Written answers
Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Credit Guarantee Scheme
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the credit guarantee scheme should be amended to ensure a greater approval rate from banks on loan applications...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) on casual traders and the Covid-19 business aid scheme will receive...
- Departmental Funding
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered implementing a Covid-19 support scheme that does not require being a commercial rate payer; and if he will make a...
- Food Prices
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has carried out studies and analysis of the effects of the removal of the groceries order in 2006; if consideration...
- Ministerial Correspondence
7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 1 December 2020, if the correspondence received by him on 20 November 2020 has received...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which Covid-related supports can remain in place in order to facilitate a much-needed economic boost if and when Covid-19...
- Brexit Issues
11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which various issues arising from Brexit have been identified as negatively impacting on the economy; the extent of the...
- Trade Data
13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which Irish exports to the UK and the European Union have fluctuated since Brexit; and if he will make a statement on...
- Enterprise Support Services
15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which incentives continue to be made available to encourage the manufacturing and services sectors given the impact of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he continues to liaise with the manufacturing and services sectors throughout Ireland with a view to continuing to...
- Local Enterprise Offices
19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if further particular incentives are being considered to encourage the entrepreneurial skills of younger persons with particular...
- Foreign Direct Investment
22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which a demand still exists for the location of international call centres in Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
- Enterprise Data
24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which the workforce here continues to have the increased skills necessary to meet modern market requirements; the extent...
- Work Permits
25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which provision can be made to expedite the application process for work permits, given the increased demand in this...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- National Broadband Plan
27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action that will be taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) is provided with fibre broadband or a suitable...
- Climate Change Advisory Council
28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it will be ensured that future appointees to the Climate Change Advisory Council will have relevant public health...
- Illegal Dumping
29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when legislation will be published by his Department to deal with the difficulties being encountered by local...
- Sustainable Development Goals
30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the stakeholder forum on the sustainable development goals; the membership of that group; the dates of...
- Legislative Measures
31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an issue raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding the Climate Action and Low Carbon...
- National Broadband Plan
32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of fibre broadband to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in...
- Inland Fisheries
34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the person or body that has responsibility for inland fisheries here considering the launch on 27 January 2021 of a new...
- Government Communications
36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that have been taken regarding the Review of International Practices in Government Communications June 2019...
- Legislative Measures
37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that has been made in introducing legislation with regard to the EU conflict minerals regulation; the...
- Just Transition Fund
38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will include the horticultural peat industry in the just transition programme; and if he will make a statement on...
- North-South Interconnector
39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements, including meetings, briefings and so on, he has had regarding the North-South interconnector since...
- Environmental Policy
40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the decision to cease the production of moss peat will be reconsidered in view of the fact that the horticultural...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which his Department continues to monitor the various factors contributing to carbon production; the way a...
- Environmental Policy
43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the most important steps that can be taken here to address the issue of climate change while at the same time balancing...
- Air Pollution
44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which air quality continues to be monitored at various locations throughout the country; the trends...
- Climate Change Policy
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which his Department monitors targets deemed to address the issue of emissions and climate change; the...
- Telecommunications Infrastructure
47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which provision continues to be made for improvements in the telecommunications sector with particular...
- Broadband Infrastructure
49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which forward planning is taking place with a view to expediting the roll-out of broadband throughout...
- Waste Management
51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which domestic waste is catered for by way of landfill, reduce, recycle or reuse methods, incineration or...
- Energy Infrastructure
52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which dependency on fossil fuels has been reduced in line with national and international targets; and if...
- Energy Policy
53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent of the shift away from fossil fuels for the generation of electricity; if this is in line with targets; and...
- Waste Management
54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which measures are in place or are being contemplated to reduce levels of plastic currently in use; and if...
- Departmental Investigations
55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which various specimens of fish caught in Irish waters have been tested for levels of microplastics; the...
- Broadband Infrastructure
57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which steps can be taken to rapidly improve the roll-out of broadband in towns, villages and rural areas...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Transport
59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to retrofit windows on Iarnród Éireann trains to facilitate greater air ventilation in view of the ongoing Covid-19...
- Light Rail Projects
61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to extend the Luas to Rathfarnham; if planning has been carried out on the project; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Driver Licences
62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the poor quality of the photograph on new driver licences when compared to the public services card and so on given that...
- Driver Test
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provisions that have been put in place for front-line workers to allow them to sit their driver theory test under level 5...
- Driver Licences
64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the driver licence of a person (details supplied) will be extended. [9087/21]
- Rail Network
65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding was sanctioned or authorised by his Department since 2018 for Irish Rail towards the publication of the recent report by a...
- Departmental Funding
66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contact details for the sections that deals with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency under...
- Road Projects
67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if final payments have gone to the contractor for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9140/21]
- Driver Licences
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver licence applications and renewals that are currently awaiting processing; the average wait time by county in tabular...
- Road Projects
70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will meet with a deputation from Tipperary County Council concerning the N24 Motorway project; if he will engage with Tipperary...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a relative can travel to a European country to provide care support to a daughter during recuperation from a serious operation; and if...
- Road Projects
72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence in respect of a road project (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the project team will engage meaningfully...
- Brexit Issues
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons working here as of November 2020 under a transport management certificate of professional competence attained in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with representatives of airlines since he assumed office including virtual meetings; and the details of the persons or...
- Bus Services
78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a commitment made two years ago to provide a public bus service for Carlow will be delivered on; the estimated costs involved; the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if international travel restrictions in place during Covid-19 level 5 also apply to private small aircraft entering Ireland; and if he...
- Legislative Measures
80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of resolving the legal lacuna with regard to the control of horse-drawn carriages legislation in Dublin city (details...
- National Transport Authority
81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress of the construction of the national train control centre, the preferred location for which is Heuston...
- Electric Vehicles
82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to encourage the expansion of and investment in the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles which is...
- Driver Licences
83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans regarding an extension to the driver licence renewal dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9261/21]
- Driver Test
84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the backlog of those waiting to sit the driver test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9262/21]
- Driver Licences
86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department proposes to facilitate medically vulnerable persons to renew their driver licence during the Covid-19...
- Motor Tax
87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the motor tax fees collected by his Department by county and month in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs
88. To ask the Minister for Finance if State employees who have worked from home since March 2020 can claim the work from home tax relief through the Revenue Commissioners; and if not, if this...
- Economic Policy
89. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he continues to monitor the double impact of Covid-19 and Brexit on the economy; the extent to which measures in place or anticipated are...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
90. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is scope to extend the backdating of the Covid restrictions support scheme further than eight weeks to encompass companies that had issues with the...
- Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
92. To ask the Minister for Finance if the recent changes in vehicle registration tax, VRT, will be expanded in order that they are reflected in exemption relief on VRT and VAT as it pertains to...
- Banking Sector
93. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to plans to make an exemption for negative interest rates on solicitor client accounts, in particular, client monies being held...
- Departmental Funding
94. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency under the remit of his...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
95. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, who return to work in 2021 with regard to tax credits and standard rate...
- Social and Affordable Housing
96. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of the Central Bank on the proposed shared equity loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9190/21]
- Insurance Industry
99. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made by his Department in tackling the high cost of insurance and the competitiveness of the insurance market here; and if he will make a...
- Value Added Tax
100. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the operation of the VAT refund scheme for charities which he introduced; his views on the uptake of the scheme; and if he will make a statement...
- EU Funding
101. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland plans to apply for loans under the EU Recovery and Resilience Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9304/21]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Civil Service
102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether a social media policy for public servants referred to in an article (details supplied) undermines the right of...
- Departmental Funding
103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency under...
- Quarrying Sector
104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the requirements placed on local councils to ensure that the stone and sand and other similar materials that the council or...
- Coastal Erosion
105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received correspondence from Cork County Council in respect of an application for minor coastal works (details supplied). [9285/21]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Capital Programme
106. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if sports capital funding will be awarded to a club (details supplied). [9016/21]
- Tourism Funding
107. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to an issue affecting some businesses affiliated to an organisation with regard to the tourism...
- Sports Funding
108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if sports capital funding will be awarded to a club (details supplied). [9048/21]
- Print Media
109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the meeting between her officials and an organisation (details supplied) on 17 February 2021; her views on...
- Sports Capital Programme
110. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a grant to a club (details supplied) has still not been paid despite all documentation being provided; if she will...
- Departmental Information
111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the contact details for the sections that deals with all ongoing and established grant funding in her Department and in each...
- Cycling Facilities
112. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to commence construction of Ireland's first indoor velodrome. [9203/21]
- Ministerial Meetings
113. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met with owners of newspapers or media outlets either virtually or in person since she assumed office; and if so, the...
- Sports Organisations
114. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met with representatives from an organisation (details supplied) either virtually or in person since she assumed...
- Tourism Industry
115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if sites (details supplied) will be eligible to apply for the tourism business continuity scheme; and if she will make a statement...
- Horse Sport Ireland
117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding her Department has directed to Horse Sport Ireland since 2006; and the amount granted by Sport Ireland since...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Environmental Policy
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken to reduce the extent to which microplastics are damaging marine life; the practical decisions taken or likely...
- National Monuments
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent since 2016 in stabilising the buildings at 14-17 Moore Street, Dublin including the stabilisation work that...
- Housing Issues
121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding inhumane living conditions; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Planning Issues
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the €20 fee for members of Dáil Éireann to submit planning observations given it is free for...
- Communications Masts
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the legislation and licensing process which allows intrusive mobile phone masts to be erected without...
- Departmental Funding
124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each...
- Housing Issues
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the contract to build 180 housing units, a hospital and a car park in Coonagh, County Limerick; if the hospital...
- Home Loan Scheme
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the location in the documentation relating to the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme in which there is a specific criteria...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the application for consent for the Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant which was lodged with his Department by...
- Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered making early payments on the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme in 2021 in order to have funds...
- Animal Welfare
131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the detailed allegations made against a pound (details supplied) and the follow-up of the allegations. [9254/21]
- Horticulture Sector
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the working group to examine the findings from the review of the use of peat moss in horticulture will be established;...
- Land Development Agency
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his estimate of the total area of public lands owned by public bodies listed in schedule 1 and 2 of the draft Land Development...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authority workers who can work from home are being facilitated in that matter; the checks he has put in place to...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Expenditure
135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of expenditure for each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, showing consultancy, financial, legal, recruitment,...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that can be taken in relation to a person who is in Brazil and their flight may be cancelled; and if repatriation flights will be...
- Foreign Policy
137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the official position of the State on the military coup in Myanmar; if it has been conveyed to the coup forces; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency under the...
- Human Rights
139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and response to the ongoing farmer protests in New Delhi, India; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9185/21]
- International Criminal Court
140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and response to the decision by the International Criminal Court in the Hague which confirmed that it has jurisdiction over the...
- Middle East
141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on and response to the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods of east...
- Diplomatic Representation
142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 11 February 2021, the date that each embassy applied for permission to operate polling stations...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will take on the issue of global access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments given that the United Nations Security Council will...
- Middle East
144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the 1993 Oslo Accords did not result in devolved authority to the Palestinians for public health in view of the...
- Department of Defence
- Ministerial Responsibilities
145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the purpose of the defence meetings listed in the diary of the Minister of State on 22 December 2020, 26 and 29 January 2021 in the context of...
- Departmental Funding
154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency under the...
- Vaccination Programme
155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it will be ensured that all Army personnel who are going on peacekeeping duties abroad will receive the Covid-19 vaccine before they depart...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Legislative Measures
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing section 13, duty of the Minister and Minister for Health and Children to make resources available, in...
- Departmental Strategies
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Statement of Strategy 2021 to 2023 will be published by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9007/21]
- Citizens' Assembly
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 482 of 10 February 2021, if the remit for the citizens' assembly for education will be limited to...
- State Examinations
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to a deadline when a decision and details of assessment for examinations cohorts, that is, junior certificate, leaving...
- Educational Disadvantage
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new DEIS identification model will be finalised and implemented by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9012/21]
- Special Educational Needs
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to an immediate increase in SET hours when school buildings reopen and for September 2021 to reflect the...
- Departmental Legal Costs
172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal costs incurred by her Department arising from litigation involving children with special educational needs for each of the years 2015...
- State Examinations
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the leaving certificate; if clarification will be provided for parents, students and teachers; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider making it a requirement that all schools in receipt of public funding would have to facilitate an ASD unit, given the huge...
- School Funding
181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for special education and accessible playgrounds and equipment within schools. [9120/21]
- Departmental Funding
182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in her Department and in each agency under the...
- School Enrolments
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can assist a new primary school in receiving feeder school status in an area when it faces difficulty in securing places for...
- Special Educational Needs
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of ASD classrooms in the Dublin 4, 6 and 6W areas will be conducted urgently. [9158/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that children with special needs in mainstream classes will be able to return to school on 22 February 2021 at...
- Schools Building Projects
186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); when it will receive final sanction; if this project be able to progress under...
- School Attendance
188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Tusla has made provision for Tusla education support service, TESS, reporting during Covid-19 specifically for children who must take an...
- School Accommodation
189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will make additional funding available to a school (details supplied) to ease the ongoing financial burden of having to hire a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is planned to reopen the special schools that opened partially on 11 February 2021 on a full-time basis, given that many studies show...
- School Accommodation
191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will make additional funding available to a school (details supplied) to ease the ongoing financial burden of having to hire a...
- Special Educational Needs
192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans to construct a special needs unit attached to a school (details supplied); if the unit will be integrated within the main...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the phased reopening of schools; if the children of essential and front-line workers will be prioritised; and if she will make a...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Exceptional Needs Payment
195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if bills relating to digital costs or necessary one-off purchases of digital devices can be supported under the exceptional...
- Employment Support Services
196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a policy review under way in respect of the short-time working week; the purpose of the review; if a circular has...
- Social Welfare Schemes
197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in processing the claim for short-time working week for a person (details supplied); when the claim...
- Rural Social Scheme
198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for reviewing the six-year rule on participation on rural social schemes; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Departmental Data
199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the contact details for the sections that deals with all ongoing and established grant funding in her Department and in each...
- State Pensions
200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will become eligible for a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Schemes
201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the listed certifying professional organisations beyond a union (details supplied) in order to allow...
- Disability Allowance
202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability benefit in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [9232/21]
- Adoption Data
203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2019 to provide full access to birth certificates for adopted persons; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if long-term recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment will be become eligible for community employment schemes; and if...
- Exceptional Needs Payment
205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a bereavement exceptional needs payment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Funding
206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of funding granted to each organisation under the national integration fund 2020, in tabular form...
- Departmental Schemes
207. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the forthcoming scheme for playgrounds will include accessible equipment for playgrounds on school...
- Adoption Data
208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which survivors of Protestant homes can access their personal records following the closure of an...
- Child and Family Agency
209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the funding challenges facing an organisation (details supplied) which have...
- Joint Labour Committees
210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department...
- Child and Family Agency
212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 461, 462, 463, 464 and 465 of 3 February 2021, if he will request Tusla...
- Adoption Data
213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to amend the Adoption Act 2010 to provide full access to birth certificates for adopted persons; and...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the provisions that the full archive held by Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Higher Education Institutions
216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to higher education institutions charging gym fees for the current academic year despite the lack of access to...
- Further and Higher Education
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional 2,500 college course places will be provided in 2021, in addition to the 2,500 places provided in 2020. [9080/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the outbreak of Covid-19 currently being experienced by the National University of Ireland Galway; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Citizenship Status
222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for applications for citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9058/21]
- Immigration Status
225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
- Departmental Funding
227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in her Department and in each...
- Immigration Status
228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a case pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) in the case...
- Garda Data
229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently stationed in each county. [9226/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to outbreaks of Covid-19 in prisons in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Sex Offenders Treatment Programme
231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make the Building Better Lives treatment programme compulsory for sex offenders serving a custodial sentence; and...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, has sufficient resources to carry out...
- Community Policing
233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions she has had with the Garda Commissioner on community engagement following the death of a person (details...
- Visa Applications
234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9330/21]
- Deportation Orders
235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a revocation of a deportation order will take place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- Naturalisation Applications
237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will have an application for naturalisation approved; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
238. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment available to patients who present to the accident and emergency department of Tallaght Hospital with a mental health issue; and if he will make a...
- Disability Diagnoses
240. To ask the Minister for Health the impact for a parent in obtaining the additional treatments for the development of their child in a public setting in cases in which the parent obtained an...
- Mental Health Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has a monopoly on training for safeguarding vulnerable adults; and his plans to address same. [9024/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
242. To ask the Minister for Health if all persons with medical conditions which put them at high risk of severe disease will be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out rather than being...
- Mental Health Services
243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for Jigsaw; the average waiting time in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by community healthcare...
- Gender Equality
244. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE considers the Dutch Protocol to be best practice internationally with respect to gender dysphoria; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
245. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9044/21]
- Water Fluoridation
246. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the permissible levels of fluoride in drinking water in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9053/21]
- Vaccination Programme
247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9055/21]
- Drugs Payment Scheme
248. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine is not covered by the drugs payment card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9056/21]
- Health Services Reports
249. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has conducted a workforce census of the entire public and private health and social care system; the breakdown or estimates of workers across...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
250. To ask the Minister for Health the systems in place under the Covid-19 national vaccination strategy to address conscientious objection by doctors to vaccine administration; the reassurances...
- Counselling Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting appointments under the National Counselling Service in County Mayo; the waiting times for each service for CaPA, CIPC and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
262. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9101/21]
- Covid-19 Tests
263. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of each individual Covid-19 testing centre; the average number of tests completed per day in each of the past four weeks in tabular form; and if...
- Hospital Appointments Status
265. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent cancellation of all paediatric diabetes clinic appointments in the Regional Hospital Mullingar due to ongoing...
- Departmental Funding
266. To ask the Minister for Health the contact details for the sections that deal with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency under the remit of his...
- General Practitioner Services
267. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made by general practitioners for consultant appointments in January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9147/21]
- Hospital Data
268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient appointments seen by a consultant in each month in 2018, 2019, 2020 and in January 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
275. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to establish a vaccination centre in Bray, County Wicklow; if so, the stage plans are currently at; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
278. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications submitted to the HSE via the Central Remedial Clinic for selective dorsal rhizotomy under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the...
- Respite Care Services
279. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration his Department has given to date to ensuring adequate funding is made available or other such arrangements advised to progress the...
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use
280. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce primary legislation or new statutory instruments relating to the availability of cannabis for medicinal use in Ireland; and if he will...
- Disability Services Provision
282. To ask the Minister for Health when HSE funding will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [9173/21]
- Vaccination Programme
284. To ask the Minister for Health if patients that are undergoing dialysis treatment and those who are transplant recipients will be treated as categories of persons that would be prioritised...
- Counselling Services
286. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting appointments under the National Counselling Service in County Limerick; and the waiting times for each service for CaPA, CIPC...
- Vaccination Programme
288. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some large community general practitioner practices have arranged safe use of community halls for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
291. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which either Covid-19 positive patients or patients who have not tested negative twice were discharged from...
- National Children's Hospital
293. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the construction of the national children's hospital to date. [9214/21]
- Ministerial Meetings
295. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with any person or family who identified themselves as persons effected by the various scandals involving the CervicalCheck screening programme...
- Pension Provisions
296. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the increases due to the pension of a person (details supplied) did not issue in September 2019 and in September 2020; and if all outstanding...
- Ambulance Service
297. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a procurement process in place to provide bottled water for use by staff and patients in the ambulance service; if it is HSE policy to provide...
- Vaccination Programme
299. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for not allowing general practitioners to carry out vaccinations in larger facilities, for example, in local sports halls; and if he will make a...
- Disabilities Assessments
300. To ask the Minister for Health his views on claims that the preliminary team assessment falls short of the standard required to deliver a proper assessment of a possible diagnosis of a child...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to representations (details supplied) regarding wedding issues and the numbers allowed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9249/21]
- Vaccination Programme
305. To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible for residents and or citizens of Ireland to travel to Northern Ireland for receipt of the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
307. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a mobility scooter by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9274/21]
- Vaccination Programme
309. To ask the Minister for Health if the classification of key workers in the vaccine allocation plan has been decided; if this group will include early years professionals; and if he will make...
- Medical Cards
315. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card renewal will be complete in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9355/21]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Greyhound Industry
316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the imminent sale of a site (details supplied); the communication he has had with Longford County...
- Aquaculture Licences
317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an aquaculture licence application by a person (details supplied). [9022/21]
- Beef Industry
318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the quotes and prices for cattle has fallen in factories after extra funding being allocated to them to offset the impact...
- EU Agreements
319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the list of priority vessels allowed to fish in UK waters; the way in which the list was drawn up; if the...
- Food Industry
320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the possibility of establishing an independent beef regulator separate and distinct from the proposed office of...
- Departmental Funding
321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contact details for the sections that deals with all ongoing and established grant funding in his Department and in each agency...
- Aquaculture Licences
322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the number of aquaculture licences currently in appeal for a harbour (details supplied); and if he...
- Forestry Sector
323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9163/21]
- Beef Industry
324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the beef task force meetings will be live streamed in the interest of transparency and accountability; if he will consider...
- Animal Identification Schemes
325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on providing a DNA system of traceability for the beef sector; if he has examined the cost of such a system and the...
- Beef Industry
326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the beef task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9235/21]
- Ministerial Correspondence
327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 11 February 2021, if his officials assisted gardaí and or were questioned by...
- Horse Racing Industry
328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans he is putting in place to allow for the recommencement of the point-to-point spring season; and if he will make a statement...
- Live Exports
329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of live cattle exported to the UK in each of the years 2015 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
- Agriculture Industry
332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the reduced supply and increasing costs of fertiliser products; his plans to take measures to address this issue; and if...
- Horse Sport Ireland
333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding his Department has directed to Horse Sport Ireland since 2006, by year and amount in tabular form. [9359/21]
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
335. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contact details for the sections that deals with all ongoing and established grant funding in her Department and in each agency...
