Written answers

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • European Council Meetings
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of formal and informal Council of the European Union meetings that have been held since 27 June 2020 under the remit of his Department; and the number of formal...
    • Live Register
      2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons between the ages of 18 to 25 on the live register in an area (details supplied). [11101/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the costs associated with researching, drawing up and publishing the Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021 Plan for Living with COVID-19. [11257/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      4. To ask the Taoiseach the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be non-compliant with procurement...
    • Covid-19 Paindéim
      5. To ask the Taoiseach cén fáth nár fhoilsigh an Rialtas leagan Gaeilge den doiciméad dár teideal Recovery and Renewal: The Path Ahead comhuaineach leis an leagan...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Enterprise Support Services
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding provided to community co-working space in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Company Registration
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Company Registration Office has taken steps to streamline and speed up works to allow common tasks such as company...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland is currently accepting new applications for the sustaining enterprise fund; the number of applications that are...
    • Redundancy Payments
      16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports his Department will arrange to be put in place to support those who will be made compulsorily redundant by a company...
    • Company Law
      18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the impact that the outsourcing of the functions of a company (details supplied) to Malaysia will have in terms of reporting to the...
    • Work Permits
      19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly figures for employment permits provided in respect of persons from Brazil in the agri-food sector and overall for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for businesses with mobile premises, premises which are not permanently fixed in place and premises on which no...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if funding will be made available through Enterprise Ireland for the development of a golf training facility and golf pro academy for...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will...
    • Customs and Excise
      26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the post-Brexit reality of the application of a 10% customs duty on a used vehicle not of UK origin imported into...
    • Statutory Retirement Age
      27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding retirement age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11473/21]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of court prosecutions initiated by the Workplace Relations Commission in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form....
    • Social Media Regulation
      29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to allow for social media and other online platforms that link or allow for sharing of content created by news websites to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if travel agents are eligible for the new COVID-19 business aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11653/21]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies that will enter the food works programme in 2021. [11695/21]
    • Grant Payments
      37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount provided in grants to a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [11698/21]
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Health and Safety Authority inspections in each month since September 2020 nationally and specifically in construction...
    • Work Permits
      39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly figures for employment permits provided for persons to work in various sectors by sector including the agri-food sector...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when eligible businesses can apply for the Covid-19 business aid scheme. [11718/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the European Union’s blockage of the Waiver from Certain Provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if supports are available or will be provided for businesses in...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to small start-up businesses that have not begun trading yet but have been attempting to start up in the midst...
    • Trade Agreements
      44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if representations were made by his Department on behalf of the Irish cultural industry in negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will open the humanitarian flood support scheme for weather events in February 2021 (details supplied). [12032/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce a support scheme for businesses that do not pay rates. [12111/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Post Office Network
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the necessary financial support as proposed by a union (details supplied) will be provided to establish an annual...
    • Climate Action Plan
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date for the publication of the updated climate action plan. [10973/21]
    • Just Transition Fund
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date for the commencement of the first tranche of payments to projects approved to date under the Just Transition...
    • Climate Change Policy
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date for the publication of a hydrogen policy statement. [10976/21]
    • Bord na Móna
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish findings by his Department on the recommended future uses for the peat plant sites at Shannonbridge,...
    • Climate Action Plan
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the level of delays in completion of actions within the existing Climate Action Plan; his...
    • Climate Change Policy
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures being taken by his Department to include 6% of hedgerows in calculations relating to carbon sequestration...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the availability of SEAI grants for those in private homes to retrofit and insulate their homes;...
    • Postal Services
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence on an issue in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); if the issue will...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details...
    • Energy Efficiency
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on matters raised in correspondence in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • National Broadband Plan
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to address the situation of homes in rural areas that cannot and will not be serviced by private...
    • Fuel Poverty
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of families experiencing fuel debt; and the estimated number of families facing or experiencing fuel poverty....
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if decisions taken by the Government itself, as opposed to Ministers or Departments, will be exempted from and outside...
    • Climate Change Policy
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of purchasing credits to meet emissions and renewable energy targets in each of the years 2010 to 2020. [11567/21]
    • Energy Efficiency
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his 2030 target for energy efficiency. [11569/21]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the impact greenhouse gas permits granted to data centres will have on meeting EU ETS targets. [11570/21]
    • Environmental Schemes
      72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated amount of revenue expected to be raised through the auction of allowances under the emissions trading...
    • Climate Action Plan
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his Department expects to produce its updated National Energy and Climate Plan. [11573/21]
    • Environmental Schemes
      74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of revenue raised by the EPA through penalties for failing to surrender necessary allowances under the EU...
    • Better Energy Communities Programme
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of community retrofit grant, formerly better energy communities recipients, who installed photovoltaic solar...
    • Energy Policy
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for energy storage to coincide with offshore wind generation. [11578/21]
    • Fuel Poverty
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a report was commissioned on the fuel stamps scheme of a charity (details supplied) to determine the scope for...
    • National Broadband Plan
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of fibre broadband to an area (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a...
    • Illegal Dumping
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to establishing a national anti-illegal dumping campaign; if he is satisfied that current...
    • Environmental Policy
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will review and change its policy on the use of waste timber from the construction industry to allow...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter regarding the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a community (details supplied) will receive fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11794/21]
    • Waste Management
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when legislation will be introduced to enable a deposit return scheme for cans and bottles; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be able to avail of efibre broadband. [11914/21]
    • Better Energy Communities Programme
      92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on expanding the communities energy grant scheme to allow grants to be made available to community...
    • Energy Efficiency
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review the reports on the 2017-2018 pilot programme that was run through the SEAI that sought to increase the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the...
    • North-South Interconnector
      95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will have issues raised by a local authority given urgent consideration in view of the widespread concerns in...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Biofuel Obligation Scheme
      96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date for the publication of the policy statement of his Department on the biofuel obligation scheme. [10975/21]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cross-Border greenway projects being considered as part of the Shared Island Fund. [11807/21]
    • Electric Vehicles
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide usage statistics for all publicly available electric vehicle chargers; his plans to provide more chargers in response...
    • Aviation Industry
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 46 of 25 November 2020, 158 of 8 December 2020 and 145 of 3 February 2021, if his officials have...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if guidance for driving instructors and a timeframe for return to driver lessons will be included in the new living with Covid framework;...
    • Motor Tax
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the provision of motor taxation payment services in post offices here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans in place to upgrade the Waterford to Dublin line by providing a second track on the section where currently only...
    • Road Network
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 17 February 2021, if updated information will be provided as the information provided...
    • Traffic Management
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of funding that has been allocated to Kildare County Council over the past ten years from either his Department or the...
    • Driver Test
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to address the waiting lists for driver tests; if additional resources can be put in place to reduce the backlog of...
    • Rail Network
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has undertaken feasibility studies in regard to increasing the use of rail freight in Ireland. [11076/21]
    • Driver Test
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the possibility to move driver theory tests online to alleviate the current backlog in testing; and if he will make...
    • Tourism Industry
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) can be addressed in the short term; when a decision is likely...
    • Driver Licences
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a verified MyGovID is needed to renew a driver licence online; the legislative basis for this requirement; and if he will make...
    • Electric Vehicles
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that grants for electric vehicles are being used to help purchase high-end luxury vehicles...
    • Local Authority Funding
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of monies allocated to each local authority under the regional and local roads fund in tabular form. [11100/21]
    • Airport Policy
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a commitment will be given to keep Cork Airport open and to support its success upon the eventual return to international travel....
    • Tourism Data
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of admissions to Bunratty Folk Park in each of the years 2015 to 2019 by adult, seniors, children and members admission; the...
    • Driver Test
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to permit learner drivers who have already commenced the 12 lessons as part of the essential driver training course to complete...
    • Local Authority Funding
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the requirement regarding grants funded by his Department and administered by the NTA to local...
    • Driver Licences
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11315/21]
    • Electric Vehicles
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons can avail of cable protectors in order to charge electric vehicles parked on-street from their homes in cases in which the...
    • Dublin Bus
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to changing the terminus of the 46A bus route in Dublin city to Heuston Station reflecting the needs of...
    • Driver Licences
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a front-line worker will receive a driver licence (details supplied). [11346/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will...
    • Rail Network
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the oversight his Department had with Iarnród Éireann in setting the terms of references for a report (details supplied) on the...
    • Taxi Licences
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the inactive status of a taxi licence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has considered extending the ten-year rule for taxi operators whose vehicles are due to be replaced in 2021; his views...
    • Taxi Data
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of illegal taxi operators detected in 2019 and 2020; the number of illegal operators detected in each county; the number of...
    • Ministerial Communications
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken virtually with the chief executive officer of Dublin Bus to date in 2021. [11557/21]
    • Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buggy and wheelchair zones that will be on the new buses purchased for Bus Éireann and the Dublin Bus fleet. [11558/21]
    • Driver Test
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on immediately introducing an online driver theory test for all categories of licences; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Railway Stations
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to construct a Greystones north DART train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11612/21]
    • Driver Test
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to allow for workers in essential industries to sit a driver theory test. [11620/21]
    • Pension Provisions
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the CIÉ pension scheme discussions; if he recognises the concerns of workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the National Transport Authority to further extend the validity of 2020 annual tax saver tickets given that public...
    • Taxi Licences
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a taxi plate which is due to expire soon will be extended for a person (details supplied). [11727/21]
    • Driver Test
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered holding the driver theory test online to clear the backlog and allow it to proceed during Covid-19 restrictions; and...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific options currently being considered for the Narrow Water Bridge project; the expected timeframe for a defined and costed...
    • Airport Passenger Data
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers arriving into each airport in Ireland on a weekly basis since 1 January 2021 by country of original departure in...
    • Cycling Policy
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to encourage the four Dublin local authorities possibly through the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly to examine the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to establish new schemes, funding and national regulations to encourage more entrants to the car-sharing market; and if he will...
    • Cycling Facilities
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the original plan for the 22 km Dublin Bay Sutton to Sandycove cycle route, S2S, which was planned as a predominantly...
    • Driver Licences
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11988/21]
    • Proposed Legislation
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schedule now being followed in respect of proposed legislation to deal with the menace of quad bikes and scramblers; and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will grant an extension for learning permits and certificates of competence in line with the extension of driver licences in view...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will fully implement regulation 2021/267 published in the Official Journal of the European Union with regard to the automatic...
    • Driver Test
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a bus test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12077/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to extend the deadline for holders of TM CPC UK certificates to exchange same for EU or Irish certificates; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider bringing car and tractor theory tests online in line with bus and lorry theory tests; and if he will make a statement...
    • National Broadband Plan
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the introduction of Leap cards and associated fares on the Mallow to Cork rail line. [12134/21]
    • Bus Services
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the introduction of contactless ticketing for bus services in Cork. [12135/21]
    • Roads Maintenance
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding is provided to local authorities for the maintenance and upkeep of all types of roads on the islands; the funding provided by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if concerns raised by employees in a company (details supplied) in respect of future supports will receive a response; and if he will...
  • Department of Finance
    • Customs and Excise
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding car imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11745/21]
    • Banking Sector
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the proposed sale of a loan book by a bank (details supplied) which includes loans which the bank had previously agreed to...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he can take to ensure that first payments on new mortgages can be deferred where the homeowner is unable to move into his or her new home from...
    • Interest Rates
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that moneys held in solicitor client accounts will shortly be liable for the imposition of negative interest rates...
    • Tax Yield
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue accrued from the deemed disposal tax in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11007/21]
    • Mortgage Lending
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that mortgage providers are currently unwilling to extend mortgage approval for customers whose approval lapses...
    • Value Added Tax
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a VAT registration application made by a company (details supplied); when he expects the VAT number will be issued to the company; and if he...
    • Motor Tax
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reassessing the method by which motor tax is calculated to a system by which the cars that produce more harmful exhausts are liable for...
    • Tax Rebates
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will review the list of eligible sectors from which workers can claim relief for expenses incurred by virtue of their job to...
    • Banking Licences
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if the special purpose vehicle to be established with participating banks as part of the affordable purchase shared equity scheme will be required to obtain a...
    • Tax Data
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of betting duty collected between 1 January and 31 December 2020; the amount collected to date in 2021; the amount in betting intermediary duty...
    • Customs and Excise
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of goods containers that entered Dublin Port between 1 and 31 December 2020 from countries outside of the EU, in tabular form. [11260/21]
    • Tax Data
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to conduct an analysis of betting duty and betting intermediary duty in the context of the sources it is derived from. [11276/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if employees resident in Northern Ireland but working and paying tax here are eligible employees under the employment wage subsidy scheme in cases in which...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised through vehicle registration tax in each of the years 2015 to 2020, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11344/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be non-compliant with...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will specifically address the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to enhance the Covid restrictions support scheme to target businesses with a 75% drop in revenue and to remove the current €5,000 weekly...
    • Haulage Industry
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a concession for diesel in haulage similar to the agricultural sector or support schemes for the haulage sector to offset fuel price...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11482/21]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11483/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding those travel agency businesses that operate remotely and are thereby excluded from business supports, such as the Covid-19 business aid...
    • Legislative Measures
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the legislation providing for the senior executive accountability regime; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Value Added Tax
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance the action his Department has taken to respond to the application of the VAT margin scheme on second-hand cars imported from Great Britain into Northern...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing VRT on second-hand imported vehicles to offset the increase in VRT in order to address the disadvantage caused by the application...
    • EU Directives
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance if he supports the legal implementation of public country-by-country reporting with regard to the proposed EU directive discussed at the Council of Ministers...
    • Mortgage Lending
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties for those buying homes in respect of mortgage approvals lasting for only six months in view of current...
    • Horse and Greyhound Fund
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if the minimum allocation to the Horse and Greyhound Fund is bound by the wording of Part 3 section 12(4) of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001, which...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that tax credits are being deducted from pandemic unemployment payment and temporary wage subsidy scheme...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the NAMA boardroom at its new premises. [11772/21]
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the NTMA boardroom at its new premises. [11773/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider, in view of the level 5 Covid-19 restrictions being in place for a significant proportion of the duration of the stay and spend scheme,...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 17 February 2021, if he will address the issue raised, namely, that the Revenue Commissioners had not informed...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the commission on welfare and taxation; the membership of the commission; the resources and terms of reference of same; when the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available to small start-up businesses that have not begun trading yet but have been attempting to start up in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis;...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of their difficulties accessing vital loans through the Strategic Banking...
    • Value Added Tax
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of value added tax collected from the 9% rate to date since its reintroduction; and the amount forgone since the reintroduction of the 9% rate....
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12010/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which jointly assessed persons are treated in respect of tax on the pandemic unemployment payment in instances in which one person remains in...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on increasing the primary medical certificate thresholds in line with VRT increases as per budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12034/21]
    • Interest Rates
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that solicitor client accounts are exempt from negative interest rate charges in order to ensure that persons are not subject...
    • Tax Incentives
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding actions by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12109/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any engagement. [12119/21]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Mortgage Lending
      235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when additional sections of the construction industry will reopen in view of the fact that many mortgage approvals will be due to expire...
    • Office of Public Works
      236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 25 February 2021, if the OPW will consider putting in place portable toilets in the park and...
    • Legislative Reviews
      237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review of the whistle-blower legislation will be instigated. [10830/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the original business case for the setting up of the Office of Government Procurement. [11441/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funds allocated as part of Budget 2021 to payments of the pandemic unemployment payment outside of the recovery and contingency...
    • Public Sector Staff
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are limits on the amount of sick leave a public servant can take; the provisions available to a person who is suffering...
    • State Properties
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the year the lands at a site (details supplied) were acquired by the State; the year the archaeological dig finished on the site; the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to revise the Phoenix Park by-laws that currently ban the use of charabancs and omnibuses; if so, the timeline for same; and...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191 and 192 of 17 February 2021, if the Office of Public Works will open consultation or hold an...
    • Office of Public Works
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the OPW spent on refurbishment of Raheny Garda station, Dublin 5 in each of the years of 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and...
    • Civil Service
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the commitment in action 45 of the National Migrant Integration Strategy to aim to have 1% of the Civil Service...
    • National Development Plan
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the submissions which he has received on the review of the National Development Plan 2018-2027; and if he will classify them into the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any...
    • Office of Public Works
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW made attempts to purchase Garda buildings at Harcourt Square in 2013; the rent paid for those buildings since occupation in...
    • Garda Stations
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the new Garda building project at Military Road, Dublin; if the project is on schedule and within budget; if his attention...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the reference to presumably indoor auditoriums and conferencing and event centres given in the context of outdoor...
    • Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
      256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that Ireland and the European Union did not secure equal protection for cultural industries as secured by Canada in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason County Wexford has been excluded from the grant scheme for outdoor dining infrastructure; and if she will consider...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the frustration of young sports persons, and the effects on their mental health at not being...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the coach tourism business continuity scheme will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11156/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the consideration being given to ensure that gyms can be prioritised in the schedule being considered for reopening of society...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will sanction a 2% increase in pensions in payment for members of the RTÉ superannuation scheme with effect from 1...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under her aegis that were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements she and her officials have had with a group (details supplied); if she...
    • Value Added Tax
      264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has sought a commitment from the Department of Finance to retain the 9% tourism rate of VAT at least up until...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the coach tourism business continuity scheme has still not been distributed to businesses that are relying on this...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a club (details supplied) will have the commitments made regarding the provision of funding of the large-scale sport...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the €50 million expanded live performance scheme will be accepting applications; the parameters or conditions for...
    • Sports Organisations
      268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a sport (details supplied) will receive recognition by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11470/21]
    • Covid-19 Paindéim
      269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ráiteas a dhéanamh mar gheall ar fhoilsiú an doiciméad Recovery and Renewal: The Path Ahead, ina leagtar amach...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the levels under the COVID-19 Resilience and Recovery 2021 - The Path Ahead plan wedding bands and musicians will be allowed to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a coach tourism business continuity scheme application made by a company (details supplied) will be paid; and if she will...
    • Arts Funding
      279. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the live entertainment fund announced in Budget 2021 will be open to workers and SMEs that work in supporting fields such as...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      280. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an organisation (details supplied) expressed an interest in distributing the music industry stimulus package before being...
    • Arts Policy
      281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 17 February 2021, the details of the negotiations between organisations (details...
    • Arts and Culture Capital Scheme
      283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of projects that have received funding under the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; and the amount...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      284. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration has been given to including the English language schools sector in the tourism business continuity scheme given...
    • Tourism Industry
      285. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she anticipates scope for the revival of the tourism sector if measures to contain Covid-19 are successful; if...
    • Arts Promotion
      286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects cultural events to take place virtually throughout the summer having particular regard to the...
    • Arts Policy
      287. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to have dialogue with stakeholders in the entertainment sector with a view to alleviating the...
    • Sports Events
      292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects to be in a position to allow sporting activities including contact sports to take place throughout...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she has evaluated the totality of the losses suffered by the various sectors under the aegis of her Department...
    • Tourism Promotion
      294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she has considered a programme to encourage renewed interest in Ireland for foreign tourists as soon as it...
    • Sports Funding
      299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the necessary funding and support to breakdancing following its recognition by the International Olympic...
    • Departmental Funding
      300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding packages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12079/21]
    • Departmental Functions
      302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter regarding licensed boat operators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12106/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that will be put in place for tourism businesses that do not qualify for the Fáilte Ireland tourism business...
    • National Broadband Plan
      304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expected timeline for the resumption of youth soccer under the COVID-19 Resilience and Recovery 2021: The Path Ahead plan in...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Septic Tanks
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the availability of septic tank grants through the local authority system; the number of grants...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanisms in place to support the housing needs of survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Network
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the second bridge and southern relief route for Newbridge, County Kildare; the recent progress; his...
    • Departmental Schemes
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on providing grants to community centres and community sports centres to install rainwater harvesting systems in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if traffic and parking wardens are categorised as essential workers. [11939/21]
    • Hedge Cutting
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a request to extend the hedge cutting ban until 17 March 2021, to take account of the fact...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons living in temporary accommodation due to household construction are exempt from level 5 restrictions banning...
    • Foreshore Issues
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications granted in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, for foreshore licences for seaweed...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes, and the review of exemptions for...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the proposed wind turbine guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11065/21]
    • Local Authority Schemes
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount and type of grant available to those in local authority housing to retrofit and insulate their homes; if this grant...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to change or adapt the housing aid and housing adaption grants given the problems securing quotes at this...
    • Valuation Office
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence sent to the Valuation Office with regard to a case (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a contract has been granted to a company (details supplied) for the purpose of advice or consultancy services; the value of...
    • Local Authority Housing
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money requested by each local authority under the voids programme in 2020; the number of units proposed to be...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if work on reform measures has been completed for the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme; if he is now in a position to...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent in 2018, 2019 and 2020 on adapting houses for persons with disabilities by county and by type of ownership,...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if scramblers are allowed on National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Archaeological Sites
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the efforts being made to preserve and protect the archaeological heritage of west County Wicklow; if he has consulted with...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body with responsibility for the cost of repairs in circumstances in which poor building standards are...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if...
    • Local Authority Rates
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the local authority rates waiver until the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • World Heritage Sites
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Ireland has recently submitted a tentative list to UNESCO of world heritage sites; the progress in re-examining the...
    • Planning Guidelines
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider replacing a previous condition in the planning regulations which was removed to allow homeowners to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children and young families currently living in temporary or long-term accommodation; and the average waiting...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that will be granted from the urban regeneration and development fund in respect of a second bridge in Newbridge,...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide additional resources to Cork County Council to address the impact of recent flooding due to high rainfall...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 25 February 2021, the timeframe for this designation given that it has been...
    • Local Authority Schemes
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be announced for the disabled persons grant scheme for 2021 for counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status and timelines of commissioned reports into homeless deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11800/21]
    • Local Authority Housing
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the sections of the Housing Acts 1997 to 2014 upon which local authorities can rely in order to evict tenants who are engaged...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests received from the residential tenancies board seeking approval to recruit additional staff in each of...
    • Waste Management
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will include the provision of a bin collection service in the minimum standards required for rental accommodation; and...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants who have applied for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan in Dublin in 2020; and the number of applicants...
    • Local Authority Housing
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of refurbishments carried out under each of the void casual let refurbishment schemes, respectively, by local...
    • Local Authority Rates
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason boarding kennels (details supplied) were not included in the commercial rates waiver; if steps will be made to...
    • Property Registration
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review a case (details supplied); if the Property Registration Authority will provide an update on the case; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Broadband Plan
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      356. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the implementation of each point of Annex B: Irish Government Commitments in the New Decade, New Approach agreement; and if he...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace in November and December...
    • Middle East
      358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the destruction of Palestinian villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      359. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of pending foreign birth registrations; the current processing time; the steps he is taking to make the process more efficient;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      360. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will be participating in the World Health Organisation co-led COVAX scheme; if not, the reason; if so, the number of vaccines...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be...
    • Consular Services
      362. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to appoint a culture officer to the Irish embassy in Paris, France. [11560/21]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      363. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 13 January 2021 and given concerns for the well-being of a person (details supplied), if he...
    • European Council Meetings
      364. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will participate in the proposed video conference at the European Council on 25 and 26 February 2021 at which a discussion will...
    • Passport Applications
      365. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to resume the processing of standard passport applications taking into consideration that the level 5 restrictions have been...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      367. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the suspension of processing of foreign birth registrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/21]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      369. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the UK Government to ensure a full investigation takes place into the death of a person (details supplied). [11895/21]
    • Passport Applications
      371. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason online renewals of passports have been stopped during level 5 Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the review of the management of the election observation roster; the terms of reference of this review; the name of the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any...
  • Department of Defence
    • Vaccination Programme
      376. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Defence Forces currently deployed on peacekeeping duties to areas of conflict all over the world will be vaccinated against...
    • Naval Service
      377. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the planned purchase of a €200 million multirole vessel for the Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      378. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      379. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will...
    • Gender Equality
      380. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the statements made to the Commission on the Defence Forces by an organisation (details supplied) concerning...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      381. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he is taking to address the low number of women, that is, 7% in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on introducing job sharing practices in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11594/21]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      385. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he has taken in response to recent statements by a person (details supplied) regarding academic freedom; and if he will make a...
    • White Paper on Defence
      390. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of the 82 projects listed in the 2015 White Paper on Defence that are completed; and the number deferred until the Commission on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      392. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which the organisation capability review of the Department of Defence will commence; the terms of reference and completion date; and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      393. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the awarding of the contract to a builder for a school (details supplied); and the timeline for the completion of the school....
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the national training programme of special needs assistants is not an accredited course; if she will review this decision; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for a post-primary school in Newcastle, County Dublin. [11014/21]
    • School Accommodation
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new post-primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11036/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the issues facing parents wishing to avail of the in-person supplementary programme relative to the...
    • School Accommodation
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will adequately engage with a school (details supplied) to advance essential school building works. [11053/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a request by a school (details supplied) to put Covid-19 adaptions in place at the school. [11054/21]
    • Third Level Fees
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek a review of the Gaeltacht fees that are being charged for students of a college (details supplied) in 2021; and if she will make...
    • Schools Administration
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a new secondary school at the Curragh, County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if early school leavers will be afforded the opportunity to sit their junior certificate examination; if so, when she expects these exams to be...
    • Counselling Services
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision has been made within her Department to provide counselling services to families with children with specials needs due to the...
    • Schools Administration
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in-person supplementary support for children could be provided on a 1:1 basis by teachers in schools outside of school hours or at weekends as...
    • Education and Training Provision
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to give primary teaching students of a college (details supplied) access to the Gaeltacht grant similar to their colleagues in other...
    • School Transport
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the names of the representatives appointed to the school transport review steering group; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Child Abuse
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation regarding redress for day-pupils who have been subjected to sexual abuse in schools; the number of persons reporting such...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a summer works scheme application by a school (details supplied) submitted in June 2019; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé na socraithe atá á ndéanamh maidir le hábhar-oidí atá ag baint cáilíocht amach le bheith ina...
    • DEIS Scheme
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the proposed reduction in class sizes for primary schools will include infant and vertical DEIS schools; and if she will...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend speech and language unit support to children at second-level; if there are plans to re-examine the access criteria...
    • School Catchment Areas
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an up to date map of the Dublin school catchment areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11292/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the appeals avenue available to parents in cases in which a school should decide on the reallocation of SNAs in a school; the...
    • School Transport
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for a school bus ticket for children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to having children in special education attend schools on consecutive days rather than every other day to ensure...
    • Education and Training Provision
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to attach an accreditation to the ten-month SNA course launched in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11360/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the phased return of schools will receive a response; and if...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under her aegis that were found to be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements she and her officials have had with a group (details supplied); if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the accreditation level that special needs assistants will receive upon completion of the national training programme certificate in inclusive...
    • School Accommodation
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of investment works at schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11453/21]
    • Child and Family Agency
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of absence reports over 20 days recorded by the Tusla education support service in each month since March 2020. [11454/21]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will undertake an assessment of the impact of prolonged school closures on children in Ireland; if she plans to introduce...
    • Special Education Review
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to include hydrocephalus as a condition requiring additional supports in the education system. [11462/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered using transition year to allow students to catch up on missed classes and lessons due to Covid-19 school closures; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of families seeking to support the education and care needs of pupils with complex needs on the supplementary programme during the...
    • School Funding
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans with regard to paying a supplementary grant for emergency works at a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that the extra costs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who do not have adequate access to ICT services for remote learning due to Covid-19. [11524/21]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current special needs assistant and special education teacher to student ratio. [11525/21]
    • Special Education Review
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) diagnosed on the ASD spectrum will be allocated a placement in any catchment or school. [11548/21]
    • State Examinations
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on putting in place plans for the leaving certificate 2022 which incorporate potential restrictions as a result of Covid-19 before...
    • Third Level Fees
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown and the reason for the cost of the online Gaeltacht course to comply with Teaching Council requirements for primary teacher...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support very high risk and high-risk staff with medical vulnerabilities who are anxious regarding the reopening of schools. [11604/21]
    • School Equipment
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the updated guidance on ventilation for schools; and the details of the considerations she has given to the installation of air monitoring...
    • School Transport
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the updated plans in place to ensure that school transport is safe upon the return of schools on 1 March 2021. [11606/21]
    • School Curriculum
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the actions she is taking to progress the reform of relationship and sexuality education in schools. [11623/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units in Cork city and county, both primary and secondary; the location and number of pupils in each school; the number of...
    • School Transport
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of the school transport scheme will take into consideration the next nearest school to a pupil in order to account for those who...
    • School Admissions
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the deadline for schools to publish their amended admissions policies remains September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a facility available to parents and their school going children to remain learning from home once schools reopen in order to avoid...
    • Vaccination Programme
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is scope to advance the schedule of vaccination against Covid-19 for schoolteachers, special needs assistants and all school staff; and...
    • State Examinations
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some schools are choosing to hold a mock leaving certificate examination as soon as students...
    • School Patronage
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns that transfer of a school (details supplied) is being delayed due to the inability of the community mental health...
    • Education Policy
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made for remote learning to continue for leaving certificate school students in circumstances in which their parents who...
    • School Equipment
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers will be supplied with carbon dioxide readers for each classroom. [11694/21]
    • Special Education Review
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider conducting an analysis or doing a report to quantify the impact of school closures on children with special needs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that will be made for children with special needs that choose not to return to school over the coming weeks due to health...
    • Special Educational Needs
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the policy for facilitating ASD units in second-level education; if she is concerned that many secondary schools do not have an...
    • State Examinations
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the leaving certificate applied must be offered to a student in circumstances in which it is deemed more suitable for the student. [11735/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times that section 37A of the Education Act 1998 has been enforced since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals made to her Department in each of the respective categories under section 29 of the Education Act 1998, as amended, in each...
    • Schools Building Projects
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the position of the project in the multi-stage process;...
    • Teacher Training
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to providing educational supports to students in a college (details supplied) due to complete online Gaeltacht...
    • Special Educational Needs
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reviewing the resourcing of classes for moderate general learning disability to bring them on par with the resourcing of ASD...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools outside the remit of the national broadband plan with no access to broadband services by county; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status efforts by her Department in securing a permanent site for a school (details supplied) as per previous correspondence; the number of...
    • Swimming Pool Programme
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will co-locate a public swimming pool with an existing or new-build school in the area of Newbridge or Kildare town, County Kildare; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the instruction being offered to schools and teachers with regard to the social development of pupils scheduled to return to the school setting...
    • School Admissions
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that every pupil who has applied for a place in second-level schools in east County Cork for September 2021 will be offered a...
    • Education Policy
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are grants available for low-income families to purchase technology to assist a child who is at leaving certificate level who suffers...
    • Arts Policy
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on giving some arts instructors such as dance teachers educational status to offer them the opportunity to open to the public when...
    • State Examinations
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned that leaving certificate results will be issued in time for the 30 August 2021 deadline for UCAS in order to ensure that...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of accreditation to students for the SNA national training course being recommended to SNAs and...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce regular Covid-19 testing for teachers and students in all schools across the State; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend the requirement for the provision by schools of medical grade masks in the EN14683 category to all teachers in primary and...
    • Teacher Training
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the commitment in action 31 of the national migrant integration strategy to review the effectiveness of training for...
    • School Catchment Areas
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most up-to-date demographic information used including figures for projection, population growth of second-level school-age children to...
    • School Transport
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a review of the prohibition on persons over 70 years of age driving school buses; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a permanent building for a school (details supplied); if a feasibility study has been carried out; if the proposed site is in the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with UCD on the accreditation of the national training course for special needs assistants that is being held by UCD; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a dispensation will be given to schools to allow children with additional needs in mainstream classes to return to school in order that they...
    • School Accommodation
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin in temporary accommodation; the length of time each school has been in that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the mock leaving certificate examinations in view of the associated public health concerns; if guidance has been issued to...
    • School Curriculum
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to make history a compulsory or optional subject for the junior certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12060/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide further information on the scheduled reopening of schools particularly with regard to supports and advice for high-risk staff...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is actively examining the creation of additional classes with additional teachers at primary level (details supplied); and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice or directives that have been issued to primary teachers and schools on the making up of learning gaps and losses for 2021-22 academic...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a five-month delay affecting retired teaches who have not yet received their relevant pension increases; if...
    • National Broadband Plan
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any...
    • Education Fees
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all students who paid junior certificate examination and leaving certificate examination fees in 2020 have received a refund; if not, the...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if State certificates of completion will be issued to junior certificate candidates in 2021; if this certificate will serve as a mechanism for...
    • DEIS Scheme
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of including DEIS band one junior and vertical schools along with DEIS band one senior schools for the planned class size reductions in...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if freelance workers can qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment if they were not at work for the relevant weeks of...
    • Invalidity Pension
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are supports available for persons in receipt of social welfare payments to pay for the cost of gym memberships or...
    • Pensions Reform
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered ensuring that inheritances that do not qualify for inheritance tax do not affect a non-contributory...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who have more than one job and lose one of their sources of income as a result of Covid-19 can be eligible for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to concerns raised by a person (details attached) about possible additional funding grants for carers...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the basic rate payable, under the wage subsidiary scheme, to bring it in line with the increases in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent to date on the pandemic unemployment payment; the breakdown of monthly spending on the payment since March...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is room for flexibility with the back-to-education allowance in circumstances in which an application rejection...
    • Illness Benefit
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the technical issues encountered by the illness benefit section in 2019, following the introduction of e-certification and...
    • Invalidity Pension
      540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be fully re-examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11317/21]
    • Fuel Allowance
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a fuel allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) who made an application in 2020; and if she will make...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department, or bodies under her aegis, that...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the materials grant provided to community employment schemes (details supplied). [11439/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on proposals to enable persons who are cocooning due to Covid-19 to apply for a public services card without...
    • Child Poverty
      545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children currently deemed as living in poverty in Ireland. [11518/21]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of current recipients of rent supplement; and the number of recipients of rent supplement in 2018, 2019 and 2020,...
    • Human Rights
      547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current definition of the minimum essential standard of living in Ireland. [11534/21]
    • Working Family Payment
      548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the working family payment; the number of recipients of the working family payment, by month,...
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the JobsPlus scheme applies to solicitor apprentices; if not, if it can be extended to them to allow solicitors to take...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the record will be corrected regarding the statement by the chief appeals officer of the Social Welfare Appeals Office to...
    • Invalidity Pension
      551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to an invalidity pension. [11644/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding social welfare entitlements for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if time lost by participants on community employment schemes and Tús due to Covid-19 will be given back to them with...
    • Illness Benefit
      554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has put in place measures to ensure that a person whose entitlement to illness benefit and similar has expired due to...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considered waiving the qualifying period for those on jobseeker’s when applying for the back to education...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 rent supplement will be extended beyond 31 March 2021. [11762/21]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of the domiciliary care allowance and disability survey carried out by her Department in March 2018; the number...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available from her Department for persons who have had to leave their homes due to flooding; the way such...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason application forms for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds are not available online in order that persons can...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons engaged in youth employment schemes in an area (details supplied). [11911/21]
    • Blind Person's Pension
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the threshold for receipt of the blind pension paid by her Department will be reassessed for artists and musicians given...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused an application under the new benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the options...
    • Child Benefit
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending child benefit past the age of 18 years for children who remain in education in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive their PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reversing the community employment criteria for over-55s and returning it to five consecutive years from...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Parental Leave
      570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the most recent timeline regarding the introduction of the additional three weeks of parental leave; when...
    • Children in Care
      571. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the national average number of children taken into care per thousand children; and if he will make a statement...
    • Child and Family Agency
      573. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of play therapists and child art psychotherapists directly employed by Tusla by local health office,...
    • Rape Crisis Network Funding
      579. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of funding to be provided to a centre (details supplied) to cover services being provided in County...
    • Child and Family Agency
      580. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Tulsa will honour section 20 of the agreement pertaining to the dispute with a centre (details supplied) to...
    • Parental Leave
      581. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the three weeks extra paid parents leave will be implemented for a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      582. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early leaning and care and school age childcare services that have and have not, respectively...
    • Child and Family Agency
      584. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of child protection and welfare concerns reported to Tusla in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by each CHO area in...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      585. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      586. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the ECCE scheme in early years settings can be made fully accessible for children with physical disabilities....
    • Direct Provision System
      587. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will be able to carry out three inspections of each direct provision centre in the country in...
    • Legislative Programme
      589. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department will publish a general scheme of a domestic violence Bill to provide for paid leave relating...
    • Departmental Functions
      590. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the audit on segmentation of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence responsibilities across Departments...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      591. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the impact of the loss of family supports, community supports and voluntary community supports that cannot be...
    • Foster Care
      592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young persons due to age out of foster care and who are at risk of living in poverty or becoming...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive the full health services equivalent to those provided under the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      595. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of recruiting 30 additional full-time early years inspectors for Tusla. [11559/21]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      596. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the sending out of a document by his Department on the enhanced model of engagement to members of...
    • Direct Provision System
      597. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the situation in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in which...
    • Departmental Staff
      598. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of instances of officials in his Department requesting conscience-based refusal in dealing with...
    • Legislative Programme
      599. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation for the extension of parent's benefit (details supplied) is expected to be passed in 2021; when...
    • Parental Leave
      600. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of introducing additional parental leave as outlined in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement...
    • Childcare Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make childcare providers who are in receipt of national childcare scheme eligible for the Covid-19...
    • Direct Provision System
      602. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the median length of stay in direct provision and emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      604. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when hard copies of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be available...
    • Child and Family Agency
      605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way Tusla handled data protection applications from January 2014 to May 2018, including but not limited to...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      609. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the difference between the estimated cost and actual cost of the Commission of Investigation into...
    • Departmental Schemes
      610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the parent’s leave which was promised in Budget 2021 will come into effect in April 2021; and if he...
    • Departmental Strategies
      611. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the commitment in action 61 of the National Migrant Integration Strategy for all...
    • Parental Leave
      614. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the plans to extend parent's leave from two weeks to five weeks for each parent of all children born or...
    • Adoption Data
      615. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adoption applications relating to children in care; and the duration these applications have been...
    • Adoption Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will recruit additional social workers in order that backlogged applications for children in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending the ECCE scheme in order that all young children will have a place in education...
    • National Broadband Plan
      619. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months;...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagements with the Northern Executive in relation to cross-Border third-level opportunities in the context of the Shared Island Fund. [11806/21]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 24 February 2021, if he will clarify the situation further in respect of apprentice trade...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter in relation to SUSI reform (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10972/21]
    • Third Level Costs
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the full economic costings per discipline across the third-level sector will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11113/21]
    • Third Level Admissions
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) who sat the leaving certificate exams in November and December 2020 and gained an additional 70 points as a...
    • Third Level Education
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to increase the places available for sought after third-level courses such as medicine; the level of deferred student...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when provision will be made for Safepass courses which have been suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic to be resumed; his plans to assist...
    • Third Level Admissions
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the information that appears on the CAO website (details supplied); if students in this circumstance who have become entitled...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will have their eligibility for a Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant reviewed; if technical grounds...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will...
    • Third Level Education
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his plans to develop a long-term sustainable funding model for higher level education; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that educational opportunities remain and are made more accessible to everyone particularly the most vulnerable in society;...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from his Department have met with the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland to discuss higher education provision in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Covid-19 supports that are available to the international education sector; if he will address the issues raised in correspondence (details...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on making students attending private primary and post-primary school teaching colleges eligible to apply for the Student Universal...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on making students attending private primary and post-primary school teaching colleges eligible to apply for the student assistance...
    • Departmental Data
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduates each year from a college (details supplied) from a professional master's degree in education in primary initial teaching...
    • Third Level Admissions
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of offers for places in third-level institutions given to students who sat the leaving certificate exams in November 2020 and received...
    • Student Accommodation
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if refunds are available to third-level students for accommodations fees given they have been at home studying remotely for most of the academic...
    • Freedom of Speech
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if action has been taken in relation to an incident regarding academic freedom (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Broadband Plan
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any engagement....
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Land Ownership
      648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to reform landowner legislation to enable more bridleways and equestrian trails across the countryside; and...
    • Rental Sector
      649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place to deal with letting agents and companies that fail to either transfer rent collected from tenants who...
    • Alcohol Sales
      650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter in relation to proposed licence reforms (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Crime Data
      651. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of murders, attempted murders, conspiracy to murder, rapes, aggravated sexual assaults and assaults causing serious...
    • Garda Strength
      652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members per thousand of population in each Garda division; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Missing Persons
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm that a centralised database for missing persons will be established which would include DNA samples from...
    • Asylum Seekers
      657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons seeking asylum who arrived in each month from January 2020 to date; the countries travelled from in...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      658. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is planned to publish the 2019 and 2020 reports on the operation of the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Acts which,...
    • Domestic Violence
      660. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who reported being victims of domestic violence in the period from June to December 2020; the...
    • Garda Strength
      662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at Ballyfermot, Crumlin, Kilmainham, Sundrive Road and Terenure stations by rank in tabular...
    • Garda Data
      663. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the response times for each Garda station in County Clare to all 999 calls; the average response time for the county; the...
    • Garda Resources
      665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timelines with regard to planned changes to the Garda Síochána Inspectorate; the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      667. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under her aegis that were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      668. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements she and her officials have had with a group (details supplied); if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the independent study into familicide and domestic homicide reviews commissioned in May 2019 will be completed. [11480/21]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual budget and resources allocated to the Hickson commission of investigation since its establishment in 2018, in...
    • Private Security Authority
      676. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to an extension to Private Security Authority, PSA, licences given the cost of renewing the...
    • Visa Applications
      677. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) who has been granted a stamp 1 G visa will receive the visa; and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda National Immigration Bureau
      678. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an immigration officer will be appointed in the Tullamore district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11528/21]
    • Garda Transport Provision
      680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda roads policing vans that came into the fleet in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and the number of roads...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      681. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in place for citizens of Columbia who may need to come to Ireland for personal reasons in view of the access...
    • Garda Training
      682. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the education programmes members of An Garda Síochána, especially members of the Garda National Roads Policing...
    • Garda Recruitment
      683. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the next intake of Garda recruits will occur; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11648/21]
    • Visa Applications
      684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by Filipino citizens, many of whom are front-line workers employed in...
    • Interest Rates
      685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislative or regulatory measures in response to the proposed imposition of negative interest rates on...
    • Ministerial Communications
      686. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she received communication from the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the nomination by...
    • Visa Applications
      687. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) whose application for a stamp 4 visa renewal was...
    • Stardust Fire
      689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding recognition of professional researchers; and if she will make a...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      690. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11761/21]
    • Fines Data
      691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of issued fines relating to Covid-19 breaches to date since the introduction of fining commenced; the amount that...
    • Garda Data
      692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been placed in custody relating to Covid-19 breaches in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number...
    • International Protection
      693. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cessations of refugee status and subsidiary protection sections 9 and 11 of the International Protection Act 2015...
    • Garda Data
      694. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and quantity by type of drugs seized by gardaí attached to Coolock district drugs unit in each of the years of...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for inward transfer under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Acts that were refused in 2019 and 2020;...
    • Legislative Measures
      696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation has been passed and enacted that defines a hate crime and a non-hate crime; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Residency Permits
      697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the commitment in action 11 of the National Migrant Integration Strategy to introduce a statutory scheme...
    • Liquor Licences
      698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter regarding the renewal of a licence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Crime Prevention
      699. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the main initiatives undertaken by her Department since 27 June 2020 to tackle sexual and gender-based violence; and if she...
    • Gender Recognition
      700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding changing a name by deed poll; and if she...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Broadband Plan
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of confirmed outbreaks of Covid-19 on construction sites and in industry in general. [11702/21]
    • Rape Crisis Network Funding
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available for an organisation (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the full extent of the demand has been assessed with a view to meeting the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being put in place to move the Safepass training course online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10960/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meat plants that have had full Covid-19 testing from 4 January 2021 to 19 February 2021. [10961/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the positivity rate of Covid-19 in meat factory workers and fruit-picking workers. [10964/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10971/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if healthcare assistants and social care workers are being considered as vaccinators during the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a model of associated public funding for assisted human reproduction; the existing and proposed level of assistance he plans...
    • Health Services Staff
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care posts in Ballymun, Dublin 11 for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology; and if he will...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of extra posts, taking into account temporary vacancies and maternity leave, that would be needed in Ballymun, Dublin 11, to eliminate the waiting...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the works to upgrade St. Anthony’s unit in Clonmel, County Tipperary; the capacity, role and specifications of the upgraded unit;...
    • Home Care Packages
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a statutory home care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11010/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if all persons over 85 years of age have been vaccinated in counties Galway and Mayo; if not, the number outstanding; when it is expected that all persons over...
    • Home Care Packages
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for delivering home care packages for those with an address in County Meath; the way in which this compares to those with an address...
    • Care of the Elderly
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which older person integrated care team services are not being offered to persons in County Meath as in other neighbouring counties; his plans and...
    • Community Intervention Teams
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the breakdown of the community intervention team, CIT, in County Meath; the way in which it compares to the national service being delivered...
    • Vaccination Programme
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied). [11026/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      727. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to approve medicines for the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum for medical card patients and the drug payment scheme (details supplied). [11034/21]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      728. To ask the Minister for Health when BreastCheck clinic services will resume in Mullingar, County Westmeath (details supplied). [11038/21]
    • EU Directives
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients that have availed of the EU cross-border directive in the UK; and the breakdown by year for the past five years of the number of...
    • Health Services Access
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if the application process for the new Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme will be the same as the EU cross-border directive; and if the refund amounts...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Cariban, which is prescribed for patients with hyperemesis gravidarum, will be covered by the drugs payment scheme in view of the high cost of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the new top table being used during NPHET briefings at his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11069/21]
    • Hospital Services
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of new staff and the expansion of the medical assessment unit at Ennis hospital; the details of any expansion of services; if...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the details of expenses claimed by members of NPHET since its first meeting was convened on 6 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11071/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the chair of the national immunisation advisory committee, the chair of the high-level task force on Covid-19, the Chief Clinical Officer of...
    • Health Services Staff
      738. To ask the Minister for Health when the psychologist position will be filled at the Phoenix Centre, County Longford, to allow for diagnostic assessments to be carried out for children. [11089/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if further appointments will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11091/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the strategies the HSE has for community management of fatigue and ME and CFS clinics particularly in view of long Covid; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the prevalence of cases of long Covid by health area; the services and clinics that are available to persons experiencing long Covid; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines delivered and the expected deliveries for the remaining of quarter 1 by basis of delivery, that is, weekly, fortnightly and so...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      747. To ask the Minister for Health when the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest cuts made to pharmacies will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11112/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home visitation guidelines will be revised in relation to situations in which both the visitor and the resident have received their full Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      749. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing homes are being reimbursed for antigen tests deployed on site under the Covid-19 temporary assistance payment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if he is strategically targeting resources to combat Covid-19 in the areas that have the most persistently high rates of the virus; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the growing waiting lists for routine colonoscopies; his plans to tackle these waiting lists; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the forecast date based upon current market approved vaccines only as to when the vaccination programme will be completed. [11121/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if concessions with regards to the impending legislation on quarantine for incoming travellers will be available for those who have received a vaccine as...
    • Vaccination Programme
      756. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to establishing a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Bray, County Wicklow; if he has taken into consideration the population of the...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      758. To ask the Minister for Health if a person on a medical card is covered for steroid injections received from their doctor. [11131/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if two premises (details supplied) that were due to be established in Clonmel and Nenagh, County Tipperary are still to go ahead; if he will clarify the...
    • Hospital Services
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if the equipment tender for the proposed new cath lab at University Hospital Waterford will allow for a company (details supplied) to tender; if his attention...
    • General Practitioner Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the continued closure of SouthDoc Blackpool and Listowel. [11154/21]
    • Service Level Agreements
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which SouthDoc could be in breach of a service level agreement with the HSE worth almost €7.3 million;...
    • Home Care Packages
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the funding resources or other resources that are available to family home carers to cover the costs of PPE while caring for their family members at home...
    • Eating Disorders
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds specifically allocated for the treatment of persons with eating disorders that are available nationally; the hospitals in which such...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including ozempic (details supplied) in the drugs repayment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11172/21]
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the reimbursement of Covid-19 testing in relation to the treatment abroad scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine regulation for AEDs in respect of both registration and maintenance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11196/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and administrative staff and the grades of each that have been reallocated from CHO9 since March 2020; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the number and the proportion of Covid-19 transmissions that occurred according to research in churches; and the reason he decided to go beyond all other...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      773. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in putting up the minutes of NPHET meetings on the www.gov.ie website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11233/21]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug semaglutide (details supplied) was removed from the list of drugs included in the drugs repayment scheme; if he will consider including it...
    • Health Services Staff
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staffing posts accredited to CAMHS in County Kildare; the nature of the posts, both full and part-time; the types or roles; and the number that...
    • Mental Health Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed development of the mental health inpatient service attached to Naas Regional Hospital, Lakeview campus. [11243/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      778. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to resume the school immunisation programme in particular the HPV vaccine which is best administered to persons before they are 15 years of age....
    • Health Services (1 comment)
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11259/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      785. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered allowing a special exemption to restrictions in lower levels of the National Framework for Living with COVID-19 similar to that in...
    • HSE Staff
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not granted an increment to staff of a service (details supplied). [11278/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reprioritising persons with disabilities living in care homes in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; if he will acknowledge that this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if any incoming international travellers have to date been housed in hotels or other rented accommodation at a cost to the State. [11300/21]
    • Primary Care Centres
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for approval on the planned primary care centre in Citywest, Saggart, County Dublin. [11304/21]
    • Medical Cards
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card already refused will be revisited as a matter of urgency on foot of information in the case of a person (details...
    • Vaccination Programme
      794. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 818 of 3 February 2021, the estimated population size of each of the provisional vaccine allocation groups by county in...
    • Health Services Access
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been waiting for podiatry appointments in County Cork for six, 12 and more than 24 months, respectively. [11333/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been waiting for oncology appointments in County Cork for six, 12 and more than 24 months, respectively. [11335/21]
    • Cancer Services
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer screenings carried out by cancer type in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, respectively, in County Cork. [11336/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons it is expected that general practitioner and pharmacy services in County Cork will be able to vaccinate daily; and the number expected to...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      805. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland will be participating in the World Health Organisation co-led COVAX scheme; if not, the reason; if so, the number of vaccines Ireland is committing...
    • Obesity Strategy
      807. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 788 and 789 of 17 February 2021, the status of the evaluation currently underway of the sugar-sweetened drinks tax; when...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing couples getting married that are choosing, for health and safety reasons not to have a reception and instead to limit their...
    • Vaccination Programme
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the category An Post workers come under in the Covid-19 vaccination allocation strategy; when they will be offered a Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      815. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the five=kilometre travel limit for those seeking to exercise and who will not be engaging or interacting with anyone during this...
    • Vaccination Programme
      816. To ask the Minister for Health if the vaccination priority list will be updated to include cancer patients who have had their treatment halted due to the risk of contracting Covid-19. [11366/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      818. To ask the Minister for Health the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were found to be non-compliant with...
    • HSE Staff
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare assistant posts for each CHO; the number of posts funded, filled and vacant, respectively; the basis on which they are filled, that...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      829. 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. [11399/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he will specifically address the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      832. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in conjunction with the Minister for Transport to provide free public transport services to and from the vaccination centres announced in counties...
    • European Health Insurance Card
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an Irish citizen resident in Northern Ireland cannot apply for a European health insurance card; the provisions that can be put in place for them;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for neuropsychological assessments in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11449/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      835. To ask the Minister for Health when social workers are scheduled to be vaccinated under the current Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11450/21]
    • Health Services
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the status of disability services for children and young persons with spina bifida and hydrocephalus accessing health services within their local area and the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to address the current waiting list of children awaiting surgery for scoliosis. [11461/21]
    • Electronic Cigarettes
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being or have been taken to prevent the sale of e-cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age. [11471/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      841. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to prioritising persons with disabilities under the age of 65 in the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the initiatives referred to under the heading switching off and being creative on page 20 of the COVID-19 Resilience and Recovery 2021 - The...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      843. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) finished their work for his Department. [11506/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      845. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 testing is continuing at meat plants, in particular those in north County Kildare; if so, the frequency and reporting of such testing; the rates of...
    • Health Services Staff
      847. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for resolving the public health doctor pay dispute; if he will replace their temporary contract with a consultant contract; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not including children under 16 years of age who are at very high risk of developing severe Covid-19 higher on the list of the vaccine...
    • Health Services Access
      850. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will contribute towards the accommodation expenses incurred by families who need to travel to the United Kingdom for operations that cannot...
    • Disability Services Provision
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services and speech and language therapy disability services; if he will provide the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      852. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the issues raised in correspondence regarding measures implemented to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Respite Care Services
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons accessing respite services; the impact of Covid-19 on access to respite services for these people; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      857. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an assessment for a primary medical certificate in counties Roscommon or Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appeal under the fair deal scheme in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11553/21]
    • Magdalen Laundries
      860. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the full health services equivalent to those provided under the Health (Amendment) Act, HAA, card as recommended...
    • Nursing Staff
      861. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent nurse posts vacant at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; and the steps being taken to fill these vacant posts....
    • Health Services Staff
      862. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent rhinologists employed by the HSE; and the location of the hospitals, in tabular form. [11564/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated impact of Covid-19 on waiting times for non-urgent care; and the average waiting times for non-urgent care, by category, since January 2020 to...
    • Departmental Staff
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances of officials in his Department requesting conscience-based refusal in dealing with legislation or the administration of areas of...
    • Maternity Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 298 of 28 January, the steps he is taking to ensure that the Visiting Restrictions in Place in Maternity Services in...
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the longest waiting time experienced by an HSE South staff member to have a grievance hearing arranged for stage 1 of the HSE grievance procedure following...
    • Health Services Staff
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in each public health department; the number of public health doctors on a monthly basis between 1 January 2020 and 1 February 2021, in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      869. To ask the Minister for Health if an unaccompanied minor (details supplied) will be required to undergo mandatory hotel quarantine upon arrival here. [11603/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      870. To ask the Minister for Health if the national immunisation advisory committee considered if persons with anorexia should be included in the severe mental illness category; and if he will...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      871. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a primary medical certificate by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11615/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      872. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by firefighters who are not trained paramedics in registering on the HSE website for their Covid-19...
    • Dental Services
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who have indicated that they will be leaving the medical card system; the impact he expects this will have on waiting lists and the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      875. 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. [11621/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      877. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the gene therapy treatment known as luxturna for the treatment of the early onset of severe retinal dystrophy; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy
      880. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the programme for Government to update the national rare diseases plan. [11632/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      881. To ask the Minister for Health if bookmakers' shops will remain closed until at least 5 April following the most recent extension of level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      883. To ask the Minister for Health if persons under 16 years of age with chronic medical conditions will be included in the Covid-19 vaccination programme; if not, the rationale for this...
    • Mental Health Services
      888. To ask the Minister for Health the status of HSE work to transfer the community mental health services in Birr, County Offaly; if the attention of the HSE has been drawn to the delays this...
    • Disability Services Provision
      889. To ask the Minister for Health the services provided at a facility (details supplied); if there are plans to alter the services provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11686/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      890. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to ensure Defence Forces personnel fulfilling duties overseas and in areas with high levels of Covid-19 community transmission will receive the...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      891. To ask the Minister for Health the operational status of each cancer screening clinic at each location; the plan to resume full services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11703/21]
    • Cancer Services
      892. To ask the Minister for Health the operational status of the rapid access skin cancer clinic at University Hospital Waterford; the plan to resume full services; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      893. To ask the Minister for Health the operational status of the dermatology clinic at University Hospital Waterford for urgent cases; the plan to resume full services; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the services in each hospital group by hospital and community healthcare organisation, and by departments that are currently closed due to the pandemic; the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      895. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendation made by the national immunisation advisory committee in respect of the prioritisation of family carers in the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      896. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will issue funding to the HSE to provide FreeStyle Libre sensors for checking glucose in diabetes patients free of charge to all diabetics....
    • Health and Social Care Professionals
      897. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary statutory instrument will be put in place to enable the Medical Council to address the outstanding issues relating to the inclusion of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      899. To ask the Minister for Health the spend to date for hiring a hotel (details supplied); and the average occupancy rate of the facility for each month since 2020. [11736/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      900. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider bringing forward the vaccination of prison staff in view of the close-contact nature of their work and the current outbreak of...
    • Disability Services Provision
      902. To ask the Minister for Health the number of parents who have submitted an assessment of needs to the HSE that they obtained privately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11748/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      906. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on the €20 million fund for mental health and community; if this is new funding; and the way in which it will be spent....
    • Departmental Reports
      908. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the January 2019 Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health report on the new standard operating procedure for assessment of need under the...
    • Autism Support Services
      913. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for autism assessment for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11778/21]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress of the commitment to establish a national laboratory for cervical cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11785/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      924. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered increasing investment in test and trace facilities to help combat Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11792/21]
    • Citizens' Assembly
      926. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the citizens' assembly on drugs to convene; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11808/21]
    • National Drugs Strategy
      927. To ask the Minister for Health if the mid-term review of the actions in the national drugs strategy is on course to be agreed in Q1 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11809/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      928. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers who are in direct patient contact who are yet to receive the first dose of the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Respite Care Services
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the locations of the recently announced nine respite houses across Ireland; if he will provide more details in relation to same; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      932. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consult with the Health Service Executive to allow community and church halls to be utilised in the roll-out of the national Covid-19 vaccination...
    • Health Services Provision
      937. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive treatment. [11854/21]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      938. To ask the Minister for Health if applications for the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme have opened; the location in which information on the scheme can be found; and if he will...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      940. To ask the Minister for Health the date the breast screening programme will resume. [11870/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken in order to prepare for new variants of Covid-19 and or other viruses that may manifest themselves from October 2021. [11875/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      942. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each group in the revised cohorts, for example, those aged over 65 years with underlying illnesses and so on (details supplied)....
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      943. To ask the Minister for Health when primary medical certificate applications will begin to be processed; if steps are being taken to address the backlog of applications to be processed; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      944. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a single point of contact to families of patients in each hospital to alleviate problems that families are having in finding out information...
    • Primary Care Centres
      946. To ask the Minister for Health when the Athy primary medical centre will be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11900/21]
    • Occupational Therapy
      947. To ask the Minister for Health when occupational therapists will return from secondment to contact tracing in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11901/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      948. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce safeguards and an appeal system to counteract persons giving false names to avoid fines under the Covid-19 travel restrictions; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of antigen and PCR tests carried out by the HSE for Covid-19 to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11904/21]
    • Disability Services Provision
      950. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with a disability in County Kildare awaiting a HSE-funded residential placement; the waiting times for same; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists by age and gender in County Kildare in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11908/21]
    • HSE Staff
      952. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in the HSE in County Kildare in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      953. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received an invitation to take part in BreastCheck each month in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the percentage of persons who...
    • Dental Services
      957. To ask the Minister for Health if persons requiring urgent periodontal surgery which they are unable to access in a timely manner in Ireland due to lengthy waiting lists are permitted to...
    • General Practitioner Services
      958. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the general practitioners' social deprivation financial supports ranking system; the number of applications by county based on five applicant...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      960. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [11941/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      961. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a homecare package for a person (details supplied) was reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11942/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      962. To ask the Minister for Health when construction works on the new accident and emergency department at Mayo University Hospital will commence; the reason for the delay in commencement; and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      963. To ask the Minister for Health when the roll-out of the school vaccine programme for junior infants will recommence; the recommended timeframe within which the vaccines can be delivered to...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff based in speech and language therapy that are currently redeployed to other duties by CHO; the corresponding figures for each month from...
    • Vaccination Programme
      965. To ask the Minister for Health when all general practitioners in the Dublin 7 and 15 areas will receive the Covid-19 vaccine for the over 85s; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      967. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 686 of 27 January 2021, the rationale for the decision not to allocate funding for a service (details supplied); if this...
    • Vaccination Programme
      968. To ask the Minister for Health the cohort or group in which persons with hypertension fall in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11965/21]
    • Medical Qualifications
      971. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the lack of a pre-registration examination system, PRES, 3 examination for foreign doctors means that many...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      972. To ask the Minister for Health the specific numbers of tests that are being measured given that it has been mentioned that three tests are being evaluated to ease restrictions, that is,...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      973. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind a change in narrative in the HSE national service plan with the addiction services section now referred to as drug and alcohol services...
    • Vaccination Programme
      974. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise teachers and school staff in the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11980/21]
    • Counselling Services
      975. To ask the Minister for Health when the area of counselling and psychotherapy will be fully regulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11986/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      976. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff who have been vaccinated by community healthcare organisation, CHO; the number of outstanding staff to be vaccinated by CHO; the number...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      978. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report undertaken on the impact of hospital car park charges on those undertaking a sustained level of treatment; his...
    • Medical Cards
      979. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has issued guidance on discretionary medical cards in respect of providing temporary cover during periods of intense care, such as for cancer...
    • Debt Collection
      980. To ask the Minister for Health if hospitals have protocols in place governing the activity of debt collectors pursuing outstanding medical bills in order that there would be reasonable...
    • Vaccination Programme
      981. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the current vaccination programme and place carers who look after vulnerable persons in their own home as a priority. [12000/21]
    • Health Services Funding
      982. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to meet the previously committed funding requirements of a facility (details supplied) in order to alleviate the concerns of staff,...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      983. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if issues raised can be covered in new legislation being brought forward on IVF in Dáil Éireann;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      984. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out across nursing homes and long-term care facilities in an area (details supplied); the number of residents who have...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of screenings conducted by each of the national screening programmes in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and in January 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      988. To ask the Minister for Health when clear information on Covid-19 vaccination availability and dates, including for the over 70s cohort, will issue widely to general practitioners and...
    • Mental Health Services
      990. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the additional €10 million funding announced on 23 February 2021 to mental health services; the amount of this allocation that will go...
    • Burial Grounds
      991. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 3 February 2021, the status of a site (details supplied). [12054/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      992. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) must wait until late March or April 2021 for a Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12063/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      993. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a plan for an emergency assessment under the primary medical certificate in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      994. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the commencement of the medicinal cannabis access programme in 2021; the funding that has been allocated for the programme; if those who are...
    • Vaccination Programme
      995. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce an initiative under which taxi drivers could provide a door-to-door transport service on a flat rate cost per kilometre for those who have...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      996. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at Holles Street hospital; if the referral is urgent or routine; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      997. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12088/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      998. To ask the Minister for Health if private study centres offering supervised study time in the evenings for leaving certificate students are considered to be organised indoor gatherings under...
    • Vaccination Programme
      999. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to transport persons to vaccination centres in areas in which no public transport is available (details supplied). [12104/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts across all grades in each hospital and healthcare setting under HSE operation in tabular form including the post grade; and if...
    • National Broadband Plan
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of any engagement. [12122/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient files on the Covid-19 tracker application, that is, the number of individual entries who have been contact-traced. [12136/21]
    • Data Protection
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the standard of data protection compliance in respect of the Covid-19 tracker application; the number of complaints notified to him...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doses of a vaccine (details supplied) that have been delivered to Ireland to date; the number of those doses that have been delivered to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health if a Covid-19 quarantine hotel will be established to service Rosslare Europort; if so, if a site has been identified for this purpose; and if he will make a...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to women suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum repeatedly presenting at accident and emergency departments as they are unable...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vaccinators and vaccine staff Ireland requires to meet vaccination goals; if applicants who meet the correct criteria for vaccinators' roles and...
    • Data Collection
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if he conducted patient and public engagement prior to enacting SI No. 18/2021 Data Protection Act 2018 (section 36(2)) (Health Research) (Amendment)...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a composite version of regulations (details supplied) as amended. [12166/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have arrived into Ireland based on their original country of departure for each category 2 designated state in each week from 1...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that school aged children do not miss their routine vaccinations as a result of school closures due to Covid-19; and if he...
    • Abortion Services
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the safe access to termination of pregnancy services Bill; the publication date towards which his officials are working; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      1022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry licences that have been appealed since the new legislation was enacted; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Timber Supply
      1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of timber that was imported per month since 1 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11887/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the country under afforestation as of 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/21]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has taken measures to establish a future of farming in Ireland dialogue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tillage Sector
      1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the implementation of the straw chopping scheme for tillage farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a TAMS payment has been made to a person (details supplied) under the young farmer capital investment scheme; if not, when it...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1033. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Covid-19 payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11099/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding support for the fishing industry and coastal communities; and if he will make a...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal for an ANC payment for 2018, 2019 and 2020 by a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Fishing Industry
      1036. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of the policy position paper on fisheries prior to entering the fisheries element of the Brexit...
    • Departmental Appointments
      1037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the hiring process and qualifying qualifications, renumeration package and other relevant information of his policy...
    • Brexit Issues
      1038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings and discussions, including dates and length of meetings and conversations, he had with his European...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1039. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2020 basic payment in respect of a commonage parcel will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Forestry Sector
      1040. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the 2019 McKinnon report will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11144/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      1043. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the share of fishing quota allocated to the Norwegian fishing fleet from the Irish EEZ; the breakdown by State of the quota of cod...
    • Beef Industry
      1044. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has been in contact with the Beef Taskforce in relation to convening a meeting to discuss issues in the sector...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1046. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if those farmers who at the inception of the young farmer scheme were farming in their own right for over five years and therefore...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1048. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provision in place to track dogs that fail to produce a qualifying time and are therefore not presented for racing on the...
    • Customs and Excise
      1051. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of containers inspected by his Department following arrival at Dublin Port between 1 December and 31 December 2020, in...
    • Animal Diseases
      1052. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for compulsory testing of bovine viral diarrhoea, BVD, on herds as with brucellosis in which testing is done and...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      1059. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when knackeries will become live for the cattle movement monitoring system, CMMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1060. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if scramblers are allowed in Coillte forests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11283/21]
    • Brexit Supports
      1062. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the agrifood sector will be supported through the Brexit adjustment reserve; the likely timescale for the development of such...
    • Forestry Sector
      1063. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the commitment made at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and the Marine that the age of...
    • Felling Licences
      1068. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a felling licence will issue to a person (details supplied). [11356/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1069. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1070. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements he and his officials have had with a group (details supplied); if he...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      1071. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the new agreement of Horse Racing Ireland with a group (details supplied) includes an agreement for Irish participation in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1075. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding Covid-19 rules in marts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      1076. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a forestry application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11469/21]
    • Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority
      1077. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Attorney General nominated for appointment by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority three independent legal professionals to...
    • Research and Development
      1081. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding funding for wool research (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11625/21]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1082. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount per year Greyhound Racing Ireland has received in respect of rental income derived from allowing companies to take a...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      1083. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount per year Horse Racing Ireland has received in respect of rental income derived from allowing companies to take a fixing...
    • Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority
      1086. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Irish-registered fishing vessels that have been inspected by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority since the...
    • Teagasc Activities
      1088. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide additional funding to enable Teagasc to recruit both permanent and temporary education officers in a college...
    • Fishing Industry
      1089. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if boats (details supplied) have been put forward by his Department to the EU Commission for authorisation by the UK authorities for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1090. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grants available for outer farm building that are used for residential proposes on active farmland; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Diseases
      1091. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding vaccination against TB (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Welfare
      1092. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the European intervention that has been taken to resolve the situation in which 2,500 cows are stranded on the high seas since they...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1093. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12033/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      1094. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of...
    • Agrifood Sector
      1095. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking in response to the withdrawal of the environmental pillar from the 2030 Agri-Food Strategy Committee; and if...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1096. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by her Department or bodies under her aegis that were found...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1097. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the meetings, correspondence and engagements she and her officials have had with a group (details supplied); if she...
    • Departmental Reports
      1098. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the necessary resources such as communications and an index for the Crowe report issued in December 2020 which...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1099. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of broadband connection points per county; the number of these declared live from 26 January 2021 to date; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to introduce a special package of supports for island businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly in the...
    • Tourism Industry
      1102. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration was given to potential negative impacts on the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve, the only gold tier reserve in...
    • National Broadband Plan
      1103. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has engaged with National Broadband Ireland on any aspect of broadband provision in the past six months; and the outcome of...

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