Written answers

Tuesday, 24 November 2020

  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the urban regional development fund for Letterkenny, County Donegal. [38369/20]
    • Home Loan Scheme
      51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan drawdowns to date in 2020 in each local authority; and the average amount drawn down...
    • Housing Estates
      52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the taking in charge of housing estates process will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38207/20]
    • Housing Policy
      53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the age friendly strategy; the actions being taken to build on housing options for our ageing population; the...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that inspects private homeless hostels to ensure support services for persons who have become homeless are...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that public land, zoned for housing, will be developed as 100% social and affordable housing in view of the...
    • EU Regulations
      59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for implementing the European Commission REACH Committee’s regulation that would ban the use of lead gunshot;...
    • Local Authority Housing
      60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which affordable local authority housing is being adequately provided for the numbers currently on the local...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to take to reduce homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38334/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the eviction ban until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/20]
    • Mortgage Lending
      63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options under consideration for middle income families who cannot secure sufficient mortgages in circumstances in which...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further information will be provided regarding the new affordable purchase scheme as announced in budget 2021; if a timeline...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding he plans to allocate to the urban regeneration and development fund 2020 projects; when he plans to...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme
      68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce the specifics of a new affordable rental scheme. [38315/20]
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been procured or built by the State for persons with disabilities in each of the past five years...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his assessment of the cost effectiveness of the use of long-term leasing as a method of Part V delivery; and if he will make a...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which remain to be completed in order to sign the new guidelines for renewable generation at windfarms; and if he...
    • Housing Policy
      72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to introduce a social housing passport scheme to allow households to move from one local authority list to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be released for the building of public housing on 50 acres of council owned zoned landbanks in County Louth;...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of accommodation provided under the Traveller accommodation scheme in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 by each...
    • Local Authority Housing
      76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to change the practice by which development of council housing starts from a blank canvas design and to move to...
    • Údaráis Áitiúla
      77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil i gceist aige cur i ngníomh an dlí maidir le cúrsaí pleanála sa Ghaeltacht a phlé leis...
    • Local Authority Funding
      78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the rebate received to date by Cork County Council; and the actions he has taken to provide assurance to local...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide additional supports to allow persons living with a disability to remain in their own homes. [38283/20]
    • Commercial Rates
      80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the commercial rates waiver into the first quarter of 2021. [38477/20]
    • Architectural Heritage
      81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be supported to engage his officials and the HSE to carry out of...
    • Housing Policy
      83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the review of co-living; and if these findings point to the need to end the practice of same. [38264/20]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of capital investment in social housing in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38290/20]
    • Water Services
      85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be made available to provide sewerage mains in unsewered villages in County Clare. [36518/20]
    • Vacant Properties
      86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put measures in place to support the refurbishment of vacant property in towns and villages; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on clustered development within rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38297/20]
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current review of allocation schemes will take into account the requirement under law to promote Irish as the community...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a plan of public, cost rental and affordable housing will be implemented on the Oscar Traynor site and the timeframe for the...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the report prepared by his Department on the tenant purchase (incremental) scheme 2016; if, in view of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had any engagement with local authorities regarding the safe practice of Christmas markets in 2020; and if he will...
    • Land Development Agency
      97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed process for the development of the former Meath hospital site by the LDA; the potential proposal or scheme his...
    • Fire Service
      98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the establishment numbers for the retained fire service; and the number of existing number across all fire authorities in the...
    • Housing Policy
      101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of reference for his Departmental review on shared/co-living established following his appointment; the membership...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the analysis his Department has carried out into the effectiveness of the strategic housing development process in the...
    • Commercial Rates
      103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to a special allocation of funding to Clare County Council to compensate for the shortfall...
    • Housing Policy
      104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that mandatory high-density housing requirements in rural towns are acting as a disincentive for the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the electoral reform Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38285/20]
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a system of quotas or statutory imposed ratios in the provision of housing for persons with disabilities; the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when construction will commence on the glass bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin 4 in order to provide much needed social and...
    • Local Authority Housing
      110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to further develop the buy and renew scheme to facilitate the delivery of housing stock. [38286/20]
    • Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
      112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the arrangements which have and are being made to ensure that priority access to legal drafters is assigned to the marine...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the urban regeneration and development fund support for Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Derelict Sites
      114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to local authorities for compulsory purchase of derelict sites to utilise these to bolster...
    • Septic Tanks
      116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the septic tank grant guidelines which are implemented by local authorities; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure of his Department and An Bord Pleanála in each year since January 2017 in respect of all legal services...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to hold a referendum on the right to water and public ownership of the water infrastructure. [31331/20]
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding for the port access northern cross route will be released under the next tranche of LIHAF funding; and if he will...
    • Strategic Infrastructure Provision
      121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the strategic housing development programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38068/20]
    • Mayoral Election
      122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the directly elected mayor of Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38468/20]
    • Local Authority Housing
      123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on Tipperary County Council evicting three persons from a property due to the fact that they are over the threshold...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 6 October 2020,the status of the work of the Galway social housing task force; if...
    • Irish Water
      127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has raised concerns with Irish Water on the issue of connection fees for water and sewerage for residential new builds...
    • Defective Building Materials
      128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is progressing a remediation scheme for defective blocks containing pyrite. [38081/20]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the report of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [38308/20]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Future of Media Commission
      132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the inaugural meeting of the Future of Media Commission. [38332/20]
    • Electric Vehicles
      133. To ask the Taoiseach the number of new and of imported electric cars, plug-in hybrids and recharging hybrids licensed during the year to date; and the percentage of total new and total...
    • Shared Island Unit
      134. To ask the Taoiseach the projects in counties Cavan and Monaghan which have been announced as part of the Shared Island Fund to date. [37551/20]
    • Departmental Contracts
      135. To ask the Taoiseach the third-party contracts entered into by agencies under the remit of his Department for the operation of community and voluntary organisations; the number of staff...
    • Shared Island Unit
      136. To ask the Taoiseach the number of public engagements that have been held to date under the shared island unit of his Department. [37760/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      141. To ask the Taoiseach the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department and found to be non-compliant...
    • Legislative Process
      142. To ask the Taoiseach the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and secondary legislation...
    • Departmental Staff
      143. To ask the Taoiseach the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37911/20]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      144. To ask the Taoiseach the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations currently being undertaken by his Department; the number that are in the process of being set up; the number in...
    • Official Travel
      145. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 17 November 2020, the nine names proposed by his predecessor to attend the event in the White House in 2019. [38541/20]
    • Judicial Appointments
      146. To ask the Taoiseach further to his statement to RTÉ on 13 November 2020, the date on which he was informed as Taoiseach by the Minister for Justice or the Tánaiste that a person...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      153. To ask the Taoiseach the role of the recently appointed statisticians to his Department working on Covid-19 data; and the raw data that is being used. [38792/20]
  • Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
    • Trade Agreements
      154. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the status of Ireland's support for the Mercosur deal; and the detail of the recent developments in this regard. [37785/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      155. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the position regarding the SBCI Covid-19 working capital loan scheme; the total number of applications; the number of successful...
    • Industrial Disputes
      156. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will meet worker representatives of a company (details supplied) to discuss ways of bringing their dispute to a successful...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      157. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Legislative Process
      158. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of...
    • Departmental Staff
      159. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37912/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      160. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment to provide clarity on his comments in Dáil Eireann on 9 November 2020 (details supplied) in relation to businesses which are not...
    • Trade Agreements
      161. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the status of the publication of a report commissioned on the economic and sustainability impact assessment for Ireland of the...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      162. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process...
    • Company Registration
      163. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the responsibility the Company Registrations Office has to ensure the information it receives from a company is correct; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      164. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if supports will be made available to landlords who have premises rented to businesses that are now closed due to Covid-19...
    • Company Law
      166. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if consideration will be given to streamlining the statutory audit process for community co-ops and social enterprises when they draw...
    • Employment Rights
      167. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 29 September 2020, if all matters have now been resolved in respect of employment...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
      168. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all staff employed by or seconded to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, including...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Electric Vehicles
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reduce carbon emissions to help management companies of apartment complexes install electric charge points...
    • North-South Interconnector
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a meeting will be arranged with his Department and council officials (details supplied) to discuss the North South...
    • Post Office Network
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37765/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis...
    • Just Transition Fund
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the midlands regional transition team application to the Secretariat Technical Assistance for Regions in...
    • Legislative Process
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative...
    • Departmental Staff
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37913/20]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if correspondence from a group (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of tribunals, enquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are...
    • Climate Action Plan
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next call for applications will be open for the climate action fund as part of the National Oil Reserves...
    • Electricity Generation
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether it is possible to power the national energy grid from entirely renewable energy sources; and if he...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has discussed the long delays in the processing of application forms under the SEAI better energy warmer homes...
    • Energy Policy
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to replace the Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty in Ireland 2016-2019 with a new strategy. [38226/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he has calculated the percentage of homes and businesses in each town and village throughout County...
    • Environmental Protection Agency
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications with the EPA for end-of-waste status for recovered waste materials; the number received in...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the delay in the provision of the warmer home grants due to increased demand; his...
    • National Broadband Plan
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if fibre broadband will be provided at a property (details supplied) given that their neighbours have received the...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with the ESB with regard to its plans to demolish Lanesboro and Shannonbridge power stations;...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Greenways Provision
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects in County Meath considered for inclusion in the recent allocation of €63.5 million for greenways; the reasons these...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an extension will be granted for the works programme funding allocation to local authorities (details supplied) due to the Covid-19...
    • Local Authority Funding
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; if his attention has been drawn to losses of vital funding to local authorities;...
    • Environmental Protection Enforcement
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities have protocols in place for dealing with oil spills; if so, the local authorities concerned; and his plans to bring...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the night-time low level flight on 3 November 2020 which left the East Midlands Airport, Derby,...
    • Driver Test
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being put in place to deal with the backlog of driver theory test and driver tests as a result of Covid-19; and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the conditions imposed on Irish citizens who previously held full Irish driver licences seeking to renew their...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next TII funding will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37774/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, to implement a fairer approach to arrears due from staff relating to the wage...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Taxi Regulations
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if taxi regulations stating all taxis must be less than nine years old on their licence renewal date will be increased by one year. [37812/20]
    • Coast Guard Service
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are failings or problems within a company (details supplied) or the coast guard that are contained in the report into the...
    • Driver Licences
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a change of policy in recent times that has led to the NDLS recording the place of birth of an Irish citizen as...
    • Driver Test
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide copies of all correspondence from the Road Safety Authority (details supplied) in relation to a matter; and if he will...
    • Legislative Process
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary...
    • Departmental Staff
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37914/20]
    • Road Projects
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason changes have been made to procedures associated with the Athy distributor road project which has resulted in the invitation to...
    • Public Transport
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of assaults and incidences of verbal abuse directed at Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus workers since the beginning...
    • Driver Test
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37976/20]
    • Rail Network
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the terms of reference of the current review of the proposed Navan rail line; the threshold for approval and the variables and...
    • Ports Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of funding from his Department to port companies and local authorities in respect of ports they manage in each of the years...
    • Public Transport
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of protocols or instructions issued by the NTA to ensure there is adequate ventilation on Dublin Bus, DART, Intercity and Luas...
    • Bus Services
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will write to the NTA suggesting it investigates the feasibility of upgrading Dublin Bus shelters with sedum-covered roofs to...
    • Greenways Provision
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications submitted for greenway projects in County Donegal in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Transport Policy
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the active travel schools initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38018/20]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of...
    • Driver Licences
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 12 November 2020, the rationale for the requirement to have a public services card to access...
    • Driver Test
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the driving theory test backlog will be managed with reference to the experience of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Taxi Licences
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow taxi drivers who have little or no work as a result of the Covid-19 crisis to suspend their licences or to obtain a...
    • National Car Test
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated with a 12 month NCT certificate; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status and details of the proposed study to be taken on by his Department with a view to connecting Shannon Airport to the rail...
    • Greenways Provision
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding in place for the south Kerry greenway; if a commitment will be made to funding it fully; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Athy southern distributor road; if all the funding and approvals are in place; when construction will commence; and if...
    • Cycling Facilities
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve the standard of urban and rural cycle lanes for active travel in County Mayo; the criteria he defines as urban and...
    • Rural Transport Services
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers on each LocalLink route in County Mayo in each week for the past year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Traffic Management
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and Transport Infrastructure Ireland will provide an update on a speed limit (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for UK driver licence holders to be able to maintain their insurance eligibility post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it will be ensured Dublin Bus has enough capacity to ensure that children can get to and from school during level 5 restrictions; and...
    • Road Projects
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport her views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38638/20]
    • Railway Stations
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reopen the train station at Dunleer, County Louth; his views on such propositions from a policy perspective; if his...
    • Driver Test
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure persons seeking to complete their driver theory test are not disadvantaged for an extended period due to...
    • Taxi Regulations
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has approved the extension of the ten-year rule for the age of vehicle for taxis for another year due to Covid-19; if so, when the...
    • Bus Services
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses funded through public funds since 1 January 2020 that are zero emissions; the number that are exclusively diesel; the...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene in the ongoing superannuation dispute in the Irish Aviation Authority (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a case (details supplied) regarding the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38241/20]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the resumption of assessments for primary medical certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38407/20]
    • Employment and Investment Incentive Scheme
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to allow a company (details supplied) to raise EIIS funding towards its equity requirements for a solar farm; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance the stamp duty payable on the sale of a family farm after a death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37758/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department that were found to be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the operation of the Covid-19 restriction support scheme; when payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37817/20]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a review was carried out in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37843/20]
    • Motor Insurance
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to ensure that consumers have access to reduced car insurance premiums; the consultations he has had with representatives of the car...
    • Legislative Process
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and secondary...
    • Departmental Staff
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37915/20]
    • Retail Sector
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration and engagement he has had to extend and continue the retail export scheme given that this is a vital lifeline to many small, independent...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a problem being faced by education and training board part-time tutors seeking to access the temporary wage subsidy scheme...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the thresholds for the bike to work scheme from January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38003/20]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if clarification will be provided on a series of matters (details supplied) regarding the temporary wage subsidy scheme statistics published by the Revenue...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of being set up; the...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of enforcement actions that have been taken by the Central Bank as a result of breaches in the code of conduct on mortgage arrears in each of the...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if the current 30% threshold criterion of July to December for accessing the employment wage support scheme will be reviewed and amended (details supplied)....
    • Revenue Commissioners
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance if approval will be given in respect of a matter in the case of a person (details supplied). [38128/20]
    • Tax Exemptions
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if a donation by a trust (details supplied) to a club for the completion of an all-weather pitch is not liable for taxation. [38231/20]
    • Tax Credits
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance if the four-year rule for claiming tax credits has been revised in view of the fact that many business persons face large fines and penalties from the Revenue...
    • Community Banking
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress his Department has made on implementing a new community banking service operated by An Post to be made available in all post offices throughout...
    • Banking Sector
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to financial institutions refusing to provide business bank accounts not including credit facilities to persons previously...
    • Pension Provisions
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the conditions by which a person can draw down a portion of their AVCs early; the taxation consequences that apply; and if he plans to make changes in this...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that domestic employers who availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme for domestic employees, such as...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance if a policy change will be considered to the help to buy scheme whereby if a couple is purchasing a home in which one of the couple is a first time buyer that...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of data access requests the Revenue Commissioners have made to telecom companies and social media companies here in the past three years to date in...
    • Mortgage Lending
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which a bank (details supplied) has refused mortgage approval due to the Covid-19 pandemic despite no loss...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Regional Development
      290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to put in place the programme for Government commitments to regional development (details supplied); the way in which he plans...
    • Court Accommodation
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of scaffolding that has been positioned around the dome of the Four Courts for the past number of years. [37773/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a flood relief plan for Letterkenny, County Donegal, will be published. [37842/20]
    • Legislative Process
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary...
    • Departmental Staff
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37916/20]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of...
    • Office of Public Works
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a bridge (details supplied) falls under the care of the Office of Public Works; if the OPW is aware of the deteriorating condition of...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the full list of public procurement contracts will be provided for capital works that have exceeded €10 million, disaggregated...
    • Departmental Offices
      299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 17 November 2020, the steps that will be taken to recoup the rent overpayment of €10...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Museum Projects
      300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a list of museums will be provided; the amount of State funding they receive in Dublin and nationwide; and if she will make a...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a financial support package for a facility (details supplied) will be prioritised in recognition of the significant...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Fáilte Ireland
      303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will reopen the Fáilte Ireland adaption grant until the end of 2020 to facilitate applications that missed the closing...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of funding provided through the sports club resilience fund; and the amount of funding that went unallocated; and if...
    • Legislative Process
      305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all applications made by her Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of...
    • Departmental Staff
      306. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grade at which the chief data protection officer in her Department is employed. [37917/20]
    • Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta
      307. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén amlíne atá leagtha amach le go mbunófar an coiste comhairleach ar thoghcháin Údarás na...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of tribunals, enquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by her Department; the number that are in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the points made; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Foras na Gaeilge
      311. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil athbhreithniú á dhéanamh ar cheanneagraíochtaí Fhoras na Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      312. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if swimming lessons will be allowed to continue in level 3 if comprehensive protective measures are in place (details supplied);...
    • Radio Broadcasting
      318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to support local radio stations in 2021 following her meeting with a representative body (details supplied); and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if extra resources will be provided to Fáilte Ireland to enable it to more quickly process restart grant plus applications...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next call for applications for the sports capital grant is expected to issue; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available to local soccer clubs that do not have and have never had gate receipts but that have been restricted in...
    • Sports Funding
      323. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she has taken to encourage female participation in sport, especially at youth level; and if she will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      325. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she plans to put in place to enable the tourism and hospitality sector to reopen; and if she plans to allow persons...
    • Covid-19 Paindéim
      328. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil iarratas faighte ó eagraíocht sonraí (tugtha) ar chúnamh le na costais atá orthu de bharr Covid...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken and will take to address the findings of the Court of Justice of the European Union against Ireland...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a recent peat slippage near a windfarm (details supplied) in County Donegal; the way in...
    • Commercial Rates
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to expanding the commercial rates waiver to cover the first quarter of 2021 (details supplied)....
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to rough shooting. [38512/20]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the affordable housing plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37776/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further consideration will be given to a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Process
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Departmental Staff
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37918/20]
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can prohibit tenants from entering into the tenant purchase scheme for properties of certain residence...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received correspondence (details supplied); if he will address the issues raised regarding the relationship between...
    • Strategic Infrastructure Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the strategic housing developments approved by An Bord Pleanála as of 31 October 2020 including details of the local...
    • Local Authority Housing
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown in the first half of 2020 of Part V units acquired or leased by local authority area by the number of units that...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tribunals, enquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the...
    • Housing Policy
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the ministerial guidelines issued in 2005 regarding one-off rural housing; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Agency
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a list of the 35 individual projects that have been allocated serviced site funding to date of €127 million will be...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the long-term impact of the charge of €30 per square metre that Transport Infrastructure Ireland has...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections of homeless services that have been completed under the national quality standards framework by...
    • Architectural Heritage
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funds are available for the upkeep of protected structures on the grounds of schools or other institutions that do not have...
    • Wildlife Control
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grounds upon which he ordered the release of hares, which had been legally caught under the 2020-21 hare netting licence...
    • Foreshore Issues
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action it is proposed to take over in-fill carried out at a location (details supplied) without a foreshore licence in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant purchase scheme applications received by Mayo County Council since the launch of the new scheme in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding under the affordable housing scheme that will be allocated to County Mayo in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for replacing the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 which was extended as part of the...
    • Strategic Infrastructure Provision
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason 71% of the approved strategic housing development planning permissions have not been activated; and if he will make...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average waiting time nationally for a person with a disability to be allocated social housing. [38561/20]
    • Building Regulations
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the Departmental working group being set up to investigate the possible amendments to building...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to date to implement a town centres first strategy that was committed to in the programme for...
    • Electric Vehicles
      369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the way in which local authorities are implementing the rollout of electric vehicle charging stations....
    • Planning Issues
      370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the rollout of a nationwide e-planning system. [38649/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to launch a public awareness campaign regarding the monuments and archaeological heritage Bill to outline the merits...
    • Housing Provision
      373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in the construction of social housing at Clonmacken, County Limerick (details supplied); and if he...
    • Property Registration Authority
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the Property Registration Authority. [38668/20]
    • Heritage Projects
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of heritage projects currently in hand or listed for attention in terms of projection and restoration; and if he...
    • Environmental Policy
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which his Department has engaged with stakeholders on environmental issues; and the progress to date in this...
    • Housing Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families who have in the year to date applied for local authority or similar housing, affordable housing and-or...
    • House Prices
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average price of a house now deemed to be in the affordable category; the number built, acquired or under construction at...
    • House Purchase Schemes
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has studied a possible private subsidised sites scheme for potential allocation to suitably qualified...
    • Housing Data
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new houses provided by the local authorities, by county, for prospective tenants in 2020 to date; and if...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding awarded under the LIHAF scheme to each local authority nationwide; the progress to date in respect of the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of existing local authority houses that have been refurbished or upgraded in each of the past three years to date...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which funding made available to each local authority in respect of Traveller accommodation over the past five...
    • Local Authority Funding
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the remainder of the €900 million grant for rates waivers promised to assist local authorities with any shortfall in...
    • Property Registration Authority
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the total number of employees in the Property Registration Authority is in the region of 550 employees; the precise number...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review will be published for the 2016 tenant (incremental) purchase scheme. [38748/20]
    • Local Authority Functions
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the review of the Meath County Development is being conducted to a large...
    • Fire Stations
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the provision of a fire station (details supplied) in County Mayo. [38775/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.17 of 22 July 2020 and his commitment on the day, if he will furnish guidance to...
    • Housing Provision
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the challenges faced by the many persons who are over the income thresholds for social housing but do not...
    • Student Accommodation
      404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure student renters have additional rights including the establishment of a legal definition of...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on providing additional investment in the Residential Tenancies Board in order that it can proactively investigate...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Commemorative Events
      406. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Ministers who participated in Armistice and Remembrance Sunday services in an official capacity in 2020. [37759/20]
    • Foreign Policy
      407. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the reported threats from a person (details supplied) in Belgium to influence and subvert their trial on terrorism...
    • Middle East
      408. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he will take in view of the destruction of the Palestinian village of Khirbet Humsa; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      409. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department that...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      410. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recommendations of the Oireachtas Select Committee on Public Accounts in 2018 that the five year...
    • Legislative Process
      411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas business committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and...
    • Departmental Staff
      412. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37919/20]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      413. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the war that has been ongoing in Tigray, Ethiopia, since early November 2020; the actions has he taken to assist the populace...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Brexit negotiations regarding the protection of Irish fisheries and their fishing rights; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Brexit Issues
      417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with his counterparts on the General Affairs Council regarding Brexit being a factor in funds allocated under the...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of trade negotiations between the European Union and United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34982/20]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      419. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the 2018 survey of the way in which other countries operated their election observation programmes; the objectives of...
    • Human Rights Cases
      420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress his Department has made towards the release of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Foreign Policy
      421. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and response to the current state of the crisis in Belarus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38585/20]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and response to the deteriorating situation in the Western Sahara region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38586/20]
    • Human Rights Cases
      423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and the actions that he would be willing to take to assist in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Policy
      424. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and the response to the ongoing vandalism by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian-owned olive groves during the...
    • Brexit Preparations
      426. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the checks that will apply to trucks transiting the UK post 1 January 2021; if France is availing of flexibilities in the...
    • Brexit Issues
      428. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which specific Irish produce might be impeded en route to foreign destinations in the context of the post-Brexit situation; if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      429. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his Department have engaged with bodies other than his Department with a view to providing travel for the...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of overseas development aid offered to various bodies globally in each of the past five years to date; the extent to which...
    • Human Rights
      433. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU colleagues continue to monitor worldwide locations of concern in which war, starvation, ethnic cleansing,...
    • Foreign Policy
      434. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and his Department and the international community continue to monitor the activities of the Al Shabaab and Boko Haram or other...
    • Human Rights
      437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which international efforts are being made to protect women and children in the various worldwide warzones at present; and if...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      438. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish aid is directed towards providing irrigation or water systems for deserving communities globally; and if he will...
    • Foreign Policy
      439. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to support calls for the deployment of UN peacekeepers to various trouble spots globally; and if he will...
    • Human Rights
      440. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which child soldiers are being used in various conflicts worldwide at present; the efforts the international community...
    • Foreign Policy
      442. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the situation in the western Balkans remains stable and to which the region prepares for EU membership; and if he will...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      445. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to improve the situation for the undocumented Irish in the USA; his views on whether the recent presidential election result is a...
    • Data Collection
      446. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of data-access requests the Passport Office has made to telecommunications and social media companies here in the past three...
  • Department of Defence
    • Overseas Missions
      447. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will make inquiries regarding B Company, 35th Battalion, in Elizabethville in the Congo in 1961 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Issues
      448. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he will take to assist the overholding residents of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      449. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department that...
    • Air Traffic Control Services
      450. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times an aircraft (details supplied) landed at Baldonnel between 1 January 2000 and 1 August 2008; the dates and times of same;...
    • Legislative Process
      451. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and...
    • Departmental Staff
      452. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37920/20]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      453. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of being...
    • Army Barracks
      454. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Army barracks in Ireland; and the staffing levels and capacity of each, in tabular form. [38170/20]
    • Naval Service
      455. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of naval bases in Ireland; and the staffing levels and capacity of each, in tabular form. [38171/20]
    • Army Barracks
      456. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Army barracks that provide living quarters. [38172/20]
    • Defence Forces Data
      459. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to set out the number of medical discharges by rank and by discipline in the Defence Forces in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020,...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      462. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of qualified or specialised members of the Defence Forces who have left the service in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      463. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the value of equipment purchased and procured for the Defence Forces for each of the past five years by country of origin of goods and services...
    • Air Corps
      464. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to carry out a full health audit of serving members of the Air Corps. [38582/20]
    • Defence Forces Data
      465. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to set out the average number of hours worked by members of the Defence Forces by rank and barracks in tabular form. [38614/20]
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      467. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Permanent Defence Forces including the Army Ranger Wing are still deployed in Mali; if so, the nature of their mission; and if...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      468. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the disparity in remuneration packages between currently serving Defence Forces school of music officers and their newly inducted...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      469. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of issues with the campaign on rejoining of the Defence Forces (details supplied). [38807/20]
    • Defence Forces
      470. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of data access requests the Defence Forces and the Directorate of Military Intelligence have made to telecom companies and social...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Staff
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that the agency filled caretaker role at Limerick College of Further Education will be made a permanent role on LCETB...
    • Schools Building Projects
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the promised redevelopment of a primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; the investment committed for same to date; and...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department that were...
    • Special Educational Needs
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units in operation in primary and secondary schools in County Tipperary; the details of same; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the completion of the permanent building for a school (details supplied) in view of the fact the temporary accommodation is not a...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application to the Teaching Council for a teacher number by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the increased demand for secondary school places at a school (details supplied) as the school is at capacity...
    • Legislative Process
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all applications made by her Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and...
    • Departmental Staff
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grade at which the chief data protection officer in her Department is employed. [37921/20]
    • School Transport
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding school transport. [37939/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will open. [37941/20]
    • School Enrolments
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which there is spare capacity for enrolments in secondary schools in a catchment area (details supplied); the extent to which there...
    • Schools Building Projects
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected timeline for the issuing of the tender and appointment of a contractor for the development of schools (details supplied); the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts made by her Department between 2015 and 2017 to construct a special school in the east Cork area; the reason this proposal was not...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist in the provision of an additional special needs assistant for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) whose educational needs are not being met in a mainstream educational...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by her Department; the number that are in the process of being...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason tuition was provided on a household basis rather than an individual basis under the summer provisions when there were two or more...
    • School Accommodation
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in respect of an appeal lodged by a school (details supplied) in County Galway against a decision to refuse sanction...
    • Special Educational Needs
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in primary school mainstream classes in County Louth that have ASD and associated needs in which there is no ASD special...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next instalment of the PPE and cleaning grant will issue; if this is the second instalment of two or the second instalment of three; and...
    • School Admissions
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to ensure a secondary school placement in September 2021 for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to provide an extension to a school (details supplied); the estimated timeline for completion; the student capacity of the...
    • School Admissions
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sanctions in place for schools that fail to honour the legal requirement to include in their admission policies detailed arrangements for...
    • School Transport
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for private bus operators who are providing school transport now that the 50% capacity rules are in place; and her plans to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to liaise with patrons in the east County Cork area to ensure that there is a sufficient supply of places for students in...
    • School Admissions
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 is designated as a feeder school for any secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the permanent site allocated for a school (details supplied) will be fully available to the school by September 2022; the timeframe for the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 413 of 22 September 2020, if the grant for the assistive technology required by a student (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given to a school for a new build replacement building (details supplied) in view of the fact that the school is in...
    • DEIS Scheme
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to granting DEIS status to a school (details supplied) that is serving a disadvantaged area of Galway; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider closing schools for the Christmas period on 18 December 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38427/20]
    • School Transport
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the ongoing delay in payments of the special transport grant; when outstanding payments for the July provision and outstanding...
    • School Admissions
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the admissions policies for secondary level education to ensure that each student can gain access to a school in his or her...
    • School Facilities
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that a protected structure in the possession of her Department (details supplied) is not allowed to deteriorate any...
    • School Attendance
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to the parents of a child (details supplied) for the child to be able to attend school. [38567/20]
    • School Accommodation
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38600/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 504 of 10 November 2020, the plans in place to mitigate the impact that Covid-19 will have on dealing with...
    • School Enrolments
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when parents who are affected by capacity issues in County Wexford will be informed of potential second level school places for September 2021;...
    • School Transport
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school transport refund for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38656/20]
    • School Staff
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding a school (details supplied) that has been informed it will be losing a teacher which will then lead to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38666/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed development of a new post-primary school campus in Prosperous, County Kildare; and the timeline from design to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will go to tender for works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38749/20]
    • State Examinations
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason estimated marks given by schools to students in respect of the leaving certificate 2020 were upgraded in some cases and downgraded in...
    • Schools Data
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of days lost by secondary and primary school teachers due to illness since schools reopened in September 2020, by week; and the...
    • State Examinations
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concessions are being considered for the leaving certificate class of 2021; if there will be allowances for the loss of teaching hours in 2020...
    • Special Educational Needs
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit for a school (details supplied). [38804/20]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision will issue in respect of an application for a SNA by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Admissions
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38809/20]
    • School Enrolments
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest demographic information used including figures of projection population growth of secondary level school-age children to analyse the...
    • School Curriculum
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA, primary and post-primary development groups for relationship and sexuality education...
    • Maternity Leave
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the maternity arrangements for teachers and school staff who are 28 or more weeks pregnant taking into account the joint...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Youth Unemployment
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to address the youth unemployment crisis, specifically for the Mayo, Galway and Roscommon region....
    • Disability Allowance
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the current means-tested disability allowance regime to allow persons with a disability to...
    • Education Policy
      537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for children diagnosed as gifted; and if she will consider adding gifted children to the diagnosis...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Pensions Council
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if representatives of organisations that represent and advocate on behalf of women and older persons will be included on the...
    • Carer's Benefit
      540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the anomaly will be corrected by which a 0.5 full-time equivalent teacher is currently categorised as working 11 hours a...
    • Illness Benefit
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 illness payments affect entitlements to full sick leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37856/20]
    • Legislative Process
      542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of all applications made by her Department to the Oireachtas business committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Departmental Staff
      543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grade at which the chief data protection officer in her Department is employed. [37922/20]
    • Probate Applications
      544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a solicitor (details supplied) for clearance to take out probate, and pay out the beneficiaries of a...
    • JobPath Programme
      545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath each year since it was established; the number referred for a second,...
    • State Pensions
      553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for issuing persons in receipt of a qualified adult payment to their old age pension a means test letter; and...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) for PPS numbers will be processed; the reason for the delay in processing...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by her Department; the number that are in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the outstanding amount in arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment will issue to recipients of the payment; the number...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application by workers of a company (details supplied) for a casual-docket...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is an accepted practice for social welfare inspectors to carry out unannounced visits to the homes of persons receiving...
    • Invalidity Pension
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a six weeks' death related payment following the death of the person's spouse;...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the increases in jobseeker’s allowance, jobseeker's benefit and supplementary allowance...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the current implementation of the saver clause in community employment schemes which states that participants...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal will be accepted in the case of a person (details supplied); if an oral hearing will be facilitated at an early...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if support will be given to a community centre (details supplied) and other similar projects to form a company with the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be allocated a personal public service number in order to enable the...
    • Pensions Data
      567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the gross and net costs of not increasing the pension age to 67 years of age quantifying each of the various factors; the...
    • Invalidity Pension
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the further medical evidence submitted by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if their invalidity pension will...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum duration a person can retain entitlement under jobseeker’s benefit if the person enters that benefit...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the date beyond 31 December 2020 before which applications can be made for the pandemic unemployment...
    • Disability Allowance
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which redundancy payments affect the means test for disability allowance; if there are allowances that can be...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved...
    • Carer's Allowance
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the carer’s allowance and benefit requirements to allow persons to be working, self-employed or on a...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied) who is relocating to Ireland from the UK to set up a...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make changes to the qualifying periods for back to education courses such as back to education allowance and the...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for jobseeker's allowance for a person (details supplied); and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      583. 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...
    • Carer's Allowance
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an application for a PPS number for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2021 if the telephone support allowance was increased to €4 per week; and if she will make a...
    • Data Collection
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of data access requests her Department has made to telecoms companies and social media companies here in the past...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be held in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Data Collection
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps a person (details supplied) is required to take to compel a family member living in the USA to provide personal...
    • Departmental Staff
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare inspectors currently employed in each social welfare region throughout the country; the extent...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if due process and fair procedures can be considered to have been followed in an application and appeals process in which the...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Direct Provision System
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to direct provision; and if he will make a...
    • Undefined
      599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of requests for domestic refuge that went unmet in 2020 due to the fact that refuges were full; the locations of these requests;...
    • Direct Provision System
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons in direct provision centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan and north County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Vetting
      605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if all management and staff within direct provision centres require Garda vetting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38411/20]
    • Direct Provision System
      607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 10 September 2020, how he reacted effectively to issues raised in relation to services...
    • Maternity Leave
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the extension to maternity leave is not being introduced until April 2021 as opposed to January 2021. [38565/20]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the options available to a family (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38681/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Education Welfare Service
      611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions in place to allow a person (details supplied) to attend school in order that they can become fully integrated in the...
    • Legislative Measures
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the adoption, information and tracing Bill will be published. [37832/20]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the redress scheme for the survivors of mother and baby homes will be put in place. [37834/20]
    • Legislative Process
      615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary...
    • Departmental Staff
      616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37924/20]
    • Asylum Seekers
      617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he will intervene to prevent the child and their family from...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      618. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      619. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports available for parents to pay childcare fees during a period of self-isolation (details supplied). [38122/20]
    • Childcare Qualifications
      620. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childminder learner fund grants awarded to childminders; the number of applications his Department has received; and the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline, in the aftermath of the mother and baby homes legislation, the information that will be handed to Tusla; the...
    • Child Protection
      622. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he is taking to prevent parental alienation in order to protect children from the coercion and psychological damage involved and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38519/20]
    • Domestic Violence Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place a support service for male victims of domestic abuse in the greater Dublin area in which 1.5 million persons...
    • Home Schooling
      628. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of home school applications received annually in each of the years 2015 to 2019, in tabular form. [38813/20]
    • Data Retention
      630. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of data access requests his Department has made to telecom companies and social media companies here in the past three years to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Student Grant Scheme
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a SUSI grant application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37770/20]
    • Further Education and Training Programmes
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of the efforts by his Department to roll out a range of bespoke and sectoral targeted courses from Athlone Institute of Technology,...
    • Adult Education Provision
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses available for adult literacy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38121/20]
    • Student Accommodation
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether an overreliance on the private market for student accommodation has contributed to the issues students and their families...
    • Education and Training Boards
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37771/20]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department that were...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional financial supports that are available to first and second year trade apprentices in view of the fact that wages at this stage of...
    • School Accommodation
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the nature of the remedial works required; the body which will meet the cost of...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken following allegations of sexual harassment in UCD; the further actions he plans to take; and if he will make a statement...
    • Access to Higher Education
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve access to education for persons with disabilities and members of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Education Schemes
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in direct provision that have availed of the support scheme since changes were made in each year and to date in 2020; and...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 643
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37876/20]
    • Brexit Preparations
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of businesses that have availed of customs training ahead of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37879/20]
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students from Northern Ireland will be in a position to avail of the Erasmus programme post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and...
    • Departmental Staff
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37925/20]
    • Third Level Fees
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to offer a partial fees refund to third-level students at postgraduate level in view of the move to online...
    • Further and Higher Education
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reskill and retrain workers in the area of climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37968/20]
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI, when calculating the period of time in which an applicant's parents must have been on jobseeker's benefit, has a threshold that states...
    • Third Level Institutions
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department relative to the oversight of the HEA and the institutes of technology; if he has a specific role to ensure that good...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of being...
    • Education Data
      653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the third level CPD accredited courses available in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon; and the number in areas such as biomedical, electrical...
    • Technological Universities
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of TU designation applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38101/20]
    • Further and Higher Education
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed the interim list of eligible providers with the Minister for Justice; and his views on the way in which the list relates to...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have availed of SUSI grants in 2020; the percentage this is in relation to the student population at large; and if he...
    • Third Level Staff
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons by gender and Department on contracts of indefinite duration at NUIG in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Third Level Fees
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the €250 rebate to third-level postgraduate students that have had their education moved online; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Staff
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 11 November 2020, if he and or the HEA have had communication from the governing body of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships that have been furloughed; the number that have been made redundant as a result of Covid-19; if the introduction of...
    • Further and Higher Education
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the uptake of additional further and higher education and training places funded in the July stimulus package by programme and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to improve all island research and education; the meetings he has had with his counterpart in Northern Ireland in this...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the SUSI special grant rate as they have been previously; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Training Fund
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the transfer of responsibility for the national training fund to his Department has been completed; when he plans to publish the expenditure...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delays many persons are experiencing between apprentice phases resulting in four year apprenticeships taking in excess of five...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a series (details supplied) on the working conditions in the higher level education sector; and if he will...
    • Third Level Staff
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the 440 academic staff in universities and institutes of technology that were in continuous employment in...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      676. 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...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that courses announced (details supplied) under the July stimulus package have not been offered at a...
    • Third Level Education
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional third-level course places will be made available to the leaving certificate class of 2021, as was afforded the leaving certificate...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a change in circumstances has not been taken into consideration for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Employment Rights
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address workers' rights for postgraduate researchers in universities and institutes of technology, ITs; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the NPHET advice on restrictions for third level institutions will be regularly shared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38877/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will work with the Minister for Health to ensure all student nurses and midwives are paid for the work they do in hospitals as part of...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to continuing staffing gender gaps in third level education institutions including that in 2019 more women work...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Support Services
      691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the international foundation year and pre-masters programmes submitted by a college (details supplied) have been...
    • Judicial Appointments
      692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria used and the process followed in deciding the relative strengths and suitability of all candidates in respect of...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      694. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Garda Stations
      695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the provision for a new Garda station for Castletroy, Annacotty, Limerick city, will be considered (details supplied); her...
    • Legislative Reviews
      696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the report on her Department’s review of the legislation on hate speech; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Training
      697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have received specialist human trafficking training in each of the past five years; and if she...
    • Legislative Programme
      699. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will progress the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019 in view of the significant rise in the number of...
    • Legislative Process
      700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all applications made by her Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Departmental Staff
      701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grade at which the chief data protection officer in her Department is employed. [37926/20]
    • Garda Deployment
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at Pearse Street Garda station in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and...
    • Departmental Reports
      708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the O’Malley report into the reform of sexual assault judicial processes; her plans regarding this report,...
    • Garda Resources
      709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of work between the Central Statistics Office and her Department to ensure the accuracy of crime data from the...
    • Family Reunification
      710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for applications to be considered for permission to enter and reside for a member of a family of a...
    • Deportation Orders
      711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if deportation orders have been served on healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic; if so, if her Department will review...
    • Citizenship Applications
      712. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when a...
    • Visa Applications
      713. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when visas will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); if the applications will be concluded in the near future; and...
    • Courts Service
      714. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of rape cases commenced and concluded in each of the years 2017 to 2019 which resulted in convictions. [38030/20]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      715. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by her Department; the number that are in the...
    • Firearms Licences
      716. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the firearm licence of a person is automatically revoked by the courts when a protection, safety or barring order is granted...
    • Residency Permits
      717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Child Abuse
      719. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the policies and training Tusla or other State agencies have in identifying, intervening and supporting children who are being...
    • Social Media Regulation
      720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 10 September 2020, the number of officials engaged in social media listening as...
    • Court Orders
      724. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases in the courts in which an order under section 60 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 was...
    • Direct Provision System
      725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the planned timeline for delivering the ability to apply for driver licences and bank accounts for persons resident in direct...
    • Judicial Appointments
      726. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dates her Department received expressions of interest from judges for the position vacated in the Supreme Court by a person...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      735. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request the Irish National Immigration Service to respond to this Deputy in relation to various correspondence sent...
    • Residency Permits
      736. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible for a residence permit to be issued in the case of a long-term de facto partner; if her attention has been...
    • Family Reunification
      737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for family reunification for a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Residency Permits
      738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to persons being updated on their application for a stamp 4 by a post-it affixed to their...
    • International Protection
      739. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for the practice of international protection seekers denied leave to remain being summoned monthly to the Irish...
    • Immigration Data
      740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nationality of those refused permission to remain in 2020, in tabular form. [38568/20]
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      741. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to banning the use of the so-called mosquito alarms that emit high pitched sounds to discourage...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      742. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible for the processing of a passport with a stamp 1 for a person (details supplied) to be prioritised by the...
    • Taxi Licences
      743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a taxi driver licence application by a person (details supplied). [38658/20]
    • Prison Service Staff
      744. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will engage with the Irish Prison Service in respect of a person (details supplied) who has been assigned to other...
    • Judicial Appointments
      746. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a list of all judicial appointments made in 2020 will be provided in chronological order by the date appointed by...
    • Garda Deployment
      748. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the staffing levels in Ballymun Garda station in each of the years 2006 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if...
    • Legislative Programme
      749. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce legislation to criminalise cat-calling, which involves a loud whistle or comment of a sexual nature made...
    • Immigration Policy
      750. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a scheme to regularise undocumented persons living and working in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Measures
      751. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the communications (retention of data) Bill. [38800/20]
    • Garda Stations
      752. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a full assessment has been carried out on the refurbishment costs for Sligo Garda station, including costs such as those...
    • Garda Data
      754. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of data access requests An Garda Síochána has made to telecom companies and social media companies here in...
    • Deportation Orders
      756. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportations per month that have taken place in Ireland since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, in tabular...
    • Legislative Programme
      758. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the recent distribution of thousands of non-consensual images; and if she will expedite...
    • Garda Deployment
      761. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí attached to Coolock, Raheny and Howth Garda stations, respectively. [38890/20]
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37854/20]
    • Respite Care Services
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment criteria for respite for school aged children with autism spectrum disorder; the funding allocated for this respite in 2020; and if he will make...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent study (details supplied) in which a series of interviews with doctors carrying out abortions in Ireland reveals...
    • Legislative Reviews
      765. To ask the Minister for Health when he proposes to set a date for the mandatory three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [38954/20]
    • Patient Transfers
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if the protocols for transferring patients from acute beds to nursing homes have been revised since March 2020; if all patients are Covid-19 tested before...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the pain management clinic at Tallaght University Hospital for over one, two, three, four and five years,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide for a less onerous system to allow doctors to claim payment for administering the flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      770. To ask the Minister for Health when the report of the clinical advisory group on medical card eligibility will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37782/20]
    • Ambulance Service
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in County Kildare; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the manufacturing companies in China from which the Government and or the HSE has purchased Covid-19 related PPE products such as face masks; the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the details of contracts of €25,000 or more than have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department that were found to be...
    • Primary Care Centres
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if a mental health day hospital will be included in the new primary care unit (details supplied) in County Meath ; if so, if it will it be an admissions unit;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      776. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are moving house or are in the process of finding and or viewing new accommodation are permitted to travel beyond the 5 km under current level 5...
    • Hospital Beds Closures
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the number of closed beds in the public health system by hospital and by categories of infection prevention and control, refurbishment, staffing shortages and...
    • HSE Expenditure
      782. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the amount spent by the HSE on public relations companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the apparent cancellation of the school vaccine HPV programme in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37855/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      784. To ask the Minister for Health if the next of kin of residents in nursing homes can be allowed to visit on compassionate grounds if the resident has special needs and the lack of visits is...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of computers in the HSE that still use an operating system (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37869/20]
    • Hospital Equipment
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the upgrade of national integrated medical imaging system, NIMIS, radiology information system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE hired consultants to advise it on IT security and cyberattacks; if so, the cost associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Expenditure
      788. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has allocated and the amount it will spend on premium payments to a company (details supplied) in 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • HSE Staff
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment campaign for a of head of information security, strategy and implementation within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Maternity Services
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the establishment of a human milk bank here similar to a bank (details supplied) in County Fermanagh; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if a vaccination for a person (details supplied) will be provided free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37882/20]
    • Legislative Process
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all applications made by his Department to the Oireachtas Business Committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of primary and secondary...
    • Departmental Staff
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37927/20]
    • Health Services
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Kaftrio has been rolled out for cystic fibrosis patients in Ireland; and if not, the reason. [37935/20]
    • Medical Cards
      796. To ask the Minister for Health when the current qualifying period of a discretionary end-of-life medical card to terminally ill patients will be extended (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      797. 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. [37945/20]
    • Health Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 773 of 10 November 2020, his plans to replace the residential facility service at the Keltoi facility while it is used...
    • National Cancer Strategy
      799. To ask the Minister for Health when the next mid-term review of the National Cancer Strategy will be conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37975/20]
    • Health Services
      800. To ask the Minister for Health his views on making the drug dupilumab available for persons living with severe atopic eczema; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the drug has...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      801. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive an appointment for the early intervention team; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is considering steps to improve the uptake of vitamin D among the population in particular for older and more vulnerable persons (details...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations on the new public health consultant contract; the timeline for the introduction of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the new hires in public health promised in budget 2021 by position in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37983/20]
    • Health Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to further queries from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38000/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      806. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of each nursing home that applied for and received the temporary assistance payment scheme. [38002/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      807. To ask the Minister for Health when appointments will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38024/20]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      808. To ask the Minister for Health when a tendering process was last carried out for the provision of prefilled packs that are provided to pharmacies for distribution to drug users as part of...
    • Hospital Services
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital unit (details supplied); his plans for the development of the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38028/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process of being set up; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the specific areas or regions of the State in respect of which Ireland will provide data to the European Centre for Disease Control to give effect to the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      814. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will be facilitated with emergency surgery (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38095/20]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      815. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the visiting restrictions in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38105/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the implementation of the immediate priority to ensure that short-term additional supports are available for persons who are making the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      817. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to replacing county boundaries with radius calculation when considering public health Covid-19 guidelines applicable to sports...
    • Hospital Services
      818. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will get an urgent transfer to the dean clinic at St. Patrick’s University Hospital Dublin, in view of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which outstanding matters remain to be resolved in the context of negotiations with general practitioners, such as the award of consultancy...
    • Legislative Programme
      821. To ask the Minister for Health when a commencement order will be signed facilitating the operation of the Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act...
    • Legislative Reviews
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for, and details of, the scheduled review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 as required under the Act; and if he...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ministerial medical cannabis licences that have been issued; the number of licence holders currently being reimbursed under the licensing system;...
    • Hospital Services
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a proposal agreed or being examined to move outpatient services from the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar to a private hospital in Mullingar,...
    • Care Services
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff redeployed from the Phoenix Centre in County Longford to other duties due to Covid-19. [38179/20]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      829. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their assessment of needs carried out. [38158/20]
    • Departmental Communications
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of the letter sent to a person (details supplied) which is referenced in a newspaper article will be provided. [38165/20]
    • Mental Health Policy
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to provide support to children and families affected by the impacts of parental alienation (details supplied); the further steps he is...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      834. To ask the Minister for Health if children under 12 years of age are entitled to an eye examination and voucher to cover the cost of glasses; and if so, how often. [38224/20]
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      835. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €10 million announced for the drugs strategy that will go to drug and alcohol task forces for local projects; and if the amount is...
    • General Practitioner Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all general practitioner practices in the east County Meath area; the number of general practitioners in each practice; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      837. To ask the Minister for Health if blood tests are covered under the medical card scheme (details supplied). [38256/20]
    • Emergency Departments
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the design team tasked with plans for a matter (details supplied); if the existing prefabs will be replaced with a permanent structure for a new...
    • Hospital Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to enhance services at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38260/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a facility at a hospital (details supplied); if his Department has received the said proposal; the status plans to date; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a lead-in time of seven days’ notice of any new restrictions at the start of December 2020 to allow for proper planning and increased...
    • HSE Reports
      843. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 5 December 2019, if a copy of the 2015 HSE report into the orthodontic service will be provided; if he will report...
    • Audiology Services
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the reason audiology services for children with special needs (details supplied) have been relocated; when the decision to transfer the services was made; his...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the longest time that a child has been waiting for a MRI scan in UHG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38343/20]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      846. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be scheduled for a speech therapy appointment in view of the fact they have been on the waiting list for a year. [38347/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if an issue (details supplied) in regard to Covid-19 guidelines will be clarified. [38350/20]
    • Dental Services
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists which have withdrawn from the dental treatment services scheme in 2020; the number in the scheme at 1 January 2020; the number in the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      852. To ask the Minister for Health if the allowance made in April 2020 for patients with a medical cannabis licence to have medical cannabis delivered into Ireland rather than self-imported will...
    • Psychological Assessments
      853. To ask the Minister for Health when a psychology assessment will take place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38356/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      854. To ask the Minister for Health if at least seven days’ notice of the type of restrictions that may come into effect as Ireland emerges from level 5 at the start of December 2020 will...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      855. To ask the Minister for Health if an issue raised in the minutes of meeting (details supplied) will receive a response in which it is stated that there was an issue nationwide in some...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      856. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for visitation in nursing homes and other residential settings; and if consideration has been given to procedures such as testing and PPE provision...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      857. To ask the Minister for Health the number of feticide procedures performed after 21 weeks and six days of gestation in tertiary referral centres from 1 January 2019 to date; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      860. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths that occurred as a result of Covid-19 for September and October 2020, by county, in nursing homes, direct provision and meat factories, in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      862. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy in place for girls and boys to access the HPV vaccine through the HSE if they declined the opportunity to take it up in school due to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the quantity of ultra-freezers owned by the HSE and his Department; his plans to purchase further ultra-freezers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contact tracers recruited since the start of level 5 restrictions in October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38434/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional intensive care beds secured since the start of level 5 restrictions in October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Autism Support Services
      871. To ask the Minister for Health the number of autism spectrum disorder assessment appointments which have been carried out since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a...
    • Paediatric Services
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the paediatric diabetes nurse in Tullamore and Mullingar hospitals; and when this service will resume in either hospital (details...
    • Hospital Procedures
      874. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38466/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      875. To ask the Minister for Health if restrictions in relation to nursing homes can be eased in the run up to Christmas provided strict hygiene and social distancing guidelines are adhered to;...
    • Primary Care Centres
      876. To ask the Minister for Health the status of proposed primary care centres in towns (details supplied); the stage of the process they are in; and if there is funding allocated. [38486/20]
    • Hospital Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the feasibility study on Mayo University Hospital; the details of same; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      878. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to establish a renal dialysis unit in one of the current healthcare facilities in Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Equipment
      879. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of PPE which has been supplied to each CHO area to each nursing homes for each quarter to date since the commencement of the Covid-19 pandemic in...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the concerns which were expressed regarding infection prevention and control, IPC, in private nursing homes in CHO 8 in June 2020 (details supplied); the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to rough shooting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38513/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      883. To ask the Minister for Health if IVF is available through the public hospital system for a medical card patient. [38517/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      884. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 17 September 2020, the number of officials engaged in actively listening to public views and concerns from the...
    • Dental Services
      885. To ask the Minister for Health the dental services currently available to medical card holders. [38544/20]
    • Medical Cards
      888. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to suspend the routine reviews of medical card eligibility during level 5 restrictions given difficulties medical card holders have...
    • Hospital Staff
      889. To ask the Minister for Health if concerns regarding the failure to employ a specialist diabetic nurse for Mullingar Regional Hospital will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      890. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to requesting the retail and public transport sectors to allow specific shopping and travelling times for the older and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      891. To ask the Minister for Health his views on general practitioners charging medical card holders for blood tests. [38569/20]
    • Hospital Procedures
      892. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an orthodontic appointment at St. Camillus's Hospital, Limerick, following a referral on 9...
    • Medical Cards
      893. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the requisite qualifications for the role of medical officers hired for the purpose of reviewing an emergency medical card application,...
    • Hospital Services
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment options available for lymphoedema patients at Letterkenny University Hospital; his plans to ensure patients attending Letterkenny University...
    • Medicinal Products
      896. To ask the Minister for Health the number and list of treatments being assessed by a HSE drugs group at its next meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38580/20]
    • Defence Forces Medical Services
      897. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a full health audit of former members of all branches of the Defence Forces with a view to extending a full medical card to all retired...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment with the audiology department at Midland Regional...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      899. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement there has been and the number of producers with which there has been engagement on procuring rapid antigen tests for Covid-19; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      903. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he, his Department or the HSE have had with the developer of an application (details supplied); if there are plans to endorse same; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      907. To ask the Minister for Health if a request by a group (details supplied) that a disused building be released to the community development company for lease or option to purchase will be...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      909. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); the length of time the person has been waiting; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      910. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be accommodated on the recommended diabetes pump in view of the fact the person has been informed that the criteria are...
    • Hospital Staff
      911. To ask the Minister for Health when the diabetes nurse in the Regional Hospital Mullingar, who left the position in September 2019 will be replaced. [38610/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      912. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diabetes nurses by county in tabular form. [38611/20]
    • Health Services Provision
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the diabetes services for younger persons available by county. [38613/20]
    • Mental Health Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a service (details supplied) which opened in 2020; the status of the building; if staff have been recruited; if so, the number; the amount spent...
    • Departmental Reports
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a report (details supplied). [38669/20]
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application under the optical benefit refund scheme by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      918. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be seen by a public ophthalmologist; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for the public ophthalmologist in Dublin 12; the reason for the long waiting list; the steps he is taking to address the delays; and...
    • Disability Services Provision
      920. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be seen by the school age team; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme
      921. To ask the Minister for Health the policy position on the optical benefit refund scheme; the reason the policy was amended given the hardship the change has created for families; and if he...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      922. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the backlog in processing pensions in each Health Service Executive region for retired HSE employees; the actions he is taking to speed up the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      923. 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. [38677/20]
    • Maternity Services
      924. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the banning of water births by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38730/20]
    • Hospital Services
      925. To ask the Minister for Health the effect the 2 m social distancing requirement will have on the availability of acute hospital beds by acute hospital; the expected knock-on effect this will...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      926. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the percentage of people who do not attend following appointments at testing centres for Covid-19 by testing centre; and if he will make...
    • Mental Health Services
      928. To ask the Minister for Health the current provision of mental health services in County Louth; the way in which services have been affected by Covid-19; the impact this has had on provision...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      929. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been notified by the HSE of any incidence of misdiagnosis involving prenatal screening and diagnostic tests for foetal abnormalities prior to a...
    • Medical Cards
      930. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application by a person (details supplied) is not being processed in view of the fact that the applicant has provided all of the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      931. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters raised by persons (details supplied) in Ballinacarriga, County Cork, regarding a swab centre will be examined; and if he will make a...
    • Suicide Incidence
      932. To ask the Minister for Health the deaths by suicide in 2020, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38754/20]
    • Eating Disorders
      934. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 18 years of age who have presented with eating disorders by age and gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38756/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      938. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists that have been reassigned to the Covid-19 testing and tracing response by CHO in tabular form; the impact this has had in respect...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      939. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to resourcing of and responses to treatment for long Covid-19 or patients suffering from significant sequelae subsequent to an...
    • Occupational Therapy
      940. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign (details supplied) which seeks to highlight ongoing structural delays in the delivery of assessments for...
    • Hospital Facilities
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the locations in which WiFi is available across acute hospital settings in tabular form (details supplied). [38784/20]
    • Medical Cards
      945. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card needed for palliative care for a person (details supplied) [38805/20]
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      946. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in putting up the minutes of meetings on the gov.ie website; the reason why previous minutes were removed from the webpage in regard...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 947
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he is refusing to engage with an association (details supplied) on the issue of the pay claim which it has submitted; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      949. To ask the Minister for Health the contingency plans in place for the test and trace system here in the event that there is a withdrawal of labour by an association (details supplied) due to...
    • Hospital Facilities
      950. To ask the Minister for Health the capital works carried out at Limerick maternity hospital in 2019 and to date in 2020; the duration of such works; the estimated costs of such projects; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new development posts within mental health that were approved in 2018 and 2019 that have yet to be filled; the timeframe for those posts to be...
    • Disability Support Services
      952. To ask the Minister for Health the care plan and funding for a person (details supplied); if intellectual disability services are involved; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a...
    • Maternity Leave
      953. To ask the Minister for Health if health and safety leave will be granted to teachers who are 28 weeks pregnant and more given that research has found those at this stage of pregnancies are...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      955. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons, by month, who have used the Keltoi facility to self-isolate since it was repurposed in March 2020, in tabular form. [38861/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      956. To ask the Minister for Health if teachers, special needs assistants, SNAs, and school staff will be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccination in the eventuality that a vaccine becomes...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      957. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update the HSE's advice on Covid-19 and pregnancy to take into account the joint occupational health advice (details supplied) for employers from...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if individual farmers will receive an explanation as to why certain parcels were not reclassified following ANC appeals; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Farmers Markets
      960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent closure of a market (details supplied); if he has engaged with the licensing body on...
    • Legislative Process
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions made to the consultation on the review of the European Union (Birds and Natural Habitats) (Sea-fisheries)...
    • Departmental Staff
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grade at which the chief data protection officer in his Department is employed. [37928/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if new entrants will be accepted to the national organic farming scheme; the position regarding grants for social farming; the...
    • Hare Coursing
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the ban on hare coursing until at least the end of March 2020, in a context in which any extension of the current...
    • Greyhound Industry
      966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the business and economic case for providing the greyhound industry with €96 million in 2021; the employment levels in the...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by his Department; the number that are in the process...
    • Departmental Staff
      968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 817 of 10 November 2020, the specific educational qualifications or otherwise sought when...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 817 of 10 November 2020, if software (details supplied) is available to the public to use; if...
    • Wildlife Protection
      972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an incident of inappropriate snaring of animals (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Brexit Preparations
      974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions that have been put in place to facilitate the smooth movement of livestock across the Border in case of a no-deal...
    • Veterinary Medicines
      976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage breakdown of the level of antibiotic usage on farms via compound feed compared with the physical administration of the...
    • GLAS Issues
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38238/20]
    • Greyhound Industry
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons employed in the greyhound industry, as funded by RCÉ, for the period from 2010 to 2020, by year, county...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the sheep welfare scheme reference year for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has increased their...
    • Nitrates Action Programme
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to impose Environmental Protection Agency licensing on dairy, livestock and tillage farmers in view of recent comments and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers excluded from the BEAM scheme due to the fact they are not signed up to the Bord Bia quality assurance scheme;...
    • Animal Sales
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consumer protections in place in regard to the purchase of a pet online if the advertisement is not in compliance with the...
    • Fishing Industry
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the situation with pair trawlers in Kenmare Bay, County Kerry. [38616/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention or that of his predecessor and officials has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the steps he is...
    • Fishing Industry
      985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the restrictions (details supplied) on local boats fishing off the south-west coast will be reconsidered; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has a legal obligation to give data on the value of a single farm payment to a farmer from whose land those single farm...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Community Development Initiatives
      988. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress that has been made in implementing the strategy, Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities, of her Department;...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      989. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Legislative Process
      990. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of all applications made by her Department to the Oireachtas business committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of...
    • Departmental Staff
      991. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grade at which the chief data protection officer in her Department is employed. [37923/20]
    • Vacant Properties
      992. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to introduce a scheme of supports to incentivise young persons to purchase vacant properties in towns and villages as their...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      993. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of tribunals, inquiries or investigations being undertaken currently by her Department; the number that are in the process...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      994. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date she plans to announce the successful projects to be funded under the standard measure of the town and village renewal scheme....
    • LEADER Programmes
      995. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the additional funding that will be provided for the LEADER project in 2021 in view of the €44 million announced in budget 2021...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      998. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans she has for future rounds of Covid-19 stability funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38258/20]
    • LEADER Programmes
      999. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when funding will be provided once again to Leader programmes across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • CLÁR Programme
      1000. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a CLÁR application by an organisation (details supplied); when a decision is likely; and if she will make a...
    • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
      1001. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when and the way in which community groups can apply for funding under the outdoor recreation scheme; if they can do so in 2021; and...

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