Written answers

Wednesday, 24 March 2021

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding expected to be invested in 2021 in walking and cycling infrastructure projects such as the Midleton-to-Youghal...
    • Road Network
      55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of investment in major road infrastructure in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15539/21]
    • Bus Services
      56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the BusConnects network redesign. [12983/21]
    • Electric Vehicles
      57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take steps to accelerate the roll-out of the promised enhanced electric vehicle charging network. [1494/21]
    • Driver Test
      58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress his Department has made with the Road Safety Authority to provide an online facility for the driver theory test; the timeline...
    • Light Rail Projects
      60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the proposed extension of MetroLink from St. Stephen's Green to south-west Dublin and UCD as originally agreed rather...
    • Public Transport
      62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of negotiations to expand rural public transport capacity in 2021. [44384/20]
    • Driver Licences
      64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will initiate negotiations with the UK on a formal licence exchange agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rail Network
      65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the passenger and freight rail network here, including the Navan rail line and the western rail corridor, given 2021...
    • Bus Services
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of fines imposed on Dublin Bus and a company (details supplied) for non-compliance with timing on routes for the previous 12...
    • Rail Network
      67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to enhance commuter rail services in Cork owing to the contribution that rail transport can make to meeting climate change...
    • Public Transport
      68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Connecting Ireland plan for the reform of public transport services nationwide; the way in which he plans to restructure...
    • Airport Policy
      69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his future plans for Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15010/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he and his Department continue to measure the impact of Brexit to date on the transportation, importation and export...
    • Roads Maintenance
      71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department plans to make up the shortfall in road improvement works funding allocated to Wexford County Council since 2008; and if...
    • Road Network
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to legislate for sound barriers given that at present they only go in as part of planning applications to militate against the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a schedule will be provided of outbound and inbound international flights in respect of airports not listed on the passenger locator...
    • Light Rail Projects
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the MetroLink project; when a railway order will be made; and when it will go to Cabinet. [15630/21]
    • Road Projects
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding and the timeline for the proposed southern relief road in Bandon, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Test
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the length of the backlog for driver and theory test applications; his plans to address the backlog for the application process; and if he...
    • Light Rail Projects
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 3 December 2020, if he will reconsider his Department's position on commissioning a...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will put in place to deal with the backlog within the NDLS nationally in respect of persons left waiting many months for a...
    • Driver Licences
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the length of the backlog for the renewal of driver licences; his plans to address the backlogs in the application process; and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to use driving instructors from semi-State bodies, for example Dublin Bus, to help clear the backlog of driving lessons...
    • Electric Vehicles
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicles and electric plug-in vehicles currently in the State; and his plans to increase the number. [13197/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the temporary financial and regulatory reforms that have been put in place to support private bus operators that continue to have limited...
    • Road Network
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct Transport Infrastructure Ireland to carry out a road surface review of the M7 between Nenagh and Birdhill, County...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the outcomes of a Governmental review concerning a group (details supplied); and when a new chairperson for the board of the group will be...
    • Taxi Regulations
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering extending the ten-year rule for taxi drivers given the impact of Covid-19 on the industry; and if he will make a...
    • Cycling Policy
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request that the National Transport Authority consider creating a link between all public bike schemes nationwide to enable...
    • Bus Services
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a Carlow town bus service; if funding will be made available for this service in quarter 3 of 2021; his plans to provide...
    • Greenways Provision
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress on the Sutton-to-Sandycove, S2S, greenway. [12982/21]
    • Road Network
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the N26 is included in the review of Project Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44807/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the post-Brexit shipping links between Ireland and the UK and the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14558/21]
    • Road Signage
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered amending the statutory instrument on zebra crossings which requires Belisha beacons, which currently restricts...
    • Driver Licences
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration he has given to amending legislation to allow commercial driver certificate of professional competency courses to be...
    • Road Projects
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on the inclusion of a road project (details supplied) in the review of the National Development Plan 2018-2027; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with his counterpart in the UK and-or their officials in view of their decision on travel to and-or from Portugal...
    • Rail Network
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total planned investment in heavy and light rail in the current national development plan; the major projects involved; the estimated...
    • Driver Licences
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of UK driver licences that have been exchanged for Irish licences since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he is taking to protect aviation workers at Cork Airport; and if he will consider using the connectivity fund for this...
    • Road Projects
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Ministerial approval will be given to allow works on the Coonagh-to-Knockalisheen road in Limerick to continue; and if he will make...
    • Bus Services
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on Bus Éireann's plans to withdraw the Expressway services on the N7 and N8 routes in the near future (details supplied);...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of road improvement works funding for County Wexford. [15540/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will resolve the legal lacuna in respect of the control of horse-drawn carriages in Dublin city; and if he will ensure that the...
    • Brexit Issues
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with freight representative organisations on the delays and challenges importers and exporters continue to face at ports...
    • Driver Licences
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the current delay in the issuing of driving licence cards to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reports
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new national investment framework for transport will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15652/21]
    • Electric Vehicles
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of Ireland's carbon footprint when implementing the plan in the Climate Action Plan 2019 for 1 million...
    • Light Rail Projects
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress in developing a new DART station at Woodbrook, between Shankill and Bray, which is scheduled to...
    • Roads Maintenance
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities have reported delays in the completion of their restoration improvement programmes; and his plans to assist local...
    • Legislative Measures
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for legislation for the use of e-scooters; his further plans to include e-scooter usage in the decarbonisation of road...
    • Departmental Strategies
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on developing a strategy that focuses on improvements to the road and rail networks in County Tipperary and in the larger...
    • Rail Network
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress on the city centre resignaling programme, which is due for completion in 2021 (details supplied); and...
    • National Transport Authority
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a differential in staff resources between the categories of the National Transport Authority active...
    • Driver Licences
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position for those due to renew their driver licences, in particular those over 70 years of age and those who do not have a public...
    • Bus Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to proceed with the initial stages of the BusConnects scheme for Dublin; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of...
    • Road Projects
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of his engagement with the Northern Ireland Minister for Infrastructure on cross-Border planning and infrastructure projects,...
    • Driver Test
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that have been taken and those being considered to tackle the driver test, theory test and lessons backlog; and if he will...
    • Road Projects
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the N22 bypass for Macroom, County Cork; the current stage of the project; the next steps and associated timeframes; the...
    • Cycling Facilities
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a short-term programme to repair or upgrade the part of the road used by cyclists on roads and streets with heavy...
    • Departmental Funding
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of roads funding from his Department for Cavan, Monaghan and Meath county councils; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties with which rural communities have been presented due to the lack of co-ordination...
    • Cycling Facilities
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve the standard of urban cycle lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14518/21]
    • Road Projects
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if capital funding has been set aside in budget 2021 for road projects (details supplied) in County Cork. [39488/20]
    • Taxi Sector
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the taxi representative associations since their protest in September 2020 which called for a range of supports...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      133. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 17 February 2021, if it will still be ensured that the 43 weekly newspapers nationwide receive their fair share of the...
    • Legislative Process
      134. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of legislation; if so, the Bills for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      135. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which he spoke to companies (details supplied) about vaccine provision in tabular form. [14592/21]
    • Shared Island Unit
      136. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for the allocation of the shared island fund; and if an application process for this funding will be open to existing cross-Border bodies such as groups...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      137. To ask the Taoiseach the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which require his sanction; the time which elapsed between...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Intellectual Property
      138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement Ireland had in respect of the position taken by the European Commission at the March 2021 World Trade Organization...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if businesses which were non-trading in March 2020 but began or were due to begin trading in 2020 or 2021 during the pandemic will...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
      141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action taken by his Department with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on the need to conduct an investigation...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans being put in place in the form of a job retention scheme to assist SMEs to take on long-term employees and to encourage...
    • Labour Market
      143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans being developed to entice emigrants to return to Ireland to join the workforce, especially in construction, in which there...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount businesses have drawn down from the €2 billion Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme launched in 2020; and if a...
    • Pharmaceutical Sector
      146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the feasibility studies and engagement that has been carried out to date on the potential to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines in Ireland...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the data which show that 46% of inspections in meat processing plants between 2015 and 2020 uncovered breaches of...
    • Work Permits
      148. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to reopen applications for work permits for dairy farm assistants in early 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grants available for online businesses in cases in which they are not entitled to the Covid restriction support scheme and Covid...
    • Legislative Process
      152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if businesses with no rateable premises will be denied access to the Covid-19 business aid scheme; if funding will be made available...
    • Redundancy Payments
      154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he or bodies under his aegis had in respect of redundancies at a company (details supplied); if he will encourage the...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount in grants and-or funding provided by Enterprise Ireland by year to a company (details supplied). [14629/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the development of the Covid business assistance scheme; if the scheme will include backdated payments which take into...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targets set by IDA Ireland for foreign direct investment to each NUTS III region as required by the regional enterprise action...
    • Regional Enterprise Development Fund
      158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the distribution on a NUTS III basis of the regional enterprise development funds to date; and the breakdown of the projects funded...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an international transport business operating as a sole trader (details supplied) in County Donegal can apply for the Enterprise...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial supports for wedding photographers and videographers who have closed their businesses due to Covid-19 restrictions; and...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which require his...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the restart grant will be reintroduced once businesses can reopen to support them; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health and Safety Authority
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new HSA inspectors hired since June 2020 and January 2021, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a period spent on the pandemic unemployment payment can be included when reckoning continuous service to be eligible for a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if shoe fitting for young children will be considered an essential retail service under level 5 restrictions (details supplied)....
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Workplace Relations Commission in each of the years 2015 to 2020 by NACE sector; the...
    • Data Centres
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of data centres in the State; and the location and size of each centre in tabular form. [14982/21]
    • Brexit Supports
      172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if research has been carried out similar to research by Bord Bia on the UK export footprint in key European manufacturing markets;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide ongoing fixed costs supports for SMEs after all levels of public health restrictions have ceased in order for...
    • Redundancy Payments
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged with a company (details supplied) in respect of proposed redundancies; if he has made enquiries as to whether the...
    • Departmental Transport
      177. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken...
    • Intellectual Property
      178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement by Ireland on the position taken by the European Commission at the March 2021 World Trade Organization meeting on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that will be taken to assist towns and retailers to prepare for the reopening of the economy; the guidance on the type of...
    • Consumer Protection
      181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an influx in cases of pyramid schemes in operation; and the steps being taken to combat same....
    • Joint Labour Committees
      182. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will request the creation of a joint labour committee for early years education as a matter of urgency. [15275/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will re-examine the minimum turnover criteria for small to medium-sized businesses looking to avail of the small business...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      184. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering making it permissible for shoe stores to offer appointments for sizing children's feet under public health...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered the admission of the events industry to supports and schemes (details supplied) until six months after mass...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an association (details supplied) will be recognised as the representative body for wedding planners in Ireland; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to SMEs that opened from the beginning of January 2020 and that are now temporarily closed under the current...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a premises (details supplied) is closed under level 5 restrictions but wool and knitting materials can be purchased in...
    • Departmental Funding
      191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding support from the State and the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that will be put in place for SMEs following the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Redundancy Payments
      193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions his Department has taken to save jobs (details supplied); his plans to ensure that the employees affected will be...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies currently registered as social enterprises with the Companies Registration Office. [15808/21]
    • Remote Working
      197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work of Enterprise Ireland on remote working hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15836/21]
    • Trade Strategy
      198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 3 February 2021, if his attention has been drawn to price fluctuations of as much as 30%...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial business supports available for a small wedding photography business such as in the case of a business (details...
    • Intellectual Property
      200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure the waiving of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 products during the pandemic through the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on reclassifying children’s clothing and shoes as essential retail; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the retail sector with advanced notice of the lifting of restrictions to enable a safe reopening; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the payment options available to persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Fuel Sales
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures in place to prevent the illegal sale and distribution of coal and bottled gas from Northern Ireland; the...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff currently working in cybersecurity. [15214/21]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a draft of Ireland’s second national progress report on the sustainable development goals will be...
    • EU Directives
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the revised EU Internal Electricity Market Directive 2019-944 and EU Renewable Energy Directive 2018-2001 will be...
    • EU Programmes
      211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the selection process and timelines in 2021 regarding Ireland’s proposals for the fifth list of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for an area (details supplied) in County Leitrim to be connected to broadband as part of the roll-out of...
    • Legislative Measures
      214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to overhaul the legislation governing noise pollution and statutory nuisance; and if he will make a statement...
    • Environmental Policy
      215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the evaluations that have been conducted to appraise the potential risk of subsidence of adjacent roads and houses...
    • National Broadband Plan
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated completion date of the national broadband plan; the original estimated date; and the number of delays in...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to improve and expand the cybersecurity remit across colleges and universities...
    • Fuel Sales
      220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of on-the-spot fines issued for alleged offences relating to the marketing, sale and distribution of...
    • Fuel Poverty
      221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to put in place a comprehensive anti-fuel poverty strategy; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a...
    • Post Office Network
      222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements his Department had with An Post and a union (details supplied) regarding the offline services report;...
    • North-South Interconnector
      224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the North-South interconnector project; if he is satisfied the project follows international best...
    • Illegal Dumping
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions being considered by his Department to tackle the spike in illegal dumping and littering; and if he will...
    • Legislative Process
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the largest circulated newspapers that are delivered free to homes in areas (details supplied) are not...
    • Environmental Policy
      229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work he has carried out since taking office to implement a green hydrogen strategy; his views on whether enough...
    • Waste Management
      230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work undertaken by his Department to date in addressing the issue of additional waste charges being incurred by...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1060 and 1061 of 7 September 2018, the conclusions of the report referred to in...
    • Recycling Policy
      232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment regulations still apply during the current Covid-19...
    • European Court of Human Rights
      233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has responded to the legal proceedings brought by six young persons from Portugal against Ireland and 32 other...
    • National Broadband Plan
      234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the roll-out schedule for bringing high-speed broadband to Arvagh, County Cavan and surrounding areas; and if he will...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      236. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional investments have been made or planned since the formation of the Government to reinforce and develop the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that will have broadband installed under the national broadband plan by county; the percentage of...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have...
    • National Broadband Plan
      240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if adequate broadband options are available for a property (details supplied) to support working from home,...
    • Climate Change Policy
      241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will give consideration to the formation of a youth climate corps similar to that which has recently been enacted...
    • National Broadband Plan
      242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for areas that have been surveyed for the national broadband plan to be connected to fibre broadband; and...
    • Postal Codes
      243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to reviewing the current Eircode acquirement process, by which a new build premises...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      244. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of SEAI warmer homes grants that were approved in 2019, by county; the waiting time in 2019 for a surveyor...
    • Climate Change Policy
      246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has contacted or plans to contact the UK authorities to raise concerns about the commissioning of a new coalmine...
    • Departmental Transport
      247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his...
    • National Broadband Plan
      248. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available to a household (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15226/21]
    • Environmental Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assistance available to primary schools under the green agenda initiative; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises that have been connected to the national broadband high-speed fibre network by county and month...
    • Energy Policy
      251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the concrete measures he plans to take to actively oppose proposals for floating LNG terminals in Ireland; and if he...
    • Climate Change Negotiations
      252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the preparations made with respect to taking part in the 26th annual session of the Conference of the Parties to be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the interactions he has with the Commissioner for Energy Regulation; if the challenges caused by Covid-19 have been...
    • Energy Policy
      254. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an interdepartmental group has been established within his Department to examine energy security issues in Ireland;...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      255. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the concerns among Irish fishing communities at the growing number of planning...
    • National Broadband Plan
      256. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the allocation of an Eircode postcode will be expedited to ensure broadband provision in the case of persons...
    • National Oil Reserves Agency
      258. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full-year additional yield generated from a 2 cent increase in the National Oil Reserves Agency levy; and if he...
    • National Broadband Plan
      259. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made in extending broadband services to the home of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      261. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the loophole under section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 concerning the duties of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if guidance is in place for local authorities and waste operators with regard to the safe handling of disposable face...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Rural Transport Services
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an issue will be addressed regarding shuttle buses (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for repairs to a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15681/21]
    • Driver Test
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding driver theory tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13875/21]
    • Driver Licences
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the online renewal of driver licences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Airport Development Projects
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the state aid that has been granted to Knock Airport in the past ten years in tabular form; the EU state aid rules that are currently in...
    • Driver Licences
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedure for a person (details supplied) to change their driver licence. [13989/21]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of LA16 forms completed and submitted in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the breakdown by local authority, collision type and...
    • Road Projects
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount allocated towards the Oilgate to Rosslare Harbour N11/N25 roadway for 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Bus Services
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether improperly installed bus shelters acting as barriers to public transport should be addressed as a priority by the...
    • Rural Transport Services
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the LocalLink bus routes by county; the service provider for each route; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Railway Maintenance Contracts
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is an alternative to Iarnród Éireann in carrying out ongoing maintenance works on the rail line in Dún Laoghaire...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if level 5 Covid-19 restrictions confer additional protections on consumers who had flights or foreign holidays pre-booked but cannot...
    • Driver Test
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow students on courses related to essential and front-line work sit driver theory tests in order to be able to attend their...
    • Fishing Industry
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of referrals that have to date been made to the Marine Survey Office by the Workplace Relations Commission under the agreement...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that will be taken to prevent future flooding to a public road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020; the steps being taken to progress the Bill; the anticipated timetable for...
    • Harbour Authorities
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding transferred to each local authority in respect of the transfer of local harbours under the Harbours Act 2015 except...
    • Railway Stations
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of train stations, including DART stations, which have lifts by county; his plans to upgrade the accessibility of train...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that front-line workers have access to public transport if current reduced capacity restrictions continue and...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the decarbonisation of the public transport sector continues towards the meeting of targets; the incentives currently...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he remains satisfied that urgently required road improvements and upgrades or new roads previously committed to will...
    • Public Transport
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a clause in the contract for the M3 tolled motorway that states a railway to Navan cannot be built until the motorway is paid...
    • Legislative Process
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Driver Test
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review current restrictions on driving instruction; if there is updated public health advice to inform possible regulations...
    • Bus Services
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the rules for bus operators (details supplied) will be relaxed in respect of their financial standing when applying for the renewal of...
    • Driver Licences
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene in the case of a student (details supplied) in which they may have to miss out on their preferred college course due...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports available from his Department to the taxi industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14523/21]
    • Driver Licences
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns raised by a person (details supplied); the reason persons with a full driver licence obtained abroad are...
    • Land Development Agency
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of his engagements with the chairman of the Land Development Agency since he became Minister; if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of state aid granted to the Shannon Airport Authority since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that has been for operational...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the meetings his officials have had regarding the Irish Aviation Authority hybrid pension scheme in the past 18 months; and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of reports that the approved driving instructor portal is closed for driving instructors to upload lessons data; when it will...
    • Light Rail Projects
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the timeline of the LUAS expansion to Finglas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14631/21]
    • Driver Test
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allow essential workers who do not already have a date for their driver test to complete their 12 mandatory driving lessons...
    • National Car Test
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the work practices of Longford NCT centre; if there are adequate social distancing measures, hand sanitising facilities...
    • Aviation Industry
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide financial assistance to a company (details supplied) to assist it in remaining financially viable. [14677/21]
    • Rail Network
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the all-island strategic review of the rail network will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14712/21]
    • Cycling Facilities
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the attention of the NTA has been drawn to maintenance issues with the Cork bike share scheme in view of the fact that several...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of pension arrangements for persons impacted by the restructuring of DAA (details supplied). [14754/21]
    • Driver Test
      313. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an essential worker urgent driver test application by a person (details supplied) was unsuccessful; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if upper age limits apply in EU countries for Irish HGV licence holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14766/21]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have required his...
    • Pension Provisions
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Limerick pilotage authority unestablished employees superannuation scheme was ever submitted by the employer to his Department; if...
    • Coast Guard Service
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safety reason that has caused the Irish Coast Guard cliff rescue to be stood down; when he expects this safety issue to be resolved;...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vacancies that have occurred on the board of the Port of Cork since 1 January 2020; the number of vacancies that have been...
    • Driver Licences
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to driver test applicants who have full licences from non-EU countries currently waiting to be allowed to...
    • Road Projects
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in allocated funding being drawn down by Kerry County Council in respect of Listry Bridge on the R563, County...
    • Motor Industry
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on an imminent shortage of quality second-hand vehicles in the Irish market as a result of punitive tariffs imposed on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the business supports in place to assist a private bus operator that has been unable to operate since March 2020 as a result of Covid-19;...
    • Air Accident Investigations
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the final report will be published by the air accident investigation unit into the accident involving the S92-A helicopter at Black...
    • Bus Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the age limit for drivers with Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15106/21]
    • Departmental Transport
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken down...
    • Greenways Provision
      331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to add a bridle path element to greenways when they are being planned, designed and developed throughout Ireland; and if he...
    • Road Projects
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on a road project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15198/21]
    • Driver Test
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to review the current regulations which require essential workers who wish to book a driver test to have completed their 12...
    • Bus Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to provide a bus service for Kilcully, Dublin Pike and Upper Glanmire, County Cork. [15258/21]
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial position of the CIÉ pension schemes both the regular wages scheme and any other scheme affected; if the CIÉ group...
    • Trans European Transport Network Programme
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give a renewed commitment that the State will fund the TEN-T priority route improvement project, County Donegal as prioritised...
    • Driver Test
      339. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is in receipt of a briefing from the RSA on restarting theory tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15311/21]
    • Taxi Regulations
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on an anomaly (details supplied) which may prevent or inadvertently financially penalise taxi drivers seeking to avail of the...
    • Driver Licences
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department will take to assist Irish citizens who were living abroad and returned to Ireland in the past year that...
    • Driver Test
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting a driver test appointment in each centre by age in tabular form; and the length of time they are awaiting...
    • Disabilities Data
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications for a disabled driver pass in 2020 and to date in 2021, from each county in tabular form; and the number of...
    • Driver Test
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to lift the restrictions on essential driver training driving lessons in April 2021 given that many learners have had to stop...
    • Bus Services
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the number of bus stops will be examined on the 120 route in County Kildare (details supplied). [15447/21]
    • Driver Test
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a person (details supplied) can progress the issue of their driving instructor not logging their final two driving...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether it is acceptable that a citizen has to wait 40 minutes on the telephone line to speak to a person in the National...
    • Railway Stations
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if costings will be provided for accessibility works to railway stations nationwide. [15483/21]
    • Driver Licences
      351. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter on a truck licence for a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15490/21]
    • Ferry Services
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts being made to encourage operators to increase direct shipping routes from Ireland to continental Europe; and if he will make...
    • Motor Industry
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered introducing a requirement for identification to be provided by the buyer of a car when ownership is being...
    • Departmental Funding
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all the applications by local authorities for the 2021 funding allocations for sustainable transport...
    • Driver Test
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the ongoing suspension of the theory test service; and if his Department has considered allowing the return of professional...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that have used airport testing in Irish airports in which testing is available; the number of incoming...
    • Community Involvement Scheme
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to extending the community involvement scheme for the new areas of Cork city which were areas of Cork...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many over 70s have not received their licence renewal packs in the post and are having...
    • Rail Network
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there have been delays to the MetroLink project due to the Covid-19 pandemic as of January 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Test
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deal with backlogs and cancellations of driving tests, theory tests, NCT exams and driving lessons due to the lockdown in...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether his refusal to introduce a mandatory system of airport testing for the past nine months of the Covid-19 pandemic has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current guidelines regarding capacity for public and private transport with regard to buses, trains and taxis; and if he will make a...
    • Brexit Supports
      365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocols put in place for Ireland’s ports to deal with knock on affects from Brexit; the protocols put in place for Irish...
    • Rail Network
      366. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the passenger and freight rail network including the Navan rail line and the Western rail corridor given that 2021 is...
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further emergency PSO funding will need to be provided to support the public bus and rail services; the amount intended to be provided...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that it is safe for driving instructors, driving testers and NCT workers to continue working during the current...
    • National Development Plan
      369. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas under his remit he hopes to improve under the upcoming review of the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027; the new criteria...
    • Driver Test
      370. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that online driver theory tests for those learning to drive a car are not available given that theory tests for those learning...
    • Driver Licences
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is considering changes to the current driver licensing regulations for holders of foreign licences in particular for...
    • Road Safety
      372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 10 December 2020, if a bridge inspection has been completed at the N70 bridge at...
    • Driver Test
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to help the RSA deal with the inevitable backlog of driver test applications that it faces as Covid-19 restrictions ease. [15649/21]
    • Road Tolls
      374. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact the loss of toll income has had on the road projects that Transport Infrastructure Ireland is carrying out. [15650/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      375. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to meet driving instructor representatives regarding the conditions of their work during the Covid-19 pandemic. [15651/21]
    • Bus Services
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Programme for Government commitment to require that all new urban buses be electric hybrid or electric; if this plan...
    • Brexit Issues
      379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the implications following Brexit in regard to the UK land bridge and the supply chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      380. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive in furthering cross-Border infrastructure projects; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on the provision of a ring road in Tipperary town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1353/21]
    • Driver Test
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on the delays being experienced by essential workers who have applied to sit a driving test (details supplied); and if he...
    • Cycling Facilities
      383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has had with local authorities on the development of cycling infrastructure across Dublin in particular without a...
    • Driver Test
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be issued a date for their driver theory test; if there is an option for them to sit the test...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide statistics for road deaths (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15691/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements of his Departmental officials with Transport Infrastructure Ireland on planning and road opening licences for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      387. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action taken to prevent the use of drones to record and broadcast race meetings here during the Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will...
    • Road Safety Authority
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of registered driving instructors that are registered with the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      390. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an effort can be made to renew urgently driving licences for those whose licences have expired and who due to Covid-19-related delays...
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      392. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the record of a motor vehicle that was exported (details supplied) will be updated by the driver and vehicle computer services...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      393. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of intervention he will take in respect of State airports in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic; and his plans to...
    • Rail Network
      395. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he will encourage the modernisation of rail transport infrastructure by ensuring long-term investment to meet the...
    • Public Transport
      399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects public transport to play a major role in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15881/21]
    • Rail Network
      400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if adequate consideration has been given to the provision of adequate parking adjacent to railway stations with a view to ensuring the...
    • Aviation Policy
      405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the post-Covid-19 restoration of air passenger and cargo transport has been examined; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Network
      410. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he anticipates the need to upgrade arterial road routes and reduce carbon emission levels; and if he will make a...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      411. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding the CIÉ pension scheme for retired Bus Éireann drivers (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further...
  • Department of Finance
    • Gambling Sector
      414. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) was regulated to operate here; and if so, the regulatory body under which it was regulated. [15496/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      415. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports that have been provided by the EU to help Ireland to cope with the pandemic. [15546/21]
    • Tax Code
      416. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on farmers having to pay carbon tax while fishing boat operators do not have to do so; the reason for same; his views on this discrepancy given the...
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund
      417. To ask the Minister for Finance the levels of funding, recipient enterprises, project details, investment objectives, timelines and expected emission reductions associated with the portfolio...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      418. To ask the Minister for Finance when medical examinations for the disabled drivers' scheme will recommence given that many disabled persons are at a significant financial disadvantage due to...
    • Tax Compliance
      419. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to international online wine merchants advertising and importing wine to Ireland without paying excise or VAT; and if he will...
    • Crime Data
      420. To ask the Minister for Finance the drug finds by Customs and Excise and the Revenue Commissioners in each of the past five years calculated as being over €13,000; the counties in...
    • Tax Credits
      421. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider an additional tax credit for those who are single and who live alone given that there is an additional tax credit for widowed persons, one...
    • Bank Charges
      422. To ask the Minister for Finance if concerns have been raised with him or the Central Bank in relation to the change of policy proposed by retail banks in relation to solicitors' client bank...
    • Banking Sector
      423. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request as a shareholder in a bank (details supplied) that it defer branch closures until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. [13998/21]
    • Personal Injuries Assessment Board
      424. To ask the Minister for Finance the number or percentage of personal injury cases that do not go to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board by veto of the insurance companies. [14035/21]
    • Insurance Coverage
      425. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that households living in flood risk areas can obtain household insurance for flood cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs
      426. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans and the consideration given to increase the current agricultural relief for the leasing of agriculture lands for solar energy production; and if he...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      427. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14082/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      428. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held a meeting or received correspondence from a company (details supplied) regarding the senior executive accountability regime since January 2018....
    • Departmental Bodies
      430. To ask the Minister for Finance if current or former employees of a company (details supplied) sit on boards or hold positions in State agencies under the aegis of his Department. [14088/21]
    • Tax Code
      431. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the stamp duty levy on privately funded pension schemes introduced as a temporary measure in 2011 is still being levied on IASS pensioners...
    • Banking Sector
      433. To ask the Minister for Finance if the transfer of loans from a bank (details supplied) to a domestic or non-domestic financial institution will require his approval; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      437. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing tax rates such as the exit tax rate and capital gains tax for young investors to encourage more young people to enter the...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      438. To ask the Minister for Finance if the code of conduct for mortgage arrears is a voluntary code; if not, if a regulatory body in the State will enforce its application; the mechanism the...
    • Value Added Tax
      440. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on retaining the 9% tourism VAT rate at least up until 2025 to assist recovery and provide certainty for tourism businesses; and if he will make a...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      441. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending the employment wage subsidy scheme until 31 January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14309/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      442. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that concession-based moratoriums are being provided to tourism and hospitality businesses by Irish banks and lenders until...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      443. To ask the Minister for Finance when the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme will be replaced in view of the Supreme Court judgement of 18 June 2020; and if he...
    • Property Tax
      444. To ask the Minister for Finance if a deferral mechanism or staggered payment options can be put in place for householders who are struggling to pay their local property tax for 2021; and if...
    • Legislative Process
      445. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of legislation; if so, the...
    • Value Added Tax
      446. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT reclaimed by persons who are not registered for VAT from 2010 to 2020, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman
      447. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is considering expanding the remit of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to provide non-legal recourse to SMEs with annual...
    • Consumer Protection
      448. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to update the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2018 to regulate cases in which vulture funds transfer legal ownership...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      450. To ask the Minister for Finance the analysis his Department has carried out into the use by employers of third-party providers who operate a voucher system in the delivery of the...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      452. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 3 November 2020, the position regarding the fuel grant element of the scheme for scheme recipients if a disabled...
    • Tax Reliefs
      454. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the current rates under the e-working tax relief in view of the current shortfall for employees in the difference...
    • Banking Sector
      455. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal by a union (details supplied) on the need to establish a structured forum on banking to consider the future of the banking landscape...
    • Oireachtas Proceedings
      456. To ask the Minister for Finance if a copy will be provided of the briefing notes prepared for Central Bank officials in preparation for their recent Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance,...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme
      457. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he has taken regarding the decision by a bank (details supplied) to sell loans to a fund despite the fact that agreements had been entered into...
    • Tax Code
      459. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on proposals raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of the taxation of overtime in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      460. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with the Central Bank regarding the recent fine levied on a company (details supplied); his views on the impact of this case on the...
    • Tax Rebates
      461. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork, having completed a form 12 application in respect of significant medical costs, did not receive a...
    • Carer's Allowance
      462. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who claimed carer’s allowance here in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form; the number of persons who claimed...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      464. To ask the Minister for Finance the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have required his sanction; the time which...
    • Banking Sector
      465. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to specific closure timelines and redundancy, security and pension options for staff at a bank (details supplied) scheduled...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      466. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports in place to reimburse businesses for stock they have had to dispose of as a result of stock going out of date or for other reasons that relate to...
    • Pension Provisions
      467. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which it is concluded that the net pension entitlement of a person (details supplied) should result in more than 50% tax thereby adding a further...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      468. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met with officials from banks (details supplied) to date in 2021 to discuss the move to reduce banking services in rural areas; the details of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      470. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to allow SMEs to avail of tax warehousing without penalty for at least 12 months after mass gatherings are permitted again in view of the...
    • Bank Charges
      474. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with banks on the issue of negative interest rate charges (details supplied). [15007/21]
    • Insurance Costs
      475. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts being made to ensure that the associated savings will be passed on to the customer by insurance companies on foot of the recent publication of new...
    • Tax Code
      477. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered or researched the possible impacts of providing a reduced rate of capital gains tax for property owners selling a home to a...
    • Departmental Transport
      478. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken down by the number of...
    • Insurance Costs
      479. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the amounts in personal injuries insurance guidelines as set by the Judicial Council; and his views on whether the level of payment for damages...
    • Credit Unions
      480. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the review of the policy framework within which credit unions operate. [15183/21]
    • Tax Yield
      483. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have filed domicile levy returns; the amount collected since commencement to date for which figures are available; and if he will...
    • Defective Building Materials
      485. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will convene a forum meeting with the banks and financial institutions in co-operation with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      486. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to engage with the Revenue Commissioners in respect of liabilities due by persons in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and or the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      487. To ask the Minister for Finance if a matter will be addressed in relation to investments by persons in a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15296/21]
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      488. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15309/21]
    • Tax Forms
      489. To ask the Minister for Finance if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to small businesses will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      490. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change inheritance tax laws for unmarried long-term cohabiting couples who are currently considered as strangers to give them the same tax status...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      492. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will mandate employers to pay the income tax owed by employees in respect of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy scheme given...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      493. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of payments made by NAMA to law and accountancy firms from 2018 to date; the amount received by each of the firms for each respective year; and if...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      494. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of payments made by the Central Bank to law and accountancy firms from 2018 to date; the amount received by each of the firms for each respective...
    • Departmental Contracts
      495. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all pro bono work undertaken by accountancy firms for his Department from 2016 to date by the type of work, the number of hours spent and the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      497. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of payments by the Revenue Commissioners to law and accountancy firms from 2018 to date; the amount received by each of the firms in each...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      499. To ask the Minister for Finance if the CRSS will be made available for charity shops that are closed under level 5 restrictions and backdated for same. [15514/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      500. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 166 of 24 February 2021, the way in which an importer can prove the origin of a used car as EU, UK or a third country...
    • Motor Insurance
      502. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the meeting between the Minister of State for financial services,credit unions and insurance and the chief executive officers of the main...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      503. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the provisions of the help-to-buy incentive scheme beyond 31 December 2021 for first-time buyers especially for those who are...
    • Tax Collection
      504. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax liability of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined immediately in view of the fact that the reduction in their income due to tax is...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      505. To ask the Minister for Finance the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15846/21]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      507. To ask the Minister for Finance the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further online payment...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      508. To ask the Minister for Finance the supporting documentation required for a VRT application to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15872/21]
    • Insurance Coverage
      510. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure property owners at risk of flooding have fair access to insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15920/21]
    • Value Added Tax
      511. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reducing the VAT rate to 21% to assist the retail sector during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15921/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      512. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a further six-month moratorium on bank term loans for businesses to support cash flow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15922/21]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Funding
      515. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding streams are available to facilitate the installation of an accessibility lift in a public building; if so, the criteria for...
    • Brexit Supports
      516. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact the renegotiation of the EU Brexit fund as requested by France will have on Ireland’s share of the funding; the way in...
    • Defence Forces Representative Organisations
      517. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place for the direct involvement of Defence Forces representative associations in national pay talks. [15965/21]
    • Public Sector Pay
      518. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to bring section 39 and 56 organisations back into the remit of the public service pay agreements; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      519. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to accelerate the roll-out of capital projects in view of the underspend in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if...
    • Land Development Agency
      521. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to bring forward legislation to include staff and board members of the Land Development Agency and its subsidiaries in the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      522. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 20 January 2021, if he will provide an account of his stewardship of the matter (details...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      523. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that can be taken to prevent flooding to homes at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      524. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to address deficiencies in the Bandon flood relief scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      525. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if contracting authorities are required under European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016 for negotiated...
    • Legislative Process
      526. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Departmental Records
      527. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when Circular 39/07, concerning the process by which Departments classify material as top secret, will be either updated or replaced...
    • National Development Plan
      528. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of funds allocated under the national smart growth initiative as part of the ten-year national investment plan for the...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      530. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will honour the Workplace Relations Commission ruling in favour of community employment supervisors; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Risk Management
      531. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a clear, timelined plan for the Office of Public Works to address the structural problems in the sea wall in Roche's...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      532. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department that have required his...
    • Flood Risk Management
      533. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times in the past two years the OPW has met with the insurance industry regarding flood insurance under the memorandum of...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      534. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 9 December 2020, if payment was made; and the breakdown of the works for which payment was...
    • EU Funding
      535. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of Ireland's submission of a national plan under the recovery and resilience fund; if Ireland has submitted a draft plan; if...
    • National Monuments
      536. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the Skelligs for 2021; the provisional open season date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15071/21]
    • Greenways Provision
      537. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will engage with Fáilte Ireland, local authorities and other stakeholders to examine the way existing and planned coastal and...
    • Departmental Transport
      538. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken down...
    • Departmental Bodies
      539. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Institute of Public Administration, the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Special EU Programmes Body as bodies under...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      548. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a flood relief scheme is proposed for the Bridgestown and Moneyfluigh area, Inniscarra, County Cork. [15367/21]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      549. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average cost to the Exchequer for each apprentice employed in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Stations
      551. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the use of overspill accommodation by the OPW in respect of the new Garda building at Military Road, Dublin; if he and or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      552. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      553. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Arts Funding
      554. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the €50 million fund for the live entertainment sector will be distributed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Tourism Funding
      555. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the second phase of the Bord Fáilte grant will be issued to persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      556. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific supports she will put in place to assist the 43 weekly newspapers nationwide whose advertising revenue has dropped...
    • Legislative Process
      562. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the process through which her Department drafts and produces legislation; if her Department outsources the drafting...
    • Sports Funding
      564. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a grant for a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14553/21]
    • Water Quality
      566. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures that will be taken to maintain and improve the water quality as part of the Shannon tourism investment scheme. [14653/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      567. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when applicants for the tourism and business continuity scheme will be notified if they have been successful in their application...
    • Film Industry
      568. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on foreign production companies having an obligation to hire production and acting staff here given the...
    • Sports Events
      569. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on spectators attending European Championship matches in a stadium (details supplied); and if her Department is engaging...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      570. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of her Department which have required...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      572. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all meetings and events she has attended from 1 November 2020 to date and those attended by the Minister of State...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      573. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has conducted a risk assessment and/or received updated advice regarding the resumption of indoor non-contact training and...
    • Tourism Promotion
      575. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding plans by Fáilte Ireland for the marketing and branding of Killarney, County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      576. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects Fáilte Ireland’s platforms for growth capital funding recipients to be announced; and if she will...
    • Tourism Promotion
      577. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the destination town initiative in respect of Tralee, County Kerry; the breakdown of expenditure in Tralee under the...
    • Departmental Transport
      578. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by her Department and agencies and semi-State companies under her remit broken...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      579. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the issues raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the need to protect the events industry; and if she...
    • Media Pluralism
      580. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will examine the concentration of local media ownership by a group (details supplied) which has resulted in layoffs of...
    • Tourism Funding
      581. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding or grants are available to the owners of holiday parks, sites or facilities that provide services to mobile home...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      582. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention had been drawn to the fact that the cut-off date for certain Fáilte Ireland pandemic support schemes will...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      584. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when sports capital grant applicants for 2021 can expect to receive a decision on their applications; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      585. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 24 February 2021, when a reply will issue from Fáilte Ireland. [15772/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      586. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to allow outdoor sporting activities to resume after 5 April 2021 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      587. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the applications received for sports capital grants; and the value of the grants applied for by clubs in the Dublin...
    • Departmental Funding
      588. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application for funding by a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15839/21]
    • Fur Farming
      589. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial grants or other supports provided by Údarás na Gaeltachta to fur farms since 2009. [15925/21]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Issues
      590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for keeping private housing construction closed while repairs to social housing remain open in view of the fact...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will provide an update on same to the sector; and if he will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body responsible for the upkeep and controlling authority of Saleen Pier, Ballylongford, County Kerry; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Scragh Bog, County Westmeath has been closed to visitors given that the users of the amenity are deeply concerned,...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if isolation units are in place in County Clare for homeless services to avail of when required in the case of a Covid-19...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to each approved housing body in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authority Staff
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full job description as agreed with Louth County Council in respect of the senior executive officers appointed to Dundalk...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns that a person (details supplied) is now waiting 31 weeks for the resolution of an appeal decision...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when draft interim planning regulations for the installation of solar rooftop panels will be laid before the Houses of the...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy will be provided of the matrix and scoring system used to assess applications to his Department for funding under...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the upcoming marine planning and development management Bill will stipulate a minimum distance that offshore windfarms have...
    • Rights of Way
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process by which local authorities and community groups can register right of way areas by the deadline of 30 November...
    • Water Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the water sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are permitted to block intercounty housing assistance payment applications as in the case of a person...
    • Building Regulations Qualifications
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason registered quantity surveyors are still being required to provide qualifications beyond that intended by the...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Rebuilding Ireland home loan is excluding persons whose divorces have not been finalised. [14018/21]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria and methodology used to determine the seven proposed price caps for the shared equity loan scheme. [14042/21]
    • Housing Provision
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes to purchase funded via the serviced sites fund that he expects to be completed in each of the...
    • Vacant Sites
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites in each county in which planning permission has been granted for each year since 2018, in tabular form;...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider providing legislation to prevent landlords or letting agents charging tenants for references, as is in...
    • Heritage Sites
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding available from his Department through appropriate schemes to assist with a building (details supplied) in County...
    • Local Authority Housing
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work carried out by his Department regarding the implementation of a national differential rent scheme for local...
    • Care of the Elderly
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding is available and if he plans to introduce a scheme similar to the fair deal scheme that would provide financial...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the 5,073 new build social houses delivered in 2020 by category (details supplied). [14202/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing applications made to each relevant housing authority from April 2020 to date that were refused...
    • Local Authority Housing
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the consideration that has been given outside of the energy efficiency programme for 2021 for the retrofitting of local...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties to date per rent pressure zone in County Louth that have been identified as potentially in breach of...
    • Local Authority Housing
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department has not signed off on a request from Donegal County Council that it be permitted to purchase the...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the service level agreement between his Department and Dublin City Council for the provision of homeless...
    • Land Ownership
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible to establish the details of the ownership and boundaries of a parcel of land in Kilkenny city (details...
    • Regeneration Projects
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated by his Department for the Our Balbriggan strategy; the details of the projects funded; the timelines for...
    • Local Authority Staff
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apprentices taken on by local authorities in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14285/21]
    • Local Authority Housing
      633. 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...
    • Local Authority Schemes
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times that the four Dublin local authorities have offered financial contribution schemes for the purpose of...
    • Commercial Rates
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending the local authority commercial rates waiver for tourism and hospitality businesses until 31 January...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending the moratorium on evictions until 31 December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the oversight his Department has over the activities of an organisation (details supplied) in the engagement and in the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenants per county that are resident in houses that were acquired under Part V of the Planning and Development...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants; if he plans, following that review, he...
    • Land Development Agency
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Land Development Agency has considered introducing co-living accommodation into any of its proposed developments; and...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of dwellings that have been acquired under the mortgage-to-rent scheme by county in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Vacant Properties
      646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 58 apartments have been idle since their construction almost 15 years ago...
    • Land Development Agency
      647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a technical working group within his Department assessing the methodology for transfer of State lands to the Land...
    • Local Authority Funding
      648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the next call for local authority submissions under the services site fund; the assessment criteria for local...
    • Legislative Process
      649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if eviction protections in place due to Covid-19 extend to tenants for whom the landlord has sold their property. [14436/21]
    • Housing Provision
      652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been further progress in relation to the review of income eligibility for social housing supports that is...
    • Land Development Agency
      654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Land Development Agency is exempted from complying with the lobbying register; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Building Regulations
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the monitoring of CE certified materials being carried out on construction sites to ensure that the materials supplied are in...
    • Local Authority Members
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if work is ongoing within his Department to devise a mechanism that would enable councillors to avail of maternity or...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of all public housing developments across the four Dublin local authorities under construction or with planning...
    • Harbours and Piers
      661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of repairs to Coliemore harbour; the details of meetings officials from his Department have had with officials from...
    • Vacant Sites
      662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an issue (details supplied) in relation to a vacant site; if the issue will be investigated...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14582/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Land Development Agency
      666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown by local authority of projects currently underway under the auspices of the Land Development Agency; and the...
    • Housing Data
      667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown by local authority of housing vacancies. [14694/21]
    • Project Ireland 2040
      668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider proposals (details supplied) to adapt the hierarchy of settlements and related infrastructure outlined in...
    • National Planning Framework
      669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work he has undertaken to pursue the adoption of an all-island approach to national planning frameworks. [14707/21]
    • Heritage Sites
      670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to protect the Hill of Allen and its tower; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14714/21]
    • Commercial Rates
      671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual amount of commercial rates income from each data centre in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Coverage
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he has engaged with insurance...
    • Heritage Fund
      674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the available grant funding for repair and restoration of church buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 25 February 2021, his views on whether those receiving the carer’s...
    • Wildlife Data
      679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been a survey conduction on the deer population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14911/21]
    • Wildlife Regulations
      680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of section 42 licences that have been issued in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14912/21]
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for selection of projects under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund; and if there is a detailed weighting...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the quality of work being conducted under the pyrite remediation scheme; the quality guarantee that...
    • Repair and Leasing Scheme
      684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered revising upwards the terms of the repair and leasing scheme to provide a greater incentive to property...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will sign off on the decommissioning of a group water scheme (details supplied). [15081/21]
    • Wildlife Protection
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislative framework adopted in Ireland to implement the objectives of the Birds Directive, as set out in 2009/147/EC;...
    • Departmental Transport
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit,...
    • Vacant Properties
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to Cork City Council for voids refurbishment in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the delivery of housing allocations for the Traveller community in County Clare is adequate; if he has...
    • Land Issues
      690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter regarding development on lands (details supplied). [15143/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meetings he has held or correspondence he has had with banks and financial institutions in Ireland since assuming office....
    • Special Protection Areas
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the compensatory measures that are available to farmers who have had their lands designated as special...
    • Water Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of wastewater treatment plants that have an amber or red capacity loading in each county; the percentage of water...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the members of the project assessment board for assessing and allocating funding for the urban regeneration and development...
    • Road Network
      700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the works on the second bridge linking Celbridge to Hazelhatch, County Kildare, will commence; the status of...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections of private residential tenancies in County Cork in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Housing Data
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average period of time it takes for public housing projects to go from initial design stage funding to completion, by...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the recipients of HAP in each local authority; if they are deemed to be housed once in receipt of HAP;...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if eviction proceedings can advance in relation to tenants who have not paid rent since before the period of Covid-19...
    • Hedge Cutting
      706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of exemptions in relation to the ban on hedge cutting during nesting season applied for and granted by each local...
    • Water Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of grants paid for the upgrade of private wastewater systems and septic tanks in each year since the scheme's...
    • Local Authority Staff
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the senior social work post will be filled in Kilkenny local authorities (details supplied). [15375/21]
    • Water Pollution
      712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has received reports in recent years regarding the discovery of taprogge balls on Dollymount beach, Clontarf...
    • Tourism Industry
      713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to engage with local authorities on the reduction or removal of the so-called sunshine tax for hospitality...
    • Building Regulations
      714. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed timeline for the construction defects working group; if funding will be made available for low-cost loans for...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding mechanisms available for low-cost loans for multi-unit development older builds, that is, pre-1980; and if he will...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the assessment of the application from Louth County Council to his Department for funding for the Drogheda port access...
    • Departmental Funding
      717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter in relation to a funding and delivery solution for public sector projects raised in correspondence...
    • Turf Cutting
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide reassurance to owners of private turf banks and those with turbary rights that they will be permitted to...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions being taken to preserve rare bird species including the corncrake, curlew, red grouse and grey partridge; and if...
    • Departmental Bodies
      720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish a body to replace the Wildlife Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15552/21]
    • Wildlife Protection
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the wildlife crime unit will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15553/21]
    • Rental Sector
      722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine a rent increase in the case of a person (details supplied); and the options available. [15557/21]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation providing a specific...
    • Rental Sector
      725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rights envisaged in relation to the section in the Programme for Government on long-term letting rights for tenants; and...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 11 March 2021, if he will address matters (details supplied) regarding HAP; and if...
    • Building Regulations
      731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department has taken or the assistance that is available to those residents of apartment complexes who have...
    • Disability Services Provision
      734. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that the consultation for the National Housing Strategy for Persons with Disabilities...
    • Local Authority Housing
      735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy with regard to the criteria for inclusion on the housing list of a local authority in particular with regard to the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      738. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the countries and companies that have joined up with the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool to date. [15761/21]
    • Passport Applications
      739. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application applied for in January 2021 will be processed for a person (details supplied) in order that they can receive their...
    • Human Rights
      740. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is obliged to notify the Council of Europe that it has derogated from the EU Convention on Human Rights with respect to certain...
    • Departmental Meetings
      741. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the dates of meetings of his Department’s committee on human rights from 2016 to date in tabular form; the members of the committee;...
    • Passport Applications
      742. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the operation of the Passport Office during Covid-19; the length of time persons are expected to wait with all their...
    • Foreign Policy
      743. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the military coup in Myanmar; the representations he and the relevant ambassadors have made to the authorities in Myanmar; and...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      744. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is policy to postpone the achievement of the UN target for 0.7% of GNP for ODA until 2030; if he will set out the increase proposed...
    • Passport Applications
      745. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons who have applied for a passport which has not yet been processed. [14060/21]
    • Departmental Functions
      748. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he plans to take to reinstate the service provided by the Apostille Office to authenticate documents in a timely manner given it...
    • Legislative Process
      750. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      752. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent engagements with his counterpart in the United Kingdom; if recent concerns regarding the implementation of...
    • Human Rights Cases
      756. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the work his Department has carried out regarding the detention of a person (details supplied) in China; and if he will make a...
    • International Agreements
      757. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with his European counterparts regarding the forthcoming ratification of a new investment deal with China given the...
    • UN Security Council
      758. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland's membership of the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14620/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      759. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union, and the European...
    • Visa Agreements
      760. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the E3 visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14667/21]
    • Northern Ireland
      761. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the work he has undertaken to ensure the full implementation of the New Decade, New Approach deal. [14706/21]
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      762. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the work he has undertaken to ensure that access is gained to all original documents held by the UK Government relating to the Dublin and...
    • Human Rights
      763. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the arrest and detention of five young children by the Israeli Defence Forces on 10 March 2021 in the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      764. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department that required his sanction; the...
    • Passport Applications
      765. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14909/21]
    • Foreign Policy
      767. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will increase the amount of famine relief funding being provided for Yemen by Ireland in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Transport
      770. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department, agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken down by the...
    • Departmental Functions
      772. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if partial processing of foreign birth registrations can resume at level 5 given that many persons who submitted applications for foreign...
    • International Agreements
      774. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consideration he has given to the recommendations of the Report on the Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      777. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a series of matters regarding the rapid response and election observation rosters (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • International Agreements
      778. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the position taken by Ireland will be reviewed in respect of a potential TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 vaccines in view of the recommendations...
    • Ministerial Communications
      779. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the diplomatic contact he has had with his Chinese counterpart in the past year. [15590/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      780. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of letters he has issued to persons travelling here in 2020 and to date in 2021 who were travelling for an urgent humanitarian...
    • Passport Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; if a change of address has been added to the...
    • Legislative Programme
      783. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress of the maritime jurisdiction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15930/21]
    • Human Rights
      784. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his recent visit to Iran including discussions on human rights violations and the treatment of women; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      785. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      786. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further online...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      787. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties associated with Defence Forces personnel that are non-Irish passport holders, in terms of...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      788. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the Permanent Defence Forces as of 1 March 2021; the breakdown of all ranks across the three services; the gender breakdown of...
    • Legislative Process
      789. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      790. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the optimum strength level of the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/21]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      792. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have required his sanction;...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      793. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of women currently serving in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14859/21]
    • Defence Forces Medical Services
      795. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures in place to provide for the healthcare and welfare of members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Military Honours
      796. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the review process which he informed Dáil Éireann in November 2020 was in progress to examine the awarding of military...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      797. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of current members of the Defence Forces who are parents broken down by gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14953/21]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      803. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the pay and renumeration structure for all ranks in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15004/21]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      804. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Minister of State in his Department has engaged in any meetings with representatives of foreign governments, organisations or state...
    • Departmental Transport
      805. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken down by the...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      806. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the vaccination of overseas Defence Forces personnel. [15303/21]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      810. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which he plans to bridge the gap of ten years between forced early retirement on age grounds in the Defence Forces and access to the...
    • EU Directives
      813. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the implementation of the EU Working Time Directive in relation to the Defence Forces. [15963/21]
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      814. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for additional defence investment in strategic airlift, air intercept and airspace monitoring primary radar capability and cyber...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      815. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16278/21]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      816. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further online...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on survivors of institutional abuse not being able to access medical help, including counselling through Caranua, as was promised to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children with special needs including those with Down syndrome cannot go into school for even three hours a day with their SNAs...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the commitments given to survivors of institutional abuse will be delivered on; and if payment for a procedure will issue (details supplied)....
    • School Curriculum
      820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with the NCCA on the Irish curriculum at leaving certificate level; her views on whether the focus on literature and written...
    • Departmental Properties
      821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future plans for her Department's land in Newcastle, County Dublin which may be large enough to accommodate a post-primary school adjacent to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team has been appointed for the new amalgamated national school for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she plans to approve the provision of a school transport service on an additional route for a school (details supplied). [13965/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child who is deemed to be a high risk of contracting Covid-19 and is being home-schooled will be marked absent from school; if the...
    • School Discipline
      828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will further consider the rejection of a section 29 appeal by a person (details supplied); if the appeal will be reviewed; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided on whether a special needs assistant (details supplied) is permitted to continue working until 70 years of age; the...
    • State Examinations
      830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student who is studying agricultural science outside of the school setting under the supervision of a grinds teacher can use the predictive...
    • School Facilities
      831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when works on the pitch in a school (details supplied) will commence. [14105/21]
    • Schools Data
      832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue on a matter raised by a school (details supplied) in April 2020. [14128/21]
    • School Curriculum
      833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) will receive a response in respect of senior cycle geography students; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for vaccine roll-out in special education schools in which there are very vulnerable young children; and if there are plans to also...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has issued guidelines to the Teaching Council with regard to ESL teachers from English language schools that have closed down...
    • School Management
      836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the governance and accountability in place for patrons and boards of management at primary school level; the person or body that oversees...
    • School Curriculum
      837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that have been put in place to ensure that leaving certificate geography students who have chosen geographical investigation topic...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the anomaly will be addressed in primary payroll procedures whereby in recent years the attainment of an honours or pass degree for entrants...
    • Schools Building Projects
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage the urgent accessibility works at a school (details supplied) are at; if an application at design stage has been submitted to her...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in respect of moving a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14220/21]
    • School Curriculum
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of Irish Sign Language as an accredited subject for junior and leaving certificate students. [14230/21]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 4 February 2021, the nature of the representations received in relation to the proposal by Cavan and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14286/21]
    • Schools Data
      844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied); if the issue will be investigated and the appropriate action taken;...
    • School Curriculum
      845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the pedagogical value of homework for primary and post-primary students; the way in which research in the field informs...
    • State Examinations
      846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if junior certificate woodwork practical exams can be completed with the assistance of a SNA in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a post-primary ASD unit for children in north Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect temporary classrooms to move onto the permanent site; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to the parents of a child (details supplied). [14390/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project (details supplied) including the site and the new school building; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the process through which her Department drafts and produces legislation; if her Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs secondary school places available in east County Cork for September 2021. [14446/21]
    • School Enrolments
      859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of a shortfall from current second level places her Department anticipates for September 2021 enrolments across south County Kildare...
    • School Curriculum
      860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of subjects second year students in post-primary schools are obliged to take; the position regarding students with dyslexia in this...
    • Schools Building Projects
      862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on the provision of a new school (details supplied) arising from a meeting with school representatives recently; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the planning that has taken place to date for 2021 summer provision programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      864. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps and processes involved in the planning, development and construction of a new school in an urban environment, including typical...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      866. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to correspondence to his office from a person (details supplied) with a suggestion regarding the return to school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      867. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a matter regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14663/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be accommodated in a suitable special needs school. [14670/21]
    • School Patronage
      870. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to establish a new post-primary school in the Donaghmede, Howth, Baldoyle, Stapolin and Dublin 13 school planning area; when the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      871. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [14678/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      872. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education places currently available in Cork city; the location of these places by primary school, secondary school,...
    • School Curriculum
      878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding teaching time. [14721/21]
    • State Examinations
      879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the outcome of appeals lodged after the release of the results of the written leaving certificate 2020 exams in February 2021 will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to enforce the wearing of facemasks by primary school students. [14743/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to extending the special education school term to the end of July 2021 to align it with the EU and the UK. [14758/21]
    • School Funding
      884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned to increase capacity for concessionary ticket holders for the next academic year for applicants (details supplied) in County...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      885. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of her Department which have required her sanction;...
    • School Curriculum
      886. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department communicated to schools that leaving certificate geography students would be unable to partake in field trips as part of...
    • School Transport
      887. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 3 March 2021, her views on whether the results of the school transport review currently underway...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      888. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the formula used to allocate educational psychological assessments to primary schools through NEPS; if there is provision for unused allocations...
    • School Accommodation
      890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin operating partially or fully out of prefabs; the length of time each school has been...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if permission to travel outside five kilometres for educational purposes extends to families that home-school their children and must travel to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); when a planning application will be made; when building work will...
    • School Accommodation
      894. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has discussed capacity issues with the relevant post-primary school authorities in two school planning areas (details supplied) to...
    • School Admissions
      895. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which the families of at least eight pupils in sixth class of a school (details supplied)...
    • School Facilities
      896. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant scheme exists for sensory gardens in a school setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15025/21]
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      897. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé a rinne an cinneadh chun fáil réidh leis an riachtanas maidir le measúnú síceolaíochta a fháil sula...
    • School Admissions
      899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with a school (details supplied) to resolve the difficulties regarding the unavailability of school places for local children;...
    • Schools Designation
      900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the 92 primary schools with the title of a junior national school; the schools that only go as far as first class;...
    • School Transport
      901. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the age limit for drivers with Bus Éireann and for those contracted to drive school children; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Equipment
      902. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by her Department and agencies and semi-State companies under her remit broken down by the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      903. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans are in place to put ASD units in primary or post-primary schools in Ballymun, Dublin 11 in the near future; the number of children with...
    • Pension Provisions
      905. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) has an entitlement to an occupational pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15223/21]
    • School Accommodation
      906. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams available to primary schools to build outdoor classrooms in view of social distancing guidelines; and the criteria for...
    • School Facilities
      907. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams available to schools to build sensory gardens whereby a special educational unit already exists within the school; and the...
    • School Funding
      908. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available to primary schools under the green agenda initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15246/21]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      911. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the DEIS schools review is due to be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15279/21]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage of the recruitment process for a special educational needs organiser for an area (details supplied) following the retirement of the...
    • School Completion Programme
      913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who left school in 2014 without completing the leaving certificate; the proportion of same against the total number of...
    • School Accommodation
      914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the delivery of two new prefabricated classrooms to a school (details supplied) is expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase resources, teachers and special reading schools for children with severe dyslexia for the Dublin 9 and 11 areas including...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      917. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding home tuition hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15357/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SENOs in County Kerry are unaware of the availability of autism classes in their locality (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Data
      919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied). [15361/21]
    • School Admissions
      921. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation of eight children who left a school (details supplied) in June 2020 and have no secondary school...
    • Pension Provisions
      923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine and advise on the position of a pension for a public servant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      924. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures can be taken to provide State recognition for end of year exams that will be completed by those schoolchildren who were due to do sit...
    • Schools Building Projects
      925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will categorise the construction of a school site (details supplied) as essential under level 5 restrictions given the...
    • School Curriculum
      928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations in place which allow schools to exclude children from accessing transition year education in cases in which that year is provided...
    • School Discipline
      929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations in place to allow for the expiry of a suspension on a student’s record within the lifetime of attendance at a school....
    • School Enrolments
      930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional places will be provided for first year students for the 2021-2022 academic year at a school (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Curriculum
      931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines that have been issued to schools for junior certificate students for assessing students in view of the significant number of...
    • School Transport
      932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 10 March 2021, the rationale for the requirement for Bus Éireann school bus drivers to retire...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to accommodate a new school (details supplied) for the 2021-2022 school year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      935. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the design and build process for the permanent site of a school (details supplied); if the premises will comply with the provision...
    • School Enrolments
      937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be permitted to enrol for transition year in the same school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      938. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason National Education Psychological Service psychologists cannot assess students in school environments when schools are reopened; and if...
    • Schools Extra Curricular Activities
      942. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is planned for outside contractors such as those who provide physical education in schools to be able to return to visiting schools; if...
    • State Examinations
      943. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider exemptions for students (details supplied). [15702/21]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to publish the Teaching Council’s checklist for Chinese language teachers to become registered with the Teaching Council; and if...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the recruitment of Chinese language teaching posts by an organisation (details supplied); and if the organisation will...
    • School Admissions
      946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools are permitted to set admission criteria which include age ranges at the commencement of the school cycle in cases in which the school...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason pregnant special needs assistants are being denied the health and safety leave available to their teacher colleagues (details...
    • School Curriculum
      948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to define Irish sign language as a curricular subject by her Department in order to be included within the Teaching Council’s...
    • Physical Education
      950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the physical education facilities in place for schools which do not have on-site indoor physical education facilities as the schools reopen; the...
    • School Transport
      951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on issuing refunds to parents who have paid in advance for transport to schools which were shut; and if she will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      952. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that students with underlying conditions will be supported to continue online learning from home; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      953. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15951/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      955. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by her Department, agency and budget line item; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16274/21]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by her Department; and if there are plans to provide further online...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who availed of the pandemic unemployment payment due to a lack of childcare; the breakdown of same by...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      958. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an emergency basic social welfare payment will be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the qualifying criteria to apply for the pandemic unemployment payment were changed to state that an applicant had...
    • Social Insurance
      960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the PRSI classes reckonable for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds announced in February 2021; if there are plans to extend...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      961. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of contributory old age pension paid to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the person is entitled...
    • Employment Support Services
      962. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be facilitated to return to employment through JobsPlus; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Benefit
      963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s benefit review application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      964. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14169/21]
    • Fuel Poverty
      965. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put in place a comprehensive anti-fuel poverty strategy; the timeframe for same; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the grant scheme for persons on the pandemic unemployment payment who are studying for a...
    • Statutory Instruments
      968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the statutory instrument for the Occupational Pension Schemes (Revaluation) Regulations 2021 is expected to be signed;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason those in receipt of the carer’s allowance cannot avail of the fuel allowance; if the criteria for receiving...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on altering the requirements to qualify for the community employment programme from 12 months on the relevant...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      973. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that of the 7,410 appeals for refused disability allowance processed in 2020, 63%...
    • Parental Leave
      974. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to provide maternity, paternity and parental leave to persons whose child was born via surrogacy; and...
    • Disability Allowance
      975. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the call by an organisation (details supplied) for a humane application process for...
    • Fuel Allowance
      976. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the 390 day penalty is enforced when applying for the fuel allowance for persons who leave an abusive relationship...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a matter (details supplied) regarding community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the process through which her Department drafts and produces legislation; if her Department outsources the...
    • Public Services Card
      979. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the application process for public services cards will reopen given that the current closure means that young people...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      980. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reverse the policy for community employment workers that has taken the past year into account in terms of time...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the negative effects that changes made to the partial capacity scheme are having on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by persons (details supplied) which is under appeal will now be expedited and approved. [14467/21]
    • Carer's Allowance
      985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to allow a person (details supplied) to qualify as a carer for persons. [14586/21]
    • Illness Benefit
      986. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14624/21]
    • Back to Education Allowance
      987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis her Department has carried out into the temporary expansion of the back to education scheme for the duration of...
    • Disability Allowance
      988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Employment Service
      989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 564 of 10 March 2021, the employment service model that will replace the local...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of her Department that have...
    • Fuel Allowance
      991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review an application for fuel allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the community employment scheme that are in receipt of a qualifying disability payment or...
    • Child Support Payments
      993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend maternity leave to parents who welcome a child through surrogacy; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance
      995. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to a disability allowance payment; and...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      996. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding supports available to visually impaired persons working in the arts and cultural sectors; and if she will make a...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a contribution towards the cost of a funeral will be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will continue for months after mass gatherings are permitted again in order to assist...
    • Departmental Contracts
      999. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to date of the contract with Turas Nua; when the contract will cease; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Child Support Payments
      1000. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that parents of babies born through surrogacy are excluded from any type of paid parental leave such as maternity...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1001. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending carer’s leave to support carers who left work to care for a loved one given the added...
    • Departmental Transport
      1002. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by her Department and agencies and semi-State companies under her remit...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding applications for personal assistance hours; the way in which carer’s allowance is affected...
    • Disability Allowance
      1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications and appeals for disability allowance made by persons in County Clare; the number of applications...
    • Carer's Allowance
      1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications and appeals for carer’s allowance made by persons in County Clare; the number of...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      1007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications and appeals for an exceptional needs payment made by persons in County Clare; the number of...
    • Employment Support Services
      1008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reducing the duration of the unemployment test for JobsPlus to allow speedier integration of persons...
    • Carer's Support Grant
      1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will approve the payment of a carer’s support grant for a person (details supplied). [15240/21]
    • Pensions Reform
      1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the final report of the Pensions Commission when it completes its deliberations. [15274/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      1012. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if discretion is provided for the provision of supporting medical evidence in all social welfare applications which require...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1013. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a claim by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in view of the recent decision regarding education and a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      1015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases the liable relatives’ unit and maintenance recovery unit have examined since January 2020 to...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      1018. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the issue of parents who have child maintenance orders and are not paying the ordered amount, which...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      1020. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of child maintenance who are also in receipt of rent supplement from January 2020 to date; her...
    • Fuel Allowance
      1022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the fuel allowance for a further two weeks. [15441/21]
    • State Pensions
      1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a State pension (contributory) backdating appeal by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Fuel Allowance
      1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional two weeks of fuel allowance to those who are also in receipt of the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      1026. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons over 75 years of age receiving the carer's allowance by age profile in tabular form. [15484/21]
    • Social Insurance
      1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Irish-Australian social security...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1029. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount in arrears paid for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment; the number of payments of arrears made; the...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      1030. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in order to receive a BP65 form, persons must apply online (details...
    • Invalidity Pension
      1031. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Bank Charges
      1032. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that can be taken to limit the bank charges on persons living abroad who are receiving their pensions into...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1033. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent change that excludes scholarship awards from the means test for disability allowance also excludes scholarship...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1034. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons applying for the pandemic unemployment payment are required to provide proof of unemployment as a result of...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      1035. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms in place by which employers or recruitment agencies may report instances of suspected fraudulent pandemic...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the one-parent family payment and the jobseeker’s transitional payment in each of the...
    • Child Support Payments
      1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a child dependent allowance on an invalidity pension can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • State Pensions
      1038. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will qualify for a State pension; if so, the amount they are likely to receive; and if she...
    • Public Services Card
      1039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to removing the requirement for a deed poll to be completed in order to receive a public...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider expanding the back to education allowance to include those progressing in third level education and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a pandemic unemployment payment ceased for a person (details supplied); if the payment will be reinstated; and if...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a household benefit will be made available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on providing funding for additional activation officers to assist organisations in recruiting for community...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      1052. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a personal public service number will be issued to a person (details supplied). [15970/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by her Department, agency and budget line item; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1054. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the number of asylum seekers and refugees from Greece that Ireland has committed to relocate...
    • Human Rights
      1060. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if details will be provided on Ireland’s UN Universal Periodic Review in November 2021; the reporting...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      1061. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider and respond to all aspects contained in correspondence (details supplied) sent to him....
    • Equality Issues
      1062. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the new national action plan against racism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13959/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1063. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to support an organisation (details supplied) during the Covid-19 pandemic; if he will make a grant...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1064. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the guidelines in relation to informal childcare arrangements during the current lockdown for when primary...
    • Childcare Services
      1065. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will provide additional financial assistance to childcare providers who have experienced...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      1067. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress of plans to remove Article 41.2 of Bunreacht na hÉireann by way of a referendum; and if he...
    • Disability Support Services
      1068. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a directory will be compiled of access officers for local authorities and Departments. [14139/21]
    • Early Years Sector
      1069. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports and guidance in place for providers of early years services to facilitate the safe reopening and...
    • Childcare Services
      1070. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider developing a community childcare facility at a site (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Carer's Leave
      1071. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to extend carer’s leave as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; if not, if the proposal will be...
    • Birth Certificates
      1072. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in relation to birth certificates which are known to be falsified; the way in which he...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1073. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the stalled building of the new premises at a location (details supplied) which needs a...
    • Disability Support Services
      1074. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are financial supports either for the service providers directly or for the adults with disabilities...
    • Legislative Process
      1075. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department...
    • Childcare Services
      1076. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address the lack of provision of childcare services for babies aged six to 12 months of age; and...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      1077. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied). [14485/21]
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1078. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill, which is listed in the legislative programme for...
    • Direct Provision System
      1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 10 March 2021, the reason for the substantial increase in the cost...
    • Direct Provision Payments
      1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 25 October 2018, the way in which he plans to ensure that direct...
    • Adoption Data
      1081. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of couples and individual persons who have been approved to adopt a child and who are currently...
    • Adoption Services
      1083. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department has taken to promote adoption as a positive alternative for children in vulnerable...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1084. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department...
    • Carer's Leave
      1085. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to carers on carer’s leave who are unable to return to work due to...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      1086. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will virtually meet representatives of a service (details supplied) to hear the challenges that it faces...
    • Parental Leave
      1087. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the legislation for parental benefit will be passed; the earliest date on which it can be applied for; and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1088. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all section 56 organisations; and the contact email of each, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Transport
      1089. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      1090. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the legislation currently being considered by his Department in respect of the outstanding legislation that is...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1091. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will create a capital budget line to build playgrounds in areas that do not have same. [15256/21]
    • Child Protection
      1092. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 634 of 10 March 2021, if specific consideration has been given to Article...
    • Adoption Services
      1093. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the provisions his Department has made specifically for children adopted through an agency (details supplied)....
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1094. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department has taken in regard to legal claims being taken by survivors of mother and baby...
    • Child Support Payments
      1095. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding behavioural supports; and if he will make a statement...
    • Direct Provision System
      1096. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that persons in direct provision are receiving high-quality and nutritious...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1097. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will commence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      1098. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and...
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      1099. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies for social workers for which funds are available in cases in which the post cannot be...
    • Parental Leave
      1100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the provisions being made to allow parents using surrogacy to avail of leave and parental pay; and if he will...
    • Maternity Leave
      1101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to bring forward legislation to facilitate maternity leave for persons through surrogacy; the...
    • Early Years Sector
      1103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the childcare providers in an area (details supplied) that have signed up to the new pandemic State support...
    • Parental Leave
      1104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress of the parents' leave and benefit (amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that key trades such as plumbers and electricians remain committed to apprenticeship programmes to ensure there is no...
    • Employment Support Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he and or his officials have engaged with a company (details supplied) in respect of redundancies at the company; and if he has prepared a...
    • Third Level Fees
      1107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that college registration fees are reduced in line with the reduction in face-to-face contact with students by lecturers...
    • Third Level Education
      1108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for students wishing to continue to third-level education abroad in September 2021 given the likely rise in CAO points...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      1110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 24 February 2021, the breakdown by county or university on the students who initially qualified for...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      1113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issue of a participant (details supplied) in a Solas apprenticeship who is unable to progress due to a delay in receiving...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the backlog in the processing of examinations and assessments for participants in apprenticeships; and if he...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      1117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on excluding the pandemic unemployment payment from income assessments of SUSI grants for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will...
    • Legislative Process
      1118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Third Level Education
      1119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €1 million announced in July 2020 that was to be ring-fenced for students studying the professional masters in education is...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      1120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 631 of 3 March 2021, if a student (details supplied) can be reclassified as a mature independent student...
    • Departmental Staff
      1121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in his Department; the specific position of each; the breakdown of salary by grade in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Minister of State with responsibility for Skills and Further Education has directly or indirectly canvassed a higher education...
    • Language Schools
      1123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 684 of 10 March 2021, if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if language...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have required his sanction;...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
      1126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with CORU regarding the requirement on social care students to complete 300 hours of placement in view of public health...
    • Third Level Fees
      1127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who completed the written leaving certificate examinations in November 2020 and have received deferred college offers to start their...
    • Third Level Education
      1128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make the tertiary education system more accessible to young adults with intellectual additional needs; and if he will make a...
    • Tourism Industry
      1130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the two new skills programmes to assist the hospitality and tourism sectors (details supplied) will be expanded to include funding supports...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown on a percentage basis of the prior educational attainment of apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14928/21]
    • Third Level Education
      1137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and percentage of college dropouts since 2011 at third-level; the number and percentage of those in receipt of Student Universal...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full list of apprenticeship consortia will be provided; the number of apprentices enrolled under each by new recruits and existing staff...
    • Technological Universities
      1146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to ensure that the Institute of Technology Tralee and Cork Institute of Technology merger to Munster Technological...
    • Departmental Transport
      1147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit broken down by the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      1148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the approximately 20,000 college applicants who applied for courses in 2021 on the basis of leaving certificate results achieved in...
    • Third Level Fees
      1149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students that enrolled in third-level courses prior to sitting the leaving certificate in November 2020 will be refunded the fees paid; if it...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the annual training and innovation fund designed to encourage training and education relevant to future skills and issued through his...
    • National Training Fund
      1152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he plans to publish the National Training Fund expenditure report for 2020; if there has been a delay to the usual publication; and if he...
    • Third Level Education
      1154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with dyslexia in further and higher education; the supports that are in place for such persons; the additional supports...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      1155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students will see their SUSI grants negatively impacted as a result of receiving the pandemic unemployment payment; the estimated number of...
    • National Training Fund
      1156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional Exchequer expenditure was transferred into the national training fund in 2020 or 2021; if so, the details of such transfers; and...
    • Project Ireland 2040
      1157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project execution, project budget or cost delivery for the repair of the roof and other building fabric at the GMIT Castlebar...
    • Regional Development
      1158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to regional skills fora in each year since 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15443/21]
    • National Training Fund
      1159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to enterprise focused higher education provision in each year since 2017, in tabular form; if there are measurable...
    • Third Level Admissions
      1161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional places created for those intending to study medicine this academic year in order to manage the unintended consequences...
    • Student Support Schemes
      1162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports he is considering for students visiting Ireland that came on the understanding that there would be blended and in-person...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence received by his Department from a union (details supplied) on 16 March 2021 in respect of the proposed new...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the range of travel and accommodation supports for both craft and post-2016 apprentices; the expenditure in this regard; the number of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16275/21]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      1176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further online...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if house viewing is considered non-essential under the current level 5 restrictions (details supplied). [15718/21]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average timeframe for naturalisation applications. [13872/21]
    • Residency Permits
      1179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if confirmation of receipt is provided for online stamp 4 renewals given that a person (details supplied) did not receive...
    • Courts Service
      1180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if divorce proceedings can continue remotely under level 5 restrictions. [13882/21]
    • Prison Service Staff
      1182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken by her Department to investigate the holding of a retirement party in Portlaoise Prison in contravention...
    • Protected Disclosures
      1183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether it is appropriate that the Irish Prison Service should decide which matters in relation to protected...
    • Coroners Service
      1184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of coroners and deputy coroners, respectively, in the State; the salary paid to coroners and deputy coroners, by...
    • Legislative Programme
      1186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of reforms her Department is examining in terms of licensing laws for the retail of alcohol in off-licences. [13934/21]
    • Passport Applications
      1187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person's (details supplied) passport book, birth certificate and other information will be received from her...
    • Crime Prevention
      1188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the increase in the past year of incidents of drug-related intimidation in communities; and...
    • Crime Data
      1189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the drug finds by An Garda Síochána and other State agencies in each of the past five years calculated as being over...
    • Direct Provision System
      1190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement she has had with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth on implementation of...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      1191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide free psychological support for victims of domestic abuse following their court cases being finalised...
    • Courts Service
      1192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that will be put in place to ensure that all cases related to family law and divorce proceedings in County Cork...
    • Passport Services
      1193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the return of documentation held in her Department once urgently requested (details supplied); and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that fake negative Covid-19 test certificates and documentation are being sold to...
    • Garda Recruitment
      1195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the next round of recruitment to An Garda Síochána will take place; the number to be recruited; and if she will...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for commencement of section 221 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider correcting the record of Dáil Éireann with regard to a matter relating to Clancy Barracks...
    • Legislative Measures
      1199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the general scheme of a gambling control Bill has been published; and if not, when it will be published. [14112/21]
    • Garda Reports
      1201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the An Garda Síochána expert review group on recruit education and entry pathways and learning and development is...
    • Crime Data
      1202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated value of cash discoveries by An Garda Síochána and CAB in 2019 and 2020; the steps taken in relation...
    • Public Inquiries
      1203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken to set up a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) which was agreed to by a vote...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied). [14189/21]
    • International Protection
      1207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons seeking international protection here by the length of stay; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Support Services
      1208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the delays faced by Dublin residents wishing to make first-time applications to the INIS;...
    • Human Trafficking
      1209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department as per its 2021 action plan goal 1, objective 18, work with public sector and civil society stakeholders to...
    • Immigration Data
      1211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of permissions her Department has issued in the course 2020 and to date in 2021 to reside and work in the State to...
    • Work Permits
      1212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of letters of notification that were sent in 2020 and to date in 2021 by her Department to participants in the...
    • Garda Deployment
      1213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí in Cork city by month in 2020 and to date in 2021. [14279/21]
    • Courts Service
      1215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on providing travel expenses for jury service to ensure that those living in rural areas have equal access to...
    • Legislative Measures
      1217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to issue regulations giving effect to the provisions of section 12 of the Mediation Act 2017. [14365/21]
    • Legal Aid
      1218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider raising the current thresholds for legal aid. [14366/21]
    • Court Sittings
      1219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average number of sitting days dedicated to family law by court circuit in tabular form. [14367/21]
    • Family Law Cases
      1220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a White Paper policy response to implement the non-legislative aspects of the Oireachtas Joint Committee...
    • Residency Permits
      1221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a permanent residence card by a person (details supplied). [14376/21]
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      1222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Policing Authority has issued guidelines to the Garda Commissioner regarding the supervision and control by the...
    • Immigration Controls
      1223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if procedures are in place to allow persons to continue to work on a stamp 4 visa that has expired; and if persons in this...
    • Leave to Remain
      1224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision will issue on a leave to remain request in the case of a person (details supplied). [14403/21]
    • Residency Permits
      1225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Legislative Process
      1226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the process through which her Department drafts and produces legislation; if her Department outsources the...
    • Peace Commissioners
      1227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an updated certificate of a peace commissionership will be provided to a person (details supplied). [14432/21]
    • Court Judgments
      1228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to bring awards to minor injuries in line with international norms; and if she will make a statement...
    • Crime Data
      1229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of and value of cannabis seizures and confiscations in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if she will make...
    • Immigration Status
      1230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed by a person in their circumstances (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Property Management Companies
      1235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place under the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 to deal with the letting agents and companies that fail to...
    • Garda Stations
      1237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider the provision of a new Garda station for the Castletroy, Annacotty, area of Limerick city (details...
    • Law Reform Commission
      1238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the report of the Law Reform Commission on legislative caps on insurance awards has been considered; and if the concerns...
    • Crime Prevention
      1239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional measures can be taken to deal with the so-called revolving door system whereby convicted criminals who have not...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda checks that have occurred on a weekly basis from 6 February 2021 to date on persons quarantining at home...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of her Department which have...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      1242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Circuit Court personal injury proceedings initiated in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by...
    • Prison Service Staff
      1246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of whole-time equivalent medical officer appointments in the Irish Prison Service; the number of these that are...
    • Crime Data
      1249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the financial value of cash and assets seized by An Garda Síochána as the proceeds of drug-related crime in the...
    • Deportation Orders
      1250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of her review of deportation notices. [14875/21]
    • Direct Provision System
      1251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on recommendation 6.7 of the Day report being under consideration as per page 144 of the White Paper to End Direct...
    • Garda Data
      1252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank, civilian staff and retained professionals in the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau....
    • Crime Data
      1253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated number of femicides (details supplied) for 2020. [14961/21]
    • Prison Service Staff
      1255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing those working in the Irish Prison Service to continue working past the age of 60 if they are...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      1256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality an bhfuair a Roinn aon iarratas i nGaeilge ar eadóirsiú, cén fáth nach bhfuil leagan Gaeilge den fhoirm...
    • Freedom of Information
      1257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if family members can access prison records of deceased family who were interned in the Curragh in 1940 through freedom of...
    • Departmental Transport
      1259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by her Department and agencies and semi-State companies under her remit...
    • Visa Waiver Programme
      1260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria the decision to restrict visa free travel from South Africa and certain South American countries was based upon;...
    • Garda Deployment
      1261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff currently working in cybersecurity within An Garda Síochána. [15213/21]
    • Legal Aid Service
      1262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to increase funding for law centres to provide advice to persons who have suffered injuries as a result of...
    • Prison Service Staff
      1263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons working in the Irish Prison Service; the average age of exit from the service; the number at each staff...
    • Protected Disclosures
      1264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protected disclosures submitted to the Irish Prison Service in the past ten years. [15317/21]
    • Irish Prison Service
      1265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the frequency with which a procurement audit been carried out at each prison to ensure value for money; when this was last...
    • Drugs in Prisons
      1266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the volume of drugs taken in the Irish Prison Service each year for the past ten years; the volume of drugs that were...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      1267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of child maintenance orders which result in zero payment. [15392/21]
    • Fines Data
      1268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines that have been issued for construction work during level 5 restrictions to date in 2021, by county in...
    • Passport Services
      1269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in returning the...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      1271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding being provided for Garda youth diversion projects by division to date in 2021; and the comparative figures for...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Deputy Humphreys will receive a Garda driven car and Garda security during her period as temporary Minister for Justice; if...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to provide capital expenditure for a new premises to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address an issue raised in correspondence (details supplied). [15519/21]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if important documents such as passports can be returned to persons immediately on applying for naturalisation given that the...
    • Residency Permits
      1277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a residence card application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizenship Applications
      1278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of active Zambrano-related applications currently awaiting a decision; the number of decisions that have issued in...
    • Residency Permits
      1279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to issue stamp 6 visa holders with a residence card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15690/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      1280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); if she will use her discretion in the...
    • Garda Stations
      1281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the redevelopment of the Garda station in east County Meath; if a new Garda station has been discussed to...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      1282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and motorcycles attached to the Cavan-Monaghan policing unit as of 15 March 2019, 15 March 2020 and...
    • Garda Strength
      1283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated additional cost if the number of gardaí is increased to 15,500 before the end of June 2022; and if she will...
    • Victim Support Services
      1284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to make free psychological supports available to all victims once their court case ends in view of the fact that a...
    • Probate Applications
      1285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to issues caused by Covid-19 in relation to interviews within the Probate Office and a delay...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      1286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider implementing domestic homicide reviews (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      1287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied). [15786/21]
    • Legal Services Regulation
      1288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to implement a wills register for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15860/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by her Department, agency and budget line item; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      1291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by her Department; and if there are plans to provide...
  • Department of Health
    • Garda Vetting
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health if volunteers carrying out duties for an organisation (details supplied) are required to be vetted for Garda clearance prior to taking up their volunteering...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health if socially distanced religious services will resume for Easter week. [15513/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on obtaining a suitable assessment for a person (details supplied) in order that an educational pathway can be formulated for their future...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 to address the lacuna in the law with respect to the growth of industrial hemp; if he has or will initiate a...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for and details of the scheduled review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the way in which he plans to collect...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1297. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns raised by SNAs in relation to their current position on the vaccine roll-out list (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Eating Disorders
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to increasing funding to services that treat persons with eating disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health if South Tipperary General Hospital is to lose ten of its current 19 intern doctors; if he will consider reversing the decision; his views on the way the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1300. To ask the Minister for Health the position of persons with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease in the vaccine priority list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13879/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the arrangement piloted in 2020 by which additional intern positions for newly qualified doctors were created in the public hospital system;...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment date for a primary medical certificate will issue for a person (details supplied). [13887/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1305. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13889/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1306. To ask the Minister for Health the steps persons should take in cases in which they have a body mass index, BMI, above 40 and are included in the new cohort 4 but are not registered with a...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13910/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1308. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only a very limited number of intern jobs are available for medical students who have studied in Ireland; his...
    • Eating Disorders
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase funding for the treatment for eating disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13913/21]
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list for treatment for an eating disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13915/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he does not plan to ensure that all medical students in Ireland will receive an intern position upon graduation as was the case for the 2020...
    • Defence Forces
      1314. To ask the Minister for Health if CHO8 sought the assistance of the Defence Forces in supporting nursing homes in the region at any point in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Freedom of Information
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE CHO8 will report on the number of freedom of information, FOI, requests in cases in which a charge of €200 or more was estimated for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1316. To ask the Minister for Health the reports on deaths and Covid-19 outbreaks HIQA requires from nursing home providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13921/21]
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      1322. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances that are required to be met when HIQA requests weekly and regular reporting from nursing home and care facilities on the state of residents,...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      1323. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the call for independent, human rights focused inspections in nursing homes as suggested by organisations (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1324. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13936/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health the average and median ambulance waiting times in each of the years 2018 to 2020, by county in tabular form. [13945/21]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health the findings of the 2019 review on the governance structures in relation to the HSE drug reimbursement process by a company (details supplied); if he will...
    • HSE Reviews
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of the terms of reference for the HSE rare diseases technology review committee is scheduled; if it will consider moving its process to earlier in...
    • Health Services Provision
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the national screening advisory committee regarding its consideration of expanding the national newborn bloodspot screening...
    • Psychological Assessments
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment with a psychologist will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health if the vaccination priority of a vulnerable group (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13956/21]
    • Health Information and Quality Authority
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent report of the Health Information and Quality Authority which found that that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic started on 22 November 2020...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health the additional steps that have been taken to help front-line drug services cope with the additional challenges that Covid-19 and Covid-19 lockdowns have had...
    • HSE Donations
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will donate a small portion of land in its ownership (details supplied) to allow for the expansion of a school in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Eating Disorders
      1336. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline on the full implementation of the HSE National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders; if his attention has been drawn to reports that three...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line healthcare workers in group two of the vaccine allocation programme; the number of healthcare workers in group six of the vaccine...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an association (details supplied) to discuss its ongoing issues of concern; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13982/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the proposed cut from 28 to 12 intern doctors in University Hospital Kerry in July 2021 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Eating Disorders
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provisions that have been made for eating disorder services in 2021; if promised funding for eating disorder services has been utilised to provide...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons working on genome sequencing of Covid-19 variations in the HSE to date; the way in which Ireland compares to other EU countries; if he...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns with respect to the education, training and retention of student radiographers (details supplied); if he will accede to a request...
    • Victim Support Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide free psychological support for victims of institutional abuse following the court case being finalised (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the recommendations made in the review of hospital car park charges which he received in November 2018; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health when those who fall into cohort 4 of the vaccine roll-out can expect to receive notification and administration of their Covid-19 vaccine from their general...
    • Student Support Schemes
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the development of standardised allowances, placement grants and payment for work carried out by radiography students; if he will meet with...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1347. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccine category a person (details supplied) falls into; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14013/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2019; the provision being made within the Bill for those receiving income support to access...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise pregnant women on the vaccine sequencing plan in view of a number of recent stillbirths which may have been related to Covid-19 and in...
    • Abortion Services
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to protests outside a hospital; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to intern doctors; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Undefined
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a matter affecting a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14030/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the point in the vaccination programme SNAs will receive their vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14032/21]
    • National LGBTI+ Strategy
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health the details of engagements to date on work regarding the legislative ban on conversion therapy as committed to in the programme for Government; the timeline...
    • Medical Internships
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the development of allowances to support radiography students through their placements; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or HIQA have examined the possibly introducing Ivermectin as a possible Covid-19 treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Internships
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues in relation to students radiographers (details supplied); his plans to standardise allowances, placement grants and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1359. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is prepared to take to rectify a matter in relation to non-consultant hospital doctors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1360. To ask the Minister for Health if he has taken steps to review and recommend antigen testing to screen test pupils in schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Data
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health the healthcare staff-to-patient ratio at Drogheda Hospital; the recommended healthcare staff-to-patient ratio for the hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health if volunteers working with community programmes such as meals on wheels will be considered for prioritisation in the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out; and if he...
    • Abortion Services
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health if third-party campaigning groups lobbied him or his Department to establish telemedicine abortions; if so, the organisations; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 818 of 3 March 2021, the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by bodies under the aegis...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will revise the guidelines on visits to nursing homes in view of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the outcome of his meeting with a person (details supplied) on 18 December 2020 in which the funding of medication was raised; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being put in place to allow patients using medication from a company (details supplied) the same security following his announcement that...
    • Births Data
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of births that were by caesarean section in each hospital in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Abortion Services
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on structural, capital and administrative areas relating to the roll-out of termination of pregnancy services; and the breakdown for each...
    • Cancer Services
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the details of plans to work through the backlog of cancer diagnostics work that has been on hold due to Covid-19; the amount of additional resourcing...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health when retail workers and supermarket workers will be vaccinated; if they will be considered as part of the key worker category; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to cut in half the number of positions for newly qualified doctors in University of Limerick with the hospital set to lose 44 of its current...
    • Health Services Provision
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being put in place for the healthcare of transgender young persons in Ireland with the exit of the UK-based Tavistock clinic from...
    • Residential Institutions
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for periods (details supplied) for access to residential rehabilitation or detoxification treatment from March 2019 to date....
    • Health Services Provision
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the planned reopening date for Southdoc Blackpool, County Cork. [14108/21]
    • HSE Staff
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health if the clinical lead appointed to the HSE dual diagnosis programme has commenced in the role. [14110/21]
    • National Drugs Strategy
      1393. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the investigation by the Minister for State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy into the possibility of abolishing assessment...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health if vaccinations will be completed in each cohort before moving on to the next excluding the cohort of over-75s given the clinical decision that such persons...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health if he has continued conversation with a person (details supplied); and the status of the inclusion of the products of a company in the medical cannabis access...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1396. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Tevere Day Hospital, County Limerick, is seeing no new patients except for emergencies and no review patients...
    • Dental Services
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Tipperary participating in the dental medical card scheme; and his plans to address the number of dentists leaving the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health if retail staff in health stores who provide health advice to customers on a personal basis and have remained open throughout the pandemic will be considered...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on lasting service improvements particularly with regard to recruitment, retention and waiting lists resulting from the CAMHS...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered making NPHET meetings public given his views that it is imperative that there is a full and accurate account of each meeting; if so, when...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for children for speech and language therapy by CHO in tabular form; and the length of time each age group is waiting. [14144/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1417. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists that have been vaccinated by CHO in tabular form. [14152/21]
    • HSE Records
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which a person (detailed supplied) can obtain records. [14155/21]
    • HSE Staff
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed on the MyOptions helpline; the process by which persons were recruited; the qualifications needed to work on the helpline; and...
    • Abortion Services
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions that took place in 2019 after 20 weeks gestation under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [14165/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health the current position of the Irish Coast Guard with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; when this cohort can expect to receive the vaccine; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements are in place for patients of a general practitioner that retires or is struck off (details supplied) to ensure continuity of care is provided;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions for the vaccine roll-out in relation to high risk persons with Down's syndrome that live at home with family members and are not accessing day...
    • Hospital Staff
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of student radiographers (details supplied) to allow same to put forward a request for the development of standardised...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1430. To ask the Minister for Health when persons in their 70s with chronic diseases, for example diabetes or COPD, and those in that age group recovering from lymphoma will be vaccinated; when...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health if persons transiting through an airport in a category 2 country, for example, Dubai International Airport in the UAE, will be required to quarantine in a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health the areas in which he plans to utilise the €20 million additional funding for mental health services announced in February 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      1434. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of treating hypertension and high blood pressure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14200/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the operation of the State’s agreement with private hospitals which ran from the beginning of April to the end of June 2020; and the amount...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that a supply of the Covid-19 vaccine is ring-fenced for those over 80 years of age with underlying conditions who are facing long-term...
    • Health Services Allowances
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of their network first payment which has been abruptly ended; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health the pay entitlement for a HSE worker who is out of work as a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case but whose work cannot be done remotely; and if he will...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health if cataract procedures under the Cross-Border Directive can continue under level 5 Covid-19 restrictions. [14218/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of staff within each grade position within the Cavan and Monaghan hospital group that have received vaccinations for Covid-19 as of 9 March 2021;...
    • Hospital Groups
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of administrative and management staff at each grade in the Cavan and Monaghan hospital group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14226/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure each graduating doctor from the six Irish medical schools in 2021 is given the chance to stay and work in Ireland; the way in which he...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 295 of 18 February 2021, the number of in-person or virtual meetings he has had with persons who identified themselves...
    • Cancer Services
      1444. To ask the Minister for Health if he spoke to or engaged in correspondence with either the HSE, CervicalCheck, the Taoiseach or the Department of the Taoiseach about a matter regarding...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national cervical screening laboratory which was due to commence construction in January 2021; if delays in construction have been...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports being considered for implementation in respect of nursing home staff, surviving residents and relatives of residents who died from...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of the contracts entered into for the purchase of PPE and medical equipment as part of the Covid-19 response in 2020; the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health when persons with bullous emphysema stage 3 can expect to be vaccinated against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14256/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the adult population by county who are not registered with a general practitioner. [14276/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues in the roll-out of vaccines to dental practice staff as a matter of urgency; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health the date for publication of the mid-term review of the national drugs strategy. [14280/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on CAMHS in 2020; and the proportion of the mental health budget that this represented. [14287/21]
    • Community Care
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health if the status will be reviewed of day centres for older persons and persons living with dementia (details supplied) given the majority of staff and clients...
    • Dental Services
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a child (details supplied); the position of the child on the orthodontist waiting list at Loughlinstown Hospital, County...
    • Eating Disorders
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health the practical and financial supports provided by his Department to the organisations engaged in and promoting the Eating Disorders Awareness Week; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 16 specialist hubs nationwide which were to be opened between 2018 and 2023 that are fully operational with specialist multidisciplinary...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the way the valuation of property is assessed in respect of the nursing home subvention scheme in cases in which the house in question was legally disposed of...
    • Hospital Staff
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to renew the policy of offering all eligible Irish trained graduates newly qualified doctors an interim post in 2021 (details supplied); and if he...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add cariban, xonvea and navalem to the approved drugs list under the drugs payment scheme; and the treatments available under the drugs payment...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide general practitioners and community social workers with specialised training in responding to the survivors and victims of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the high cost of long-acting contraception which is even more challenging to overcome economic uncertainty and limited...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health if responsibilities and functions for disability services remain under his remit; if not, if these have been transferred to the Minister for Children,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 vaccine will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14344/21]
    • Occupational Therapy
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) is waiting so long for an occupational therapy appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14351/21]
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health the date of the last meeting of the NPHET vulnerable people subgroup. [14352/21]
    • Hospice Services
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 10 February 2021, when a decision will be made by the Saolta University Health Care Group in relation to the...
    • Counselling Services
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health if the various unplanned pregnancy counselling services recognised by the sexual health and crisis pregnancy programme and in receipt of State funding are...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health if a Covid-19 vaccination appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [14370/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for a person (details supplied). [14371/21]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for reimbursing the cost of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system for children and young persons with type 1 diabetes while excluding...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1480. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an operation; the reason for the series of events since March 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on purchases directly attributable to Covid-19 in 2019 and 2020; and the value of purchases found to be below standard. [14380/21]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health the details of medical equipment valued above €25,000 plus VAT procured in 2019 and 2020 which was found to be below standard, disaggregated by...
    • Eating Disorders
      1484. To ask the Minister for Health if he has taken steps to review access to services for persons with eating disorders, given the diversion of funding from that area; if not, if he has...
    • Health Services Provision (1 comment)
      1485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the level of testing in Ireland for Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the long waiting times for decisions on primary medical certificates (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14389/21]
    • Nursing Staff
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health when psychiatric nurses in CHO1 will receive the enhanced nurse pay grade, as was agreed following the nurses dispute in 2019; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health if all employees of a section 38 organisation (details supplied) are covered by the provision in HSE circular 073/2020 in the case that they have contracted...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria for upcoming vaccine administration positions will be revised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14396/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1493. To ask the Minister for Health the necessary steps for an association (details supplied) to take in order to establish creative arts therapists as designated professionals in the health...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1494. To ask the Minister for Health when cystic fibrosis patients will receive the Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14409/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1495. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all Covid 19-related deaths in nursing homes in January and February 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14412/21]
    • Legislative Process
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting of legislation; if so, the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to using the IT system that Teagasc and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine have that tracks and traces the...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider putting in place additional supports for those with type 1 diabetes to afford the cost of a flash glucose meter, in view of the fact there...
    • Dental Services
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the dental appointment waiting list in County Wexford; the average waiting time for appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1501. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who arrived into Ireland without proof of a negative Covid-19 PCR test in January, February and to date in March 2021; the number of...
    • Health Services Staff
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans by the HSE to cut the number of newly qualified doctors (details supplied) from July 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) has been informed that the waiting list for speech and language therapy in their area has increased to 55 months; his...
    • EU Bodies
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered preparing a bid to host the forthcoming European health emergency preparedness and response authority proposed by the European...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health if speech and language and associated therapies will be provided for a child (details supplied). [14500/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health when pharmacy staff (details supplied) in County Kerry will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14503/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health the improved provision planned for CAMHS services in counties Louth and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14505/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons allocated home help and home care packages by county and or allocated as per each local health office; the amount of funding drawn down...
    • Health Services Provision
      1516. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the home first pilot schemes; the location of each; if the schemes are operational; if not, when they will be operational; the nature and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with multiple sclerosis on Tysabri, natalizumab, having a severely compromised immune system due to having MS who were previously considered to be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health if travelling to visit a spouse in another country is considered essential travel and exempt from possible Garda fines. [14532/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmaceutical companies and or agencies contracted to deliver Covid-19 vaccines have been indemnified with respect to penalties arising from non-delivery...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health if a person residing in the UK can travel to Ireland to visit their partner and children; if such visits are deemed essential under level 5 restrictions; and...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1523. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the recruitment challenges that the health service is facing in trying to find suitably qualified staff for the ophthalmic...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1524. To ask the Minister for Health if he has completed his review of the support therapies from early intervention and school age teams; the key conclusions in terms of timely access; if new...
    • Health Services Provision
      1526. To ask the Minister for Health the services available for adults living with an ADHD diagnosis in CHO6; the improvements planned; when will they be rolled out; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the progressing disability services for children and young people project; if it is suitable for persons with severe and profound intellectual...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1533. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to announce changes to the number that can be permitted at weddings given these events require considerable advance planning (details supplied);...
    • Mental Health Services
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 18 February 2021, the number of patients discharged home with general practitioner follow up; the number of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health if vulnerable persons who are unable to attend a general practitioner or vaccination centre will receive their Covid-19 vaccine at home; if further...
    • Health Services
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14591/21]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with the HSE regarding the inclusion of the FreeStyleLibre flash glucose monitoring system on the HSE reimbursement list; the...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      1541. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter relating to refunds under and access to a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14602/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1542. To ask the Minister for Health if the European health insurance card can be used in relation to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out if a person resident here does not have a PPS number; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1543. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of wait time in each hospital for amniocentesis results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14606/21]
    • Abortion Services
      1544. To ask the Minister for Health the number of terminations carried out in 2020 or the most recent full year for which such data exists in cases in which a fatal foetal abnormality was...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in 2020 or the most recent full year for which such data exists in which pregnant women were referred by a hospital to an Irish hospital...
    • Health Services Funding
      1546. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding made available to Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH, to help women in the aftermath of a traumatic pregnancy; if the hospital...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1547. To ask the Minister for Health the best practice procedures in hospitals when dealing with a fatal foetal abnormality or in circumstances in which a referral is made to an overseas...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the resources available for persons with ongoing symptoms of long Covid given that many with this condition are suffering from fatigue; if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take immediate action to reverse the decision to cut 300 intern doctor posts at a time when the greatest ever need exists for increased resources...
    • Dental Services
      1554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Tipperary registered as participating in the dental medical card scheme over the past five years in tabular form. [14637/21]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1556. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be issued with a prescription for medical cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14639/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the possibility of approving a vaccine (details supplied) for the over 70s; if new data is available to warrant same; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 961 of 24 February 2021, the number of persons on waiting lists for mental health supports through the HSE in County...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1560. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to correspondence to his office from a person (details supplied) with a suggestion regarding the return to school procedure;...
    • Hospital Staff
      1561. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are 400 student radiographers on clinical placements currently working up to 40 weeks or 200 days per...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1564. To ask the Minister for Health if the status will be examined of a permanent general practitioner appointment for Kilkee, County Clare, which has been served by locum doctors for an...
    • Paediatric Services
      1565. To ask the Minister for Health the date the paediatric diabetic service at the Regional Hospital Mullingar will resume; when the full team requirement of two nurses, a psychologist and a...
    • Ambulance Service
      1566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times it has taken an ambulance more than 20, 40, 60, 90 and 120 minutes from time of call to reach patients who made emergency calls in...
    • Abortion Services
      1571. To ask the Minister for Health the training general practitioners and other healthcare workers receive for providing termination of pregnancy services; and if doctors including general...
    • Medical Cards
      1572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the inclusion of the cost for PPE equipment for medical card holders seeking appointments at dentist clinics; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vaccines issued to each general practitioner in counties Kildare and Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14710/21]
    • Health Services Funding
      1575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to expedite funding for gene-silencing treatment for amyloidosis such as Patisiran and equivalent drugs; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1576. To ask the Minister for Health if both patients of private and public hospitals who fall into group 4 of the Covid-19 vaccination group will receive their vaccine as part of this cohort;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1577. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to qualify persons in the area of mental health given that the availability of skilled staff is a significant issue; the reason for...
    • Legislative Measures
      1578. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to present the fair deal legislation before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14727/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding student radiographers; if he will meet with representatives of student...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1580. To ask the Minister for Health the number of checks that have occurred on a weekly basis from 6 February 2021 to date on persons quarantining at home after arriving here; the number in each...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1582. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons here that were reimbursed through the drug payment scheme for leasing a continuous positive airway pressure, CPAP, machine in 2018, 2019...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1586. To ask the Minister for Health if further consideration will be given to the vaccine roll-out schedule and greater priority given to retail staff who are at an increased level of risk...
    • Mental Health Services
      1588. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for Jigsaw; the average waiting time in each of the years 2017 to 2020, by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1590. To ask the Minister for Health the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have required his sanction; the time which...
    • Health Services Access
      1591. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an appointment in a pain relief clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14790/21]
    • Paediatric Services
      1592. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have a diabetic pump procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14791/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the outpatient neurology waiting list in Sligo University Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, for both...
    • Medical Records
      1594. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical records request will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14793/21]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1595. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the move from providing therapeutic services on site to delivering them in a community setting under the progressing disabilities programme;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1597. To ask the Minister for Health the position of postal workers on the vaccination allocation sequencing as part of the national Covid-19 vaccination programme; if they are identified under...
    • Dental Services
      1598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists paid a minimum of €5,000 per month by the HSE for each of the past 12 months by county associated with the provision of dental...
    • Legislative Measures
      1601. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to publish legislation amending or replacing the Dentists’ Act 1985; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14813/21]
    • Dental Services
      1602. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have had dental treatments provided by the HSE public dental service between March 2020 and March 2021; and the way in which this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1603. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a body of evidence on the use of ivermectin to reduce the incidence of Covid-19 transmission, severe disease development or in vitro replication;...
    • Medical Cards
      1604. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of providing discretionary medical cards to all cancer patients at the time of their diagnosis until their treatment has finished;...
    • Hospital Charges
      1606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the practice of hospitals using debt collection agencies; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients currently undergoing...
    • Hospital Staff
      1607. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the reduction of intern positions for newly qualified doctors and maintain the 2020 number of intern positions to retain non-EU newly...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1608. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is refusing to reimburse the antigen costs for nursing homes (details supplied); if so, the reason for the decision; if he is considering reversing...
    • Home Help Service
      1611. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has had home help hours removed from them; the reason the HSE has not yet had other carers in to replace the last...
    • Paediatric Services
      1612. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of main lead paediatric pain consultant specialist roles by Children’s Health Ireland; the number of paediatric pain...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1616. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to produce vaccine certificates as part of implementation planning for a Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Audiology Services
      1618. To ask the Minister for Health if audiology services (details supplied) will be immediately reopened in County Kerry given the hardship it is causing patients; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to HSE coronavirus community assessment hubs since they began operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14849/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      1622. To ask the Minister for Health the general practice diagnostic services that are in place and have been provided as part of the HSE Winter Plan 2020-2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1623. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of community assessment hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14853/21]
    • Health Services Funding
      1627. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite funding and approval for patisiran Onpattro or an equivalent drug used to manage the condition hereditary transthyretin...
    • Dental Services
      1628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider outsourcing public dental services to private practices in order to lessen waiting times of over seven years for youth orthodontic...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1629. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Implementation and Monitoring Committee Steering Committee has met since 15 January 2021; if so, when the minutes of the most recent meeting...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical assessments for primary medical certificate applications that have taken place to date in 2021; the number that have taken place by...
    • Healthcare Reimbursement Agreements
      1631. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the prospective reimbursement of a drug (details supplied) following the finalisation of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics assessment...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1632. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14871/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1633. To ask the Minister for Health if persons on combined therapies and at very high risk are within group 4 on the vaccination schedule; and if not, when they will receive the vaccine. [14879/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1635. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14886/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health if he will bring forward plans to ensure that the backlog of assessments for primary medical certificates is addressed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      1637. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of establishing a needle exchange service. [14897/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1639. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1366 of 8 September 2020, when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive a surgery appointment; and if he...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1640. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a primary care centre in Millstreet, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14901/21]
    • HSE Staff
      1641. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a pay and conditions employment package was agreed for a person (details supplied); when this decision was made; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Paediatric Services
      1642. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to employ a full-time pain consultant for children with chronic pain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14942/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      1643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen by multidisciplinary teams over the past three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14943/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1644. To ask the Minister for Health if statistics on the level of community transmission continue to be published and publicly available; the latest community transmission rate; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the pension of a person who has retired from the HSE will be reduced should they commence work on the vaccination programme given that they can...
    • Abortion Services
      1646. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question No. 1021 of 3 March 2021, if the safe access to termination of pregnancy Bill outlined in the legislation programme spring...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14969/21]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1648. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for first time Medical Council applications for general registration by non-EU applicants in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to...
    • Health Services Provision
      1649. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the clinical care pathway for treatment of endometriosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14973/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1650. To ask the Minister for Health if charges apply to patients who require post-Covid-19 medical assessment reviews and are transferred from public hospitals to private hospitals for this...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      1651. To ask the Minister for Health the latest projected timetable for the delivery of the new St. Conlon’s nursing home, Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service
      1652. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the responsibilities of home help staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14977/21]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1653. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding access to services for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14979/21]
    • Healthcare Reimbursement Agreements
      1654. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the reimbursement of costs by the HSE of the electronic blood glucose monitoring system FreeStyle Libre to all persons with type 1...
    • HSE Data
      1655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of premature births to date in 2021; the number in the previous ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14984/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1656. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to pay student nurses and midwives; when the second review of the first report on pandemic pay will be conducted; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1657. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) must wait so long to receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14989/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      1658. To ask the Minister for Health when sleep apnoea clinics will reopen for screenings and assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14995/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1659. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to expedite the vaccination of special educational staff who work and teach some of the most vulnerable children in the special...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1661. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the circumstances regarding the assessment of needs in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding section 56 and section 59 workers; if they will receive pay restoration in line with their section 39 colleagues; and if he will make a...
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      1667. To ask the Minister for Health the number of existing PrEP users attending the gay men's health service from November 2019, in 2020 and to date in 2021, respectively, in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for pain management treatment at the paediatric chronic pain clinic in CHI, Dublin; the average waiting time for...
    • Hospital Staff
      1670. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members that have been recruited to the multidisciplinary pain teams in CHI, Dublin in the past three months; the number of patients that...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1671. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available for a person (details supplied) to access the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15092/21]
    • Cancer Services
      1672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims lodged with the CervicalCheck tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15095/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1675. To ask the Minister for Health if antigen testing was included as a cost which could be reimbursed under the Covid-19 temporary assistance payment scheme for nursing homes; if these costs...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1676. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the way children that are receiving CAMHS services in north County Tipperary but are unable to access occupational therapy services due to a lack...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for speech and language therapy by county in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and his views on the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1678. To ask the Minister for Health his views on families having to access private autism spectrum disorder, ASD, assessments for children before they will be considered for treatment at CAMHS...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1679. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a formal audit of nursing home mortality since the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out in both private and public nursing...
    • Hospital Staff
      1682. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 3 June 2020, the status of recruitment for the CHI paediatric complex pain management service; the current...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1683. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the use of ivermectin in the treatment of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15109/21]
    • Departmental Transport
      1684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit, broken down by the number of ICE...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1685. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of waiting times on surgery waiting lists in Ennis General Hospital, County Clare, for elective and non-elective surgeries; his plans to help...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which health screening and outpatient clinics prepare for appointments with disabled patients (details supplied); the protocol in place; the type...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1687. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an 80-year-old patient who is in hospital must attend an appointment with the general practitioner for vaccination; the reason patients over 80...
    • National Public Health Emergency Team
      1688. To ask the Minister for Health if the Minister of State with responsibility for disability has made representations to the NPHET committee in terms of her role; if the Minister of State has...
    • Mobility Allowance
      1689. To ask the Minister for Health when the replacement scheme for the mobility allowance will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15149/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1690. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the backlog in primary medical certificate applications; if he will be working on changes to scheme to adapt the criteria for...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were reimbursed through the drug payment scheme for the leasing of a CPAP machine in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 contacts to date that were passed to and received from the health protection teams in Northern Ireland, respectively; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health the exchange visits since 2017 between mesh removal surgeons here and colleagues in other jurisdictions; the itinerary followed; the hosts and participants;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1708. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements are in place to ensure that cross-Border workers who are resident here who require the Covid-19 vaccination to maintain employment in Northern...
    • Cancer Services
      1710. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); the CervicalCheck screening process in this context; if HPV negative patients are...
    • Medicinal Products
      1711. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the cost of a treatment (details supplied) [15191/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1712. To ask the Minister for Health when timelines will be available in relation to the vaccination of the clinically vulnerable and in particular cancer patients; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who were funded for the dexcom continuous glucose monitoring CGM sensors by the long term Illness scheme and the primary...
    • Hospital Staff
      1716. To ask the Minister for Health the situation in CHI in relation to the recruitment of the main lead paediatric pain consultant roles; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1719. To ask the Minister for Health the situation in relation to waiting list reporting for children waiting for chronic pain treatment at CHI; if the waiting list for new referrals to CHI for...
    • Home Help Service
      1720. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15220/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1721. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a primary medical certificate. [15224/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing standard allowance, placement grants and payment for work carried out by student radiographers; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1725. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised in relation to some Covid-19 vaccinators not being vaccinated themselves before administering the vaccine...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1727. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the contact tracing database was constructed; the way in which it operates; the number of individual entries on same; the information that is...
    • Hospital Staff
      1729. To ask the Minister for Health the plans of the HSE for newly qualified doctors at each hospital; and if they will be retained. [15250/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1734. To ask the Minister for Health the status of vaccinations for pharmacy staff. [15261/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1735. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary medical certificate processes. [15263/21]
    • Hospital Data
      1736. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 720 of 17 February 2021, the breakdown of capital submissions received, approved, under evaluation and not approved from...
    • Medicinal Products
      1737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting to receive omalizumab in Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15276/21]
    • Medical Negligence Cases
      1739. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding medical negligence; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [15280/21]
    • Cancer Services
      1741. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE national screening service will update its BreastCheck screening standard operating procedure guidelines to notify women regarding personal breast...
    • Hospital Staff
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision to let go 15 newly qualified doctors from University Hospital Galway will be reversed given the doctors are needed; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1743. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Covid-19 testing centre in Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow was closed for Covid-19 testing on 13 and 14 March 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in counties Sligo and Leitrim that are currently awaiting initial assessment, initial treatment or further therapy in speech and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1746. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of need will be completed and the statutory obligations of the HSE met in relation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1748. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received approaches from the Minister for Justice in relation to moving members of An Garda Síochána forward on the Covid-19 vaccine...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health when the day services at a facility will be reopened for all attendees that have disabilities such as a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
      1751. To ask the Minister for Health the status of CORU registration for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15312/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1753. To ask the Minister for Health the contact he and NPHET have had with a group (details supplied) to discuss the issue of vitamin D supplementation during Covid-19; if he will meet with the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health the online training courses which are required for recently retired nurses to complete in order to come back and work as a vaccinator for the Covid-19...
    • Medicinal Products
      1755. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he plans to take for patients under the individual licensing system to provide a pathway to funding at source as they continue to suffer a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1756. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be seen by CAMHS in view of the fact they have been waiting a number of years. [15327/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1757. To ask the Minister for Health if family reunification of persons that have permission to reside in Ireland is deemed essential travel under Covid-19 level 5 restrictions. [15328/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      1758. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction access to the drug dupilvmob to a person (details supplied) on compassionate grounds. [15329/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health the position of special needs assistants on the vaccination allocation sequencing as part of the national Covid-19 vaccination programme; if they are...
    • Dental Services
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an orthodontic appointment for a child (details supplied); when they will be seen by an orthodontist; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Autism Support Services
      1763. To ask the Minister for Health if an issue in relation to waiting times for a public autism assessment will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1764. To ask the Minister for Health the reason families of children with additional needs were left with no support during Covid-19 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1765. To ask the Minister for Health the reason families in County Kerry referred to services (details supplied) are waiting over a year with no contact or support with crisis level situations in...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1766. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacancies on the board of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will be fully filled. [15364/21]
    • HSE Staff
      1767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to retain the over 300 positions for newly-qualified intern doctors which are proposed to be cut in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1768. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with hereditary spherocytosis and who have received both doses of their Covid-19 vaccine can return to work; when the policy on same will be...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1769. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no orders have been placed for the booster doses of the vaccines under development to deal with Covid-19 virus variants; and if he will make a...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1771. To ask the Minister for Health if a rationalisation of services under the new progressing disabilities model will result in the loss of in-school speech and language therapy services for a...
    • Disability Support Services
      1773. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure multidisciplinary services for a school (details supplied), particularly speech and language therapy services remain in place during a...
    • Medical Cards
      1774. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with Down syndrome are entitled to a medical card; the reason some holders of a medical card who have Down syndrome are having their medical cards...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1775. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out for group 4 is prioritised by condition, severity and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Staff
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to renew the policy of offering all eligible Irish-trained graduates an intern post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15420/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      1777. To ask the Minister for Health the status of efforts to approve dupilumab, commonly known as Dupixent, used to treat eczema and asthma among other conditions; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      1778. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being put in place to provide for the healthcare of transgender young persons in Ireland given the exit of a UK-based clinic (details supplied)...
    • Gender Recognition
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health when the multidisciplinary team will be in place as per the final report of the steering committee on the development of HSE transgender identity services of...
    • Gender Equality
      1780. To ask the Minister for Health the resources that have been made available to ensure the HSE service development model of care is implemented and accessible to support transgender young...
    • HSE Staff
      1784. To ask the Minister for Health the additional specialised staff who have been recruited in line with action 19.1 of the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2018-2020, including...
    • Gender Equality
      1785. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to develop transgender health services for children and adults with a clear transition pathway from child to adult services in...
    • Paediatric Services
      1788. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for children seeking new appointments and repeat appointments at a paediatric chronic pain clinic; if the waiting list is open or closed to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1789. To ask the Minister for Health if family carers will be added as a priority group on the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15438/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1792. To ask the Minister for Health the financial and other supports given to pharmacies that have provided a service throughout the pandemic; if the staff providing the service will be...
    • Respite Care Services
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of €5 million funding for nine additional respite houses announced on 23 February 2021; the location of each respite house;...
    • Hospice Services
      1794. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the recurring funding for each hospice (details supplied) announced on 17 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15456/21]
    • Paediatric Services
      1795. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays facing children awaiting pain management assessment and treatment as raised by a group (details supplied); and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to having cardiac patients recategorised to level 7 of the national roll-out plan for Covid-19 vaccinations; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Data
      1797. To ask the Minister for Health the public and voluntary hospitals that have repair clinics for prosthetic limbs, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15464/21]
    • Nursing Staff
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved psychiatric nursing posts, by speciality, as per A Vision for Change recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1799. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding assessment of needs waiting times (details supplied). [15474/21]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health if he is reviewing the Memorandum of Understanding with his colleague in the Northern Ireland Executive; the status of the performance of same; the extent to...
    • Paediatric Services
      1801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with complex medical conditions availing of paediatric homecare following discharge from hospital in the past six months. [15480/21]
    • Health Services
      1802. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure adequate step down and rehabilitation services for persons who suffer from stroke upon discharge from inpatient hospital care....
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1803. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in CAMHS in County Roscommon; the number of vacancies waiting to be filled. [15482/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1804. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen for an assessment of need. [15504/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1805. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to further prioritising cardiac patients within the vaccine allocation groupings in view of the recognition of recent...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1809. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of formal cross-Border healthcare provision, cooperation and integration; the services and locations in which this occurs, such as the paediatric...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new primary care centre for Grange, County Sligo; and the opening date for same. [15543/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1811. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15544/21]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1812. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow an extended timeframe for the sale of a home under the fair deal scheme before interest is charged given that currently homes must be sold...
    • Mental Health Services
      1814. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take on the recent unfavourable report relating to a facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Appointments
      1815. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a chief pharmacist in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15550/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1816. To ask the Minister for Health if he will utilise local media to ensure the Covid-19 message is disseminated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15554/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at each regional public health department in tabular form; and his plans to increase staff numbers. [15585/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1818. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of mandatory hotel quarantine in the south of the country. [15586/21]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1821. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of operations and procedures for University Hospital Kerry referred to private hospitals under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the...
    • Hospital Data
      1822. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of each of hip replacement and knee replacement surgeries, respectively referred from University Hospital Kerry to private hospitals in...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1823. To ask the Minister for Health the changes to and impact on the provision of on-site therapeutic services to the children and young people attending services (details supplied) generally...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1827. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 rules in hospitals will be relaxed to allow a partner to attend with a woman experiencing a miscarriage given that support is necessary for women...
    • Hospital Services
      1828. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of ultrasound scans at weekends in acute hospitals; if there is a discrepancy in availability across the country; if his...
    • Maternity Services
      1829. To ask the Minister for Health if improvements are planned across the health system for women experiencing miscarriages including awareness campaigns for all medical personnel, including...
    • Paediatric Services
      1830. To ask the Minister for Health when the main and lead pain consultant specialists for children’s pain management will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      1831. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to each cross-Border health and social care service for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1832. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15622/21]
    • HSE Staff
      1833. To ask the Minister for Health if external recruitment agencies used by the HSE are required to follow the same codes of practice as the HSE during direct recruitment; the name of the codes...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1834. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) is involved in the recruitment of contact tracers or in the running of contact tracing centres; the role it plays in same; and...
    • Maternity Services
      1839. To ask the Minister for Health the number of International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners certified lactation consultants holding specialist posts in each maternity unit. [15635/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical interns offered a post in 2020; the number accepted; the number of medical graduates that year; if every medical graduate had an intern...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1843. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the qualifying conditions under the medical cannabis access programme; if there is evidence to include chronic pain as a qualifying...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1844. To ask the Minister for Health the current information for surgeons on the vaccination of patients awaiting surgery; if Ireland is following the same model as the UK (details supplied); if...
    • Nursing Home Fees
      1845. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the new payment system put in place for long-stay charges in residential homes run by an organisation (details supplied) in 2017; the reason...
    • Hospice Services
      1847. To ask the Minister for Health the geographical location of the two new inpatient unit hospices being considered for palliative care in CHO8. [15670/21]
    • Palliative Care Services
      1848. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to develop two new palliative units in the CHO8 region in terms of timescale, location, capacity and funding; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Access
      1849. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15672/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      1850. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase funding for services that provide support for eating disorders by the end of 2021; if so, the amount of additional funding that will be...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1851. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the HSE secures a permanent general practitioner for Kilrush, County Clare, as a matter of urgency (details supplied). [15676/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1852. To ask the Minister for Health if those with chronic cardiac conditions will be included in cohort 4 for Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15679/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1855. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the delay in processing applications for the primary medical certificate; when he expects the backlog of applications to be processed;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1856. To ask the Minister for Health when members of An Garda Síochána working on the front line can expect to receive the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15695/21]
    • Hospital Services
      1857. To ask the Minister for Health when members of multidisciplinary pain team recruited over the past three months will begin seeing patients. [15696/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1858. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he will publish guidance in relation to workers that have been out due to health issues and have since been vaccinated which would...
    • Hospital Staff
      1859. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intern doctors working in Roscommon University Hospital and in University Hospital Galway; his plans to reduce these numbers; if so, the reason;...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1861. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a primary certificate application for a person (details supplied) will be assessed; the date on which a certificate will be issued; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1862. To ask the Minister for Health the policy regarding vaccination of persons resident in hospices; the visiting restrictions imposed on such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Paediatric Services
      1864. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a recruitment campaign for paediatric rheumatologists; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are two paediatric...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1865. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; if they will be called via their general practitioner or the hospital; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Data
      1866. To ask the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in contracted centres in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1867. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 patients at University Hospital Galway transferred to other hospitals for oxygen treatment during the period 1 February 2020 to 1...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1868. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter on a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15737/21]
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1869. 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. [15738/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1870. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify details on the pain relief outpatients waiting list report as listed on the NTPF website; his views on whether the numbers listed cannot be...
    • Hospital Data
      1873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic surgeries cancelled in Cork University Hospital by the hospital due to capacity issues by quarter in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1874. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for orthopaedic surgery in Cork University Hospital in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [15748/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1875. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include pharmacy staff in the next wave of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine. [15749/21]
    • Cancer Services
      1876. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons diagnosed with lung cancer at stages 1 to 4, respectively in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [15751/21]
    • Hospital Data
      1877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who attended a rapid access lung clinic for a diagnostic test in each month from January 2020 to January 2021; the percentage of these...
    • Paediatric Services
      1879. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in providing better and more efficient access to paediatric rheumatology for children with special needs; the progress to date in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1880. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the various Covid-19-related public information campaigns run by his Department to date; and the number that relate specifically on the way...
    • Health Services
      1881. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider on grounds of equity allowing provision for medical card holders to access specialist women’s healthcare treatments (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1882. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line healthcare workers in an organisation (details supplied) in Cork who have been vaccinated. [15778/21]
    • Paediatric Services
      1884. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE paediatric pain specialists nationally; his plans to increase same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15788/21]
    • Maternity Services
      1885. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on the HSE breastfeeding action plan for 2019 and 2020; and the way in which this compares to that which had been budgeted for this area. [15789/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1886. To ask the Minister for Health when a written policy will be in place allowing occupational health to clear for immediate return to work critical healthcare workers deemed highly vulnerable...
    • Paediatric Services
      1887. To ask the Minister for Health when the paediatric rheumatologist will start work and see patients; when the information leaflet prepared for general practitioners by parents of children...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1889. To ask the Minister for Health if elderly persons having to travel distances to receive their vaccine will be eligible for reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1890. To ask the Minister for Health the positions allocated and filled in counties Sligo and Leitrim in respect of speech and language therapy, social work, physiotherapy and occupational...
    • Dental Services
      1891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of independent dental practices that signed up to the dental treatment services scheme in each of the past five years; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1893. To ask the Minister for Health the cost involved in mandatory quarantining for those entering Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15826/21]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      1894. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person with a brain injury who is over 65 years of age and who could gain significantly from rehabilitation is unable to access community...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1895. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers in each category that have received the Covid-19 vaccine to date; the number of persons between 70-74, 75-79, 80-84 over 85...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1899. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to take measures providing equal treatment to patients taking products manufactured by a company (details supplied) and to allow the type of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1900. To ask the Minister for Health if an updated vaccine supply forecast will be provided for quarters 1, 2 and 3 (details supplied). [15837/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1902. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on Covid-19 testing and tracing in 2020; the amount budgeted for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15843/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1904. To ask the Minister for Health the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15845/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      1905. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent funded, filled and vacant positions in testing and tracing; the basis on which they are filled as a percentage of...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      1906. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for assessment for speech and language services in CHO7. [15857/21]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1907. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have received assessments for speech and language services and are currently waiting for intervention in CHO7. [15858/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1909. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to publish the modal age with regard to Covid-19 cases as part of the daily figures to enable further insights into Covid-19...
    • Health Services
      1911. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure immunocompromised persons and persons with chronic lung diseases are not refused regular treatments until they receive the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1912. To ask the Minister for Health if childcare workers (details supplied) will be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15869/21]
    • Respite Care Services
      1913. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15870/21]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1914. To ask the Minister for Health the date to which his Department is working towards to introduce the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1916. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the waiving of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 products during the pandemic, in particular vaccines, as recommended...
    • Cancer Services
      1917. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to highlight the importance of cervical screening for persons under 25 years of age who are not yet screened but need to be aware of...
    • Health Services Staff
      1920. To ask the Minister for Health the details of HSE psychologist posts since January 2014 in CHO4 that were competed for via local interview as opposed to the relevant national recruitment...
    • Cancer Services
      1921. To ask the Minister for Health the role of the liaison officers appointed to work with the persons affected by the CervicalCheck scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Patient Safety
      1924. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to involve persons and groups affected by failures of the State to provide proper healthcare such as a group (details supplied) in the...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1925. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the HSE decision to reduce the number of intern places being offered for the 2021 cohort of medical graduates (details...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1926. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the waiting lists for persons with endometriosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15917/21]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      1928. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined the beneficial effects accruing from the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland; and when section 11 of the Public...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1930. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 tests which have been administered by private providers and analysed by public laboratories in each week since 1 January 2021. [15957/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1933. To ask the Minister for Health the processes and facilities in place to properly dispose of syringes and other medical and biohazardous waste arising from the national Covid-19 vaccination...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      1934. To ask the Minister for Health the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills issued by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further online payment...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Programmes
      1935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific tree planting schemes his Department envisages to promote and encourage large-scale planting for private landowners;...
    • Equine Industry
      1936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that there is sufficient legislation to deal with the challenge of wandering and stray horses in urban areas; and...
    • Fishing Industry
      1937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the fishing capacity of the bottom grown mussel sector in Ireland and the resources available to it were last assessed and made...
    • Turf Cutting
      1940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the availability of peat (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13916/21]
    • Farm Inspections
      1941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Bord Bia inspectors are still performing on-farm inspections during level 5 restrictions given the potential risk of...
    • Herd Number Applications
      1942. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the criteria to become eligible to allow nieces, nephews, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law to use a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if landscaping is permitted during level 5 restrictions,, in particular hedge trimming that is seasonal in nature; and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      1944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal of a basic payment commonage reduction by a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislative basis which determines the regulation of farriery in Ireland; the conditions and or qualifications necessary in...
    • Forestry Sector
      1946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the monthly targets for private licences with ecology input excluding Coillte felling licences for each month for the remainder of...
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      1947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14081/21]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      1949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to designate the native black bee as a protected species and to stop the importation of other bees whose...
    • Beef Industry
      1950. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to ensure that proper regulation and fairness is applied to beef factories to ensure that beef farmers are...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14168/21]
    • Beekeeping Industry
      1952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures put in place to prevent the importation of the small hive beetle, athena tumida; if a risk assessment for this pest has...
    • Hedge Cutting
      1955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address illegal burning and hedge cutting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14313/21]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1956. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of racing greyhound pups born in each of the years 2011 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14314/21]
    • Legislative Process
      1957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the process through which his Department drafts and produces legislation; if his Department outsources the drafting...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      1958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes made to the terms and conditions of the single farm payment qualifications in each of the years 2010 to 2020; and if he...
    • Horticulture Sector
      1960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to assist the horticulture industry with particular reference to peat supplies later in 2021, a lack of which will have...
    • Beekeeping Industry
      1961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if measures will be put in place to prevent the importation of non-native bees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Sector
      1962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if approval will be issued to a forestry access road application by a person (details supplied). [14501/21]
    • GLAS Issues
      1963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the circumstances for a financial penalty on payments (details supplied). [14530/21]
    • Food Exports
      1964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken at EU level to ensure that there is consistency and uniformity of approach with regard to export health...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a scheme to replace the AEOS scheme which finished 12 months ago; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      1966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Horse Sport Ireland does not recognise the Irish language when registering horses here; his views on whether it is...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) will be called for an oral hearing in relation to their TAMS application. [14649/21]
    • Beef Industry
      1968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the last meeting of the Beef Taskforce took place; when the next meeting will take place; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will change the collection of the foal levy to reflect the invoice price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14717/21]
    • Felling Licences
      1971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a felling licence application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of his Department which have required his...
    • Beekeeping Industry
      1973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding native honeybees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14800/21]
    • Veterinary Laboratories
      1974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1019 of 10 February 2021, if further details will be provided in respect of the substance...
    • Veterinary Medicines
      1975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of Boldenone and Testex seized by his officials in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the location...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to extending the eligibility for the low emission slurry spreading, LESS, scheme under the TAMS...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      1977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals of live valuations of TB reactors that have been taken by farmers in the past five years; and if he will make...
    • Wildlife Control
      1979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the deer management forum last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14915/21]
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      1980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badger vaccinations for TB that have been carried out in the past five years, by county; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Culls
      1983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to cull mink in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14919/21]
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      1984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to take on more staff in order to vaccinate deer for TB; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Diseases
      1985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of confirmed cases of scrapie in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by county, in tabular form; and if...
    • GLAS Issues
      1987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14994/21]
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      1988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Kerry who have had penalties applied to their direct 2020 payments as a result of gorse fires on...
    • Forestry Sector
      1989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capacity output if the number of licences issued for afforestation, roads and private felling per week by the forest service of...
    • Departmental Staff
      1994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of weekly full-time equivalent ecologists working in the forest service of his Department since June 2019 including the...
    • Forestry Sector
      1995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 10 March 2021, if he will review the answer provided given that the question did not...
    • Livestock Issues
      1996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a comprehensive account will be provided of the actions taken to date by his Department to resolve all of the issues associated...
    • Nitrates Usage
      1997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to prohibit intensive farmers who face difficulties complying with the nitrates directive renting land in...
    • Departmental Transport
      1998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by his Department and agencies and semi-State companies under his remit, broken...
    • Forestry Sector
      1999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1003 of 10 March 2021, the analyses and studies his Department relied on when arriving at the...
    • Beef Industry
      2000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the bodies that make up the membership of an organisation (details supplied); the bodies that make up the list of individual bodies...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      2001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process for the way in which a case (details supplied) was withdrawn on 29 January 2020; the identity of the decision-maker; the...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      2003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) presented a herd for inspection that was suspected of containing tuberculosis; if this herd was...
    • Forestry Data
      2004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if 2,300 ha of forestry was planted in 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15163/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      2005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forestry service inspectorate has any authority in cases in which a forestry licence is issued outside the plots mapped for...
    • Wildlife Control
      2009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he plans to take regarding the large herd of wild goats impacting on farmers in west County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Felling Licences
      2010. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a felling licence application by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15202/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      2011. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if carrying out the screening process on each forestry licence application by district inspectors is approved by the Forestry...
    • Felling Licences
      2014. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for tree felling under investigation at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15257/21]
    • Fisheries Protection
      2015. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his discussions with his European Union counterparts regarding the expected 15% reduction in fish landed in...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      2016. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to renegotiate the Common Fisheries Policy to prevent direct and indirect job losses in the Irish fishing industry, to...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      2017. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has introduced a farm buildings relocation scheme for farmers whose buildings were flooded during flood events; and if he will...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      2018. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider legalisation calling for an immediate and outright ban on the importation of non-native bee species to help...
    • Farm Household Incomes
      2019. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an off-farm income pay for income tax figure can be accepted as the gross income for a national reserve application (details...
    • Greyhound Industry
      2020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Greyhound Racing Ireland lists a greyhound (details supplied) as rehomed when the dog was actually exported to China; and...
    • Forestry Management
      2021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the decision of his Department to increase the buffer zone radius from 3 km to 15 km for all forestry projects; the...
    • Public Expenditure Data
      2022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of capital projects completed since 2016; the final agreed tender price for each project; the actual cost of each...
    • Fishing Industry
      2023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider banning industrial fishing for sprat similar to that for herring and mackerel; and if he will make a statement...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      2024. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied). [15563/21]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      2025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of thoroughbred foals born over the past five years; the number registered to race on the track; the number of horses...
    • Grant Payments
      2026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their 2020 BDGP and BEAM grants; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Schemes
      2027. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the importance of new grass in acting as an emissions sink; if progress is being made in providing financial support in...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      2028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount of emissions such as carbon that is sequestered back into farming grassland; the way in which those figures are...
    • Forestry Sector
      2029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all fees have been paid by objectors since the new legislation was introduced for the appeals of forestry decisions; and if he...
    • Felling Licences
      2030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options a plantation owner has for the crop in cases in which an appeal is upheld against a felling licence; and if he will make...
    • Forestry Sector
      2031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for progression through the system for the 1,500 forestry licences received by his Department that do not require an...
    • Animal Welfare
      2032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the welfare of dairy calves born in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      2033. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the situation with respect to farmers entering land lease agreements of at least five years in 2021 and associated entitlements...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      2034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 17 February 2021, the timeline for the completion of the regulatory impact assessment...
    • Forestry Sector
      2037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a forestry application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Felling Licences
      2038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on their felling licence application; and if he will make...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      2039. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a way of seeking additional unused non-national EU quota (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      2042. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on amending the Forestry Acts to provide protection and regulation for trees in urban areas; and if he will make a...
    • Afforestation Programme
      2043. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the afforestation rates by county in each of the years 2015 to 2020, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agrifood Sector
      2044. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the draft 2030 agrifood strategy will be published; the way in which the public will be consulted in the development of the...
    • Forestry Sector
      2046. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the further action he is taking to address issues in the forestry and timber industry given the continued difficulty with forestry...
    • Afforestation Programme
      2049. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the afforestation level his Department will achieve in 2021, given the total achieved to date in 2021 and the seasonality factor...
    • Equine Industry
      2051. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the levels of non-compliance with equine microchipping and traceability; if he is satisfied with the level of compliance; and if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2052. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by his Department, agency and budget line item; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      2053. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Poverty Data
      2054. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the process involved in compiling the Pobal deprivation index; her plans to update the index; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      2055. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the process through which her Department drafts and produces legislation; if her Department outsources the drafting of...
    • Rural Economic Development Zones
      2056. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown by NUTS III region of projects funded to date under the rural economic development zone programme. [14689/21]
    • Rural Development Plan
      2057. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Action Plan for Rural Development; if this plan has been aligned with the National Planning Framework Ireland 2040:...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2058. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the five most recent significant capital projects in the major functional responsibilities of her Department which have required her...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      2059. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial supports available to community-based organisations that have been found to not be eligible for the Covid-19 stability...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      2060. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a grant exists for sensory gardens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15026/21]
    • Offshore Islands
      2061. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a review has been conducted on the implementation of the recommendations in a strategic framework for developing the offshore...
    • Na hOileáin amach ón gCósta
      2076. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén ról atá ag Údarás na Gaeltachta i gcur i ngníomh bheartais a Roinne maidir leis na hoileáin...
    • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
      2079. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided under stream 3 of the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme for the application relating to Killarney...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      2080. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has received an application from Kerry County Council under the town and village renewal scheme since its inception...
    • CLÁR Programme
      2081. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has received an application from Kerry County Council under the CLÁR scheme since its inception in respect of...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      2082. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has received an application from Kerry County Council under the rural regeneration scheme since its inception in...
    • Departmental Transport
      2083. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of vehicles owned or leased and operated by her Department and agencies and semi-State companies under her remit broken...
    • Community Banking
      2084. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement she has had with banking entities that have indicated their plans to close in provincial towns; and if she will make a...
    • Community Welfare Services
      2085. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received by her Department in 2020 and to date in 2021 for home safety and personal alarms. [15216/21]
    • Western Development Commission
      2086. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current and capital budget allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2021 to the Western Development Commission in tabular form;...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      2087. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of social enterprises registered in Ireland. [15799/21]
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      2091. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that has been provided to social enterprises by the Dormant Accounts Fund since 2019. [15803/21]
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      2094. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the national social enterprise policy implementation group is still functioning. [15806/21]
    • LEADER Programmes
      2096. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the basis for the programme for Government commitment to move the delivery of the LEADER programme to independent local action groups...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      2097. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagements her Department has had with satellite companies on broadband connectivity; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2098. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total Covid-19-related spend in 2020 by her Department, agency and budget line item; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      2099. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by her Department; and if there are plans to provide further...

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