Written answers

Wednesday, 10 February 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Census of Population
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of census enumerators during the gathering and processing of data for census 2016. [7387/21]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      2. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to travel to Washington for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. [6142/21]
    • Shared Island Unit
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the dialogue forums with which the shared island unit has consulted to date. [6425/21]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      5. To ask the Taoiseach his views on retracting the State apology given after the mother and baby homes report was finalised. [6979/21]
    • Citizens' Assembly
      6. To ask the Taoiseach if more than one citizens' assembly can run at once, particularly in view of the new online format; and, if not, the reason for same. [7132/21]
    • Shared Island Unit
      7. To ask the Taoiseach the priorities for the shared island unit of his Department for 2021. [7293/21]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
      8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the investor court system as contained in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement would impact...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to difficulties faced by parents in accessing essential items for their children, especially young...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the supports announced in Scotland (details supplied) for the wedding industry; and his views on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures in place to help retail workers enforce the mandatory face covering rule and protect them from abuse; and if he will make...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a report on the activity of the Enterprise Ireland office in Toronto, Canada. [6608/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider introducing a scheme similar to that devised by the Scottish Government to assist workers in the wedding industry...
    • IDA Ireland
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the vacant IDA Ireland sites by county; the IDA sites being used by county in tabular form; and if he...
    • Health and Safety Authority
      16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 27 January 2021, the exact number of unannounced Health and Safety Authority inspections....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he can provide advice on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Supports
      18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Cavan and Monaghan that have availed of the Brexit loan scheme. [6760/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6789/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the position of those in the wedding industry, many of whom fall outside current Covid-19-related...
    • IDA Ireland
      21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position on the provision of employment at a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the assistance that can be provided to wedding planners whose businesses and livelihoods have been impacted significantly by Covid-19...
    • Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
      23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the risks to Irish consumers, SMEs and the State by ratification of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland has bilateral investment treaties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6897/21]
    • Brexit Supports
      29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will put in place to support SMEs in the used car sales sector in the wake of the commencement of crippling...
    • Company Registration
      30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to serious issues with the Companies Registration Office CORE portal as highlighted by a body (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      31. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the process and procedures to which an Irish employer must adhere in order for seasonal agricultural workers who are EU citizens to...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the guidelines or supports in place to provide rental assistance for small businesses that are closed due to the Covid-19 emergency...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be examined. [7257/21]
    • Company Registration
      35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grounds on which an unlimited company can apply for an exemption from having to file financial statements with the Companies...
    • Redundancy Payments
      36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the rule to stop employees claiming redundancy during the emergency period will be extended past 31 March 2021; if persons who have...
    • EU Issues
      37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government will join the qualified majority in support of the compromise text on public by-country reporting agreed by the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to his statement of 17 December 2020 on political involvement in the purchase of ventilators from a company (details...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Horticulture Sector
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the carbon emissions of Ireland's 5,500 ha of bog used for horticultural peat harvesting per annum; and the reduction in...
    • Climate Change Policy
      43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Ireland has not submitted a final long-term climate strategy to the European Commission as was required by 1...
    • Environmental Protection Agency
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will make appointments to the EPA advisory board given that the term of office of most of its members expired in...
    • National Broadband Plan
      45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the requested information on the state aid complaints in respect of the national broadband plan has been supplied to...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeframe for the capacity review within the National Cyber Security Centre; when the centre will report on...
    • National Broadband Plan
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a location (details supplied) in County Cork will be connected under the national broadband plan; and if he will...
    • Bord na Móna
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that will be taken to protect landowners impacted by the Bord na Móna rewetting programme funded by...
    • National Broadband Plan
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed fibre broadband will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Just Transition Fund
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason projects applying for funding as part of the just transition must now provide 50% in matching funding; and if...
    • National Broadband Plan
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan regarding offshore islands; if work has commenced on analysing the needs of...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the additional measures he is considering in order to facilitate long-term working from home in addition to legislating...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if reports of reduced quality or availability of Internet connectivity due to increased demand since March 2020 have...
    • National Broadband Plan
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for an area (details supplied) in County Leitrim to be connected to broadband as part of the roll-out of...
    • Fishing Industry
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of schemes available to enhance fishing access for fishermen on private farmlands which have a river source;...
    • Electricity Generation
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the new micro-generation scheme will be introduced; the form it will take; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Exploration Licences
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications for open area exploration licences and licensing options received by his Department over the...
    • Bord na Móna
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the conditions for the rehabilitation of cutaway bog to wetland habitat attached to the funding described in the...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of SEAI warmer homes grants approved, by county, in 2020 and to date in 2021; the waiting time for a surveyor...
    • Waste Management
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for his plans to expand brown bin services to all households; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of the roll-out of fibre broadband to this area;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Post Office Network
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support the post office network, particularly those individual branches under a public service obligation;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the location of the pilot area used by National Broadband Ireland in establishing the feasibility of using the ESB...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Licences
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for asylum seekers to obtain a driver licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6333/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has reviewed the situation regarding travel and connectivity with Europe in view of Brexit realities given that there...
    • Ports Development
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if facilities at Dublin Port will be improved given that TII does not have adequate facilities for drivers, particularly for the volume...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the tendering process for the antigen testing process for hauliers accessing Irish ports to travel to France; if consideration will be...
    • Driver Licences
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the BE classification has been removed from certain driver licences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific measures he plans to put in place for travel agents who not only lost their business in 2020 but went to considerable...
    • Road Network
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the options for development of the proposed Narrow Water Bridge between counties Louth and Down; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver test examiners; the number of driver tests passed and failed in 2020; the age of those least likely to hold a full...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there has been no increase in CIÉ pensions since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6456/21]
    • Driver Licences
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence expiry extension for a person (details supplied); and the way in which the person can apply for an...
    • Driver Test
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding driver testing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6476/21]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a new chairperson will be appointed to the Shannon Airport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6489/21]
    • Driver Licences
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6493/21]
    • Road Safety Authority
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the RSA website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6497/21]
    • Rail Network
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to upgrade existing railway track to new bigger sleepers and rails to assist the speed and safety of trains; if the relaying...
    • Taxi Regulations
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority taxi model report database is not regularly updated (details supplied); if this database will...
    • Motor Tax
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to lower the cost of road tax in 2021 given the reduction in car and road usage during the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) has decided not to proceed with the next transport...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the background and the processes involved regarding the recent appointment of a person (details supplied) as interim chairman of the...
    • Driver Test
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the level of service being provided by the RSA to learner drivers and those seeking to renew licences during the...
    • Driver Licences
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence renewal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6544/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a situation whereby driving schools have been instructed to give lessons only to essential workers...
    • Driver Licences
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a method for Irish persons living abroad who do not have a public services card to apply for a driver licence or to renew...
    • Rail Network
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated amount it would cost Iarnród Éireann if the number of contracted security staff increased by a further 40% based...
    • Dublin Bus
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the subsidy for Dublin Bus is calculated; if it is based on the number of buses that are intended to be run rather than...
    • Bus Éireann
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average age of the Bus Éireann fleet in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6667/21]
    • Driver Licences
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a renewal driver licence will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety Authority
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the pilot programme by the Road Safety Authority to examine whether theory tests can be taken remotely and online; if the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the mechanism whereby a person who has recovered from Covid-19 but who would still test positive to a PCR test can travel; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to undertaking a feasibility study of the railway line from Navan to Kingscourt, County Cavan; and if he...
    • Road Projects
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the east-west link road project which is urgently needed in the north east; the most recent engagements his Department has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding supports being made available to private bus operators during Covid-19 that employ significant numbers of persons locally; if...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which National Driver Licensing Service centres are operating during Covid-19 (details supplied); if he will provide clarity...
    • Driver Test
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on waiting lists for driver tests in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath and nationwide, to date; the length of time...
    • Motor Tax
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding motor tax payments for those who have been cocooning due to Covid-19; the rebate options open to them; and the...
    • Driver Licences
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if plans are in train to make it mandatory for learner permit holders to sit a test and demonstrate proof they have failed before they...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times drivers have failed to attend for a scheduled driver test at NDLS centres in 2019 and 2020; the impact this had on...
    • Road Projects
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the construction of the N22 Baile Bhuirne to Macroom, County Cork, road development; if the project is progressing on...
    • Airport Passenger Data
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers departing Ireland from Dublin, Cork or Shannon airports for a location in the EU (details supplied) in each week...
    • EU Issues
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made with the European Commission to introduce an airport charges rebate scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person is still insured to drive while waiting for a licence renewal in circumstances in which a renewal is being processed which is...
    • Rail Network
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the tender for the expected new DART carriages is due to be signed; when he is expecting delivery of these carriages; and if he will...
    • Transport Policy
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in implementing the Taxi Advisory Committee’s report and key recommendations of July 2020; the status of the...
    • Road Safety
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review or amend the national guidelines for setting and managing speed limits in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to support the aviation sector in Ireland; the supports that have been issued to Irish airlines; the engagement...
    • Coast Guard Service
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the Irish Coast Guard station in Howth, County Dublin; if plans for the leasing of the land by the Department of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given consideration to a declaration signed by several Ministers for Transport in the EU calling for certain measures to be...
    • Driver Test
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get a driver test given that they are an essential worker. [7009/21]
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 3 February 2021, if his Department was informed of the number of US military personnel on...
    • Driver Licences
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders disqualified in court in 2018, 2019 and up to 31 October 2020; the agency responsible for informing...
    • Road Safety
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and details of action plans in the road safety strategy 2013-20 that were not completed by the end of 2020; when he plans to...
    • Driver Licences
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedure used by the Road Safety Authority, RSA, to renew a learner permit when a learner driver has been disqualified and their...
    • Legislative Reviews
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a request (details supplied) with regard to the registration of Euro 6 step C vehicles; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Éireann
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason new buses being supplied or contracted to Bus Éireann no longer have the capacity to accept bicycles in their storage...
    • Local Authority Funding
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding is available to local authorities to conduct universal design walkability audits, particularly in reference to participant...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the employment status of persons working for a company (details supplied) following the awarding of the contract for the operation of the...
    • Driver Licences
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7205/21]
    • Land Development Agency
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has had with the Land Development Agency with regard to the Coonagh-Knockalisheen Road and Moyross, County Limerick;...
    • Trans European Transport Network Programme
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress of the County Donegal Trans-European Transport Network, TEN-T, project; when persons can be informed as to when...
    • Road Projects
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding for works to the Blackglen Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7285/21]
    • Road Safety
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a proposed reduction to the speed limit on the N60 as it passes through Breaffy Village, County Mayo; the reason for the...
    • Driver Licences
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the driver licence of a person (details supplied) has been extended and is valid. [7298/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reinstate driver lessons under current restrictions for more than just essential workers or those with an appointment for a...
    • Driver Licences
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied). [7305/21]
    • Road Safety
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department evaluated the safety of mobile phone applications that track human activity, such as an application (details supplied)...
    • Driver Licences
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to include in the exchange of all category D1 and D1E UK driver licences to Irish driver licences those with code 1 and code...
  • Department of Finance
    • Insurance Industry
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make contact with the insurance industry to reduce annual premium renewals for sports clubs that are being hit by large premiums (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the terms of the Covid restrictions support scheme to include businesses that do not have a fixed premises; and if he will make a statement...
    • Credit Register
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the central credit register controlled by the Central Bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to expand the help-to-buy scheme to include help with the purchase of second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6499/21]
    • Tax Data
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected amount of outstanding tax owed by PAYE workers as a result of the operations of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy...
    • State Pensions
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation regarding the restricted entitlement for pensioners to drawdown funding from private pension investments which appear to...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who availed of the help-to-buy scheme in Cork city and county in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make...
    • Mortgage Lending
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has examined the viability of proposals for existing loans in the banking system, particularly mortgage loans, to be refinanced at lower...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if costs accrued by businesses that have adopted the use of rapid antigen tests as part of their Covid-19 prevention measure and for the diagnosis of Covid-19...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of gaming machines seized by the Revenue Commissioners under section 43 of the Finance Act 1975 in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form....
    • Tax Appeals Commission
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of recruiting two additional full-time IT specialists at the grade of assistant principal officer for the Tax Appeals Commission;...
    • Motor Insurance
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plans to implement reforms in view of the increasing cost of car insurance premiums; the latest discussions his Department has had on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will mediate with insurance companies that offer self-build insurance to request that they extend the policies at no extra cost to the consumer for the...
    • Value Added Tax
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the classification of fruit juices produced in Ireland for VAT purposes, which entails the standard 21% VAT rate being applied; if the position...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on adjusting the cycle-to-work scheme to cover the purchasing of child seats or trailers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6883/21]
    • Customs and Excise
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of items (details supplied) that have been seized by customs officials in the past five years to date in 2021; the way in which they dispose of...
    • Property Tax
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are provisions or plans in place for households to defer payment of the local property tax in view of the financial constraints related to Covid-19...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to extending the help-to-buy scheme beyond 2021; if the claimable period for this allowance is the four years prior to an...
    • Tax Code
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements put in place in March 2020 by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners with regard to benefit-in-kind and the Covid-19 pandemic; the...
    • Insurance Industry
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance the remedy he plans for a person who has been refused flood risk insurance even though they had flood risk insurance for many years for the same property; his...
    • Value Added Tax
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary reduction to the standard rate of VAT currently in place will cease at the end of February 2021; and, if so, if it will be extended. [7136/21]
    • Mortgage Lending
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that customers are being told by their mortgage providers that their credit rating will be affected should they...
    • Tax Reliefs
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue that would be generated if the tax relief for private health insurance premiums were abolished; and the amount of revenue if...
    • Legislative Measures
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for his plans to make necessary amendments to the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994. [7226/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax relief may be claimed under the medical expenses mechanism for PAYE workers in the event that a person has to bear the cost of a Covid-19 test, such as...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will issue a required VRT document to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Transport Authority
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to date of the Phoenix Park Transport and Mobility Options Study; and the estimated further cost in respect of same. [6362/21]
    • Magdalen Laundries
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 20 October 2020, if guidelines as a consequence of the report by the Ombudsman on the...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the support services the public service has put in place to support remote workers and in particular access to professional support for...
    • Garda Stations
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the OPW spent on refurbishment to Kells Garda station in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the nature of...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Dodder flood alleviation scheme. [6711/21]
    • EU Directives
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of EU legislation will be debated and...
    • Public Sector Staff
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the groups of public sector workers to which the updated social media policy which includes the instruction not to comment on or like...
    • Brexit Issues
      247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has examined the entitlement of contractors from Northern Ireland or the UK in tendering for public works given that they are not...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions and appropriateness of companies with unlimited status from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of efforts to address flooding on the River Inagh. [7282/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 was last reviewed; the impacts the provision of the Act are having on the biodiversity of river...
    • Garda Stations
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of Fitzgibbon Street Garda station; if the second phase of works is currently on schedule to be completed in March 2021; and...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Museum
      256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific funding that has been allocated to the National Museum to allow it to proceed with the development of the north block...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the minimum turnover of €50,000 was included in the criteria for the tourism business continuity scheme; the...
    • National Sports Policy Framework
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the nationwide audit of sport facilities as committed to in the National Sport Policy 2018-2027 by each of the 31...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider supplying antigen testing kits to League of Ireland clubs in view of the major financial impact Covid-19...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if sports capital grant funding has been awarded to a club (details supplied) in County Kildare since 2015; if so, the amount that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when applicants seeking funding through the tourism business continuity scheme will be informed if they have been successful; and...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding available to local authorities for improving or creating sea swimming amenities given the increase...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the role played by local newspapers in the battle against Covid-19 and the challenge faced by their business model as...
    • Arts Funding
      266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be examined. [7046/21]
    • Tourism Funding
      267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) on their business difficulties; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to provide additional funding to the Fáilte Ireland coach continuity scheme in recognition of the increased...
    • Pension Provisions
      271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on the recommendation for a 2% increase in pensions payments in a scheme (details supplied) given the...
    • Tourism Ireland
      272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the funding which was provided to Tourism Ireland in 2020 will be allocated to the coach industry; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of individual performers who received employment through the live performance support scheme (details supplied). [7221/21]
    • Cruinnithe an Aire
      277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí na daoine a bhí i láthair ag na cruinnithe ar Shráid Chill Dara atá luaite ar...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wildlife Control
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the derogation that allows the shooting of wood pigeons causing damage to crops will be extended beyond April 2021; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [6332/21]
    • Housing Policy
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy he is following with respect to social integration of housing; if that applies to new housing estates that are...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units that have been leased for social housing since 1 September 2020 to date; the locations of same, in...
    • Water Quality
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a boil water notice has been in place in the villages of Golden, Kilfeacle...
    • Planning Issues
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to extending the observation period for planning applications for SHD during Covid-19 (details...
    • Coastal Protection
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the national coastal change management strategy steering group has met since its first meeting was held in...
    • Planning Guidelines
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the exact legislative guidance for local authorities on the status of live planning applications when a new county development...
    • Housing Issues
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commission the Housing Agency or another appropriate body to undertake a comparative study of housing and apartment...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the policy of Dublin City Council and the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive of removing tents being used by...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recent significant rise in tender prices for social housing developments in Dublin City Council; and if he...
    • Local Authority Housing
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set out the delivery of new social homes by construction over acquisitions, commenced for each of the 31 local...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the terms of reference for a review commissioned by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and the HSE into...
    • Planning Guidelines
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the introduction of revised guidelines for rural housing on foot of the ECJ Flemish Decree judgment; and if...
    • Local Authority Housing
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons and families on the housing list in County Donegal including those availing of assistance through HAP or...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of council houses and approved housing body houses built and allocated to persons or families in County Donegal in...
    • Local Authority Housing
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will raise the income threshold in County Donegal for persons or families to join the public housing list in order to...
    • Local Authority Staff
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of conservation officers and architects in each local authority in tabular form. [6533/21]
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who is on the local authority social housing list and in private rented accommodation through the RAS or HAP...
    • Housing Data
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full cost per unit of council houses built in County Donegal in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in...
    • Water Services
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the creation of the single utility for water services and the drafting of a White Paper on the future of the...
    • Housing Data
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of public houses built in Cork city in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social and affordable housing developments under construction across local authorities in Cork city and county; the number...
    • Legislative Measures
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the heads of legislation pertaining to directly elected mayors for local authorities will be published. [6733/21]
    • Planning Issues
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a project (details supplied) in County Cavan; the total investment being requested from his Department in...
    • Heritage Council
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Heritage Council plans to put into operation a collaborative town centre health check for Drogheda and Dundalk...
    • Vacant Properties
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the level of funding remaining to bring further social housing voids back into the housing stock...
    • Housing Issues
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a legislative basis or Departmental guidelines regarding tenant purchase of housing in cases in which the local...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the planning fees for An Bord Pleanála to ensure that all persons have equal access to the planning...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an issue with an estate in County Tipperary in which a leaking sewage system is causing a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protocols in place in all local authority grades regarding Covid-19 when a person is deemed a close contact. [6862/21]
    • County Development Plans
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in issuing the updated county development plan guidance and the methodology for the housing demand...
    • Heritage Sites
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status, location and condition of the various Second World War-era lookout posts along the east coast; the efforts being...
    • Property Registration
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in processing a land registry issue (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will accept that this...
    • Rent Data
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average rent per student in purpose-built student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6988/21]
    • Housing Provision
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Sligo County Council has ignored the request by professionals who are providing medical evidence for persons...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take in relation the difficulties being experienced by persons (details supplied) in obtaining a Rebuilding...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the housing list in the Carrigaline, Crosshaven, Passage West local electoral area; and the number of...
    • Horticulture Sector
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out an analysis of the impact of replacing Irish horticultural peat with imported peat prior to...
    • Housing Issues
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the purchase of property (details supplied) by foreign investors; the tax rate investors...
    • Irish Water
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will transfer all wastewater treatment plants to Irish Water including those owned by an organisation...
    • Housing Data
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of housing delivery targets for 2022; the projected number of units provided by approved housing bodies, local...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department in responding to the collective complaint brought to the European Court of Human Rights,...
    • Heritage Sites
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to allocating funding for protected structures, giving due regard to the number of protected...
    • Rental Sector
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that pays the management fees for properties in private developments let through HAP and RAS. [7230/21]
    • Local Authority Housing
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority council housing tenants are permitted to make complaints to the Residential Tenancies Board given that...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increased waiting times to access homeless HAP; the steps taken to reduce these waiting...
    • Housing Data
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the per-person cost of Housing First; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7339/21]
    • Planning Issues
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the roll-out of a nationwide e-planning system. [7347/21]
    • Local Authority Staff
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if recently retired and resigned local authority planning officials are subject to a cooling-off period after they retire or...
    • Natura 2000
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to providing public information signage at appropriate locations for a European Natura 2000...
    • Housing Provision
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has programmes in place to assist single parent families to access housing; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the shared equity scheme prioritises particular groups to access the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Water
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if capital expenditure has been applied for by Irish Water for a project (details supplied). [7398/21]
    • Local Authority Assets
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that are currently paying loans that were taken out to purchase land which was not included in...
    • Waterways Issues
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 4 November 2020, the number of sluice gates open and closed by the ESB and...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Ministerial Meetings
      357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his UK counterpart regarding the premature triggering of Article 16 by the European Commission. [7289/21]
    • Consular Services
      358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of person (details supplied) and the family’s request for him to intervene in the matter...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      359. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if personnel and passengers on a plane (details supplied) that stayed overnight in Ireland were tested on entering the country; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to work with international colleagues in the UK and EU and on the UN Security Council to support the call by the...
    • Brexit Issues
      362. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person or body that signed off on the final draft for the fisheries element of the Brexit trade agreement; if the draft proposals prior...
    • Consular Services
      363. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report on the activities of the Irish Consulate General in Los Angeles. [6620/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      364. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the US Senate Majority Leader, Mr. Chuck Schumer since the presidential election in the United States of America; and if...
    • Passport Services
      365. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the services being provided by the passport office at present to process passport applications in view of Covid-19; the details of same; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      366. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the latest discussions his Department has had with his counterparts in Northern Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      367. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he and his Department are making with the new US administration to improve the situation for undocumented Irish immigrants in...
    • Foreign Policy
      368. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking in relation to the recent military coup in Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6884/21]
    • Northern Ireland
      371. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken by his Department to progress the purchase of the rights to a book (details supplied). [7185/21]
    • Irish Aid
      372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether Irish Aid should open its election observation roster to applications at any time to bring it in line with...
    • EU Agreements
      376. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the Northern Ireland Executive following the triggering of Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol; and if he...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      377. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his counterparts in Europe regarding the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia; the discussions he had; and...
    • Departmental Data
      378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when his Department will publish updated figures for Ireland's 2019 climate finance contributions as required under the Paris Climate...
  • Department of Defence
    • Military Aircraft
      381. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are plans to replace the two EC135 P2 type of Air Corps aircraft; and the average lifespan of military helicopters and aircraft. [6609/21]
    • Defence Forces Data
      382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of civilian or military pharmacists working in the Defence Forces in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [6610/21]
    • Defence Forces Review
      385. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will appoint a serving member of the Defence Forces to the Defence Forces Commission. [7201/21]
    • Defence Forces
      386. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the functions of the Council of Defence established under section 11 of the Defence Act 1954; and the authority by which it was delegated these...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      389. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Army Ranger Wing personnel deployed with the German armed forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7340/21]
    • Defence Forces Funding
      390. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has considered the expected cost to the Exchequer and the spending of his Department in view of the proposal by the European Commission...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a dhéanfar faomhadh ar iarratas ón bhForas Pátrúnachta ar Ghaelcholáiste a bhunú i nDún Dealgan...
    • Irish Language
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6336/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress and timelines for delivery of new school accommodation for post-primary schools (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Home Schooling
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is putting together an online resource site for parents to support them to home school and to ensure all parents have equal...
    • School Curriculum
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider restoring geography as a mandatory junior certificate examination subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify special needs assistant, SNA, allocations in 2021; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Covid-19 situation is...
    • Teacher Training
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6407/21]
    • Child Abuse
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available for victims of historic abuse in day schools under the patronage of the Roman Catholic Church; and if they have been...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be reached on a Teaching Council application by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact the person...
    • National Broadband Plan
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for primary schools outside of the primary schools broadband connection programme that are not in the intervention areas of the...
    • Special Education Review
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of ASD classrooms in the Dublin 2 and 4 areas will be conducted urgently. [6434/21]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made regarding SNA allocations for September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6440/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new school building will be provided for a school (details supplied) to replace the current dilapidated facilities; the timeline for the...
    • School Transport
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport summer provisions grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Amalgamation
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project to amalgamate schools in Ennistymon, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6480/21]
    • School Transport
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered overhauling the existing post-primary school transport scheme in order that antiquated rules and metrics relating to...
    • DEIS Scheme
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will carry out a review of a school (details supplied) to ascertain if DEIS status can be given to the school; and if she will...
    • School Catchment Areas
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the secondary school catchment area for children living in Kerry Pike, Cork, given the fact that the number of families living in the area has...
    • Schools Data
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of students who progressed from secondary school to third level in Cork from 2011 to 2020; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a preferred contractor will be approved for appointment at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6562/21]
    • School Curriculum
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 21 January 2021, to clarify the post-primary schools mentioned in the response; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Funding
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidance will be provided to a school (details supplied) relating to grant funding available to treat extreme damp in a school building; and...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for applying for an upgrade of electrical works for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6592/21]
    • DEIS Scheme
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a school (details supplied) can be considered for DEIS status; the reason one school in an area might have DEIS status while another...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which refurbishment works on a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost of the project. [6605/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a dedicated national helpline can be set up to answer queries from parents of children with special educational needs as pupils begin the...
    • School Transport
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of an application by a person (details supplied) for the provision of school transport for children with special educational needs...
    • School Enrolments
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of children that will commence national school in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6681/21]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies in each State board under the remit of her Department in tabular form; the length of time each position has been vacant;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a new school (details supplied); if Covid-19 restrictions has had an impact on same; when works will be complete;...
    • School Accommodation
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the decision by her Department to relocate a school (details supplied), if the existing site from which the school operates is...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children who, as a result of the disruption to their education due to the impact of Covid-19, wish to repeat a school year will be permitted...
    • Departmental Schemes
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the school inclusion model plan (details supplied); if the model will be continued on a pilot basis; if so, when will the findings...
    • Schools Building Projects
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of the review by the schools' capital appraisal section for a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and the...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6790/21]
    • School Equipment
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate a scheme to support schools to install solar panels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6812/21]
    • School Accommodation
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts she is making to provide a new primary school for an area (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the condition of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most recent data on the amount spent to date by her Department, in capital terms, on providing accommodation and facilities at a location for...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs will be invited to take part in the 2021 home-based summer scheme called the July Provision 2021 thus enabling them to provide home...
    • Legislative Programme
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6925/21]
    • State Examinations
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the junior certificate 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6929/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will forward these concerns to the advisory group; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6938/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a list of schools in Dublin 9 and 11 with ASD units at primary and post-primary level will be provided; her views on whether this is...
    • School Transport
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school transport review; if the terms of reference have been finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6978/21]
    • DEIS Scheme
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the DEIS scheme; if new schools can make an application to be admitted to this scheme on the basis of changed circumstances;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to safely reopen primary and secondary schools for mainstream learning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7002/21]
    • School Accommodation
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for obtaining a permanent premises for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7003/21]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7043/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the transfer of a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7054/21]
    • State Examinations
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with organisations (details supplied) in order to hear the voice and concerns of all parents and to ensure that they are...
    • Legislative Programme
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Education (Student and Parent) Charter Bill 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7097/21]
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in counties Laois and Offaly that have submitted emergency works applications from 1 January 2020 to date; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the work of her Department with the National Development Finance Agency in respect of a project school bundle (details supplied);...
    • Special Educational Needs
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a July provision programme for children with special educational needs will proceed during summer 2021; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Properties
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school buildings owned, leased or rented by her Department in Dublin 8, 10 and 12; and if the list of such schools, the annual rent and...
    • Irish Sign Language
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an organisation (details supplied) will be recognised as the representative body to implement the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of providing a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the stage of approval the project is at; the...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has identified a suitable property to locate a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7231/21]
    • State Examinations
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the joint statement by associations (details supplied); if she will engage with both organisations in order to...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has been waiting so long to be switched to a juniper box; if the provision of same will be expedited; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate funding will be put in place for PPE and supervision and so on when schools return; and if a system will be introduced by which...
    • Schools Building Projects
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposed school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7283/21]
    • School Staff
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the teaching allocations for the 2021-22 academic year will be announced in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • School Curriculum
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the relationships and sexual education curriculum will be updated to include the way in which to identify and avoid the behaviour of coercive...
    • Special Educational Needs
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and resources in place for parents of children with dyslexia. [7326/21]
    • Teacher Training
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the continuous professional development opportunities available to teachers in the area of dyslexia; and the number of teachers who availed of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports being provided for children with special needs in mainstream classes who are not included in the return to school in...
    • School Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a refund of deductions that were taken from the person's wages in respect of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the supplementary in-person care and educational support programme announced on 1 February 2021 for children with additional...
    • State Examinations
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the minutes of the meetings of the 2021 State advisory group; and if the membership of the advisory group will also be...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Citizens’ Assembly on the future of education as committed to in the programme for Government. [7441/21]
    • School Staff
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teacher allocations for September 2021 will maintain the Covid-19 allocation from September 2020; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the model for SNA allocations for 2020-2021; if the model reflects the extensive impact of Covid-19 on students; and if she will make a statement...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Dental Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overall funding package allocated in Budget 2021 to the oral hygiene and dental sector for PRSI patients; and if she will...
    • Public Services Card
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the online application process for public services cards will be operational; when appointments for same will resume;...
    • Bord na Móna
      489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the issues of concern raised by a person (details supplied) with regard to Bord na Móna seasonal workers;...
    • Employment Support Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will facilitate Tús operators by providing a bigger pool of eligible candidates in order that Tús...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased pandemic unemployment payment system will be considered for wedding industry specialists to help support...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if emergency supplementary welfare needs payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Disability Allowance
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for a disability allowance; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined in relation to the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals that were lodged in 2019 and 2020, by type of appeal per scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending pandemic unemployment payment eligibility to persons who are off work to care for...
    • Disability Allowance
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions in place for persons that are suffering from mental health issues which are affecting their ability to work...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for carer’s allowance and carer's benefit; the number of...
    • Carer's Allowance
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that are in receipt of carer’s allowance and had to increase their work hours above 18.5 hours as a result...
    • Illness Benefit
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6787/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to an information technology glitch delaying pandemic unemployment payment arrears payments;...
    • Parental Leave
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when paid parental leave will be extended by three weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6813/21]
    • Disability Allowance
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will be made on a disability allowance review for a person (details supplied) in County Cork....
    • Carer's Allowance
      506. 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...
    • Public Services Card
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider consolidating the legislation with regard to the public services card into one single Act that would...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, claimants who have turned 66 years of age while in receipt of the payment...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 28 January 2021, the reason community employment schemes must notify her...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will review the matter. [7112/21]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment on a community employment scheme will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) given...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, rates for self-employed earners are determined by gross average weekly income or by...
    • Blind Person's Pension
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the blind pension is means tested (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7175/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 13 January 2021, if a pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, overpayment assessed...
    • Carer's Allowance
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Invalidity Pension
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [7304/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a social welfare payment will be reinstated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, will receive full PRSI contributions for the duration of their...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      521. 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. [7330/21]
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the supplementary welfare allowance in 2020; the breakdown of overall applications...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who have also applied for the supplementary welfare...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the funding allocation for the Money Advice and Budgeting Service is determined for each region; and the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons participating on a community employment scheme or due to commence a scheme can be self-employed in any capacity,...
    • Fuel Allowance
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Invalidity Pension
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a decision on an invalidity pension application; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application submitted in September 2020 by a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a letter can be supplied to a person (details supplied) for the purposes of an education bursary; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the ongoing efforts to combat racism by way of speech, electronic communication or otherwise; and if he will...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the 550 audio recordings of testimony given by persons to the Confidential Committee of the...
    • Direct Provision System
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the protocols and process in place in respect of the administration of vaccinations with particular reference to...
    • Childcare Costs
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether crèches should be charging essential workers a full-time rate when they are not...
    • Garda Vetting
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a legal lacuna (details supplied) which is causing serious issues for early years providers will be...
    • Direct Provision System
      537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person who is on hunger strike in a direct provision centre...
    • Social Workers Register
      538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated annual cost of peer supervision in the social work setting. [6462/21]
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers employed currently. [6463/21]
    • Childcare Services
      540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter in relation to renovation works at a crèche (details supplied). [6629/21]
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location in counties Cavan and Monaghan in which victims of domestic violence can seek refuge accommodation...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason many survivors have yet to receive their copies of the Final Report of the Commission of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline he is working to for the publication and passing of the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the target quarter for the introduction of the commitment in the programme for Government to double the target...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the target quarter for the signing of the optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...
    • Direct Provision System
      552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 21 January 2021, if legislative changes are required for the...
    • Childcare Services
      559. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which crèches can operate in February 2020; the persons who can avail of the services; if his...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      560. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts being made by his Department to improve the pay and working conditions of workers in the early-years...
    • Parental Leave
      561. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the additional parental leave of three weeks will become effective; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      562. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure front-line workers can access childcare and crèche facilities in a situation in which...
    • Direct Provision System
      564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any providers of direct provision centres with contracts due to expire in 2021 have been contacted or engaged...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the recruitment of data protection experts by his office for dealing with the records from...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
      568. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if aspects of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child can be put on a legislative footing given the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      573. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an audio version of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education Policy
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans regarding increasing digital literacy among citizens and businesses, as detailed in the programme for Government.; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement between his Department, CORU and education providers regarding social care students and their difficulties in relation to...
    • Third Level Education
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of the Cassells report; the number of potential funding options including the deferred payment of student fees;...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns that those engaged in apprenticeship studies are facing prolonged delays due to the completion of their...
    • Further and Higher Education
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to research and science students; and if he...
    • Technological Universities (1 comment)
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date on Dundalk Institute of Technology becoming a technological university under the Technological Universities Act 2018;...
    • Science Foundation Ireland
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies by job title in Science Foundation Ireland; the length of time each post has been vacant; and the estimated full year...
    • Institutes of Technology
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the major refurbishment works on the north and south block buildings at Dundalk Institute of Technology has commenced; the estimated cost of...
    • Youthreach Programme
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Youthreach coordinators in the Louth and Meath Education and Training Board who have received payment above their annual salaries...
    • Education and Training Boards
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of external training contractors running courses in County Meath under the Louth and Meath Education and Training Board in 2019; and...
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he had with Minister for the Economy, Diane Dodds and the Department for Economy in Northern Ireland on the Erasmus+ scheme and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices that have been stopped from qualifying or advancing to the next year due to the disruption to off-the-job training; the...
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to allow students from Northern Ireland to continue to access the Erasmus+ programme; if the cost includes financial support...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his latest engagement with EU research ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7005/21]
    • Research and Development
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for a European research area forum for transition; the priorities of the research area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Accommodation
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a situation (details supplied) has been brought to his attention; the engagement he has had with this particular institution with a view to...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if pandemic unemployment payments will be assessed as reckonable income for special rates of SUSI grants in 2021; and if he will make a statement...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the International Education Mark will be implemented; when his Department will publish details on the implementation process including the...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support students enrolled in graduate medical programmes during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7114/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 21 January 2021, if third-level students from Ireland studying in Northern Ireland and not in...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects SOLAS to make its classes, including those for the Safe Pass card, available for remote learning; and if he will make a statement...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student grant income thresholds will be increased for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7342/21]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if estate agents can operate during level 5 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7451/21]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of breaches detected via the HGV permit tracker application that were referred to An Garda Síochána for...
    • Northern Ireland
      604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the set up a State-backed pension scheme in respect of victims living in this jurisdiction...
    • Court Accommodation
      605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to refurbish the old courthouse in Tuam, County Galway, which has lain idle and is derelict for ten years...
    • Garda Vetting
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a legal lacuna (details supplied) will be addressed which is causing serious issues for early years providers; if she will...
    • Crime Data
      607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Drogheda scoping report will be published; and if she will provide other relevant details in relation to the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to ensure that Covid-19 certificates produced on entry to the country are authentic and not fraudulent....
    • Work Permits
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be given permission to work; if the application for a work permit will be expedited; and if...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 8 December 2020, the reason for the discrepancy between the amount seized and...
    • Prisoner Releases
      611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding given to the TRAIL programme run under PACE annually. [6472/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons fined for breaches of the Covid-19 five-kilometre movement restrictions in Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6564/21]
    • Family Support Services
      615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the issue of parent alienation; her plans to address same; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Equipment
      616. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda vehicles allocated to the Garda armed support unit in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [6614/21]
    • Garda Resources
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation to the Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [6615/21]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 8 December 2020, if she has received the necessary information from An Garda...
    • Garda Recruitment
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 712 of 29 September 2020, if she has received the necessary information from An Garda...
    • Garda Data
      620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of external expert consultants on retainer or engaged by the Garda national economic crime bureau; and the number of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if citizenship can be fast-tracked for essential workers in the healthcare system in view of their work on the Covid-19...
    • Residency Permits
      622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 13 January 2021, if the email address for queries in relation to the status of...
    • International Relations
      623. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has spoken virtually with her Australian counterpart since her appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Equipment
      624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the age of the trucks attached to the Garda water unit; if there are plans to replace either truck in 2021; and if she will...
    • Visa Applications
      626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications processed in each processing office in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if...
    • Legislative Programme
      627. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce legislation to amend section 252 of the Children’s Act 2001 to allow the courts discretion in the...
    • Residency Permits
      628. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the procedure to be followed to update stamp residency status in the case of a person (details...
    • Coroners Service
      629. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if provision will be made to facilitate inquests relating to bodies uncovered at mother and baby institutions; and if she will...
    • Crime Prevention
      630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review all existing approaches to reducing knife crime in Ireland and consider best practice in other jurisdictions...
    • Crime Data
      631. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the theft of bikes under threat of violence with or without offensive weapons is becoming a growing pattern of crime; and if...
    • Garda Recruitment
      632. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on providing an exemption for the requirement of two languages to enter An Garda Síochána for persons who...
    • Assisted Suicide
      633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has conducted an analysis of the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020; if so, the conclusions of such analysis; and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if clarity will be provided in relation to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      635. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of essential healthcare workers awaiting a decision on an application for naturalisation and citizenship; the...
    • Garda Data
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants outstanding by county as of 31 December 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6981/21]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      637. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 8 December 2020, if she received the additional information requested from the...
    • Garda Resources
      644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of Garda forensic collision investigators; when the last competition for new forensic collision...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the operational guidelines for forensic traffic investigators have been updated since 2007; if a review and urgent update of...
    • Legislative Reviews
      647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made on the implementation of the 25 recommendations accepted in relation to the report of the review group on...
    • Gangland Crime
      649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which the strength of criminal gangs continues to be monitored; if a noticeable change as to the degree of their...
    • Garda Strength
      650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of An Garda Síochána; the degree to which the strength of the force has increased in recent...
    • Garda Deployment
      651. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which deployment of An Garda Síochána is in line with the level of criminal activity in various...
    • Crime Data
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal gang leaders and members brought before the courts in the past 12; the number of convictions; the number...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      654. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which juvenile liaison officers have been allocated to each Garda district throughout the country; the ongoing...
    • Crime Data
      655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of criminal gangs due to be released from prison in 2021; the extent of plans to ensure they do not...
    • Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
      657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree of research into the subsequent activities of prisoners who on their first offence and conviction were afforded...
    • Prisoner Data
      659. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offenders who have reoffended in each of the past three years to date while on bail or while awaiting the outcome...
    • Garda Stations
      660. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of Garda stations throughout the country deemed to need refurbishment; her plans for same; and if she...
    • Prisoner Data
      661. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who have absconded in the past 12 months; the number still at large; and if she will make a statement...
    • Crime Data
      662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which racism and hate speech or hate mail continues to be targeted as an offence in need of urgent attention; and...
    • Prisoner Data
      663. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners currently incarcerated in each prison throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Prisoner Releases
      664. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which first-time offenders remain eligible for early release on foot of good behaviour or otherwise; and if she...
    • Gangland Crime
      665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which repeat offenders are being granted bail including those who are members of organised criminal gangs; and if...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      667. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the success of the Criminal Assets Bureau in the fight against all forms of crime, organised and otherwise; and if she will...
    • Leave to Remain
      668. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for permission to remain by persons (details supplied); and the timeline for a decision on this...
    • Garda Operations
      669. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a comprehensive policing plan in place in the north inner city of Dublin to address the recent spate of violent...
    • Court Accommodation
      670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a transfer of ownership of Birr Court House, Townsend Street, Townparks, Birr, County Offaly, is being proposed; if so, the...
    • Garda Operations
      671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order unit vans attached to the Cork city Garda division as of 31 December 2019 and 2 February 2021,...
    • Deportation Orders
      672. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to revoking a deportation order on a person (details supplied). [7224/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      674. 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). [7227/21]
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the reduction in the number of Garda youth diversion projects in the Dublin metropolitan region, north central...
    • Sentencing Policy
      677. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to bring forward legislation with regard to sentencing in criminal cases that involve serious or intimate violence to...
    • Brexit Issues
      679. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if co-operation between the PSNI and An Garda Síochána has been affected by the end of the Brexit transition period;...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on her recent meeting with the Garda Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7292/21]
    • Visa Applications
      681. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Crime Data
      682. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeframe for the completion of the two pilot projects for children caught up in serious and prolific crime; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      683. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Covid-19 regulation breaches reported by An Garda Síochána since their introduction; the breakdown by...
    • Fines Data
      684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who failed to pay fines imposed by the courts since the commencement of the Fines (Payment and Recovery)...
    • Bench Warrants
      687. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants issued in 2019 and 2020; the number outstanding in this regard; the effect the Covid-19 pandemic...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the role of pharmacists in the Covid-19 vaccination programme; when contact will be made with the profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the most recent medical advice regarding pharmacists providing Covid-19 vaccinations. [6328/21]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      694. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6337/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for a PCR test for a person with symptoms of Covid-19; the waiting time for a PCR test for an asymptomatic close contact of a confirmed case...
    • Vaccination Programme
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the logistics and distribution experts that have been consulted in developing the roll-out processes for the vaccine programme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Data
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have presented for self-harm to accident and emergency departments by CHO area and month in 2020 to the latest date in 2021; and if...
    • Home Care Packages
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be made available to the public health system and in particular home support services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered introducing documentation for those medically exempt from wearing face coverings to ensure that all those who do not wear masks in retail...
    • Mental Health Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the reopening of mental health day care centres such as the Owenacurra mental health centre in Midleton, County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Health when approval will be sanctioned for a medical hub (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the delay in signing off on the approval; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if he will discuss with the National Immunisation Advisory Committee when persons with cystic fibrosis should receive their vaccination and to determine if...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate classical homocystinuria as a long-term illness given that a similar condition known as phenylketonuria is classified as such; and if he...
    • Vaccination Programme
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers that received their first jab for the Covid-19 vaccine in the period 28 December 2020 to 1 February 2021; the results by week...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      715. To ask the Minister for Health when he envisages patients already receiving medical cannabis treatment will be able to subscribe to the access programme that was recently announced; and the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if any death of a patient in Ireland has been associated with the taking of the three vaccines for Covid-19 which have been licensed to date; and if the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to extend the qualifying illnesses from the three current conditions for others who suffer chronic pain and wish to be prescribed under the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting on bone anchor hearing aids, by hospital, in tabular form. [6408/21]
    • Hospital Data
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bone anchor hearing aids fitted in each of the years from 2018 to 2020 in Tullamore Hospital. [6409/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the input surgeons have in the decision-making process of prioritising those suffering from hearing loss for bone anchor hearing aids. [6411/21]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of needle exchanges and their operating hours, by county, in 2019 and 2020, respectively. [6418/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacists will be administering the Covid-19 vaccine to those aged over 70s; if not, if consideration will be given to including them in the roll-out...
    • Substance Misuse
      725. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects online engagements for the citizens' assembly on drug use to be convened. [6426/21]
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      726. To ask the Minister for Health when sexual health screening appointments will resume, in view of the fact that only emergency appointments are being carried out at present. [6436/21]
    • Health Services
      727. 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. [6442/21]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community development workers funded by his Department to work in addiction services in each of the years from 2010 to 2020, in tabular form [6450/21]
    • HSE Staff
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the average salary of a community development worker in the HSE. [6451/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the number and proportion of the National Ambulance Service, Dublin Fire Brigade and other workers providing front-line ambulance services that have been given...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line ambulance workers from all services that have contracted Covid-19; and the number that are believed to have contracted it as part of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Covid-19 vaccinations for many front-line paramedics in the Dublin Fire Brigade service were cancelled; the...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of addiction workers employed both publicly and as section 39 workers currently. [6464/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls made for an ambulance in the area covered by the Carlow ambulance base in January 2021; the number of calls made to the ambulance service...
    • Disability Services Provision
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the status of HSE nurse care for a child (details supplied). [6470/21]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction councillors currently employed by the HSE and as section 39 workers, respectively. [6471/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the funding given to services to run dual diagnosis programmes by community healthcare organisation, CHO, or task force in tabular form. [6481/21]
    • HSE Staff
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the average salary of a mental health worker employed by the HSE. [6482/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for juvenile arthritis treatment in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; the number of those in...
    • Gambling Sector
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a gambling prevalence survey. [6487/21]
    • Health Services
      746. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [6491/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      747. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment will be arranged for an electric wheelchair with a specialised frame for a person (details supplied); if the process will be expedited; and if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the items in the general practitioner vaccination contract over and above that which nurses do for less than a quarter of the hourly rate of doctors. [6498/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if accompanying a child for parental access outside of Ireland is deemed essential travel; if self-quarantine at home on return to Ireland will be sufficient;...
    • Health Promotion
      753. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will launch a vitamin D campaign to highlight the benefits of vitamin D, particularly in the context of Covid-19; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that the residents at the 24-hour high dependency unit at St. Columbcille Village, Clonmany, County Donegal, receive the Covid-19 vaccine...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      755. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary funds will be released in respect of a fair deal application in the case of a person (details supplied) who has been approved under the...
    • Medical Records
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person can access medical records from St. Joseph's Hospital, Coole, County Westmeath. [6569/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the logistics for those who do not have a general practitioner to avail of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); if the case will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6574/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if there are guidelines for the type of masks which ought to be used in different settings; and if the possibility of the design of masks with a see-through...
    • Vaccination Programme
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a difference in the way patients discharged from public hospitals to nursing homes are considered in terms of the vaccination programme. [6579/21]
    • Nursing Staff
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses employed as agency staff who are operating between two or more public nursing homes. [6580/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the details of a scheme (details supplied); the criteria for same; the eligibility criteria for the scheme; the waiting list for same; the hospitals in which...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      765. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for introducing rapid antigen testing at hospitals for outpatients. [6583/21]
    • Hospital Car Parks
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to implement the recommendations made in the HSE review into hospital car parking charges published at the end of 2018; and if he will make...
    • Vaccination Programme
      768. To ask the Minister for Health when pharmacy staff will be vaccinated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6597/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      769. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the substantial delays in the issuing of primary medical certificates during the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions; the steps...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      770. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is on the waiting list for a cataract procedure in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. [6601/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      771. To ask the Minister for Health when applications for the primary medical certificate will continue (details supplied). [6603/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting vascular surgery appointments; and the extent to which this number has fluctuated over the past four years to date. [6621/21]
    • Hospital Data
      773. To ask the Minister for Health the rota of consultant cover for the accident and emergency department at Naas General Hospital for each weekend from January to December 2020. [6622/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      776. To ask the Minister for Health if a passenger returning home to Ireland requires a Covid-19 test on a connecting flight from Portugal in view of the fact that he or she will need a Covid...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that a permanent scheme will be put in place to replace the cross-border directive scheme post Brexit; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the expert advice from NIAC (details supplied) on which clinical decisions are based regarding the timeframe in which family carers will...
    • Nursing Staff
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the allocation of a public health nurse in Killashandra, County Cavan; if a nurse will be put in place urgently; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the status of ophthalmology clinics (details supplied); the days on which the services are operational; the locations of the clinics; if clarity will be...
    • Health Services Charges
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review charges for service users (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6664/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities and options available for persons with epilepsy in view of the lack of investment in neurology services and staff shortages in neurology centres...
    • Hospital Staff
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff by job title working in the ophthalmology department of the Mater Hospital, Dublin; the number of vacancies by job title; the estimated...
    • Health Services Staff
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review an article (details supplied); if a similar gesture for front-line workers will be announced here by way of time in lieu or bonuses; if his...
    • Vaccination Programme
      787. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics have not yet received their vaccination (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      788. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the pilot telepsychiatry service as set out in the programme of Government (details supplied); if the service has commenced; and if he will make...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the reproductive services available in County Sligo; the steps his Department is taking to address gaps in services; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Staff
      790. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been recruited by the HSE since January 2020; the total increase of HSE employment this represents in net terms; and if he will...
    • National Cervical Screening Programme
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner services that have suspended CervicalCheck examinations since 1 December 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      792. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment nurse (details supplied) will be provided in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6705/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days testing per week being carried out for Covid-19 in County Cavan and at the county GAA grounds in County Monaghan; his plans to relocate the...
    • Hospital Staff
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in Cavan General and Monaghan hospitals unfilled or filled on a temporary basis; and the details of each by categories (details...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) must pay a high cost for a weekly prescription; if there is an alternative to this medication that is funded; and if he...
    • Hospital Services
      796. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to enhance services at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6734/21]
    • Hospital Data
      797. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances to a hospital (details supplied) between 2010 and to date in 2021; if there are plans to return this service to seven days per week...
    • Hospital Facilities
      798. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 841 and 842 of 24 November 2020, the status of plans for the project referred to (details supplied) for Cavan General...
    • Health Services Provision
      799. To ask the Minister for Health the status of services for persons with Parkinson's disease in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the locations in which services are available, that is, in primary...
    • Maternity Services
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pregnant mothers who used a scanner (details supplied) in Cavan General Hospital to date per month since its introduction to date in 2021, in...
    • Disability Services Provision
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6742/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      803. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider increasing the number of medical officers in the HSE who are responsible for issuing primary medical certificates on a temporary basis to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns about places on the list of priority for vaccine roll-out for persons with multiple sclerosis in treatment cycles...
    • Dental Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Health if first class pupils in County Longford who did not receive an appointment with the school dentist in 2020 due to Covid-19 will be facilitated in 2021...
    • Vaccination Programme
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if those who are considered very high risk by the HSE if they contract Covid-19 and have been told to remain home from work following an occupational health...
    • Dental Services
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the expected waiting period for a new entrant onto the waiting list for orthodontic services including dental braces in CH07; the number of persons on the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting processing of applications for the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6806/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing home residents who have received their first and second doses of the vaccine for Covid-19; the number of residents still to receive their...
    • Prescriptions Data
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued in each of the years 2017 to 2020 for antidepressants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6831/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to mental health services in each of the years 2017 to 2020, by service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Data
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staffed and fully funded critical care beds in each hospital by hospital and hospital group; the number that are open, closed due to staffing,...
    • Health Services Staff
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent nursing and midwifery positions by grade funded, filled on a permanent, temporary and agency basis, respectively, and...
    • Hospital Data
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient appointments cancelled by hospitals for each month in 2020 and January 2021, by hospital and hospital group in tabular form; and if he...
    • Health Services
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a unique patient identifier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6863/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      831. To ask the Minister for Health when a full or an increase in the homecare package will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the position of special needs assistants on the vaccination schedule. [6878/21]
    • Health Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the status of pay restoration for workers in the remaining 250 section 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6880/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plan to vaccinate staff working in disability long-term care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6881/21]
    • Disability Services Data
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the long delay in publishing the capacity review of disability services; the target date for publication to which he is working; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      837. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on the definition and classification of essential travel; and the details of the steps that a person who has health or mental health...
    • Vaccination Programme
      838. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6919/21]
    • National Cancer Strategy
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the national cancer strategy specifically the strategies recommendation to develop a systematic, evidence-based mechanism...
    • Dental Services
      841. To ask the Minister for Health if any applications have been made to the HSE to provide dental services in Birr, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6924/21]
    • Health Services
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of his Department with respect to the three year review of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the overall funding package allocated in budget 2021 to the oral hygiene and dental sector for GMS patients and increased tax reliefs for private patients; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the stage in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out it is envisaged persons living in sheltered accommodation such as these facilities (details supplied) will be...
    • Health Services Provision
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients availing of the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the cost of the programme to date; if he plans to extend...
    • Health Services Funding
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if Sláintecare funding for the development of a national register for diabetes has been made available; if the proposed work has begun; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      848. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to employ community diabetologists to support the implementation of Sláintecare and the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme; and if he will...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under two and a half years of age nationwide and in the Dublin region that availed of early intervention from the HSE; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      850. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made following the review in 2017 of the working group to discuss and review the 1993 boarding out regulations; the plans in place to change and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      851. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the Crowe Horwath report on public health medicine. [6972/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the measures and initiatives he has taken to support well-being during Covid-19. [6973/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      855. To ask the Minister for Health his views on redeploying area medical staff resulting in the postponing of primary medical certificate assessments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospice Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a hospice (details supplied) will be included in the 2021 HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6985/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      857. To ask the Minister for Health if there are provisions to facilitate parents who have to accompany a child on a flight to the UK in the context of Covid-19 restrictions and polymerase chain...
    • Hospital Staff
      859. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 651 of 20 January 2021, when a staffing model will be submitted for the new acute unit in Mallow General Hospital; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      860. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) with scoliosis will get an operation. [6996/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      861. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with the Minister for Finance with regard to plans to allow applications for primary medical certificates to be processed and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      863. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding front-line and nursing home staff who choose not to get vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7004/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the first four regional fertility hubs; if they are operational and seeing patients at this stage; the timeframe for further hubs; the specific...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place for elderly persons who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 illness and have had their home help service ceased without notice; if...
    • Hospital Charges
      869. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to direct the HSE to cease engaging debt-collecting agencies to pursue patients who are already under immense financial pressure; and if he will make...
    • Animal Culls
      872. To ask the Minister for Health when public health advice from the CMO changed to no longer recommend a cull be carried out on farmed mink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7055/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all NPHET recommendations conveyed to him in respect of meat processing plants and the food processing industry since 1 October 2020; the...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unannounced HIQA inspections carried out in meat processing plants since December 2020; the locations and dates of these inspections; and if he...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      881. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE service plan will be released given, that many organisations in the charity sector are waiting to find out if they will have sufficient levels of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      882. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines for persons with underlying conditions is being implemented; the underlying conditions being prioritised;...
    • Hospital Funding
      884. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding which will be made available to Roscommon University Hospital for the development of the eight bed, level 2, palliative care unit...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      886. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of specialist clinics in the UK to deal with long-term symptoms of Covid-19; the steps his Department is...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      890. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken to ensure that patients with a prescription for products produced by a company (details supplied) can still access the products....
    • Hospital Facilities
      894. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 788 of 3 February 2021, if his attention has been drawn to page 88 of the national development plan which, under Acute...
    • Vaccination Programme
      895. To ask the Minister for Health if psychotherapists who meet patients face to face are considered to be front-line healthcare workers in direct patient contact roles for the purposes of the...
    • Health Services Staff
      897. To ask the Minister for Health the psychology staffing levels across each community adult mental health team in CHO 4 by grade, that is, basic, senior and principal; if staffing resources in...
    • Mental Health Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the specialist HSE adult mental health teams available to service users in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7165/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      899. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated date for the vaccination of essential workers in food processing factories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7168/21]
    • Carer's Allowance
      902. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which carer's allowance application forms, CR1 forms, are not being completed by general practitioners; the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      904. To ask the Minister for Health when firefighters can expect to receive the vaccine; if they will be prioritised given that they are front-line workers and first responders; and if he will...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7192/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      908. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medications prescribed for a person (details supplied) with Lyme disease are not covered by a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      909. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a site (details supplied) as a location for community-based vaccine roll-out. [7198/21]
    • Podiatry Services
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in community health organisation 4 waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 2 February 2021; and the number waiting for...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      915. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant neurologist at Cork University Hospital. [7218/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      916. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently employed by occupation in Covid-19 testing and tracing systems, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria in place for the selection of mass vaccination centres in each location; the budget in place for the procurement of such centres; the proposed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      920. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be examined. [7256/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      921. To ask the Minister for Health when pharmacists and pharmacy workers will receive the Covid-19 vaccine. [7260/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      922. To ask the Minister for Health if the 5 km limit for persons leaving home other than for essential purposes during the current lockdown permits driving within the 5 km radius; if not, if...
    • Hospital Funding
      924. To ask the Minister for Health the status of developments of the capital spend and date schedule outlined for the community nursing units of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Stranorlar,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      925. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering acquiring Russian and Chinese manufactured vaccines to aid in bridging the gap with the vaccine supply; if the matter has been discussed...
    • Health Services Reports
      926. To ask the Minister for Health when the critical care capacity and workforce census 2020, which was due at the end of January 2021, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      927. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE national service plan 2021 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7307/21]
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7316/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      930. To ask the Minister for Health when it is planned that dentists and their staff operating in the HSE dental treatment services scheme will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the PPE supports made available to dentists since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7321/21]
    • Dental Services
      932. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the dental treatment services scheme in response to the increased operating costs of operating private dental practices as a result of the...
    • Health Promotion
      934. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a public awareness campaign on the benefits of vitamin D supplements in boosting the immune system against Covid-19 (details supplied); and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      935. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with concerned persons in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary regarding the decision to repurpose St. Brigid’s Hospital; and the cost...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that have been accepted by the CervicalCheck tribunal as of 3 February 2021. [7329/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      937. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines administered to residents of long-term residential care facilities in County Tipperary up to 1 February 2021; and if he will...
    • Disability Definitions
      942. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the removal the frailty scores which are used for triage protocol for disabled persons. [7355/21]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      944. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [7363/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      946. To ask the Minister for Health the number of follow-up calls made to incoming passengers on a weekly basis since 25 January 2021; and the number of calls which were successfully answered on...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      948. To ask the Minister for Health if any vaccinators have tested positive for Covid-19; if vaccinators are regularly tested for Covid-19; the protocol in the case that a vaccinator tests...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      949. To ask the Minister for Health the date vaccination will commence for staff working in long-term residential disability facilities; the allocation of vaccine doses for these staff; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      951. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the wait time for a woman to avail of a mammogram; if the wait time is improving or worsening; his plans to reduce these waiting times; the...
    • Patient Transport
      952. To ask the Minister for Health if transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) travelling from County Donegal to Cappagh Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the primary medical certificate that are waiting for a medical assessment since July 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      957. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can receive the Covid-19 vaccine earlier than circumstances allow for; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      958. To ask the Minister for Health if surgical dental extractions are covered under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7411/21]
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      960. To ask the Minister for Health the process used to determine the competent state when processing cross-border directive reimbursement applications for applicants in receipt of both an Irish...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      961. To ask the Minister for Health when a full response in relation to an operation will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7414/21]
    • Patient Forums
      962. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a body (details supplied) did not engage with the patient group since October 2020 in spite of a promise to keep this group with over 200 members...
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Recommendations
      963. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the 2018 Report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health on Foetal Anti-Convulsant Syndrome; and...
    • Departmental Reports
      964. To ask the Minister for Health the persons or bodies who are members of the implementation committee for the recommendations in Sharing the Vision; when they will commence; and if the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      965. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to amending the Covid-19 vaccine allocation strategy to include persons undergoing medical treatment for serious illness as a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      966. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to recover monies paid in respect of a contract with a company (details supplied;) and the timeline to which he is working to secure the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      970. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of a group (details supplied) requesting the proposed assisted human reproduction Bill be amended to provide...
    • Disability Support Services
      971. To ask the Minister for Health when and the location of the children’s disability teams that will be set up in CHO 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7446/21]
    • A Vision for Change
      972. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the six annual reports from 2006 to 2011 of the two independent monitoring groups for A Vision for Change are not available on the HSE website; if...
    • Nursing Staff
      973. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new nurses that have been recruited in each hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form, [7448/21]
    • HSE Agency Staff
      974. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency nurses being used by the HSE in each hospital; the number used in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      975. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7450/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      976. To ask the Minister for Health his engagement with a group (details supplied) regarding the CervicalCheck tribunal since 21 October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7462/21]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements in place to ensure there are an adequate supply of accredited green certificate in agriculture courses available for...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce antigen testing for employees of key manufacturing plants such as food and meat processing; and if he will...
    • Licence Applications
      979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6372/21]
    • Protected Disclosures
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and or his predecessors evaluated a protected disclosure made by a person (details supplied) as instructed to by the Workplace...
    • EU Regulations
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the European Commission for Health and Food Safety has accepted a formal complaint from a whistle-blower (details supplied) to...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      982. 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. [6403/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a derogation for scallop fishermen who are fishing off the southern coast of the UK; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay of almost 20 years in acknowledging the error by his Department in not including two reference years...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which the appointments to the Horse Racing Ireland board from 1 January 2020 to date were nominated; the basis for...
    • Greyhound Industry
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a fundraiser by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of the retired coursing greyhounds...
    • Forestry Sector
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he address a matter (details supplied) regarding forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6542/21]
    • Food Safety Standards
      988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the 30-month rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6543/21]
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      991. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2019 and 2020 area of natural constraints payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      992. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has not submitted a notification to the European Commission under the State aid Temporary Framework for...
    • Departmental Reviews
      993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Independent Aquaculture Licensing Review Group from...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the Covid-19 aquaculture support scheme to include those recent entrants to the industry with sales on their books...
    • Departmental Staff
      995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff by grade from his Department that have been deployed to Dublin Port, Rosslare Port and Dublin Airport to deal...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of revenue generated activities in each of the fishery harbour centres under the remit of his Department in 2019 and...
    • Licence Applications
      997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry licence application for a person (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an exception can be made for a person (details supplied) in relation to a green certificate; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Dairy Sector
      999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown in volume and value in 2020 of dairy ingredients exports to South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Wildlife Control
      1000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6698/21]
    • Licence Applications
      1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the total number of licences, including felling, afforestation and roads which are required by the forestry and timber...
    • Forestry Sector
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has given or will give consideration to the issue of wholescale regulatory reform in view of the current crisis...
    • Animal Sales
      1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if advice will be provided regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6788/21]
    • Teagasc Activities
      1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to improve the take up of Teagasc research services by farmers as referred to in the recent AGRIP report;...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will abolish or delay the requirement to reduce stocking rates under the BEAM scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Felling Licences
      1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the backlog in the issuing of felling licences will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6804/21]
    • GLAS Issues
      1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when GLAS payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [6870/21]
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      1010. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of the beef finisher payment. [6874/21]
    • Aquaculture Licences
      1011. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received an aquaculture licence application (details supplied); the status of the application; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1012. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial support and incentives there will be to encourage farmers to pilot calf-at-foot strategies; the agency which will be...
    • EU Directives
      1013. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department has taken to implement and uphold the EU Pigs Directive Council Directive 2008/120/EC; if there are...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1014. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if only greyhounds presented for racing, that is, greyhounds which have at least one race record in Ireland will be tracked by the...
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      1017. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports being offered to assist applicants to the organic farming scheme given the high rates of refused admissions in the 2018...
    • Veterinary Laboratories
      1019. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of substances such as agricultural animal remedies and growth hormones stored and disposed of through...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect Roughfield Wood, Mounnadowna Wood and Dreenagh Wood, County Cork, given plans by Coillte to sell parts of these...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances since January 2015 to date in which his Department has set aside the findings of the director of the...
    • Fur Farming
      1022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department issued a direction to mink farms that a cull was to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Farm Inspections
      1024. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm inspections carried out by month and county in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will...
    • Horticulture Sector
      1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for mushroom growers and the nursery sector who will be affected by the end of horticultural peat harvesting....
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients who received CAP Pillar 1 payments of €60,000 or higher in 2020, by county in tabular form; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if urgent supports and measures will be provided as a response to the financial implications for the national hunt horse racing...
    • Forestry Sector
      1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if tree felling for the purpose of clearing a site for non-essential construction is or is not deemed to be forestry; and his views...
    • Beef Imports
      1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure consumers use less imported beef products and greater amounts grown locally especially during the recent crisis...
    • Fishing Industry
      1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, with the voisinage agreement in place to allow fishing vessels from Northern Ireland to operate in Ireland's waters, there is a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      1032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if provisions are being made to issue emergency funding to farmers in 2021 who have been hit by flooding issues. [7281/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      1033. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 949 of 3 February 2021, the financial cost for the person to withdraw from the scheme (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if construction in the interests of animal welfare or the essential operation of a farm are permissible under the current level 5...
    • Departmental Equipment
      1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current applications of alcohol-based hand sanitiser to the pesticide control division for biocidal product registration...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1036. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals he has made to the EU regarding Common Agricultural Policy negotiations to ensure that the next round of funding will...
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      1037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he plans to take to regulate the breeding, ownership, sale or supply of exotic species; when he plans to introduce...
    • Animal Welfare
      1038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional urban horse welfare programmes he will introduce in 2021 as per the Programme for Government; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Local Authority Funding
      1039. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to fund local authorities to ensure that they have sufficient council owned dog pound facilities which can be run either by...
    • Cuanta agus Céanna
      1040. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh plean gnó maidir le forbairt na cé ar Inis Oírr; an bhfuil...
    • CLÁR Programme
      1041. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the 2021 CLÁR programme will be launched; the new measures being considered for inclusion in the 2021 programme; and if she...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1042. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress on developing remote hubs which will have an enduring benefit to the country; if access to broadband is an impediment to...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1043. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress on the development of broadband connection points in which her Department played a key role in the identification of...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      1044. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the local improvement scheme; if further funding will be allocated to this scheme to clear the backlog; and if she will...
    • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
      1045. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects to announce the next recipients of funding under measures 2 and 3 of the outdoor recreation and infrastructure...
    • National Volunteering Strategy
      1047. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made by the national advisory group on the national volunteering strategy and the implementation of same; and if she...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      1048. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to broaden the town and village renewal scheme funding to towns with a population over 10,000 for Covid-19 measures...
    • LEADER Programmes
      1049. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position on the funding of LEADER; the way in which funds are allocated to LEADER; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      1050. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the expected timeframe for the announcement of details in relation to the funding stream for the town and village renewal scheme,...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1051. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of additional BCP programme applications received per local authority area to date; the average waiting time for...

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