Written answers

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and Investment will next meet. [13104/21]
    • Shared Island Unit
      27. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the priorities of the shared island unit of his Department. [13098/21]
    • Cabinet Committees
      35. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [13105/21]
    • Northern Ireland
      38. To ask the Taoiseach when he will meet with the families of victims of the Glenanne gang. [13194/21]
    • Citizens' Assembly
      40. To ask the Taoiseach the expected running order of citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [13256/21]
  • Department of Finance
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance if the operation of the stay and spend incentive will be reviewed in view of the impact of successive lockdowns on the scheme, which has good potential; and if...
    • Tax Reliefs
      65. To ask the Minister for Finance if engagement has been held on the use of the tax system to support householders with the cost of renovations and retrofit projects both to combat climate...
    • Banking Sector
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the programme for Government commitment on a senior executive accountability regime to deliver heightened accountability with the banking system;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      69. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners deduct tax refunds due to workers for medical expenses from outstanding amounts owed from the administration of the...
    • Insurance Costs
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that insurance premiums are successfully reduced for motorists, businesses and other users in line with the revision of guidelines for...
    • Property Tax
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the local property tax exemption under operation via the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2015 to cover homes that qualify for...
    • Banking Sector
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the viability of the banking sector in Ireland in view of recent announcements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16451/21]
    • Tax Code
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected grant allocations under the resilience and recovery facility in nominal and percentage terms in the periods 2021-22 and 2023, respectively; if the...
    • Fiscal Policy
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the fiscal compact deficit spending targets if the next generation of EU funding proves inadequate to meet the societal needs of...
    • Insurance Costs
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of increase of public, employers and vehicle insurance premia over the past ten years; the steps that have been taken since the Government was formed...
    • Credit Unions
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance the action being taken to deliver a strong and vibrant credit union sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17162/21]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had engagement with the Central Bank regarding unregulated loan notes issued by a company (details supplied) between 2012 and 2019 and administered...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date of all Covid-19-related payments in his Department to individuals and corporate entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15409/21]
    • Tax Code
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out or commissioned a review or analysis of the current rate of capital gains tax; the way in which the national rates compare...
    • Financial Services Sector
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts that have been made to attract financial services jobs to Ireland post Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16450/21]
    • Defective Building Materials
      84. 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...
    • Insurance Industry
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions his Department is taking to encourage greater competition in the Irish insurance sector. [1860/21]
    • Credit Register
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance if a loan holder who enters into a loan restructuring agreement with a lender that honours that agreement in full and has never missed a repayment under the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the unequal impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the economy as revealed in the latest Exchequer figures; his views on the way the figures indicate...
    • Brexit Issues
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which his Department continues to monitor the ill effects of Brexit, with particular reference to impeding economic performance here; if...
    • Insurance Industry
      89. To ask the Minister for Finance the responsibilities of his Department under the Action Plan for Insurance Reform. [17147/21]
    • Credit Unions
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his engagement with credit unions in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17173/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance if steps can be taken to prevent mortgage approval from being withdrawn from persons due to the fact they are in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme...
    • Financial Services Sector
      92. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to moves in the UK to bolster its financial technology offering following a review into the industry; and if he is considering...
    • Tax Yield
      93. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of capital gains tax received in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17080/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amounts owed by workers for outstanding tax as a result of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the plans in place to deduct this from workers; the way...
    • Tax Reliefs
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance the ongoing efforts being made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure full compliance by film production companies with the conditions...
    • Illicit Trade
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will introduce to protect and support legitimate businesses trading in household fuel products due to the difficulties they face with illegal...
    • Fiscal Policy
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the repayment of the substantial debt built up throughout the Covid-19 period in future years; if there will be an increase in taxes or cuts to...
    • Tax Reliefs
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance if an urgent review will be carried out of the current 10% rate allowed under the e-working tax relief towards heating and electric expenses incurred from...
    • Economic Policy
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had on the recently launched Dublin Belfast Economic Corridor Report; his views on the report; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fiscal Policy
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to debt that has built up as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. [17077/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the eligibility for non-rateable premises for Covid-19 supports under his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16745/21]
    • Insurance Costs
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance the action being taken on differential pricing in the motor and home insurance markets. [17141/21]
    • Economic Policy
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance to the extent to which he remains confident that adequate economic provision has been made or is available to facilitate recovery in the aftermath of...
    • Credit Register
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken to protect the credit scores of viable businesses throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Gender Equality
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to help bridge the gender pay gap across the banking sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15407/21]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concerns expressed by the Central Bank regarding the proposed affordable purchase shared equity scheme; his further views on its potential...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance his legislative plans to prevent the potential repeat of the type of unethical behaviour uncovered recently at a company (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his engagements with relevant parties regarding the withdrawal of a bank (details supplied) from the banking market; his views on the best...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the adequacy of a company (details supplied) undertaking a third party review of activities from 2014 to 2021; the position of the interim CEO...
    • Mortgage Lending
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to help young home purchasers gain mortgage approval in view of the fact that there has been a massive drop in approvals since the start of 2021;...
    • Value Added Tax
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance if the VAT concession on milk recording can be returned to the pre-January 2020 reduced rate of 4.5% rather than the current 13.5%, given that this would...
    • Tax Avoidance
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he plans to take to stop the use of the Irish taxation system for tax avoidance purposes by companies that source their income from international...
    • European Central Bank
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of activity by the European Central Bank in the Irish bond market over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1504/21]
    • Banking Sector
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he proposes to take to strengthen the banking sector following recent announcements of branch closures nationally; and if he will make a...
    • Customs and Excise
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the charges that apply to the purchase of second-hand cars sourced from the UK as a result of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Insurance Costs
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had in relation to public liability insurance specifically the lack of provision and high premiums; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Banking Sector
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will work with the Central Bank to ensure that lodgement ATMs will be put in place in locations in which a bank (details supplied) has withdrawn its...
    • Credit Register
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance the credit implications of missed mortgage payments due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; and the actions he has taken to mitigate same. [17159/21]
    • Credit Unions
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a situation in relation to a credit union (details suppled) that has continued to refuse to supply a death grant to members...
    • Tax Reliefs
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance the current tax reliefs available for carers; if additional relief may be made available for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17081/21]
    • Financial Services Sector
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his strategy to bolster Ireland's offering as a financial technology destination both in terms of supporting indigenous companies and attracting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plans to assist businesses restart when the current phase of Covid-19 restrictions end. [12984/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the resumption of assessments for primary medical certificates under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department plans proposals for a publicly owned bank. [16747/21]
    • Value Added Tax
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek a revision to the European Union VAT directive in order that tourism activities such as surfing and kayak instruction can be reclassified to...
    • Credit Unions
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to enable credit unions to become involved in financing housing projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17174/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend access to the Covid-19 restrictions support scheme for businesses and persons who do not operate in rateable premises but still face...
    • Interest Rates
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the charging of negative interest rates on accounts used to hold funds for probate or conveyancing proceedings; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the engagement he has had to date in 2021 with an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the question of reinstating the co-ordinated...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the details the scale of the increase in both temporary and permanent spending arising from Covid-19; the impact on the structural deficit as a consequence of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Company Closures
      150. To ask the Taoiseach the number of permanent closures in the retail sector to date in 2021, not inclusive of the pub, restaurant or SME sectors. [16536/21]
    • Departmental Communications
      151. To ask the Taoiseach the dedicated email addresses for members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact his Department and bodies under its aegis as outlined in circular 25/2016. [16013/21]
    • Protected Disclosures
      152. To ask the Taoiseach the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number that were accepted as a protected...
    • Departmental Strategies
      154. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date in the development of a well-being framework for Ireland. [16362/21]
    • Company Closures
      155. To ask the Taoiseach the number of SME permanent closures in 2020 nationally and by county, respectively. [16529/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      160. To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in public procurement contracts in...
    • Irish Sign Language
      161. To ask the Taoiseach the manner in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017. [17435/21]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      162. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the Acts falling under his Department that have been signed into law but have not been commenced. [17453/21]
    • Shared Island Unit
      163. To ask the Taoiseach the terms of reference for the all-island healthcare research study that he stated in the media (details supplied) he had commissioned from the ESRI. [17508/21]
    • Census of Population
      164. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to have optional questions on gender identity and sexuality in the April 2022 Census here in view of the recent census in the UK, which included same. [17518/21]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average wait time for employment permit renewals; and if his attention has been drawn to delays in the system (details supplied)....
    • Future Growth Loan Scheme
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to open the future growth loan scheme to new applicants for long term loans of seven to ten years, given the extended...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if approval will be given for bridal wear shops to be classified as essential retail outlets in accordance with NPHET guidelines,...
    • Public Holidays
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered implementing additional public bank holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16317/21]
    • Foreign Direct Investment (1 comment)
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the due diligence mechanisms that will be put in place to ensure that an Israeli-headquartered entity seeking investment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for small businesses that may not survive if rent arrears are demanded to be paid by landlords post Covid-19;...
    • Departmental Projects
      172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the agreement reached by the Spanish Government to trial a four-day working week under a small...
    • Co-operative Sector
      173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will re-establish the cooperative development unit as a worker co-operative development unit in order to coordinate the...
    • IDA Ireland
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the IDA seeking to establish links with businesses in Israel; if he will take steps to ensure that there is no...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the click and collect service is having a disproportionately negative effect on smaller family run retailers; if...
    • Company Registration
      176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly revenues the Companies Registration Office received in December 2020 and January, February and to date in March 2021 from...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Covid-19 supports and funds paid out per sector in 2020. [16538/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      182. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that have been introduced for small businesses, as in the case of a business (details supplied) that has no choice but to...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial supports available to private coach and bus operators who do not have a premises and do not pay rates to their local...
    • Economic Policy
      185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor; the way they will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pharmaceutical Sector
      188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government has considered working with IDA biopharma industries to set up a vaccine manufacturing plant here for generic or...
    • Retail Sector
      189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if advice will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to developing a pilot town programme for retail development;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered classifying children’s clothing and shoes as essential goods that can be purchased in-store during level...
    • Public Holidays
      191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on making St. Brigid’s Day a public holiday; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16944/21]
    • UN Conventions
      192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role of his Department, if any, in ensuring that the State meets its commitments under the UN International Convention on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the turnover criteria in relation to funding for small business through the small business assistance scheme for...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the companies in Galway city that have benefited from grants from Enterprise Ireland in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to provide the supports available under the Covid-19 business aid scheme for those without commercial rates contributions;...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for new businesses starting up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17101/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will seek a review of the regulations surrounding the sale of children's clothes, in particular children's shoes, which require...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide clarification regarding applications to the small business assistance scheme for Covid; and the way in which a...
    • Irish Sign Language
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the Acts falling under his Department that have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 24 March 2021, the number of breaches to be relayed in relation to the NACE sector in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      202. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are grants available for businesses with a turnover of less than €50,000; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the IDA and Enterprise Ireland can claw back grant aid to companies in instances in which the company has reneged and-or breached...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      204. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a return to click and collect for retail will be explored as opposed to click and deliver; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many SMEs and microenterprises are excluded from the support provided by the small...
    • Retail Sector
      206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the current pressure on retailers will receive a response; and if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      207. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the years...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Climate Change Negotiations
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions he had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with respect to the position being...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if NPWS provides support annually for an organisation (details supplied); and if so, the cost of same in 2020. [16447/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will direct his officials to respond to correspondence (details supplied) from members of the public and include...
    • Energy Efficiency
      212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated total cost of retrofitting and upgrading of 500,000 homes to a B2 rating by 2030 as outlined in the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the broadband connectivity issues at an address will be examined (details supplied); if this address will be...
    • Illegal Dumping
      215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he is taking to address the growing problem of littering and dumping; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of...
    • Post Office Network
      217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the transformation payment agreed between post offices and An Post in 2018 will be extended; and if not, the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged in discussions or commissioned reports in relation to subsidising household broadband services to...
    • Energy Efficiency
      219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the recent changes to the SEAI schemes for private homeowners; and the reason homeowners that availed of secondary...
    • Climate Change Policy
      220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for his view that Ireland should under contribute to the EU Climate Law emissions reduction target for 2030...
    • Post Codes
      221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way a person who wishes to have their address changed or an error corrected that is listed on the Eircode website...
    • Waste Management
      222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the achievements reached as part of the Eastern-Midlands Region Waste Management Plan 2015-2021; when the consultation...
    • Recycling Policy
      223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered a deposit refund scheme for Ireland; if so, the study and research that has been conducted on the...
    • Illegal Dumping
      225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons convicted of illegal dumping in Cork City Council and Cork County Council areas in each of the...
    • Litter Pollution
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fixed penalty notices issued to persons who did not remove dog fouling by county; the counties which did...
    • Waste Tyre Disposal
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to persons having to pay a visible environmental management charge on used tyres which...
    • Just Transition Fund
      230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of the just transition fund that has been allocated to each of the priorities in the provisional offers...
    • Energy Efficiency
      239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the halting of the retrofitting programme in Finglas, Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Sign Language
      240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act...
    • Legislative Measures
      241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and...
    • Illegal Dumping
      242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to reduce illegal dumping in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17499/21]
    • Energy Policy
      243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current EirGrid consultation Shaping our Electricity Future...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the waiting time between application and completion of works for the warmer homes scheme has gone from 18 to...
    • Environmental Policy
      246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has spoken with his EU counterparts on the issue of ecocide; if his attention has been drawn to plans at EU level...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Bus Éireann
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the £73 million used by CIÉ from the Bus Éireann pension in 1994 was paid back; if appropriate interest was paid back...
    • Transport Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being put in place to protect Irish bridlepaths as we develop other walking and cycling paths; and if he will make a...
    • Taxi Regulations
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the ten-year rule for taxi drivers with vehicles registered in 2012 given the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has...
    • Electric Vehicles
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assistance that is available to taxi drivers wishing to replace their vehicle with electric models. [16313/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional supports his Department is considering to assist the aviation industry through Covid-19 restrictions and beyond; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding essential workers (details supplied) who have partially completed their mandatory essential driver training lessons...
    • Coast Guard Service
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Irish Coast Guard will be requested to resume a dedicated specialist cliff rescue resource in the north Dublin and Fingal areas;...
    • Road Safety
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of HGVs inspected by county based on the press release of 3 March 2021 from the RSA; and the number inspected with minor,...
    • Road Projects
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need for a reinstatement of an inbound access from the M20 Limerick southern ring road to...
    • Driver Test
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if motorcycle lessons will be allowed to go ahead at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16378/21]
    • Transport Policy
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of EU funding drawn down for walking infrastructure in each of the years 2017 to 2020; the planned level of EU funding to be...
    • Ports Development
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that will be taken to further develop Rosslare Europort as a centre for direct shipping between Ireland and the continent;...
    • Driver Licences
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a request for an exchange driver licence by a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cycling Policy
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review is being carried out on the NTA National Cycling Manual; if the manual is poverty, gender and age-proofed to ensure maximum...
    • Parking Provision
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the provision of additional flat surface car parking in urban centres given the commitment in the programme for Government...
    • Driver Licences
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a refund for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16502/21]
    • Motor Tax
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of motor tax collected in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [16517/21]
    • Driver Licences
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the extension granted to the expiry dates of some Irish driver licences will be extended to the 12-month grace period on licences from...
    • Transport Policy
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the recently announced Safe Routes to Schools programme will fund a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Coast Guard Service
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the Irish Coast Guard; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in...
    • Greenways Provision
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to fund local authorities on an ongoing basis to ensure that greenways are properly maintained once they are...
    • Consumer Rights
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the queries raised in correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to taking a holiday abroad in 2021;...
    • Driver Licences
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) who has lived in Ireland since the age of four in 1972 and has held an Irish driver licence since 1998,...
    • Military Aircraft
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an aircraft (details supplied) that landed at Shannon Airport was approved to transport weapons or other US military cargo through the...
    • Bus Services
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a bus stop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16753/21]
    • Driver Test
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the initial basic training for motorcyclists will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16803/21]
    • Driver Licences
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available to Irish citizens that need to travel on essential business in cases in which their driver licence is out of date;...
    • Bus Services
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase the capacity for a Dublin Bus route (details supplied) which accommodates County Wicklow and which is...
    • Airport Policy
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new chairperson of Shannon Airport will be appointed. [16897/21]
    • Coast Guard Service
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the resumption of cliff rescue services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16909/21]
    • Greenways Provision
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to provide funding to local authorities to conduct feasibility studies for greenways and develop greenway projects...
    • Driver Test
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a situation in which a person (details supplied) is waiting over nine months for a driver theory test; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the support he is putting in place for the chauffeur sector, which has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the forthcoming legislation on e-scooters includes the requirement to have private insurance and be registered with an appropriate...
    • Rural Transport Programme
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who travelled on all rural link routes in County Cork in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a...
    • National Car Test
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding NCT testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17033/21]
    • Driver Licences
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence can be renewed online in circumstances in which a person with an Irish driver licence is abroad and that licence is due for...
    • School Transport
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the financial stress and threat to livelihood being endured by a cohort of bus and coach operators; his plans to...
    • Driver Test
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if essential workers will be allowed to complete lessons and sit driver tests under public health restrictions (details supplied). [17116/21]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if specific funding will be provided to local authorities to assist farmers in the construction of agricultural underpass crossings on...
    • Aviation Industry
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had the opportunity to meet with representative bodies for cabin crew, ground staff and airline cargo employees as part of the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeframe for the drafting of the proposed primary and secondary legislation to allow local authorities to regulate...
    • National Car Test
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who go for the national car test early receive a certificate from the date the...
    • Driver Licences
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the issuing of PSV licences for taxis; if the issuing of new PSV licences has been delayed due to Covid-19; and if there is...
    • Driver Test
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the FETAC qualification level currently required for driving testers at national driving test centres; the timescale required to reach...
    • Irish Sign Language
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he...
    • Legislative Measures
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make a...
    • Aviation Policy
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with a company (details supplied) and Cork Airport regarding protecting jobs and existing routes from Cork Airport; and...
    • Driver Test
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver theory test services will resume; the reason theory test offices cannot continue to operate at reduced capacity; the number...
    • Commissioners of Irish Lights
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to offer an open tender for the lease or sale of lands on the Loop Head peninsula acquired for the Loran-C project; and if he...
    • Driver Licences
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an exchange driver licence will issue to an essential worker (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which driver theory tests will resume; and the number of applicants who are in the backlog for the theory test and the full...
    • Air Accident Investigations
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for not appointing a technical expert for the second review board regarding the Rescue 116 report in view of the fact that...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the extension of the current 0% benefit-in-kind rate for electric vehicles when the current scheme expires in 2023. [16372/21]
    • Economic Data
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the economy is withstanding the double impact of Brexit since the beginning of 2021; the degree to which specific or unforeseen issues...
    • Tax Code
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter in relation to NOx emissions charges that are being levied on older diesel vehicles (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Insurance Costs
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage at which loading above the premium norm for a prospective borrower with mitigating circumstance, for example illness, becomes exempt from the...
    • EU Funding
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect that the reduction in Ireland's share of the EU recovery fund will have on the public finances. [16543/21]
    • EU Budget Contribution
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance the contribution to the EU in each of the years 2000 to 2020; and the projected contribution for the next five years. [16544/21]
    • Fiscal Policy
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance if austerity measures are being considered by his Department in response to the economic impact of Covid-19. [16545/21]
    • Economic Data
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance the daily cost of the lockdown measures to the economy; and the cost of lockdown measures to the economy in 2020. [16581/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in public procurement...
    • Value Added Tax
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost if the VAT rate on older persons' personal alarms was reduced to 13.5% based upon the number in use in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021....
    • Financial Services Sector
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on financial institutions refusing to offer loans to workers whose employers are availing of Covid-19 supports or payments regardless of whether the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland will take to support the taking forward of the recommendations in the report of the UN High-Level Panel on International Financial...
    • Tax Avoidance
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland will take to support the proposal for an immediate commencement to negotiations of a UN tax convention to raise standards of tax...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland will take to ensure it meets fully the recommendation for public registers of the ultimate beneficial ownership of each type of legal entity...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance if companies that operated the TWSS can seek to demand payments from their workforce if their employees were marginally better off in their net take home pay...
    • Tax Credits
      340. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the stay and spend tax credit initiative beyond April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16894/21]
    • Banking Sector
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the removal of cash desk services at branches of a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17048/21]
    • Local Authority Funding
      342. To ask the Minister for Finance if a copy will be provided of the Ministerial consent signed by the Minister of State at his Department to allow Limerick City and County Council draw down...
    • Insurance Costs
      343. To ask the Minister for Finance the legislative steps planned to tackle the ongoing high cost of insurance, especially motor insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1817/21]
    • Property Tax
      345. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending regulations with regard to the local property tax to allow more flexibility for persons who have been in receipt of Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      346. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend tax warehousing without penalty to the entertainment industry until mass gatherings are permitted again; and if he will make a statement...
    • Banking Sector
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the over-concentration of the Irish banking market; and the measures being taken to counteract this over-concentration. [42096/20]
    • Brexit Issues
      348. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has assessed the likely impact of the EU–UK trade agreement on the public finances in 2021. [1870/21]
    • Tax Data
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which tax receipts in 2020 compared to expectations at the outset of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1857/21]
    • Banking Sector
      353. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce mortgage breaks with the relevant financial institutions due to the high level of social welfare recipients as a result of the new...
    • Tax Reliefs
      354. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs or concessions available to support persons working from home. [1866/21]
    • Fiscal Data
      355. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the public finances; if the forecasts made at the time of the October 2020 budget have been revised; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Issues
      356. To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the impact on the Irish economy of the EU – UK Trade agreement announced on 24 December 2020. [1871/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the guidelines issued on 4 December 2020 for the Covid restrictions support scheme were much more restrictive than those issued on 3 November 2020;...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      358. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated net financial contribution outflows less inflows by the Exchequer to the EU for 2020; the estimated net financial contribution that will be made...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reassess the employment wage subsidy scheme and the level of support provided through the scheme owing to the return to level 5 in the Living...
    • Brexit Issues
      365. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact the shift of Euro-denominated share trading away from London post-Brexit has had on the Irish financial services sector; and if he will make a...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact of the enhanced help-to-buy-scheme introduced as part of the July stimulus package; if he is satisfied that the scheme is achieving...
    • Banking Sector
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with lenders regarding the reactivation of the European Banking Authority guidelines on legislative and non-legislative moratoria on...
    • EU Agreements
      369. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government will support the General Escape Clause in the EU fiscal rules remaining in force beyond 2021 and the fundamental reform of the Stability and...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider legislation to strengthen the consumer protection code; his views on the lack of enforcement action taken by the Central Bank for breaches...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider expanding the eligibility criteria for the Covid-19 restrictions support scheme under the Finance Act 2020 to include suppliers who have...
    • Tax Code
      373. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reviewing the taxation of section 110 companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1853/21]
    • Proposed Legislation
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish the Central Bank (amendment) Bill which will introduce the senior executive accountability regime; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      375. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions and policies he will consider to reduce mortgage interest rates in the Irish market, which remain among the highest in the European Union; and if...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      376. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the rate of vehicle registration tax on cars imported from the UK to offset post-Brexit VAT changes that will apply to...
    • Banking Sector
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with a bank and its parent company (details supplied) and his UK counterpart on the future of the bank in the Irish market; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      378. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is considering plans to include outdoor activity providers with no fixed business premises in the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if...
    • Tax Collection
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax...
    • Value Added Tax
      382. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the operation of the VAT refund scheme for charities; his views on the uptake of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Customs and Excise
      383. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customs officials inspections at airports (details supplied) in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by location; the value of items and-or...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      384. To ask the Minister for Finance the VRT payable on a vehicle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17261/21]
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      387. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the help-to-buy scheme until 30 June 2022 due to the impact of Covid-19 on the availability of new homes; and if he will make a...
    • Community Banking
      388. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to support a community banking system in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17331/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      389. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of debt that has been warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of this debt from microbusinesses; the amount from SMEs; and if...
    • Irish Sign Language
      390. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he will make a statement...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      391. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but not commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17444/21]
    • Value Added Tax
      392. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the VAT rate from 23% to 21% for businesses given that for 13 out of 24 weeks after the reduced rate was introduced in September...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      393. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the employment wage subsidy scheme for the tourism and hospitality sector until March 2022. [17607/21]
    • Value Added Tax
      397. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the 9% VAT rate for tourism and hospitality to the end of 2022. [17617/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      400. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the tax warehousing scheme by one year for the tourism and hospitality industry. [17620/21]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Staff
      404. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if pre-retirement courses containing financial advice will be offered to public service provider employees who retire before 65 years of...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      405. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of negotiations on the EU Brexit adjustment reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16417/21]
    • Project Ireland 2040
      406. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to ensure that all projects funded under Project Ireland 2040 are properly assessed for their full, long-term and...
    • Office of Public Works
      408. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated completion date of the construction works on the Lady Justice arch in Dublin Castle; the percentage of work that has been...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      409. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in...
    • Office of Public Works
      410. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a proposal which was sent to the Office of Public Works by a group (details supplied) has been received; the action being taken on...
    • Public Sector Pay
      411. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered the review of the impact of the financial emergency measures in public interests legislation on retired members of...
    • Departmental Bodies Expenditure
      412. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the bodies under his aegis which are non-commercial State agencies that have an annual budget expenditure of €5 million or...
    • Equality Proofing of Budgets
      418. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to implement equality budgeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16949/21]
    • Remote Working
      419. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is facilitating requests for officials in Departments or persons employed in State agencies to work remotely full-time or...
    • Office of Public Works
      420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will undertake an urgent review of indoor cafeteria space for OPW staff based on the Scattery Island site, County Clare in order...
    • Pension Provisions
      421. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the pension proposals for community employment scheme supervisors which is currently under consideration by his Department; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      423. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level at which he deems it acceptable for staff to return to the office given persons are only due to return to their offices under...
    • Irish Sign Language
      424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      425. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works
      426. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in the transfer of lands at Castlefreke, Rosscarbery, County Cork from Coillte to the OPW which are required...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      428. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the spending for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spending on goods, services and capital works in each of the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Facilities
      429. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding the access to physical activity for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      430. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost of introducing a direct grant for businesses in which food and drink can be consumed on the premises to assist...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      431. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions taken to actively deter short-term holiday lets during level 5 restrictions that have been the subject of social...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      432. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will extend the period for which applications will be accepted for funding under the 2021 live performance support scheme...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      433. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      434. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific financial supports her Department is making available for charter fleet businesses (details supplied); and if she...
    • Sport Ireland
      435. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the arrangements between Sport Ireland and a person (details supplied) in respect of the governance audit of an organisation; if...
    • Tourism Industry
      436. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if advice regarding funding will be provided relating to a matter raised by a person (details supplied). [16870/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      437. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided by her Department or agencies under her remit annually to family resource centres; the primary funding...
    • Departmental Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the night-time economy task force to report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17016/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      439. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17022/21]
    • Arts Policy
      443. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will clarify the position on providing a universal basic income to the arts community; the progress on the work of the arts...
    • Irish Language
      444. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports she plans putting in place to support the Irish language in view of the limited interaction, communication and...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta
      445. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir leis an gCiste Cobhsaíochta a cuireadh ar fáil chun cúnamh a thabhairt do choláistí samhraidh agus...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      446. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nach bhfuil an suíomh gréasáin gaillimh2020.ie ar fáil trí Ghaeilge; cén t-achar...
    • Island Communities
      447. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a cable car; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17400/21]
    • Departmental Communications
      448. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      449. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the Acts falling under her Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      450. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the tourism business continuity scheme will be reopened for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17460/21]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      451. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a sports capital grant application by a club (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged on resuming construction and completion works on private homes after 5 April; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of extending the local authority rates waiver for tourism and hospitality to March 2022. [17609/21]
    • House Purchase Schemes
      455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to introducing measures to incentivise single persons to purchase a house given the...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme
      456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which Cork City Council refuses a transfer pathway to a person (details...
    • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
      460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be another opportunity for Dublin City Council to apply for urban regeneration and development funding given...
    • General Elections
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to extend voting rights for general elections to EU citizens living here as per the Electoral...
    • Irish Water
      462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the failure of Irish Water to honour a WRC agreement on the use of private contractors for the find and first-fix...
    • Defective Building Materials
      463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total allocation of funding for 2021 to address mica block and pyrite in counties Donegal, Mayo and Limerick; the number...
    • House Purchase Schemes
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if clarity will be provided on the inclusion of divorced or legally separated couples as eligible applicants for the proposed...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible for a sole applicant to apply for a Rebuilding Ireland home loan in the case in which a married or other...
    • Census of Population
      466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact the delay in the taking of census 2021 will have on the work of the subsequent boundary commission in advance of...
    • Rights of Way
      467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the deadline of 30 November 2021, for registering rights of way, will be extended given the backlog of applications, and...
    • Allotments Provision
      468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of allotments provided under the Local Government Act 2001 in each of the years 2018 to 2020, by local authority;...
    • Water Services
      469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce legislation to facilitate a referendum to prohibit privatisation of public water services; and if he will...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social...
    • Programme for Government
      471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has allocated funding for the collaborative town centre health check which is in the programme for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if renovation grants are available to restore properties in rural areas. [16688/21]
    • Defective Building Materials
      473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement a scheme such as the defective block scheme specifically to address mica in public and non-residential...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the discrepancy in figures between those given by his Department in the 2020 summary of social housing...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which contracts are awarded for the running of homelessness services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Architectural Heritage
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the reports from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage will be provided for each of the four Dublin local...
    • Local Authority Functions
      478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the benefits he expects to see from the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16831/21]
    • Land Transfers
      481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for a delay in the Land Registry relating to the land transfer for persons (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Planning Issues
      482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the proposed regulations which the planning regulator is planning and which, if implemented, will be viewed as...
    • Departmental Schemes
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants available for private residences to retrofit to enable access for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding available to local authorities to retrofit social housing to enable access for persons with disabilities; and if...
    • Local Authority Staff
      485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the salary scales for all staff at all grades in local authorities from chief executive down in tabular form. [17017/21]
    • Fire Stations
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the planned Dunleer fire project; if a site has been identified; when work will commence; the planned completion...
    • Commercial Rates
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to extending the 2021 commercial rates waiver to credit unions; and if he will make a statement...
    • Inland Waterways
      488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Inland Waterways Ireland has announced that it plans to sell off the site of...
    • Land Development Agency
      492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Land Development Agency development on the Devoy Barracks site, Naas, County Kildare; the number of units...
    • Programme for Government
      493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress in establishing a working group on the legacy of poor building practices as committed to under the programme for...
    • Fire Safety
      494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the schemes in place to assist those with large bills due to fire defects in apartments; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to advance a sewage scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17236/21]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2017 to 2020, respectively....
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with the stakeholders of the Gearagh SAC, County Cork in advancing the site-specific conservation...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a social housing applicant with Dublin City Council has to remove South Dublin County Council as an area of choice...
    • Irish Sign Language
      500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017;...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he...
    • Local Authority Housing
      502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the findings of the European Committee of Social Rights that local authority tenants in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Consular Services
      505. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if his Department will take the necessary steps to have a full...
    • Israeli Settlements
      506. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the proposed plan by the Industrial Development Authority, IDA, to situate a business development consultant in Israel;...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      508. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a PCR test is needed to travel from Ireland to the UK. [16357/21]
    • Passport Applications
      510. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications that were processed in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Foreign Conflicts
      513. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to ensure the safety of Irish citizens currently living in Myanmar; his plans to use Ireland's position on the UN...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      514. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to ensure that the foreign birth registration of a person (details supplied) will proceed as soon as possible; and if...
    • Passport Applications
      515. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the Passport Office has ceased processing passport applications under level 5 restrictions; the reason this service is not...
    • Consular Services
      516. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the health and well-being of three Irish children (details supplied); if the case has been brought to the attention of the...
    • Northern Ireland
      518. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the projected cost to the State of the implementation of the independent commission on information retrieval as committed to by the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      519. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      521. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the nature of diplomatic ties between Ireland and Thailand; and his plans to further develop these links. [16880/21]
    • Ministerial Communications
      522. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his Swedish counterpart since the last EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting [16881/21]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      524. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of pending foreign birth registrations for minor children; the average processing times by applications based on having an Irish...
    • Passport Applications
      526. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current figures for those awaiting passports by county due to the postponement of services; the expected wait times for passports once...
    • EU Sanctions
      527. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the latest sanctions announced by the European Union on China on 22 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Vetting
      530. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Garda clearance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17403/21]
    • Northern Ireland
      531. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the investigation into the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17410/21]
    • Irish Sign Language
      532. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he will...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      533. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make a...
    • Passport Data
      534. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Passport Office will resume full services; the efforts that will be made to reduce the backlog of applications waiting to be...
    • Passport Applications
      536. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17567/21]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      537. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions taken by Ireland on the UN Security Council to progress the holding of an independence referendum in Western Sahara. [17591/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      539. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessments made by the EU on the impact of the ongoing delay on the Suez Canal on the supply of Covid-19 vaccines to the EU. [17594/21]
    • International Bodies
      540. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations by Ireland to join the World Health Organization C-TAP initiative; the practical engagement to date by his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      542. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the years 2018 to...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      543. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personal injury claims that have been taken against the State by Defence Forces personnel for injuries sustained while on military...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      544. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when Defence Forces personnel serving overseas can expect to receive their Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      545. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the projected capital spending from 2022 to 2025 in his Department. [16516/21]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      546. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the technical pay agreement concluded with the Defence Forces in 2019 has not been implemented to date. [16580/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      547. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in public...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      549. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when a revised Defence Forces regulation review 5 for the Reserve Defence Forces will issue, having regard to commitments made in November 2020;...
    • Army Equitation School
      551. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of purchasing nine additional horses for the Army Equitation School. [16884/21]
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      552. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new cadetship competition for the Naval Service will open in quarter 3 of 2021. [16885/21]
    • Irish Sign Language
      553. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he will make...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      554. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      556. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the years 2018 to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Home Schooling
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home school supports were removed from a person (details supplied). [16326/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resources required for an ASD unit to be put in place at a school; the resources that can be provided to the school by the NCSE; the...
    • State Examinations
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of her Department regarding the requirement for teachers to examine students for oral exams without masks being worn; if this...
    • School Enrolments
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide further post-primary schools in addition to increased provision within existing schools for the Dublin 9 and 11 areas given...
    • School Patronage
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure for the divestment of schools under Roman Catholic patronage to new school patronages; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the State Examinations Commission guidelines with regard to the leaving certificate oral examinations which...
    • Special Educational Needs
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current capacity of special schools since they returned at 50% capacity earlier in March 2021; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to re-establish safe school transport for those attending special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the request for the junior cycle exams to take place in special schools for children at risk in June 2021 to allow children...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to officially accredit the first ever national training programme for SNAs in UCD; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction works on refurbishment of a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost of this project. [16519/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the return of outstanding classes in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16528/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the availability of autism spectrum places and classes in the greater Dublin area: the ages catered for and type of place and...
    • School Attendance
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department maintains a record of school online engagement; if school absenteeism is being reported to Tusla; and the steps being taken to...
    • Grant Payments
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for the remote area boarding grant by a person (details supplied). [16552/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the medical basis on which a decision (details supplied) was reached; the length of time considered short-term; the reason a medical condition...
    • Special Educational Needs
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all therapies will resume within special schools for those children who have high educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in public...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a pension review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16633/21]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the potential concerns in quality of education arising from the introduction of the SNA front loading model...
    • Institutes of Technology
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16644/21]
    • School Holidays
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has given consideration to reducing the Easter and summer holidays for schoolchildren given the amount of time they missed due to the...
    • State Examinations
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a mature student who is studying for leaving certificate Irish in a private college (details supplied) will be receiving accredited grades in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she has taken with the Minister for Health and the National Immunisation Advisory Committee to ensure that staff in special education...
    • Broadband Service Charges
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged in discussions or commissioned reports in relation to subsidising household broadband services to tackle educational...
    • School Curriculum
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 10 March 2021, if a full and comprehensive reply will be provided (details supplied); and if she...
    • National Broadband Plan
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeline in respect of an upgrade regarding broadband services at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the students in the five special schools for children at risk in Ireland will be afforded the opportunity to sit their junior certificate...
    • Counselling Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to supply each school with access to an on-call counsellor or psychologist to ensure children and young persons have regular access to...
    • Education and Training Boards
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists employed by the psychological service of the City of Dublin Education and Training Board in each of the years 2018,...
    • Psychological Assessments
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children and young persons on the waiting list to access the psychological service of the City of Dublin Education and Training...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is waiting to be switched to a juniper box; if it will be switched as soon as possible; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided on a forthcoming Departmental circular outlining the steps to be taken in applying for additional SNA allocations...
    • Grant Payments
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the remote area boarding grant will be paid to a pupil (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16899/21]
    • School Admissions
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be facilitated for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16903/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school places for children (details supplied) in County Cork who have additional needs; and if she will address the specific issue....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to allow for face masks to be worn during leaving certificate oral examinations in line with public health...
    • State Examinations
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extremely disadvantaged students in five schools for children at risk will be afforded the opportunity to sit their junior certificate...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to enable Irish Sign Language teachers to receive teaching licences from the Teaching Council; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the different hourly rates payable to individual teachers or supervisors for additional supervision work in circular letter...
    • Special Educational Needs
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students, schools and special schools that availed of July provision in 2020; if the same criteria will be used for the 2021 July...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify a matter regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17025/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the works to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17052/21]
    • Departmental Properties
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of properties owned by her Department or agencies within the remit of her Department in County Mayo; and if she will...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered sites to accommodate a school (details supplied) for the 2021-22 school year; if her Department is working with...
    • Schools Building Projects
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status and details of the development of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available for parents of children with autism for the provision of educational equipment which can be used in the home; if grants are...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the broadband connectivity issues at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17251/21]
    • DEIS Scheme
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of funding support for DEIS schools for summer 2021 will be along the same lines as funding provided in summer 2020; the details...
    • Schools Administration
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 3 March 2021, if she will outline, in map form if possible, the 314 school planning areas as...
    • DEIS Scheme
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be considered for a DEIS band status following a recommendation from a DEIS inspector who...
    • School Accommodation
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if same will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17316/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the HSE will respond to the request by South Dublin County Council for an update on the school inclusion model pilot in Lucan, County Dublin;...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if either of the possible two sites for a school (details supplied) are a greenfield site or a transitional site; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Circulars
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the circular and-or correspondence her Department issued to the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, in respect...
    • School Staff
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the 2004 report Males into Primary Teaching published by the primary teaching committee; the actions that have...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address correspondence regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17397/21]
    • Education Data
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approved intake number for the professional masters of education in each year that data is available; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if she will make...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the Acts falling under her Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if she will make a...
    • National Traveller-Roma Integration Strategy
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the measures taken to complete actions 19 to 21 in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy included continuing professional...
    • Special Educational Needs
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be ensured a place in a special school in Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17495/21]
    • Early School Leavers
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrangements have been made to ensure early school leavers in special schools and areas of disadvantage or otherwise who reach third year in...
    • School Curriculum
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to update relationship and sexuality education in primary and post-primary schools; if she will ensure that reform of the...
    • School Staff
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction the retention of a third teacher in a school (details supplied) in County Clare, given that this school is just two pupils...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that are missing out on an additional salary allowance due to obtaining a pass grade in their primary degree; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the construction of a school (details supplied) will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17562/21]
    • State Examinations
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention been drawn to youth encounter projects seeking to administer junior certificate examinations for a small cohort of students; and...
    • Departmental Records
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department began the process of holding copies of children's school reports as outlined in a programme (details supplied); the rationale...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Staff
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason civil service staff in her Department in non-public facing units are refused the option to work from home or have...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a basic social welfare payment will be awarded notwithstanding the absence of stamp 4 or equivalent in the case of a...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of payments made under supplementary welfare in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021 for special...
    • Illness Benefit
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate a concurrent payment of illness benefit for claimants of the widow’s and widower’s...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if training support grants for essential articulated truck driver training are being approved and allocated under level 5...
    • Maternity Benefit
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maternity supports available for a person (details supplied) who works in academia but who does not qualify for any...
    • Public Services Card
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a public services card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Employment Support Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options that will be available to the current employees of the existing contracted public employment services including...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16508/21]
    • Back to Education Allowance
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the back to education or education welfare payments available for refugee or migrant youth who fail to quality for a SUSI...
    • Departmental Staff
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff by grade engaged in processing applications for both the State pension (contributory) and State pension...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number receiving pandemic unemployment payments per week to date in 2021; and the cost of these payments per week to date...
    • State Pensions
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the fact that persons in receipt of an Irish State pension living abroad are now being subjected to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare workers in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment on a weekly basis from 21 December 2020 to...
    • Disability Allowance
      663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) relating to the disability allowance; and if...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of the case; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer's allowance applications in the past two years received by her Department; the number of applications...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care applications received in the past three years by her Department; the number of applications...
    • Carer's Allowance
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions will be made to ensure the continued payment of carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a personal public service number will be retrieved by the client identity services section in respect of a person (details...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to provide pension provision as per a 2008 Labour Court recommendation for community employment...
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is being subjected to another review of their farm assist in view of the fact that the...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an emergency or exceptional needs payment can issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Family Resource Centres
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided by her Department or agencies under her remit annually to family resource centres; the primary funding...
    • State Pensions
      675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial impact on a person (details supplied) if they continue to work in the public sector after they turn 66 years of...
    • Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an analysis can be conducted on the back to work enterprise allowance scheme (details supplied) to adapt it to suit the...
    • Disability Allowance
      677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent announcement that those on the disability allowance will become eligible for PhD scholarships without the loss...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of expenses claimed by the Secretary and deputy secretary general of her Department between December 2017 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the pandemic unemployment payment and employment wage subsidy scheme for the entertainment sector until...
    • Disability Allowance
      680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and additional arrears issued; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Allowance
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a moratorium will be considered on routine reviews of the carer's allowance until the pandemic is over; and if she will...
    • School Meals Programme
      683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the inclusion of a school (details supplied) in the school meals allowance scheme with immediate effect;...
    • Irish Sign Language
      684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit meet the obligations of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the Acts falling under her Department that have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if she...
    • State Pensions
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a self-employed entitlement to a contributory State pension will be calculated from the date of entry into self-employment...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers participating on the job initiative scheme can remain in employment after reaching 66 years of age; the maximum...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a refund of the cost of a television licence for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount her Department spends on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Parental Leave
      690. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to introduce paid leave for employees who suffer a miscarriage before 24 weeks before which there is...
    • Family Support Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that public consultation, on the development of a national model of parenting...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      692. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the commencement of all sections of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and if he...
    • Voluntary Sector
      693. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a request by an organisation (details supplied) for a once-off bridging grant of €2 million...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      695. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of women’s refuge centres nationwide and on a per capita basis; the amount of funding that has...
    • Youth Services
      696. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he received correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding funding; if so, the steps he has taken...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      697. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support the relocation of at least 400 asylum seekers who are currently on Lesvos Island, Greece, and...
    • Youth Services
      699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to support an organisation (details supplied) during the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions; the form of...
    • Literacy Programmes
      700. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to roll out a reading scheme (details supplied) to other parts of the country. [16722/21]
    • After-School Support Services
      701. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the concern among childcare providers about the after-school programme and...
    • Child Protection
      702. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and Tusla are considering an action plan to address the significant drop in sponsorship...
    • Departmental Programmes
      703. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the systems his Department has in place similar to the Department of Education that track population growth...
    • Childcare Services
      704. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department actively encourages childcare facilities to run the ECCE programme both in the mornings and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      705. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the costs incurred to date by his Department for the commission of the national childminding action plan. [16727/21]
    • Childcare Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childminder learner fund grants that were awarded in 2020; the number of applications his...
    • Disability Support Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address the low employment rate of persons with disabilities; and if he will make a...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which the State is meeting its commitments under the Istanbul Convention, including the provision of...
    • Disability Services Provision
      709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address rates of violence and abuse experienced by persons with disabilities; and if...
    • Disability Support Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which persons with disabilities, including children, and their representative organisations will be...
    • Domestic Violence Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address the absence of targeted interventions with disabled women in the Second...
    • Child Protection
      713. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to expand the deployment of services following the Barnahus model nationally; and if he...
    • Disability Support Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address the low employment rate of persons with disabilities; and if he will make a...
    • Child Safety
      716. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure uniformity regarding the use and quality of parental capacity assessments; and...
    • Parental Leave
      718. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding parental leave from 1 April 2021. [17070/21]
    • International Protection
      719. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proposed role of an association (details supplied) in the setting of settlement patterns for asylum seekers...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      726. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the provisions being made by his Department to ensure that children born in January of a particular year can...
    • National Childcare Scheme
      727. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure all childcare providers will sign up to the national childcare scheme; if his attention has...
    • Parental Leave
      729. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to introduce entitlement to leave for parents who welcome a child via surrogacy; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be provided to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      731. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      732. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been...
    • Disability Services Provision
      733. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way a gender perspective is being included in the Disability Participation and Consultation Network; and if...
    • Equality Issues
      735. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department is taking to implement the LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020; and if he will...
    • Child Protection
      737. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date by which the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection will make recommendations to Government following...
    • Departmental Funding
      738. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider the request by an organisation (details supplied) for additional funding to support young...
    • Child and Family Agency
      739. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers that have left Tusla since the beginning of 2021. [17581/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Teaching Qualifications
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students studying a professional masters of education in each year that data is available; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Erasmus+ Programme
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that third-level students will have access to the Erasmus+ programme in the academic year 2021-2022 despite...
    • Straitéisí Ranna
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach bhfuil tagairt, sprioc nó beartas ar bith don Ghaeilge i Ráiteas Straitéise nó i bPlean...
    • Student Support Schemes
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to migrant or refugee youth that are less than three years in Ireland but are availing of third-level education...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in public...
    • Third Level Reform
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the National Access Plan Review for third-level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16609/21]
    • Higher Education Institutions
      747. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Mature Student Participation in Higher Education Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16610/21]
    • Education and Training Boards
      748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ETB will consider a request for forklift training (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16626/21]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be informed of their commencement date for level 4/7 of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland
      750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the remaining sections of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019 will be commenced, in...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in order to make apprenticeships more attractive to industry and prospective apprentices themselves, he will consider amending the operation...
    • Disability Support Services
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address rates of violence and sexual assault experienced by students with disabilities; and if he will make a statement...
    • Student Support Schemes
      754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants to SUSI that sought a waiver of the progression criteria; the number granted a waiver in each year since 2016, in...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17041/21]
    • Departmental Properties
      756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of properties owned by his Department or agencies within the remit of his Department in County Mayo; and if he will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a facility (details supplied); if his Department was informed of the plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17106/21]
    • Student Support Schemes
      758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to assist those on lower incomes in accessing level 9 college courses; if his attention has been drawn to the need to...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with the English language school sector; the supports he has secured for the sector which has been impacted by the...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process and requirements a place of education and training must undergo to be allowed open during level 5 restrictions in order to commence...
    • Mental Health Services
      761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional mental health supports being provided for students in light of the Covid-19 restrictions; if he is monitoring the way these...
    • Science Foundation Ireland
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for SFI funded PhDs in the past five years; the number of awards that were granted; the trends for both the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SOLAS has changed the policy for apprentice electricians who are now required to resit their course for a further period until the end...
    • Departmental Communications
      764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he will make...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make a statement...
    • Research Funding
      766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) for an all-island initiative to promote humanities research on the island;...
    • Brexit Issues
      768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the post-Brexit treatment of Irish students attending UK universities in terms of funding and State support; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Third Level Fees
      769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1127 of 24 March 2021, if he will consider waiving the student contribution fees for the small number of...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Child Safety
      770. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the banning of loot boxes in a video game (details supplied) in Belgium, Holland and...
    • Deportation Orders
      771. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made for persons (details supplied) to remain here along with their family; when their deportation...
    • Work Permits
      772. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure regarding the issuing of an employment permit to atypical workers in the fishing industry; if such persons must...
    • Asylum Seekers
      773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to grant asylum to persons located in migrant camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos; the number of...
    • Visa Applications
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the extension of visas for persons currently residing here whose visas are due to expire but...
    • Residency Permits
      775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status and eligibility for naturalisation in the case...
    • Garda Vetting
      776. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average timeline for Garda vetting applications to be processed. [16374/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      777. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of fines by type or grounds issued in 2020 under the Health (Preservation and Protection and other...
    • Immigration Policy
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to further extend all immigration permissions beyond 20 April 2021 in view of the ongoing level 5 restrictions, the...
    • Crime Data
      780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons charged with knife crimes in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16402/21]
    • Crime Prevention
      783. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding that was given for knife prevention schemes by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if...
    • Crime Data
      784. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knives that have been seized by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if she will...
    • Garda Data
      785. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knife related injuries that were sustained by members of An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      786. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to reducing the fees for citizenship applications given Ireland currently has the second most...
    • Dissident Republican Activity
      787. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions tied to dissident paramilitary activity that have been processed in each of the years 2015 to 2020;...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      791. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal injury claims that have been taken by prison staff against the Irish Prison Service for injuries...
    • Judicial Appointments
      793. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her office has received a request from the President of the High Court for provision to be made for the appointment of...
    • Crime Data
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for dangerous driving in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form....
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of establishing 15 new Garda youth diversion projects; and the estimated full year cost of running these...
    • Crime Data
      796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports and convictions for sexual assault or rape there have been in each year since 2015; and the average,...
    • Immigration Policy
      797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria that will apply for the end to the suspension of the visit a family and friend class C visa and the de facto...
    • Court Judgments
      798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action her Department will take to address the issue of non-engagement by under sheriffs' offices in regard to Circuit...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      799. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social...
    • Courts Service
      800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the delays in the Circuit Court for civil cases (details supplied); the measures planned in...
    • Residency Permits
      801. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for permanent residency by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Data
      802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were naturalised in 2020; the number awaiting a ceremony; the steps being taken to ensure there is no...
    • Crime Data
      803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sexual assault and rape cases tried in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the number of convictions achieved; the...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if each Dublin local authority is permitted to host and facilitate future citizenship ceremonies in conjunction with her...
    • Asylum Seekers
      806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Dublin Convention provisions between Ireland and the United Kingdom will continue to exist in view of the revised rules...
    • Garda Strength
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Wicklow divisional drugs unit as of 1 January 2020 and 23 March 2021, in...
    • Garda Equipment
      808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans allocated to each Garda division in 2020; the number of Garda cars and vans withdrawn...
    • Garda Strength
      809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Gardaí by rank attached to the R District as of 19 March 2019, 19 March 2020 and 19 March 2021 in...
    • Garda Equipment
      810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda roads policing unit motorcycles that came into the fleet in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of...
    • Crime Data
      812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with money laundering offences in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if...
    • Garda Training
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for training and development in An Garda Síochána in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Garda Strength
      815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda water unit as of 22 March 2021. [16876/21]
    • Garda Equipment
      817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda vehicles allocated to Tipperary Garda division in 2020; and the number of Garda vehicles withdrawn from...
    • Disabilities Data
      818. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to address rates of violence and abuse experienced by persons with disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      819. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise status in the case of a person (details supplied); if recent updates regarding work...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries...
    • International Protection
      821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative reforms required in order to decrease case processing times within the international protection system; and if...
    • Voluntary Repatriation Schemes
      823. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons an organisation (details supplied) has facilitated in repatriating from the State in each of the years...
    • Immigration Controls
      824. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Border management unit inspections and site visits to airports (details supplied) in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date...
    • Crime Data
      825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes (details supplied) that have been recorded during the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Family Law Cases
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if family law court cases will be allowed to proceed even online, given these cases are often concerning the welfare of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 21 January 2021, if a person (details supplied) is one of the up to 4,000...
    • Garda Stations
      829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an assessment will be carried out on the need for the provision of a new Garda station in Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if she...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet with persons (details supplied) to discuss the case of a person; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      831. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the independent specialist in-depth research study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews will be published; and if...
    • Departmental Communications
      832. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017;...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the Acts falling under her Department which have been signed into law but not commenced; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Recruitment
      835. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if changes will be made to the current age limit to enter An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Victim Support Services
      836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the mapping exercise which aims to identify the nature, spread and level of services that may be encompassed by...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 3 March 2021, if she will provide a reply. [17542/21]
    • Stardust Fire
      838. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when legal aid regulations will be introduced to facilitate the commencement of the Stardust inquiry; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the spend for her Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been infected with Covid-19 by month from March 2020 to 22 March 2021, in tabular form. [16448/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has explored entering into a vaccine development and production deal with Israel, similar to Denmark and Austria. [16556/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      843. To ask the Minister for Health if kitchen staff in restaurants and takeaways are required to wear face masks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16946/21]
    • Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 vaccine compensation scheme as announced in Dáil Éireann on 15 December 2020. [17294/21]
    • Medical Cards
      845. 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;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if clarification will be provided on a matter regarding essential travel and quarantine for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the position on advancing legislation and policy on assisted human reproduction health matters; the estimated legislative timeline; and if he will make a...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      850. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the protocol for cervical screening under the CervicalCheck programme, with particular emphasis on the protocol for detecting abnormal...
    • Vaccination Programme
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the vaccination hub in Athlone, County Westmeath is starting at the end of March 2021 but not happening in Mullingar, County Westmeath until...
    • Mental Health Services
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the six private providers that the HSE has engaged with to provide mental health services using surge capacity in private hospitals, in relation to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      854. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that vaccine clinics in Cork City Hall and Melbourne Road, Cork were closed on 20 and 21 March 2021, the opening...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      857. To ask the Minister for Health if he has taken steps to work with his counterpart and others in the Netherlands to facilitate the inclusion of the products of a company (details supplied) in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive a wheelchair as soon as possible as a matter of priority due to their age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      859. To ask the Minister for Health if staff will not be redeployed into other services under the progressing disability services programme in a facility (details supplied). [16315/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      860. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is actively identifying potential sites in Drogheda for a second Covid-19 vaccination centre in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Functions
      861. To ask the Minister for Health if administration, budgetary responsibilities or functions will be or have been transferred from him to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability,...
    • Health Services
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances surrounding the relocation of the children's eye clinic from Portlaoise to Athlone; if comprehensive details will be provided on when this...
    • Home Help Service
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get an increase in home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16338/21]
    • Hospital Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the improvements that have been made or are planned to make to the ICU capacity in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16345/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      866. To ask the Minister for Health if financial help in the form of grant assistance or waivers will be available to Irish persons of limited means who need to return home from working or living...
    • Health Promotion
      867. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a report following the implementation of the Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016-2021; when he expects this report to be published; his plans for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      868. To ask the Minister for Health if persons suffering from long Covid will be considered for priority vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16352/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      869. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement process for the drug luxturna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16353/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the difference between a PCR test and a regular Covid-19 test. [16356/21]
    • Maternity Services
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if the policy of not allowing partners of pregnant women attend scans will be reviewed given that staff are vaccinated. [16359/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the expected date therapy services will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16365/21]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of minimum unit pricing for alcohol; and the updated timeline for same. [16368/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      874. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a mobility scooter. [16379/21]
    • Primary Care Services
      875. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a delay with the release of funding to the Cherry Orchard primary care centre in order that it can provide much needed mobility scooters. [16380/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      876. To ask the Minister for Health when the primary school vaccination programme of the 4:1 booster and MMR for children in junior infants will be recommencing in County Wicklow; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open a further general practitioner practice in an area (details supplied) given that the population is increasing and a large retirement home...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for a calcium check appointment at University Hospital Limerick for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Service Level Agreements
      879. To ask the Minister for Health the service level agreements which the HSE is currently party to by organisation type, that is, private provider, section 39 organisation and so on; the annual...
    • Vaccination Programme
      880. To ask the Minister for Health the agreements made to deliver mass vaccination centres; the details of the cost, timeframe of agreement and options and conditions for extensions for each in...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development the rapid antigen testing system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16394/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied) and the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. [16397/21]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      883. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an issue (details supplied) regarding the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16398/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      884. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 centres that have commenced mass vaccinations in tabular form; and the date they commenced. [16401/21]
    • Hospital Data
      885. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were treated for knife-related injuries in Irish hospitals in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      886. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a vaccine. [16421/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly qualified doctors at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda as a result of intern posts created in April 2020 which were designed to...
    • Health Services Provision
      888. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in respect of the five-year delay for orthodontic treatment in Cork city and county; if some of the work will be transferred out to...
    • Hospital Staff
      891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical intern posts at Wexford General Hospital presently up to July 2021; the number of intern posts which will be in effect at the hospital...
    • Disease Management (1 comment)
      892. To ask the Minister for Health the steps actively being taken to provide a much improved testing system for Lyme disease here to ensure early diagnosis of the debilitating disease and to...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      893. To ask the Minister for Health if a mechanism will be investigated that would allow for free parking in public hospitals and healthcare facilities for patients with specified diagnosed...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a competition (details supplied) which was due to go out to public tender in 2017; the progress in relation to the tender; when it will be...
    • Health Services Provision
      897. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of services and staff for diabetic children at Mullingar hospital; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the...
    • Medical Negligence Cases
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in legal costs to each of the top ten legal firms representing plaintiffs in medical negligence cases in 2020; the number of cases that...
    • State Claims Agency
      900. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims ongoing by the State Claims Agency in relating to late diagnosis and missed diagnosis relating to failings in the CervicalCheck screening...
    • Vaccination Programme
      901. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the provision of the Covid-19 vaccine for carers; and if he will...
    • Hospital Data
      902. To ask the Minister for Health if a list will be provided of all inpatient and outpatient treatments and medical procedures for which there are waiting lists at Nenagh hospital; the number...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      903. To ask the Minister for Health if elite athletes traveling abroad to compete fall within the grouping of essential international travel under the proposed Covid-19 restrictions; if not, if...
    • Maternity Services
      905. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his plans to implement a report issued by an organisation (details supplied) in October 2011 with a series of recommendations on vaginal birth...
    • Vaccination Programme
      908. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a Covid-19 vaccine. [16500/21]
    • Hospital Charges
      910. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the short-stay charges regime at St. Camilus' Hospital, Limerick in order that medical card holders are no longer charged a weekly rate of...
    • Hospital Services
      911. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning that led to the termination of the gender identity adolescent service in Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin; and if he will make a...
    • Gender Equality
      913. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation and the progress made to improve access to healthcare under the LGBTI+ national youth strategy, the national LGBTI+ inclusion...
    • Hospital Staff
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who applied for the shorter working year scheme at Cork University Hospital; and the number of applications that were granted. [16561/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      915. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions will be made to prioritise staff in special schools for the Covid-19 vaccination given that administration staff in non-front-line or contact...
    • Health Promotion
      918. To ask the Minister for Health the current public health information campaigns available on accessing mental health support. [16569/21]
    • Ministerial Communications
      922. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the interaction he has had with a company (details supplied); and the reason it rejected State support to move production facilities to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      923. To ask the Minister for Health the current percentage of Covid-19 vaccines (details supplied) that have been administered versus the number in supply. [16585/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      924. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses in public procurement...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish citizens who availed of the EU cross-border directive in the past four years; and the breakdown by year of the number of Irish patients who...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      928. To ask the Minister for Health the reason diabetes care such as continuous glucose monitoring sensors are covered under the long-term illness scheme given that flash glucose meters are more...
    • Patient Safety
      930. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he has made to introduce a safer method of monitoring diabetes patients who are an at-risk category during the Covid-19 pandemic. [16614/21]
    • Health Services Provision
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently provided from the new health centre in Athy; the services that will be provided; the estimate of the time involved in setting up new...
    • Medical Cards
      932. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the return dates for documentation for medical cards, applications and appeals, where necessary given that many applications are...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      933. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given a date for surgery. [16630/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      934. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be given a date for further tests. [16631/21]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the status of neuro-rehabilitation services; the amount that has been allocated for neurological rehabilitation compared with the actual amount spent in this...
    • Vaccination Programme
      937. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to purchase vaccinations beyond what is being provided through EU; and if the Government is working to aid developing countries in their...
    • Maternity Services
      939. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the HSE Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016-2021; if plans are in place for a new breastfeeding action plan; and if he will make...
    • Cancer Services
      940. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting lists for cancer screening and cancer treatment on a national basis and by county. [16646/21]
    • Abortion Services
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions that have taken place beyond 12 weeks and in the third trimester, respectively, since the introduction of termination services. [16647/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      943. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which nursing homes were fully vaccinated. [16649/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      944. To ask the Minister for Health the number of missed general practitioner appointments in 2020 and to date in 2021. [16650/21]
    • Cancer Services
      945. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cancer treatment services will not resume in full until the end of 2021. [16651/21]
    • Hospital Car Parks
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the total receipts for hospital car parking charges in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, nationally, by county and by hospital. [16653/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      948. To ask the Minister for Health if the notification rate is a factor in the decision around which countries to include on the high-risk category 2 countries for inclusion on the quarantine...
    • Hospital Staff
      951. To ask the Minister for Health when a third paediatric rheumatologist is due to start work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16657/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      952. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16658/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      953. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant consultant posts that exist at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Louth County Hospital; and his plans to fill these vacancies....
    • Ambulance Service
      954. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance wait across County Kerry in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [16664/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      955. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical graduates from medical schools; the number of such graduates who commenced an internship here; and the number of those graduates who...
    • Hospital Facilities
      956. To ask the Minister for Health if all theatres at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 are opened on a full-time basis. [16666/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      957. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts in the bariatric care team at University Hospital Galway that are currently vacant; and when these posts will be filled. [16667/21]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      958. To ask the Minister for Health the capital expenditure spend to date in 2021 on the second cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; and the expected full-year...
    • Dental Services
      959. To ask the Minister for Health the dental services available at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; and the number of staff employed in dental services. [16669/21]
    • Hospital Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Health the cardiology services available at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway. [16670/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      961. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time paediatric endocrinologists at Cork University Hospital; and if this number will be further increased. [16671/21]
    • Undefined
      962. To ask the Minister for Health the terms of agreements made with a group (details supplied) and any other agreements made under the provisions of the Health (Amendment) Act 2021; the cost of...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      963. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will bring in staff on a contract basis with regard to the major issue of the lack of a speech and language therapist in the midland region...
    • General Practitioner Services
      964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who retired by county in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [16680/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      968. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be administered a vaccine. [16684/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      969. To ask the Minister for Health the reason prescriptions are again required to be collected weekly, after being changed to monthly collections at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. [16689/21]
    • Abortion Services
      970. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to urgently ensure that all those facing diagnoses of fatal foetal abnormality will not have to travel to access a termination of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      971. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the companies that have been awarded contracts to manage detention centres related to mandatory Covid-19 quarantine; the cost of these contracts...
    • Vaccination Programme
      975. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered prioritising the vaccination for home school community liaison scheme co-ordinators given that they are working on the frontline. [16702/21]
    • Ophthalmology Services
      976. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an eye clinic (details supplied) in County Laois; the arrangement in place for persons who attend this clinic; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      977. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urge NIAC to reconsider the decision to omit cardiac patients from the very high-risk group in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule in view of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      978. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to lift restrictions to allow Easter ceremonies to take place with limited congregations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16713/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      979. To ask the Minister for Health the reason fully trained staff who have been distributing Covid-19 vaccines in care home settings must retake courses on vaccine administration in order to...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      982. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE addiction treatment centre on the Donore Road, Drogheda, County Louth; if the centre is now operational again following its designation...
    • Vaccination Programme
      983. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) is due to receive an appointment for the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16732/21]
    • Autism Support Services
      984. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to remedy the lack of service provision for adults with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16733/21]
    • Diabetes Strategy
      985. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve the prevention and treatment of diabetes, in particular for the lower income area; if his Department has carried out studies...
    • Vaccination Programme
      986. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET, NIAC and the HSE have taken into consideration the distinct experiences of minority groups, including ethnic minority groups, in relation to health...
    • Dental Services
      987. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dental practices in County Galway that provide services to medical card holders under the dental treatment services scheme; and if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      988. To ask the Minister for Health when freelance Irish sign language interpreters (details supplied) can receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16750/21]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      989. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment (details supplied) will be completed; the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16754/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      990. To ask the Minister for Health if members of An Garda Síochána will be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16756/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Sláintecare workstream 1 in relation to providing co-ordinated care, in the right place and at the right time, with a specific emphasis on...
    • Health Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take measures to ensure that all adults have access to a multidisciplinary team in the treatment of spina bifida and hydrocephalus; if he will...
    • Disability Support Services
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department plans to meet the needs of persons with spina bifida and hydrocephalus in order that they can live independently with access to...
    • Mental Health Services
      997. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide mental health services with a specific focus on understanding that hydrocephalus is akin to acquired brain injury and needs special support;...
    • Disability Support Services
      998. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the disability services for children and young persons in relation to children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus on accessing health services...
    • Paediatric Services
      999. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national model of care for paediatric services in relation to transitioning plans for adolescents with spina bifida and hydrocephalus; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to tackle the current waiting list of children awaiting surgery for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16771/21]
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to fill the vacant paediatric pain consultant post at Children’s Health Ireland; and the waiting time for referrals to the service. [16774/21]
    • Health Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16776/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health the reason vaccinators must register with third party agencies to work in vaccine hubs given they are already employed by the HSE; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the delays in access to mental health services for children and young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16786/21]
    • Occupational Therapy
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent occupational therapists per 100 persons that is recommended by the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent occupational...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists per 100 persons that is recommended by the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent speech...
    • Mental Health Services
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent psychotherapists per 100 persons that is recommended by the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent psychotherapists per...
    • Paediatric Services
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent paediatricians per 100 persons that is recommended by the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent paediatricians per 100...
    • Health Services Staff
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent dietitians per 100 persons that is recommended by the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent dietitians per 100 persons...
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent social workers per 100 persons that is recommended by the HSE; the number of whole-time equivalent social workers per 100...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in each CHO for a child to receive an assessment of need in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding Covid-19 vaccination at home for persons who are housebound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16798/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health the status of pay restoration for section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16812/21]
    • HSE Staff
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) concerning a recruitment matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16836/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health when Covid-19 walk-in PCR testing and rapid antigen testing will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16838/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16873/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing positions vacant in the South/South West Hospital Group as of 22 March 2021, in tabular form. [16882/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time contact tracers, respectively currently working within the Covid-19 test and trace system; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria the HSE used when distributing vaccines to general practitioner clinics to decide which clinics received the vaccine first; and if it was...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health if an exception will be made to the criteria regarding the treatment abroad scheme for a person (details supplied). [16913/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16914/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the support being offered to parents of infants and young children with Down's syndrome born during the Covid-19 pandemic who have not been able to access the...
    • Nursing Education
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the training given to public health nurses to support the parents of infants and young children with Down's syndrome born during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if...
    • Disability Support Services
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the barriers that women with disabilities experience in accessing health screening services resulting in lower uptake of...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide accessible information across all stages of reproductive decision making; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sign Language and Deaf Services
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure Irish sign language interpretation services are available to all general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Support Services
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health the training offered to health professionals regarding the support needs of disabled persons accessing reproductive services; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services Data
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which data is collected and examined regarding the provision of reproductive services to disabled persons including abortion services; and if he...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that hoists are available in all BreastCheck facilities for persons who need to have an alternative wheelchair to their own...
    • Disability Services Data
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms in place to collect and examine data regarding rates of access to healthcare services by persons with disabilities; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with psychiatric conditions who are accommodated in congregated settings by gender in each HSE region in each of the years 2015 to 2020;...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure disabled persons' voices and experiences are being incorporated into the assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will...
    • Transport Support Scheme
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on introducing a transport support scheme to replace the removal of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; and if he will make a...
    • Data Protection
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the data breach involving those registered for vaccination; the extent of the breach; the means by which persons impacted have been informed;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided by his Department or agencies under his remit annually to family resource centres; the primary funding streams in each of the...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the family resource centres in County Cork which receive funding from agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Staff
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the longest wait times experienced by HSE mental health service staff members in CHO4 to have stage 1 and stage 2 grievance hearings arranged in each of the...
    • Occupational Therapy
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the waiting lists for occupational therapists given 11,023 children, including 1,727 in the Cork and Kerry regions, have...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the testing centre for Covid-19 on South Douglas Road, Cork city. [17009/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken a study to investigate the impact of Covid-19 and lockdowns on the provision of mental health services. [17012/21]
    • Cancer Services
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments for cancer screening, diagnostics, treatments or routine and follow-up appointments that have been cancelled or postponed since...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be administered a vaccine. [17015/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a public inquiry into the outbreak of Covid-19 in nursing homes and the help and assistance that was provided to them during the first...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 848 of 24 February 2021, the breakdown of the approximate non-vaccination rates within each of the priority groups 1 to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intern doctor positions by acute hospital group in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and the projected number for 2021, in tabular form. [17036/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an urgent appointment at the gastro clinic at Ennis Hospital following several...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be afforded speech and language therapy. [17040/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the considerable delay in responses to registration applications on the front-line healthcare workers portal (details...
    • Medical Cards
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a discretionary medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17056/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the temporary accommodation scheme for healthcare workers; if the scheme remains open and available for use by healthcare workers, including...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available for couples going through IVF; the improvements that are planned in terms of financial support for same; and if he will make...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a primary medical certificate application for a person (details supplied) will be assessed; when a certificate will be issued; and if he...
    • Health Services Provision
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given instructions to the HSE with regard to plans for the future of the site of the former Crooksling Health Centre, Brittas, County Dublin; the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health if all general practitioner practices in County Mayo have received their supply of Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17112/21]
    • Departmental Contracts
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health when the lease on a hotel (details supplied) expires; and when the terms of the lease are to be reviewed. [17113/21]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health if certain drugs can be paid for at source, either under the compassionate access programme or under an individual licensing system; if medicinal cannabis...
    • Abortion Services
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health if in the context of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, service users will include persons who sought to access a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health his definition of key worker in the context of the vaccination roll-out plan; the person or body that is included within same; the process of arriving at that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for infertility services at secondary level to have been developed across the country and the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2019 commenced;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the waiting list for over 3,000 gynaecological appointments in Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who is categorised as very high risk with respect to Covid-19 has not received a Covid-19 vaccination....
    • Health Services Staff
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no dietitian currently employed in the Maynooth community care unit; if there are plans to employ a dietitian in this location; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health if a schedule will be provided of outbound and inbound international flights in respect of airports not listed on the passenger locator form field (details...
    • HSE Reports
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of a HSE report will be made available (details supplied). [17266/21]
    • Palliative Care Services
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health if a project team has been appointed to oversee the introduction of two new palliative care units in the CHO8 region; if so, the person or body on the group;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each of the vaccination categories for cohorts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9; and the number of persons that are in the 70 to 74 years and 75...
    • Mental Health Services
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds in hospitals nationally for persons suffering an acute episode of mental illness (details supplied); his plans to increase the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1659 and 1662 of 24 March 2021, if he will answer the substantial part of the question which remains unanswered; if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include sativex CBD oil used for the treatment of MS pain and fatigue in the HSE reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health when the GMHS based at the Meath primary care centre will fully resume; his plans for expanding this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Blood Transfusion Service
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to resume the blood donation for gay and bisexual men who have sex with men; if the 12 months deferral period will be changed to an individual...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an eye clinic available in Portlaoise, County Laois; and if so, the location of the service. [17306/21]
    • Hospital Services
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the type of health services being delivered at St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; his plans for the future development of the facility;...
    • Ophthalmology Services
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a paediatric eye clinic in Portlaoise at the moment; and if so, the location it is operating from. [17311/21]
    • Hospital Charges
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the cost the HSE pays for debt collection services for non or late payments of hospital fees; the amount of debt collected in each of the years 2017 to 2020...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to deal with the backlog of primary medical certificates due to application progression only recommencing recently due to recent High...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the over 70 age group in one part of County Donegal is being vaccinated before the over 80 age group in another area of the county has been...
    • Health Services Staff
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health when a dietician will be appointed to the Maynooth community care unit which currently does not have a dietician on either a part-time or full-time basis; and...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health when a primary medical certificate application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health if homecare will be provided at weekends for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17326/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the community care unit in Maynooth, County Kildare is without a full-time or part-time dietician (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to provide Covid-19 vaccines for all attendees and staff at a facility (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the mental health crisis house in Clonmel, County Tipperary, which was due to go to tender in quarter 1 of 2021; when the tender process is...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for colonoscopies in all public hospitals; the length of time waiting in each hospital; if a record is being kept or will be...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to allow persons who have a history of thrombus a choice in which Covid-19 vaccine they are offered. [17336/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports or other supports available for cancer survivors to avail of IVF treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17345/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health if the ready, steady, grow programme will be reinstated in Ballymun, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17347/21]
    • Health Services Access
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his plans to reduce the waiting lists for occupational therapy and physiotherapy in County Clare for all age groups; and if he will make...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a case where a person who received text notice to attend for vaccine at Beaumont Hospital was told after attending that the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health if a person is allowed to visit a second home or a mobile home that is located within the allowable travel distance. [17366/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for the Covid-19 vaccine given their underlying health conditions and the fact that they have to travel on...
    • Medicinal Products
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials are monitoring the average time taken for new medicines to become available here compared to other EU countries; if the current...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which persons not attending hospital regularly in the very high risk group 4 cohort will be contacted; the location in which they will receive...
    • Mental Health Services
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the psychology staffing figures by grade staff, senior and principal across each CHO4 specialist adult mental health team; the population served by each team;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently consider a revision to the listing of professions involved in international travel that are exempted from mandatory hotel quarantining...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department's work regarding the use of surrogacy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17383/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge the stress, anxiety and uncertainty that pregnant women and their partners continue to experience as a result of public health...
    • Hospital Groups
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health the process that was undertaken in order to reach the agreement in regard to the RCSI taking over operational management of Dealgan House nursing home in...
    • Home Care Packages
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed directly from within the HSE in home care services nationally in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by CHO area...
    • Hospital Services
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health the number of qualified surgeons with the competency to perform full and safe removal of mesh implants; the hospitals they are attached to; the types of mesh...
    • Freedom of Information
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a freedom of information request (details supplied); if the HSE will provide clarity to the family that the files will be provided; the...
    • Maternity Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the efforts undertaken by his Department to date to provide breast milk banks in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17399/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek public health guidance from NPHET regarding the possibility of holding outdoor religious ceremonies for faith communities to allow for social...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health when a surgery (details supplied) is expected to receive a vaccine delivery; the reason for the delay; when this surgery will start vaccination of people over...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a dossier of children with autism was permitted having regard to data protection considerations; if the Data Protection Commissioner was...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections by month from March 2020 to February 2021, by hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the legislation for the fair deal scheme relating to the cap on farmland and business and if the current charge can be reduced.; and if...
    • Irish Sign Language
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if he will make a statement...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to vaccinating all special education staff promptly to ensure the safety of staff and pupils (details supplied). [17457/21]
    • Maternity Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health if changes will be made to allow for partners to be present during childbirth and maternity appointments. [17461/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants for test and trace positions currently on a panel; the status of same on the panels in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the works to accommodate the new MRI scanner in Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17467/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a review of current maternity restrictions; if consideration has been given to easing maternity restrictions as Ireland moves out of the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17474/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 11 March 2021, the status of the staffing composition proposed for each of the mass vaccination centres; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health if priority will be given to maternity services when exiting the current level 5 Covid-19 restrictions in order that essential supports for pregnant woman are...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the over-55 age group being placed in group 12 on the Covid-19 vaccine schedule due to their risk of having underlying health conditions;...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to his Department’s role in the building of dossiers on children with autism who were involved in legal actions...
    • Departmental Reports
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of recommendations in the report of the independent review group examining the role of voluntary organisations relating to...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health if a family (details supplied) in County Kildare can receive any information that his Department may hold on their child; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to provide sexual health and well-being centres outside of Dublin for members of the LGBTQ+ community; the steps his Department is taking to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that carried out the independent review into the whistleblower allegations made by a person (details supplied). [17520/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice received from a senior counsel on the practice of obtaining information from treating clinicians of children for the purpose of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health when the front-line staff at a charity (details supplied) will be offered the Covid-19 vaccine in view of the fact the staff in the Wexford town and Gorey...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to pregnant women and their partners will be reviewed; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health the total and average number of agency staff employed in each hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [17535/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the parents of children with underlying health conditions who are at a high risk of disease or death due to Covid-19 in cohort 4...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on measures his Department and the HSE have taken to investigate the factors behind the number of deaths due to Covid-19 in HSE run nursing...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be seen by the early intervention team; the reason for the long delay; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in cohort 4 of the vaccine strategy are receiving a vaccine (details supplied) in view of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting time for a child referred to the early intervention team in Fingal is 45 months; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be assigned to oncology screening services within the HSE to clear the backlog of referrals Covid-19 has created; and if he will...
    • Physiotherapy Services
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment to attend for physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical assessment for a primary medical certificate will take place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of no-shows that have occurred for Covid-19 vaccine appointments due to logistical errors such as double bookings; and if he will make a statement...
    • Maternity Services
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols for birth partners in respect of attending all stages of pregnancy including check-up appointments; and his plans to allow partners to attend...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and arrange for them to be given a Covid-19 vaccination as a matter of urgency. [17577/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider putting a walk-in test centre in the Finglas-Ballymun and the Artane-Whitehall local electoral areas. [17583/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health when category 10 in the vaccine allocation groups will be defined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17584/21]
    • Maternity Services
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that pregnant women can be joined by their partners during prenatal scans and childbirth; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated impact of the ongoing delay on the Suez Canal on the supply of Covid-19 vaccines to Ireland. [17593/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate application by a person (details supplied). [17606/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing the tourism and hospitality sector with key indicators and conditions that will need to be met in order for them to reopen their...
    • Health Services
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to ensure that all adults have access to a multidisciplinary team in the treatment of spina bifida and hydrocephalus; his plans to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the declaration of essential travel was removed from the passenger locator form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17633/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health if the rapid antigen testing will be implemented in schools; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17634/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there was a significant drop in the number of persons in cohort 1 recorded as having received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine between 21...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of each of the five walk-in Covid-19 testing centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17636/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to complaints from home care recipients that some agency carers have stopped wearing face masks after getting vaccinated; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the services of a tree surgeon during level 5 restrictions are permitted in order to attend to a damaged ash tree which is...
    • Pesticide Use
      1249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address the detection of pesticides including MCPA, 2,4-D, mecoprop, fluroxypyr, glyphosate and triclopyr...
    • Departmental Communications
      1250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on correspondence from and engagement with an organisation (details supplied). [16286/21]
    • Veterinary Medicines
      1251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the dispensing of medicinal items; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      1252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review correspondence (details supplied); when the recommendations of same will be introduced; and if he will make a...
    • GLAS Issues
      1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16360/21]
    • Felling Licences
      1254. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding forestry licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16425/21]
    • Forestry Management
      1255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has not yet implemented a frost reconstitution scheme for farm forests; his plans to implement a frost...
    • Departmental Staff
      1256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of portal and plant health inspectors his Department recruited in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [16515/21]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses...
    • Nitrates Usage
      1258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers by county that are farming under a nitrates derogation; the type of farming enterprise they are engaged in...
    • Felling Licences
      1261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of tree felling licence applications for County Cork which were pending as of 1 September 2020; the number that have been...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      1263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has been a decrease in the value of entitlements in respect of the 2021 basic payment scheme; if so, the reason for same;...
    • Felling Licences
      1265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the way only 48% of private license applications with ecology input targeted for completion between July 2020 and...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      1266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) who appealed their application for an extension on the beef data and genomics programme 2021 on the...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      1267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken virtually with the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland to date in 2021. [16886/21]
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      1268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to introduce fairness in basic payment schemes in the new CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the European Commission proposal that convergence will continue in the next CAP with all entitlements reaching at least...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      1273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on establishing an independent meat regulator with statutory powers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16925/21]
    • Food Industry
      1274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress in establishing a food ombudsman; if the position will be approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make...
    • Forestry Management
      1275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to irregularities in relation to a forestry application (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      1276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available from his Department to those affected by flooding at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon; and if he will make...
    • Timber Supply
      1277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of timber imported to Ireland in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Animal Welfare
      1279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of his Department’s engagement with the World Organisation for Animal Health; if his Department is working with...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds born from information recorded when owners make a declaration of litter submission in each year since 2009;...
    • Animal Welfare
      1282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the means by which the education referred to in the animal welfare strategy report to transfer an increase in awareness of animal...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the Howth Harbour dredging project; and when work will commence on this project. [17068/21]
    • Forestry Management
      1284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the interim standards for felling and reforestation October 2019 were converted to actual standards; when the industry was...
    • Beef Industry
      1288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle slaughtered that originated in feedlots in each of the years 2015 to 2020, inclusive; the proportion this...
    • Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme
      1289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a BEEP application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17417/21]
    • Departmental Communications
      1290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the Acts falling under his Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if he will...
    • Veterinary Medicines
      1292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure rules on the prescription and sale of veterinary medicines are aligned here and in Northern...
    • Food Industry
      1293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on legislation that would require buyers of agri-food produce to incorporate costs of production in price negotiations...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the spend for his Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the years...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1295. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will approve the installation of a broadband connection point or an alternative interim solution to provide connectivity as a...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      1296. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided to Kerry County Council for the provision of a footpath (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1297. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her attention has been drawn to instances of litigation or the threat of litigation arising from the inclusion of social clauses...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      1298. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application has been received for funding (details supplied); if so, the likely timescale of when funding will be announced;...
    • Voluntary Sector
      1299. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants available for NGOs and community organisations to retrofit their premises to enable access for persons with disabilities;...
    • Offshore Islands
      1301. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of capital plans for Magheraroarty Pier and the Tory Island ferry, County Donegal as was committed to in Project Ireland...
    • Greenways Provision
      1302. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific detail of funding announcement for Muckish Mountain; if there be significant follow-up funding to enable the investment...
    • Departmental Communications
      1303. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting obligations under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; and if...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1304. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the Acts falling under her Department which have been signed into law but have not been commenced; and if she will...
    • Voluntary Sector
      1305. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps she is taking in response to the recommendations in a report by an organisation (details supplied) on the support needs of...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1306. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the actions taken to achieve objective 8 strengthen and build understanding and capacity to support the implementation...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1307. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the spend for her Department on public procurement disaggregated by spend on goods, services and capital works in each of the years...