Written answers
Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if garden centres fully qualify as essential retail outlets under level 5 restrictions; if not, if partial restrictions apply; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if matters in relation to funding for businesses (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Job Creation
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in Cork city and county in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the length of time shops selling essential items including children’s clothes which are not easily purchased online can remain...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the details of the Covid-19 business aid scheme will be announced, the qualifying criteria outlined and funding paid out. [13796/21]
- Enterprise Support Services
7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount Enterprise Ireland and or local enterprise offices have by way of either funding or investment (details supplied) to...
- Insurance Costs
8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if urgent consideration will be given to the issues outlined in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to insurance costs for a...
- Enterprise Support Services
9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the degree to which he continues to support and drive the creation of new enterprises in the indigenous sector nationally with...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Pension Schemes
10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if An Post employees and their pension entitlements are covered by the provisions of the Postal and Telecommunications...
- Postal Services
11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of rural addresses are inaccurately recorded by An Post which...
- Bioenergy Strategy
12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to encourage beef farmers to engage in the production of biofuels; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Broadband Plan
13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when homes in the Garristown and Oldtown area of north County Dublin will be connected to fibre broadband given the...
- Electricity Grid
14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions being taken to prepare the electricity network for the increase in the use of electric vehicles and the need...
- Remote Working
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assessment that has been conducted into the impact of remote working on year-on-year household electricity and...
- Waste Management
16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the stage plans are at to introduce the bin waiver as announced in 2017; the steps being taken to introduce the bin...
- Control of Dogs
17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding will be provided for local authorities to assist with educating and preventing dog fouling which is a major...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Motor Tax
18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available to persons to avoid penalties and arrear payments in the event they are unable to afford their motor tax at the time...
- Electric Vehicles
19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicle charging points that will be added in Dublin by the end of 2021. [13745/21]
- Vehicle Registration Tax
20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if assistance will be provided in relation to the case of a missing log book of a person (details supplied). [13573/21]
- Road Projects
21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in relation to the proposed route options on the Ardee bypass project with the associated key timelines and...
- Proposed Legislation
22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the public transport (miscellaneous provisions) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13589/21]
- Rail Network
23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed removal of a wall from the front of Casement station,Tralee, County Kerry. [13610/21]
- Proposed Legislation
24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the draft legislation to legalise the use of e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13625/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13669/21]
- Dublin Bus
26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the effect the reduction in services and revenue of Dublin Bus has had on its finances to date in 2021 compared to 2020. [13747/21]
- Public Transport
27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for delivery of MetroLink; when railway orders will be submitted; when works will commence; the length of time works will...
- Driver Test
28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when theory tests will move online. [13778/21]
- Public Bike Schemes
29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bicycles that are in working order in the public bike scheme in Cork city as of 7 March 2021. [13784/21]
- Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles
30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of SPSV licences that were applied for or renewed in County Clare in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of...
- Driver Test
33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to develop an online driver theory test process. [13812/21]
- Bus Services
34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide Nenagh, County Tipperary with adequate bus transport links to Limerick following the loss of the Bus Éireann X12...
- Road Projects
38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration he has given to the provision of a bypass of Tipperary town on the N24 under the National Development Plan 2018-2027;...
- Rail Network
39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when rail services between Waterford and Limerick Junction will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13837/21]
- Public Transport
41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to approve funding for a feasibility study of a rapid transit service through the heart of Galway city; if this will include...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Services Sector
43. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount a company (details supplied) has received in fees from the NTMA in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a...
- Interest Rates
47. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to ensure lower interest rates for Irish mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13715/21]
- Mortgage Lending
48. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the banking industry to offer an extension of time to those who have received mortgage approval in principle but where as a result of the...
- Insurance Coverage
49. To ask the Minister for Finance the remedies available to those who have been refused mortgage protection insurance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13731/21]
- Interest Rates
50. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that can be taken to assist solicitors and other businesses being charged negative interest rates on money held in client accounts given such money...
- Tax Reliefs
51. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the tax relief on donations to sports bodies made under section 847(A) of the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 are in the case of PAYE tax...
- Property Tax
52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider waiving the local property tax for pensioners in receipt of the fuel allowance given that the benefit of the fuel allowance payment is null...
- Banking Sector
53. To ask the Minister for Finance if ATMs will remain in circumstances in which the branch of a bank (details supplied) is closing, specifically in Kilkee, Miltown Malbay and Tulla, County...
- Financial Services Sector
55. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of a company (details supplied) continuing to act for the National Treasury Management Agency in bond sales in view of the...
- Brexit Issues
56. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he remains satisfied that the steps taken to date to offset the impact of Brexit remain sufficiently robust to ensure Ireland’s...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
57. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he expects Covid-19-related payments to continue into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13843/21]
- Vehicle Registration Tax
58. To ask the Minister for Finance when the central vehicle registrations office will register a vehicle for VRT (details supplied); the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a...
- Financial Services Sector
59. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount a company (details supplied) has received in fees from NAMA in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [13898/21]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Bodies
60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his predecessor received any notifications under appendix 4, circular 12/2010 (details supplied) since January 2016 in relation...
- Public Procurement Contracts
62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all bodies under his aegis have a procurement policy that includes consideration of obligations under section 27 of the Disability Act...
- Flood Relief Schemes
65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proposals the OPW has to address the recurring flooding problem that happened most recently at a location in Clifden, County Galway...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Television Licence Fee
66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a waiver will be put in place for television licences for holiday homes in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Sport and Recreational Development
67. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status and findings of a pilot study conducted by organisations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
68. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to extend supports to those in the public relations, marketing and communications industry that could not avail of the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a pathway back out of level 5 restrictions for sports groups. [13807/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
71. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider supports for sports organisations that have facilities such as clubhouses given that they have overheads such...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Horticulture Sector
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further consideration will be given to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) concerning the horticulture...
- Housing Assistance Payment
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter in relation to HAP (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13584/21]
- Home Loan Scheme
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary, who has been approved for a Rebuilding Ireland home loan, was...
- Building Regulations
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will accredit architectural technologists as assigned certifiers as per the Building Control Amendment Regulations; and...
- Social and Affordable Housing
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has been in communication with Dublin City Council or an approved housing body regarding the provision of...
- Road Projects
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected timeline for the beginning of construction on the Oscar Traynor Road site in north Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when legislation relating to directly elected mayors will be published. [13633/21]
- Local Authority Members
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the Moorhead report. [13634/21]
- Student Accommodation
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if supports will be introduced to support student renters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Building Regulations
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the proposals in the report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government...
- Shared Ownership Scheme
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the terms and conditions of a shared ownership house agreement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry...
- Land Development Agency
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome for an area (details supplied) under the proposed Land Development Agency Bill 2021; and if he will make a...
- Commissioner of Valuation
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will supply all historical valuations to date that the Valuation Office has placed on the Thornton Hall site; and if he...
- Vacant Sites
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount received in vacant site levies in respect of the Thornton Hall site historically. [13766/21]
- Urban Renewal Schemes
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €121.3 million in full or in part was allocated in the budget 2021 announcement or in any previous budget further...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to publish the report carried out in 2017 on the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme 2016 himself in view of the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review in relation to the housing income limits. [13809/21]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Meetings
92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on his Department’s engagement with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13671/21]
- Climate Change Policy
93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the role the new climate unit in his Department will play in addressing the global climate crisis and devising a strategy to...
- Overseas Development Aid
94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a detailed response will be provided on the way his Department approaches development education in Ireland; and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Meetings
95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his recent visit to Iran; the position regarding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Military Aircraft
96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the registration number of each of the US military aircraft that spent an overnight at Shannon Airport between 1 February 2020 and 28...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Teacher Training
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant assistance will be provided to students in private colleges undertaking a professional masters of education in primary teaching to...
- Schools Building Projects
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); the timescale for the commencement of same; and if she will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assurances will be given that the early intervention class programme for ASD preschool children will not be stopped or defunded; the details of...
- State Examinations
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the leaving certificate guidance issued by her Department at the beginning of March 2021 requested that teachers will demonstrate that...
- Schools Site Acquisitions
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to provide a new building for a school (details supplied); if a site has been agreed; if so, the name and location of same;...
- Education Policy
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has given consideration to additional first year classes being added to secondary schools in an area (details supplied) given...
- School Funding
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have applied to the school capital grants scheme; the number of schools that have been granted funding under the...
- Special Educational Needs
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that will be put in place to ensure that children in emergency or homeless accommodation whose families may find it difficult to...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a copy will be provided of the public health advice from NPHET on the phased return of the various year groups back into school buildings; if...
- State Examinations
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if those who will leave school in June 2021 after the junior cycle will be furnished with State certification of completion of this qualification...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the use of half-days or alternating days attendance when first and fourth year students return to school on 12 April 2021;...
- State Examinations
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with the State Examinations Commission on the extension of an application for external candidates for the leaving certificate...
- Special Educational Needs
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the entry criteria for language classes for children with severe speech, language and...
- State Examinations
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that students attending Gaelcholáistí who complete their leaving certificate through Irish are not...
- Special Educational Needs
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of specific special schools by region; the number of students on waiting lists for special schools by region; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent school will be built for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin as promised; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Enrolments
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support available for parents who find themselves in the coming months with children who have not been accepted to any local secondary...
- Education Policy
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the definition of the title of a junior national school; the primary schools with such a title currently; and if she will make a statement on the...
- DEIS Scheme
118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to extend the reduction of teacher to pupil-ratio numbers in primary urban DEIS band 1 schools to include both primary rural DEIS...
- School Transport
119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concessionary school bus tickets can be retained by students (details supplied) for the coming school term; and if she will make a statement...
- Special Educational Needs
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs secondary school places available in Cork city for September 2021. [13793/21]
- Home Tuition Scheme
122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children availing of home tuition due to the fact that no secondary school place is available in Cork city in each of the years...
- School Staff
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will be issuing updated guidance for pregnant teachers; the supports or solutions that are under consideration to protect...
- Special Educational Needs
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase resources, teachers and numbers special reading schools for children with severe dyslexia; and her plans to...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the procedure for sick pay for special needs assistants has changed; if her Department no longer pay SNAs directly; if SNAs are required to...
- Teacher Training
126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if fees will be refunded to a person (details supplied) under the teacher fee refund scheme 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Education Policy
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the audits or reviews that have been carried out to assess the adequacy of school placements in areas with strategic housing developments. [13853/21]
- Schools Site Acquisitions
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that her Department and Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training and Board have liaised sufficiently with the Department of...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Carer's Allowance
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the means test threshold for entitlement to carer’s allowance for single...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions for seasonal workers (details supplied) who are ineligible for jobseeker’s benefit or allowance who...
- Fuel Allowance
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the addition of the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the carer’s allowance to alleviate the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons from Cork city and county who have availed of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a...
- Carer's Allowance
135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer’s allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
- Carer's Benefit
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer’s benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pandemic payment arrears paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be re-examined; and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Fuel Allowance
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of pensioners in receipt of the fuel allowance that are also paying the local property tax; and the value of local...
- Social Welfare Schemes Data
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of State pension (contributory) and State pension (non-contributory) respectively, who were also...
- Social Insurance
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total receipts of her Department in PRSI contributions in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020; and if she will make a statement on...
- Jobseeker's Allowance
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that regular basic social welfare payments are made in the case of a person (details supplied); if their...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Maternity Leave
143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which consideration has been given to the extension of maternity leave for expectant mothers that...
- International Protection
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Ireland is deemed to be in compliance with the European Communities reception conditions Regulations 2018...
- Parental Leave
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if five weeks' parental leave will commence in April 2021. [13852/21]
- Early Years Sector
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if since 2014, it is accurate to state that no funding has been provided by his Department to meet the specific...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasoning that led to the exclusion of the boarded-out children from the investigation into the mother and...
- Registration of Births
155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the attention of his Department was drawn to the issue of illegal birth registrations; the person or body...
- Domestic Violence Policy
156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the employer groups and trade unions his Department has consulted with on the establishment of a statutory...
- Childcare Services
160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the eligibility criteria will be increased for the 2021 capital funding grant for fire safety works to those...
- Domestic Violence Policy
161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to put in place a 24-7 nationwide support service for male victims of domestic abuse; the extent of...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Covid-19 Pandemic
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration that has been given to prioritising the reopening of training courses for professions deemed essential. [13612/21]
- Ministerial Meetings
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) in view of his statement in Dáil Éireann on 15 December 2020 in relation to...
- Student Support Schemes
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a range of financial supports will be provided to students in private colleges undertaking a professional masters of education in primary...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to centralising the website that advertises apprenticeship vacancies (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Student Support Schemes
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the circumstances in respect of increased thresholds and grants for further and or higher education (details supplied). [13789/21]
- Student Unions
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the funding cuts by TU Dublin to the student union that has resulted in four less key student adviser staff; and if he will...
- Education Policy
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he hopes to encourage participation in third and fourth-level education throughout the country regardless of socioeconomic...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Prison Accommodation
170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual security cost of keeping Thornton Hall for the past three years to date; the last time and the due time for renewal...
- Garda Deployment
171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that have been redeployed in 2020 due to the hiring of civilian non-sworn staff. [13578/21]
- Residency Permits
172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to create an awareness campaign to ensure that non-EEA citizen family members of UK nationals,...
- International Protection
173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applicants waiting to receive a first instance decision from the International...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a significant rise in occurrences of antisocial behaviour in the area of Grand Canal Dock, Dublin. [13742/21]
- Legislative Reviews
176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when her Department will complete its analysis of the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020. [13743/21]
- Vacant Sites
178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of vacant site levies paid in respect of the Thornton Hall site from 2017 to date. [13767/21]
- Domestic Violence Policy
179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department’s external audit of the way responsibility for domestic,...
- Citizenship Applications
180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of citizenship applications by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13825/21]
- Prisoner Health
181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 7 July 2020, if she will provide the most up-to-date data. [13857/21]
- Prison Staff
182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 652 of 7 July 2020, the most up-to-date information in relation to the ratio of...
- Naturalisation Eligibility
183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she and her Department can offer a pathway towards naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) notwithstanding...
- Department of Health
- Vaccination Programme
184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the way and when Covid-19 vaccines will be provided for persons aged over 85 years in Ratoath, County Meath; and if he will make...
- Disability Services Provision
188. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in an appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13602/21]
- General Practitioner Services
189. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure an adequate provision of general practitioner services for the expanding population of Lucan, County Dublin. [13603/21]
- Dental Services
190. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been notified of specific locations in which medical card patients are being denied access to dental treatment; and the steps he plans to take in...
- Vaccination Programme
191. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has refused to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to the doctor's surgery of a 93 year old person with multiple serious health conditions (details...
- Hospital Staff
193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the position to cut posts for junior doctors in 2022 with particular reference to interns; his views on whether additional intern...
- Parking Charges
194. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which consideration has or can be given to the possibility of the abolition of car parking charges for cancer patients while undergoing treatment...
- Medical Cards
195. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to speed up the processing of applications for medical cards with particular reference to applications and renewals from persons...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
196. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on the meaning of related services which are listed under essential level 5 restrictions (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
198. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing composition proposed for each of the mass vaccination centres; the targets for each; the numbers hired for each; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
199. To ask the Minister for Health the current longest waiting time by number of days across each waiting list by each speciality by each hospital group and by hospital; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
200. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances in which a woman is referred to the specialist perinatal health teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13651/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
202. To ask the Minister for Health the current restrictions on nursing home visits; the plans to ease these restrictions in view of the high level of vaccination amongst nursing home residents...
- Health Services Access
203. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding access for medical card holders to chiropody services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13655/21]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on inpatient hospital waiting lists by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13657/21]
- Vaccination Programme
206. To ask the Minister for Health the uptake rate of the HPV vaccine in the 2019-2020 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13659/21]
- Dental Services
212. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who have indicated they plan to leave the medical card system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13665/21]
- Hospital Procedures
214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the general practitioner direct access scheme for ultrasound in a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
215. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a radiographer for a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13668/21]
- Vaccination Programme
216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line healthcare workers who have declined vaccination for medical reasons. [13675/21]
- Hospital Appointments Status
218. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to outpatient appointments; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health and Social Care Professionals
219. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 18 February 2021, if his Department has conducted a workforce census of the entire public and private health and...
- Vaccination Programme
220. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that exist to enable the State to purchase Covid-19 vaccines in autumn 2021 in order to respond to any variants that may materialise; and if he will...
- Mental Health Services
222. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of CHO7 funding by local team level for psychology services. [13701/21]
- Disability Services Funding
224. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of CHO7 funding by local team level for disability services. [13703/21]
- Health Services Staff
225. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will conduct anonymous exit surveys with staff to assess the reasons for staff leaving the health service and systems that could...
- Hospital Staff
226. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department has put in place to support non-consultant hospital doctors from outside Europe who are working or wish to work in Ireland and who...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
227. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department is taking to address the mental health strain that Covid-19 is taking on health staff well-being; and if he will make a statement...
- Vaccination Programme
229. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET has considered if all cohorts will receive a vaccine (details supplied) if approved by the EMA; if not, if the vaccine will be limited to certain...
- Rare Diseases
231. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has assessed the value of genomics and the role it can play in diagnosing rare conditions and diseases; and if he will make a statement on...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
233. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review into the fair deal scheme; if his attention has been drawn to issues for farm families in cases in which land not transferred five...
- Disability Services Provision
234. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a continuation of long-term residential care for those whose carers pass away or are no longer able to provide this care; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
235. To ask the Minister for Health if an essential worker (details supplied) will be required to quarantine in a hotel after returning from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Vaccination Programme
236. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to delaying the roll-out of the second Covid-19 vaccine dose in order to increase the number of persons in the community who...
- Health Services
238. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans which have advanced for a disused building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13777/21]
- Vaccination Programme
239. To ask the Minister for Health if the order of priority for vaccinations as most recently published is being maintained; if the vaccination of healthcare workers in group 6 has not...
- HSE Staff
240. To ask the Minister for Health if the reason a HSE employee (details supplied) who submitted a job evaluation application over two and a half years ago has not had the application...
- Vaccination Programme
241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason optometrists have been left off the priority vaccination list despite engaging in patient facing work daily; and when they can expect to receive the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
242. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on concerns in relation to Covid-19-related stillbirths; and if there needs to be an elevated warning to pregnant women. [13810/21]
- Hospital Staff
245. To ask the Minister for Health if the additional intern jobs created in 2020 which allowed every graduating doctor the chance to stay and work in Ireland are being discontinued in respect of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
246. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital is refusing patients such as a person (details supplied) an appointment until 14 days prior to receiving...
- Hospital Staff
247. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken a review of expectations for the number of NCHDs who will be working in the health service in 2022 and the coming years given...
- Mental Health Services
248. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortcomings in the mental health services with particular reference to north County Kildare and the need to provide for those seeking...
- Special Educational Needs
249. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to improve the supports for children with special needs while requiring therapeutic or residential short-term or long-term...
- Health Services Reform
250. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the Sláintecare programme is being enacted; the progress to date in this regard; the targets achievable in the next 12 months; and if...
- Vaccination Programme
251. To ask the Minister for Health when the contract will be signed for the vaccination centre in County Longford. [13855/21]
- Nursing Staff
252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior nurses currently employed on a full-time permanent basis at Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [13859/21]
- Hospital Staff
255. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of consultants to nurses at Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [13862/21]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Veterinary Services
257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of vets needed for the additional certification process in relation to changes in export health certification of...
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2020 area of natural constraint overclaim refund payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
- GLAS Issues
266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2020 GLAS payment for a commonage parcel will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Aquaculture Data
267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for the EMFF investment for aquaculture enterprises under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund...
- Agriculture Industry
268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consultations will take place with an organisation (details supplied) in order for it to consider the provision of electronic...
- Departmental Data
269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of running the forestry division in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13790/21]
- Forestry Sector
270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional cost of external ecologists hired by the Forest Service; the agreed duration of their contracts; and if he will make a...
- Brexit Issues
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if products will be eligible for EU market support measures in the event of such supports being activated by the European Commission...
- Felling Licences
275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his officials will provide a response in relation to a tree felling case for a person (details supplied) in County Clare....
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Island Communities
276. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next tender for air services to the Aran Islands will be sought; if it is planned to seek tenders on a marginal cost basis as...
