Written answers

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Livestock Issues
      41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the online auction for mart sales is working to full capacity. [41619/20]
    • Fishing Industry
      42. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on bringing forward a statutory instrument to restrict inshore pair trawling while awaiting the appeal of the High Court...
    • Brexit Issues
      44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which he remains satisfied that ready and insofar as is possible unimpeded access remains available to exporters of...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the REPS mark 2 pilot scheme will open for applications; if farmers locked out of schemes since AEOS finished in 2018 will be...
    • Beef Industry
      46. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Beef Taskforce; the number of times it has met to date; and the reports completed to date by same. [41697/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work to date on ensuring market access and developing new markets in view of the impact of Brexit which will have significant...
    • Bioeconomy Sector
      50. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work of his Department to promote the role of a circular bioeconomy to turn biowaste, residues and discards into valuable...
    • Animal Diseases
      51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for facilities in which avian flu has been confirmed here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on Brexit as it relates to his Department; and if he is satisfied that exports of food are sufficiently planned to the UK...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken to ensure marts can operate productively should level 5 restrictions be reintroduced. [41703/20]
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      54. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a provision in CAP in which persons who had no basic payment entitlements are given some if they have a record of...
    • Control of Dogs
      55. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to update the Microchipping of Dogs Regulations 2015 to ensure that all dog breeders must microchip and register their dogs...
    • Food Exports
      56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work his Department is undertaking to ensure diversification of food exports in order to reduce reliance of Irish exporters on the...
    • Veterinary Medicines
      57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will apply for a derogation to allow those other than veterinarians to continue proscribe veterinary medicinal products. [41602/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken to ensure marts can operate productively should level 5 restrictions be reintroduced. [41615/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place to increase inspections at Dublin Port and other ports in the wake of Brexit; if it is planned to publish key...
    • Fishing Industry
      60. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1105 of 24 November 2020, the status of the appeal against the ruling by the High Court of...
    • Farm Safety
      61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work his Department is undertaking to promote co-operation on farm safety issues between north and south of the Border in order to...
    • Bioeconomy Sector
      62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department has been working to increase awareness and take-up of opportunities in the bioeconomy sector including...
    • Teagasc Activities
      63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department is working with Teagasc on research activities with particular reference to research aiming to assist...
    • Brexit Issues
      64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the input he has had into negotiations in relation to Brexit pertaining to the Common Fisheries Policy and the likelihood of...
    • Food Promotion
      65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work carried out by his Department to ensure access and promote Irish food products in the markets of countries that have...
    • Climate Change Policy
      66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to address the challenge of climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41613/20]
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of entitlements under the basic payment scheme, leased out in 2019 and 2020; the percentage each year that these represent...
    • Fishing Industry
      69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to conduct a second consultation process on trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone in view of a recent High...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will employ to ensure that further lockdown periods if required will not have the same impact in view of reports that...
    • Animal Diseases
      71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it will be ensured that either an insurance scheme or a standard compensation package is in place for poultry farmers that have to...
    • Forestry Sector
      72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assessment he has undertaken which cast doubt on the role of forestry in carbon abatement. [41607/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he has held with farmers’ organisations in the context of Brexit during December 2020. [41622/20]
    • Farm Safety
      74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work his Department is undertaking to ensure adequate farm safety training is provided to farmers in order to help reduce the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the strategy for climate adaptation in agriculture has integrated the new higher ambition for greenhouse gas abatement. [41608/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement he has had with the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs during the week of 30 November 2020, on the impact of a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      77. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work being conducted by a company (details supplied) for his Department. [41723/20]
    • Data Protection
      79. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has been the subject of an investigation by the Data Protection Commission from 2016 to date; the number of specific investigations underway or...
    • Departmental Staff
      81. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the actions being...
  • Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
    • Regional Development
      82. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the status of a commitment in the Programme for Government in relation to the Shannon Estuary (details supplied); when the strategy...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      83. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if Covid-19 will be recognised as an occupational illness in view of the fact that healthcare workers make up almost one fifth of...
    • Departmental Advertising
      85. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will consider increasing the awareness campaign for persons to buy Irish goods in advance of Christmas given the challenges...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      86. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his Department will permit local authorities to accept late applications for the restart grant and restart plus grant scheme for...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      87. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his views on the policy of Enterprise Ireland that companies producing hemp-based products cannot be supported by grants; if he will...
    • Employment Rights
      89. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the progress in relation to updating national remote working policy following the recent public consultation with employees and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      90. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if a business (details supplied) usually categorised the same as cinemas which has three parts, two of which satisfy guidelines, can...
    • IDA Ireland
      95. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of IDA site visits organised in County Donegal in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form....
    • Enterprise Ireland
      97. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of manufacturing start-ups compared to IT companies which have been issued Enterprise Ireland grants; and if he will make a...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      98. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the supports including financial grants available to small and medium sized Irish businesses to help them grow their business online...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      99. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if media organisations that have listenership abroad and readers who consume Irish media abroad qualify for Enterprise Ireland grants...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      100. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will address queries raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the restart grant plus scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      101. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will direct Enterprise Ireland to support companies active in the area of hemp based products in view of the recent judgement...
    • Departmental Staff
      102. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      103. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the Work Safely Protocol issued on 20 November 2020 are implemented with...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Environmental Protection Enforcement
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if EPA licensing of dairy farms is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41314/20]
    • Pension Provisions
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered a proposal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41422/20]
    • Electricity Generation
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to pay for the excess electricity generated in the future by photovoltaic cells installed on the roof of a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the advice he can provide on a matter (details supplied) regarding the new regulations for the new fishing season...
    • Legislative Measures
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the changes that were made to the Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 without going through pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Environmental Schemes
      109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the €108 million of State funding allocated to the bog rehabilitation scheme; the amount for...
    • Environmental Protection Enforcement
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the progress on environmental issues at Tailings Pond, the Silvermines, County Tipperary; if a compulsory...
    • Air Pollution
      111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a report or costings have been carried out to ascertain the direct and indirect health costs to the State of burning...
    • Foreshore Issues
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in the interest of public health and safety, he will detail the incident which occurred on the foreshore on 22...
    • Postal Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 175, 176, 177, 178, 196, 200, 202 and 203 of 24t November 2020, his views on...
    • Post Office Network
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the future of the post office network (details supplied); and his plans to avoid these closures and loss...
    • Proposed Legislation
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the inland and fisheries consolidation Bill. [41406/20]
    • Electric Vehicles
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the subsidies for electric vehicles by BEV and PHEV and by model and private or company purchases. [41529/20]
    • National Broadband Plan
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements he has and or his officials have had with National Broadband Ireland in respect of the Broadband Cost...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 26 November 2020, if the flexibility under the trading online voucher...
    • Environmental Schemes
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when funding will be provided to local authorities to allow them pay the 2020 adopt a road payments to community groups...
    • Departmental Staff
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the Work Safely Protocol issued on 20 November 2020 are implemented...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it will be ensured that the residents and farmers affected by the N/M20 Navy route will be consulted with regard to the putting in...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will sign off on a pension agreement (details supplied); if there is a timeframe in relation to same; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver licence and penalty point history will issue to a person (details supplied) in time for the HSE deadline for student...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding CIÉ; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a UK driver licence for a person (details supplied) cannot be exchanged for an Irish licence; if his attention has been drawn...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that trustees and actuaries made no provision for future pension increases when determining...
    • Ports Facilities
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the noise emission limits there are in place at Tivoli Docks operated by the Port of Cork; if the Port of Cork carries out daytime and...
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions No. 61, 71, 73 and 74 of 17 September 2020, if he will report on the time frame when his officials in...
    • Motor Insurance Data
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 17 September 2020, the timeframe for the creation and completion of a motor third party...
    • Road Safety
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 17 September 2020, when his Department will finalise the development of a speed limit appeals...
    • Road Safety Authority
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the recent RSA advertisement seeking drivers disqualified in the past five years who are back on the road now to...
    • Penalty Points System
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has a separate database to record information when a learner or novice driver exceeds seven penalty points and is...
    • Driver Licences
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a likelihood that learner drivers have been going under the radar of the RSA and being issued with a second, third or...
    • Penalty Points System
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if learner drivers who ignore their driving ban and continue to drive and offend have the seven penalty points removed from their permit...
    • Parking Regulations
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the criteria applying to applications under the disabled parking permit scheme to include the partially blind; and if...
    • Community Involvement Scheme
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the reopening of the community involvement scheme for 2021; the level of funding available for Tipperary County...
    • Road Network
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of tertiary roads in rural Ireland; the options made available by his Department for resurfacing same within local authorities...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if requirement for local authorities to submit a three-year roadworks programme can be amended within the lifetime of the programme in...
    • Road Projects
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress on the Limerick northern distributor road; when a contract for the first phase will be signed; and if he will make...
    • Brexit Issues
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to ensure that hauliers who obtained their qualifications in Northern Ireland pre-Brexit will not be penalised...
    • Driver Licences
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow persons who have previously held an Irish driver licence or has a valid driver licence from another jurisdiction to be...
    • National Car Test
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce laundered diesel testing as a core component of the NCT and DOE road tests; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Coast Guard Service
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if capital works on the Irish Coast Guard buildings at Greystones, County Wicklow and Westport, County Mayo have commenced; if not, when...
    • Air Accident Investigations
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2021 of recruiting five extra full-time air accident investigators, in tabular form. [41408/20]
    • Driver Licences
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to driver licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41496/20]
    • Taxi Regulations
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an increase in reports by SPSV NTA issued licence holders of being prevented from transporting...
    • Driver Licences
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS will take appointments over the phone in Ennis, county Clare as persons there are encountering problems with the online...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations which were included in the application by Cork City Council for safety improvement works in 2021. [41718/20]
    • Driver Test
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if steps will be taken to expedite a driver theory test backlog for a person (details supplied). [41805/20]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for urgent safety works on the N83 at which two minor roads, the L7102 and L6210 join the N83 (details...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 25 November 2020, the process and timetable for the examination of the submission; when he...
    • Transport Policy
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42107/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will discuss with the National Transport Authority, Irish Rail and Luas the possibility of ensuring the automatic opening of all...
  • Department of Finance
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Covid restrictions support scheme will be increased for publicans who are not allowed to operate during the festive period; and if he will make a...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance when an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will recommence in respect of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concessions scheme...
    • Credit Unions
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to have the Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 enacted by end 2020 to ensure that credit unions can have virtual AGMs; if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies in Dublin Fingal availing of wage support schemes, including the Covid restrictions support scheme and the employment wage subsidy...
    • Illicit Trade
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of psychoactive substances which were seized on importation by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • Help to Buy Scheme
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons (details supplied) do not qualify for the first-time buyers help to buy scheme; if other grants are available to them; and if he will make...
    • Insurance Coverage
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the matter of persons with diabetes who cannot get mortgage funds released due to life assurance companies deferring and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount drawn down from the recovery and resilience facility; the way in which it has been disbursed since drawdown; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Banking Sector
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with a bank (details supplied) in relation to the long-term plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41156/20]
    • Economic Data
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s current projection of the extent to which the economy will contract in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41227/20]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank will be enforcing the guidelines for the Payment Services Directive 2 from 1 January 2021 in view of the fact that it will apply for...
    • Insurance Coverage
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the issue of life assurance providers delaying coverage to those with a 100% loading due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a...
    • Fuel Laundering
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce laundered diesel testing as a core component of the national car test and commercial vehicle road tests; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by taxes on advertisements on social media platforms (details supplied). [41494/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of on-track bookmakers access to the Covid restrictions support scheme will receive a response;...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of and position regarding the operations of National Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS, including the number of residential properties...
    • Tax Data
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated tax revenue forgone due to benefit-in-kind taxes applied to company electric vehicles. [41530/20]
    • Value Added Tax
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41784/20]
    • Departmental Schemes
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance when a company (details supplied) will be registered as part of help to buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41799/20]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports including financial grants available to small and medium sized Irish businesses to help them grow their business online including assistance to...
    • Banking Sector
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to instances in which banks may be advising incorrectly to customers (details supplied) such as small business owners and...
    • Tax Rebates
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to lowering the spending threshold for availing of the retail export scheme to €50 in order to make the scheme more...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that a State-owned bank plans to buy-back a brokerage and wealth management firm (details supplied) at a premium price; if he has been...
    • Departmental Staff
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the actions...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular reference to the contents...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the e-tenders system to make it more user friendly for small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Programmes
      205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Vote 12 was transferred from his Department Vote group to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2011. [41123/20]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the list of flood relief projects that are expected to commence in 2021; and the estimated completion timeframe for each flood relief...
    • Public Sector Staff
      207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41465/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his position regarding the agreement reached at the Workplace Relations Commission in 2018 on a process of pay restoration for section...
    • Public Sector Pay
      209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which it is intended to finally end the pay inequality which affects new entrants to the teaching profession and honour the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some public sector workers who retired in 2008 have not received any increase in their...
    • Public Sector Staff
      211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review of the status of a person (details supplied) in 1989 has been considered; if his attention has been drawn to the full status...
    • Office of Public Works
      212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a copy of the five-case review that examined five OPW property acquisitions to identify accountability vulnerabilities will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020, are implemented with particular...
    • Departmental Staff
      214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      215. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if gastropubs and restaurants have been provided with advice or recommendations regarding the reopening of the sector; and if she...
    • Sports Organisations
      225. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation of State funding that adult female sporting organisations are in receipt of; the breakdown for 2019 and 2020; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      232. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will engage with organisations (details supplied) to allow them to operate under levels 3 and 4 Covid-19 restrictions...
    • National Archives
      235. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when construction works will commence on the new state-of-the-art archives repository project; and the estimated duration of such...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      237. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider requests by a club (details supplied) to allow underage grassroots football matches to be played, considering...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      239. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the payment of a sports capital grant (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Craoltóirí Seirbhíse Poiblí
      240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad iad na hiarrachtaí atá déanta aici chun go dtabharfar tosaíocht feiceálachta do TG4 ar Freeview, chun...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      241. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the rationale behind the decision made regarding children’s gymnastic classes under level 3 of the living with Covid plan;...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      245. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 946 of 15 January 2019, if branded unused cycling kit relating to a cycling event to the...
    • Údaráis Áitiúla
      246. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an roinnfidh sí an téacs iomlán den aighneacht a chuir a Roinn chuig an Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais...
    • Culture Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the outcome of applications under streams A and B of the cultural capital scheme including that of a centre (details...
    • Tourism Policy
      250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a list of the members of the night-time economy task force and their qualifications to serve on this task force will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date from which she is starting to accept applications for the €50 million announced in the budget to support the...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports including financial grants available to small and medium-sized Irish businesses to help them grow their business...
    • Tourism Policy
      258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Fáilte Ireland has established destination recovery task forces for counties Louth and Meath; and if she will provide...
    • Sports Events
      259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she plans to take to request that World Athletics give a derogation to Ireland from the political boundary rule of 1934...
    • Departmental Staff
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within her Department and the agencies under her aegis in 2018, 2019...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented with...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Water Services
      262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made with regard to the referendum on the public ownership of water; and if he will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the amendments to SI No. 83 of 2007 for rooftop solar installations to be exempted from planning permission, as promised...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review housing assistance payment, HAP, rates with a view to reflecting market rental costs; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to streamline the planning and judicial review process to ensure the full planning process...
    • Local Authority Funding
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reimburse local authorities for the significant loss in parking revenues during the Covid-19 pandemic; the losses...
    • Local Authority Staff
      269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process for the hiring of antisocial behaviour officers in all local authorities; if it is a standard process throughout;...
    • Fire Stations
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of a new fire station in Athenry town, County Galway (details supplied). [41211/20]
    • Water Supply
      271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has raised with Irish Water the frequency with which some businesses experience water outages as in the case of a...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the application by Dublin City Council for funding under the urban regeneration and development fund to kickstart its...
    • Animal Culls
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 26 November 2020, if his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for a decision on the approval of the construction of a 22-unit social housing development at Lios na Circe,...
    • Vacant Properties
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in expanding the role of vacant homes officers in local authorities and support local authorities to...
    • Rental Sector
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in examining the creation of a system of holding rental deposits informed by international experience as...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in reforming and consolidating compulsory purchase order laws as outlined in the Programme for...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private mortgage to rent providers are outbidding not for profit mortgage to...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his ministerial regulations allow a single person who requires an apartment on their own on medical grounds, for example,...
    • Housing Issues
      281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new guidance will be issued to local authorities in relation to co-living as a delay will allow developers to submit...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish national figures on homeless deaths. [41750/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 26 November 2020, when applicants for funding can expect to hear from the NPWS;...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to launch the next call of the urban regeneration and development fund; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the disadvantage being experienced by prospective housing assistance payment, HAP, tenants...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 6 October 2020, if he will extend the pyrite remediation scheme to County Clare...
    • Local Authority Funding
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of capital funding owed by his Department to each local authority by capital funding type, that is, social housing,...
    • Housing Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of properties in each town, village and rural area within each local authority area approved under the...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review or support An Bord Pleanála structures and performance in view of the concerning number of times the...
    • Rental Sector
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he proposes to take to tackle advertised rental properties which consist of less than the 29 square metres per...
    • Housing Policy
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that priority is given to residential developments that are within 15 minutes' walk or 15...
    • Departmental Staff
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued on 20 November 2020, are implemented with...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • European Council Meetings
      300. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration has been given at an EU Council of Foreign Ministers level to pursue an agenda of democratic principles to underpin trade...
    • Human Rights
      301. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions Ireland is taking in relation to the ongoing crisis in Belarus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41140/20]
    • Human Rights Cases
      302. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) which is receiving international attention; if he will contact...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      303. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken directly to the new US Vice President-elect since their appointment. [41409/20]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      304. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the embassies that have been refurbished to date in 2020; and the embassies that are scheduled to be refurbished in 2021. [41410/20]
    • Passport Applications
      305. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up-to-date position with regard to passport applications; if the passport office is open and accepting applications; and if he will...
    • Northern Ireland
      307. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representatives of the UK Government he has engaged with following the decision of that government not to proceed with a public enquiry...
    • Human Rights Cases
      309. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of engagements he has had with his Chinese counterpart in respect of a person (details supplied) who has been...
    • Departmental Staff
      310. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      311. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the Work Safely Protocol issued on 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular...
  • Department of Defence
    • Search and Rescue Service Provision
      312. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Air Corps can have full responsibility for search and rescue services in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      313. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of whiste-blowers the Defence Forces is currently attempting to dismiss using medical boarding procedures; and if he will make a...
    • Protected Disclosures
      314. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of disclosure requests that have been made to service providers by the Defence Forces in relation to section 6 of the Communications...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      315. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new cadetship competition for both the Naval Service and Air Corps apprenticeship competition will be launched early in 2021. [41417/20]
    • Air Corps
      316. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding will be provided for a new control tower at the Air Corps Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel; when these works will commence; and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      317. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has spoken with his UK counterpart since his appointment. [41435/20]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      318. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on refurbishment and maintenance to Gormanston Camp, County Meath in each of the years 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • Departmental Staff
      319. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons (details supplied) cannot obtain school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41386/20]
    • Schools Building Projects
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the time frame for the building of new schools with identified sites (details supplied) is taking much longer than the projected...
    • Telecommunications Services
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the provision of broadband for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; if efforts by her Department have...
    • School Staff
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will revise the payroll increment scale for primary and secondary school teachers who have years of teaching experience in the...
    • State Examinations
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment will be given that persons marking the leaving certificate papers will not have sight or knowledge of the estimated grades for...
    • School Transport
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 17 November 2020, if she had discretion to intervene in a manner such that no student would be put...
    • State Examinations
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of active lawsuits her Department is currently facing with regard to the 2020 leaving certificate exams and the arrangements for same....
    • School Management
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) to provide a co-educational facility from junior infants upwards; and if she will...
    • School Places
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary schools numbers in the Carpenterstown, Dublin 15; if there are enough school places to accommodate the growth in estates over the...
    • School Transport
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) cannot obtain school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41387/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41389/20]
    • School Staff
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of permanent English teachers as an additional language posts in primary schools within County Meath [41427/20]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when applications will be accepted for projects in schools under the 2021 summer works scheme [41428/20]
    • Telecommunications Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place to assist a school (details supplied) in improving its broadband service in order to improve its ability to integrate...
    • Special Educational Needs
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts her Department and the NCSE are making to address the lack of ASD units in primary schools in south County Tipperary; her plans to...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the advertised SNA vacancy in a school (details supplied) will be filled. [41522/20]
    • School Staff
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of steps she is taking to address the situation of pay inequality for teachers; her proposed pathway with timescales for full pay...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the acquisition of a site for a school (details supplied) for its new school building. [41554/20]
    • School Staff
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the pay gaps within the teaching profession; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41589/20]
    • State Examinations
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she plans to avoid over assessment of leaving certificate students who are due to sit written exams in 2021 but may be subject...
    • Schools Building Projects
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be granted as a matter of urgency for a major building project at a school (details supplied) to include funding to cover all of...
    • Minor Works Scheme
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant for primary schools is being brought forward from 2021; and if this means there will be no minor works grant in 2021....
    • School Curriculum
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the proliferation of non-curricular publications from Irish and international private interests (details supplied) seeking to target...
    • Schools Administration
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the publication of the review of out of school settings will take place; if the review will inform future policy in this area; and the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the communication between her Department and a school (details supplied) regarding a new school build over the past two years; the date of each...
    • State Examinations
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidance will be issued on leaving certificate 2021; and if contingency plans are in place to avoid a repeat of the 2020 examinations....
    • School Enrolments
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the CAPPS process and the limit to only apply to one school in the deanery; the recourse available to students who fail to receive a...
    • Education and Training Provision
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when official recognition will be given to a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41835/20]
    • School Transport
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 128 of 26 November 2013, 240 of 3 December 2019 and 182 of 17 December 2019, if she will carry out a...
    • School Staff
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of extra personal vacation days which are allowed for a teacher to take at the present time with the provision of a substitute teacher...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the required pupil teacher ratio for a junior co-educational school with nine teachers. [41873/20]
    • School Admissions
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the procedures a primary school must follow in respect of making changes to its admissions policy of new pupils; and if she...
    • School Staff
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider for the school year 2021-2022 allocating nine posts under the small schools allocation in view of the fact that there are...
    • School Admissions
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will start to compile information on the compliance rates by year and county of whether schools are including in their...
    • Special Educational Needs
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the expression of interest regarding the development of an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit in a school (details supplied); and...
    • School Uniforms
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarification will be provided in relation to the issues raised recently in a school (details supplied) regarding the uniforms of pupils and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classroom spaces available in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the tender and construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42028/20]
    • School Staff
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the pay inequality that exists for newly and recently qualified teachers who have been as responsible for keeping schools open...
    • Education Data
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is preparing a high-level report regarding national school capacity in Trim, County Meath as has been confirmed to Meath County...
    • Departmental Staff
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within her Department and the agencies under her aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the Work Safely Protocol issued on 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular reference...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Disability Definitions
      371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to designate sodium valproate syndrome as a severe disability to allow children impacted get access to domiciliary...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date by which arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41074/20]
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awaiting payment of arrears from her Department for more than two, four, six and eight months,...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if arrears will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41116/20]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Data Protection
      376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to ensure social welfare reviews and investigations are compliant with GDPR requirements of her...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of a social welfare payment has the right to privacy regarding personal spending when providing bank...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the length of time that unemployed persons can be placed on a community employment scheme; and...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the special investigation unit in her Department is not allowed to stop the fraudulent payments being claimed by...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for a social welfare payment in the case of a person (details...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPSN application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41310/20]
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is reasonable that a person (detail supplied) seeking to obtain their pension backpay to the date of...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41401/20]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has spoken formally with her UK counterpart since her appointment [41430/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors within her Department in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of vacant medical assessors...
    • Training Support Grant
      390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 26 November 2020, if she will give the matter further consideration in view of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in Dublin Fingal receiving pandemic unemployment payments; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Live Register
      392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in Dublin Fingal currently on the Live Register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41588/20]
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a series of questions raised in correspondence of 24 November 2020 to a person (detail supplied) were not...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a surviving person who was jointly assessed with their deceased partner by her Department for all other...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if entitlement to a pandemic unemployment payment from March 2020 will be examined in the case of a person (details...
    • Maternity Benefit
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who has moved home from abroad and has made PRSI contributions since but falls just short of...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the back to education allowance scheme, BTEA, in relation to the cost of education allowance to...
    • Maternity Benefit
      398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider adding those who are on maternity benefit to the list of those eligible to receive the Christmas bonus...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41798/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that An Post has reintroduced the signing pen for persons collecting social...
    • Training Support Grant
      401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full conditions attached to the training support grant for persons with a disability, as announced in budget 2021; if...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons with disabilities currently supported under the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities; the...
    • Employment Support Services
      403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date in meeting the commitment in the programme for Government to fine-tune and expand targeted...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a further degree of flexibility can be shown in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the...
    • Parental Leave
      405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the new parental leave arrangements will apply; the date on which a child has to be born for a parent to be...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average pre-Covid-19 wait time for a personal public service number, PPSN, application to be processed; the current wait...
    • Illness Benefit
      407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) against the removal of their illness benefit payment. [41872/20]
    • Employment Support Services
      408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons with Down's syndrome are eligible to use the EmployAbility service. [41877/20]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a personal public service number, PPSN, by a person (details supplied); when it is expected...
    • Guardian's Payment
      419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full details, criteria and application process pertaining to the guardian's payment; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payments from the HSE in the form of compensation court awards from claims of abuse or negligence can affect a person's...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42037/20]
    • Youth Unemployment
      422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce youth unemployment; the targets she has set; and the expected dates for achievement of these targets....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increase in the living alone allowance and the fuel allowance will take effect; the number of persons who will...
    • Youth Unemployment
      424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures underway in her Department to tackle youth unemployment and to support young persons affected by the Covid-19...
    • Qualified Child Allowance
      425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the increases to the qualified child payments as announced in budget 2021 will take effect; the number of families that...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being examined to reduce the current delays experienced in processing PPS numbers; if a fast-track system is...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the free travel scheme will be applicable to more bus routes that are publicly licensed in 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within her Department and the agencies under her aegis in 2018,...
    • Employment Support Services
      430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the value of grants provided under the reasonable accommodation fund in 2019; the most recently available data in 2020; and...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Adoptive Leave
      432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress being made on providing for adoptive leave and removing the lacuna in the legislation which discriminates against same sex...
    • Force Majeure Leave
      433. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are plans to expand the force majeure leave scheme to allow parents to care for a child isolating due to Covid-19; and if he will...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      434. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the target year and quarter he is working to for the commencement of Part 6 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 which deals...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place a 24-7 nationwide support service for male victims of domestic abuse; the extent of future funding planned for...
    • Departmental Funding
      440. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address concerns that organisations in receipt of State funding, including from his Department, are calling for the removal of...
    • Childcare Costs
      443. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will examine information (details supplied) regarding childcare costs; and his views on the figures. [41224/20]
    • Direct Provision System
      444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the friends of the centre aspect of the new proposed direct provision centre in Letterkenny, County Donegal; the other...
    • Youth Services
      448. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Blue Skies initiative will be rolled out to the high growth area of Saggart, Rathcoole, Newcastle County Dublin; and if he will make...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      449. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the engagements in November 2020 with survivors of mother and baby homes and their representative organisations; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      450. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he plans to bring forward legislation to provide for the identification of the remains buried in Tuam, County Galway and provide for...
    • Family Resource Centres
      452. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget allocation for the family resource centre programme in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form [41429/20]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      453. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the ECCE school provision can be broadened to support families who have children with additional needs who at present cannot avail of...
    • Direct Provision System
      454. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the procurement process for accommodation for asylum seekers, that is, direct provision centres. [41498/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      456. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 11 November 2020, if he will provide copies of the correspondence referenced in his reply....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      458. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if language delays preclude children from accessing the full two years of ECCE; if there is a procedure for children who are unable to...
    • Departmental Staff
      460. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020;...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Brexit Issues
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the professional qualifications that will be affected from January 2021 when the transitional period for Brexit is completed; and if he will make...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an apparent anomaly that appears to request those involved in the English language education in Ireland to...
    • Institutes of Technology
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to fractured industrial relations in Waterford Institute of Technology that are resulting in a large number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 26 November 2020, the circumstances in which alternative arrangements will be made for the payment...
    • Third Level Education
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the economic evaluation of the funding options presented in the Report of the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 3 November 2020 (details supplied), if the €250 payment will also be extended to all Irish...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department has spent to date on student supports and grants. [41450/20]
    • Third Level Fees
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the funding inequality that exists for graduate entry medical students (details supplied); and the supports in...
    • Student Support Schemes
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to overhaul the current SUSI grants system and investigate and implement a student loan system similar to the UK and Australia (details...
    • Third Level Fees
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to reduce college fees for third-level students who are experiencing less on-campus time due to the current Covid-19 restrictions....
    • Institutes of Technology
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether programmes delivered as collaborative provision in association with the Institute of Technology Carlow satisfy the QQI...
    • Adult Education Provision
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his consideration of the Labour Court recommendation on regularising the terms and conditions for adult education tutors employed by...
    • Third Level Institutions
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the instructions, guidelines or recommendations made to institutions participating in the graduate medical programmes to support and facilitate...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the Work Safely Protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular reference to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Wards of Court
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that the conducting of wardship cases by remote hearing is adequate to ensure that the voice of the person...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding given to Garda youth diversion projects from 2008 to date, in tabular form. [41398/20]
    • Wards of Court
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were made wards of court in 2019 and to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Commemorative Events
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will proceed with plans which were abandoned in January 2020 for the staging of a State commemoration for the...
    • Garda Resources
      490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports in place for members of An Garda Síochána injured in the course of their work; and if she will make a...
    • International Students
      494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 31 January 2017, if the requirement from her Department for emergency medical...
    • Garda Data
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of cash that has been seized by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020;...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked jeeps that came into the Garda fleet in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and the number of marked jeeps...
    • Intelligence Services
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if MI5 or any other British military intelligence organisations are or have been working in Ireland over the past five years;...
    • Visa Applications
      498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a visa applicant (details supplied) has been informed they will need to reapply and pay fresh fees for an...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 17 September 2020, the number of learner drivers, excluding motorcyclists,...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality , further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 on 18 November 2020, the number of learner drivers in 2019 and up to 31 October...
    • Garda Strength
      505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of Garda forensic collision investigators; when the last competition for new collision forensic...
    • Probate Data
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing times for probate applications in Dublin; if there are delays due to the Covid-19 emergency...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value of seizures by the Criminal Assets Bureau from 2010 to date, in tabular form. [41399/20]
    • Immigration Data
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of registrations Kildare Garda National Immigration Bureau is processing each week; the average waiting time for an...
    • Garda Data
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí who have been trained as divisional asset profilers during 2019 and to date in 2020, in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill. [41405/20]
    • Legislative Measures
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when section 36 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 will come into effect [41437/20]
    • Garda Equipment
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding is available in 2021 to update the boats within the Garda water unit. [41438/20]
    • Crime Data
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons successfully prosecuted for possession of fireworks without a valid licence in each of the years 2018,...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unmarked cars, jeeps and vans attached to the Garda National Immigration Bureau as of 30 November 2020, in...
    • Probate Applications
      516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications in the Probate Office; her plans to increase staff...
    • Extradition Arrangements
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if steps have been taken to seek the extradition of a person (details supplied) from South Africa; and if she will make a...
    • Crime Data
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of fireworks seized as part of Operation Tombola; if the success of the operation compared with previous years will...
    • Leave to Remain
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the most recent number available of persons with an open application for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds at present....
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children who have been referred to the Garda youth diversion programme in each division by year since 2013 to...
    • Garda Data
      522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda juvenile liaison officers in each division by year since 2013 to date in 2020, in tabular form. [41802/20]
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda youth diversion projects in each division by year since 2013 to date in 2020, in tabular form. [41803/20]
    • Visa Applications
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa will be granted for a person (details supplied) to come to Ireland to continue their education. [41808/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the personal insolvency (amendment) (No. 1) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Traffic Offences
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of learner drivers detected driving while unaccompanied under the Clancy amendment law since 22 December 2018; the...
    • International Protection
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will issue a ministerial decision on the subsidiary protection application of a person (details supplied). [41930/20]
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 595 of 1 December 2020, the additional resources that will be provided to the...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality cad iad na céimeanna atá á nglacadh aici le cinntiú go mbeidh Gaeilge ag na breithiúna ar fad a...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that need to be taken by an American citizen resident in Ireland who wishes to change their surname to the name of...
    • Departmental Staff
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within her Department and the agencies under her aegis in 2018,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented, with...
    • Mobility Allowance
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to develop a new or alternative scheme to the mobility grant scheme which was suspended in 2013. [41249/20]
    • Disability Services Data
      535. To ask the Minister for Health if capacity for early intervention service provision for children with a diagnosis of autism can be listed per geographical area for the Dublin region. [41455/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      537. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) relating to pay restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41480/20]
    • Proposed Legislation
      543. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation to reform the Mental Health Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41764/20]
    • Disability Services Data
      544. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the assessment of need waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41897/20]
    • Health Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital and community care consultants that are without permanent specialists (details supplied); the number of these positions that are...
    • Medical Cards
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a system to allow Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to apply for medical cards on behalf of constituents; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      551. To ask the Minister for Health when duodopa will be available to patients under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41081/20]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      552. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in which a woman received a scan to confirm the gestation of pregnancy since the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018...
    • Disabilities Data
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if there is data available on the number of pre-born children diagnosed with cleft lip, cleft palate and clubfoot for the period 1 January 2019 to date; if so,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a consultancy firm (details supplied) by his Department from 1 January to date in 2020, including consultancy work on the deterioration of...
    • Health Services Access
      555. To ask the Minister for Health when day services for a person (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41129/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the delay in relation to the provision of paediatric rheumatology services for children and particularly children with Down's syndrome...
    • Brexit Preparations
      558. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41137/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doses of the anti-Covid-19 drug remdesivir that have been stockpiled through the EU agreement with a pharmaceutical firm (details supplied); his...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41153/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to reduce the waiting time for appointments to see a paediatric rheumatologist; the number on the waiting list for such appointments in...
    • Cancer Research
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer patients accessing clinical trials; the performance in terms of the percentage of patients accessing clinical trials compared to key...
    • Health Services Reports
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake a review of the treatment of cataract patients throughout the HSE to determine the reason the system has failed patients; the number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if a business (details supplied) will be allowed to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41173/20]
    • Health Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied). [41199/20]
    • Home Help Service
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of home help hours allocated by the HSE in slots of half an hour, an hour and greater than an hour in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the total workforce, disaggregated between dedicated new hire and redeployed and seconded from the health service or otherwise, engaged in swabbing and testing...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41210/20]
    • Dental Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some medical card patients are unable to avail of dental work as their dental services providers have...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the testing capacity he expects to be in place for when a Covid-19 vaccine is available. [41220/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a training programme for all medical, pharmacy and veterinarian personnel, nursing students, the Army and other appropriate groups,...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the checks in place to ensure that private Covid-19 testing centres are operating to the appropriate standard as well as integrating into the national contact...
    • Disability Services Provision
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41230/20]
    • Home Help Service
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if half an hour's home help per day will be provided for a person (details supplied). [41248/20]
    • Health Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the position on the extension of a scheme (details supplied) to County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41250/20]
    • Cancer Services
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of cancer screening at each acute hospital in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      599. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has carried out an analysis of the number of cancers missed due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41256/20]
    • Ophthalmology Services
      600. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the national roll-out of the Sligo pilot scheme for ophthalmology cases committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in his Department and the HSE who have been deployed and seconded at the start of each month since 1 March to 1 December 2020, by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff who have been out of work due to Covid-19 illness to date; the number currently out of work; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of general practitioners taking on new patients in Santry, Dublin 9;and his plans for a primary healthcare centre in the area. [41319/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the amount availed of from the NTPF by nursing homes for PPE spending in each month from February to June 2020; the amount spent each month by the HSE from...
    • Mental Health Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no psychiatrist in the counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to shorten the waiting time for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41351/20]
    • Health Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a petition (details supplied); and if he will provide a timeline in respect of the national roll-out of a Sligo scheme; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children removed in each of the past five years from scoliosis surgery lists on the basis of the deterioration of their condition making surgery...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      613. To ask the Minister for Health if student nurses involved in the treatment of Covid-19-infected patients in hospitals are given separate guidance; if all hospital staff are regularly made...
    • Hospital Staff
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new post of paediatric rheumatologist additional to the two posts currently in Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin initially to have been in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for an MRI in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin; the expected time spent on the waiting list; the projected...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department indemnified any private companies in respect of the proposed roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine; if so, the name of each company any level of...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if the delivery of medical cannabis for circa 41 patients during the Covid-19 travel restrictions will continue when travel restrictions begin to be lifted;...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the annual funding given to local and regional drug and alcohol taskforces from 2008 to date by taskforce in tabular form. [41397/20]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant paediatric otolaryngologist at CHI, Temple Street, Dublin. [41413/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if a specialist multidisciplinary team will be recruited and established to deal with multiple sulfatase deficiency. [41414/20]
    • Hospital Data
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of knee and hip replacement surgeries carried out at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      627. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with an appointment in the haemochromatosis clinic in Galway University Hospital; the reason for the...
    • Legislative Measures
      628. To ask the Minister for Health when section 19 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 comes into effect [41432/20]
    • Hospital Staff
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant posts by specialist that are currently vacant in the Mater Hospital; the length of time each post has been vacant; and the time frame...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      631. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any impediment in Dutch or Irish law that would prevent the delivery of medical cannabis to patients in Ireland; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41444/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the studies or research conducted by his Department into the impacts of the lockdown, pandemic and restrictions on the mental health of persons, specifically...
    • Disability Services Funding
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant or other funding is available for parents of children with autism who seek to avail of early intervention services privately. [41452/20]
    • Hospital Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the details of ongoing plans to provide better and more efficient access to paediatric rheumatology for children with special needs; the progress to date in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a standard fee that general practitioners can charge for a non-Covid-19 related phone consultation; if consideration is given to the length of time...
    • Medicinal Products
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if patisiran medication will be provided to a person (details supplied); his plans to provide treatment for such patients should patisiran no longer be...
    • Hospital Procedures
      638. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect the results of procedures carried out in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the waiting lists for speech and language therapy in County Donegal for each of the past five years. [41500/20]
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Products Regulatory Authority operates a national adverse reaction reporting system for all medications which members of the public and...
    • Health Services Access
      647. To ask the Minister for Health when full-time residential care be will be provided for a person (details supplied). [41509/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      648. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug Onpattro will be discussed by the HSE drugs group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41511/20]
    • Medical Cards
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider removing the valid to expiry date on medical cards for citizens aged 70 years or older and allowing these to be held without need for...
    • Health Services Staff
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies and unfilled, funded posts on 1 December across the health service by occupation and by whole-time equivalent, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Health Services Access
      653. To ask the Minister for Health when the gay men’s health service will reopen; the reason Ireland’s only dedicated sexual health and well-being service for gay and bisexual men,...
    • Health Services Staff
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the status of transposing the Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM into Irish law which would make provisions to include physiotherapists on the list of health...
    • Health Services Funding
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can provide capital funding towards a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41556/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve a drug for a person (details supplied). [41575/20]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the wait time of 18 months for a person (details supplied) to be seen at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering a mandatory vaccine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41592/20]
    • Primary Care Services
      659. To ask the Minister for Health when primary care services and a new primary care facility will be established in Tullow, County Carlow; the timescale for this service to be established; the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      660. To ask the Minister for Health when the translabial scanner which has been procured by the HSE will be available for use to help identify women who have been fitted with a transvaginal mesh...
    • Suicide Incidence
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if statistics for suicide rates in Ireland to date in 2020 can be provided and in which statistics for previous years can be accessed; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the minutes of his last three bi-weekly meetings with the Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which GP practices have been acquired by venture capital funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41746/20]
    • Home Care Packages
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for a homecare package in the case of a person (details supplied); when same will be finalised given...
    • Medicinal Products
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given for a drug (details supplied). [41753/20]
    • Vaccination Programme
      666. To ask the Minister for Health when the next batch of flu vaccine will be available; the number of persons awaiting the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41767/20]
    • Health Services Staff
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if a registration will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in view of their pending employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41769/20]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if medical cannabis is covered under the medical card scheme once a patient has been given approval for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Cards
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card has been removed from a person (details supplied); if the card will be reinstated in early date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      670. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Sligo scheme operating in the north west and the associated reduction in wait times for patients for cataract treatment; the progress on...
    • Health Services Staff
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied); if a similar gesture to front-line workers will be announced here by way of time off in lieu or bonuses; if his...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are women who have been informed that they have to wait six months for an appointment at the breast...
    • Disability Services Data
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each local health office, LHO, area as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date...
    • Physiotherapy Services
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the physiotherapy waiting list as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and...
    • Disability Services Data
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy further treatment waiting list as of 30 November 2020 or latest date available; the number waiting...
    • Occupational Therapy
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list as of 30 November 2020 or latest date available; the number waiting less...
    • Hospital Staff
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric rheumatologists working in the health service; his plans for expanding this number; the international recommended best practice ratio...
    • Disability Services Provision
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the information on Down's syndrome-related arthritis provided to general practitioners; if provision has or will be made for the annual screening of children...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding maternity visitation at each hospital with a maternity function; the appointments including scan in which the mother can have a parent,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on paediatric rheumatology waiting lists waiting to see a consultant; the waiting times by month; the average waiting time; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the availability of paediatric rheumatologists here with the current waiting list being three years; if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if an information leaflet on paediatric arthritis prepared in November 2019 will be distributed to general practitioners and health professionals; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      694. To ask the Minister for Health when a new paediatric rheumatologist will commence; the location in which they will be based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41856/20]
    • Medicinal Products
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a drug being assessed for reimbursement (details supplied) by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics; when a decision will be made; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on private ambulances by hospital for each year since 2000, in tabular form; the number of journeys made in each year; the effective cost per journey...
    • Energy Data
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the tenders for the supply of electricity, gas and other sources of energy to buildings under the control of his Department and the Health...
    • Nursing Staff
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the vacancy for a paediatric diabetic nurse at the Regional Hospital, Mullingar; if the recruitment process is still ongoing; when he...
    • Hospital Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the paediatric diabetic support services in place for paediatric diabetic patients living in County Offaly; if there are paediatric diabetic services provided...
    • Home Help Service
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Galway who have been approved for home help services but are still on the waiting list; the number waiting over six, 12, 18 and...
    • Podiatry Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a ophthalmology appointment in primary care as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Audiology Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Primary Care Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Mental Health Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; and the number...
    • Counselling Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment as of 30 November 2020 or the...
    • Mental Health Services
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2020. [41952/20]
    • Home Help Service
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; the way in which this compares to target...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 30 November 2020 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; the number...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists in 2020 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an...
    • Medical Cards
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 30 November 2020; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a...
    • Hospital Data
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of November 2020, in tabular form; and the number to date in 2020. [41957/20]
    • Ambulance Service
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical...
    • Emergency Departments
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over that experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours during November 2020; the number to date in...
    • Ambulance Service
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in November 2020; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months for treatment at both Our Lady’s...
    • Disability Services Provision
      766. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 16 June 2020, the position regarding appointments for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the...
    • Health Services Reports
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if a data analysis survey carried out by a company (details supplied) referenced in an article can be published; the cost of commissioning this report; if the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if the cardiac service extension at University Hospital Waterford will include primary PPI service activity; if the extended opening hours will be notified to...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the clinical guidance in relation to abortion to enable those persons who initiate legal abortion care before 12 weeks to be provided with...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      774. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll out of Covid-19 vaccines (details supplied); the information technology supports that will be used to assist in deploying the vaccines...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has decided to partake in the RescEU stockpile of medical equipment; if not, the reason; if so, the breakdown of the supplies received; and if he...
    • Electronic Cigarettes
      776. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to banning the sale of e-cigarettes to those under 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42083/20]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the research that has been done into a lung cancer screening programme in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42087/20]
    • Cancer Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the additional measures that will be introduced to support lung cancer patients through the psychological burden of their diagnosis; and if he will make a...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      783. To ask the Minister for Health if the introduction of lung cancer screening is a priority for him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42090/20]
    • Cancer Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Health if patient organisations specific to lung cancer are consulted by him on their approach to lung cancer treatment and supports; if so, the groups; if not, the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if clinical guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK, which states that women who are 28 weeks pregnant and beyond are at...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated in 2020 and planned for 2021 to support services for the treatment of addictions, including alcohol addiction; and if he will...
    • Health Promotion
      792. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review progress and renew the Healthy Ireland strategy where necessary, given that we are now seven years into the Healthy Ireland planned...
    • Medical Cards
      793. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide temporary discretionary medical cards to all cancer patients to offset medical charges for their treatment; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if all orders and requests for the flu vaccine have now been provided to general practitioners and pharmacists; if the HSE retains some supply; the extent of...
    • Departmental Staff
      796. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018 to 2020, inclusive; and the actions...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of calls made to the information line to assist farmers with their queries about current Covid-19 restrictions; the...
    • Trade Relations
      798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) sent to him by registered post; the steps he is taking to...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of legal costs his Department paid to persons in respect of High Court actions in 2008; if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) in respect of a person; if he has received a full historical...
    • Equine Industry
      801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that have been taken to ensure that the programme for Government commitment to prioritise equine welfare, based on a robust...
    • Agriculture Industry
      803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken to prevent the importation of blackgrass yellow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41312/20]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given consideration to raising the investment ceiling for TAMS to cover the transitionary period of the CAP; and if he will...
    • Foreshore Issues
      807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in the interest of public health and safety, he will detail the incident which occurred on 22 November 2020 on the foreshore at...
    • Biocidal Products
      808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for the approval of a biocidal product notification on products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fishing Industry
      809. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the actions he is taking as a result of the High Court ruling that overturned policy directive 1 of 2019. [41371/20]
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his views on its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal relating to an ANC payment by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      812. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of outstanding 2019 BDGP payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41392/20]
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the definition of "young farmer" in Ireland includes an upper limit of 35 years of age whereas the EU policy objective is...
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme
      815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41470/20]
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      816. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a farm grant payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41471/20]
    • Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme
      817. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a beef environmental efficiency programme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Animal Welfare
      818. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated to each animal welfare group in County Limerick in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in...
    • Veterinary Medicines
      819. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a proposal by the forum of a group (details supplied) to conduct an economic impact assessment in advance of the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      820. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 971 of 24 November 2020, the reason software (details supplied) is not publicly available given...
    • Forestry Management
      821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 968, 969 and 970 of 24 November 2020, the educational qualification required to fill the role...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      822. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the scale of the issues with and shortcomings in the ownership records for Irish-bred horses with...
    • Fishing Industry
      823. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has not taken on board requests from an organisation (details supplied) to present a socio-economic assessment of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay of almost 20 years in acknowledging the error by his Department in not including two reference years...
    • Departmental Funding
      826. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the full financial allocation to Horse Racing Ireland and Greyhound Racing Ireland will be expended in 2020; the monitoring of...
    • Agriculture Industry
      827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the countries other than the UK to which Irish agriculture products have been exported to in 2020, in tabular form; the value of...
    • Animal Diseases
      828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports his Department has provided to the flock owners affected by avian influenza subtype H5N8; the counties in which...
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to address potential feed price hikes following confirmation that animal feed ingredients destined for Ireland have been...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if legislation will be introduced that will require mandatory CCTV recording in meat factories such as that introduced by the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement he has had with the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment with regard to undertaking a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if agriculture students attending Teagasc colleges will be eligible for the same financial supports as other third-level students....
    • Animal Diseases
      833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if compensation will be provided to poultry farmers affected by avian influenza. [41728/20]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appraisal has been carried out of the outworking of the mandatory reduction obligation contained within the BEAM scheme; and if...
    • Climate Change Policy
      835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide payments to farmers in respect of the carbon that is released from the atmosphere as a result of their soils and...
    • Forestry Sector
      836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a forestry licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41745/20]
    • Veterinary Practices
      837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent if known to which venture capital funds have acquired or are in the course of acquiring veterinary practices; if in the...
    • Forestry Sector
      838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of backlogged forestry licences in the system; his views on claims to the COFORD Advisory Council that the figure could be...
    • Horse and Greyhound Fund
      839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the animal welfare commitments associated with the €96 million Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund for 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers ruled out of the ANC scheme due to not meeting stocking density criteria in each of the years 2015 to 2020, by...
    • Animal Welfare
      842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with the scourge of animal cruelty, particularly in relation to horses, which is prevalent in many urban areas...
    • Beef Industry
      843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the requirements of an applicant's internal IT system in order to access the web service used for the Bord Bia grass-fed beef...
    • Agriculture Industry
      847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans and proposals to expand the Irish hemp sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41912/20]
    • Fishing Industry
      848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of boats in the fishing fleet by location and size in each of the years 1990 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [41941/20]
    • Greyhound Industry
      849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to stop the export of greyhounds from Ireland to countries with no welfare laws; and if a club (details supplied) and its...
    • Brexit Issues
      850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of provisions to ensure that Irish food exports have ready access to...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the bovine TB eradication scheme continues to meet its targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Brexit Issues
      857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which he remains satisfied that Irish lamb exports will continue to have ready access to its traditional markets post...
    • Food Imports
      858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of breaches of traceability guidelines in respect of food imports that have been identified in each of the past five years...
    • Food Exports
      859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps taken to ensure ready markets for Irish dairy produce in the future; the action taken or likely to be taken to compensate...
    • Brexit Issues
      860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects the potato industry to be in a position to adapt and meet the requirements of the catering sector in...
    • Horticulture Sector
      861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total acreage of potatoes sown in Ireland in each of the past five years to date; the plans for expansion in the future; and if...
    • Tillage Sector
      863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total acreage of barley, wheat, malting barley, oats and maize sown here in each of the past five years to date; and if he will...
    • Poultry Industry
      864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which prospects for the poultry industry here remain good with particular reference to the home market and export...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his Department have identified any potential challenges for the pigmeat export sector; the actions...
    • Animal Welfare
      866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which animal health and welfare remains a priority for now and in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Equine Industry
      867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which animal welfare in the equine sector continues to be supervised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage or number of staff with a disability working in his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Flexible Work Practices
      869. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding opportunities or ventures her Department is supporting to facilitate the roll-out of flexible working hubs in the towns of...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      870. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the reopening of the local improvement scheme for 2021; the level of funding available for Tipperary County...
    • Dog Breeding Industry
      871. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the restrictions and regulations being imposed on puppy farmers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41424/20]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      872. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 26 November 2020, if new applicants will be allowed to apply to the fund in cases in...
    • Control of Dogs
      873. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the consultation paper "A Review of Measures Relating to the Control of Dogs in Ireland" published in July 2019; the...
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development céard iad na céimeanna atá á nglacadh ag a Roinn lena chinntiú go bhfuiltear ag cloí leis na rialacha...
    • Dog Licences
      876. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of licensed dogs in Ireland by local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41343/20]
    • Departmental Staff
      878. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage or number of staff with a disability working in her Department and the agencies under her aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      879. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular...

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