Written answers
Thursday, 1 April 2021
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason companies that do not have a business premise cannot access funding from the small business assistance scheme for COVID; the...
- Workplace Relations Commission
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of complaints made to the WRC regarding the refusal of landlords to accept the housing assistance payment in 2019, 2020 and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will allow rural-based businesses, such as a lawnmower repair businesses, to opt for the Covid restrictions support scheme if a...
- IDA Ireland
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the guidelines his Department has given to the IDA to ensure its new office in Israel, in the conduct of its business, adheres to EU...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to possible plans at EU level to impose bans on exports of Covid-19 vaccines to certain non-member...
- Redundancy Payments
7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that will be put in place to ensure workers on lay off will be able to access statutory redundancy payments swiftly in the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the concerns of the retail industry will be taken into consideration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- EU Regulations
10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way the EU environment taxonomy will impact on future corporate reporting obligations. [17870/21]
- Departmental Staff
11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider implementing a mechanism for businesses to switch from lesser Covid restrictions support scheme payments to...
- Enterprise Support Services
13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial assistance and other supports available to local authorities and community groups to develop digital hubs; and if he...
- Departmental Data
14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health...
- General Data Protection Regulation
15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of general data protection...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if urgent consideration will be given to the reintroduction of click-and-collect services for small and medium enterprises in the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend the conditions of the small business assistance scheme for Covid, SBASC, to enable small enterprises that are in...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Waste Management
18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the savings achieved by diverting one tonne of paper, cardboard and plastic from landfill to incineration or to...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in the context of setting carbon reduction baselines, credit is given to this country for the amount of wetlands,...
- Compensation Schemes
20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to compensate drift and draft net fishers affected by the 2007 ban on commercial salmon fishing; his views on...
- Postal Services
22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 3 March 2021, if An Post will be contacted in relation to the matter given...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full extent of existing capacity to sequestrate carbons by way of permanent grassland, forestry, trees, hedges and...
- Air Quality
24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of dedicated funding that will be provided to each local authority to monitor and enforce the smoky coal ban...
- National Broadband Plan
26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the 70 primary schools which are to be connected to broadband as part of the National Broadband...
- Energy Efficiency
29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are grants available to install a wood pellet stove; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17777/21]
- Waste Data
30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the volume of materials collected across the network of bring centres; the composition of same; and the way this has...
- Waste Management
33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the savings achieved by diverting one tonne of compostable material from landfill to incineration or to recycling...
- Waste Data
35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current recycling rates achieved in Ireland on compostable materials and on each of the main categories for which...
- Departmental Staff
37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administrative officers, assistant principal officers,...
- Departmental Data
38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department...
- General Data Protection Regulation
39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of general data...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Licences
40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed legislation giving asylum seekers the right to apply for an Irish driver licence, as promised in the White...
- Bus Services
41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if each new BusConnects route will be tendered in a competitive tendering process when each existing Dublin Bus route is replaced by a new...
- Remote Working
43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) is not being permitted to work from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17664/21]
- Coast Guard Service
44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the cliff rescue services that was provided by the Irish Coast Guard has been terminated; and if he will consider undertaking a...
- Driver Test
46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver theory tests will resume; the steps that will be taken to address the backlog of applicants waiting to take the driver theory...
- Road Projects
47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the new Limerick to Foynes road; the funding that has been secured to build the road; the estimated cost of the project; and...
- Local Authority Staff
48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if approval has been given formally to local authorities to hire additional staff as part of the Sustainable Transport Initiative; if the...
- Bus Services
49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is planned to devolve decisions in relation to the siting of bus shelters and other minor works from the NTA to the local...
- Seirbhísí Dátheangacha
50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport cén fáth nach bhfuil leagan dátheangach ag a Roinn don mhana agus lógó Transport for Ireland agus an...
- Driver Test
51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is planned to allow driver instructors to recommence in-car driving instruction, in view of the large number of persons who need...
- School Transport
52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a closing date has been set for schools to make an expression of interest for inclusion in the safe routes to school initiative; and if...
- Transport Infrastructure Provision
53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a broad policy framework has been developed to shape the expenditure of the €1.8 billion for cycling and walking infrastructure;...
- Departmental Staff
55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administrative officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers...
- Departmental Data
56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health since...
- General Data Protection Regulation
57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of general data protection regulation,...
- National Car Test
58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason persons who missed their NCT appointments due to the lockdown in the past year, particularly persons over 70 years of age are...
- Department of Finance
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
59. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the Covid restrictions support scheme is biased against rural-based businesses; the action he will take to rectify this; and if he will...
- Economic Policy
60. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of specific economic interventions that might be needed in the economy if and when Covid-19 is brought under control; and if he will make a...
- Brexit Supports
61. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of actions to date to combat the economic impact of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on...
- Insurance Industry
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department continues to monitor developments in the insurance industry, with particular reference to the need to provide cover for all types of...
- Economic Policy
63. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects the economy to remain competitive in the short to medium-term notwithstanding the impact of Brexit and the Covid-19 virus; and...
- Mortgage Interest Rates
64. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which it might be possible to bring mortgage interest rates here into line with those applicable throughout Europe; and if he will make a...
- Financial Services Sector
65. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he continues to monitor activities in financial circles post-Brexit with a view to ensuring that financial services here are not in any way...
- Economic Policy
66. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the economic fundamentals remain stable here notwithstanding the impact of Brexit and Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Code
68. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that taxation matters remain within the competence of national governments throughout the European Union and that no...
- House Prices
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take action to discourage house price increases that currently make it difficult or impossible for first time house buyers to build or acquire a...
- Mortgage Lending
72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Central Bank to enable applicants for mortgages to use their time in rented accommodation as a reference for the ability to service a...
- Economic Policy
73. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects, along with his EU colleagues, to design a benign lending system to assist economic recovery and job retention in the aftermath...
- Tax Data
74. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the sugar sweetened drinks tax to beverages containing milk fats with more than 119 milligrams of calcium per 100 millilitres;...
- Tobacco Control Measures
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the funding provided to the Revenue Commissioners for 2020 and 2021 to combat tobacco smuggling; if the Revenue Commissioners are developing a dedicated...
- Tax Data
79. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue that would be raised annually if an excise tax of €0.06 per ml of electronic cigarette liquid was applied; and if he...
- Cycle to Work Scheme
80. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications under the cycle to work scheme in 2020 and to date in 2021; the cost of the scheme in each of the past five years; and if he will...
- Tax Data
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of category A vehicles that were charged with the nitrogen dioxide emissions levy in 2020 and to date in 2021; the revenue raised each year; and if...
- Insurance Industry
86. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that insurers have refused to provide flood risk cover even in situations in which no flooding has ever occurred;...
- EU Funding
87. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland will be applying for loans under the EU recovery and resilience facility; if so, the amount that will be applied for; the potential interest rate...
- EU Regulations
90. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the new EU environment taxonomy will impact on future regulation of the financial sector and projects put forward for funding under green bond...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
91. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to remove the present €5,000 weekly cap on payments under the Covid restriction support scheme due to the reality that many larger hotels will...
- Departmental Staff
92. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant...
- Banking Sector
93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have held meetings with a bank (details supplied) in relation to the recent announcement of 88 branch closures; if so, when these...
- Departmental Data
94. To ask the Minister for Finance if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health since 2000. [17972/21]
- General Data Protection Regulation
95. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since 2018 to date in...
- Tax Reliefs
97. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the tax relief for working from home can be claimed when there are multiple persons in a household working from home but the bills are only in...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Data
98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a list will be provided of approved travel agencies for all public servant trips that are booked abroad; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Correspondence
99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a letter (details supplied) referred to the Office of Public Works for attention and reply will be replied to; the reason for the...
- State Claims Agency
100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if dossiers similar to that exposed in a programme (details supplied) have been compiled and held by the State Claims Agency on any...
- EU Regulations
101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the new EU environmental taxonomy will impact on future procurement policy; and if it will be applied as an element in...
- Public Procurement Contracts
102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the ESRI, IPA and SEUPB have independent health and safety advisers at present; if so, if the procurement of such which was carried...
- Departmental Bodies
103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the ESRI, the IPA and the SEUPB have implemented the public sector and human rights duty under the Irish Human Rights and Equality...
- Protected Disclosures
105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the ESRI, the IPA and the SEUPB have received protected disclosures since the enactment of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014; if all...
- Departmental Bodies
106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each of the bodies under his aegis and the ESRI, the IPA and the SEUPB hold membership with a confederation; if so, if he will...
- Office of Public Works
109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when two tour guides and one general operative will be appointed to Kennedy Park and Arboretum, New Ross, County Wexford; and if he will...
- Departmental Staff
110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal...
- Local Authority Funding
111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional funding will be provided to Cavan County Council in 2021 for flood alleviation measures in view of increasing problems...
- Departmental Funding
113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding committed to date for the Interreg and Peace Plus Programmes post-2020; the level of funding to be provided by the Irish and...
- Departmental Data
118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health since...
- General Data Protection Regulation
119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests...
- Garda Headquarters
120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which Military Road was first picked as a likely site for the build of a new headquarters for An Garda Síochána;...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Grant Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if financial supports are available to members of an association (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Departmental Funding
125. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a list of all 2021 funding schemes will be provided relevant to the arts and culture; the amount allocated to each of these...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
126. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the analysis her Department has carried out into the financial impact of Covid-19 on lighting, sound and audio visual engineering...
- Meath na Gaeltachta
127. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an admhódh sí go bhfuil géarchéim sochtheangeolaíochta ann sa Ghaeltacht. [17764/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
128. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process for obtaining permission by persons (details supplied) for international travel for the purpose of participating in...
- Departmental Staff
129. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal...
- Tourism Funding
130. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will inform Fáilte Ireland of the need to reopen phase 1 of the tourism business continuity scheme to new applicants;...
- Departmental Data
131. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types her Department has shared with the Department of Health...
- General Data Protection Regulation
132. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of complaints her Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost for retrofitting a social housing unit as part of the national retrofitting scheme; and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Housing
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be necessary to invoke emergency housing procedures in order to assure the rapid delivery of direct build local...
- Social and Affordable Housing
135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a prospective tenant who qualifies for the homeless HAP support can rent a home from a landlord that is related to them; if...
- European Convention on Human Rights
136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the report issued by the European Committee on Social Rights in March 2021 which stated that the Government is...
- Social and Affordable Housing
137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 29,720 households that have had their social housing needs met since 2016; the...
- Housing Data
142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current wait time for approval of Rebuilding Ireland home loans by county; the number of applicants awaiting approval by...
- Local Authority Housing
143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a policy to allow both parties in a relationship breakdown who are local authority housing applicants to...
- Housing Policy
144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the income thresholds for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; his views on the case of a person...
- Land Development Agency
145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all paid positions of employment at the Land Development Agency are hired through a public process; and if he will make a...
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Parks and Wildlife Service will produce proposals for deer management in relation to land it has...
- Departmental Staff
147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers,...
- Vacant Properties
148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the €7,746,404 payment (details supplied) made by Dublin City Council to the receivers with regard to...
- Departmental Policy Functions
150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the advice he can provide in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17933/21]
- Tenant Purchase Scheme
151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the tenant purchase scheme to enable persons that are in receipt of a pension and have the financial...
- Social and Affordable Housing
152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will improve income eligibility limits for social housing in areas such as counties Cavan and Monaghan in which the...
- Waterways Ireland
153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the capital funding for Waterways Ireland will be increased in 2021 to enable an improved level of maintenance and...
- Departmental Data
154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of...
- Data Protection
155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information...
- Housing Provision
156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has considered additional measures to address the housing crisis with particular reference to the...
- Traveller Accommodation
157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with Clare County Council on the need for a Traveller project in the county; if his attention has been drawn...
- Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria required under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund for the construction of roads as part of the...
- Departmental Administrative Arrangements
160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of outstanding applications with his Department (details supplied); the number applied for over the past five...
- Fire Service
161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times calls were placed to the fire service in cases in which the closest retained fire service was unavailable...
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of expenditure incurred by county and site by the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the provision of car...
- Vacant Properties
168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of empty or unoccupied domestic dwellings in County Longford by local electoral area. [18080/21]
- Housing Inspections
174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests that were made for private rented accommodation inspections to Longford County Council in 2019, 2020...
- Rental Accommodation Standards
178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of complaints from tenants in private rented accommodation in County Longford that were made to the tenancy board...
- Emergency Accommodation
180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of emergency accommodation units suitable for families in County Longford. [18095/21]
- Rental Accommodation Standards
184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of prosecutions instigated against landlords regarding non-compliant housing standards in tabular form. [18099/21]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Domestic Violence
185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has communicated with the Turkish Ambassador following the recent withdrawal of Turkey from the Istanbul Convention; and if he will...
- Foreign Policy
186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the treatment of Christians, Baha’i and other religious minorities in Iran and in particular the recent summons to...
- Passport Services
187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects the passport service to resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17901/21]
- Departmental Staff
188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers...
- Passport Services
189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration is being given to setting up a new office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17952/21]
- Data Retention
190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health since...
- General Data Protection Regulation
191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests...
- Human Rights
192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU and UN colleagues can alert and activate the international community to the alarming abuses of human...
- Northern Ireland
193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in implementing New Decade, New Approach; if he has had any recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern...
- Human Rights
194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the current situation in Bahrain; and if he plans to use Ireland’s position to work with the...
- Passport Applications
195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a family who has applied for a passport for their child (details supplied) can expect to receive the passport; and if he will make a...
- Northern Ireland
196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and with members of the Northern Ireland Executive in...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Investigations
197. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will establish a commission of enquiry into allegations of systemic sexual abuse in the Defence Forces given the number of persons who...
- Defence Forces
198. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale offered by the independent review group set up to review and make recommendations on the Battle of Jadotville in order to seek an...
- Departmental Staff
199. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and...
- Departmental Properties
200. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17951/21]
- Departmental Data
201. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health since 2000....
- General Data Protection Regulation
202. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Accommodation
203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied); if the school it will be in place by September 2021;...
- Schools Building Projects
204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17677/21]
- Health Promotion
205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available for food dudes and incredible edibles; the funding that has been available for these schemes in each year since they...
- National Educational Psychological Service
206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with regard to emotional counselling and therapeutic supports in primary and post-primary schools with reference to...
- School Equipment
208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a replacement flag will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17733/21]
- Schools Building Projects
209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the target date for opening of the new secondary school under construction at Moore Abbey, Monasterevin; the plans for the current site of a...
- School Staff
210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction the retention of a second teacher in a school (details supplied) in County Clare given that this school is just one pupil...
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cathain a fhoilseofar an polasaí cuimsitheach don Ghaeilge ón oideachas réamhscolaíochta go dtí oiliúint na...
- Curaclam Scoile
212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an mbeadh sí sásta an tréimhse ama don phróiseas comhairliúcháin faoin gcuraclam nua a mholtar do Ghaeilge na...
- Public Procurement Contracts
214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a proposal raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will forward same to the relevant procurement officials if...
- Early School Leavers
215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the way in which she plans to address the anticipated increase in early school...
- School Staff
216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a DEIS band 1 school (details supplied) which is set to lose a teacher despite increased enrolment for the...
- National Council for Special Education
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education has completed and submitted its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special...
- School Funding
218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive feedback and approval from her Department in respect of its pre-state 1 report; and if she will...
- Departmental Correspondence
219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a company (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of payment from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Public Procurement Contracts
220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the available spaces on the panel for the provision of hand sanitiser to her Department for schools will go out to tender; and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied); the status of the planning application by the school; the projected timeline for the tendering and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice that has been given to all schools ahead of their return on 12 April 2021 and in particular secondary schools in relation to the...
- Departmental Staff
223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and...
- School Enrolments
224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the creation of a database of open school places to assist both parents and schools that cannot accurately...
- National Council for Special Education
225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the NCSE will approve the opening of a new class in a school (details supplied) to meet local pupil needs in view of the fact that pupils were...
- Special Educational Needs
226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve an assistive technology grant application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Data
227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types her Department has shared with the Department of Health since 2000....
- General Data Protection Regulation
228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of complaints her Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full return to school is now effective for all children at primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Staff
230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 25 March 2021, the number of substitutable days that have gone uncovered in this school year; the...
- Teaching Qualifications
232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date when she will next approve the numbers of students which the four State-funded providers can take in to both the bachelor of education...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Registration of Births
233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the inclusion of babies who are stillborn before 24 weeks and or under 500g in weight to be included on the...
- Fuel Allowance
234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance; the number of applications for the fuel allowance; the number of...
- Disability Allowance
236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 988 of 24 March 2021, if a request for an appeal of a decision in respect of a person...
- School Meals Programme
237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) has not been selected for the school meals scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
- Food Poverty
238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the steps her Department is taking to address food poverty in...
- Living Alone Allowance
239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a living alone increase will be backdated in the case of a person (details supplied). [17791/21]
- Community Employment Schemes
240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exception will be made in the case of a person (details supplied). [17805/21]
- Social Welfare Benefits
241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for basic supplementary welfare will be re-examined in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
- JobsPlus Scheme
242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if flexibility will be introduced in the eligibility criteria for the JobsPlus scheme to assist persons who have been out of...
- Community Employment Schemes
244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and the reason changes were made in 2019 to the operational rules of community employment supervisor pay scales; the...
- Free Travel Scheme
245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the entitlement to the free travel scheme at 66 years of age is dependent on a person being in receipt of the State...
- Disability Allowance
246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if entitlement to the disability allowance will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); if allowance will be...
- Community Employment Schemes
247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to previous parliamentary questions, the reason for the delay in accommodating an association (details supplied)...
- Departmental Data
248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers,...
- General Data Protection Regulation
250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints her Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Maternity Leave
251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on making maternity leave available for persons who have a miscarriage before the 24th week of...
- Childcare Services
253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the lack of provision of childcare services for babies aged 6 to 12 months in...
- Maternity Leave
254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of efforts to provide access to paid maternity leave for parents of children born via surrogacy; and...
- Child and Family Agency
255. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of habeas corpus applications made in circumstances in which Tusla was a respondent in each of the...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
256. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the details and copies of all correspondence between him and his Department and the...
- Joint Labour Committees
257. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the establishment of a joint labour committee in relation to the childcare sector and the...
- Departmental Bodies Data
258. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a list of section 56 and 59 organisations will be provided; the number of employees in each which have not...
- Child and Family Agency
259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the fact that the Tusla prevention, partnership and family support programme does not have a...
- Departmental Funding
260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the funding difficulties in an organisation (details supplied) and the...
- Departmental Staff
261. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal...
- Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
262. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a refuge centre for victims of domestic abuse will be established in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2021; the...
- Departmental Data
263. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the...
- General Data Protection Regulation
264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Apprenticeship Programmes
265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated overall apprenticeship population if the target of 10,000 new apprenticeship registrations is reached taking into account the...
- Freedom of Information
266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the data provided on foot of a recent freedom of information request (details supplied); the analysis his...
- Student Support Schemes
267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a student to further their education (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17726/21]
- Third Level Admissions
268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of social care students enrolled in each year of their course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17731/21]
- Third Level Staff
270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17799/21]
- Departmental Staff
271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and...
- Departmental Data
272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health since 2000....
- General Data Protection Regulation
273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Direct Provision System
274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the necessary steps have been made to ensure that EU Directive 2014/92 has been respected by the end of the first quarter of...
- Asylum Seekers
275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that asylum seekers are facing difficulties ascertaining employment due to...
- Immigration Policy
276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an additional extension will be allowed for expired immigration permits given the situation with Covid-19 restrictions; and...
- Human Trafficking
277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to address the downgrading of Ireland to a tier-two country in the 2018 and 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report; and...
- Insurance Fraud
278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of fraudulent insurance claims reported by the insurance industry to An Garda Síochána in...
- Private Security Authority
279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will engage with the Private Security Authority in relation to educating and training for licensed security...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the 2020 GSOC annual report to date; when this report will be published; and if she will make a statement...
- Closed-Circuit Television Systems
282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 486 of 17 December 2020, the progress to date in preparing legislation relevant to...
- Immigration Policy
283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the programme for Government commitment to regularise undocumented persons living in Ireland; and if she will...
- Visa Applications
284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in issuing visa stickers to atypical workers in the fishing industry who have been approved for a...
- Departmental Staff
286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers,...
- Departmental Data
287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types her Department has shared with the Department of...
- General Data Protection Regulation
288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints her Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information...
- Residency Permits
289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied); if...
- Citizenship Ceremonies
290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number applications with respect to the new temporary process for granting citizenship which involves the signing of a...
- Community Policing
291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community policing Gardaí attached to each station in County Wicklow in each of the past five years; and if...
- Department of Health
- Traveller Community
292. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and efforts to date to tackle heightened incidence rates of Covid-19 among the Traveller community (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Court Orders
293. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take following the refusal by the Central Mental Hospital to comply with a court order by refusing entry to a patient on 19 March 2021; and...
- Vaccination Programme
294. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which Ireland and other European Union member states can rely on the delivery of adequate supplies of Covid-19 vaccines to meet their urgent...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
295. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the company that supplied the paper and the company that did the printing for Covid-19 brochures; if these services were put out...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if he will review the decision to refuse the request; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
297. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 3,054 women are waiting for gynaecological care at Tallaght Hospital and 1,452 women are waiting over 18 months; and the steps he plans to take to...
- Hospital Appointments Status
298. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date for surgery in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin given several appointments have been cancelled and their...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
299. To ask the Minister for Health if a comparison will be provided of Covid-19 incidence rates between the general settled population and the Traveller community (details supplied); and if he...
- Vaccination Programme
301. To ask the Minister for Health when members of the Traveller community with underlying conditions will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17681/21]
- HSE Staff
302. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE occupational health policy will be amended to allow the occupational health team to accept recommendations from medical consultant doctors regarding the...
- Covid-19 Paindéim
303. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1363 and 1451 of 24 March 2021, if the questions can be addressed with regard to the position of approved driving...
- Proposed Legislation
304. To ask the Minister for Health the preparatory work under way in his Department on a public health (obesity) Bill as per the programme for Government; the stakeholders that have been and are...
- Departmental Funding
305. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for Healthy Ireland in each year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17685/21]
- Tobacco Control Measures
306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retail outlets registered to sell tobacco on the national register of tobacco retailers in 2020 to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement...
- Community Welfare Services
310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for motorised wheelchairs in community healthcare organisation area 5 for the latest available date by area in tabular form; and...
- Vaccination Programme
311. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line workers eligible for Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17724/21]
- Child Protection
313. To ask the Minister for Health the cost associated with the practice of his Department of collating and maintaining dossiers of sensitive information on children with autism who were...
- Hospital Car Parks
315. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in parking charges at all State hospitals; and the breakdown by location and annual amount in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date...
- Hospital Staff
318. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1429 of 24 March 2021, if a guarantee will be provided that student radiographers will be treated the same as student...
- Health Services
319. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the significant upfront cost for women who use a long-acting reversible contraceptive (details supplied) to control their...
- Mental Health Services
320. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase capacity at the Central Mental Hospital in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17742/21]
- Care of the Elderly
321. To ask the Minister for Health when Monasterevin day care centre will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17750/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
322. To ask the Minister for Health if cases of a double mutant variant of the novel coronavirus similar to that found recently in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been detected in Ireland;...
- Vaccination Programme
324. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE is advising students who are currently in their final semester of college and on placement within a...
- Autism Support Services
326. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive therapy services. [17772/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
327. To ask the Minister for Health when the €100 weekly payment to student nurses will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17774/21]
- Hospital Facilities
328. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include a palliative care unit in the new 50-bed care of the elderly unit in St. Anthony’s in South Tipperary General Hospital which is...
- Addiction Treatment Services
329. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to address increased drug and alcohol misuse among young persons in an area (details supplied) particularly in the home; if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
330. To ask the Minister for Health if a proportionality assessment has been carried out on all the current Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17794/21]
- Health Services
331. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take immediate steps to reopen the gay men’s health service based at the Meath primary care centre which has been closed for over a year; if...
- Protected Disclosures
332. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a protected disclosure by a person (details supplied). [17801/21]
- Vaccination Programme
333. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure vaccinations carried out by private hospitals are in keeping with HSE protocols. [17802/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce regulations to back up the existing guidance in respect of nursing home visits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17819/21]
- Public Procurement Contracts
336. To ask the Minister for Health when the available spaces on the panel for the provision of hand sanitiser to her Department and the HSE will go out to tender; and if he will make a statement...
- Paediatric Services
337. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made to the paediatric diabetic clinic in Mullingar Hospital to allow services to continue; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Provision
338. To ask the Minister for Health if the business case submitted by a person (details supplied) regarding the funding required to provide long-term residential care will be approved; and if the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
339. To ask the Minister for Health the list of states from which arrivals at ports and airports in the State are required to quarantine clarifying in each case whether the quarantine is required...
- Proposed Legislation
340. To ask the Minister for Health when it is planned to publish the nursing home support scheme (amendment) Bill; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17854/21]
- Home Care Packages
341. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous Parliamentary Questions and representations to the HSE if weekend home care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if a...
- Vaccination Programme
342. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 vaccine will be administered to the remaining islanders under 70 years of age who are permanently resident on offshore islands, on the islands...
- Departmental Records
345. To ask the Minister for Health if dossiers similar to that exposed in a programme (details supplied) have been compiled and held by his Department or its agents including the State Claims...
- Departmental Data
346. To ask the Minister for Health if dossiers similar to that exposed in a programme have been compiled and held by his Department or its agents including the State Claims Agency on persons...
- Emergency Departments
347. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date to provide a new emergency department for Galway University Hospital; when the new emergency department will be operational in the...
- Vaccination Programme
348. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek a report from NIAC on the prioritisation of cohorts of persons on the vaccine priority list including family carers and cardiac patients; and...
- Departmental Staff
349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant...
- Maternity Services
350. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that pregnant women can be joined by their partner for maternity appointments and childbirth; the current policy in each...
- HSE Waiting Lists
351. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in reducing waiting lists for assessment of need; if additional resources have been provided towards the provision of appropriate...
- Vaccination Programme
352. To ask the Minister for Health the category branch bank staff fall under in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. [17938/21]
- Health Services Provision
353. To ask the Minister for Health when a building project will proceed to the next stage in view of the urgent need to provide additional accommodation at a healthcare facility (details...
- Vaccination Programme
354. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that cross-Border workers will be prioritised in receiving surplus UK vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17943/21]
- Departmental Records
355. To ask the Minister for Health if a risk assessment of families on the grounds of the families' likelihood to pursue legal action against the State was a determinant in the management of...
- HSE Records
357. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol and or procedure he has in place for retrieving patient files, data and information from the HSE for use by his officials. [17983/21]
- General Data Protection Regulation
358. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since 2018 to date in...
- Eating Disorders
361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dieticians and specially trained staff for eating disorders allocated to the CAMHS aftercare services in County Clare; the aftercare services...
- Dental Services
362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Clare who received payments from the dental treatment services scheme in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and in the first quarter of 2021,...
- General Practitioner Services
363. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a scheme to address the problem with replacing general practitioners in County Clare in which some general practitioners are retiring...
- Covid-19 Tests
364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests for Covid-19 undertaken daily in each of the walk-in testing centres since they opened; the positivity rate in each centre; if the positive...
- Vaccination Programme
365. To ask the Minister for Health the total population of agency nurses and healthcare assistants; the number of these who are vaccinated; the way in which the remainder will be identified for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that arrived here in each week from 8 March 2021 to date and declared on the passenger locator form that they had been in one of the 33...
- Departmental Reports
371. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to comply with the request from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health that he make the senior counsel report on the allegations of a whistleblower...
- Covid-19 Tests
372. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent consideration will be given to opening a mobile test centre in north County Dublin given the high levels of Covid-19 in the Skerries and Balbriggan...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
373. To ask the Minister for Health if mandatory hotel quarantine or home quarantine concessions will be available for incoming travellers who have received a vaccine approved by the European...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
374. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for cataract treatment, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18068/21]
- Health Services Provision
375. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the nationwide roll-out of the shared care cataract treatment model, which is already in operation in the Sligo region, known as the Sligo...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
376. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the issuing of vaccines to a school (details supplied); the actions being taken to make sure this does not happen again; and if he will...
- Vaccination Programme
378. To ask the Minister for Health if a student who did not avail of the free human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine in their first year of secondary school can avail of the vaccine at a later date...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Health Promotion
379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for Food Dudes and Incredible Edibles; the funding that has been available for these schemes in each year since...
- School Milk Scheme
380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of schools and students participating in the school milk scheme in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on...
- Felling Licences
382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the wait time for felling licence applications; the number of applications outstanding; his plans to address the backlog; and if he...
- Wildlife Control
383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the deer management forum is next due to meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17749/21]
- Regulatory Impact Assessments
384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2035 of 24 March 2021, the analysis his Department has carried out into the possibility of...
- Harbours and Piers
385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that have been taken to progress the deepwater quay project at Ros a Mhíl Harbour since the publication on 4 September...
- Agriculture Schemes
386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) can have their situation considered as a force majeure case in this instance; and if he will make a...
- Beef Data and Genomics Programme
387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a family (details supplied) will receive payment under the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP; and if he will make a statement...
- Forestry Sector
388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will provide this Deputy with a timeframe for forestry licence applications that have been in the system; and if...
- Fish Producer Organisations
391. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new independent organisation (details supplied); if this organisation will...
- Apiculture Industry
393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by an association (details supplied) with regard to the potential importation...
- Departmental Staff
394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administrative officers, assistant principal officers, principal...
- Forestry Management
395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2021 of 24 March 2021, if the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, advised his Department...
- Agriculture Schemes
397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17954/21]
- Departmental Data
398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types his Department has shared with the Department of Health...
- General Data Protection Regulation
399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of general data protection...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied that carbon emission reduction targets are being met without damage to agrifood production;...
- Organic Farming
401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares under organic production by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18039/21]
- Organic Farming Scheme
402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the organic farming scheme by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Organic Farming
404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of farmland and number of hectares he is targeting for organic production by 2030; and if he will make a statement on...
- Agriculture Scheme Applications
405. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received for compensation as a result of avian influenza from 2020 to date in tabular form; the number of...
- Beekeeping Industry
406. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations governing the importation of non-native bees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18044/21]
- Afforestation Programme
408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the incentives that are planned to re-engage farmers with forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18046/21]
- Forestry Sector
409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he plans to take to reform the forestry licensing system and to address the manner in which it discriminates against...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Calafoirt agus Céanna
411. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le síneadh a chur le céibh Inis Oírr; cén uair atá...
- Departmental Staff
413. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal...
- Departmental Data
414. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a schedule will be provided of the data sets, databases and file types her Department has shared with the Department of Health...
- General Data Protection Regulation
415. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of complaints her Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information...
- Community Development Projects
416. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the organisations and groups supported by the scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector; the...
