Written answers

Wednesday, 27 January 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Central Statistics Office
      1. To ask the Taoiseach when he expects the project with the CSO to be complete to establish indicators for energy poverty. [3608/21]
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the outcome of the North-South Ministerial Council held on 18 December 2020; and if progress was made regarding plans for shared island investment...
    • Commission on the Future of Policing
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the progress of the A Policing Service for the Future report timelines; the aspects deferred due to Covid-19. [3876/21]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      4. To ask the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for quarter 4 2020 on the website of his Department. [4080/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      5. To ask the Taoiseach the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of his Department, in tabular form. [4495/21]
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      6. To ask the Taoiseach the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020; and if these persons are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      7. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic. [4763/21]
    • Trade Policy
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that coiled steel exports to mainland UK, EU and outside the EU have to go through the...
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of construction site inspections conducted by Departmental health and safety officials relative to the use of tower cranes...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the various funds under which the building or development of co-working hubs can be applied in rural and urban areas; and if he will...
    • IDA Ireland
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the sale of lands. [4028/21]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded...
    • Consumer Protection
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of entities subject to the provisions of SI No. 35 of 2016, Consumer Protection Act 2007 (Grocery Goods Undertakings)...
    • Proposed Legislation
      16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to update the Casual Trading Act 1995. [4178/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to wholesalers that cater for the hospitality industry that has been severely impacted by Covid-19; and if he...
    • Job Losses
      18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter regarding workers at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4393/21]
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Health and Safety Authority inspections carried out in 2020 by NACE sector; and the number that were announced and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a date has been set for the meeting with social media content moderators and their representatives; and if so, if that date will be...
    • Job Creation
      21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans under the midlands regional jobs plan for job creation in County Laois to reduce unemployment figures on the live register...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of...
    • Departmental Staff
      24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took...
    • State Bodies
      26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all State and semi-State boards that fall under the aegis of his Department; the level of remuneration...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received by SEAI in each of the years 2017 to 2020 under the better energy warmer homes...
    • Energy Efficiency
      30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of State-owned buildings that will require retrofitting by county; the number that have been completed to...
    • Fishing Industry
      31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding fees on fishermen; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Consultations
      32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the consultation results are publicly available on the website of his Department for each public consultation held by...
    • Electricity Grid
      33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the cause of the recent electricity shortages and amber alerts; and if the increased demand from data...
    • Turf Cutting
      34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has information to show to the extent to which domestic turf cutting mitigates energy poverty; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if telecomms providers will help customers remain connected as per the Covid-19 consumer commitments to which providers...
    • Post Office Network
      36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a post office service (details supplied) will be reinstated in County Clare as a matter of urgency given the hardship...
    • Waste Management
      37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his strategy for the sustainability and expansion of the compost industry in Ireland; his plans to expand the brown bin...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expenditure on national public awareness campaigns for waste services (details supplied) over the past ten years;...
    • Just Transition Fund
      39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding will be provided under the just transition fund for projects (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he...
    • National Broadband Plan
      40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of homes that will remain without access to high-speed broadband after the national broadband plan...
    • Departmental Funding
      41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which it is ensured that State retrofitting funding is directed to areas it is most needed, that is, to the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeline for completion of fibre broadband roll-out to each property in County Tipperary under Eir and NBI....
    • Postal Services
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an eircode will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who requires a broadband connection...
    • National Broadband Plan
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional resources will be provided to expedite the roll-out of the national broadband plan given the poor...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the carbon emissions of Ireland's 5,500 ha of bog used for horticultural peat harvesting; and the reduction...
    • Just Transition Fund
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of horticultural peat exported in each of the past ten years; and the alternative employment envisaged for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the contribution Ireland has made to the green climate fund in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date...
    • Local Authority Funding
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of fibre broadband at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • North-South Interconnector
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it will be ensured that an independent analysis of the north-south interconnector takes place in line with the motion...
    • National Broadband Plan
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of school broadband connection points in County Mayo; if a list of school connection points which have gone...
    • Air Quality
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide statistics on air quality around County Clare for the month of December 2020; the way in which this...
    • Energy Efficiency
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a person can only apply for home insulation through the SEAI once; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Just Transition Fund
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the cessation of peat production; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he met formally with the chief executive officer of An Post during Quarter 4 of 2020. [4172/21]
    • Energy Efficiency
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that applied and received grant aid from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland for attic,...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to launch a national strategy regarding clean hydrogen production; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Postal Services
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 20 January 2021 and his confirmation that earlier assignment of Eircodes to...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to support or contest the legal proceedings brought by six Portuguese young persons against Ireland and 32...
    • Bituminous Fuel Ban
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding introducing a nationwide smoky coal ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4380/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of each development area in County Kerry as part of the national broadband plan, in tabular form (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under...
    • Quarrying Sector
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department measures the environmental and ecological damage caused by unauthorised quarries; and if he will make...
    • National Broadband Plan
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed fibre broadband will be available in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Mountain Rescue Service
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding and grants available to mountain search and rescue groups and those engaged in such rescue activities; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support the chauffeur and coach industries whose sectors have been severely hit by the ongoing pandemic and travel...
    • Driver Licences
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current process for transferring a UK driver licence to its Irish counterpart given that the Brexit transition period is finished; and...
    • Vehicle Data
      91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of diesel, petrol, hybrid and electric vehicles registered in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3582/21]
    • Road Projects
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Athy distributor route; the recent progress; his plans to bring this project to fruition; the target date for...
    • Road Network
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to further examine the reclassification of the R624 road as a national road in view of future increases in traffic volumes as a...
    • Driver Test
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cancellations for driver tests will be offered in the first instance to essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. [3808/21]
    • Bus Services
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for BusConnects implementation in Cork. [3815/21]
    • Driver Test
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Search and Rescue Service Provision
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 15 December 2020, if his Department or a company it has engaged with carried out a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures to be undertaken by Irish citizens wishing to return from abroad who have had a positive Covid-19 test result but who are...
    • Road Projects
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progression of phase 1 of the Limerick northern distributor road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3864/21]
    • Tourism Industry
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the additional funding for Bunratty Folk Park, part of Shannon Heritage and under the Shannon Group, will go ahead as previously...
    • Road Safety Authority
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3914/21]
    • Driver Test
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider granting an amnesty to those learner drivers who have completed the 12 lessons and are ready to do the test but...
    • Departmental Funding
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether direct supports need to be given to local authorities on a staffing level to ensure active mobility officers and...
    • Road Safety Authority
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority plans to name and shame for driving offences committed by drivers will include the addresses of drivers as...
    • Motor Tax
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 17 November 2020, the plans his Department has to provide for an appeals process within the...
    • Driver Test
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 16 December 2020, if a driver test will be expedited in the case of a person (details...
    • Road Safety Authority
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 13 January 2021, if the Road Safety Authority has awarded contracts to a company (details...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 13 January 2021, if Irish Rail has awarded contracts to a company (details supplied) in the...
    • Brexit Supports
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports being provided to Irish road hauliers to enable adjustment to the challenges raised by Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of grants provided by his Department to individuals purchasing electric cars in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which TII will update its statistics resource for 2020 (details supplied). [4047/21]
    • Local Authority Funding
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded...
    • Coast Guard Service
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost if the budget for the Irish Coast Guard increased by 6.5%. [4071/21]
    • Motor Tax
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all commercial and private vehicles currently taxed in County Limerick by district, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Airport Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the pre-planning discussions that have taken place between the airport noise competent authority and...
    • Taxi Regulations
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to regulate the use of a company (details supplied) as a form of hired transport in addition to the current taxi licences; and...
    • Driver Test
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have applied for and are awaiting their driver theory test by county (details supplied); and the number waiting...
    • Road Safety Authority
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will undertake a campaign with the RSA to step-up attention to safe cycling, particularly lights and high visibility clothing in...
    • Driver Licences
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter in relation to the driver licence of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [4238/21]
    • National Transport Authority
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints received by the National Transport Authority regarding unregistered small public service vehicle operators in...
    • Taxi Licences
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the penalties that are imposed on those operating as taxis or small public service vehicle operators without an SPSV...
    • Public Transport
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if security has been increased on the Luas lines to ensure all passengers are abiding by the public health guidelines; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken to ensure that restrictions that limit public transport use to essential workers only are being enforced; and if he will...
    • Brexit Issues
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which logistical snags identified in the wake of Brexit have been identified for resolution with particular reference to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the queries raised by a person (detail supplied) can be addressed and resolved in the short-term; and if he will make...
    • Haulage Industry
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if HGV drivers whose licences are due for renewal and are currently facing difficulties accessing medical assessments due to Covid-19...
    • Taxi Regulations
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and the National Transport Authority plans to update the list of suitable electric cars for taxi services; and if he...
    • National Transport Authority
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the NTA taxi grants that will be made available in 2021 to taxi drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4408/21]
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend the Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4447/21]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence from a person (details supplied); if he will request the RSA to address the issue; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the annual tax saver transport tickets due to expire on 30 April 2021 by the duration of level 5 restrictions to...
    • Bus Services
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding for the Clare bus accessible transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4516/21]
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took office...
    • State Bodies
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all State and semi-State boards that fall under the aegis of his Department; the level of remuneration being...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Data
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance the composition of gross GDP by all expenditure components, personal consumption, central and local government spending, GFCF and so on in each of the years...
    • Brexit Issues
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to an urgent issue in relation to Brexit associated delays for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Proposed Legislation
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the timetable for the introduction of the senior executive accountability regime including the publication of supporting legislation; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the banks to enter into a temporary postponement of loan repayments as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown; if it will be ensured that these...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the help-to-buy scheme discriminates against single applicants whose loan to value is difficult to achieve on...
    • Home Building Finance Ireland
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the work of Home Building Finance Ireland; the number of loans offered; the size of the loans; the recipients of the loans; the number of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the stay and spend scheme up to 31 December 2020; the value of receipts uploaded to the scheme; the expected cost to the...
    • Tax Code
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for Ireland of a recent French decision regarding the taxable status of digital companies; if he has been in contact with the French...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a tax amnesty for pandemic unemployment payment recipients who are being issued with tax bills; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Preparations
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional customs staff have been put in place at points of entry and exit from the country to meet the increased documentation demand following Brexit....
    • Brexit Issues
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on two vehicles that arrived at customs on 9 January 2021 and were subsequently held for 26 hours with no communication from customs which...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the Central Bank in relation to the renewal of the loan moratorium for businesses affected by the renewed lockdowns due to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to companies repaying the pandemic unemployment scheme if they availed of the scheme for their staff in the event that many of...
    • Motor Insurance
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by drivers under 25 years of age who need to use vans or commercial cars for employment but cannot...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the exceptionally high mortgage rates in Ireland relative to the European norm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3760/21]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3781/21]
    • Property Tax
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the local property tax paid by local authorities in respect of social housing stock in 2020. [3843/21]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if a response will issue regarding concerns raised (details supplied) in respect of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and possible issues arising; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to financial support measures for Irish pilots; and if he will make a...
    • Value Added Tax
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to remove VAT from beekeeping equipment and supplies. [3892/21]
    • Living City Initiative
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the living over the shop scheme; the areas in which it is operating or has previously operated in; the number of pilot schemes there were; if...
    • Banking Sector Data
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the banking levy contributions made by individual banks and financial institutions from its inception to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Corporation Tax
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken by his Department with respect to corporation tax reform and to address concerns that Ireland is disproportionately reliant on the...
    • Tax Avoidance
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken by his Department to tackle the aggressive tax avoidance behaviour engaged in by Irish real estate funds and real estate investment...
    • Local Authority Funding
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under each scheme in...
    • Value Added Tax
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT of 21% and duties of 10% apply to vehicles imported from Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4121/21]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a VRT exemption for mountain rescue vehicles and other vehicles used solely in such rescue activities; and if he will make a statement...
    • Value Added Tax
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to extend the VAT reduction from 23% to 21% that is due to end on 28 February 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4201/21]
    • National Debt
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual debt repayments as a share of GDP and as a share of GNI* in each of the years 2000 to 2020; and the estimated repayments for same in 2021, in...
    • Tax Code
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) can qualify from income tax under the exemption rules for race horses in training; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to transferring the dunes system on the eastern beach of Inchydoney, County Cork from NAMA to the OPW in the interest of...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance when assessments will recommence for new applications for primary medical certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4337/21]
    • Banking Sector Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention or that of the Central Bank has been drawn to any legal or regulatory obstacle placed by the State to persons in Ireland sending remittances...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid out under the Covid restrictions support scheme since its introduction by sector, week and month in tabular form. [4394/21]
    • Tax Code
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if another reference month can be used to calculate business mileage undertaken under the extended benefit-in-kind on company vehicles for those workers...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of his Department in...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reinstating the home renovation incentive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4517/21]
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020; if these...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took office, including the name...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding allocated by his Department to the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pay
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason an increased salary of some €292,000 has been allocated to the position of Secretary General for the Department of...
    • Public Sector Staff
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide additional extensions or to carry out a competitive recruitment process for the replacement on retirement of three...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the environmental assessment has commenced; the expected completion date; and if planning permission has been sought in respect of...
    • Coastal Erosion
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of hard defence schemes that have been approved by his Department in respect of coastal erosion throughout the country during...
    • Coast Guard Service
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the current project plan regarding reacquiring a site for a project (details supplied) in County Mayo. [3695/21]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State and semi-State board appointments made by him since this Government took office; the name of the board or agency;...
    • State Bodies
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all State and semi-State boards that fall under the aegis of his Department; the level of remuneration...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, when a person who is employed or paid by the State avails of the pandemic unemployment payment due to childcare, this will result in...
    • Public Sector Pay
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Secretaries General within the Civil Service in receipt of gross annual payments exceeding €210,000. [3854/21]
    • Public Sector Staff
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when an appointment (details supplied) will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3899/21]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of drainage works to be undertaken by the Office of Public Works in County Clare in February 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given, by county; the amount awarded...
    • Lease Agreements
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 16 June 2020, if an indenture of lease can be provided in respect of a property (details...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the way in which the capital carryover of €710 million from 2020 to 2021 will be allocated in 2021; if a debate in...
    • Heritage Sites
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 320 of 29 September 2020, the status of the proposed transfer of Westgate House, Drogheda to Louth...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered making amendments to the public sector sick pay scheme or occupational injury and illness schemes in relation to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if he...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years from 1 January 2015 to 31...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Tourism Funding
      273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed and clarified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4415/21]
    • Grant Payments
      274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if allowances can be made for this grant under the circumstances; and...
    • Tourism Funding
      275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when Fáilte Ireland will announce its plan to disburse the funding of €50 million made available by her Department to...
    • Sports Funding
      276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding supports that were granted to the disability support programmes of an organisation (details supplied) in 2019 and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      279. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a grant or bursary is available for a person seeking to write a history book; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent to date on the marketing and advertising of the stay and spend initiative as it relates to Fáilte Ireland;...
    • Local Authority Funding
      282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the support a business (details supplied) can avail of, given that it was refused the Covid restrictions support scheme it does...
    • Sports Funding
      284. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current financial supports available to a business (details supplied). [4120/21]
    • Digital Hubs
      285. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a tech hub in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Culture Ireland
      286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocated to Culture Ireland for the promotion of Irish arts globally in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [4208/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      287. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a query raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4212/21]
    • Cruinnithe an Aire
      288. 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...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      289. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in her Department and each State agency under the remit...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by her Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      291. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of her Department made since this Government took...
    • State Bodies
      292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all State and semi-State boards that fall under the aegis of her Department; the level of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding allocated by her Department to the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Animal Welfare
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the illegal capture and live sale of endangered wild animals at a national, Europe-wide and...
    • Quarrying Sector
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to address unauthorised quarries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4511/21]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average construction and all-in development cost of social housing tender approvals for local authorities (details...
    • Housing Policy
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the programme for Government commitment to establish a commission on housing; the proposed members of the...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report he commissioned into the deaths of persons experiencing homelessness; when the report will be...
    • Housing Provision
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the problem of private sector mortgage-to-rent providers outbidding not-for-profit...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the serviced sites fund allocation for a social and affordable housing project (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and the...
    • Foreshore Licences
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a foreshore licence will be granted to a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3598/21]
    • National Monuments
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commission a full independent archaeological and architectural survey of the Moore Street area, described by the...
    • Shared Ownership Scheme
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Dublin City Council issues loans under the shared ownership scheme of 2003 to 2010 greater than the amounts permitted both...
    • Commercial Rates
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if businesses whose ability to trade effectively are reduced due to local roadworks projects have an entitlement to seek a...
    • Planning Issues
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending submission deadlines for planning objections to local authorities given the delays in the...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be ensured that a report on all inspections of homeless emergency accommodation, funded by his Department, are...
    • Local Authority Housing
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes that have been retrofitted in 2019 and 2020, by each local authority area, in tabular...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of the register of interest for the board of An Bord Pleanála will be provided; and if he will make a statement...
    • Animal Welfare
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being put in place to proactively manage new populations of invasive ring-necked parakeets sighted in the Dublin...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that Toon Wood, Macroom, County Cork is immediately designated as a natural heritage area; and if he will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the extent of persistent offenders under landlord and tenant legislation; and his views on whether a...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date on the final ecological screening assessment being prepared by the National Parks and Wildlife...
    • Departmental Programmes
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the collaborative town centre health check programme; the amount of funding provided; the staffing level of the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process by which a void renovation is sanctioned. [3810/21]
    • Probate Data
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties currently in probate. [3812/21]
    • Derelict Sites
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to supply funding to local authorities for compulsory purchase of derelict sites; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if public realm enhancement works being undertaken by local authorities can continue during level 5 Covid-19 restrictions....
    • Capital Assistance Scheme
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to the capital assistance scheme in the past three years; the breakdown in funding by local...
    • National Parks
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a matter will be investigated regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in receipt of 5%, 10%, 20% and over 20% top-ups on their HAP by local authority in 2020. [3898/21]
    • Departmental Reviews
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is planned to publish the review of the tenant purchase incremental scheme 2016; when the review was completed; when...
    • Housing Inspections
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if housing assistance payment, HAP, inspections are being carried out by local authorities during level 5 restrictions; if...
    • Housing Provision
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing first tenancies delivered in 2020; and the target number of housing first tenancies for 2021. [3993/21]
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make...
    • Local Authority Funding
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if providers of emergency accommodation are paid whether beds are empty or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Homeless Persons Data
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons experiencing homelessness who were housed in permanent accommodation in 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Water
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to adequately resource Irish Water to ensure the upgrade of the water services infrastructure in Glanworth, County...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to extending the Rebuilding Ireland home loan validation timeframe for those who have been...
    • Construction Sector Strategy
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the current level of the plan for living with Covid-19, documentation is required from homeowners in order to...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure the full Traveller accommodation budget for 2021 is utilised; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fire Safety
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a matter in regard to a fire safety issue for a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [4262/21]
    • Housing Issues
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the provision of social housing at a site (details supplied) in County Meath; the source of funding for this...
    • Building Regulations
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken since assuming office to set up a taskforce to examine the effects of construction defects for...
    • Legislative Programme
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the marine planning and development management Bill will be brought before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a...
    • Rental Sector
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the tenancy rights and right of recourse to the RTB which tenants in tied accommodation currently enjoy (details supplied); if...
    • Local Authority Housing
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if essential house repairs will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied). [4367/21]
    • Vacant Properties
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with the Minister for Health to determine a scheme to encourage families with vacant properties tied into...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request the Dublin Homeless Regional Executive to publish its annual reports for each of the years 2016 to 2020;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the...
    • Housing Issues
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing scheme or grants that can be obtained for persons (details supplied) who do not qualify for the first-time buyers...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic;...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights Cases
      367. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the detention of a person (details supplied) by Russian authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3547/21]
    • Passport Services
      368. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be ensured there will be sufficient staff in place to deal with the backlog of applications for passports and the anticipated...
    • Passport Controls
      369. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the situation regarding an entitlement to an Irish passport by a UK born and UK citizen who is married to an Irish...
    • Human Rights Cases
      370. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise concerns regarding the recent arrest of a person (details supplied) with the Russian authorities; and if he will make a...
    • Passport Applications
      371. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the processing of an application for a passport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be finalised; the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on submitting the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation to the Holy See for an official response;...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      373. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of overseas development assistance Ireland gives to Pakistan; if more can be done by Ireland to counter reported prejudices...
    • Passport Services
      374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department plans to introduce vaccination passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3881/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited; and if he will make a...
    • Passport Services
      376. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if clarity will be provided to a person (details supplied) given the lengthy period of time which has passed since the initial passport was...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his approach to dealing with the new US administration, in particular the impact of its proposals for immigration reform on the undocumented...
    • Local Authority Funding
      380. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under...
    • Passport Services
      381. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider acting to remove the punitive measure of charging married women the full cost of attaining a new passport, which they...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the need to appoint an ambassador to Ireland at an early date with the United States administration; and if he will make a...
    • Northern Ireland
      383. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with the United States administration the need to appoint a special envoy to Northern Ireland at an early date; and if he...
    • EU Programmes
      384. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the purpose and benefits of the new EU capacity building programme, Access Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4132/21]
    • Human Rights
      385. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland proposes, through its membership of the UN Security Council, to focus on major human rights blackspots...
    • Brexit Issues
      386. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish consulates overseas are engaged with the promotion of Irish exports with particular reference to issues arising in...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      388. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland’s overseas aid continues to respond to the needs of the most serious situations globally whether by...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      389. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of new Irish embassy legations and consulates currently in operation globally; the extent of anticipated further developments in...
    • EU Enlargement
      390. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which, through the EU, he continues to focus on the western Balkans, with particular reference to the focus on European...
    • EU Issues
      391. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the European Union continues to address threats to the rule of law in all European member states; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      392. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to focus on events in Ethiopia and the Sudan with particular reference to strife,...
    • Human Rights
      393. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his colleagues at EU and UN level can combat the practice of child brides; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Human Rights Investigations
      394. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of locations globally known to use child soldiers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4189/21]
    • Human Rights
      395. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to be aware, and combat the abuse, of women and children at various locations...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      397. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which ongoing efforts continue to establish a peace process in the Middle East, with particular reference to the need for a...
    • European External Action Service
      398. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he expects relations between the EU and the US to prosper over the next four years; his views on the importance of such...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      399. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community has been in a position to positively influence developments in the areas of conflict...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      400. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4199/21]
    • State Visits
      401. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will issue an official invitation to the new President of the United States of America to visit Ireland and County Mayo at the...
    • EU Meetings
      402. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if EU security and defence issues were discussed at the December 2020 EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [4209/21]
    • Passport Services
      404. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to improve public health infrastructure at the passport office to allow a limited resumption of services given Covid-19 levels and...
    • Passport Applications
      405. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications awaiting processing at the passport office on 1 November 2020, 1 December 2020 and 1 January 2021; and...
    • Passport Data
      406. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications processed in each month during 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizenship Applications
      407. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a post-nuptial citizenship certificate application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Applications
      408. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4304/21]
    • Passport Data
      411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons waiting for passports; and the average wait time by county in tabular form. [4361/21]
    • Human Rights
      415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures being taken to ensure cotton and textiles produced using forced labour in Xinjiang, China do not go on the market here; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of his...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Data
      418. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of apprentices in relation to rates of pay for enlisted personnel of the Permanent Defence Force at points one to three of the...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      423. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are plans to deploy the Air Corps Casa aircraft in support of EUNAVFORMED Operation IRINI; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      424. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      425. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if applicants to the Defence Forces are required to have full Irish citizenship. [4283/21]
    • Defence Forces Data
      426. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces Army Ranger Wing currently deployed in Mali; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4400/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      427. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of his...
    • Departmental Staff
      428. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      429. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took office...
    • State Bodies
      430. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of all State and semi-State boards that fall under the aegis of his Department; the level of remuneration being paid...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      431. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if he will...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Residential Institutions
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location families of survivors of industrial schools can go to access files on their family members in cases in which the family member is...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project to bring specialised therapists into schools and preschools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4365/21]
    • School Facilities
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Cork for essential works on its science facilities; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when teachers will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; the safeguards being put in place to ensure that teachers and pupils are safe when returning to...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3610/21]
    • School Enrolments
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the current and projected capacity of schools in south County Kildare, particularly in those areas experiencing continuous population growth...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to find a way to make up for the interruption to studies caused by the suspension of in-person education in schools. [3633/21]
    • State Examinations
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when results from leaving certificate exams sat in late 2020 will be released in view of the fact prospective medical students need to know the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a NEPS psychologist will be recruited for a school (details supplied) to cover maternity leave; and if the support requested by the school...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of teachers and special needs assistants who will be required in the partial reopening of schools for special education; and...
    • State Examinations
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to implementing a predicted-grades leaving certificate examination based on continuing assessment in each subject...
    • School Accommodation
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to measures to increase the supply of secondary school places in Ennis, County Clare, to cater for the town and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns by those involved in the provision of special educational needs in primary and secondary schools with respect to the...
    • School Accommodation
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to address the lack of school places in Kildare town; her plans to provide a new secondary school in Kildare town; and...
    • Education Schemes
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been draw to the decision of an organisation (details supplied) to close its services due to financial difficulties; the...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the site for a school (details supplied) has been determined; the timescale for opening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3855/21]
    • State Examinations
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will introduce a policy to prepare teachers and schools to administer predicted grades and to ensure consistency in the...
    • School Enrolments
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school closures due to Covid-19 impacted on enrolment policies communicated to schools for 2020 and 2021; if provisions have been made for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date on a stage-1 report for a school (details supplied); when feedback is likely to be given in view of the need to move the...
    • School Staff
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a teacher (details supplied) will receive an outstanding retrospective payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3913/21]
    • Public Sector Pay
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the pay of teachers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 2021 class of leaving certificate students will have the option of predicted grades for their final results considering that some...
    • Special Educational Needs
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with parent representative groups in respect of children returning to special schools; if she will set out the criteria under...
    • Departmental Funding
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams available to support the European Youth Parliament in its upcoming online conference. [4022/21]
    • Local Authority Funding
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under each...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 17 additional full-time psychologists for national educational psychological services, in tabular...
    • State Examinations
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position on predicted grades for the 2021 class of leaving certificate students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4075/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in respect of the commencement of building works on the autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit at a school (details...
    • School Admissions
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, under the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, schools have no scope to offer discretionary places to potential pupils who do not meet...
    • Schools Building Projects
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected date of publication of the tender and appointment of a contractor for the construction of schools (details supplied); if she is...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been identified for a school (details supplied); if so, the location of the site; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow the leaving certificate examinations to proceed safely in 2021 and, in particular, her plans for the oral language...
    • Teacher Training
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on continuing professional development for primary and post-primary teachers and school leaders in each of the years 2018 to...
    • School Transport
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 13 January 2020, if school transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo....
    • State Examinations
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students who sat the leaving certificate in November 2020 can expect to receive their results. [4211/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 2021 home-based summer programme to support children with special educational or care needs hours will be increased from 2020, in which...
    • State Examinations
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update to junior certificate students and their parents on the status of the examinations; the measures taken to adjust...
    • Special Educational Needs
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports that will be provided to children in special schools to ensure they are supported through school closures, given that the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service by county; the number of schools per psychologist; the waiting...
    • School Transport
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications her Department received for the reimbursement of the agreed mileage rate under the July provision transportation...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting for the return of a pension query form 1 for 18 months from the Department in...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme for improved facilities was unsuccessful; the...
    • Childcare Services
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding support for crèches in which they are providing care for children of essential workers but are now in a position of...
    • Home Schooling
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concerns raised by parents of children in a school (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4416/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the case of a child (details supplied). [4417/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in her Department and each State agency under the remit of her...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by her Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020;...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of her Department made since this Government took office...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated by her Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if she will...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Insurance Fund
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason funding was transferred from the Social Insurance Fund to the Exchequer in 2020; if the funding will be repaid...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be extended to aviation workers until 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Guardian's Payment
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a guardianship payment by a person (details supplied). [3639/21]
    • Fuel Allowance
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was not eligible to receive the fuel allowance; the amount by which they exceeded the...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocol that exists within her Department to enable homeless persons to be aware of and receive a basic weekly payment;...
    • Public Transport
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans regarding the implementation of recommendations from the 2018 Oireachtas committee on transport...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to address circumstances in which there is joint co-parenting and equal shared custody of children following a...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review under section 110(2) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 entitlement to a State pension...
    • State Pensions
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a pension from her Department given contributions paid prior to their...
    • JobPath Programme
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of administering the JobPath programme annually; the percentage of clients who go into full-time employment of at...
    • Disability Allowance
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3788/21]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3802/21]
    • Disability Allowance
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when disability allowance will be returned to the higher rate in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Invalidity Pension
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be approved and expedited. [3882/21]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4016/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons can claim arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment; if the amount of arrears is capped; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the backdated payments due to workers (details supplied) under the short-time work support...
    • Local Authority Funding
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a resolution will be found in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 3 December 2020, if an update is available from the interdepartmental group; and...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a pension for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4115/21]
    • Disability Allowance
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4118/21]
    • Company Liquidations
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the liquidation of a company; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for hearing aids under the treatment benefit scheme in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the cost in...
    • Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the time limits for back to work enterprise allowance to recipients given that...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for supplementary welfare allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the policy in which entitlement to the domiciliary care allowance, carer’s benefit and...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reopen the enterprise support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4292/21]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Allowance
      525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which income from UK pensions was assessed and calculated with regard to an application for the fuel allowance by...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a search will be carried out for the PPS number of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for self-employed persons in receipt of a Covid payment in circumstances (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are provisions in place to fast-track the issuing of PPS numbers in respect of healthcare workers in the context...
    • Disability Allowance
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4398/21]
    • Disability Support Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the supports that are in place for employers to employ and retain persons with disabilities; if she will...
    • Maternity Benefit
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which self-employed women can access the standard maternity payment. [4446/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons by county who have been on the pandemic unemployment payment for six months or more in tabular form;...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age by county who have been on the jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit...
    • Youth Unemployment
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she is taking to address the high levels of youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in her Department and each State agency under the...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by her Department in each of the years 1 January 2015...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding allocated by her Department to the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Magdalen Laundries
      542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide victims and survivors of the Magdalene Laundries a full HAA card for public and private...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will be made regarding the reopening of crèches in February 2021 taking into account the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers currently working in the Adoption Information and Tracing Service; the number of...
    • Integration Policy
      546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Human Trafficking
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of alleged or known victims of trafficking or slavery who were placed in direct provision between 1...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his engagement with the forum for the survivors of mother and baby homes; the number of meetings since he took...
    • Parental Leave
      553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if definitive information will be provided to employers in relation to parental leave which can be taken in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      554. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the access arrangements in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. [3999/21]
    • Youth Services
      556. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams available to support the European Youth Parliament in its upcoming online conference. [4021/21]
    • Local Authority Funding
      557. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by...
    • Direct Provision System
      558. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons living in direct provision centres to date in 2021; the position on direct provision...
    • Childcare Services
      559. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions that have taken place with providers regarding provision of childcare for HSE front-line staff;...
    • Early Years Sector
      562. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a plan for the early years service beyond 29 January 2021 will be provided; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      563. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the phone number provided by his Department for inquiries by survivors regarding the mother and baby homes...
    • Detention Centres
      564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital budget allocation for Oberstown Children Detention Campus in each of the years of 2018 to 2020 and...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a copy of a report will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a research report on socio-economic disadvantage as a new grounds of discrimination commissioned...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the outcome of an application for ECCE overage exemptions by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a crèche (details supplied) will receive a visit from Tusla for approval to open when restrictions are...
    • Proposed Legislation
      569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the expected timeline for completion of legislation to extend paid parental leave by an additional three weeks;...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on an inaccuracy (details supplied) in the Mother and Baby Homes report; and if he will make a...
    • Children First Guidelines
      571. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Covid-19 protection guidelines that are in place for all childcare facilities; if there has been an update...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      572. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State...
    • Maternity Leave
      573. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will amend the regulations for the Covid-19-related additional three weeks maternity and parental leave to...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      574. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of printed copies of the final report of the Commission of Investigation Into Mother and Baby Homes...
    • Direct Provision System
      575. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the white paper on ending direct provision will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Radio Broadcasting
      577. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the gender disparity data report on Irish radio; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      578. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Higher Education Institutions
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the chairpersons of HEA-funded Irish higher education institutions; the term of office of each; the number of terms served by each; the method of...
    • Technological Universities
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the terms of reference of the independent person he appointed on 28 July 2020 to accelerate plans for a technological university in the south...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount received by each higher education institute under the student assistance fund; the amount distributed to students in each institution;...
    • Student Accommodation
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The number of additional purpose-built student accommodations beds that have been added since the launch of the National Student Accommodation...
    • Third Level Fees
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on calls by students and student unions to reduce university fees by 30% given that students are under severe financial pressure with...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to provide a financial support package to struggling families and students who cannot receive refunds from private accommodation...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place for students not in receipt of a SUSI grant residing in the State and studying in Northern Ireland to receive the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants to the CAO that did not receive an offer in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3919/21]
    • Departmental Reports
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the demographic trend in the Department of Education report Projection of Demand for Full-Time Third-Level Education 2018 – 2040...
    • Third Level Admissions
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional third-level places at undergraduate and postgraduate level that have been added since the Department of Education...
    • Third Level Fees
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to reduce third-level fees for the 2020-2021 academic year or partly compensate students or their parents for this cost given that...
    • Local Authority Funding
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under each...
    • Third Level Fees
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if instruction has been given to higher education institutions on relaxing fee payment timelines with consideration to the impact of the Covid-19...
    • Third Level Education
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to engage with course directors in third-level institutions to discuss ongoing concerns particularly in relation to...
    • Third Level Admissions
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the current number of CAO accounts to date; and the way in which this information compares to CAO accounts made in 2019 and...
    • Student Support Schemes
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to support applicants to the HPAT who do not have access to dependable Wi-Fi or the necessary digital tools required to...
    • Traveller Education
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the ring-fenced funding of €300,000 announced on 12 November 2020 will be allocated and spent to ensure supports are...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if partial refunds or reductions in placement hours are being considered for a cohort of students (details supplied) especially as a result of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he plans to publish the apprenticeship action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4463/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of his...
    • Student Support Schemes
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between the treatment of trainee educational psychologists and trainee clinical psychologist...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020;...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took office...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Policy
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider reducing the frequency of presentations required by those facing deportation to immigration services on a...
    • Visa Applications
      618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason visa applications were refused in the case of persons (details supplied); if applications can be reviewed at an...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current grades of staff employed at GSOC; and the number of staff employed within each grade in tabular form. [3586/21]
    • Legal Aid Service
      622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts the Legal Aid Board has spent on personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the PIA review...
    • Garda Equipment
      623. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce body-worn video systems to be worn by the Garda armed support unit in the first instance along with a...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Functions
      625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to change the fees payable for certificates (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Direct Provision System
      626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons availing of direct provision; the number from this cohort who have applications for refugee or asylum...
    • Human Trafficking
      627. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the US State Department's repeated criticism of the State's treatment of trafficking...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      628. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of active criminal investigations into alleged crimes committed in mother and baby homes; and if she will make a...
    • Property Services Regulatory Authority
      629. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that companies that have acquired a number of leases for onward rental should be treated as letting agents...
    • Residency Permits
      630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the stillhere.ie website and resources will be provided in other languages; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Protection
      632. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the median processing times for applications for protection to the International Protection Office from date of application to...
    • Property Services Regulatory Authority
      633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend current legislation in order to bring in a no-conflicts-of-interest duty for estate agents and ensure high...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the citizenship application of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Crime Prevention
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is assistance available for a person living alone in a secluded area who is in receipt of a widow's pension (details...
    • Immigration Controls
      637. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when persons (details supplied) can expect to get their passports and documentation back from immigration services. [4027/21]
    • Local Authority Funding
      638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount...
    • Prison Staff
      639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the name of each prison governor and the place of detention in which each was appointed; and the date of each respective...
    • Immigration Policy
      640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on commitments for a scheme to regularise undocumented migrants; when such a scheme is expected to commence;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Legislative Reviews
      644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the Defamation Act 2009 being undertaken by her Department; when a report on the review originally...
    • Residency Permits
      645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received under the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015 for a residence...
    • Citizenship Applications
      647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship received by Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service monthly in each of the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [4366/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      651. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budgetary analysis being carried out in her Department and each State agency under the remit of her Department to plan for...
    • International Protection
      652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of implementing each of the recommendations of the report of the advisory group on the provision of support,...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by her Department in each of the years from 1 January...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      654. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of her Department made since this Government...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated by her Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      659. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports being given to section 39 organisations that have lost finances due to the inability to fundraise due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been allocated for a nationwide wastewater surveillance programme to monitor the prevalence of Covid-19, as endorsed by NPHET in November 2020;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support and make provision for the mandatory use of face coverings in banks, credit unions and post offices (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • HSE Agency Staff
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind utilising agency staff in the healthcare sector when others are waiting recruitment on panels having passed the initial recruitment...
    • HSE Staff
      663. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons contacting the HSE in response to a call for healthcare assistants, HCAs, and nurses are being offered...
    • Vaccination Programme
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that the group and company refer to in the HSE briefing on the vaccination programme that refers to private vaccinator contractors...
    • General Practitioner Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the operation of SouthDoc in Listowel, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3579/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if counsellors and psychotherapists will be specifically included in the healthcare worker categories of the national Covid-19 vaccination programme...
    • Disability Support Services
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the funding supports that were granted to the disability support programmes of an organisation (details supplied) in 2019 and 2020. [3592/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3595/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline a clear protocol for use of spare vaccines in the hospitals and vaccination centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3596/21]
    • Audiology Services
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if services have commenced at a location (details supplied); if the service is awaiting the redeployment of audiologists; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Cards
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was not eligible to receive a medical card; the amount by which the threshold was exceeded; and if the person would now...
    • Vaccination Programme
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with chronic kidney disease will be given the same priority allocation as nursing home residents in the Covid-19 provisional vaccination priority...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if Carlow CAMHS are now accepting new referrals following operational problems; and the way in which the problems were addressed. [3668/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration his Department has given to the proposal to introduce a vaccine passport that would be aimed at facilitating international travel; if the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      679. To ask the Minister for Health when a facility (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3674/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to ensure that all HSE Covid-19 information campaigns are advertised in all local print media publications and on local radio and not...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the purchase of an epilepsy monitor for a person (details supplied); and the reason for the decision reached by the HSE, which...
    • Medical Cards
      683. To ask the Minister for Health when a renewed medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3681/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that up to 80 persons arrived in Ireland from the UK and South Africa up to 17 January 2021 without having provided...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the status of community assessment hubs in community healthcare organisation, CHO, west (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3690/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the status of engagement between community healthcare organisation, CHO, west and Westdoc (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the polymerase chain reaction, PCR, test is being used to test for Covid-19 rather than an antigen test; if there are significant cost or accuracy...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the provision of new orthopaedic theatre facilities at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; the extent of current theatre facilities and the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for persons on the waiting list for inpatient and outpatient treatment as orthopaedic patents at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; and...
    • Home Help Service
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent home help will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); if this will be arranged as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      692. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to bring forward legislation for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019; when he expects the legislation to be enacted; if the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the position of veterinarian staff under the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3710/21]
    • Dental Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to lengthy delays in obtaining a date to sit the Dental Council examination; and the steps being taken to ensure those who need...
    • Medicinal Products
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if the cost of the gene therapy drug, Luxturna, that treats inherited retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, RP, and Leber congenital amaurosis, LCA,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the specific details of the national vaccine roll-out programme; the proposed locations of vaccine administration centres in each county; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the overall number of persons who applied for Be On Call for Ireland in 2020; the number employed or hired since; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      698. To ask the Minister for Health if the vaccine projections being published at present are based solely on vaccines provided by companies (details supplied) alone; if not, if another vaccine...
    • Hospital Investigations
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he supports an inquiry into the children born to long-term residents of St. Brendan's psychiatric hospital, Grangegorman. [3758/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      700. To ask the Minister for Health if he will nationalise private hospitals to prevent an overrun due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3759/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if a detailed breakdown will be provided of the total number of staff employed by the HSE (details supplied) broken down in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • National Children's Hospital
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the date for completion of the National Children’s Hospital; if enforceable penalty clauses form part of the main contract given recent construction...
    • Vaccination Programme
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which general practitioners nationwide were invited to the mass vaccination centres during the weekend of 16 and 17 January 2021; if general...
    • Palliative Care Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if he and HSE management will engage with local community groups in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary regarding the discontinuation of inpatient palliative...
    • Care of the Elderly
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the private nursing home sector with particular reference to staffing levels, financial viability and supports being offered to the sector; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      709. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the most recent figures for HSE recruitment of healthcare workers particularly recruitment of care professionals from the private nursing home...
    • Hospital Services
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic there were at one point over 2,000 vacant beds in the hospital...
    • Care of the Elderly
      715. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered using information on reduced inpatient numbers and associated health outcomes to examine resourcing of care in the community; and if he...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if a list will be provided of current contracts that the HSE has with private consultancy firms for each HSE division and directorate, for example, corporate...
    • Vaccination Programme
      718. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to initiate phase three of the vaccine roll-out. [3805/21]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the method and parameters for means testing and negotiation of the nursing home support scheme; the considerations made in regard to a spouse who relies on the...
    • Health Services Provision
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3809/21]
    • Home Help Service
      721. To ask the Minister for Health when home help support will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3821/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      722. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a hospital appointment in Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Audiology Services
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric audiologists working in CHO4 in each of the years of 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [3828/21]
    • Podiatry Services
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time diabetes podiatrists working in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [3829/21]
    • Occupational Therapy
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time occupational therapists working in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, in each of the past three years; and if this number will be further...
    • Hospital Staff
      726. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of an additional two full-time permanent gastroenterology registrars for the Mater Hospital, Dublin. [3831/21]
    • Nursing Staff
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent nurses working in South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in each of the past three years in tabular form. [3833/21]
    • Audiology Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for consultations with audiologists in County Leitrim. [3834/21]
    • National Dementia Strategy
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the current care pathways for persons with dementia requiring acute hospital care. [3836/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a statutory right to home care. [3845/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the current HSE staffing levels in comparison to the previous peak of Covid-19 positive cases in hospitals in April 2020 (details supplied); his views on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or NPHET has carried out a solid evidence-based feasibility study comparing a zero Covid-19 strategy for Ireland against the existing plan...
    • Health Promotion
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he or his officials have made on advancing the regulations relating to section 12 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which ensure the public...
    • Maternity Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the suspension of water birth services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3865/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3866/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will be giving special consideration within the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine to vulnerable children under the age of 18 that have mental...
    • Home Help Service
      743. To ask the Minister for Health when home help will be accommodated and put in place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3904/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list to see a dietitian by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and age category; and the breakdown by the length of time...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for a drug or alcohol detox bed by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and age category; and the breakdown by the...
    • Mental Health Services
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for mental health services by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and age category; and the breakdown by the length...
    • Counselling Services
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for counselling services by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and age category; and the breakdown by the length...
    • Physiotherapy Services
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for physiotherapy in primary care by community healthcare organisation,CHO, and age category; and the breakdown by the...
    • Occupational Therapy
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for occupational therapy by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and age category; and the breakdown by the length...
    • Health Services
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on a HSE pilot scheme (details supplied); the budget for the scheme; the timeframe allowed for the scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      753. To ask the Minister for Health if a detailed breakdown of the vaccine groups will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3942/21]
    • Cancer Services
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to ensure there will be no reduction in the level of cancer diagnosis, care and necessary surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to issuing a directive to each public hospital group to cease charging parking charges for cancer patients as these can become...
    • Vaccination Programme
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vaccine dosages supplied by the Saolta University Health Care Group to hospitals; the number of personnel who have received their first shot of...
    • Hospital Facilities
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital. [3956/21]
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions advertised by the RCSI Hospital Group in 2020; the speciality of each advertised position; if each position has been filled;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the position of psychiatrists (details supplied) placed on the vaccination allocation sequencing under the national Covid-19 vaccination programme; if they...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the vacant audiologist post in County Wexford; the length of time the position has been vacant; when the post will be...
    • Audiology Services
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting audiology services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3975/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, further to correspondence from this Deputy over the past three weeks, he has not met or engaged with academics who have a proposal that could...
    • Departmental Communications
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the date, on or after 4 April 2019, the former Taoiseach or their adviser, requested a copy of the draft terms of the agreement between his Department, the HSE...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is using a polymerase chain reaction, PCR, test to test for Covid-19 rather than an antigen test; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the stage at which, in the vaccine roll-out plan, volunteers in community groups who are providing services to vulnerable persons, such as meals on wheels,...
    • Hospital Closures
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that were taken to engage with local community groups in the decision to close St. Brigid’s District Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County...
    • Medicinal Products
      778. To ask the Minister for Health when the Zolgensma gene therapy will be approved for reimbursement for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Staff
      779. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues in respect of retired nurses who have paid A stamps towards their pension when returning to work during the Covid-19...
    • Vaccination Programme
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the way and location in which providers of home care services can register for the vaccination of home care workers on the Covid-19 vaccination list. [4030/21]
    • Obesity Strategy
      782. To ask the Minister for Health when the progress report on A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childhood Obesity
      785. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 909 of 13 January 2021, if he will provide further information on the Budget 2021 funded project to develop healthy...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to HSE employees, specifically workers in area (details supplied) being requested to attend on site for work during the current...
    • Local Authority Funding
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under each scheme in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      788. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment of needs. [4066/21]
    • Hospital Data
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a cardiothoracic surgeon at St. James's Hospital Dublin. [4067/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the position of adults with special needs on the Covid-19 vaccination list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4079/21]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the promised supply scheme for medical cannabis. [4081/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a primary medical certificate by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4090/21]
    • Primary Care Centres
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres to be provided including the priority list and the delivery model for each in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      795. To ask the Minister for Health when County Carlow based paramedics will get the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4097/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if supports are available to access PPE by persons who are caring for an elderly person or a person with a disability in their home who has contracted Covid-19...
    • Education and Training Provision
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if a course (details supplied) can be delivered online whilst Covid-19 restrictions are in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4125/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the status of employer contribution pensions for section 39 agency workers in view of concerns raised by some workers that their contributions are not being...
    • Hospital Data
      799. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives working in the maternity department of Cavan General Hospital in each of the past five years in tabular form. [4170/21]
    • Medical Cards
      801. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide CBD oil under the medical card scheme; and the means of reimbursement for the cost or part of same in circumstances in which it is...
    • Hospital Data
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries that were carried out at Nenagh Hospital in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [4210/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      804. To ask the Minister for Health his views on easing visiting restrictions in maternity hospitals following the vaccination of staff; if guidelines will be issued in relation to this matter;...
    • Departmental Staff
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new staff that started in the press and communications unit of his Department between 1 October and 31 December 2020; and the number of those new...
    • Vaccination Programme
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the way in which Covid-19 vaccines are distributed among the seven hospital groups and subsequently among the hospitals; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken or will take to allow medical scientists to achieve pay parity with others who carry out similar work; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an offer (details supplied) which may assist the Covid-19 vaccine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Cards
      810. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if his officials will review the application; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      811. 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. [4234/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which version 3 of the draft terms of agreement between the Department of Health, the HSE and the IMO regarding GP contractual reform and service...
    • Disability Support Services
      819. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding early intervention. [4252/21]
    • Traveller Community
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to prioritise Traveller primary care workers and persons over 65 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4258/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale used to determine the allocation of the Covid-19 vaccine for a category of front-line workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      822. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a backlog of undelivered text messages notifying close contacts of positive Covid-19 cases of their status as of 18 January 2021; and if so,...
    • Hospital Services
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the reason psychologists in the psychology department at Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin cannot take phone appointments or consultations from home,...
    • HIV Incidence
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new HIV diagnoses in each of the years from 2010 to 2020, by gender in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4275/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if additional supports have been made available for those living with HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4276/21]
    • HIV-AIDS Programmes
      826. To ask the Minister for Health if regular HIV testing is ongoing at the same or a reduced rate; if it has halted due to the closure of sexual health clinics; and if he will make a statement...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in CAMHS in Dublin north city and county. [4284/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of healthcare setting-acquired Covid-19 reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in 2020; the breakdown of those cases for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the expenditure to date on the Covid-19 vaccination programme; the value of each contract for the purchase of vaccines; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a plan to provide the FreeStyle Libre for all type-1 diabetics in view of the fact that it is only available for persons with type-1 diabetes...
    • Disability Services Provision
      832. To ask the Minister for Health when therapies (details supplied) will be reinstated for children with special needs in community health organisation 8; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Maternity Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review maternity hospitals' restriction of accompanying partners to key appointments relating to pregnancy; if his attention has been drawn...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      834. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the new standard operating procedure for assessments of needs; the reason this assessment was reduced to a single assessment of 90...
    • Vaccination Programme
      836. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4307/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the lease signed between the HSE and a hotel (details supplied) for the purposes of a Covid-19 isolation centre; the value of the contract;...
    • HSE Data
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on panels for the various occupations within the HSE nationwide across the various recruitment channels currently in place; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      839. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the reopening of day care centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4319/21]
    • Medical Cards
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of placing a person on a general practitioner only card or a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4321/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost per annum incurred by the State for a general practitioner card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4323/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      843. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service and HSE estates are working to identify a site in Drogheda, County Louth, to accommodate a modern, purpose-built ambulance...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the current known length of time that immunity is provided by the different Covid-19 vaccines; if it is considered to be an annual vaccination; and if he will...
    • Medicinal Products
      845. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE drug group has met to date in January 2021; when the group will next meet; if the drug dupilumab will be approved for reimbursement; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has received a Covid-19 vaccine and is travelling to Ireland for an essential purpose will still need to provide a negative...
    • Hospital Services
      847. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 17 November 2020, when the feasibility study in a hospital (details supplied) will resume; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a plan to identify a site for a new hospital in Cork city as per the reforms under Sláintecare; if there are any suitable sites on the...
    • HSE Staff
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children's disability network teams in CHO5. [4338/21]
    • Nursing Staff
      850. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant nursing posts in St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and the steps being taken to fill these vacant posts. [4339/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reimbursement applications currently being processed in respect of orphan new drugs; the length of time to deal with individual applications; and...
    • Eating Disorders
      853. To ask the Minister for Health when the plan will be put in place to have eight adult eating disorder teams across the country in line with the model of care for eating disorders; and if he...
    • Medical Cards
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of a full medical card; the number of persons on a full medical card; the average cost of a general practitioner visit only card; the number...
    • Respite Care Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of formal out-of-home respite service; the average cost of formal in-home respite service; the average cost of recreation and holiday respite...
    • Dental Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of orthodontic treatment in County Cork; his views on whether, due to the long delay in getting access to this type of...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if he will correspond with An Bord Altranais in respect of a 16-week delay in the registration of nurses who have trained and worked abroad and have now...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) who is waiting for a MRI scan to determine the efficacy of their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      860. To ask the Minister for Health if patients are tested for Covid-19 on their release from hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4388/21]
    • Hospital Equipment
      861. To ask the Minister for Health the volume of faulty equipment purchased by the HSE since the start of 2020; the type of equipment; the quantity that is faulty; the value of the faulty...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      862. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to determine a scheme to encourage families with vacant properties tied into the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      863. To ask the Minister for Health when those under 65 years of age with chronic illnesses can expect to be offered the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4413/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination categories that paramedics, ambulance staff and fire brigade staff come under. [4426/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated by the HSE to the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Provision
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physician assistant hours that have been allocated to County Cavan in each of the years 2017 to 2020; the number of physician assistant hours...
    • Hospital Facilities
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the planned start date for construction on the endoscopy wing at Cavan General Hospital; the expected duration of construction works; the estimated overall...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      871. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe and process for the mid-term review of Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, the National Drugs and Alcohol Strategy; and if he will make a...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development and timeline for completion of a code of governance for drugs and alcohol task forces; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of his Department in tabular...
    • Health Services Staff
      875. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between the treatment of trainee educational psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists with both...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      876. To ask the Minister for Health the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020; if these...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took office including the name of...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Horse Racing Industry
      879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the provision of financial supports to the national hunt industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a second sibling is entitled to an allocation in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Felling Licences
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) was required to apply for a felling licence prior to the recent tree felling carried out on the land;...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 200 horses along with up to 350 trainers, jockeys and grooms are preparing to...
    • Harbours and Piers
      883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount invested in a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he is in receipt of current funding applications for the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the CAP payments to farmers, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3724/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the minutes and action points from his meetings with organisations (details supplied) since taking office; and if he will make a...
    • Food Industry
      887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the applications of organisations (details supplied) to become producer organisations; and if he will make a statement...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision to defer convergence for 2021-2022 is a decision of Government rather than of the European Union; the objective of...
    • Beekeeping Industry
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish a compulsory register for all beekeepers. [3890/21]
    • Control of Horses
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that local authorities such as a local authority (details supplied) are enforcing the Control of Horses Act 1996...
    • Forestry Sector
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 4 November 2020, if his Department's engineering staff assessed this additional...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3957/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider setting up a dedicated post-Brexit fisheries task force made up of community and industry stakeholders with the...
    • Ports Policy
      895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Dunmore East Harbour will be added to the list of designated approved ports for UK registered vessels to land fish in Ireland in...
    • Animal Welfare
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department inspected a dog pound (details supplied); if so, if the premises meets all animal welfare standards; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3998/21]
    • Horticulture Sector
      898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department has taken to facilitate the horticulture industry to move away from peat use (details supplied); and the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered introducing financial supports for small agricultural contracting businesses given that many do not qualify for...
    • Forestry Data
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approved forestry licences currently in the appeals system awaiting consideration by the Forestry Appeals Committee; if...
    • Horticulture Sector
      902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address concerns within the Irish horticulture sector that the decision by Bord na Móna to cease all peat production...
    • Compensation Schemes
      903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing a package of supports for peat contractors who purchased machinery prior to the announcement of the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      904. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount...
    • Herd Number Applications
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a herd number which is in joint names will be assigned to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4151/21]
    • Forestry Grants
      907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of forestry payments for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4164/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost of recruiting three extra full-time archaeologists to deal with forestry applications within his...
    • Beef Exports
      909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the exports of beef to the USA in volume and value in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [4207/21]
    • Licence Applications
      910. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all licences issued by his Department are being treated with equal importance; if his Department is prioritising a section; and if...
    • Afforestation Programme
      911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the current output of afforestation licences being issued by his Department will achieve the target of 8,000...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names and level of renumeration for each ministerial adviser employed within his Department; the specific responsibilities of...
    • Pesticide Use
      913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a PCS number by a company (details supplied). [4320/21]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which his attention has been drawn to the operations of communications group based outside the European Union to...
    • Beef Industry
      917. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a derogation will be provided to farmers who cannot meet the 5% reduction in stock condition for the BEAM scheme due to market...
    • EU Directives
      919. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he plans to publish the statutory instrument to implement the EU unfair trading practices directive; the public consultation...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte limited a number of pre-planning public consultations to a 2 km. [4473/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in his Department and each State agency under the remit of...
    • European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund; when details of the fund will be available to stakeholders; and...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      925. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of his Department made since this Government took...
    • State Bodies
      927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all State and semi-State boards that fall under the aegis of his Department; the level of remuneration...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated by his Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • National Broadband Plan
      930. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each broadband connection point planned in County Kerry on the National Broadband Plan in tabular form (details...
    • Remote Working
      931. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of remote working hubs in Ireland; the number that receive State funding; the number of persons that have been working in...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      932. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider extending financial support via the rural regeneration and development fund or similar to bolster public...
    • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
      933. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on doubling the amount of funding available through the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme to help support more rails,...
    • Food Industry
      934. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Athy food hub; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3753/21]
    • Digital Hubs
      935. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the conditions and purpose under which the €5 million fund for digital hubs can be applied; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Remote Working
      936. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the various funds under which the building or development of co-working hubs can be applied for; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Local Authority Funding
      937. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded...
    • National Broadband Plan
      938. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of broadband connection points in County Mayo; if a list of connection points which have gone live and those still in...
    • CLÁR Programme
      939. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to increase the CLÁR measure 4 grant to cover the cost of vehicle registration tax for mountain rescue organisations...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      940. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the examinations being undertaken in relation to the instances of Covid-19 compared with the Pobal areas of deprivation throughout the...
    • Departmental Funding
      941. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the closing dates or anticipated closing dates for all funding schemes within her Department during 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      942. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of all applications submitted by Mayo County Council to her Department for funding during 2019 and 2020; the status of...
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      943. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cad é an líon laethanta in 2019 agus 2020 faoi seach a raibh moill ar sheoltaí an bháid farantóireachta Queen...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      945. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the budgetary analysis being carried out to plan for long Covid-19 impacts in her Department and each State agency under the remit of...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      946. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by her Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      947. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of State and semi-State board appointments that fall under the aegis of her Department made since this Government took...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      949. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated by her Department on the Covid-19 communications strategy since the beginning of the pandemic; and if...

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