Written answers

Thursday, 21 January 2021

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Redundancy Payments
      1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the most relevant and current position of the Government and his Department on statutory redundancy during this and additionally all...
    • IDA Ireland
      2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of plans for an IDA site (details supplied) in 2021; if he will confirm if planning has been secured for the...
    • Company Registration
      3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will engage with the Companies Registration Office, CRO, to resolve the issue of levying late fees to the original date for...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
      4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the total number of applications for the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Covid-19 working capital loan...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a Covid-19-related support payment in respect of rent will be available to a company (details supplied) that is currently meeting...
    • Legislative Measures
      7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for mandatory human rights due diligence legislation as recommended by a report (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Brexit Issues
      8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if information will be provided to small businesses importing goods from the UK (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Company Registration
      9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to issues with the new online CRO system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3315/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if supports will be available to assist non-essential retail businesses that closed as a result of recent restrictions when they...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to include baby and nursery shops in the list of essential retail, given the fact that many expectant parents and new...
    • Remote Working
      12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures in place to ensure remote working wherever possible; the body responsible for the oversight of compliance by employers...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan
      13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which the home of a person (details supplied) will be connected to high-speed broadband under the national...
    • EU Directives
      14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the transposition of the EU electronic communications code; if the directive will be transposed prior to a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a fibre broadband service will be provided to an area (details supplied) as part of the current roll-out; and if he...
    • Postal Services
      16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 14 October 2020, if a new strategy statement for An Post has been...
    • Post Office Network
      17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to introduce a public service obligation and associated funding to support the post office network in view...
    • National Broadband Plan
      18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when surveys for the national broadband plan are expected to be carried out in an area (details supplied); and if he...
    • Waste Management
      22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 10 of 14 January 2021, if the working group between an association (details...
    • National Broadband Plan
      23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if broadband will be provided to a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3321/21]
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland
      24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are recruitment plans (details supplied) for the western region during 2021; if so, the locations in which...
    • Grant Payments
      25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the State-funded retrofitting grants available in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a school (details supplied) has completed its evaluation of the warmth and well-being pilot scheme; and if he will...
    • Flood Risk Management
      30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 14 January 2021, if the rainfall data over the past decade are a more...
    • Grant Payments
      31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the uptake of SEAI grants particularly in relation to persons on lower incomes due to the high cost of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which high-speed broadband will be provided to areas not covered under the national broadband plan and in...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Consultancy Contracts
      33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amounts paid by his Department in 2019 or 2020 to any company or organisation for the production of a document (details supplied),...
    • Legislative Measures
      36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if future legislation regulating e-scooters will include a legal requirement to have suitable lighting appropriate to the speeds at which...
    • Electric Vehicles
      37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current range of electric vehicles that can be considered as taxis; and if there is a case for expanding same to allow the more...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has liaised with the Minister for Health to consider introducing restrictions or banning of travel from South American countries in...
    • Greenways Provision
      40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his plans to connect Limerick city to the Great Southern Greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3124/21]
    • National Car Test
      41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding an NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3152/21]
    • Road Projects
      42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress being made on the N17 Knock to Collooney road project; the current timeline for the project; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the potential to move the required CPC training of one day or seven hours annually for all HGV and PSV drivers who drive for hire and...
    • Road Projects
      46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the construction of the A5 motorway. [3292/21]
    • Driver Licences
      47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 17 December 2020, the status of the commitment in the programme for Government to allow...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Transport Infrastructure Ireland is carrying out tree felling on a substantial scale in...
    • Road Network
      49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the public light LED replacement programme on the national road network; the corresponding figures for all public...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedure for Covid-19 testing at ports for lorry drivers who exit and enter Ireland daily; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ports Traffic
      51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a traffic plan has been put in place for Rosslare Europort, given that a full plan was put in place for Dublin Port; and if he will...
    • Cycling Policy
      52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the 2020 usage rates of the bike sharing scheme in Cork, Galway and Limerick; if 2021 will see investment by his Department to develop the...
    • Ferry Services
      53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional ferry capacity that will be available in the first half of 2021 to other EU ports; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the driver licence renewal dates. [3497/21]
    • Driver Test
      56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons currently waiting for driver tests and driver theory tests; the waiting times in each test centre; the way in which...
    • Brexit Issues
      57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to address the transport and logistics challenges faced by hauliers at ports in the first two weeks of 2021...
  • Department of Finance
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      58. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of receipts registered as part of the stay-and-spend scheme to the latest available date; and the total amount of tax credits claimed as a...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on persons who have lost their first house due to bankruptcy in respect of the help-to-buy scheme; if an application by such persons who would...
    • Import Costs
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance if concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) about duties will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3343/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      61. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pandemic unemployment payment recipients who have tax to pay; the breakdown of the number of persons owing tax who received payments of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a grocery store (details supplied) located in a gated business park, fully reliant on the custom of staff...
    • Tax Yield
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised in stamp duty from real estate investment trusts as a result of the insertion of section 31D in the Stamp Duty Consolidation Act 1999 since...
    • Tax Code
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue in a given year from ending the tax deductibility of profit participating interest without exception and of management fees, respectively,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance the weekly payments made to eligible businesses under the Covid-19 restrictions support scheme since its inception, in tabular form. [3100/21]
    • State Claims Agency
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid out in damages in non-medical negligence cases by the State Claims Agency in 2020; the top five amounts paid out; and the nature of each case....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he is taking to ensure that any loan forbearance by banks for businesses that are closed as a result of Covid-19 restrictions will not have a...
    • Tax Code
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance the relief that local authorities can seek in regard to their obligation to pay VAT and tax as a local Government body (details supplied); his views on whether...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to assist persons facing income tax demands as a result of the pandemic unemployment payment and wage subsidies; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance if the banking section of his Department is currently engaging with the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government and the banking sector on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available to workers working from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3375/21]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance if measures will be put in place to deal with the backlog in vehicle registration tax appointment waiting times in Cork; the nature of the measures; and if he...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a primary medical certificate application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3390/21]
    • Ports Traffic
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of lorries that have entered each port from the UK since the 1 January 2021; the number that have been physically inspected for compliance with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the cost of the employment wage subsidy scheme since its inception; his plans to continue the scheme beyond the schedule of 31 March 2021; the...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff at the Central Bank who received pay in excess of €400,000 in 2019 and 2020; the number who received pay between €300,000 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government has submitted its plans to the European Commission for funds received under the recovery and resilience facility; if so, when they were...
    • Brexit Issues
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to concerns of businesses trading through Dublin Port regarding delays that have occurred since the start of 2021; the measures...
    • Housing Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have met lenders or an organisation (details supplied) regarding the affordable purchase shared equity scheme that will come under the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • State Properties
      98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3014/21]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proposed timescale for the completion of a scheme in view of the recent approval of An Bord Pleanála for the Office of Public...
    • Public Sector Pay
      100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out each tier of pay scale by amount and tier for all secretary general posts; and the reason tiers exist for the same...
    • Office of Public Works
      101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 10 November 2020, the cost of non-voted spend (details supplied) in each of the years 2018...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the meeting between the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works and the Minister for...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Blackpool flood relief scheme, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3378/21]
    • Office of Public Works
      105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the opening to the public of the recently refurbished tower by the OPW at Roscommon Castle; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      107. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it is possible for a club (details supplied) in Limerick to apply for funding from Sport Ireland towards the provision of a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 13 January 2021, the supports available for arts, entertainment and events companies,...
    • Cruinnithe an Aire
      110. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an féidir cóip de dhialann an Aire Stáit, a bhaineann leis an tréimhse ó ceapadh é mar...
    • Fáilte Ireland
      111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level funding to be provided in 2021 for Fáilte Ireland's platform for growth programme; when the next round of projects...
    • Tourism Industry
      112. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she proposes to take to further alleviate the impact of Covid-19 on the tourism sector in the course of 2021; and if she...
    • Arts Promotion
      115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her ongoing plans to generate increased cultural activity, notwithstanding the ongoing presence of Covid-19; and if she will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      119. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she continues to engage with the various sporting authorities with a view to maximising sporting activity...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      120. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects to assist in the provision of sporting and recreational facilities throughout Ireland with maximum...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the interest payable on the equity loan under the affordable purchase shared equity scheme will be linked to harmonised...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of housing assistance payments paid out to each local authority since the introduction of the scheme on a yearly...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average construction and all-in development costs for one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two- and...
    • Turf Cutting
      132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a query in relation to turf cutting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3123/21]
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the matter of a tenant trying to purchase social housing (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a...
    • Property Registration Authority
      134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number working in the Property Registration Authority; his plans to increase staffing levels in view of the inordinate...
    • Heritage Sites
      135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to protect the heritage associated with the Anglo-American cable house on Valentia island, County Kerry which is the...
    • Housing Issues
      137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the difficulties that social housing tenants encounter when seeking an inter-council housing transfer;...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
      138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider making payments under the turf cutting compensation scheme early in 2021, given increases in energy costs...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 14 January 2021, if he will review the scientific basis for not supporting the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the income eligibility limits for social housing will be increased; if his attention has been drawn to the widespread...
    • Local Authority Housing
      141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new local authority house building starts activated in the past 12 months; the number due to start in 2021 by...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland loans approved and drawn down in each local authority area in the past two years; the number...
    • Local Authority Housing
      145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which local authorities in the greater Dublin area are awaiting infrastructural improvements on which the...
    • Vacant Properties
      147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he proposes, through various local authorities, to utilise abandoned or derelict buildings in the centres...
    • Heritage Sites
      148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which heritage buildings in disrepair or in danger of falling into disrepair can be restored for appropriate use...
    • Rural Development Plan
      150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which young persons seeking to remain resident in their native areas can be facilitated throughout rural areas,...
    • Planning Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions refused by county in respect of one-off housing in rural areas affecting the local...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Proposed Legislation
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the maritime jurisdiction Bill 2019; the timeframe for its progression through the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total overseas development aid budget for 2021; if he will provide details of the way this money is to be allocated; and if he will make...
    • Brexit Issues
      156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects the joint consultative working group established upon the withdrawal of the UK from the EU to be fully established and meet;...
    • Passport Applications
      157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration will be given to removing the measure of charging married women the full cost of attaining a new passport that they incur...
    • Consular Services
      158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number Irish citizens resident in Hong Kong and registered with the Irish consulate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3134/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding transporting goods through the UK to mainland Europe; and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights
      160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to review the national plan on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3156/21]
    • Passport Applications
      161. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3283/21]
    • Northern Ireland
      162. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outstanding issues in relation to the lack of implementation regarding investigations in Northern Ireland into alleged State violence...
    • Passport Applications
      163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects the processing of passport applications to recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3306/21]
    • Human Rights
      164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to raise awareness through the EU of the plight of a person (details supplied) who has been beaten while being...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated under the emigrant support programme in 2020; the level of funding to be provided in 2021; if this will enable the...
    • Foreign Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to develop closer relations between Ireland and Scotland; if these relations can be enhanced on a bilateral basis; and if he will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Review
      167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of organisations and individuals that made submissions to the commission on the Defence Forces, including those that...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a position with the Naval Service as a radio and radar technician; his plans to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Records
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body families of deceased survivors of industrial schools can contact to obtain information on the period their family members...
    • Human Rights
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reopen the redress scheme for survivors of sexual abuse in schools and require it to act in accordance with various court...
    • State Examinations
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results of the leaving certificate for students who sat the exam in November 2020 will be notified to students; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for those families with inadequate Internet access or devices for their children to engage with learning from home fully...
    • Departmental Schemes
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pilot DEIS schoolbook scheme will be reopened and expanded in 2021 (details supplied). [3026/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 13 January 2021, if this constitutes a departure from previous policy intentions indicated by...
    • School Enrolments
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request an urgent review of the process of allocating school places in secondary schools (details supplied) in County Clare, given...
    • School Transport
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants eligible for school transport who have not yet secured a place on a bus due to late payment of fees by county in tabular...
    • School Accommodation
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools conducting classes in temporary prefabricated accommodation; the length of time that such prefabs have been in use; and the...
    • Schools Administration
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures expected of primary and post-primary schools to report attendance and levels of engagement with online learning in the context of...
    • School Curriculum
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level schools currently offering ordinary level and higher level Spanish as a leaving certificate subject in tabular form;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Medmark is adjudicating for special needs assistants, SNAs, and special education needs, SEN, teachers in the same manner as mainstream class...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs, SEN teachers and-or teachers in special schools, units and mainstream primary and secondary schools are all classified as essential...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 40% cut to funding for PPE for schools that was communicated to schools in the past month has been or will be reversed; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs who are to return to work if the phased return to school for children with additional needs proceeds on 21 January 2021, or on another...
    • School Facilities
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of broadband for a school (details supplied) given the internet access difficulties being faced at the school. [3122/21]
    • School Transport
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus from Crusheen, County Clare, to Tulla will be considered for the sizeable student population there in view of the fact that Bus...
    • State Examinations
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow a greater variety of questions for the written leaving certificate in 2021 given the time missed due to Covid-19; and if she...
    • European Court of Human Rights
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of the ex gratia scheme set up in the wake of a case (details supplied) and judgments in the European Court of Human Rights and in...
    • State Examinations
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide certainty to leaving certificate students regarding the way their results will be determined in 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Administration
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy, research reports or data on the use of mock exams in public schools; the prevalence of the use of mock exams; the...
    • School Transport
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus contractors who were recently contracted to provide the 50% capacity on school transport routes will continue to be paid for the...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request by a teacher (details supplied) to be considered for promotional opportunities will be examined, reviewed and an updated positional...
    • School Patronage
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her plans to develop an Educate Together school in the Clonmel catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3160/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the transport grant and July provision scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Examinations
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alternative systems she is considering putting in place instead of the standard written leaving certificate exam; and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on ensuring that the findings of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and other reports on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students living with persons who are in the very high risk groups that are extremely vulnerable to Covid-19 will continue to be provided with...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her advice on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3217/21]
    • School Accommodation
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of expansion plans for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3236/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans or discussions taking place with stakeholders to get children with special needs in second level education back to school; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided regarding the leaving certificate examinations 2021 (details supplied). [3244/21]
    • School Facilities
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current timeline for the completion of the playing pitch at a school (details supplied). [3252/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the level of online teaching available to sixth year students in post-primary schools during the current level 5...
    • Schools Building Projects
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned development of a new post-primary school campus in Prosperous, County Kildare; and the timeline from design to...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to any processing issues of home tuition payments to autism spectrum disorder, ASD, schools that provide this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that have been made available to DEIS schools during the January 2021 closure to facilitate remote learning; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the reopening of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3406/21]
    • State Examinations
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the algorithm for the calculation of the 2020 leaving certificate results will be published; the reason for the delay in publishing the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 13 January 2021, when the framework will be concluded. [3423/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 13 January 2021, when the framework will be concluded. [3424/21]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education teachers and teachers involved if special needs children are brought back to school. [3425/21]
    • School Transport
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to ensure that bus drivers for special needs students will be protected from potential exposure to Covid-19,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence (details supplied); if she will provide clarity on the points raised; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current infection and public health advice underpinning safe, prospective school openings, particularly in the context of the new UK variant...
    • Special Educational Needs
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise safety measures that will be put in place to guarantee the safe reopening of special education at the earliest opportunity; and if...
    • State Examinations
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the necessary clarity will be given to leaving certificate students on whether the examination will be held or calculated grades will apply;...
    • School Transport
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school bus service can be extended to children from Kilteel, Naas, County Kildare, who wish to attend second level schools in Naas due to...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will investigate the situation faced by a small cohort of workers who have been out of work since March 2020 (details...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is likely that the legislation will be passed to recognise cohabitating partners who are not lawfully married on...
    • Carer's Allowance
      225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the length of time an applicant can be expected to wait for a decision regarding carer's allowance; and if her...
    • Working Family Payment
      226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo whose working family payment was not renewed following the annual...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed, given this individual was incorrectly placed on the...
    • Invalidity Pension
      228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a surviving cohabitating partner who is the biological parent to a child and children with a deceased partner is...
    • Carer's Allowance
      230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • JobPath Programme
      231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the continued operation of JobPath is inappropriate in the current circumstances of mass layoffs, job...
    • Employment Support Services
      232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of eligible persons in each county referred to community employment schemes and to a JobPath company, respectively...
    • JobPath Programme
      233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amounts paid in each of the years 2017 to 2020 to each of the companies involved in the JobPath programme; and the amount...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a contributory pension application by a person (details supplied). [3482/21]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of various appeals in respect of overpayment and an award of payment in respect of prior entitlement in the case...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the work of the child maintenance review group; the stage the work is at; the number of meetings it has held to...
    • Employment Support Services
      237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if referrals to JobPath have ceased due to level 5 Covid-19 restrictions or if they have continued; if other referrals to job...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to difficulties faced by community employment schemes in replacing participants when the...
    • Employment Support Services
      239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the review of contracted activation services within her Department has been completed; when she will publish the report;...
    • Fuel Allowance
      240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered extending the fuel allowance season in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3537/21]
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of liable relatives pursued in order to recoup moneys paid for the one-parent family payment in 2018, 2019 and...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in each direct provision centre by month between 1 February 2020 and...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of State funding provided to children’s charities in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and...
    • Direct Provision System
      245. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress of the White Paper on direct provision; when this paper will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Children in Care
      246. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 981 and 982 of 3 November 2020, if he will report on the number of young...
    • Child Protection
      247. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 621, 622 and 623 of 13 January 2021, if he will order an independent...
    • Parental Leave
      248. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the enactment of legislation to allow parents the right to apply to their employers for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are negative implications with regard to State supports for crèche and play school owners that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      250. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to hold further meetings with representatives from the early childhood care sector to discuss its...
    • Child and Family Agency
      251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of home visits conducted by social workers working for Tusla in 2019 and 2020, by year; and if he...
    • Child Protection
      253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of child protection conferences held by Tusla in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the research that has been or is being undertaken in relation to the impact of Covid-19 on children; and if he...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      255. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the pharmaceutical companies involved in non-consensual medical trials in mother and baby homes have...
    • Direct Provision System
      263. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the terms of reference of the independent monitoring mechanism tasked with carrying out inspections of direct...
    • Asylum Seekers
      266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 631 of 17 November 2020, if the formal vulnerability assessment system for...
    • Childcare Services
      267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the approach he is taking to ensure the continued operation of early learning childcare facilities for essential...
    • Parental Leave
      268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation will be introduced to extend parent's leave; the estimated timeframe in which he envisages this...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a refuge centre for victims of domestic abuse will be established in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2021; and...
    • Childcare Services
      271. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason some essential workers whose children were offered places in creches and who are not taking up the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Access to Higher Education
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to delays in some schools in completing school-based attainment testing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which have...
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a UK citizen living in Ireland for the past 20 years can still participate in a course in Sweden under the reciprocal agreement between EU...
    • Third Level Fees
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce college fees for third level students who are experiencing less on-campus time due to the current Covid-19 restrictions; and...
    • Further and Higher Education
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to expand a network (details supplied) to all towns and villages in County Cork. [3187/21]
    • Third Level Reform
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on working with third level institutions to amend the CAO system to allow students to use their best three grades to apply for courses...
    • Research Funding
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on providing additional funding to the Irish Research Council for a scheme dedicated to working with survivors to research the mother...
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 13 January 2021, his plans to provide continued access to Erasmus+ higher education mobility...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to expand the SUSI scheme to include students of graduate-entry medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3319/21]
    • Third Level Fees
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the financial struggles faced by students of graduate-entry medicine due to fees increases; the measures he is...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for including commercial premises in the roll-out of extended virtual campuses by a provider (details supplied); the selection...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been take to engage with student unions outside of a group of unions (details supplied) particularly in relation to the...
    • Education Data
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of students enrolled in the first year in higher education at the beginning of 2020-21 academic year; and the way it compares to...
    • Third Level Education
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to expand in-demand third level course places for the 2021-22 academic year; the target number for increased places; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special payment of €250 for students will be paid to students who go to study in Northern Ireland; if discretion is made on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation in relation to SOLAS courses in which there is a requirement for a work placement, for example, for electricians...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans for accepting migrants on humanitarian grounds; and the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has halted...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) working as a full-time care assistant in a nursing home will...
    • Garda Investigations
      291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received a final report based on the inquiry led by a person (details supplied) into the way An Garda...
    • Proposed Legislation
      292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to bring forward the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill as discussed at the Oireachtas justice...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal
      293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which the number of practising barristers and solicitors that make up the part-time membership and-or Chair of the...
    • Garda Operations
      294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 685 of 13 January 2021, the categories of offences for which adult cautions were issued;...
    • Crime Prevention
      295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider introducing new laws to combat the large increase in the theft of catalytic converters such as extra...
    • Legal Aid
      296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that single parents in receipt of the housing assistance payment and the one-parent...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
      298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the investigations, reviews and or actions that have commenced in relation to the fatal shooting of a person (details...
    • Departmental Information
      299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports or official responses offered to persons involved in or who witnessed to a fatal shooting involving members of An...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau since its inception in each of the past ten years. [3231/21]
    • International Protection
      301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the roll-out of the promised changes to the provision of work permits for international protection applicants...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that have been put in place for victims of domestic violence and abuse during Covid-19; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied). [3447/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if citizenship will be fast-tracked for essential workers in the healthcare system given their heroic work on the Covid-19...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for students on placements in the healthcare system to receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3342/21]
    • Hospital Charges
      308. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on measures to scrap an €80 charge for venesection clinics that was introduced for haemochromatosis patients who do not...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      309. To ask the Minister for Health if he has explored the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines outside the standard EU collective agreements in the way Germany is doing; and if he will...
    • Medicinal Products
      310. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the reimbursement of the cost of the gene therapy treatment Luxturna for persons suffering with inherited retinal diseases...
    • Health Services Staff
      314. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new appointments made arising from the winter initiative, by county; the speciality and location of these appointments, by county; and the number...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      315. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1342 of 3 November 2020, the number of applicants for the primary medical certificate programme in 2020 to date as the...
    • Registration of Nurses
      316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise regarding correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2994/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      317. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out IT records system will be fully operational; the official title of same; if he will commit that all paper records will be...
    • Disability Services Data
      320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each local health office area as of 1 January 2021 or the latest date available, in...
    • Physiotherapy Services
      325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the physiotherapy waiting list as of 1 January 2021 or the latest date available; the number waiting for less than four months, from...
    • Vaccination Programme
      330. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the vaccination strategy for healthcare workers; the priority for management levels, front-line healthcare workers and ancillary staff in...
    • Health Services Provision
      331. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to offer endocrinology services at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3021/21]
    • Podiatry Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Audiology Services
      337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Primary Care Services
      338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; and the numbers...
    • Mental Health Services
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Counselling Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; and the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment in primary care as of 31 December 2020 or the...
    • Home Help Service
      343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; the way that this compares with the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 31 December 2020 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; the numbers...
    • Hospital Data
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients who have been removed from outpatient lists in 2020 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an...
    • Medical Cards
      346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 3 December 2020; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a...
    • Hospital Data
      347. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in each public and voluntary hospital at the end of December 2020; and the total number in 2020 for each public or voluntary...
    • Ambulance Service
      349. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; the percentage of clinical status 1...
    • Emergency Departments
      350. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours during December 2020; the total number in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      352. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients currently waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months, respectively in Our Lady’s...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      355. 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. [3080/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will facilitate a person (details supplied) in receiving a HPV vaccine without incurring the €500 fee. [3082/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      358. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that will be made to ensure nursing home residents will receive the Covid-19 vaccine before 24 January 2021 in circumstances in which there is an...
    • Autism Support Services
      364. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that autism services will not be provided to a child (details supplied) until 2025; his plans to address the...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      365. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to have Dupilumab added to the HSE's reimbursement list for the treatment of severe eczema. [3128/21]
    • HSE Staff
      366. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE staffing levels in each month since February 2020; the breakdown of those attending the workplace or on paid or unpaid leave in tabular form; and if he...
    • Nursing Staff
      367. To ask the Minister for Health if he will repeat the short-term review undertaken in December 2020 on the allowances paid to student nurses in first to third year, given the surge in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      368. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the communication of the vaccination roll-out, in particular the number of persons vaccinated per week and area. [3137/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      370. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a vulnerable incapacitated recipient of home care (details supplied) in County Dublin was not listed as a close contact to the HSE following the...
    • Hospital Data
      371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with an address based in County Tipperary who have been admitted to the department of psychiatry, St. Luke's hospital, Kilkenny, per...
    • Hospital Facilities
      372. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an estimated cost of works recommended to be carried out at the department of psychiatry, St. Luke's hospital, Kilkenny, following the...
    • Hospital Services
      373. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the Minister of State, Deputy Butler's statement when she met local mental health groups in Clonmel, County Tipperary in August 2020, that...
    • State Claims Agency
      374. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out by the State Claims Agency in damages in medical negligence cases in 2020; the top five amounts paid out; and the nature of such cases....
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      376. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the cross-border healthcare directive memorandum of understanding with the UK and Northern Ireland; the progress relating to same; the issues...
    • Dental Services
      379. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE-funded fissure seal treatments are offered to all children through the school dental programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3176/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure proper organisation of times for vaccinations and checks being carried out in locations providing vaccinations (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      386. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to ensure that a way forward is secured on data sharing between public authorities here and in Northern Ireland in the context of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      387. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding family carers now considered as likely to be categorised as front-line workers in relation to the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      388. To ask the Minister for Health when Covid-19 contact tracers are conducting a positive patient assessment with healthcare professionals, the breakdown of transmission sources; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering lengthening the time between the administration of first and second doses of a vaccine (details supplied) or other Covid-19 vaccines; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) diagnosed with motor neurone disease, MND, and the person's need for vaccination...
    • Health Services
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3241/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delayed provision of an MRI scan and delayed autism assessments and treatments for a person (details supplied). [3245/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      396. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the Covid-19 vaccination schedule to be operating seven days per week and outside standard office hours, given the exponential growth of the...
    • Eating Disorders
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocation for the treatment of eating disorders and by comparison the amount expended on actual treatment of eating disorders and in which an...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      400. To ask the Minister for Health when the assisted human reproduction Bill will be published; the steps he is taking to create a legislative framework to govern surrogacy in Ireland; and if he...
    • Vaccination Programme
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the cohort of vaccine recipients to which student teachers belong; if they will be classed alongside others in the education sector; and if not, the reason...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the total additional funding paid to date to nursing homes under temporary assistance payment schemes related to Covid-19; the length of time this will...
    • Home Help Service
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of home help delivered in November and December 2020 and January 2021 relative to 2019-2020 levels; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccinations administered to HSE staff in the first two weeks of January 2021 by staff category, group and grade for each hospital; and...
    • Hospital Transfers
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a decision has been made to change the surgical transfer policy from Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan from five hospitals to one, in the middle of...
    • Hospital Data
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with an address in County Tipperary that have been admitted to the department of psychiatry in Kilkenny in each of the years since 2012;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      416. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of works recommended to be carried out at the department of psychiatry in Kilkenny following the recommendations made by the European...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      417. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the funeral undertaking industry to cease selling gravestones at a time when its counterparts in the headstone and monumental works sector...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the average and the longest waiting time for a child to see a child psychologist in each county in the past three years; and the number of children on waiting...
    • Health Services Data
      422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for optometrists and ophthalmologists in each county in each of the past three years; and the average waiting times and...
    • Dental Services
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on dental waiting lists in each county in each of the past three years; and the average waiting times and the longest times for a dental...
    • Vaccination Programme
      424. To ask the Minister for Health when pharmacists will be offered the Covid-19 vaccination, given the nature of their work, which involves high levels of face-to-face contact with the public....
    • Hospital Car Parks
      425. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to implementing a uniform system for parking charges across hospitals for patients; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to lowering or waiving the inpatient charge of €80 per visit at a maximum of €800 per annum for those with...
    • Health Services Charges
      427. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the HSE's use of private debt collectors to collect outstanding funds from patients still undergoing treatment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the current uses for a hotel and a centre (details supplied); and the statistics detailing the number of persons who have used the facilities for...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if he has signed off on the HSE 2021 national service plan; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3310/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the Government and the HSE since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic on facilities procured for Covid-19-related purposes; the size,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      434. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out prioritises staff who have direct patient contact over administrative staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Maternity Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the traumatic and tragic incident discussed; if the current policies...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      438. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to issue guidelines to hospitals to provide free parking services for those undergoing cancer treatment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the position of persons with Alzheimer’s disease on the Covid-19 vaccine allocation strategy priority list of groups for vaccination. [3346/21]
    • Primary Care Centres
      443. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of financial support provided to facilitate the construction of the primary care centre in Ballina, County Mayo; the amount of rent paid annually by...
    • Health Services Provision
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if oncology blood services in the community will continue and if there are no plans to require patients to travel into hospitals in order to provide a blood...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure on public nursing home care in Ireland in each of the years 2010 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3366/21]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents in public nursing homes by county from 2011 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3367/21]
    • Nursing Home Fees
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home patients will not be charged for items outside of their original assessments of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3368/21]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if the NTPF has internal written procedures or a guidance manual for its negotiators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3369/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been put in place to combat isolation and loneliness during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3370/21]
    • Medical Cards
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of rates offered to dentists delivering free care to medical card holders from 2011 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3373/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the status of operations at a facility (details supplied). [3395/21]
    • Obesity Strategy
      455. To ask the Minister for Health when the minutes of the meeting of the obesity policy implementation oversight group, OPIOG, held on 24 September 2020 will be approved and published; if the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      456. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in relation to vaccination of nursing home residents in cases where there is currently an outbreak of Covid-19 among residents and-or staff; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outbreaks of Covid-19 in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities since 1 January 2021 by county and the ownership and management of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the vaccination of all adults aged 65 and over who are residents of long-term care facilities were not vaccinated in the very first instance and as...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the CervicalCheck tribunal; if there has been further engagement with a group (details supplied); the actions taken to address the concerns of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      460. To ask the Minister for Health if UK residents will be allowed to travel home once they have been fully vaccinated; if there will be guidelines on travel for such persons who have been...
    • Vaccination Programme
      461. To ask the Minister for Health the policy followed by his Department and the HSE in relation to the allocation of vaccines to cover all front-line staff in each hospital; the reason all...
    • Nursing Education
      467. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the request from the HSE regarding the suspension of student nurse placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3464/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue new and clear instructions to the public on exercise etiquette to include mandatory mask-wearing outdoors and express reminders on how 2 m...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      470. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce antigen Covid-19 testing and screening for schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3471/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      475. To ask the Minister for Health when undertakers will receive Covid-19 vaccinations. [3496/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the improvement of mental health facilities and supports in respect of both adults and children; if the provision of the necessary number of...
    • Disability Support Services
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to improve the supports for children with special needs while requiring therapeutic or residential short-term or long-term...
    • Vaccination Programme
      478. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 545 of 15 December 2020, if a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3530/21]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all areas of horticulture can operate under level 5 public health restrictions; if not, if work is limited to certain types of...
    • Fisheries Protection
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 18 November 2020, his plans to have Naval Service personnel board any of the factory...
    • Hazardous Waste Removal
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of remediation works on a site (details supplied). [3030/21]
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3035/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available to farmers in the horticulture sector who have experienced heavy losses due to the impact of Covid-19; and if...
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding is available for a society (details supplied) to set up its own society in Ireland in view of the fact its herd books are...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1139 and 1181 of 13 January 2021, if he is satisfied with the efficiency of the appeals...
    • Forestry Sector
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if a reply will issue; the steps he will take to address the issue; the details...
    • Brexit Issues
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the meetings he had with representatives of the fishing industry between 1 September 2020 and 15 January 2021...
    • Apiculture Industry
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to introducing legislation in the current Dáil term to ban the importation of non-native bee...
    • Fishing Industry
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for recognition as a producer group will be granted to an association (details supplied); the details of...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his meeting with the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW regarding Lough Funshinagh, County...
    • Apiculture Industry
      496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if concerns raised by a person (details attached) in respect of non-native honeybees will receive a response; and if he will make a...
    • Felling Licences
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in a specific case (details supplied), a felling licence was obligatory; if so, if a felling licence was sought; and if it was...
    • Forestry Sector
      504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated total annual timber requirement in cubic metres of the timber industry in Ireland at present; the estimated volume of...
    • Brexit Issues
      506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements made to ensure that horses exported to the Continent by road using the land bridge through the UK can have feeding...
    • Imports Data
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of trucks that entered ports here in 2020 that were inspected physically for compliance with the animal and plant...
    • Fishing Industry
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the immediate actions he took after his Department received the notice to stakeholders from the European Commission on 17 August 2020...
    • Departmental Schemes
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 14 January 2021, when he expects to have completed his consideration of the evaluation...
    • GLAS Issues
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on an appeal for GLAS payments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Equine Industry
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issuing of equine ID will be prioritised, given the critical situation regarding animal neglect, abandonment and suffering;...
    • Felling Licences
      513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if and when a felling licence will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3525/21]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      514. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial supports in place to help community centres stay afloat during Covid-19. [3135/21]
    • Offshore Islands
      515. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the islands action plan; the status of the consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3200/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      516. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of broadband connection points; the number of publicly accessible broadband points that are now live by...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      517. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the rural regeneration and development fund applied for in respect of Inis Cealtra, or Holy Island, County Clare. [3222/21]

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