Written answers

Wednesday, 20 January 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Priorities
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the main policy initiatives undertaken by his Department since 27 June 2020; and his main priorities for 2021. [2184/21]
    • Employment Data
      2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of those employed in the private sector by domestic sector and the multinational sector by average productivity of workers in these sectors in each of the years...
    • Enterprise Data
      5. To ask the Taoiseach the value of gross FDI inflows from 1990 to 2020, by manufacturing and services; and the percentage of these inflows that is classed as pass-through FDI in each of these...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Labour Court
      6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of proposals (details supplied). [2289/21]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Workplace Relations Commission on Irish-flagged fishing vessels from January 2020 to...
    • Trade Agreements
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will carry out a risk assessment analysis on the legal, regulatory, economic and environmental implications of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and...
    • Brexit Issues
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter relating to Brexit customs issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2463/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the situation regarding the definition of essential and non-essential workplaces and services during the Covid-19...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a report on the activity of the Enterprise Ireland office in Lyon; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Value of Exports
      17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he expects exports to the EU to increase in 2021 in view of trade diversification post Brexit; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason there is now a public health risk in allowing customers to collect goods from non-essential retailers, given that it was...
    • Remote Working
      25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will publish the report on working from home. [2615/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps taken by his Department to ensure that the service of persons out of formal work due to closure of schools and childcare...
    • Redundancy Payments
      27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is engaged in the design of a contingency plan to ensure that workers can access their redundancy if they so wish...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason children's and babies’ clothes are not included in essential retail categories during level 5 restrictions; and if...
    • Haulage Industry
      29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the critical shortage of qualified drivers of heavy goods vehicles; the plans in place to deal with...
    • Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme
      30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons that have applied for a microfinance loan through Microfinance Ireland and the local enterprise offices, LEOs,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      31. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the legislation with regard to employers who had to cease trading and let their staff go due to Covid-19, repaying...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consult his ministerial colleagues, given the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and consider the introduction of legislation...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan
      34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be rolled out in Lacken, Multyfarnham, County Westmeath, specifically at a location (details...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider expanding the applicable criteria of the better energy warmer home scheme to recipients of the...
    • Fishing Licences
      36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the duration of the draft net season with regard to the Owenea and Owentocker rivers on the Loughros Mór Estuary...
    • Departmental Funding
      37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will increase funding to environmental organisations in view of the biodiversity and climate crisis; the reforms...
    • Proposed Legislation
      38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the climate action and low carbon development (amendment) Bill will be published and introduced in Dáil...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale...
    • Fishing Licences
      41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the issuing of brown tags in Waterville, County Kerry; and if...
    • National Broadband Plan
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Dalystown, Mullingar, County Westmeath, is not included in the fibre roll-out for 2021 (details supplied);...
    • Fishing Licences
      43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter regarding a salmon licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fixed high-speed broadband will be provided to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Postal Services
      45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the long delays and considerable frustration being encountered by residents of new...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the disparity in pension increases and general increases in pay of retired established civil servants who...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the tender process will be re-examined for the warmer homes scheme with the aim of bolstering experienced local...
    • Just Transition Fund
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will assist in the provision of compensation to the peat harvesting contractors; and if he will meet...
    • Grant Payments
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence regarding a grant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Broadband Plan
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be connected to fibre broadband in view of the fact that other houses in the...
    • Recycling Policy
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the potential impact that the deposit and return scheme will have on the cost of collecting domestic recycling bins; and...
    • National Monuments
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the decision of An Post as the holder of the title to the General Post Office, Dublin 1, to move its...
    • Climate Action Plan
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next round of climate fund funding will be announced; if nature-based solution, NBS, projects will be...
    • Exploration Licences
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to legislate for a ban on oil and gas exploration licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Climate Change Policy
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the establishment of a national retrofitting delivery body to be set up by end of 2020; and if he will...
    • Climate Action Plan
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Energy and Climate Plan 2021 to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2918/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consult with his ministerial colleagues, given the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and consider the...
    • Waste Data
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the anti-dumping initiative outturn data from each local authority for the four years of...
    • Litter Pollution
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to increase on-the-spot litter fines; his plans to address data protection concerns with regard to the use...
    • National Broadband Plan
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the impact that the national broadband plan will have on Ireland's carbon emissions...
    • Data Centres
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the impact that data centres will have on electricity demand in Ireland over the next...
    • Departmental Strategies
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2969/21]
    • Electricity Supply Board
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the discussions he has had with stakeholders regarding the future use of the west Offaly power station;...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Test
      68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if online certificate of professional competence, CPC, courses for heavy goods vehicles, HGV, drivers are being offered in view of level 5...
    • Maritime Issues
      69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Ireland will have its own merchant navy record training book for Ireland's merchant navy engineering cadets, deck officer cadets and...
    • Traffic Management
      71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal speed limit for powered wheelchairs; his plans to legislate in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2245/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to limit or curtail travel from South Africa, given the strain of Covid-19 detected there; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Insurance
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the renewal of car insurance in circumstances in which drivers’ licences are delayed or are unable to be renewed. [2264/21]
    • National Development Plan
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total planned investment in heavy and light rail in the current national development plan, NDP; the major projects involved; the...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of referrals made to the Marine Survey Office by the Workplace Relations Commission arising from inspection the latter made on...
    • Protected Disclosures
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an outstanding protected disclosure (details supplied) made to his office in 2018; and if he will make...
    • Road Safety
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the increase in road deaths in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2345/21]
    • Taxi Licences
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2353/21]
    • Rail Network
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the all-Ireland strategic rail review will commence; when he expects to receive the findings of the review; when he will be in a...
    • Driver Licences
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driver licence will issue to a person (details supplied) who has exchanged a UK driver licence for an Irish licence and who...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if...
    • Brexit Issues
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter relating to Brexit customs issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2464/21]
    • Driver Test
      85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has organised plans to address the lack of access to toilets, hand washing facilities and shelter for driving instructors at...
    • Bus Services
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated for a bus shelter at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he had with the Road Safety Authority RSA, to ensure that front-line and essential workers can access driving tests in a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have completed a PCR test at each airport and port here in each of the past five months. [2561/21]
    • Bus Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Transport Authority plans to roll out new bus stop signage and timetable information in counties Limerick and Tipperary;...
    • National Car Test
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered extending the NCT date for those who are elderly or medically vulnerable to allow them to stay at home as per level 5...
    • Bus Services
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered making an emergency provision for the hiring of bus drivers to fill the gaps caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on...
    • Consumer Rights
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2656/21]
    • Motor Tax
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average wait time for a motor tax disc to be processed and sent to vehicle owners in Dublin following payment. [2746/21]
    • Dublin Bus
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a plan to reduce the frequency of Dublin Bus Monday to Friday services to Saturday times. [2748/21]
    • Air Services Provision
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the loss of air connectivity by Ireland in the wake of Covid-19; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that services...
    • Pension Provisions
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the terms of the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, 1996 superannuation scheme were amended in 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons now awaiting a driver test in each test centre in County Cork; the expected waiting time before a test can be...
    • Traffic Management
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the traffic management plan in place for Rosslare and adjacent villages, for example, Kilrane, due to extensive increased traffic due to...
    • Driver Licences
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for requiring a public services card to renew a driver licence online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2838/21]
    • National Transport Authority
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when approval will be provided for National Transport Authority funding and approval (details supplied) for Fingal County Council; and if...
    • Driver Licences
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to suspend temporarily the requirement to have a medical certificate for the renewal of a C or E licence or, alternatively,...
    • Driver Test
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of waiting list numbers for theory tests by test centre in tabular form. [2933/21]
    • Driver Licences
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS will contact a person (details supplied) in order to resolve outstanding issues; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to issues in a residential area (details supplied); and if he will raise the matter with the RSA and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular with the advent of the B117 variant, if he will advise the actions he is taking...
    • Cycling Facilities
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve the standard of urban cycle lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2964/21]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to reduce the emissions profile of the public transport fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2965/21]
  • Department of Finance
    • Value Added Tax
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the flat rate of VAT applicable to service providers such as breeders, trainers and kennel owners in the greyhound sector. [2846/21]
    • Mortgage Lending
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to instruct banks to allow mortgage approved customers to begin drawing down their mortgages despite their employers being on the employment wage...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered requesting that the Revenue Commissioners examine the finances of an organisation (details supplied) following its move from the UK to...
    • Value Added Tax
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements for the application of margin schemes for VAT post Brexit, in particular for second-hand goods. [2230/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance if the terms of the Covid restrictions support scheme can be amended to take into consideration seasonal companies such as a company (details supplied). [2255/21]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to adopting a mortgage lending model similar to Denmark in which borrowers are offered 0% interest for up to 20 years; and if a...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been a decision as to whether those who are seeking to avail of the help-to-buy scheme and who have been on the temporary wage subsidy scheme...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance if primary medical certificate applications can be processed by the HSE from 1 January 2021 as provided for in the Finance Act 2020; and if his Department has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks are classified as essential services; if they are to remain open to the public during the current lockdown; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance when figures will be available for 2019 and 2020 showing the number of persons that have benefited from the special assignee relief programme; the cost of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will facilitate the applications for primary medical certificates to be processed and approved by general practitioners in order to deal with...
    • Brexit Issues
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter relating to Brexit customs issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2465/21]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter in relation to vehicle registration tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2485/21]
    • Mortgage Lending
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure for applicants applying for mortgage breaks; if the applicant has to refill the forms; if an applicant is entitled to receive another mortgage...
    • Tax Code
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will revoke the capital gains tax exemption provided to religious orders to ensure the sale of property and lands are subject to the tax; and if he will...
    • Living City Initiative
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the funding allocated to the living cities initiative annually by 50%. [2646/21]
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons (details supplied) do not qualify for the first-time buyer's help-to-buy scheme; if other grants are available to them; and if he will make...
    • Tax Forms
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners have refused from 1 January 2021 to issue companies registered in Ireland with A1s...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that a company (details supplied) operated the temporary wage subsidy scheme correctly; if the national employer unit at the Revenue...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the allowance for the disabled passenger scheme in line with the increase in rates of vehicle registration tax, VRT; and if he will make...
    • Customs and Excise
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed to deal with customs checks at ports and airports in January 2020 and January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of a primary medical certificate application by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when an assessment on this application will take...
    • Tax Data
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all tax expenditures related to housing construction and development supports in 2019. [2885/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is provision for the hotel industry during the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of annual standing charges (details supplied). [2947/21]
    • Interest Rates
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider establishing a national scheme or introduce legislation to protect consumer deposits below a certain threshold from negative interest...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Appointments Service
      166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the agreed top-level appointments code of practice of the Office of the Commission for Public Servant...
    • Public Sector Pay
      168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2189/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and...
    • Departmental Circulars
      171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the process by which circulars introduced by his Department since 2011 without statutory instruments and without having...
    • Standards in Public Office Commission
      172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacancies on the board of the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO; the length of time of each vacancy; the number...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person who has surpassed 40 years' service in the HSE and has contributed to a public service pension during that time is required...
    • Public Services Provision
      174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role he sees for reform throughout the public service as a means of improving cost effectiveness and efficiency in the next four...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to be in a position to approve infrastructural projects throughout the country over the next four years...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects reform in respect of procurement to take place in the next four years with consequent positive benefit...
    • Public Sector Pay
      180. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ongoing progress in respect of FEMPI restoration; when the process is likely to be completed in full; and if he will make a...
    • Public Services Provision
      181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the context of the emergency response to Covid-19, he is in a position to invoke reforms or provisions of a temporary nature to...
    • Public Sector Pay
      183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the degree to which controls exercised by his Department continue to contribute in a...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      185. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if employees of her Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      186. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      187. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants for the previous two rounds of the sports capital programme that were granted funding but did not draw...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      188. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific supports that have been made available to the self-catering sector by her Department, including all agencies under...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      189. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding streams available for the provision of a tourist office for a popular tourist area of Clogherhead, County Louth. [2767/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      190. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that will be made available to the hospitality sector in circumstances where utility bills continue to increase...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      191. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consult with her ministerial colleagues, given the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and consider the introduction of...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • State Bodies
      192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the plans to merge the Valuation Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland and the Property Registration Authority into a...
    • Repair and Leasing Scheme
      193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes introduced through the repair and leasing scheme; and the amount of funding allocated across each...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the provision of a social housing passport to enable persons to move between local authorities without losing...
    • Conversation Issues
      195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make a decision in regard to a case (details supplied). [2263/21]
    • Homeless Persons Data
      196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless persons that have died in Dublin during 2020; and the breakdown of deaths per month. [2290/21]
    • Planning Issues
      198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his position in respect of the opposition of the planning regulator to an out-of-town shopping centre in County Cork as set...
    • Postal Voting
      199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending postal votes to those who on polling day are in the later stages of pregnancy or have recently given...
    • Electoral Process
      200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending voting rights in local and European elections to 16 year olds and 17 year olds; and if he will make a...
    • Wildlife Protection
      202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when details relating to the level and types of staffing, resources and funding that will be provided for the new wildlife...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will standardise the HAP system to allow intercounty HAP transfers between all counties; and if he will make a statement...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed wind energy development guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2352/21]
    • Housing Policy
      205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the restriction on all future commercial co-living development announced by his Department on 23 November 2020 comes into...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for...
    • Architectural Heritage
      207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide a sufficiently resourced structure-at-risk team for listed buildings that require urgent repairs; and if...
    • Local Government Management Agency
      208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the recent graduate recruitment campaign run by the Local Government Management Agency was open to applicants with graduate...
    • Local Authority Staff
      209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or an agency under his remit recognises a difference between honours bachelor of arts degrees and higher...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have provided information on the number of construction sites they have given their approval to remain...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the launch of an affordable housing scheme. [2470/21]
    • National Development Plan
      212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to progress the legislative underpinning for a joint urban area plan for Drogheda between Louth and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider suspending planning applications, appeals and submissions during the current phase of the Covid-19...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the cost of the mortgage protection insurance for Rebuilding Ireland home loans differ by local authority; if so, the...
    • Mayoral Election
      217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to proceed with the election of a mayor in Limerick in May 2021. [2649/21]
    • Housing Provision
      219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the progress by the Land Development Agency, LDA, on developing social and affordable housing on lands at...
    • Housing Data
      220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social and affordable housing developments under construction across the four Dublin local authorities; the number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if construction can continue on individual domestic building sites during the current ban on construction (details supplied);...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has taken to ensure adequate services are provided for those self-isolating or quarantining to avail of...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will decide on the funding of the Drogheda northern port access route; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Building Control Management System
      224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the functions of the National Building Control Office; the number of staff assigned to same; the division of responsibilities...
    • Construction Industry Register Ireland
      226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the construction industry register; the status of legislation to place the register on a statutory footing; the...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a report will be provided on the Traveller accommodation budget spend by each local authority in 2020, by new...
    • Housing Data
      228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Call for Housing 2020; the number of properties offered for sale; the number purchased; and the number occupied...
    • Environmental Policy
      229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the expert group report on marine protective areas will be published and made available; when the associated public...
    • Housing Data
      230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the figures for the quarter 4 social housing output; and if he will provide a report on the total social housing output for...
    • Defective Building Materials
      231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the working group established to examine the issue of latent defects including the membership of the group; the...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of each of the recommendations of the Expert Review Group on Traveller Accommodation; and the status of the...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the costs for each year since 2016 for the design, hosting, branding and other media and...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the public sector benchmarking exercise used in the first bundle of the social housing PPPs. [2726/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the homeless working group established by the Minister has met; the dates on which it has met; the...
    • Planning Issues
      237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the national architecture policy. [2739/21]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [2740/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the housing delivery group has met; the dates on which it has met; the members of the group; the specific...
    • Housing Provision
      240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand housing first; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2776/21]
    • Home Loan Scheme
      241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has undertaken a review of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan to ascertain the reason for the high number of rejections of...
    • Housing Data
      242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of expenditure on the site services fund in 2019 and 2020; the way in which this level of expenditure compares to...
    • Energy Efficiency
      244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the funding for phase 2 of the energy efficiency retrofitting programme will be released to Dublin City Council; the...
    • Constituency Commission
      245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the anticipated timelines for the establishment and reporting of the Dáil constituency commission, the European elections...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of proposed natural heritage areas; when they were initially registered for inclusion; when he plans to designate...
    • Environmental Protection Enforcement
      247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to meet the 30% land and sea protections announced as part of the high ambition coalition, HAC,...
    • National Parks
      248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans in place to develop management plans for the six national parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2896/21]
    • Hare Coursing
      249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a club (details supplied) released all hares captured for the purposes of coursing as requested by him in October 2020; if...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding required to build the Arklow wastewater treatment plant; the funding sources identified by the Government to...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the protection of natural heritage, including hedgerows, native woodlands and wetlands, is being carried out;...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the establishment of a Citizens' Assembly on biodiversity will commence; the efforts made to date; and if he will make a...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of district conservation officers, wildlife inspectors, conservation rangers and ecologists who were recruited for...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated annual cost if the budget for housing adaptation grants for older persons and persons with disability was...
    • Harbours and Piers
      255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent damage to Coliemore Harbour that has rendered it virtually unusable (details...
    • Housing Issues
      256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2955/21]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Irish Aid
      257. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the full details in the 2019 annual report of overseas development aid disbursements, that are usually included as annexes in previous...
    • Brexit Issues
      258. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2369/21]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      259. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will respond to correspondence sent to him by an organisation (details supplied) on 23 November 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      260. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if he...
    • Good Friday Agreement
      261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the preferred date of the Government to hold a Border poll; if both united Ireland referendums will be held on the same date; if the 26...
    • Northern Ireland
      262. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the elements of the Stormont House Agreement that have been implemented; the elements that remain to be implemented; the impediments to the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      263. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report on the activity of the Consulate General of Ireland in Frankfurt; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Tests
      268. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on new plans to require a negative PCR test taken 72 hours prior to departure;...
    • UN Security Council
      269. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland's priorities in respect of the United Nations Security Council for the next two years; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      270. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his contacts with the UK and Scottish authorities regarding an incident in early January 2021 involving an Irish fishing...
  • Department of Defence
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      271. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if he...
    • Defence Forces Data
      272. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons currently in receipt of Defence Forces pensions from officer ranks and from enlisted ranks, respectively; and the number...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      273. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the Minister of State with responsibility for defence (details supplied) was appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2708/21]
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      274. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to increase the age limit for recruitment to the Defence Forces' direct entry radio and radar technician scheme; if any exemptions are...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      275. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Permanent Defence Force personnel ordinarily based at Aiken Barracks, Dundalk. [2924/21]
    • Army Barracks
      276. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding will be provided for the upgrade of former University Service Army Complement, USAC, block at Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa,...
    • Air Corps
      277. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to expand the role of the Air Corps air ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2960/21]
    • Army Barracks
      278. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his future plans for Custume Barracks, Athlone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to meet with persons (details supplied) as requested in order to find a way to prevent their children losing out on essential special...
    • School Funding
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 1 December 2020, if a final decision has been made in relation to the emergency works appeal for a...
    • State Examinations
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) about the junior cycle exams; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the unfairness and imbalance in relation to students who have missed so much school, have no access to proper broadband and...
    • School Transport
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 17 December 2020, the status of the implementation of the public health recommendation that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of boarding schools, given the general closure of schools announced until the end of January 2021 as a consequence of the pandemic....
    • School Accommodation
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional school accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pay
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance which can be provided to a person (details supplied) with a query regarding incremental progression; and if she will make a...
    • DEIS Scheme
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to make additional funding available to cover postage costs for DEIS schools to post educational materials to their students to assist...
    • Special Educational Needs
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the appointment of a home-based teacher to meet the special educational needs of a person (details supplied). [2269/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports or grants available to primary and secondary school students or their parents to purchase laptops to help with home schooling during...
    • State Examinations
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when those students who chose to sit leaving certificate 2020 written examinations will receive their results; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the securing of a site at a school (details supplied) and existing extension plans; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Admissions
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider meeting with the new Archbishop of Dublin regarding changes made to the sibling first school admissions policy by the school...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, is sufficiently resourced to provide educational psychological support to all primary...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if employees of her Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to open special needs schools during the Covid-19 lockdown; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2445/21]
    • State Examinations
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the leaving certificate examination in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2447/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports that have been provided to children of junior and senior infant level to ensure they are supported through remote...
    • Special Educational Needs
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for additional special education teacher hours, given the hours...
    • State Examinations
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a deadline will be set for a decision on whether the leaving certificate oral and practical exams are to proceed, given the spread of Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding to schools will be increased to ensure full PPE provision, given the need to stop the spread of Covid-19 infection now and into the...
    • State Examinations
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give leaving certificate students the option of predicted grades or sitting the written exams, given the spread of Covid-19 infection...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of financial support being given to schools by her Department to support teachers who are hosting classes online. [2645/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her engagement with a union (details supplied) prior to her announcement on 6 January 2021 that leaving certificate students were to return for...
    • School Accommodation
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building project to provide improved accommodation for a school (details supplied) in county Limerick; and if she will make a...
    • Teacher Training
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to pay or travel and accommodation allowances for student teachers who are required to complete teaching placement...
    • State Examinations
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to extending the January 2021 deadline for the leaving certificate design and communication graphics project,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a common framework from which her Department advises schools to work for online teaching of leaving certificate students; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidance will be issued on the leaving certificate 2021; if she foresees changes from a traditional leaving certificate given the...
    • School Facilities
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions parents can take in the event that they do not have computer, printing and other facilities available to carry out remote learning;...
    • School Equipment
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision in place to provide the necessary additional assistive technologies to enable students with disabilities to access the curriculum...
    • School Guidelines on Mental Health
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing emergency funding and-or advice to schools to allow them reach out to pupils at risk given reports of...
    • State Examinations
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure there will be a leaving certificate examination in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2962/21]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons can claim the pandemic unemployment payment or a portion of the payment; if not, if another payment can be...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied). [2265/21]
    • State Pensions
      338. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce an electronic payment system for those claiming the contributory or non-contributory State pensions...
    • School Meals Programme
      339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if steps are being taken to ensure that children who relied on access to school meals can still avail of such supports during...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employees of her Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for rent supplement in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of comprehensive reviews of the welfare support claims of staff of a company (details supplied) currently being...
    • Disability Allowance
      346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a decision on their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for PPS numbers by persons (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the calculation used for State pension (contributory) in relation to home caring periods in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare supports available in the case of a person (details supplied). [2685/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans being put in place to support small businesses that are not eligible for the Covid restrictions support scheme or...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare professionals who have applied for the pandemic unemployment payment since 1 January 2021; and if she...
    • Fuel Allowance
      353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she received a request from a charity (details supplied) for a double fuel allowance to be paid for a two-week period over...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for personal public service numbers will be processed for persons (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Fuel Allowance
      355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the list of payments that qualify for fuel allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Invalidity Pension
      356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension applications received by her Department in 2020; the number of applications that were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending pandemic unemployment payment eligibility to anyone who is off work to care for...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a physical copy of the mother and baby homes commission report is being given to each known survivor; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      361. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if teachers are officially recognised as essential workers for access to childcare purposes; and if he will make...
    • Parental Leave
      362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the extension to parental leave as a result of budget 2021; if he will bring forward the start...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      364. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he will be consulting with the collaborative forum on the mother and baby and Bethany homes...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if childcare services have been requested to remain closed beyond 31 January 2021, if providers will be...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who availed of ECCE in 2020 and to date in 2021. [2456/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that childcare providers are requesting full payment from parents...
    • Childcare Services
      370. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if matters raised by a childcare facility (details supplied) in correspondence will be addressed; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      371. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that childcare providers are charging parents for childcare due to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if emergency funding will be provided for childcare providers who are severely negatively impacted by very low...
    • Childcare Services
      373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered the sustainability of funding for childcare providers after 31 January 2021, given that he...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early years and preschool settings that have closed their services permanently since March 2020....
    • Child and Family Agency
      376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers employed by Tusla from July 2020 to date. [2647/21]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      378. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can provide clarity regarding the online presentation he provided to survivors of mother and baby homes on...
    • National Childcare Scheme
      380. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost in 2021 if the affordable childcare scheme universal subsidy increased by 50 cent per hour to...
    • Proposed Legislation,
      381. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the adoption of legislation in relation to mother and baby homes; and if he will make a...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      384. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of calls made by survivors of mother and baby homes to support services, including mental health...
    • Domestic Violence
      388. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports being provided to assist women and children facing domestic abuse under the current...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      389. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if essential workers who decide not to put their children into childcare in order to reduce movement during the...
    • Childcare Costs
      390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial supports available for teachers who must teach online in a live capacity, resulting in the need to...
    • Direct Provision System
      391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the White Paper on direct provision will likely be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the transfer of families and unaccompanied children from the Moria camp, Greece, to Ireland; and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      393. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding a Tusla adoption file issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue (details supplied) in relation to music classes will be reviewed; if clarity will be provided regarding these classes for education...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SOLAS will not permit courses to be taken online for those in the building industry to renew or receive their licences to work; and if...
    • Student Accommodation
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all the students who paid for private rented accommodation while attending third level education from March to June 2020 will be reimbursed...
    • Third Level Education
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a pledge by a union (details supplied). [2379/21]
    • Student Accommodation
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on working with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to develop a publicly financed student accommodation building...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if he will...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, for employment purposes, there is a recognised difference between BA honours and higher diplomas; his views on whether they should be treated...
    • Third Level Education
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reducing the 800-hour practice placement requirement, given that the Covid-19 pandemic has made it more difficult for social...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the SUSI arrangements in respect of orphans to allow them attend higher education programmes in private colleges in which some...
    • Third Level Fees
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if third level students who did not qualify for free fees will receive a refund of their student contribution fees in view of the fact that the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he is taking to increase apprenticeships and expand the base of skilled construction workers to ensure that there will be a sufficient...
    • Science Foundation Ireland
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of each Science Foundation Ireland research centre; the amount of funding allocated to each such centre in 2019 and 2020, in tabular...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce a mechanism for fourth year student nurses not in receipt of SUSI to receive the €250 refund in view of the fact that...
    • Institutes of Technology
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information and clarity on a timeline and programme of engagement with personnel from the GMIT Mayo campus on the independent...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Inquiries into Garda Activities
      411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to launch an independent inquiry into the shooting of a person (details supplied) in which the current policing...
    • Work Permits
      412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will sanction the issuing of a work permit for a person (details supplied), given that it is not possible to supply...
    • Direct Provision System
      413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the winding down of the direct provision system; and the progress that has been made to create new pathways for...
    • Visa Applications
      414. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the short stay visa process will reopen (details supplied). [2270/21]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      415. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the coroner has not been called to the site of the burials at the Tuam mother and baby home; if the coroner will now...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme
      416. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the decision by the immigrant investor evaluation committee to deny an application (details supplied); and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      417. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if employees of her Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for...
    • Property Services Regulatory Authority
      418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forward reforms of the Properties Services (Regulation) Act 2011 to allow the Property Services Regulation...
    • Immigration Status
      419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Community Policing
      420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available for community CCTV; if funding is available from her Department for the maintenance and or replacement...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an inquiry into the operation of spy cops in Ireland will be initiated in view of the revelation that UK so-called spy cops...
    • Citizenship Applications
      422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a postnuptial citizenship certificate application by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protections in place for victims who have barring orders that are due to expire during the current lockdown; if there are...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all pensionable allowances for prison officers have been calculated since 2008 in accordance with the average of the best...
    • Citizenship Applications
      425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if new citizenship applications are being accepted and processed at present; if a photocopy of a passport will be accepted in...
    • Gambling Sector
      426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding online betting companies; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a visa in the case persons (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Prison Accommodation
      428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent to date in relation to major refurbishment works being carried out at Limerick Prison; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new marked and unmarked Garda vehicles that were allocated to Garda National Technical Bureau in 2019 and 2020;...
    • Garda Deployment
      431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to each divisional protective services unit as of 11 January 2021, in tabular form;...
    • Garda Recruitment
      432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost if 1,000 additional gardaí were recruited; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Prison Service
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the transport budget for the Irish Prison Service in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Garda Civilian Staff
      434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to recruit six additional full-time analysts at higher executive officer level for the Garda cybercrime...
    • Visa Applications
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review will be undertaken into the refusal of a visa in the case of a person (details supplied) who has been offered...
    • Residency Permits
      436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to regulate the position of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in relation to the application for Irish citizenship by naturalisation by a person (details supplied), which has...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the person or body with responsibility for monitoring and enforcing the testing requirements for departing and arriving...
    • Deportation Orders
      440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an analysis has been carried out on the effects that letters consistently being sent to persons facing deportation outlining...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the temporary replacement of citizenship ceremonies in which applicants will be able to sign an affidavit...
    • Crime Data
      442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and successfully prosecuted for driving while disqualified in each of the past three years in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a campaign, including information at Garda stations and advertising in local media, to notify the public...
    • Garda Data
      444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Dublin metropolitan region annually on 1 January in each of the years 2016 to 2021, by rank...
    • Legislative Programme
      445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review the current legislation on the theft of dogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2959/21]
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has decided to partake in the rescEU stockpile of medical equipment; if so, the breakdown of supplies received; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      447. To ask the Minister for Health when dupilumab will be available under the general medical services, GMS, and drugs payment schemes for patients with moderate to severe eczema; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if carers of vulnerable persons in the home are scheduled yet to receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2200/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to differences in the pay and conditions for contact tracing staff located in centres in Galway relative to those centres based...
    • Dental Services
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reimbursed for an emergency dental procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2214/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the position of dentists, pharmacists and similar healthcare professionals in prioritisation in the Covid-19 vaccine allocation groups, given they are patient...
    • Primary Care Centres
      452. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a primary care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2219/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      453. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the vaccine roll-out to cover the private dentistry profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2226/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will communicate the need for the provision of sanitiser and-or hand detergent at the entrance to stores to remain in place (details supplied); the steps...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of a community Covid-19 assessment hub for Galway; the timeframe for the opening of such a hub; if there are delays; if so, the cause of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if a centre (details supplied) will be considered for mass vaccinations. [2231/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a review of the current contact tracing guidelines for schools in cases in which a pupil who tests positive for Covid-19 and...
    • Ambulance Service
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on private ambulances, by hospital, in each month in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2235/21]
    • Respite Care Services
      461. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the future of Sruthan House, Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2237/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the roll-out of the vaccine to the staff in the Ireland East Hospital Group; the order in which the hospitals will be scheduled; the order in...
    • Animal Welfare
      465. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering or formulating plans to outlaw animal testing; if he is considering or formulating plans to encourage and fund the use of non-animal...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      466. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has exact restrictions on speed limits for powered wheelchairs that it provides or reimburses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2246/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the position on the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines for the coming months in light of recent announcements. [2250/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to restrict and control travel from the UK and South Africa to prevent further spread of the Covid-19 strains found there; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      471. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding vaccine roll-out. [2271/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place for a person (details supplied) who needs a form signed by a doctor to have a driver licence renewed; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Reform
      475. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working toward for the implementation of a unique health identifier system, which was originally promised to be rolled out in 2018; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      476. To ask the Minister for Health if the training of emergency medical technicians and paramedics is being delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions applying to the prometric system; the rationale...
    • Vaccination Programme
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the process for vaccination for essential workers; if bank staff working in branches are included as essential workers for this purpose; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved, filled and vacant consultant posts by discipline specialty and sub-specialty at University Hospital Limerick; the basis on which, that...
    • Vaccination Programme
      482. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of persons (details supplied). [2297/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE secured sufficient supply of liquid oxygen and bottled oxygen to ensure that hospitals continue to have adequate reserves of same to cover increases...
    • Vaccination Programme
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health staff he estimates will be required to administer the Covid-19 vaccination; the number that will come from the existing health service;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a pandemic-related payment that in 2020 was awarded to fourth year radiography students is no longer being...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      491. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2325/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      492. 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. [2326/21]
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRSA cases reported to the HSE in each hospital in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2341/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      494. To ask the Minister for Health if routine Covid-19 testing of staff in primary healthcare centres is taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2346/21]
    • Occupational Therapy
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in each area of community healthcare organisation, CHO, 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2347/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      499. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2372/21]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      500. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 919 of 29 September 2020, when he expects to bring legislative changes in respect of the nursing homes support scheme...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      501. To ask the Minister for Health if photographers can attend weddings; if live music is permitted under levels 5, 4, 3, and 2 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2385/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      502. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines administered as of 13 January 2021; the number of persons vaccinated aged 65 years and older and living in long-term care...
    • Health Services Staff
      506. To ask the Minister for Health if all student occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and radiology students will be paid for the work they do in hospital and healthcare...
    • Vaccination Programme
      507. To ask the Minister for Health if undocumented persons living in Ireland will be able to access the Covid-19 vaccine; if it can be assured that they will not be reported to the immigration...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      508. To ask the Minister for Health if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the recruitment process of a consultant at a hospital (details supplied); if there is a target timeline by which to complete the process;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the prioritisation of vulnerable adults with certain medical conditions, for example, Down's syndrome or cystic fibrosis, as priority...
    • Medicinal Products
      512. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for funding the life-changing gene therapy voretigene neparvovec, also known as Luxturna; if his attention has been drawn to studies that reveal...
    • General Practitioner Services
      513. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of SouthDoc Blackpool. [2417/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      514. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that a number of private companies under HSE contracts are administering the home testing kits SARS-CoV-2 rapid...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      515. To ask the Minister for Health if he will organise for the NPHET vulnerable people subgroup to be immediately reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2424/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      516. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the way persons with disabilities are represented on advisory groups relating to the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      519. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for persons who are accessing day services and are cared for by home carers over 65 years of age to be vaccinated for Covid-19; the timeline for...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      521. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the NPHET subgroup for vulnerable persons to interact with groups and persons who represent those with disabilities in the planning for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the advice he has taken regarding the issue of ventilation of indoor commercial spaces and the spread of Covid-19; if he will seek such advice with a view to...
    • Eating Disorders
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented with eating disorders to community healthcare teams relating to referrals in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the gender,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for each discipline, speciality and sub-speciality for each hospital; the number waiting according to the same monthly...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the construction works that are deemed essential, given the apparent grey area between essential and non-essential construction that is being exploited on many...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      533. To ask the Minister for Health if the assessment of need of a person (details supplied) will be prioritised following cancellation of the assessment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Promotion
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national physical activity plan in view of the fact that the plan ran from 2016 to 2020; if the plan will be continued; if not, if a new plan...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the research that has been or is being undertaken on the impact of Covid-19 on the health of children in respect of diet and physical activity; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      544. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to vaccinate all hospital inpatients who are not Covid-19-infected but who are at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2522/21]
    • Paediatric Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric rheumatologists who were employed in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2543/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      548. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to provide PPE to pharmacists as per a commitment made in summer 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2545/21]
    • Disability Services Provision
      549. To ask the Minister for Health when services for persons with disabilities will resume; the timeline his Department is working towards; if staff in these services have returned to their...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for an assessment of need in each CHO; the length of time they have been waiting from 2016 to date in 2021, in tabular form; and...
    • Eating Disorders
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to increase the number of listings for mental health professionals qualified in the treatment of eating disorders in County Monaghan;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if he received advice from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, or any other European Union agency verbally, by letter or...
    • Home Care Packages
      557. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a statutory scheme to support persons to live in their own homes; his plans to provide equitable access to high-quality, regulated home...
    • Medicinal Products
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a mechanism for persons with polycystic ovary syndrome who are prescribed a drug (details supplied) to access that drug affordably; if his...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if parents can have their children privately assessed if they are on lengthy waiting lists for the public assessment; if so, the way in which they are...
    • National Children's Hospital
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Children’s Hospital site will be closed with immediate effect until 31 January 2020 and then be reviewed given the virulent Covid-19...
    • Vaccination Programme
      561. To ask the Minister for Health if a mass vaccination site will be established in Drogheda, County Louth, as part of the national vaccination roll-out in view of its significant urban...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to shorten the waiting list for children of additional needs to be assessed for supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to countries that do not have PCR tests available for passengers to take prior to travelling to ensure they are in line with...
    • Vaccination Programme
      566. To ask the Minister for Health if a list will be provided of the persons who constitute the key workers group who are sixth in the Covid-19 vaccine implementation plan sequence. [2592/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for families within the CHO 2 area in County Mayo for speech generated devices used by children who are non-verbal; if so, the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      572. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans making an order activating the provisions in the existing Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 relating to the unit pricing for alcohol in view of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      573. To ask the Minister for Health if teachers have been included in provisional vaccination category 6 as key workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2613/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if airline staff are exempt from certain Covid-19 regulations, for example, testing and self-isolation due to travel; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      577. To ask the Minister for Health if airline staff who are resident here but work in the United Kingdom are exempt from Covid-19 PCR testing when returning here from a shift in a UK airport;...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the NPHET vulnerable person's subgroup to ensure ongoing consultation and collaboration with those in the disability sector and other...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a one-off tax-free flat payment to all front-line healthcare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2634/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the schedule for vaccinating front-line workers, such as general practitioners and pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2650/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which birthing partners are currently permitted to attend the post-birth of a child and related maternity appointments as a visitor in hospitals;...
    • Health Services Staff
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will address the concerns in relation to the shortage of professionals in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including a daily update on the progress of Covid-19 vaccine inoculations via the Covid tracker app; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if the 5 km travel restrictions apply to non-essential travel on water, for example, sailing or rowing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2672/21]
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      602. To ask the Minister for Health his views on making permanent the pilot service offering free at home test kits for STI screening to Dublin, Cork and Kerry; if the service will be extended to...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate signage and directions are being provided for the Covid-19 swab centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the system in place for members of the public to report breaches of Covid guidelines by Covid-19 positive patients who have been notified of their positive...
    • Hospital Facilities
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the scheduled works to the early pregnancy unit, EPU, and isolation unit at Mullingar general hospital. [2684/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the position of essential workers providing massage therapy for pain management; and if they can operate under the current Covid-19...
    • Vaccination Programme
      609. To ask the Minister for Health when general practitioners in County Clare can expect to be vaccinated against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2689/21]
    • Ministerial Communications
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the reason members of Dáil Éireann have not received responses to emails or phone calls to his office for the past two weeks; and if he will provide...
    • Vaccination Programme
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for vaccinations within nursing homes and residential settings where the facility has a positive Covid-19 case or cases among its staff and-or...
    • Health Services Staff
      614. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 1 December 2020, the status of developments regarding the creation of consultant-level roles in public health...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      615. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); the length of time the person has been waiting; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Support Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 952 of 24 November 2020, the way in which the funding and staff as outlined in the reply are being overseen and...
    • Disability Services Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have an orderly resumption of all-day services for persons with disabilities in County Tipperary in view of the current Covid-19 restrictions; and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      622. To ask the Minister for Health when patients who are being cared for in their homes with the support of home help seven days per week will be scheduled for Covid-19 vaccination; if they will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if special measures are in place during the lockdown for children with special needs to be allowed to go further than the 5 km travel restriction to access...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons recruited in County Donegal to work in Covid-19 testing centres; if there are any vacancies for such positions within the county; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if changes to circulars 064/2020 and 074/2020 relating to special sick pay leave for HSE health workers who tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who can certify that they have received the full Covid-19 vaccination will need to comply with the regulations relating to restricting their...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      628. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 729 of 6 October 2020, if he will confirm the PCT cycle thresholds in relation to the range of assays used by the HSE;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that will be put in place for student nurses who have had their placements cancelled due to Covid-19 but have been informed they cannot move on to...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 tests carried out in nursing homes in each month since March 2020. [2774/21]
    • State Properties
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a financial return for his Department from the transfer of the lands at the former Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, to the Land Development...
    • Health Services Provision
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which staff in nursing homes are struggling to care for patients and are seeking assistance from members of the...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the previously mentioned gambling addiction support services funded by the HSE; the funding streams they are supported under; and the way in which similar...
    • Mental Health Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take action to resolve any or all of the ongoing personnel disputes at certain levels throughout the mental health services, given the Covid-19...
    • National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalents in the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in 2019 and 2020; the budget allocation for same in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in...
    • Home Care Packages
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional 250 intensive home care packages for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times by CHO areas for suprapubic catheter surgery to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2806/21]
    • Disability Services Data
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the Cork north Lee area that have been impacted by the redeployment of disability clinicians to address the assessment of need...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2815/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the level of services to be provided at SouthDoc Blackpool under the proposed reopening of 18 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2816/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism being put in place to make contact with over-70s in order that they can receive their vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing vacancies in Wexford General Hospital; the length of these vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2828/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      648. To ask the Minister for Health when Wexford General Hospital staff will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2829/21]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that were placed on the waiting list for CAMHS in 2020 in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2830/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels in a service (details supplied) in County Wexford; the staffing vacancies in the service by occupation; when vacant positions will...
    • Hospital Staff
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff that will be assigned to the 48-bed acute medical unit that will be constructed at Mallow General Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      652. To ask the Minister for Health when a retirement home for retired clergy (details supplied) can expect to receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2840/21]
    • Food Safety Authority of Ireland
      653. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department requested the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to fast-track its recommendations on vitamin D supplementation in older adults due to emerging...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions that have been held with Northern Ireland in relation to the possibility of a joint zero-Covid-19 strategy between the two jurisdictions; and...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the due diligence or background checks that were carried out prior to placing a €14 million order for ventilators with a company (details supplied); the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in regard to the provision of the necessary funding for the next phase of the Naas General Hospital development plan; when the project was...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      659. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a primary medical certificate application for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when an assessment on this application will take...
    • Vaccination Programme
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements will be made to ship and distribute a vaccine (details supplied) around the country in advance of approval in order that it is ready to go once...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      663. To ask the Minister for Health if transmissibility has been factored into modelling the progression of Covid-19 during and after vaccination has been carried out in Ireland; and if he will...
    • Food Safety Standards
      664. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the analysis his Department has carried out to date with regard to the health effects that consumption of sugar and high-caffeine drinks have on...
    • Dental Services
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if a resolution has been sought regarding the sourcing and dissemination of personal protective equipment for dental practitioners to enable them to take on...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts made by his Department to date to tackle outstanding issues concerning CAMHS, including addressing waiting lists, a lack of investment and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has purchased additional doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that other countries did not want, as has been done by Germany, France and...
    • Health Services Staff
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of graduate nurses and midwives in 2019 and 2020 who have been provided full-time permanent contracts. [2930/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job vacancies at Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar by department, job title and the length of time each position has been vacant. [2931/21]
    • Hospital Car Parks
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce a cap on the maximum daily charge for car parking at hospitals for both patients and visitors that is included in the...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish the National Public Health Emergency Team Covid-19 subgroup for vulnerable persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2939/21]
    • Suicide Prevention
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing emergency funding to NGOs providing support to persons at risk of suicide, given reports of an increase in suicide...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      676. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body responsible for payment for works carried out under the hen harrier scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Websites
      679. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to upgrade the new departmental website, given that farmers and planners are finding it extremely difficult to navigate and...
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a shortage of soya products is impacting on animal feed supplies; the measures adopted by his Department to support farmers...
    • Teagasc Activities
      681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce measures to support agricultural and veterinary students to secure placements on farms during the Covid-19...
    • Forestry Sector
      682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the forestry sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2320/21]
    • Inshore Fisheries
      683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will agree to increased monitoring of inshore fisheries as an interim measure and until the State's appeal is heard in the High...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      684. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the opening date for the REPS II scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2342/21]
    • Dairy Sector
      685. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to improve the viability of male calves from the dairy herd in locally based production systems; and if he will make a...
    • Beef Industry
      686. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to review the 30-month rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2344/21]
    • Food Industry
      687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address concerns that the Irish food service industry was not consulted as part of the process leading to the publication...
    • Beef Industry
      691. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the engagement he and his Department have had with farmer representative organisations following the decision to issue...
    • Fur Farming
      693. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of mink farms in Ireland; the schedule for culling; the entity that will carry out the culling; the means by which culling...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      694. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if employees of his Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same;...
    • Brexit Issues
      695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the changes in fisheries policy and its impact on Irish fishermen as a result of the Brexit deal; the...
    • Pesticide Use
      697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a pesticide control service, PCS, number by a person (details supplied). [2426/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to maximise Irish food exports to the Single Market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2458/21]
    • Animal Welfare
      702. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of animals currently being tested on nationwide; the types of tests taking place; the steps he is taking to move away from...
    • Harbours and Piers
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress regarding the upgrading of Dinish Pier, Castletownbere, County Cork; the reason construction has stalled; and the...
    • Forestry Sector
      704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling, afforestation and forest road licences issued monthly between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2020, inclusive,...
    • Beef Industry
      707. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the current organic beef stocking rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2670/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      709. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans that have been made for Irish companies and Irish exports to replace UK exports to the continental EU; and if he will make...
    • Fishing Licences
      710. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria put in place to register the 140 vessels allowed to fish in UK waters since 31 January 2020 with the European...
    • Fishing Industry
      711. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding available in the European Commission contingency supports and market disturbance funding for the fisheries...
    • Harbours and Piers
      713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the strategic investments his Department plans to make in harbour infrastructure to attract increased landings into Ireland of...
    • Customs and Excise
      714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff employed by his Department to deal with customs checks at ports and airports in January 2020 and January 2021;...
    • Education and Training Boards
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will facilitate ETB network to facilitate agriculture courses for farmers in areas such as derogation of nitrates. [2841/21]
    • Greyhound Industry
      716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for classifying greyhounds as farm animals. [2845/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a detailed impact analysis will be provided of the damaging impact of the EU-UK Brexit deal on the fishing sector here; the...
    • Nitrates Usage
      718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will waive penalties on farmers not reaching the 5% nitrate reduction under the BEAM scheme in view of the fact that the...
    • Farm Inspections
      719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is necessary for farm inspections to take place during level 5 Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      720. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will respond to concerns raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of the town and village...
    • CLÁR Programme
      721. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will urgently re-examine the criteria for CLÁR funding applicants in which successful school-based projects must give...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      722. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if employees of her Department have received Covid-19 vaccines due to their role in the Department; if so, the rationale for same; and...
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      723. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén plé a bhí ag a Roinn leis na soláthraithe seirbhíse farantóireachta atá ar conradh ag a Roinn...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      724. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has investigated the possibility of amending the criteria of the Covid-19 stability fund to ensure that community...

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