local government fund from central funding; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      69. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact Covid-19 has had on the fiscal position of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26343/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect the recent European Banking Authority advice in relation to Covid-19-related payments breaks is likely to have on those whose businesses or personal...
    • Economic Data
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s current projection of the extent to which the economy will contract in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26712/20]
    • Corporation Tax
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing an emergency corporation tax levy in Budget 2021 on profitable corporations in areas unaffected or boosted by the pandemic such...
    • Credit Unions
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the review of the policy framework within which credit unions operate. [26718/20]
    • Mortgage Lending
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with banks on their mortgage interest rates being amongst the highest in the Eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a restoration of the fuel rebate scheme to cover excise duty and carbon taxes for the coach operators whose services have been impacted by...
    • Tax Code
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove agriculture from the commercial definition rate of 7.5% in relation to stamp duty and revise in line with the residential stamp duty charge...
    • Banking Sector
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to have discussions with a company (details supplied) in relation to retain a bank and its network of branches here; and if he will make a statement...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Revenue Commissioners compliance programme into the TWSS and EWSS; when he plans to publish the details of recipient firms online as stated...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the primary medical certificates; his plans to expand the criteria for eligibility for persons to receive this assistance; and if he will make a...
    • Mortgage Lending
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will be liaising with banks that have withdrawn mortgages for couples due to the fact one of them has been put on the temporary wage subsidy scheme by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects to be in a position to support ongoing and normal economic activity in the context of the forthcoming Budget notwithstanding the...
    • Legislative Measures
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 has not yet been fully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26805/20]
    • Currency Circulation
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concerns in rural Ireland of the emergence of a cashless society; the accessibility issues that would give rise for some persons; his views on...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the temporary help-to-buy scheme; his further plans to expand the scheme to include second-hand properties; and if he will make a statement...
    • Bank Charges
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention was drawn prior to the announcement of the introduction of maintenance and transactions fees for customers by a bank (details supplied) with...
    • Tax Code
      93. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is appropriate that firms applying for section 110 status notify the Revenue Commissioners rather than making a direct application to...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of funding for Kilboggett Park, Cabinteely, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26411/20]
    • Public Expenditure Data
      107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of additional expenditure in 2021 in comparison to 2020, disaggregated by precommitted expenditure demographics, PSSA and so...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the decision to open heritage sites during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26268/20]
    • Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme
      111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the outcome of his recent visit to County Louth to progress CFRAM works for the area; his further views on the status of...
    • Public Sector Pay
      112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made on public sector pay deal negotiations; and if there is a planned increase in public sector pay. [26728/20]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of funding spent on procurement across all Departments in 2018 and 2019 that was non-compliant with EU directives on public...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures his Department and bodies under his aegis are taking to address flooding along the River Shannon specifically in County...
    • Public Sector Pay
      115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a commitment will be given to not renew FEMPI when it comes before Dáil Éireann in 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of special advisers across each Department; the salaries of each; if the information will be compared with the Government of...
    • EU Directives
      117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the transposition into Irish legislation of the EU whistleblowing directive; when the findings of the consultation process...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on working time agreements across the Civil Service. [26342/20]
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the scope for accelerating the delivery of important public investment priorities at a time when private investment is likely to fall...
    • Civil Service
      120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his longer-term vision and strategy for the Civil Service; his views on the provision of regional locations for support offices and...
    • Heritage Sites
      121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the OPW heritage sites at Rockfleet Castle, Newport and Clare Island Castle in County Mayo; if funding will be ring-fenced...
    • Public Expenditure Data
      122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his projections for public spending in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26685/20]
    • Brexit Preparations
      123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures taken by his Department to prepare for Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26726/20]
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the Central Bank Governor's pre-budget letter; his views on whether the need for prudent use of public funds must be...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the OPW plans to develop its policy on flood relief and flood mitigation in view of the significant climate change...
    • Civil Service
      126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants recruited with a competence to do their business both through Irish and English in each of the past five...
    • Heritage Sites
      129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there has been an increase in visitor numbers at OPW heritage sites in view of the recent waiving of admission charges at certain...
    • Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme
      131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a feasibility study will be carried out on the future need for a tidal barrier in County Cork in view of the rising sea levels...
    • Departmental Staff
      132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional funding will be provided in 2021 for flood mitigation works that are undertaken by local authorities with particular...
    • Garda Stations
      135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status and timeline for commencement and completion of works for the new Garda station for Macroom, County Cork; and if he will make...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he expects the Exchequer to benefit from public expenditure and reform strategies in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • EU Funding
      138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to plans being considered by his Department to centralise funding under the European Regional...
    • Heritage Sites
      139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a scheme to promote school visits to OPW sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26358/20]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to move Government services online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26656/20]
    • Office of Public Works
      142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his officials will undertake to establish the level of openness or otherwise from landowners in relation to the possible use of OPW...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Ennis south flood relief project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26267/20]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the engagement he has had with the Minister for Social Protection and other stakeholders with regard to resolving the...
    • Office of Public Works
      147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the preparations being made for Christmas events scheduled to take place on OPW sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be made available for the Glashaboy flood relief scheme, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Advisers
      149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated amount the additional special advisers hired by the Government and pay rises afforded to TDs will cost the taxpayer in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be allocated to the relevant Departments as part of budget 2021 to support those working from home due to Covid-19; and...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Live Register
      152. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider amending the regulations for the collation of data for the live register in order to include persons with disabilities and those in receipt of a...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      153. To ask the Taoiseach if a schedule will be provided of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment; the roles and responsibilities attributed to...
    • Census of Population
      154. To ask the Taoiseach if the geographic area, population, female population, age profile, employment rates and map, in respect of Rowlagh and Ronanstown, Clondalkin Dublin 22 will be...
  • Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
    • Brexit Preparations
      155. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the measures that have been taken to ensure SMEs are prepared for Brexit no matter the form it may take at the end of the transition...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      156. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the extent to which he remains satisfied that Ireland remains an attractive investment location for foreign direct investment; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      157. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans for further measures to assist the business sector negatively impacted by Covid-19, with particular reference to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      168. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his views on the actions of an employer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26695/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      169. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans to help a sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26699/20]
    • Legislative Measures
      170. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will bring forward the employment permits (consolidation and amendment) Bill. [26831/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      171. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment when the 40% restart grant plus top-up will be extended to pubs nationally that have to remain closed due to public health...
    • Tax Code
      173. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will respond to a person (details supplied) in relation to the deadline for filing a company annual return; and if he will make...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      174. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles...
    • Employment Rights
      175. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 22 September 2020, the information being sought in the case from the employer; if it is...
    • IDA Ireland
      176. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of employees in IDA supported businesses by county in tabular form in each of the years 2016 to 2020; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      177. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his views on the need for targeting of public expenditure supports to recipient firms and-or elements of equity in the form of upside...
    • Departmental Staff
      178. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legal status of bridges erected by Inland Fisheries Ireland on private land (details supplied). [27208/20]
    • Electricity Generation
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to use wave technology to generate electricity off the coast and in Shannon estuary; and if he will make a...
    • Horticulture Sector
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the future of horticulture peat extraction in view of the differences in extraction for this purpose as...
    • Energy Efficiency
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland the number of anaerobic digestion systems currently...
    • Fishing Industry
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sectors to be included in the eel fisheries compensation scheme; and if the scheme will include provisions for...
    • National Broadband Plan
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to accelerate the roll out of high speed broadband in rural Ireland in order to elevate the...
    • Post Office Network
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a statement by a union (details supplied) that transactions in post offices are...
    • Environmental Protection Agency
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 497 of 3 October 2017, the status of the 15 outstanding recommendations of the...
    • Fishing Licences
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria and process for authorising individual charter boats to fish for blue fin tuna in Irish fishing waters...
    • Fishing Industry
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the definition of the type of gear or equipment identified as being capable of use for trolling surface fishing lines...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if extra resources will be put in place to clear the backlog of 18 to 24 months of the warmer home scheme (details...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to provide grants or financial assistance to persons erecting windfarms with a view to generating energy for...
    • Climate Change Policy
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a new general obligation on every organ of the State will be implemented to perform functions compatible with the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the provision of fibre broadband under the national broadband plan to Glasthule village...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment will be...
    • Electric Vehicles
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new public EV charging points for which funding was requested; the number approved; the number of...
    • Energy Efficiency
      202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to restore the grant available to persons to upgrade their boiler within residential homes. [27138/20]
    • Electricity Supply Board
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has spoken formally to the CEO of ESB Networks in the past two months; and if so, the issues discussed. [27139/20]
    • Waste Management
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a bin waiver scheme for persons with additional medical needs will be introduced; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sector specific supports in place and or the plans to introduce support services for the airline sector. [26312/20]
    • Road Tolls
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid by motorists to date at the toll bridges between junctions five and six and between junctions nine and ten on the M3....
    • Road Traffic Offences
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of successful prosecutions there have been of drivers that have struck railway bridges and level crossings in 2018, 2019 and...
    • Public Transport
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the public transport providers in view of the fact that services will be operating on reduced capacity for the short to...
    • Driver Licences
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a provision will be made for the renewal of driver licences online for persons over 70 years of age with no pre-existing medical...
    • Aviation Industry
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consumer rights for persons who have booked flights to green list countries but now find out these countries are on the red list...
    • Marine Accidents
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the European Court of Justice ruling recently that Ireland is not fulfilling its obligations under Article 8(1) of Directive...
    • State Assets
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the indicative cost to Exchequer to repurchase a shareholding in a company at percentage rates (details supplied), in tabular form. [26435/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider adding a provision to the taxi regulations that would allow taxi and small public service vehicle owner-drivers to...
    • Road Safety
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that will be allocated for the R178 Carrickmacross-Shercock road for the purpose of safety improvement; and if he will make a...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to amending the cycle to work scheme in order to remove the potential barrier to accessing it, whereby...
    • Taxi Regulations
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be a pause or extension to the National Transport Authority rules compelling taxi drivers to replace their cars after ten...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when approval will be given for the necessary works following the submission of a feasibility report for a footbridge over the Owenriff...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person who holds a free travel pass cannot book an online ticket with Bus Éireann; his plans to change this; and if he...
    • Aviation Policy
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions taken to implement the aviation recovery task force report; the actions from this document he plans to implement; and the...
    • Airport Policy
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether it is essential for County Cork to achieve its growth targets within the Ireland 2040 document to have a viable...
    • Aviation Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken regarding recommendation 3 of the aviation recovery task force report; his views on whether a comprehensive...
    • Bus Services
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of antisocial incidents on Dublin Bus by individual bus routes and by month in each of the past two years that did not result...
    • Road Safety
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next national roads speed limit review will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26647/20]
    • Regional Airports
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review that he is carrying out into a company (details supplied); and the timeframe for the completion of this review....
    • Bus Éireann
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken formally with the CEO of Bus Éireann since his appointment; and if so, the issues discussed. [26846/20]
    • Brexit Preparations
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for an exchange programme for holders of TM CPC UK certificates to EU Irish certificates following Brexit; and if he will make...
    • Regional Airports
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a stimulus package for Shannon Airport; when such support will be made available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on phase 1 of the Limerick northern distributor road; his plans to advance phase 2 of same; and if he will...
    • Harbours and Piers
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 15 September 2020, if the seaport figure include small harbours and ports; the measures in...
    • Motor Insurance
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 17 September 2020, if he will provide an update on the number of points the MTPL Insurance...
    • Road Projects
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the new N22 Baile Bhu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27036/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • Road Projects
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the viability of the realignment of a road (details supplied) in County Kerry will be considered to create safer walking and cycling...
    • Cycling Facilities
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the provision of a safe cycling lane will be considered for a road (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rail Network
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of the introduction an hourly train between Galway and Dublin in both directions. [27142/20]
    • Cycling Facilities
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding drawn down by each local authority for safe cycling signage since July 2020, in tabular form. [27192/20]
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the way in which the backlog in driver tests is affecting third-level students that opt to travel to college on the days...
    • Traffic Data
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which traffic congestion points have been identified throughout north County Kildare with particular reference to Maynooth,...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the road passenger transport operators based in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Westmeath, Leitrim and Longford that received...
    • Driver Test
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver tests will resume in Clifden, County Galway; the reason for the delay in resuming tests at the centre; the number of persons...
    • Legislative Measures
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to proceed with the legislation necessary for protecting communities from the ongoing antisocial use of scramblers and quad...
    • Driver Licences
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which applicants for driver's licence renewal who are non-nationals awaiting naturalisation documents with residency permits...
    • Departmental Staff
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase...
  • Department of Finance
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason employers in a catering business must demonstrate that turnover has fallen 30% before they receive a flat-rate subsidy under the employment wage...
    • Brexit Preparations
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses who have applied for economic operator and registration identification, EORI, numbers in order to trade with the UK post-Brexit; if...
    • Insurance Costs
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to deal with spiralling insurance costs that are crippling the equestrian industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26956/20]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance if primary medical certificate applications are still being accepted and processed; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Tax
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the number of units built since 2013 which are not subject to property tax broken down by local authority, in tabular form; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to data from the Central Bank showing total savings of €120 billion held by households; his plans to introduce stimulus...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a stimulus package targeted at the retail and hospitality sectors is required; his further views on a proposal from business...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the employment wage subsidy scheme until 31 March 2021. [26336/20]
    • Insurance Industry
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he and the Central Bank plan to take to address insurance companies that are refusing to honour policyholders with outstanding business interruption...
    • Tax Code
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the betting duty levy increased from 2% to 2.5%. [26854/20]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of legal fees and other associated expenditures relating to the EU General Court appeal of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Unemployment Data
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance the projections of unemployment for the second two quarters of 2020. [17244/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested that the wage subsidy supports be maintained as part of the July stimulus for artists, performers, crew and event organisers in the arts,...
    • Tax Code
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance if a cut to capital gains tax from its current rate of 33% to 25% will be included in the forthcoming budget as promised in the Fianna Fáil pre-election...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the series of commitments given by his Department in 2019 to the EU Commission in relation to the request to extend the lifespan of the National Asset...
    • Budget Process
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if a submission compiled by a group (details supplied) in respect of budget 2021 will be given consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Industry
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress on reforming the insurance sector; if the Cabinet sub-committee to deal with insurance reform has convened; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact a company (details supplied) is having difficulty accessing employment wage subsidy scheme and may have to cease...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance the total Covid-19 related expenditure incurred by his Department to date; and if this will be counted a pre-committed expenditure for budget 2021. [27044/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and responsibilities...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2021 of purchasing two extra mobile X-ray scanner trunks for the Revenue Commissioners. [27141/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding staycations here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27145/20]
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person can avail of the bike-to-work scheme if he or she works from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27146/20]
    • Brexit Preparations
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has had discussions in the context of the operation of the financial services here post-Brexit; if he remains satisfied that the new...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he expects to be in a position to incentivise alternatives to fossil fuels in the short and medium term; and if he will make a statement...
    • Banking Sector
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to discourage entrants into the banking or insurance sector here by applicants seeking market share to distort the market and, subsequently, exiting...
    • Financial Services Sector
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he has examined opportunities in the financial services sector for the financial sector here in the aftermath of Brexit; and if he will...
    • Mortgage Data
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of the information available in respect of mortgages in arrears purchased by investment funds, with particular reference to the price at which such...
    • Carbon Tax Yield
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance his expectations of likely funding available from carbon tax in 2020 and over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27254/20]
    • Financial Services Sector
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance if a list of members of a group (details supplied) in its current formation will be provided. [27347/20]
    • National Debt
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which Ireland's debt as a proportion of GDP, GNP and GNI has fluctuated in the past ten years to date; if there is a need for corrective action;...
    • Departmental Staff
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase staff levels; the number...
    • Banking Sector
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with a bank (details supplied) to clarify the security of its employees and customers in view of reported plans to reduce the...
    • Legislative Measures
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for delaying remaining sections of the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 until September 2021; if he will expedite their commencement; and if...
    • Brexit Supports
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of funds expected to be drawn down by Ireland in 2021 from the Brexit adjustment reserve announced as part of the EU multi-annual financial...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Garda Stations
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when contracts will be signed for construction of the new Bailieborough Garda station, County Cavan; when the opening of the new station...
    • Regional Assemblies
      317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Northern and Western Regional Assembly will continue to have responsibility as the managing authority for the ERDF; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is undertaking a review of construction procurement policy; the review terms of reference; the person or body on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected level of core, Covid-19-related and Brexit-related expenditure in 2021 disaggregated by Department; the projected level of...
    • Heritage Sites
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his long-term plans for Westgate House, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26307/20]
    • Court Accommodation
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the surveys the Office of Public Works have carried out on Carndonagh courthouse, County Donegal; and the works required to allow the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of progress for the Crossmolina flood relief scheme; his plans to review and expedite the timeline in view of the ongoing...
    • Heritage Sites
      323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the OPW heritage sites at Rockfleet Castle, Newport and Clare Island Castle, County Mayo; if funding will be ring-fenced...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the minor flooding relief schemes received from Mayo County Council in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form;...
    • Civil Service
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place to allow the Civil Service to work remotely but at full capacity during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond; and if he...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress being made to advance An Sulán flood defences for Ballyvourney, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Civil Service
      327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to facilitate remote working of civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26664/20]
    • Departmental Reviews
      328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is carrying out a review into company (details supplied); and if so, if this review is separate from that of the...
    • Civil Service
      329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if civil servants especially those in lower ranks who are expected to work from home will be provided with the necessary information...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of flood relief projects nationwide by county including the Morell river drainage scheme Naas, County Kildare, those already...
    • Garda Stations
      333. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be provided for works (details supplied); and if so, when the works will commence. [26827/20]
    • Office of Public Works
      334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the condition of the green space in the ownership of the OPW at Casino Park, Donnycarney, Dublin 5;...
    • Local Authority Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place and the timeframe for same to reimburse Leitrim County Council for the cost of a report being undertaken to...
    • Offshore Islands
      336. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the 2021 season in respect of Skellig Mhichil, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27030/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      337. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • Heritage Sites
      338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the possibility of keeping a set of flags on Cahir Castle similar to those currently at the site as part of the...
    • Legislative Measures
      339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has achieved or plans to achieve closure on the issue of FEMPI in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to rely on the principle of reform to meet various spending targets in 2020 and subsequently; and if he...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he expects to be in a position to meet in full the expenditure anticipated in 2020 and subsequent years in the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      345. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which recruitment in vital areas throughout the public sector is being provided for and monitored by his Department; and...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      346. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public procurement has been refined to ensure strict compliance with the rules while at the same time allowing a...
    • Departmental Data
      347. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which all Departments and bodies under their aegis in terms of public expenditure and reform continue to meet the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      349. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he anticipates and supports the concept of a new pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27268/20]
    • Public Sector Staff
      350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to encourage greater mobility within the wider public service; the progress made in 2018 and 2019 to achieve...
    • Public Expenditure Data
      351. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of establishing an ombudsman for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27333/20]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      352. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the policy responses and targeted supports for the hospitality sector in order that consumer spending can return to pre-Covid-19...
    • Online Safety
      358. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to establish a commissioner for online safety in the coming months; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • DEIS Scheme
      359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the scheme to allow more students from DEIS schools to gain a scholarship to attend the Gaeltacht will be extended; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      360. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a summary will be provided of the evidence available which pointed to the need to suspend amateur football such as the Leinster...
    • Ambulance Service
      361. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial support provided annually by her Department to an organisation (details supplied) since 2010. [26512/20]
    • Cruthú Fostaíochta
      362. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon phlean ag a Roinn maidir le maoiniú a chur ar fáil ar mhaithe le hoibrí don aos óg a fhostú...
    • Film Industry
      363. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if south-west County Cork will be included as a designated area for inclusion in the regional film development uplift; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      364. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure that all sectors of the arts, including the live entertainments industry, are represented on the Covid-19 task...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      365. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports available to circuses in terms of capital and other grants; if she will consider further supports for this cultural...
    • Sports Funding
      366. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the large-scale sport infrastructure fund will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27002/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      368. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by her since her appointment will be provided; the roles...
    • Culture Policy
      369. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent to date on the Galway 2020 project; the amount that was taxpayers' money; her plans to proceed with Galway 2020...
    • Irish Language
      370. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the imbalance in funding for the Irish language will start to be reversed in budget 2021; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Radio Broadcasting
      371. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when funding will be approved and actioned to make a radio station (details supplied) available on the FM wavelength. [27277/20]
    • Culture Policy
      372. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will make provision for a cultúrlann in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27336/20]
    • Sports Facilities
      373. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided to a voluntary organisation (details supplied) in respect of the ongoing costs of providing a sports...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Archaeological Sites
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when archaeological excavations will begin on the lands at Killlhill, Kill, County Kildare recently approved for residential...
    • Special Protection Areas
      375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied regarding the way the management plan is progressing for the special protection area and the special area...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Toon Wood, Macroom, County Cork will be designated as a natural heritage area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Parks
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Policy
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects to be in a position to assist the public housing capital programme with particular reference to...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to include the refurbishment costs in addition to the capital...
    • Fire Stations
      380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a project (details supplied); when funding will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pyrite Incidence
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason houses that are not principal private residences are excluded from the mica pyrite scheme; if they were excluded in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the quarter 2 2020 social housing pipeline report will be published. [26571/20]
    • Local Authority Staff
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional staffing resources requested from his Department by county and city councils nationally in each of the years...
    • Housing Provision
      385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry for social, voluntary and temporary accommodation; and if he will...
    • Electoral Process
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to amend section 62 of the Electoral Act 1992, which was found to be incompatible with Article 16.3.2 of the...
    • Register of Electors
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend and reform the register of electors to reduce the incidences of duplication on same and to ensure that...
    • Architectural Heritage
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the designation of a historic site (details supplied) as a protected structure; if he will recommend the listing...
    • Departmental Policy Reviews
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the national architect policy; and if a draft of the policy will be brought to the housing committee before...
    • Local Authority Housing
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number on local authority housing waiting lists in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in counties Meath...
    • Water Services
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding under the multi-annual developer provided water services infrastructure resolution programme will be provided in...
    • Planning Issues
      392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to take to protect local authority development plans in view of the fact that the strategic housing...
    • Housing Policy
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review into co-living; the person or body leading the review; the number of meetings that have taken place...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in relation to their eligibility for the cessation of turf cutting...
    • Housing Policy
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to facilitating dialogue between local authorities in Dublin regarding the possibility of an...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current available supply of social and affordable housing; the number available in each category; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will introduce to prevent approved housing bodies and the credit unions with which they hold accounts from...
    • Housing Provision
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sheltered housing complexes that have been supported or supplied by his Department over the past ten years which...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant assistance available to assist long-term local authority residents who purchase a new property. [27070/20]
    • Planning Issues
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a further extension of time for planning permissions will be considered for housing developments due to the impact of...
    • Tenancy Protection Scheme
      404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider re-introducing the eviction ban in the event that the public health advice is that persons do not leave...
    • Vacant Sites
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of staff allocated to applying the vacant sites levy by local authority. [27212/20]
    • Grant Payments
      406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation for the disabled person’s grants in each of the years 2013 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form;...
    • Housing Issues
      407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the problems being experienced in the taking-in-charge of developer-led developments (details supplied). [27298/20]
    • Fire Service
      408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a national fire brigade service to allow for economies of scale in purchasing uniformity of training and...
    • Departmental Staff
      409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Travel Insurance
      410. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if clarification will be provided to persons (details supplied) due to travel to a country which has now been removed from the Green list in...
    • Northern Ireland
      411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will advocate for the State contributing to the legal bill of after their legal case of persons (details supplied) with the British...
    • Foreign Policy
      412. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the support being provided and or offered to assist with the fallout following the fire at Moria refugee camp particularly in view of...
    • Human Rights
      415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations he made to the Iranian authorities in advance of the execution of a person (details supplied); the assessment that has...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when construction works will commence on Ireland House in Tokyo, Japan; the estimated time-frame for completion; and estimated cost of...
    • Foreign Policy
      418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to engage with the Greek authorities to commence the immediate evacuation of Lesvos and the relocation of...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of overseas aid paid by Ireland to Mozambique annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27026/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      421. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • Foreign Policy
      422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with Spanish and EU authorities to secure the release of elected public representatives from Catalan held in...
    • Passport Applications
      423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the delay in processing the passport of a baby (details supplied) will be clarified and rectified; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      424. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase staff...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Properties
      425. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he is taking to address the dereliction of the military barracks site in Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Air Corps
      427. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the runway at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel was last resurfaced; and if there is funding available to have the runway resurfaced in quarter...
    • Naval Service
      428. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a tender will be put out before year end to replace the LÉ Eithne and LÉ Orla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26822/20]
    • Defence Forces Data
      429. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated full-year cost of increasing the Reserve Defence Force from 2,330 to 4,500. [26855/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      430. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      431. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a recruitment campaign will be launched for nurses to join the Defence Forces medical corps. [27140/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      432. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role played by the Defence Forces since the onset of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27207/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      433. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase staff...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Staff
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26352/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools, respectively, that applied for a physical education build and modernisation programme in both...
    • Education Policy
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to issues raised by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the need to provide additional funding for...
    • School Transport
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safety measures being used for school children on school buses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27039/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26285/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the state of readiness of the plan for online and distance teaching and learning for primary and secondary students regarding Covid-19; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a school (details supplied), which was first agreed in 2013; and if progress has been made towards the opening of the school....
    • School Staff
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be permitted to retain a 12th teacher. [26316/20]
    • State Examinations
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if leaving certificate students can appeal teacher-awarded grades received in September 2020. [26346/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) for Covid-19 expenses incurred by the school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that teaching principals have one release day per week. [26377/20]
    • Capitation Grants
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing capitation funding of €208 per pupil for the 2020-2021 academic year. [26381/20]
    • School Transport
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) to provide transport to attend school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the junior certificate results data for the class of 2020 were gathered for grind schools. [26496/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to ongoing issues at a school (details supplied) directly related to increased space requirements due to...
    • School Funding
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is still awaiting the reinstatement of the €5,000 additional ancillary grant that was expected in June...
    • Education Policy
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the guidelines for schools on the use of reduced hours for individual pupils will be completed; her plans to put in place an effective...
    • State Examinations
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeals system will be introduced for 2020 leaving certificate students which allows the calculated grades given to be challenged; and if...
    • Child Abuse
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the scheme to provide redress to survivors of abuse in primary schools such as a school (details supplied); when an...
    • School Curriculum
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an association (details supplied) was consulted before the revised guidelines for the agricultural science curriculum were published; and if...
    • School Transport
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will further intervene in the school transport system to avoid persons being left on the side of the road and to investigate the use of...
    • School Patronage
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new 2021 post-primary school patron selections; if the online patronage preference system will open for these schools...
    • School Admissions
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance regarding a school place for a student (details supplied); if an official in her Department will make contact with...
    • Schools Building Projects
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school building project application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26619/20]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an SNA employed by her Department can increase their pension contributions through additional voluntary contributions through her Department...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal by a school (details supplied) will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26708/20]
    • State Examinations
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards being put in place to ensure the 2021 leaving certificate exams will take place in June 2021; and the adjustments to ensure...
    • School Curriculum
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of RSE in schools has been completed; and when the changes will be introduced in schools. [26760/20]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount due to be spent on major refurbishment works being carried out at both Naas and Maynooth community colleges; and when works will be...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the urgent need for an SNA in a school (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26840/20]
    • School Accommodation
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if her attention has been drawn to the fact the temporary accommodation...
    • School Transport
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pupils of a school (details supplied) will receive additional bus transportation to address the lack of social distancing and the bus...
    • School Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 15 September 2020, if the school appealed a staff reduction as a result of a fall in pupil numbers...
    • Special Educational Needs
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional ASD supports will be rolled out in secondary schools in Shannon, County Clare in view of the fact that there are at least five...
    • State Examinations
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of leaving certificate students in 2020 that were downgraded one or more grades in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 subjects, respectively in...
    • School Accommodation
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building promised for a school (details supplied). [26948/20]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of national schools in Cahir, County Tipperary; if discussions have been held with the patron and trustees of the...
    • State Examinations
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will now permit the estimated grades of students to be used where they have been unfairly downgraded by the algorithm which was...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by her since her appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • School Funding
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for an extension and per cent for art scheme will be further progressed for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism spectrum disorder primary level classes and places in County Wexford; the listing of each school that has a special ASD...
    • School Staff
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher is paid only for contracted teaching time; if not, if payment also includes additional tasks required of a teacher that is open to...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27178/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tenders for school builds issued; the status of each tender; and the date the tender was issued in each of the years 2016 to 2019...
    • School Transport
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the take-up of the recently announced post-primary school transport grant for eligible students by county in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the ongoing development of a campus for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27196/20]
    • School Transport
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if late post-primary school transport applicants that eventually secure seats will be refunded part of their annual bus ticket fee in view of the...
    • Education Policy
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to clarify the practice of reduced timetables taking into consideration time limits, recording, reporting, alternative educational...
    • Education Data
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to publish disaggregated data on the basis of gender, disability, socio-economic background and ethnicity in secondary schools to...
    • Traveller Education
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional ring-fenced educational supports for Traveller pupils; her plans to provide funding to independent Traveller...
    • School Enrolments
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size in primary and post-primary schools; the way in which Ireland compares to other EU Member States; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools nationwide that have teaching principals; if a senior official from her Department will meet the boards of...
    • School Funding
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a funding query raised in correspondence with her Department and directly by this Deputy regarding a school (details supplied); if...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the issues raised in correspondence by this Deputy and the principal of a school (details supplied) relating to the urgent...
    • Disability Services Provision
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all AIM assistants have been allocated for the academic year. [27271/20]
    • School Transport
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student can swap a school transport bus route (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27272/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of when a new school (details supplied) can be expected to be delivered or construction commence. [27275/20]
    • Departmental Meetings
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had with a union (details supplied) following a ballot of its members on 18 September 2020 in relation to a...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the national educational psychologists will be permitted to make schools visits to make necessary assessments for students that have been...
    • State Examinations
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal advice her Department received which has resulted in the class ranking of leaving certificate students being released; and when she...
    • School Transport
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27350/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests on hand from her Department and from State agencies under the aegis of her Department for approval to increase staff...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Zero-hour Contracts
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate per hour a permanent shift worker on a zero-hour contract is entitled to be paid when assessing outstanding holiday...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will facilitate the provision of pensions for community employment supervisors as per the recommendations of the 2008...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if inquiries will be made in the case of a taxi driver (details supplied) who was placed on a lower pandemic unemployment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to the chauffeur sector in view of the extreme hardship experienced by the sector due to the Covid-19...
    • Citizens Information Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which the decision to restructure the corporate governance arrangements of the Citizens’ Information...
    • Birth Certificates
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a past birth certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • SOLAS Administration
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be considered for a SOLAS training course while temporarily out of work due to Covid-19....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has spoken to the Minister for Finance about extending the pandemic unemployment rate at full pay to September 2021....
    • Pension Provisions
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the establishment of a commission on pensions as per the programme for Government; the timeline for its...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a community employment scheme extension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the pandemic unemployment payment until April 2021. [26337/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the Covid-19 illness benefit into 2021; the way in which persons can access the scheme; and...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if short-time working under jobseeker’s benefit was claimable at the same time as the employer was claiming the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a phased restoration to the income disregard for carer’s allowance will be expanded to ensure that those on average...
    • Carer's Support Grant
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the carer’s support grant (details supplied) from €1,700 to...
    • Carer's Benefit
      540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending eligibility for the carer’s benefit to include self-employed persons or...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending eligibility for the domiciliary care allowance to children residing in hospital...
    • State Pensions
      542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to developing a pension solution for family carers that due to extended periods out of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 emergency measures will be amended to make persons over 66 years of age that would still be working if not...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who earlier in 2020 had their non-contributory pension reviewed and suspended pending the...
    • Invalidity Pension
      548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a redundancy waiver or similar intervention will be reintroduced for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment in...
    • Illness Benefit
      551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments a person (details supplied) qualifies for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26563/20]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the duration of community employment schemes due to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 as amended by section 13 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate the full €350 pandemic unemployment payment for workers in the arts and live entertainments...
    • Disability Allowance
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [26753/20]
    • Child Benefit
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an additional allowance will be given to students from low income families and an extension of child benefit beyond 18...
    • Carer's Allowance
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (detail supplied) in County Cork is entitled to arrears of payment in respect of a carer’s allowance...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to allegations by workers at company (details supplied) of the improper application of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if socioeconomic research is being conducted into the short-term and longitudinal effects of the Covid-19 pandemic...
    • Social Insurance
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if backdating social insurance coverage to 1973 will be considered for members of religious orders who were excluded prior to...
    • State Pensions
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension will be reviewed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26837/20]
    • Budget Process
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider a submission (details supplied) regarding the budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rural Social Scheme
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the removal of time limits for the rural social scheme will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant for the pandemic unemployment payment who has been made unemployed as a result of a lay-off due to the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for payment of arrears due on the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Employment Schemes
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding community employment workers cutting grass in housing estates in which the majority of the residents...
    • Social Insurance
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the Tax Strategy Group Budget 2021 proposal to adjust the class S PRSI rate for self-employed workers; her views...
    • Carer's Allowance
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s allowance payment will be reinstated for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Carer's Benefit
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be processed; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27046/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by her since her appointment will be provided; the...
    • JobPath Programme
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount to date paid to Seetec and Turas Nua regarding the JobPath programme. [27080/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the operational guidelines in place for applicants that have previously accessed Covid-19 income supports who are now...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person will be examined (details supplied). [27134/20]
    • Disability Allowance
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application review by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Christmas bonus will be paid in 2020. [27162/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had discussions in relation to a reversal of the cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment; if so, the estimated...
    • Departmental Circulars
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will place on the record of the Houses of the Oireachtas a copy of a circular sent to social welfare representatives...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Defence Forces personnel that received family income supplement or working family payment in each of the years...
    • SOLAS Administration
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be considered for a SOLAS training course while temporarily out of work due to Covid-19....
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available to a person (details supplied); when they will be entitled to a payment in their own right; and if she...
    • Departmental Staff
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of requests on hand from her Department and from State agencies under the aegis of her Department for approval to...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Early Years Sector
      594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will consider a proposal (details supplied) in Budget 2021. [26593/20]
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Ireland has only allowed a minimal number of children in from the Moria refugee camp; and his plans to allow more children into...
    • Youth Work Supports
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be increased investment for youth work in County Cork in Budget 2021 to support increased resources for young persons in view...
    • Youth Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the financial supports allocated to an organisation (details supplied) and its new national training centre in Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if...
    • Child and Family Agency
      600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children removed from their parents by Tusla in each of the past five years at birth or later; the number of reunification...
    • Child Detention Centres
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will publish the report into Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus commissioned from persons (details supplied); and if not,...
    • Child and Family Agency
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children and cases awaiting the allocation of a social worker; the number of these children and cases in north County...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it will be ensured that no parents are penalised in obtaining the benefit of the ECCE scheme for their child as a consequence of...
    • Foster Care
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of mothers of children in foster care that have died in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the number of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid by Tusla in each of its 17 service areas to lawyers representing GALs for each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in...
    • Children in Care
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children of Traveller ethnicity taken into State care in each of the 17 service areas of Tusla in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Childcare Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the reported difficulties that some childcare providers have in operating the IT system pertaining to the schemes provided by...
    • Departmental Data
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers that commenced operation of the early childhood care and education scheme prior to the activation of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the financial support provided by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) since 2010, on an annual basis. [26511/20]
    • Departmental Data
      614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of unaccompanied children that arrived here from Greece in 2019 following the agreement in 2018 to accept 36 unaccompanied...
    • Foster Care
      616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of mothers of children in foster care and, separately, children in foster care who have died in each year since 2015 in each of...
    • Children in Care
      618. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children of Traveller ethnicity taken into State care in each of Tusla's 17 service areas in each of the years from 2015 to...
    • Departmental Investigations
      620. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if media reports in respect of an organisation (details supplied) and allegations of misconduct are being investigated; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Data
      621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the private companies that provide services in respect of residential services on behalf of the State under the auspices of the HSE or...
    • Children in Care
      623. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have died in the State care in each of the years from 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, by age, geographical...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      624. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an apology will be issued for the shame and stigma imposed on unmarried mothers and their children through the policies and practices of...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      636. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      637. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated shortage of early years staff; his plans to address the matter; if the eligibility criteria has been considered for those...
    • Childcare Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has had regard to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to the childcare sector. [27126/20]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      639. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the independently appointed Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby...
    • Child and Family Agency
      641. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has called into serious question the legality of...
    • Adoption Data
      642. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether the existing situation regarding access to records of forced family separation is highly problematic and that...
    • Data Protection
      643. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under the GDPR, according to the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      646. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he acknowledges that adopted persons, survivors and advocates have not called for unrestricted use or open public access to the archive...
    • Adoption Data
      648. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether adopted persons personal data access and contact with natural family members are separate issues; and if he will make...
    • National Archives
      654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether, as demonstrated by his proposed legislation, the Houses of the Oireachtas has the power to legislate in order that...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Admissions
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that reapplicants that sat the leaving certificate in previous years are not locked out of third-level education...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Covid-19 safety guidelines and rules which apply to the English language education and English as a foreign language sector; if these are the...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of letters and emails received regarding students that had issues with their SUSI grant applications in each of the past five years....
    • Student Grant Scheme
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that applied for a SUSI grant in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of students that were...
    • Student Support Schemes
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that persons born and resident here that are not Irish, EU, UK, EEA or Swiss nationals will be considered as being students...
    • Research Funding
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the EU national leaders agreed compromise regarding the EU long-term budget that entails a massive cut to the planned...
    • Third Level Staff
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or the Higher Education Authority has given consideration to the introduction of either a voluntary redundancy scheme or early...
    • Third Level Costs
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure by each university on hotel accommodation in each of the years from 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [26542/20]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the inclusion of bakers within apprenticeship programmes offered by education and training boards; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Institutions
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if construction has commenced of a new sports science, health and recreational building at the Tallaght campus of Technological University...
    • Third Level Fees
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider decreasing the €3,000 maximum rate of the student contribution in view of the fact that many students will not be...
    • Third Level Education
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the postgraduate courses announced by him in July 2020 will open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27034/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and...
    • Student Accommodation
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who have paid for accommodation at NUIG will be reimbursed as their courses are now online; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Institutions
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken by Trinity College Dublin to ensure a course transfer for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Graduate Nursing Scheme
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student nurses, by institution, due to begin placement in November 2020, in tabular form. [27188/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase staff...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Direct Provision System
      685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will conduct an investigation into the management of the contracts of a company (details supplied) for direct...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been refused entry to the State for a failure to complete the passenger locator form; and if she...
    • Public Inquiries
      689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to establish a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Garda Resources
      690. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has requested further funding since the last round of supplementary estimates. [26308/20]
    • Garda Overtime
      691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of overtime paid to members of An Garda Síochána by rank of officer and by county from March to date in...
    • Protected Disclosures
      692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the investigation into the protected disclosure by an employee of the Irish Prison Service (details supplied) will be...
    • Residency Permits
      693. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline of the renewal application for an Irish residence permit for a person (details supplied); when it is expected a...
    • Prison Investigations
      694. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of current investigations that were suspended in the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Prison Service
      695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources and additional funding she has granted to the Irish Prison Service in 2020 in the context of the Covid-19...
    • Protected Disclosures
      696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protected disclosures made to her in relation to the Irish Prison Service in 2019 and to date in 2020; and the...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has met or plans to meet and or engage with a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Work Permits
      698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to work in a skilled position; and if there are exceptions to the rule. [26425/20]
    • Direct Provision System
      700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has had officials examine the diet in direct provision centres with reports alleging that the quality of the food is not...
    • Garda Deployment
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dates she expects the next two cohorts of trained Garda recruits or probationers to pass through Templemore Garda College...
    • Immigration Data
      703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for a labour market access permission pursuant to the European Communities (Receptions Conditions)...
    • Garda Deployment
      704. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the allocation of gardaí to the K district, Dublin by station. [26564/20]
    • International Protection
      706. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to accept and grant international protection to refugees affected by the fires in the Moria refugee camp in Greece;...
    • Immigration Status
      707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Garda Equipment
      708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda vehicles allocated to the Sligo-Leitrim division in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020;...
    • Crime Data
      709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests made for breach of the in-camera rule in the Family Law Courts in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to...
    • Garda Stations
      710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the necessary information from the Garda Commissioner in respect of Parliamentary Question Nos. 930 and 932...
    • Garda Training
      711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects all Garda specialist training courses either held in Garda Headquarters or the Garda Training College to...
    • Garda Recruitment
      712. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to have 15,420 sworn gardaí by the end of 2021; and the estimated cost for same to be increased to...
    • Garda Equipment
      713. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and percentage of the Garda roads policing unit fleet that are currently equipped with the automatic number plate...
    • Child Safety
      715. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff nationally involved in accessing material on mobile phones, computers and so on relating to child sexual...
    • Peace Commissioners
      716. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the number of peace commissioners for the district of Thurles, County Tipperary is sufficient. [26869/20]
    • Direct Provision System
      717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who died in direct provision centres here in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020 by age,...
    • Deportation Orders
      718. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minors born in Ireland who were deported in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on...
    • International Protection
      720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 whose application for protection has been found to...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when members will be appointed to the management board of An Garda Síochána; the number she will appoint; the process...
    • Private Security Authority
      722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider an extension to the Private Security Authority, PSA, licensing period for those working in the sector and...
    • Parental Leave
      723. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend parental leave benefit in the upcoming budget; the details of the length of a planned extension; and if she...
    • Citizenship Applications
      724. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship received in each of the past three years; the number of successful applicants in...
    • Citizenship Status
      725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the long-standing application for citizenship made by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      726. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 7 July 2020, the date on which the decision support service will be established...
    • Residency Permits
      727. 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...
    • Departmental Properties
      728. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department or other Departments are planning further involvement with a former facility (details supplied) in County...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      729. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by her since her appointment will be provided; the...
    • Citizenship Status
      730. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the citizenship requirement will be clarified with regard to the reckonable residency calculation; the consequence in the...
    • Residency Permits
      731. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that persons born and resident here who are not Irish, EU, UK, EEA or Swiss nationals will get permission...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      734. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Ministerial Communications
      735. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has spoken to the UK Home Secretary since her appointment. [27143/20]
    • Citizenship Applications
      737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality , further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 10 September 2020, if information emailed to her Department and acknowledged on...
    • Residency Permits
      738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed to obtain residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Deportation Orders
      739. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a case pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, as amended, in the case...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sex offenders on the sex offenders register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27186/20]
    • Garda Stations
      743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects Fitzgibbon Street Garda station in Dublin 1 to re-open. [27217/20]
    • Garda Powers
      744. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she envisages legislation granting An Garda Síochána enhanced powers, regarding the use of scramblers and quads,...
    • Data Protection
      745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend the Data Protection Act 2018 to prevent the use of children's data for the purposes of advertising; and if...
    • Community Policing
      746. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason funding for the community policing forum in the northinner city ceased in May 2019. [27301/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      747. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of requests on hand from her Department, and from State agencies under the aegis of her Department, for approval to...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE is acting in an inconsistent and discriminatory way towards post-primary teachers and students by...
    • Third Level Education
      750. To ask the Minister for Health if those undertaking educational psychology and counselling psychology doctorates will receive grants and funding as is the case for clinical psychology...
    • Education Costs
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration being given to ending the disparity in financial support between clinical psychology doctoral courses and educational and counselling...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the amount Ireland has contributed to the RescEU stockpile to combat the Covid-19 crisis in Europe; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services Provision
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) can revert to a respite house. [27081/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the number of passenger locator forms filled in to date by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27231/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he expects to meet the requirements of the hospital building programme including that which refers to Naas General Hospital and all other...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to meet the costs of the health capital programme in all areas nationwide in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if extra funding will be made available for home help to ensure that elderly persons can remain in their own homes for as long as possible. [27117/20]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      761. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the acid reducer drug Major Famotidine on the list of drugs covered under the general medical scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Dental Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding for PPE is being provided to dental practices that cater for medical card patients; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26290/20]
    • Maternity Services
      764. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to facilitate partners of pregnant women accompanying them to their maternity hospital appointments; the date on which these accompaniments will...
    • Hospital Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional ICU beds that have been provided since March 2020 nationally and in Naas General Hospital, respectively; the number of new hospital...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if data (details supplied) will be provided regularly in order to increase public clarity and confidence in relation to the reasoning and decision making...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a refusal to be swabbed for Covid-19; the refusal rate at the centre; the legal powers of the HSE to...
    • Stroke Care
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons living with a stroke related disability or who have had a stroke in Ireland; the area from which the figure comes from; if research has...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of therapist hours going to testing centre duties by each CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26319/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      771. To ask the Minister for Health when training services for patients with mental health challenges will be reopened; the reason for the delay in reopening these vital centres; and if an urgent...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if provision will be made for those forced to travel long distances for Covid-19 tests, such as persons in west County Clare who are being called to a testing...
    • Health Services Staff
      773. To ask the Minister for Health when the anomaly of inferior terms and conditions offered to consultants in public health in comparison to the conditions of hospital consultants will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of level 3 Covid-10 restrictions and possible further restrictions on businesses (details supplied) in the Dublin area; and the guidance available...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      775. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26328/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the day services for persons with disabilities that remain closed; and the date that each centre is expected to reopen in tabular form. [26329/20]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      779. To ask the Minister for Health when the position of speech and language therapist will be filled at west Limerick children's services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26354/20]
    • Home Help Service
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding required to clear the home support waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26360/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      782. To ask the Minister for Health when the specific guidance will be published for those aged over 70 years of age under Covid-19 level 2 restrictions. [26362/20]
    • Care of the Elderly
      784. To ask the Minister for Health when the change to the presence on-site of a gerontologist and a registered nurse took place; the person or body responsible for the change in regulations...
    • Health Services Funding
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the possibility of funding for an organisation (details supplied) on a more sustainable basis through the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Care of the Elderly
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to delivering a carers guarantee to providing access to a core basket of supports including respite, home care and training to...
    • Carer's Leave
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing an integrated statutory scheme for the provision of home and long-term care including the right to a carer needs...
    • Medical Cards
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the carer general practitioner visit card to carers who are in receipt of the non-means tested carer’s...
    • Mobility Allowance
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to introducing the transport support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26399/20]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing additional funding for the National Treatment Purchase Fund to enable it to be extended so that the number of...
    • National Carers' Strategy
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to reviewing and updating the national carers' strategy and the implementation of an action plan for the period 2020-23; and if...
    • Maternity Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a maternity care Covid-19 taskforce to deal with such care during the Covid-19 crisis; and if not, the reason therefor. [26415/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if it is a policy of the HSE to categorise a person as a close contact requiring testing and possibly self-isolation if he or she is identified as such by the...
    • Mental Health Policy
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by a group (details supplied) regarding the discrepancies in funding for different avenues of third-level...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 tracker application will be updated such that when a person is identified as a close contact and takes the necessary action, his or her close...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      802. To ask the Minister for Health if standardised format price lists for display in shops are to be implemented for the sale of tobacco products to consumers under the Public Health (Tobacco)...
    • Ambulance Service
      803. To ask the Minister for Health when the €350,000 allocated to the ambulance base in County Carlow which was committed to by the previous Government will be provided; when he expects...
    • Medical Cards
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card patients are being charged €20 for a flu vaccine, which is meant to be free in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Occupational Therapy
      805. To ask the Minister for Health when progress will be made on reducing waiting times in counties Carlow and Kilkenny for occupational therapy assessments, especially for those in routine and...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      806. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address increased demand for Covid-19 tests and facilitating those who do not have transportation; if the current demand on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      807. To ask the Minister for Health if the flu vaccine is being added to the school vaccination programme in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26445/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      808. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is being allocated to a service (details supplied) to cover extra costs involved in the recruitment of cleaners to comply with Covid-19 public...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      810. To ask the Minister for Health when progress will be made on reducing waiting times in early intervention speech and language therapy in counties Carlow and Kilkenny for assessments; if a...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which and the centres at which testing has taking place since 1 June 2020 in respect of serial Covid-19 testing at food processing plants; the...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all NPHET recommendations conveyed to him and his Department in respect of meat processing plants and the food processing industry; the actions...
    • Protected Disclosures
      815. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 740 of 15 September 2020, the number of protected disclosures made by HIQA staff directly to HIQA management in each of...
    • Dental Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the legal opinion obtained by his Department in 1996 regarding the reason dental technicians cannot register with the Dental Council; and if...
    • Primary Care Centres
      818. To ask the Minister for Health if his policy position and that of the HSE regarding the development of primary care centres will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      819. To ask the Minister for Health if a summary of the evidence that sporting participation among children, especially team sports, can be a factor in the spread of Covid-19 cases will be...
    • Medical Cards
      820. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE clinical advisory group report on medical cards will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26492/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the funding being made available to a person (details supplied) with disabilities whodoes not have access to their usual outlets or day care as a result of...
    • Mental Health Guidelines
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols for giving sedatives to persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26503/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health budget between 2007 and 2012, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26507/20]
    • Departmental Funding
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the financial support provided by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) since 2010, on an annual basis. [26513/20]
    • Dental Services
      826. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to alleviate the waiting times being imposed on children and their parents when availing of State provided orthodontic care in counties Mayo and...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      828. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the waiting lists for speech and language therapy in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26557/20]
    • European Health Insurance Card
      829. To ask the Minister for Health if an Irish citizen with a European health insurance card, formerly known as an E111 card, will be covered in the UK post Brexit [26559/20]
    • Hospital Data
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient discharges from hospitals in which patients were discharged to no fixed address including bed and breakfasts, hostels, hotels and so on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plan to provide dentists in private practice with PPE; and if he will consider short-term supports for the sector to meet the increased cost...
    • Mental Health Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered developing an out-of-hours crisis service to give persons quick and easy access to mental health services in addition to investment in...
    • Paediatric Services
      834. To ask the Minister for Health when a diabetic nurse in the paediatric ward of the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath will be appointed (details supplied). [26596/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      835. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the extended waiting list for patients awaiting appointments for ear, nose and throat procedures. [26597/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      836. 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. [26599/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the reason teachers are not automatically tested when a student tests positive in a class; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26600/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the number of close contacts contacted via the Covid-19 tracker application since it was launched. [26602/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      840. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out testing of antibodies in the population to see the percentage that may have had Covid-19 similar to a system in Germany. [26603/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Covid-19 testing units have not been opened at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26607/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Irish-produced Covid-19 testing kits with a 99% accuracy rate and a result in ten minutes are not being used in place of the PCR test which is known...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Covid-19 testers in the Ballymullen test centre, Tralee, County Kerry are not provided with the FFP2 face masks in view of their close contact with...
    • HSE Staff
      845. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1031 of 8 September 2020, if the HSE plans to employ more psychology staff; if it has attempted to employ additional...
    • Hospital Staff
      846. To ask the Minister for Health when up to 500 unfilled consultant posts will be filled; and when the pay inequity in which persons employed after 2012 get paid less will end. [26616/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who are attending for testing at Covid-19 test centres are recording the testing process and staff...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation that took place in a school (details supplied) on 16 September 2020; and if he will provide a clear explanation in relation to...
    • Protected Disclosures
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made to his Department by nursing home staff in relation to Covid-19 in 2020 [26640/20]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      850. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public submissions made to the expert panel on nursing homes established by his predecessor earlier in 2020; the progress of the panel to date;...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the process for Covid-19 testing specifically for routine testing in nursing homes; the location swabs are sent; the average wait time; and the longest wait...
    • Medical Cards
      857. To ask the Minister for Health the changes made to the criteria of medical card applications; when the change will be commenced and introduced for new applications; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if drug and alcohol support groups will be exempt from the ban on indoor gatherings under level 3 of restrictions as an essential service which can operate in...
    • Health Services Charges
      859. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) in County Clare will be reimbursed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26690/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      860. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of teduglutide for children with short bowel syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26691/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      861. To ask the Minister for Health if the flu vaccine for children aged two to twelve will be made available for free for the 2021 winter period and beyond; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      862. To ask the Minister for Health when the construction of a new acute mental health unit at Sligo University Hospital will be completed; the estimated cost of the project; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      863. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the actions of an employer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26694/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff from mental health services that have been seconded to work in the Covid-19 testing and tracing regime; and the number of community mental...
    • General Practitioner Services
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access a family general practitioner in their locality [26743/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in County Clare are being forced to travel to Limerick city to access testing for Covid-19 when there is a testing centre in Cusack Park,...
    • Medicinal Products
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the only treatment for persons with dry age-related macular degeneration disease, MacuShield, is not covered by the medical card reimbursement...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      873. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the FreeStyle Libre device available for type 1 through the long-term illness scheme (details supplied). [26755/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      874. To ask the Minister for Health if there are funding streams available for persons who contract Covid-19 abroad and incur medical expenses in their treatment. [26767/20]
    • HSE Functions
      875. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the national psychology placement office within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26780/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      876. To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible to see if a person who has tested positive for Covid-19 has not observed the isolation period, potentially infecting others by using the...
    • Mental Health Services
      878. To ask the Minister for Health when urgent local psychology services will be made available to the population of Maynooth, County Kildare in view of the urgent need to provide such services...
    • Medical Cards
      879. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [26816/20]
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      880. To ask the Minister for Health if calls for an increase in core funding for the drug and alcohol task forces (details supplied) will be supported with regard to budget 2021; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      881. To ask the Minister for Health when the day care services in counties Laois and Offaly will reopen, in particular the day care centre in Mountmellick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Research and Training
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions are in place for medical students studying abroad who are returning home due to Covid-19 to complete their practical training within the medical...
    • Health Services
      884. To ask the Minister for Health the medical assessment units, urgent care centres and minor injuries clinics that have extended hours of opening to weekends since 2017, in tabular form. [26826/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      885. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the expansion and upgrade of the intensive care unit at Tallaght University Hospital; when works will commence; and the...
    • Disability Services Provision
      886. To ask the Minister for Health when early intervention services, including consultations, and the intake of new clients will resume in view of the fact the waiting list is over a year; and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of doubling the number of beds in the national burns unit at St. James's Hospital. [26847/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      889. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of a full-time craniofacial surgeon for paediatrics at Children’s Health Ireland, Temple Street. [26849/20]
    • Ambulance Service
      890. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of purchasing, equipping and staffing 18 additional ambulances. [26850/20]
    • Medical Cards
      891. To ask the Minister for Health when the adjusted income limits for over 70s medical cards will come into force (details supplied). [26872/20]
    • Home Help Service
      892. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided in County Wexford; the number of clients who received home help; the number of hours provided by the HSE; the number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      894. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an increase in drug or alcohol abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic; if his Department has received representations from...
    • Suicide Incidence
      895. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an increase in the suicide rate here during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if his Department has received representations from...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      896. To ask the Minister for Health if vetting was conducted of the experts appointed by the previous Minister for Health to the expert panel on nursing homes established in 2020. [26888/20]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      897. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 392 of 15 October 2019, the estimated cost in 2021 of reducing the monthly threshold for the drug payment scheme by...
    • Autism Support Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no diagnostic pathway for adults with query diagnosis of autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26901/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      900. To ask the Minister for Health when cancer treatment in Galway University Hospital will commence for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      901. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to introduce the Dexcom G5 CGM transmitter for patients with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26904/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      902. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Temple Street hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26905/20]
    • Disability Services Funding
      904. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will financially support Milltown House, Carndonagh, County Donegal to reopen its hydrotherapy pool; if his attention has been drawn to the serious...
    • Hospital Facilities
      905. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion of the upgrade works to Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal. [26914/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      908. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 9 September 2020, the National Immunisation Office policy on the availability of the HPV vaccine for an adult who...
    • Counselling Services
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation in 2020 for the counselling in primary care service for each of the nine community healthcare organisations; the amount in each CHO...
    • Primary Care Centres
      910. To ask the Minister for Health when the commencement of the building of the primary healthcare centre in Finglas on the site of the Church of the Annunciation will take place; and if he will...
    • National Children's Hospital
      912. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the delay to the construction of the new children’s hospital due to Covid-19; the amount this delay and halting in construction added to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      913. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought or will be seeking for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to extend the Covid-19-related pension abatement waiver for HSE rehires...
    • Health Services Provision
      914. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include Monasterevin, County Kildare in the courier service for blood samples to Naas Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide for general practitioners to refer patients directly for MRI scans in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26970/20]
    • Primary Care Centres
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make provision for a primary care centre in Monasterevin, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26971/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      917. To ask the Minister for Health if the delivery of the flu vaccine is delayed until 29 September 2020 and that due to quantity issues the number of flu vaccines that can be ordered by general...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      918. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a Covid-19 testing centre in the south County Kildare that is convenient to persons of north Laois and south Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      919. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to bring legislative changes in respect of the nursing home support scheme before Dáil Éireann that will cap contributions based on...
    • Dental Services
      921. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to deal with the under-resourcing of the HSE community dental service compounded by the redeployment of dentists from the service to...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      922. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move to saliva-based testing for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26989/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      923. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a programme to support nursing and other residential homes which are being impacted during the Covid-19 pandemic to improve ICT facilities...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      924. To ask the Minister for Health when the resumption of normal diabetes reviews in hospitals and primary care will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26994/20]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      926. To ask the Minister for Health if officials from the drugs policy unit of his Department have met with which addiction recovery support meeting event organisers and stakeholders regarding...
    • Disability Services Provision
      932. To ask the Minister for Health when early intervention services for children with Downs syndrome will resume (details supplied). [27023/20]
    • General Practitioner Services
      933. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a general practitioner service in Milltown, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27033/20]
    • Hospital Data
      935. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that saw a consultant, by type, in the first eight months of 2020; the number and breakdown for same in 2019; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total cost in 2021 of a total population vaccination campaign, assuming near 100% uptake with reasonable exceptions for those that cannot be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      937. To ask the Minister for Health the total Covid-19-related expenditure incurred by his Department to date; and if this will be counted a pre-committed expenditure for Budget 2021. [27042/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      939. To ask the Minister for Health if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and responsibilities...
    • Dental Services
      940. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to introducing early years dental screening of younger children (details supplied) for orofacial myofunction disorders; and if...
    • Disability Services Provision
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child development clinics and associated services which took place in the first eight months of 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      942. To ask the Minister for Health when a second consultant endocrinologist will be appointed to Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27078/20]
    • Health Services
      943. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27084/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      944. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of each Covid-19 testing centre or testing facility in the State by county. [27103/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      945. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines for persons when a member of their household displays symptoms of Covid-19; if they should self-isolate until a negative test is returned; if...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a Covid-19 test in County Wicklow from the initial referral to receiving the test results; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant consultant obstetrician posts within the public health service; the estimated full yearly cost of filling the vacancies in tabular form....
    • Health Services Staff
      950. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant child psychiatrist posts within CHO8. [27136/20]
    • Organ Transplant Services
      951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart transplants that were carried out in the Mater Hospital in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [27137/20]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      952. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to an assessment of needs on compassionate grounds for a child (details supplied). [27147/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      953. To ask the Minister for Health if the restrictions will be reviewed and amended with regard to chosen partners being allowed accompany and offer support to women in labour in maternity...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      954. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); the status of the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27165/20]
    • Medical Cards
      956. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 10 September 2020, when the relevant section will be commenced of the Health (General Practitioner Service and...
    • Hospital Services
      957. To ask the Minister for Health if the complete full removal of vaginal mesh is carried out in Ireland; and if so, the number of such procedures carried successfully in 2020. [27170/20]
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      960. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme has been withdrawn to women that have transvaginal mesh; and if so, when the scheme was withdrawn; and the reason therefor....
    • Hospital Services
      961. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given a date for a hip replacement operation at the Adelaide and Meath hospitals. [27175/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      962. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 testing centres in north County Cork will be reinstated. [27189/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      963. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to pay student nurses on placement during the Covid-19 pandemic. [27191/20]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      965. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of oversight in an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27216/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      966. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult and child flu vaccine doses respectively received by the HSE to date in September 2020; the number that have been distributed to doctors...
    • Disability Support Services
      967. To ask the Minister for Health the date when each adult disability training centre in CHO2 will be reopened to all users post the Covid-19 closure; the reason for the delay in reopening...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      968. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27221/20]
    • Physiotherapy Services
      969. To ask the Minister for Health when HSE early intervention physiotherapist services which has been impacted by Covid-19 will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27222/20]
    • Hospital Equipment
      970. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by University Hospital Waterford to provide insulin pump therapy as a treatment option to all eligible adults with type 1 diabetes; the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      971. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medicinal cannabis; the position regarding the delivery of medicinal cannabis by the HSE nationwide originating from another EU state;...
    • Hospital Equipment
      972. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the University Hospital Waterford to provide insulin pump therapy as a treatment option to all eligible adults with type 1 diabetes;...
    • Medical Waste Disposal
      973. To ask the Minister for Health if a clinical waste yellow bin will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27241/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      974. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a scoliosis surgeon in Cork University Hospital; if not, the reason for this; and if there are plans to recruit one. [27243/20]
    • Hospital Services
      975. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reply to correspondence (details supplied) regarding bed capacity at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      977. To ask the Minister for Health when ShannonDoc will reopen in Roscrea, County Tipperary. [27281/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      979. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum distance persons have to travel to get a Covid-19 test; his views on whether it is suitable that some persons have to travel 100 km for a test; and...
    • Medical Cards
      981. To ask the Minister for Health when the income eligibility levels for qualification for a medical card for those over 70 years of age will be increased as was provided for in the health...
    • Autism Support Services
      982. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be assessed. [27287/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      983. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the flu vaccine has been delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27288/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      985. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time from being tested for Covid-19 to the patient receiving their results in CHO9. [27293/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      986. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds available in crisis mental health services by CHO in tabular form. [27297/20]
    • Hospital Admissions
      987. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an instance in which a frontline worker who had a broken bone had to wait a number of days to be treated; his views on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      988. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding contract tracing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27300/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Health if he will exempt psychologists working within the mental health services in north Dublin for redeployment to test centres in view of the fact that many mental...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      990. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements have been made whilst Covid-19 restrictions on travel are in place to accommodate persons using medicinal cannabis preparations under licence;...
    • Palliative Care Services
      992. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of establishing an inpatient palliative care hospice for the midlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27334/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for persons in County Clare getting access to their yearly flu vaccination; when the vaccine will be rolled out; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      994. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons with stage four cancer are being refused access to a medical card; his plans to rectify the issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to increase staff levels; the number...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken on foot of the inclusion within the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, correspondence of 7 August 2020...
    • Agrifood Sector
      997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that have been made available to the agrifood industry to support it through the impact of Brexit and the Covid-19...
    • Fishing Industry
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of bluefin tuna that were caught in Irish fishing waters and landed here in the past five years; the monetary value of the...
    • Budget Process
      999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the receipt of the pre-budget submission by an organisation (details supplied) will be acknowledged; and if he will make a...
    • Seafood Sector
      1000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding oyster licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26364/20]
    • Beef Industry
      1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make available the minutes and correspondence of meetings between Bord Bia and farming organisations that his Department...
    • Forestry Sector
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the exploration of introducing stepping stone forests here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Meat Processing Plants
      1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances to date in 2020 in which mechanical grading in meat factories has been suspended and reverted to manual...
    • Horticulture Sector
      1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he plans to put in place in accordance with the commitments made in the programme for Government to ensure it will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1007. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of temporary veterinary inspectors who have been employed at each relevant food processing plant; the number of temporary...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the sheep welfare scheme into 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26464/20]
    • Beef Industry
      1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions received in respect of the proposal for a protected geographical indication, PGI, application for beef;...
    • Tillage Sector
      1010. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an estimate by an association (details supplied) indicating that the value of the tillage sector...
    • Beef Exports
      1011. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if cattle that are exported live will be considered under the formulation of the new beef exceptional aid measure, BEAM scheme; and...
    • Beef Industry
      1012. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made by his Department to protect the beef industry in view of the ongoing Brexit uncertainties; and if he will...
    • GLAS Issues
      1013. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the GLAS scheme for farmers that are in their fifth year and whose contracts are coming to an end can roll over into 2021...
    • Food Labelling
      1014. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review and reform the systems in place for regulation of labelling on geographic indication, GI, spirit products. [26598/20]
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      1015. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of salaries, expenses and so on paid to members of the board of Horse Racing Ireland. [26823/20]
    • Bord Bia
      1016. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost in 2021 if the budget for marketing and promotional expenditure within An Bord Bia increased by 7%. [26856/20]
    • Herd Data
      1017. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the safeguards in place to ensure that only Departmental officials have access to the national herd database and that the...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      1018. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an ANC payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if a payment plan can be offered for outstanding...
    • Livestock Issues
      1019. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if restrictions on the herd of a person (details supplied) will be lifted; the reason for the delay; the status of same; and if he...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the issues raised (details supplied) by a local authority in relation to correspondence issued by...
    • Departmental Funding
      1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place and the timeframe for same to reimburse Leitrim County Council for the cost of a report being undertaken to...
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      1022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the land parcel identification system in County Louth. [27010/20]
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants that have not received at least 30% of payment under the basic payment scheme due to issues with their...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants waiting on Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme approval. [27014/20]
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1027. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme application by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed timeline for the online portal for forestry appeals and information regarding its form; the information...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the resolution passed by Monaghan County Council (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the request will receive a response; and...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the overall kill of cattle in the previous three years up to the end of August 2020 that came from feedlots [27205/20]
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      1033. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the records held by his Department relative to a positive TB test on an animal owned by a person (details supplied) will be...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give detailed consideration to the issues raised in a 2021 Budget Submission by an Association (details supplied); if the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the receipt of a pre-Budget submission from an organisation (details supplied) will be acknowledged; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      1038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of requests on hand from his Department and from State agencies under the aegis of his Department for approval to...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • National Volunteering Strategy
      1039. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the progress that has been made on the National Volunteering Strategy and the time frame for the...
    • Rural Development Programme
      1040. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26540/20]
    • Programme for Government
      1042. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that have been taken to advance the commitment in the Programme for Government to prioritise a State-led rural development...
    • Rural Development Programme
      1043. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided for a walking project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27027/20]
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      1044. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when further funding will be released to local authorities to complete local improvement scheme roads; the amount sought for such...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1045. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles...
    • Departmental Staff
      1046. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of requests on hand from her Department and from State agencies under the aegis of her Department for approval to increase...

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