Written answers

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      9. To ask the Taoiseach the status of plans for reopening after level 5 Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. [38834/20]
    • Cabinet Committees
      11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with foreign affairs will next meet. [38329/20]
    • Global Footprint Initiative
      12. To ask the Taoiseach the status in relation to the Global Ireland Strategy; and when the next progress report is due. [38206/20]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Traveller Education
      35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure the delivery of the Traveller Education Strategy. [35132/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the provision of ASD services and units at primary and secondary levels in existing school buildings; her further plans for...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the method used to decide the allocation of special education teachers for a school (details supplied) in the context of a current school...
    • School Enrolments
      41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the capacity issues for secondary level education provision in County Wexford. [39960/20]
    • Education Standards
      42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the monitoring and analysis she is undertaking to examine the quality of education leaving certificate 2020 students are receiving; and if it has...
    • Schools Building Projects
      43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital projects in County Monaghan that will receive funding from her Department in 2021; and the capital projects in County Monaghan that...
    • Education Policy
      44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which adequate forward planning continues to take place in order to identify the number and location of primary and post-primary...
    • State Examinations
      45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the leaving certificate 2020 and the calculated grade model will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Enrolments
      46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available to tackle school capacity shortages (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40143/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a guarantee will be given that the intimate role of special needs assistants, SNAs, is acknowledged and that SNAs who require medical grade...
    • Schools Building Projects
      48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school build (details supplied); the stage the process is at; the time frame for same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of school places across north County Dublin; and if she will engage with school principals and...
    • School Admissions
      50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some children with disabilities may not be able to access a place in schools due to competition...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that have been taken to allow for a safe resumption of inter-school sport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39963/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to improve pupil-teacher ratios over the next five years; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Gaelscoil Issues
      53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of Gaelscoileanna to meet the demand around the country. [40076/20]
    • Education Data
      54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to commission long-term research on the impact of the school closures on educational outcomes for children; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she will prioritise schools in need of permanent buildings in County Donegal during 2021; the timeframe for phasing out of the...
    • School Transport
      56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her efforts to ensure that all students who have been deemed eligible for school transport, including those who missed the...
    • Education Policy
      57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the active measures being taken to phase out single-gender schools at primary level. [40043/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the levels of days lost by staff in primary and secondary schools as a result of Covid-19-related issues; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of applications by schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39853/20]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to agree a site location for building of a new school (details supplied); the engagement her Department has had to date...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a situation in which a school (details supplied) is being forced to campaign again for additional SNA resources...
    • Special Educational Needs
      63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of ASD units in secondary schools in County Clare. [39900/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the data being collated by her Department on the infrastructural needs of primary and post-primary schools during the Covid-19 pandemic; if a...
    • School Staff
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of engagements with representatives of school secretaries. [40089/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a need to provide an individual workplace risk assessment for SNAs and teachers who are high risk; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied); if the site for the new school has been secured; if not, the stage at which...
    • DEIS Scheme
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the reason class size reductions were only committed to for DEIS band 1 senior schools in budget 2021; her plans to commit funding to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with members of a group (details supplied) regarding families with underlying conditions and Covid-19 safety in schools; and if...
    • School Curriculum
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the recently published report by a person (details supplied), which details a significant decline in arts...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to Health Protection Surveillance Centre guidance for an indoor air quality meter in each classroom that relies on...
    • School Admissions
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to school admissions in circumstances in which children who could walk from their home to the local school are...
    • State Examinations
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on sixth year classes in secondary schools having increased classroom-based assessments in preparation for a potential repeat of the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include JobBridge hours in the calculation of teachers’ salary increments. [40151/20]
    • European Court of Human Rights
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the ex gratia scheme that was established on foot of the O’Keeffe judgment of the European Court of Human...
    • Special Educational Needs
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase availability of school places for children with a disability; her views on whether her Department has adequate data...
    • State Examinations
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to expanding choice in the 2021 leaving certificate exams further; if she is considering additional measures to...
    • School Curriculum
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need to increase the amount of black and Traveller history in the school curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions being taken to ensure that continued operation of schools at which inadequate ventilation has been identified; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the plan for an autism-specific school (details supplied); and the roadmap and timeline for the establishment of such a...
    • Minor Works Scheme
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that exists for a school (details supplied) and other schools to install water fountains on their school grounds; the way in which an...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address issues regarding ventilation in schools in view of Covid-19 related concerns; the number of buildings her Department plans to...
    • State Examinations
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking in allowing broader choice in exam questions in leaving certificate 2021 to ensure gaps in curriculum coverage...
    • Brexit Issues
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the effect Brexit will have on the terms of registration for teachers who are trained and are fully qualified to teach in the UK returning to...
    • School Funding
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve capitation funding for voluntary second level schools in view of the differential in the level of funding provided for such...
    • School Enrolments
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest demographic information used, including figures of projected population growth of school age children, to analyse the projected need...
    • Education Policy
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that will be taken to ensure the continued operation of small schools in view of changing demographic trends in the years ahead; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of appropriate PPE to school staff, particularly SNAs, who cannot adhere to social distancing with students will be clarified;...
    • School Accommodation
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the stage 1 and 2a application for a school (details supplied), given the chronic shortage of second level school places for boys...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the inadequate number of special education teachers in schools; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some schools...
    • Schools Building Projects
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to build a new secondary school in Glanmire, County Cork, due to the increasing population and the existing shortage of school places in...
    • Education Policy
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to ensure gender balance in STEM education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40090/20]
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the independent evaluation of Caranua commenced; when it will be completed; when the report of the independent evaluation will be published;...
    • School Enrolments
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the scarcity of second level places in north Dublin owing to schools reducing their intakes to enable social...
    • Special Educational Needs
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the lack of ASD unit spaces for children starting primary schools in mid-Cork; if this matter will be reviewed urgently,...
    • School Transport
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus transport; the number of children accommodated in 2020 compared to previous years; and the efforts to address unmet...
    • Schools Building Projects
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will move to its permanent site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39962/20]
    • Special Educational Needs
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with school principals in Skerries, County Dublin, and the parents of children affected in relation to delivering additional...
    • Education Policy
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the resources that may become available within primary education in the coming years due to the projection of declining...
    • School Transport
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the way in which the education of a child with learning difficulties could be affected if that child’s single parent is no...
    • School Accommodation
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the cap on a second level school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 will be lifted. [40044/20]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a situation in which a school on the north side of Cork city lost a teacher in October 2020 and was forced to...
    • School Transport
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether many private bus operators are operating at 50% capacity on their school services in line with the recommendations of her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the situation in relation to the provision of an ASD-specific school in the Dublin 12 area will be clarified; and if she will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider closing schools early for the Christmas period in view of Covid-19-related concerns; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Years Sector
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken research into a centre (details supplied) as a response to tackling poor educational outcomes in areas of acute...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Judicial Appointments
      110. To ask the Taoiseach if copies of all correspondence to or from him, his advisers or his Department relating to the filling of the Supreme Court vacancy occasioned by the retirement of a...
    • National Economic and Social Council
      111. To ask the Taoiseach if reports of the National Economic and Social Council are Government policy; and if not, the status of same. [39563/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      112. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 11 November 2020, if he will publish the circular or detailed official guidance setting out the arrangements governing travel...
    • Departmental Contracts
      113. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department has engaged to carry out...
  • Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
    • Work Permits
      114. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will review a critical skills employment permit for a person (details supplied) which, due to Covid-19, no longer meets the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      115. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if State redundancies will be available from 1 December 2020 when the bar on redundancies expires for workers particularly in the bar...
    • Employment Rights
      116. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will report on measures to implement the Duffy-Cahill report on collective redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      118. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the amount of the €2 billion Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme that has been approved and drawn down; and if he will make a...
    • Job Losses
      119. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of redundancies registered in each month between October 2019 and October 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      120. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding Covid-19 restrictions will receive a response; and if...
    • Company Liquidations
      121. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if a State body is investigating the issues related to the liquidation of a company (details supplied) such as the treatment of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      122. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the packages of support available to taxi drivers to assist and support them during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • IDA Ireland
      123. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the level of new investment arising from IDA-sponsored enterprises in County Westmeath in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      124. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the extent to which he remains satisfied that the Covid-19-related supports provided are adequately addressing the negative effects...
    • Work Permits
      125. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the work permit process; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      126. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of applicants for the restart grant plus who pay commercial rates in shared commercial spaces and who had their...
    • Trade Agreements
      127. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the status of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation
      128. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will provide a full sectoral breakdown of new jobs announcements supported by Enterprise Ireland in 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Brexit Preparations
      130. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will consider appointing a liaison person in the north west to act as a single contact for potential inward investment post...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      131. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his office received correspondence (details supplied); and when a reply will issue. [39838/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      132. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the average interest rates across lenders providing loans to qualifying borrowers through the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      133. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the reason wet pubs are one of the last remaining industries to be allowed to reopen (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      134. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the supports available to sole traders who are also PAYE employees and who have not lost employment due to Covid-19 but who find...
    • Departmental Contracts
      136. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      138. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) with the Companies Registration Office; and if he will...
    • Redundancy Payments
      140. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will report on the provisions of SI 349 of 2020 on redundancy payments. [28349/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      141. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he is considering reopening the restart grants to new applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40340/20]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Consultations
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure a full process of consultation with land owners, occupiers, farmers and farm organisations prior to...
    • North-South Interconnector
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the North-South interconnector project; if he is satisfied the project follows international best...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections in place for those attending the post office, especially those in the vulnerable category; and if he...
    • National Broadband Plan
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to ensure the provision of high-speed broadband connection in the Foxrock area, County Dublin...
    • Post Office Network
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to enact the Private Members' motion passed in November 2016 by the previous Government regarding the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scheduled and planned enabling of broadband exchanges in County Clare under the national broadband plan; and if he...
    • Waste Tyre Disposal
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to bring forward a second round of the amnesty for the collection of old tyres dumped illegally; and if he...
    • Waterways Issues
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of works to be done on the wall along the river in Ballylooby, Cahir, County Tipperary; and if he will make...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of State investment planned for investment in offshore wind energy projects; and if he will make a statement...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the introduction of a grant scheme for renewable energy systems for new builds, similar to the...
    • Postal Services
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the position regarding the issuing of Eircodes, particularly to new housing developments, will be clarified; if his...
    • Telecommunications Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to provide additional resources or statutory powers to the Commission for Communications Regulation to deal...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the 400 kV Celtic interconnector will be placed underground along public roads in its entirety when this connection...
    • Just Transition Fund
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there will be further calls for funding from the scheme following the recent funding announcements for the midland...
    • Departmental Contracts
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT...
    • Illegal Dumping
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to combat fly tipping and illegal dumping; if he has allocated funding to local authorities to combat same;...
    • Social Media Regulation
      160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has undertaken any research or investigation into the alleged use of fake social media accounts or...
    • Commission for Regulation of Utilities
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if information regarding the increase in the cost of certification through the Register of Gas Installers of Ireland as...
    • National Broadband Plan
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when residents in Cluain Ard, Blarney, will have broadband rolled out. [40450/20]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Air Safety
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if guidance will be provided on the use of aircraft detection lighting systems in the construction of wind turbines in the context of the...
    • Traffic Management
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been approved for traffic calming on Orerry Road, County Cork. [39543/20]
    • Rail Network
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a second feasibility study into the western rail corridor has been commissioned; if so, the purpose of commissioning a second study;...
    • Bus Éireann
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the 40 new VB buses received by Bus Éireann from the National Transport Authority...
    • Pension Provisions
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the new hybrid Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, superannuation pension scheme is being operated without agreement and outside...
    • Driver Test
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a minibus driver test will be expedited for a person (details supplied) which has a waiting list of six months; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if arrangements will be in place for Irish residents to exchange their UK Northern Ireland driver licenses after the Brexit transition...
    • Driver Test
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct the RSA to provide information in relation to learner permit holders and driving test applications (details supplied);...
    • Electric Vehicles
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the grants recently announced to enable taxi drivers to replace their vehicles with zero-emission vehicles will be made available;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review of the sustainable mobility policy launched in November 2019 is expected to be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if provision will be made to reduce the six-month waiting rule for provisional driver licence holders to sit a test for a full licence on...
    • Motor Tax
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of motor home camper vans currently registered in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39827/20]
    • Tourism Data
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of foreign registration motor home and camper van vehicles that visited Ireland for holidays and subsequently left the State...
    • Driver Test
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason no driver theory test appointments are available to be booked in the next ten months (details supplied). [39871/20]
    • Dublin Bus
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of funding he had requested in budget 2021 to improve Dublin Bus services. [39888/20]
    • Road Projects
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received a submission from Galway County Council in relation to the bridges and causeways to the islands area of...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated daily volume of demand for airport testing in Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports during December 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Airport Passenger Data
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that arrived in Dublin, Cork and Shannon airport in each week from 1 November to 22 November 2020; and if he...
    • Taxi Regulations
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA is extending or will extend the 90-day time limit for getting a suitability test for taxi vehicles after passing a NCT while...
    • Electric Vehicles
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration he is giving to changing the qualifying criteria for electric AM category vehicle licences (details supplied); and if...
    • Road Projects
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, has received an application for a roadside barrier at a location (details supplied) in County...
    • Driver Test
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will accept the certificate of professional competence that was accredited in England as opposed to making drivers sit the same...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the large number of taxi drivers who are over 66 years of age and are not included in the measures to help taxi...
    • Road Safety Authority
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name of a company used to develop essential driver training on behalf of the Road Safety Authority in 2009; the fees paid to the...
    • Road Projects
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Athy distributor route; the progress to date; his plans to bring this project to fruition; the target date for...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any of the four newly appointed persons to the board of the Road Safety Authority were known to him before he appointed them; if so,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and information...
    • Brexit Issues
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans for an exchange programme for holders of TM CPC UK certificates to EU or Irish certificates following Brexit; and if...
    • Driver Licences
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driver licence will issue to a person (details supplied) requiring evidence of a valid driver licence for car insurance purposes;...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the continued recognition of UK driver licences in Ireland post Brexit is included in current Brexit negotiations; and if he will make...
    • Pension Provisions
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if older defined benefit pension schemes operated by the Irish Aviation Authority require extra funding from air traffic control user...
    • Cycling Policy
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are new sponsors for the public bike scheme outside of Dublin. [40425/20]
    • Taxi Regulations
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the membership of the taxi advisory council; the number of vacancies at present; the method and expected timeline by which they will be...
    • Haulage Industry
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a UK haulage licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40449/20]
  • Department of Finance
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance the list of projects funded by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39557/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if a business whose business activity is not carried out at its business premises will be eligible to receive the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he...
    • Drug Seizures
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the current provisions in place to prevent the import of novel psychoactive substances. [40227/20]
    • Tax Code
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review section 127B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to ensure the fair taxation of the affected workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Company Liquidations
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount owed to the State by tax head for the liquidation of a company (details supplied); and the amount that is expected to be recovered. [39571/20]
    • Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the remedies available for complainants that issue a complaint to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, FSPO, regarding a joint account in the name...
    • Tax Code
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to a matter (details supplied). [39621/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if fee-paying third level students and their families in cases of more than one third level student per family will receive the full €250 reduction or...
    • Value Added Tax
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to lower the threshold on tax free sales by non-EU tourists; and if so, the proposed lowest threshold; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if the funding students receive from the student assistance fund will be regarded as taxable income for those students who are not eligible or in receipt of a...
    • Corporation Tax
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of corporation tax paid by a company (details supplied) on its profits from the sale of loans previously purchased from a bank in 2018; the manner...
    • Value Added Tax
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if beauty salons are covered by the recent reduction in the VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39806/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the reason an employer was allowed to submit an application for the temporary wage...
    • Banking Sector
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review correspondence (details supplied); his views on the campaign to retain rural services; if his Department has engaged with the bank on the...
    • Motor Insurance
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance if professional drivers in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will have issues with insurance cover directly relating to the period they were off...
    • EU Regulations
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulations in place with regard to a crowdfunding platform (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39928/20]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance when NAMA will start construction on the Irish Glass Bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin 4, in order to provide much needed social and affordable housing. [39949/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if physiotherapists qualify under the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40054/20]
    • Banking Sector
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Central Bank is not a member of the Basel committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40056/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the appeals process for exclusion or refusal on eligibility criteria from the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bank Charges
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on changes to bank charges at banks (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this may lead to substantial increases for...
    • Tax Code
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being considered to broaden Ireland's tax base beyond over-reliance on income tax revenues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40195/20]
    • National Debt
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance the size of Ireland's national debt; and the annual repayment and servicing of the debt costs. [40196/20]
    • Value Added Tax
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the VAT exemption on white and cylindrical candles per annum. [40198/20]
    • Departmental Contracts
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department has engaged to...
    • Banking Sector
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the research he has undertaken as to the effect on the Irish banking market by the proposed exit of a bank (details supplied) from the Irish market; the...
    • Mortgage Data
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the research his Department is undertaking on the level of sales of property by receivers that are the subject of impaired loans; the analysis that is being...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter in relation to the help-to-buy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40267/20]
    • Credit Unions
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to concerns following changes to credit union lodgment limits; if he will address concerns (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to a person (details supplied) facing a large benefit-in-kind bill due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40325/20]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Traffic Management
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works, OPW, liaised with Dublin City Council ahead of the decision to close many of the gates in the Phoenix...
    • Garda Stations
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the OPW spent on the refurbishment of Malahide Garda station in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [39889/20]
    • Departmental Contracts
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his...
    • Office of Public Works
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date of the most recent meeting with the landlord of a location (details supplied); the outcome of the meeting; and if he will make...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      243. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the Covid-19 guidance that is given to basketball clubs; and if she will consider an exemption under the appropriate level of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      244. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the circus sector has been excluded from the Covid restrictions support scheme despite the statement she made that the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      245. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the 2021 sports capital application programme will open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40232/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      246. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 19 November 2020, the Department responsible for oversight of the commercial provision...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      249. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a Christmas festival (details supplied) was not awarded a grant under the live performance support scheme despite being...
    • National Concert Hall
      253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received the 2019 annual report for the National Concert Hall; and if so, when it will be published. [39886/20]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding previously awarded under the sports capital programme in the case of a club (details supplied) is secure given delays...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if venues will be allowed to host live music sessions under level 2 restrictions provided enhanced physical distancing and proper...
    • Departmental Contracts
      259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms her...
    • Departmental Schemes
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application (details supplied). [40246/20]
    • Coimisiún Logainmneacha
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht conas a rinne an rialtas fáil réidh leis an gCoimisiún Logainmneacha sa bhliain 2013, agus cóip de chibé...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports she is providing to save a facility (details supplied) in view of the importance of same to the tourism and culture...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current position on a new round of sports capital funding; when it will be announced that it is opening; and if she will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the €1.7 million music industry stimulus package grant scheme in terms of the amount spent on...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • EU Directives
      266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he has taken to rectify violations of the EU habitats directive by Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding plans in place to assist Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park, which have suffered an income loss due Covid-19...
    • Planning Issues
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the technical update of the Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments, Guidelines for Planning...
    • Planning Data
      269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning applications that have been refused based on the provisions of section 35 of the Planning and...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff that have been assigned to work on preparations for the right to housing referendum from his Department;...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount borrowed by approved housing bodies to fund the purchase of turnkey homes in 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 15 January 2019, the current status of the 1,400 affordable units; the expected...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that fall into the category of the hidden homeless (details supplied); the number of those that have a...
    • Disabilities Data
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons with disabilities that are in receipt of HAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39569/20]
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an approved housing body has applied to the Housing Finance Agency, his Department or an entity operating under the aegis...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his Department has been notified by Dublin City Council if companies (details supplied) were informed that the...
    • Building Regulations
      281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if allegations raised regarding balcony defects in an estate (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will be examined; and if he will...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a regional breakdown of the inspections carried out to date under the national quality standards framework...
    • Planning Issues
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the strategic housing developments that have been granted permission since 2017; the number that have been refused; the number...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the stakeholders that will be participating to review the status of funding for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 636 of 3 November 2020, if the current tenant (incremental) purchase scheme 2016 permits...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that PPS numbers are being required of persons seeking emergency accommodation;...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether public funding allocated through local authorities in the form of a housing adaptation grant should only...
    • Mica Redress Scheme
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in County Donegal that have been approved to date under the mica scheme; the number of applications...
    • Rental Sector
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to alleviate the chronic shortage of long-term rental properties in cities and towns across the...
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the regeneration plan, Project Carlow 2040: A Vision for Regeneration, launched recently by...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 11 November 2020, the stage the process between Limerick City and County Council...
    • Planning Issues
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report by a person (details supplied) in relation to marine protected areas as part of the broader development of a...
    • Housing Data
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing developments in Fingal and Dublin city that made up the estimated cost of council direct construction of social...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a property (details supplied) can be included in the pyrite remediation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will fully commence the Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet residents of homes built in conjunction with housing associations (details supplied) to discuss their concerns...
    • Departmental Contracts
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms...
    • Hare Coursing
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ban on hare coursing will be extended until at least the end of March 2020 in a context in which any extension of the...
    • Housing Estates
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a housing development project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40264/20]
    • Homeless Persons Data
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on the investigation his Department is conducting into the rise in deaths among homeless persons in Dublin in...
    • Housing Issues
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in County Longford connected with index-linked shared-ownership loans or leases; the number that are...
    • Defence Forces
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding has been allocated for the development or redevelopment of dedicated Defence Forces housing; and if he will make a...
    • Building Regulations
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider changing the planning guidelines to ensure that all new public buildings are required to have changing...
    • Planning Guidelines
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected timeline for the issuance of updated development plan guidelines to local authorities; if he will be inviting...
    • Census of Population
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the 2016 population figures for County Meath are an appropriate population estimate to base the Meath...
    • Fire Service
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider granting permission to Galway County Council to extend the retirement date for fire service staff who are...
    • Mayoral Election
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is expected to publish the report of the independent advisory group on the issue of a directly elected mayor for...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Consular Services
      316. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if steps have been taken by his Department to secure the return of a person (details supplied). [39597/20]
    • Human Rights
      317. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made on behalf of the Irish Government to further highlight and end the EndSARS campaign; and if he will make a statement...
    • International Terrorism
      320. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on suggestions that the Iranian regime is involved in international terrorism; if his attention has or had been drawn to plans to...
    • EU Issues
      321. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current expected cost of the European Peace Facility to Ireland for each of the years 2021-2027 noting that the Athena mechanism and the...
    • Consular Services
      322. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the case of a person (details supplied) facing deportation from Canada with the authorities there. [40173/20]
    • Departmental Contracts
      323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department...
    • Military Aircraft
      324. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace to date in 2020; the...
    • Brexit Issues
      325. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason haulage companies have to send transport managers and employees to do a course (details supplied). [40279/20]
    • United Nations
      330. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that will be taken to ensure that the EU develops a legal analysis of the UN treaty and acquires a negotiation mandate given that...
    • Proposed Legislation
      332. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans Ireland has put in place to input and shape the proposed legislative initiative, given the commitment to a legislative initiative...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Corps
      336. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if on-the-job training of an apprentice can be carried out with the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40301/20]
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      337. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding has been provided to the Defence Forces to improve and upgrade defence infrastructure to achieve higher environmental standards....
    • Permanent Structured Co-operation
      338. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a full report on the involvement of the Defence Forces in PESCO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39738/20]
    • Military Honours
      339. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) will be awarded a medal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39794/20]
    • Naval Service
      340. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of additional Naval Service personnel that will be required in the event of a no-deal Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      341. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the breakdown of annual operations by the Defence Forces; the percentage that are day patrols and so on; and the level of personnel and...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      342. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the obstacle to the implementation of the technical pay agreement agreed over a year ago with the Defence Forces. [40190/20]
    • Departmental Contracts
      343. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department has...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      344. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the resources required to be available to improve recruitment into the Reserve Defence Force in the coming years; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      345. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated number of recruits expected into the Army, Naval Service, Air Corps and Reserve Defence Force in the 2021 recruitment competitions...
    • Departmental Budgets
      347. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding that was unspent under Vote 36 was subsequently used from 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      348. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason Permanent Defence Force and Reserve Defence Force general service recruitment cannot be undertaken simultaneously in view of the same...
    • Defence Forces Data
      349. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the breakdown of personnel undertaking career breaks for the Army, the Naval Service and the Air Corps by rank; and if he will make a statement...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      350. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which career breaks are promoted within the Defence Forces; if same are offered prior to a voluntary discharge; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      351. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if changes to increase the age limit for joining the Permanent Defence Force and the Reserve Defence Force is being examined to improve the...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      352. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of paying personnel the living wage for undertaking a 24-hour duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40298/20]
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      353. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the allocation and expenditure for supporting mental health within the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40299/20]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      354. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external advice or expertise that has been sought to assess the security of cyber infrastructure; the areas in which improvements can be...
    • Naval Service
      355. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if additional funding has been requested from the EU for the Naval Service to support patrolling Irish territorial waters in view of Brexit; and...
    • Air Corps
      356. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has considered the establishment of a reserve unit for the Air Corps with the necessary skills; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Data
      357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Permanent Defence Force personnel that have availed of paternity leave in 2020; the way same is being promoted amongst personnel;...
    • Defence Forces Training
      358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated length of time it takes to fully train an Air Corps pilot; the number of pilots; and the number that are currently in training....
    • EU Issues (1 comment)
      360. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the European peace facility, EPF, proposed off-budget €5 billion that would fund EU military operations and maintain...
    • Permanent Structured Co-operation
      361. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, projects in which Ireland has observer status; his plans to participate in...
    • Defence Forces
      363. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Irish troops are being trained in NATO facilities to NATO standards and if Defence Forces equipment is being aligned to NATO standards; if it...
    • Permanent Structured Co-operation
      364. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the planned increase in budgets and investments under policy goals for the implementation of the commitments and projects in the next PESCO...
    • Defence Forces
      371. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the responsibilities the Defence Forces, in particular the Air Corps, have in defending Ireland against potential air threats in...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers who are 28 weeks plus pregnant are being denied Covid-19 based health and safety leave by Medmark occupational health care...
    • Teacher Training
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the shortage of maths and physics teachers in secondary education; the measures she is taking to deal with this problem; if she will...
    • School Transport
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the bar on bus drivers over the age of 70 who are medically fit for work is discriminatory on age grounds; and if she will...
    • Public Sector Pay
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers who were recruited between 2014 and 2017 on lower pay contracts will have their salaries adjusted to match those of their peers; if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which regulations were policed, in view of the fact that many of these families were attending schools (details supplied); if in such...
    • Schools Health and Safety
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools monitor carbon dioxide levels in classrooms; the advice that has been issued to schools on air purification and ventilation; and if...
    • School Accommodation
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need for a new post-primary school building in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39578/20]
    • School Admissions
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering the introduction of a universal secondary school application process for pupils in towns and cities in order to...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review salaries of communication supports who are assigned to children in both primary and secondary school (details supplied); and...
    • School Transport
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of transport for a child (details supplied). [39697/20]
    • School Enrolments
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider carrying out a feasibility study for a new secondary school in an area (details supplied) that would take into...
    • Education Data
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in Ireland that sat the International Baccalaureate from 2015 to 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new special classes that will be established in secondary schools in the 2020-21 school year; and the number of these new classes...
    • School Facilities
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will increase the number of language units, given that there has been no resource increase since 2001; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the deferred payment of the leaving certificate examination fees announced by her Department in early 2020 also applies to cases in which...
    • Departmental Budgets
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocation for her Department by project for 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39772/20]
    • School Staff
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals by schools to retain their staffing levels and not lose a teacher in the 2020-21 academic year that were successful; and if...
    • DEIS Scheme
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the €5 million investment for DEIS schools as announced in budget 2021 will be allocated; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional ASD places made available in Dublin 1, 7 and 9 respectively, in the 2020-21 academic year. [39781/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39810/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39816/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39840/20]
    • School Staff
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of discussions to bring school secretaries' pay and conditions on a par with all other public servants; her views on this matter; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the difficult situation that pregnant teachers are experiencing due to differing advice from organisations...
    • Compensation Schemes
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the ex gratia scheme for survivors of sexual abuse in day schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • European Court of Human Rights
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a need for further extensions to the deadline for the submission of the report to the Council of Europe on the implementation of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of an autism spectrum disorder class in a school (details supplied) in County Meath, which was awarded funding in...
    • School Accommodation
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to address the increased enrolment applications for a school (details supplied) in County Meath in which a large number of...
    • Schools Health and Safety
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct school principals and teachers to allow students to wear additional layers of clothing, including coats, hats and scarves, to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the lack of engagement at a technical level by her Department with a school (details supplied) in County Cork regarding a...
    • Education and Training Provision
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if those who are studying in the UK for a postgraduate certificate in education but have not yet completed the course have any option of...
    • School Transport
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the ongoing dispute between Bus Éireann and the family of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools are assigned leaving certificate exam numbers that retain the same prefix numbers each year, which may affect the anonymous nature of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need to enhance and facilitate further participation in the classroom for children with disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is in discussion with the management of a school (details supplied) regarding the need for a new building programme at the school; her...
    • School Accommodation
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which provision has been made for extra accommodation required at a school (details supplied); if cognisance is taken as to whether...
    • Schools Building Projects
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position with regard to the provision of the new school at Newtown, Enfield, County Kildare; the degree to which the project has been...
    • School Accommodation
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which all required extra facilities at a school (details supplied) have been provided to date or are in course thereof; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which facilities required at a school (details supplied) are being provided for in line with requirements as set out by the school...
    • School Accommodation
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position in regard to outstanding requirements at a school (details supplied) in line with the proposals set out by the school...
    • School Transport
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the difficulties facing the school transport system under the current circumstances will be acknowledged; if she is satisfied that the public...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the placement numbers for special needs assistants and special education needs organisers, SENOs, prior to and following the announcement of the...
    • School Enrolments
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address long waiting lists for school places in Monasterevin and Kildare town; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40138/20]
    • State Examinations
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of and her position regarding the leaving cert results appeals process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31358/20]
    • School Transport
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus transport both in terms of ensuring all students have access to the services in addition to meeting the 50% capacity...
    • School Accommodation
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for additional permanent accommodation at a school (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage in view of the urgent...
    • Departmental Contracts
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms her Department has...
    • School Funding
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 704 of 3 November 2020, if she will respond to correspondence regarding the urgent need for emergency...
    • Special Educational Needs
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the lack of ASD units in Limerick schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40231/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in building new schools (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the plans in place to cope with increased need for school...
    • School Funding
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are funds that schools can avail of to allow participation in digital initiatives in partnership with private enterprise over and above...
    • School Admissions
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure schools are complying with section 62(7)(n) of the Education Act 1998 obliging schools to publish an admission policy...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Teaching Council registration will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40372/20]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some special needs assistants are not performing catheterisation at some schools as per circular 30/2014 being supported by their...
    • School Transport
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport scheme routes servicing the second level education sector in County Donegal that are operating at 50% capacity;...
    • School Inspections
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure involved in circumstances in which school inspectorate reports have been challenged by a school's management; if the initial report...
    • Public Sector Pay
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the dual pay scale in teaching; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Supervision and Substitution Scheme
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons who were employed part-time as Covid-19 supervisors in schools are not paid for mid-term and school holidays, given that their...
    • School Transport
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the review of the school transport system in an effort to bring about a resolution of the issues that have arisen in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains satisfied that adequate plans are in place to ensure that all schools at primary and post-primary level...
    • School Patronage
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which patronage changes in respect of various primary and post-primary schools throughout County Kildare have been advanced in line...
    • School Curriculum
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the school curriculum at primary and secondary levels has been or can be extended to incorporate a particular emphasis on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she continues to make provision of sufficient places for children with autism throughout mainstream education at both primary...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the special needs teacher requirement continues to be met nationally and, in particular, in north County Kildare; if...
    • School Staff
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of career guidance teachers available to students in all secondary schools throughout north County Kildare; the extent to which these...
    • School Enrolments
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the secondary schools available to the community of Ashtown, Dublin 15; if there is sufficient choice in ethos or capacity; and if she will make...
    • Schools Administration
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to an application submitted to her Department by a school (details supplied) to separate the junior and senior schools,...
    • School Funding
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when official recognition will be given to a centre (details supplied) as an alternative education setting meeting a specific and proven need....
    • Special Educational Needs
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on the future of a school (details supplied) as an ASD-specific school for children aged five years of age...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Carer's Allowance
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carer's allowance are subject to Garda vetting as part of the application process for same; and if...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the number of employees availing of the short-term working week will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Allowance
      463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the community employment scheme will be extended for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Pensions Reform
      465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the suitability of the rates and eligibility criteria attached to the widow's, widower's or surviving civil...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a personal public service number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when phone lines (details supplied) will be reopened for queries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39629/20]
    • Invalidity Pension
      469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of eligibility for an invalidity pension will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a supplementary welfare allowance will be issued to a person (details supplied) who has appealed the decision to refuse...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment scheme placement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be extended; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pandemic unemployment payment recipients will receive all arrears in 2020; if assurances will be provided that if arrears...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons over 66 years of age are not considered for the Covid-19 crisis payment; and if she will make a statement...
    • Invalidity Pension
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when a person (details supplied) will qualify for an invalidity pension given that his existing payment is due to...
    • School Meals Programme
      475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the meals provided for in each school meals programme meets the requirements set out in Healthy Ireland guides and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those who are currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment as a result of their employment being closed due...
    • Student Support Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Intreo will not provide a statement of the record of payments to a jobseeker (details supplied) in order to...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on changes to the community employment scheme over the past three years; the improvements being made to...
    • Pension Provisions
      479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the provision of pensions for community employment supervisors will be facilitated as per the recommendations of the 2008...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the guidelines that Intreo offices have been issued in relation to the sanitisation of electronic signing equipment used by...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of an application made for a contributory old age pension by a person (details supplied); when the person can...
    • Disability Allowance
      482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on a disability allowance review; and if she will make a statement...
    • Local Employment Service
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the regions which will be prioritised for funding in relation to additional funding for new services in local employment; and...
    • Qualified Child Allowance
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will backdate the award of an increase in qualified children benefit to March 2018 in the case of a person (details...
    • Guardian's Payment
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for guardianship payment that was refused in the case of a person (details supplied)...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of pandemic unemployment payment arrears due to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment scheme placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the reason those on incapacity payments are being refused the wage...
    • Youth Unemployment
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy measures being taken by her Department to help young people secure employment particularly in areas of high...
    • Illness Benefit
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare and early years education workers who are availing of the enhanced illness benefit. [31347/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms of support available to a person who is unemployed as a result of the pandemic. [29980/20]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualifying criteria for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment to qualify for the Christmas bonus for social...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a PPSN by a person (details supplied); when the application will be processed; and if she...
    • Working Family Payment
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will pay a working family payment to a person (details supplied); when the application was first received by her...
    • Disability Allowance
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment review will be finalised with arrears due paid to a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased pandemic unemployment payment benefit will be paid to a person (details supplied); and the reason their claim...
    • School Staff
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community employment workers are permitted to work in primary schools as cleaners, maintenance and so on; and if she will...
    • Carer's Benefit
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to persons being denied carer’s benefit as they do not meet the requirement of having...
    • Paternity Leave
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if paternity leave for the first child has increased from two weeks to five weeks; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Living Alone Allowance
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a living alone allowance application by a person (details supplied); if the allowance will be backdated; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a Covid payment will be backdated for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40443/20]
    • Fuel Allowance
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the fuel allowance allowed and disallowed in each of the past eight years to date; the main...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting times for various appeals in respect of schemes or payments run by her Department; her plans to reduce...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for her Department to meet increased demand...
    • State Pensions
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which women or men who have insufficient contributions to meet the requirements for qualification for the old...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare...
    • State Pensions
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of old age pensioners in receipt of a pension in each of the past five years to date in 2020; and if she will make...
    • Working Family Payment
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of persons in receipt of working family payment has fluctuated in each of the past five years...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Christmas bonus will be paid; the categories of social welfare recipients that will receive same; and if she will...
    • Pensions Reform
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a representative of an organisation (details supplied) can be invited to join the Pensions Commission in order to ensure...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extend further jobseeker's benefit due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to relax the jobseeker's allowance means testing process due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if...
    • Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is considering new supports for enterprise start-ups such as through the back to work enterprise scheme as...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the number of places on the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40514/20]
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reintroduce the mortgage interest supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40515/20]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child and Family Agency
      522. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the circumstances under which the Child and Family Agency refers an allegation of child sexual abuse to the St. Clare's unit in Temple...
    • Parental Leave
      523. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the extension of paid parental leave from two weeks to five weeks will not take effect until April 2021 rather than from January...
    • National LGBTI+ Strategy
      524. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of the actions in the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-2021 that are complete; the percentage that are pending...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      526. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the ECCE programme 2020 will not run to coincide with the local school calendar (details supplied). [39622/20]
    • Direct Provision System
      527. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps his Department has taken to tackle the problem of cockroaches in a direct provision centre (details supplied). [39818/20]
    • Asylum Seekers
      528. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to an instance in which an asylum seeker is reportedly sleeping at the gates of a centre (details...
    • Direct Provision System
      530. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons that died while residing in direct provision for each of the past five years; and the breakdown by cause of death,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      531. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children that have applied for an ECCE overage exemption; the number of children whose applications have been successful; and...
    • Departmental Strategy Statements
      532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the innovations he plans for the upcoming statement of strategy of his Department. [40110/20]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      533. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has recorded a significant drop-off in children in early childhood settings or in the number of providers offering...
    • Departmental Contracts
      534. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his...
    • Direct Provision System
      535. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will clarify the guidelines in relation to donations such as food, toiletries and toys to direct provision centres; and if he will...
    • School Attendance
      536. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the findings of the Covid-19 return on school absenteeism recently completed by Tusla. [40394/20]
    • Home Schooling
      537. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of home school applications received between August and November 2020 that have not yet been placed on the home education...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      538. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made in the past month in relation to making information available from the evidence collected in the preparation of the...
    • Legislative Programme
      540. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019 will be brought forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40459/20]
    • Child and Family Agency
      541. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if advice will be provided on a matter regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been collaboration between his Department and the Defence Forces to promote the Defence Forces as a career for apprentices. [40300/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the exclusion of part-time postgraduate students from the one time student grant will be reconsidered in view of the fact that Covid-19...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student living in a direct provision centre awaiting a decision on a residency application and at present attending second level is entitled...
    • Third Level Fees
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Irish students will be considered as international students from January 2021 if they apply to UK colleges for postgraduate courses resulting...
    • Third Level Admissions
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a review of the admissions process for International Baccalaureate applying to Irish third level institutions; and if he will...
    • Education Data
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in Ireland that undertook degree studies in a foreign language from 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from Northern Ireland admitted to third level institutions between 2015 to 2020; the breakdown for each year; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €250 support payment to students will be made to those who had to return to college in order to carry out placements (details...
    • Third Level Fees
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether a scenario in relation to a person (details supplied) is fair and equitable; if he will request the university to cease...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who have had their fees paid through SUSI and in receipt of the back to education allowance will be eligible for the €250...
    • Third Level Institutions
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Connacht-Ulster Alliance application, which is due to be submitted before the end of 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Horizon 2020 Strategy
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects that were funded under Horizon 2020 in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the amount awarded to each project; and...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI has access to records of payments for persons on qualifying payments such as jobseeker’s allowance and so on; if there is an issue...
    • Third Level Fees
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with third level institutes regarding the possibility of offering partial refunds or reduced rates for master's students due to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which students in their final year of third level education who paid their fees in full up front can avail of the €250 student...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional details will be provided on the Revised Estimates for his Department (details supplied); and the areas in which the remainder is...
    • Third Level Institutions
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the absence of systematic data for persons with disabilities or from minority or ethnic backgrounds working in academic and research...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Judicial Appointments
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the current vacancy on the Supreme Court will be filled; if a transparent process will be used to fill the vacancy; and if...
    • Garda Equipment
      572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details on the accuracy of the equipment used for speeding checks; the frequency of gardaí pulling over...
    • Proposed Legislation
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the hate crime review and proposed legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39565/20]
    • Commemorative Events
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the State commemoration for the Royal Irish Constabulary, RIC, that was previously proposed by her Department....
    • Asylum Seekers
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person going through the asylum process can apply for a work permit; if so, the criteria for same. [39601/20]
    • Immigration Status
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who is a stamp 4...
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the recommendations of the report of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on the reform of the family law system,...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time it is taking to deal with traffic offences in district courts in Dublin; if there are undue delays in such...
    • Immigration Status
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to create new pathways for long-term undocumented persons and their dependants who meet specified...
    • Fines Data
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines handed out by An Garda Síochána and the monetary value of the fines, pursuant to the new Health...
    • Residency Permits
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to regularise residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Immigration Status
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when new travel documents will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Crime Prevention
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to introducing a nationwide weapons amnesty; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a full report on the 2006 weapons amnesty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39708/20]
    • Extradition Arrangements
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons extradited back to Ireland in each of the years 2001 to 2015; the number subsequently convicted; and if...
    • Visa Applications
      588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied). [39824/20]
    • Courts Service
      589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of court summonses outstanding on a monthly basis by Garda division since January 2019, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the organisations in receipt of youth diversionary project funding; the funding each received in 2018, 2019 and to 1 November...
    • Citizenship Applications
      591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship certificates granted by the State in each of the past 20 years. [39877/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action she is planning to take with regard to the introduction of laws on parental alienation; if the recommendations of...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average time it takes for a naturalisation applicant’s passport to be returned after receipt by the INIS. [39883/20]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will receive a response; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Internal Audits
      597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an internal audit of Muintir na Tíre (details supplied) has now been finalised to her and her Department’s...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the provisions being made in County Wexford to provide a women’s homeless shelter for single females with the purpose of...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
    • Prisoner Releases
      600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of notifications regarding early releases or temporary releases made each year; and the proportion of these...
    • Crime Prevention
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if repeat offences have been linked to failure to adequately notify prior victims of the offenders; and if so, the number....
    • Departmental Contracts
      604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms...
    • Garda Reserve
      605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to utilising the 430 members of the Garda Reserve to assist gardaí during the...
    • Residency Permits
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to update residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reopen the Irish Refugee Protection Programme Humanitarian Admission Programme 2; and if she will make a statement...
    • Family Reunification
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reassess the family reunification programmes here to provide for a refugee or a person eligible for subsidiary...
    • Crime Data
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions that took place in 2019 to date in 2020, under section 80(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2006...
    • Court Accommodation
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process of transferring the old Bray Courthouse, Boghall Road, Bray to Wicklow County Council; the expected time-frame; and...
    • EU Regulations
      611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to adopt the European Public Prosecutor's Office regulation; if so, the criteria that would apply in making the...
    • Community Policing
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a copy of the current An Garda Síochána policy on community policing will be provided; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 21 October 2020, when she expects to take Committee Stage of the Perjury and...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a replacement cheque; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39839/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the advice he can provide in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40287/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which babies have survived abortions here and have been born alive (details supplied); the number of occasions on which doctors have...
    • Maternity Services
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken by to address the gap in clinical genetic services at the National Maternity Hospital in the period between receipt of a protected...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the research being carried out by his Department on the trauma, stress and psychological distress on doctors and nurses of delivering early-term and late-term...
    • Mobility Allowance
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in replacing the mobility allowance and mobility transport grant, which were abolished in 2013 (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Health Insurance
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age group (details supplied). [39538/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses who have been redeployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, by county, in tabular form. [39540/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the reason developmental checks on babies have been postponed due to Covid-19. [39542/20]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount spent by his Department on social media monitoring to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39549/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      627. To ask the Minister for Health when public health doctors can apply to become consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39554/20]
    • Child Abuse
      628. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 13 October 2020, the detail of the six broad categories mentioned; the percentage of outcomes that were designated...
    • Pest Contol
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if tenants can avail of the free HSE pest control service or if it is limited to landlords; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE staff in Kenmare Community Hospital and other locations in County Kerry who are dealing with Covid-19 cases will only be rostered to assist with these...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39596/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if massage treatment is to be included in the list of essential services that can remain open during level 5 in view of the proven benefits for pain management...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if the €100 Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, registration fee could be waived for nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Facilities
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to move the Coombe women’s hospital onto the grounds of St. James’s Hospital, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on...
    • HSE Properties
      636. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the HSE owned construction depot on Davitt Road, Dublin 12, when the construction of the new children’s hospital in James’s...
    • Hospital Facilities
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered naming the new children’s hospital in St. James’s Hospital after the pioneering Dr. Kathleen Lynn in recognition of her role...
    • Primary Care Centres
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and completion date for the planned community care primary health centre in Drimnagh, Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for the procedures list for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39608/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors and nurses, respectively, employed in Navan and Mullingar regional hospitals in January 2020 pre Covid and in September and October 2020;...
    • Medical Cards
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if the client registration unit will accept a late review request on a medical card application by a person (details supplied) due to difficulties in gathering...
    • Health Services Provision
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the policy that governs the requirement for women to see their general practitioner in order to get a refill on a prescription for contraception; if it is...
    • HSE Properties
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if all health facilities have been surveyed to examine whether they contain asbestos hazards; the facilities and buildings that are known to contain asbestos...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish persons who hold WHO vaccine handbooks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39658/20]
    • Hospital Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to provide additional services at the Ennis hospital, County Clare, in view of confirmation received from the HSE that a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the excessive delay in assessing children under the genetics team in Temple Street and Crumlin hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      650. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 814 of 24 November 2020, when a person will be facilitated with surgery (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints received by the HSE regarding SouthDoc in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [39679/20]
    • Nursing Staff
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has to reopen its rolling nurse recruitment campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39684/20]
    • Medical Cards
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons reissued a medical card as a result of changes in household income related to the pandemic unemployment payment; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign seeking to have a drug (details supplied) permitted for use in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that international advice from an institution (details supplied) recommends stronger protections for women over 28...
    • Vaccination Programme
      659. To ask the Minister for Health the current uptake rate of the flu vaccine for under 12s; his plans to encourage increased vaccination in this age group; his further plans to extend the nasal...
    • Nursing Staff
      660. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant dedicated diabetes nurse position will be filled at Mullingar general hospital (details supplied). [39749/20]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) will be relocated to a private dementia facility in County Cavan, as there is no...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated to the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine to ensure significant vaccination is achieved early in 2021. [39761/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      666. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the appointment of a rheumatologist at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Respite Care Services
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the development of respite care facilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39769/20]
    • HSE Staff
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to staff pay from the HSE for a practice will be examined and expedited. [39786/20]
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the expert advisory group to NPHET was dissolved following its last meeting on 2 September 2020; the rationale for this decision; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if all healthcare workers are being tested for Covid-19 on a routine and regular basis; if so, the details of the testing regime; if the testing regime differs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of a close contact in healthcare settings; if the definition changes for different categories of healthcare workers; the way in which the...
    • Nursing Staff
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he is unwilling to concede to the demands of student nurses and midwives to be paid at the healthcare assistant rate they were given earlier in 2020...
    • Hospital Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if developmental checks on babies by public health nurses are proceeding under current Covid-19 restrictions in counties Carlow and Kilkenny. [39822/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that have had to have a repeat cervical check due to the fact their samples were out of date by the time they were presented at labs in the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care psychologists and primary care staff seconded to testing and tracing as a result of Covid-19; when these clinicians will resume...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the status of preparations for the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39834/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the body that will be carrying out the inquiry into the use of the epilepsy drug sodium valproate; and if he will provide the terms of reference for that...
    • Electronic Cigarettes
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which evidence exists in regard to the safety of vaping as an alternative to tobacco smoking; if the practice is deemed to be a gateway by way of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the counties that have the greatest shortage of access to the flu vaccine; the way in which he will ensure that all vulnerable persons receive their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that there is sufficient personal protective equipment in stock and currently available to the HSE; the amount of stock available at...
    • Health Services
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the women's health task force; the steps being taken to improve the diagnosis, management and treatment of endometriosis; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Staff
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to concerns raised by nursing and midwifery third level students in relation to lack of pay; the steps his Department plans to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that have and are being made to ensure that visitation rights as set out by Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, guidance for visiting...
    • Health Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39885/20]
    • Dental Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Health when a vacant position for a dentist for the school dentistry service based in Tuam, County Galway, will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance and advice he can provide on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39891/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      693. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the waiting time of nine months for a person (details supplied) to be seen at the breast clinic in University Hospital Limerick, having originally...
    • Medicinal Products
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the downstream and overall cost-benefit analysis conducted by the corporate pharmaceutical unit when assessing reimbursement applications for novel and generic...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of PCR tests that have been false positives; the number of cycles of amplification used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39908/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the statistics of his Department on the cause of death in Ireland in the time period March to November 2020 are different to those of the CSO; and...
    • Disability Services Provision
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) has had transport stopped since the resumption of services to a facility post...
    • Nursing Staff
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the rate of pay for intern nurses has reduced from €14 per hour to €9.48 per hour, which is under the minimum wage of €10.10...
    • Home Help Service
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in place in relation to home help services administrating medication and instilling eye drops to those availing of home help services; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine when available; the categories of persons it is intended to prioritise; the number of doses of...
    • Hospital Staff
      704. To ask the Minister for Health when a third paediatric rheumatologist is due to start; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39951/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      706. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a clinical psychologist currently working at Mounthamilton House, Dundalk, County Louth; the current average waiting time for psychological...
    • Health Services Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent paramedic emergency medical technicians assigned to Merlin Park; and the date staff were assigned. [40027/20]
    • Hospital Facilities
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the staff changing facilities at a hospital (details supplied); the size of the area; the number of lockers in use in the area; the...
    • Health Services Funding
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the status of applications for financial assistance under section 39 funding for an organisation (details supplied); if the HSE will engage directly with the...
    • Hospital Funding
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding that the South/South West Hospital Group will be making available to University Hospital Waterford to support additional administration...
    • Hospital Facilities
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated completion schedule including all commissioning for the mortuary build ongoing at University Hospital Waterford; the expected handover date of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if any trial run of a future Covid-19 vaccine inoculation programme will be road tested or implemented in advance of the receipt of actual vaccines; and if he...
    • Audiology Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list for audiology appointments at present in the community healthcare organisation 2, CHO 2, region, Galway; and the measures being...
    • Health Services Funding
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be provided to persons on waiting lists for residential care placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40103/20]
    • Medical Negligence Cases
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in legal costs to each of the top ten named legal firms representing plaintiffs in medical negligence cases in 2019; the number of cases the...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims ongoing by the State Claims Agency relating to late diagnosis and missed diagnosis in respect of failings in the CervicalCheck screening...
    • Medical Negligence Cases
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out by the State Claims Agency in respect of medical negligence claims for the first nine months of 2020; and the amount the agency has paid...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives who qualified outside of Ireland that applied for registration in each of the respective divisions G1, G2 and G3 of the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the current projected cost of the national children’s hospital; the expected completion date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40133/20]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered introducing rapid Covid-19 testing at elder care facilities in order that families and loved ones of residents in nursing homes can be...
    • Departmental Funding
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided regarding section 39 funding for SouthDoc (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40177/20]
    • Maternity Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans to record a new series of the Rotunda in 2021; if this is considered sensitive to the ongoing restrictions in...
    • Nursing Staff
      730. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding payment of student nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40188/20]
    • HSE Data
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of miscarriages recorded in Ireland in each of the years 2015 to 2019; and if the number or rate of miscarriages is an outlier in terms of other EU...
    • National Maternity Strategy
      733. To ask the Minister for Health if responses, policies or initiatives have been implemented by his Department to reduce the number of miscarriages by Irish women; if so, the details of same;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his Department has engaged to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HPV vaccine is not available to all young women free of charge, considering that it is freely available to first year students and there would...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that have been made to ensure a seamless transition for those patients from the State availing of the health treatments under the cross-border...
    • Nursing Staff
      737. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to pay student nurses for their work in hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40225/20]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the agenda for his last three biweekly meetings with the Minister of State for public health, well-being and national drugs strategy. [40228/20]
    • Health Promotion
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the policies in place and the further measures he has considered to tackle period poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40235/20]
    • Disability Services Provision
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a delay in accessing urgent residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40244/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      742. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to the ongoing health care needs of persons twho contracted Covid-19 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Occupational Therapy
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new staff have been taken on in the children's occupational therapy sector to deal with the backlog in County Mayo in the past two years; and if...
    • Health Promotion
      745. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide free contraception to all women; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40281/20]
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      746. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence regarding a care home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40289/20]
    • Defence Forces Medical Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been requested from his Department for supporting or improving military healthcare facilities or for training Defence Forces personnel in...
    • Hospital Services
      748. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for moving the outpatient services at Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar to a private facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40318/20]
    • Health Promotion
      749. To ask the Minister for Health if he, Ministers of State within his Department or other officials in his Department have met third party groups in relation to promoting breastfeeding in...
    • Departmental Funding
      751. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be announced regarding the funding of a project (details supplied). [40331/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      754. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for follow-up cancer treatment and procedures in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      755. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency dental treatment is available at the dental department, Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal, for cancer patients undergoing cancer...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      756. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment at Letterkenny University Hospital; if the referral is routine or urgent; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      757. To ask the Minister for Health if it is considered necessary to travel to the UK under the cross-border directive for consultations during the Covid-19 crisis; if it is permitted during the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if the standards for assessments of needs for persons with disabilities has been updated; and if not, the timeline for the finalisation of the standards. [40351/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if there are grants available to a person who has to get hearing aids (details supplied). [40354/20]
    • Patient Deaths
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to investigate the death of a person (details supplied) by his Department or the organisations that report to his Department. [40374/20]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the release of the findings of the review of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system undertaken by his Department in 2019; and if he will...
    • Nursing Staff
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration would be given to paying student nurses €14 as opposed to €10.70; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40392/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of passenger locator forms completed to date in November 2020; the number of follow-up phone calls made to persons that completed a passenger...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      766. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 25 November 2020, if all 100 of the ministerial notifications received by his Department of terminations carried...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be assessed by the National Rehabilitation Hospital; the date by which the person will be assessed; the further actions...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the status of talks with a group (details supplied) in relation to the CervicalCheck tribunal; the reason for the breakdown of talks; the steps he is taking to...
    • Health Services
      769. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 802 of 24 November 2020, if vitamin D is available free of charge to medical card patients over 65 years of age in view...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the existing limitations on the Covid-19 follow-up of passengers from Northern Ireland landing at Dublin Airport in terms...
    • Health Promotion
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all the campuses, public sector buildings and offices that have adopted the tobacco-free campus policy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for reopening of the Keltoi facility in the Phoenix park. [40447/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      774. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the opening of a dedicated long Covid clinic in Galway and other such clinics around the country for persons suffering from Covid-19 symptoms and...
    • Mental Health Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of his Department’s budget allocated to mental health from 2010 to 2019 and to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the reason mental illness is listed as only for those under 16 years of age to qualify for the long-term illness scheme; if he will consider removing the age...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if a medicinal cannabis licence will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40505/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      778. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has informed him if all retailers met the 12 November 2020 deadline for the structural separation of alcohol under the public health legislation....
    • Nursing Staff
      780. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention been drawn to the petition from an organisation (details supplied) to pay nursing interns the same rate as healthcare assistants; and if he...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Brexit Supports
      783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 5% reduction of bovine livestock manure nitrogen under the beef exceptional aid measure, BEAM, scheme will be waived for...
    • European Council Meetings
      785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his contribution to the informal European Council meeting of 16 November 2020; if he highlighted the risks of importing third country...
    • GLAS Issues
      786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a GLAS appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39671/20]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of young farmers that received grant aid under the TAMS scheme by county from 1 January 2019 to date, in tabular form; and...
    • Beef Exports
      788. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a full report on beef exports to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39712/20]
    • Food Exports
      789. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the diversification of food exports taken in view of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39713/20]
    • EU Directives
      790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the complete list of institutes, centres and premises that are approved for EU trade in animals under EU Directive...
    • Beef Industry
      791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken to tackle falling beef prices in view of the fact that beef prices have fallen far behind UK beef...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      792. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep welfare scheme recipients by county in 2021; and the average payment by county in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      793. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breeds of niche animals such as goats and horses that are required to be registered in herd books in the UK even though the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      794. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for urgent and substantial financial supports for the inshore fishing sector following recent correspondence from...
    • Animal Diseases
      795. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a report (details supplied); the actions he is taking on the issue to reassure farmers and to combat the problem;...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a sheep welfare payment for 2020 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry inspector grade 1 posts that were recruited into his Department in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if plans and guidelines are being drafted regarding the selling of Christmas trees in an outdoor setting under the different public...
    • Greyhound Industry
      799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a portion of the 10% set aside for the greyhound care fund is in fact being ring-fenced to develop and maintain a traceability...
    • Food Exports
      803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that brown crab from Ireland is currently being exported to China through Holland rather...
    • Agriculture Industry
      804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40131/20]
    • Agrifood Sector
      805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the barley used to make Irish whiskey that is Irish-grown barley; if genetically modified barley grown outside...
    • Departmental Contracts
      808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms his...
    • Biocidal Products
      809. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when certification will issue to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40252/20]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the TAMS will be extended into 2021 for new applications; when details will be available to applicants; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a beef finisher payment. [40284/20]
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      812. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment under the 2018 areas of natural constraints scheme. [40286/20]
    • Brexit Preparations
      813. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the general Brexit preparations for the forest and timber sector ahead of 1 January 2020, with specific reference to registration...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that were ruled out of the ANC scheme due to the fact they did not meet the stocking density criteria in each...
    • Forestry Sector
      816. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made on the issuing of forestry licences in his Department; the situation regarding the key performance indicators in...
    • Greyhound Industry
      820. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances of artificial insemination of greyhounds that have been investigated in the past ten years by vets employed...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      821. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of applications for financial assistance under the Covid stability fund and Pobal for an organisation (details supplied)....
    • Departmental Schemes
      822. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is specific funding available for community halls (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40233/20]
    • Voluntary Sector
      823. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the ongoing progress with regard to the establishment of county volunteer corps; the way in which it will be...
    • Departmental Contracts
      824. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and IT firms her...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      825. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial supports in place for small community groups dependent on fundraising activities that can no longer do so due to...

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