Written answers
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her strategies to assist the hospitality industry to retain and regain qualified staff in their sector, particularly in the context...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
64. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her recent interactions with the major sporting organisations with regard to the return of supporters to live...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
65. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to support sporting organisations and other similar organisations in ensuring that young persons will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to respond to the appeals by musicians, events, entertainment and culture workers for a reopening roadmap for the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
67. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional supports will be put in place for businesses which are major tourist attractions and of economic, cultural and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
68. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Gaeltacht summer colleges and other youth summer camps will be permitted to go ahead in summer 2021; and if she will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided to sporting organisations and other similar organisations to assist them in meeting fixed costs such as...
- Artists' Remuneration
72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for a universal basic income for artists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21963/21]
- Future of Media Commission
73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Future of Media Commission is due to produce a report and recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
74. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to introduce a scheme of Covid-19 related supports for tourist related businesses with a turnover of less than...
- Culture Policy
76. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount paid to Galway 2020 in 2020 and to date in 2021; the way in which the funding has been spent; the amount promised for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
77. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the ban on live music at weddings under new Fáilte Ireland guidelines for level 3; if her...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
78. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the tourism business continuity scheme; the support distributed to key tourism businesses that are struggling during...
- Film Industry
79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the allegations of blacklisting will be investigated against film workers who are members of a union (details supplied) who gave...
- Tourism Policy
80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure the revival of tourism in counties Carlow and Kilkenny and the south-east; and if she will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place to allow caravan and camping parks to safely reopen; if consideration has been given to the sectors proposed for...
- Artists' Remuneration
82. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to pursue a basic minimum income for members of the artistic and cultural communities; and her current...
- Future of Media Commission
83. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to the Government review of the strategic communications unit by the Secretary General (details supplied) in 2018, the...
- Question Heading
84. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a fhoilseofar reachtaíocht nua chun go mbeidh bord le baill tofa ag pobal na Gaeltachta uair amháin eile ag...
- Sports Facilities
85. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions taken to obtain the view of young persons in increasing their participation in sport; and if she will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
86. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional funding and support for pubs, restaurants and hotels will be provided in order that they can reopen and to ensure...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
87. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider allowing self-catering hospitality venues to open their doors to in-county guests only in order to allow them...
- Arts Centres
88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for a permanent civic arts centre for Galway city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21870/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
89. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific supports that will be available for County Donegal under the Tourism Recovery Plan 2020-2023; and if she will make a...
- Sports Capital Programme
91. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the sports capital programmes, that is, local, regional and large scale projects; the timelines in respect of each in...
- Tourism Industry
92. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the recommendations of the Recovery Oversight Group for Tourism; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
93. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which her Department continues to liaise with the stakeholders in the sectors relative to her Department with a view...
- Tourism Industry
95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a roadmap for the reopening of the tourism sector; the enterprise supports that will be maintained into 2022;...
- Meath na Gaeltachta
96. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí fós sásta go bhfuil gach rud á dhéanamh ag an rialtas chun an Ghaeilge a neartú, mar a...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
97. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil teagmháil déanta aici le déanaí le hÚdarás na Gaeltachta maidir le beartais teanga a cuid...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
98. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration is being given to allowing theatres to open at reduced capacity in summer 2021; and the level of virus suppression...
- Living Wage
100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the living wage for artists will be increased. [21488/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
101. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if all pubs will be included for funding under the outdoor enhancement scheme which was announced recently; the reason wet pubs...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the work of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21812/21]
- Online Safety
103. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020; if recent increases in conspiracy theory content is being taken...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
104. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide further details in relation to the grant scheme for outdoor and indoor dining; the engagements she has had and...
- Sports Events
108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if discussions have taken place on the recommencing of sport for all age groups; her plans to allow spectators to attend sporting...
- Pleanáil Teanga
110. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le ceist 16114/21, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le Plean Teanga Chathair na Gaillimhe; cén...
- Sports Organisations
111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action taken to tackle discrimination in sport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21810/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
113. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the roll-out of the grants for outdoor dining spaces announced in March 2021; and if she will make a statement on...
- National Cultural Institutions
114. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to expand the mobility of collections scheme to support loans from the national collections for display in public...
- Sports Capital Programme
115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if schools operating under educational training boards can apply to the Sports Capital Programme in a manner which would have...
- National Cultural Institutions
117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered proposals for the return of the Book of Kells from Trinity College Dublin to Kells, County Meath; if she has...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
118. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress to date of the Night-time Economy Taskforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21960/21]
- Tourism Industry
119. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans and the measures that will be put in place to assist the recovery of the tourism and aviation sectors, for example, such...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
121. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the crisis presently facing the charter boat industry here (details supplied); if her attention...
- Culture Policy
123. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the cultural capital scheme 2019-2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21804/21]
- Sports Facilities
124. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will contact Dublin City Council to convey her support for a Council-owned community sports facility (details supplied) to...
- Tourism Project Funding
125. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria for application for the €19 million fund announced for state-of-the-art facilities for water based activities;...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Investigations
126. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the cost to date of commissions of investigation under the direction of his Department. [21941/21]
- Departmental Strategies
127. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work [21087/21]
- Departmental Advertising
128. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on both traditional and online advertising in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; the breakdown of funding; and the...
- Legislative Process
130. To ask the Taoiseach if it is Government policy to encourage the practice of post-legislative scrutiny as previously recommended in a series of Dáil Éireann reform measures from...
- Irish Language
131. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish language. [21911/21]
- Third Level Education
133. To ask the Taoiseach if the research to be conducted by the shared island unit on the research programme entitled The Economic and Social Opportunities from Increased Cooperation on the...
- Departmental Contracts
134. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and the name of the contractor...
- Cúrsaí Gaeilge
135. To ask the Taoiseach cé hiad na hionadaithe Gaeilge a bhfuil Aonad um Oileán Comhroinnte a Roinne tar éis plé a bheith acu leo, mar atá luaite ina fhreagra ar mo...
- Departmental Expenditure
137. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for this advice in tabular...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- IDA Ireland
139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA site visits in 2020 and to date in 2021 in counties Clare, Limerick, Cork and Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the CCPC investigation into alleged mis-selling of mortgages in a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rules in relation to appointment-based shopping for furniture and home furnishing retailers in the current set of restrictions....
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if flexibility will be shown when it comes to the requirement for turnover to be over €50,000 in order to qualify for the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will prioritise the reopening of click and collect services for small businesses on a one-to-one appointment basis for sole...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans for a second phase of funding under the small business assistance scheme for Covid-19 for businesses that missed...
- Irish Language
147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the...
- Departmental Contracts
149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with the reaction and management of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the operation of the small business assistance scheme for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Trading Online Voucher Scheme
153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the operation of the trading online voucher scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22197/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the operation of the business continuity voucher scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22198/21]
- Departmental Expenditure
155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies...
- Departmental Schemes
157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the timeframe for a scheme (details supplied) will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22322/21]
- Departmental Transport
158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Legislative Measures
159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of policy papers or legislation he plans to introduce to ban the use of fracked gas sourced domestically...
- Energy Data
160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the recent analysis of Ireland’s energy security that has been undertaken; the way in which he is assessing...
- National Broadband Plan
162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a premises (details supplied) and the whole community will be included in the National Broadband Plan; if not, the...
- Departmental Funding
163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on providing funding to households with adults who require nappies to assist with additional waste charges...
- Energy Prices
164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has assessed the report by a company (details supplied) on the way in which the cost of solar energy on the grid...
- Electricity Grid
165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the procedures for setting grid connection costs and the estimation of needed strengthening of the grid to...
- Mobile Telephony Services
166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure adequate and satisfactory access to consistent phone signal and fibre optic broadband for the...
- Illegal Dumping
167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 10 of 14 January 2021 and 22 of 21 January 2021, if the working group...
- Waste Data
168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual licensed tonnage of waste delivered to a company (details supplied) since it began operations; if the...
- Legislative Measures
169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are other examples in legislation in which the Government has limited liability from claims for damages or...
- Mobile Telephony Services
170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are guidelines in place for telecommunication providers to share mast infrastructure; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an organisation (details supplied) will be provided funding as promised in January 2021 to increase core funding...
- Climate Action Plan
172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when funding for smaller scale projects at local authority level will be provided as part of the Climate Action Fund;...
- Postal Services
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason new builds are left waiting for their Eircode to be released by An Post and are therefore left without...
- Renewable Energy Generation
175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the recent announcement from the ESB in relation to Moneypoint; the estimated number of jobs...
- Exploration Licences
178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the holders of exploration licences, petroleum prospecting licences and petroleum leases; the date each...
- Postal Services
179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 24 March 2021, if the allocation of an Eircode will be expedited to ensure...
- Broadband Infrastructure
180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the fibre installation at a location (details supplied) will be complete; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Irish Language
181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services...
- Broadband Infrastructure
183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a fibre broadband service will be provided to an area (details supplied) as part of the current roll-out; and if he...
- Electricity Grid
184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he is taking in response to privacy concerns around ESB smart meters; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Contracts
185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19...
- Departmental Expenditure
186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that his Department spent on public relations advice, and media advice, between January 2020 and to date in...
- Undefined
188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has renovated a new home but cannot get an Eircode; and...
- Departmental Transport
189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of replacing the State vehicles that are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the latest breakdown of the greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector, by road transport, aviation and so on; and if he will make...
- Aviation Industry
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with a company (details supplied) on funding needed for Shannon Airport and its share of the connectivity fund; and if...
- Heritage Sites
192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with a company (details supplied) on the future of the Shannon heritage sites in County Clare and their ownership; and...
- Electric Vehicles
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when additional electrical vehicle charging points will be installed in Monaghan town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Road Network
194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding has been received from Dublin City Council or Fingal County Council for the pedestrian crossing or flyover...
- Transport Policy
195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has conducted an evaluation of the active travel funding stream; if his attention has been drawn to instances in which funding is...
- Public Transport
196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite the BusConnects Galway to Dublin roads project; and if his attention has been drawn to the inadequacy of public...
- Driver Test
197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will lift the restrictions on driver tests to facilitate young farmers who need to have a tractor to drive on public roads during...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been drawn down in 2019 and 2020, from available European Union funds and mechanisms, to support the transport...
- Rail Network
199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost, per phase, of reopening the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21204/21]
- Transport Infrastructure Provision
201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investment in walking and cycling projects in 2020; if the target of €1 million per day was met; the allocation for 2021; and...
- Public Transport
202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated investment needed in the transport sector to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by one percentage point; and if he will...
- Rural Transport Services
210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocation to the LocalLink bus service in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the amount allocated for 2021, in tabular form; and...
- Departmental Transport
212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric...
- Ports Development
213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount invested in port infrastructure in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the amount that will be invested in 2021; and if he will...
- Transport Infrastructure Provision
214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount invested in cross-Border transport infrastructure projects in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the amount that will be invested...
- Electric Vehicles
215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when fast electric chargers at taxi ranks will be rolled out at the taxi rank in Parnell Street Car Park, Ennis County Clare; and if he...
- Public Transport
216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered restoring bus and rail services to their full weekday schedules as demand increases to facilitate social distancing...
- Driver Test
218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reconsidered the reopening of the driver theory test centres with the easing of restrictions; and if he will make a statement...
- Railway Stations
219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount Irish Rail spent on installing separate bins in and around stations in order to provide passengers an option to dispose of...
- Airport Passenger Data
220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of travellers to arrive in Ireland via airports since the beginning of 2021, by airport and numbers arriving per week; and if...
- Bus Services
221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA has been provided with the funding and green light to provide Carlow town centre with a bus service; and the status of the...
- Electric Vehicles
222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the electric vehicle strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21459/21]
- Driver Licences
226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the validity on foreign driver licences due to the backlog of driver tests as a result of Covid-19 (details...
- Student Travel Card
227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if apprentice position holders are entitled to apply for student travel cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21474/21]
- Light Rail Projects
228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland plans to agree a memorandum of understanding in respect of MetroLink with a company (details...
- Driver Test
229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason and the legislation under which dash cams are to be removed from a vehicle prior to a driving test commencing; and if he will...
- Search and Rescue Service Provision
230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe in addition to the second quarter of 2021 for when the tender for the search and rescue contract will go out to tender; and...
- Public Transport
231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding to public transport operators in respect of retrofitting vehicles in order to improve ventilation. [21567/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions being taken to support the aviation sector during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and resulting travel restrictions; and if he...
- National Transport Authority
235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review of extra National Transport Authority staff being allocated to local authorities in relation to active travel will...
- Rail Network
236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the proposals in respect of a train depot in Kilcock, County Kildare as part of the Dart+ Maynooth extension; his...
- Aviation Industry
237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of recent meetings with senior airline management; if the issue of airline refunds for customers during the travel...
- Road Projects
238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the realignment works project on the N56 Inver to Killybegs currently design phase 0/1 (feasibility and scoping) will be progressed;...
- Trans European Transport Network Programme
239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been committed through to construction by his Department for the Ten-T priority improvement project for County Donegal;...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter raised in correspondence in relation to the arrival of cruise ships during summer 2021 (details supplied)....
- Drug and Alcohol Testing
241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department decided on the drug driving limits in regard to cannabis and the testing procedures that apply. [21844/21]
- Road Projects
242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when final approval and funding will be given to a road project (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement...
- Driver Test
243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver test appointments are expected to recommence for non-essential workers. [21890/21]
- Irish Language
244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish...
- Railway Stations
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the duration and location of instances in which lifts at DART and commuter train stations were out of order since 1 October 2020 to 19...
- Bus Services
247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to review demand for bus services on the 7D, 7B and 63 bus routes to ensure customer demand is being met in...
- Driver Test
248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if approval will be given to the resumption of motorcycling lessons given that lessons are naturally self-distanced and instructions are...
- Road Projects
249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the options appraisal tools for new roads projects are sufficiently aligned with climate obligations; the method...
- Fuel Prices
250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the reason diesel fuel prices have increased from an average of €1.20 to €1.40 per litre over a period...
- Departmental Contracts
251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction;...
- Driver Test
252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the recommencement of driving lessons and driver tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22212/21]
- Covid-19 Tests
253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 334 of 21 April 2021, if he has engaged with airlines in relation to routine mass testing for cabin...
- Public Transport
254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on making supports available to taxi drivers given the role they have played throughout the pandemic and the impact the...
- Departmental Expenditure
255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies...
- Department of Finance
- Customs and Excise
257. To ask the Minister for Finance the customs requirements for the importation from the UK of products of animal origin, germinal products and animal by-products manufactured in the UK; when...
- Tax Code
258. To ask the Minister for Finance if revenue projections as outlined in the Stability Programme Update 2021 include the accepted annual revenue from carbon tax to 2025, taking account of...
- Departmental Staff
259. To ask the Minister for Finance if a public competition will be run under the TLAC process to select candidates for the position of Secretary General of his Department; if he chooses to...
- Insurance Coverage
260. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available for a person in circumstances (details supplied). [21188/21]
- Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
261. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who are almost or wholly without the use of a single arm and hand are eligible to apply for the disabled drivers and passengers scheme under...
- Tax Reliefs
265. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will review the possibility of retrospective further tax relief on third level fees that can be accessed later than the calendar year in...
- Banking Sector Staff
266. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty that the recent announcement by a bank (details supplied) that it is to exit the Irish market is causing for...
- Tax Data
267. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised if the carbon tax was doubled and the 2030 levy target was doubled to €200 per tonne. [21370/21]
- Pensions Reform
268. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent European Parliament and European Council regulation regarding the pan-European personal pension product which was published on 25 July...
- Pension Provisions
270. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to recent reports into the high level of company charges applied to individual pension plans; and if he will make a statement...
- Tax Data
271. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount and value of carbon tax raised in relation to green diesel in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21393/21]
- Tax Code
272. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer if the entry point to the higher rate of income tax was increased to €42,500 for a single person and €85,000...
- Insurance Coverage
273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce regulations or take steps to prevent insurers denying cover or loading premia for those who are type 1 diabetic and who are managing...
- Help-To-Buy Scheme
274. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy grant applications received; the number of applications that reached claim stage; and the number of claims approved under the...
- Value Added Tax
276. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the current 23% VAT rate that applies to menstrual cups to 0% to bring it into line with the rate that applies for other sanitary items....
- Primary Medical Certificates
278. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the current qualifying criteria for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21661/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
279. To ask the Minister for Finance if support is available via the Covid restrictions support scheme for publicans often retired that had leased their establishments to a tenant prior to the...
- Credit Unions
280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider setting up a body of appeal for the credit union movement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21729/21]
- Insurance Industry
283. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the meetings between him, the Minister for State with responsibility for Financial Services, Credit Unions and Insurance and the senior...
- Tax Compliance
284. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of convictions for serious offences under section 1078 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in each of the years 2011 to 2020; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Bodies
288. To ask the Minister for Finance if each of the bodies under his aegis are operating under the Code of Practice on Accessibility of Public Services and Information Provided by Public Bodies;...
- Irish Language
290. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish language; and if he...
- Mortgage Lending
292. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he had with the Central Bank with regard to the provision of advice or support to persons who have been sold mortgages by unregulated and...
- Budget Process
293. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has set a date for the announcement of Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22125/21]
- Programme for Government
294. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to strengthen current mechanisms such as the national economic dialogue; and if...
- Insurance Coverage
295. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have applied under the declined cases agreement in each of the years 2017 to 2020; the number who have successfully secured...
- Departmental Contracts
296. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and the name of the...
- Public Consultation Process
297. To ask the Minister for Finance the public consultation process through which members of the public can engage with the newly established Commission on Taxation and Welfare and table issues...
- Departmental Schemes
298. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the operation of the debt warehousing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22196/21]
- Departmental Expenditure
300. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for this advice...
- Tax Code
302. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue generated by introducing a 40% rate for capital gains tax in circumstances in which the person making the disposal has an annual income...
- Departmental Transport
304. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric models; and if he will...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Staff
305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a public competition will be run under the TLAC process to select candidates for the position of Secretary General of his Department;...
- Pensions Data
306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid by the State in 2018, 2019 and 2020 to financial companies involved in managing State pension funds in tabular form; and...
- EU Directives
307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the transposition of EU Directive EU 2019/1937; if he will embark on pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill; and if this...
- State Visits
308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the finalised schedule of costs associated with the Papal visit to the Phoenix Park in 2018; and if any of the costs...
- National Parks
309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full update in respect of all gates that were removed for restoration in the Phoenix Park; the full costs of same;...
- Heritage Centres
311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans for the tourist interpretative heritage centre in Cashel, County Tipperary; and if a location for the centre has...
- Departmental Bodies
312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each of the public bodies under his aegis and the publicly-funded bodies of the ESRI and Institute of Public Administration advertise...
- Departmental Bodies Expenditure
315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 414 and 416 of 31 March 2021, if there is consideration to establish guidance for public bodies...
- Departmental Bodies
316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 103 and 104 of 1 April 2021, if the Institute of Public Administration could also initiate such...
- Office of Public Works
317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works plans to provide mentoring to other public bodies and publicly-funded agencies under his aegis with regard...
- Flood Relief Schemes
318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 21 April 2021, if he will report on progress to provide flood relief works specifically at...
- Garda Stations
319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected timeline for the commencement and completion of refurbishment and upgrading of Bawnboy Garda station, County Cavan; and if...
- Irish Language
320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish...
- Departmental Contracts
322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction;...
- Garda Stations
323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 548 of 21 April 2021, if he will provide a schedule of the 40 former Garda stations that are...
- Flood Relief Schemes
324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Skibbereen flood relief scheme; the outstanding works on the Cork Road; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Office of Public Works
325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions being taken to address the serious deterioration of the recently constructed Bandon river fish pass; the estimated costs of...
- Departmental Expenditure
326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies...
- National Parks
328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the locations of the temporary toilet facilities for the Phoenix Park; and the expected duration these facilities will be in place for....
- Departmental Transport
329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Covid-19 Pandemic
330. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Gaeltacht colleges will reopen in summer 2021 for second year secondary students who are booked in from 7 June 2021 for a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
331. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans being put in place to protect the employees of the hospitality sector (details supplied). [22309/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sporting activities that qualify as elite as per the Covid-19 guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Product Labelling
336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered proposals to introduce a national bilingual packaging policy that would see all packaging contain both Irish...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if wet pubs are eligible to apply for outdoor seating grants under Fáilte Ireland. [21224/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a formal response has been delivered to an organisation (details supplied) in respect of a document that was furnished to her...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department can assist in the recovery of the tourism, sport, culture and entertainment sectors in...
- Social Media Regulation
345. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to ensure social media companies take more responsibility for persons hosting malicious, harassing and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
346. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider including traditional pubs in the cohort of businesses that can avail of the new outdoor grant for the...
- Sports Capital Programme
347. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to open funding for large-scale sports infrastructure funding as detailed under the Programme for Government; if so,...
- Telecommunications Infrastructure
349. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure access to fibre optic broadband and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
350. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason traditional or wet pubs are not included in the outdoor dining scheme; if this exclusion will be reconsidered; the...
- Product Labelling
351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to bilingual packaging will be examined; and if she...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
352. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the need to expand the outdoor dining scheme to wet...
- Swimming Pool Programme
354. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of public swimming pools under the local authority swimming pool programme in each local authority; and the year in...
- Gambling Sector
359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has carried out an analysis into the increasing number of gambling adverts on television; if she has considered...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
361. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the €12 million allocation under the weatherproofing and outdoor dining infrastructure scheme; the way in...
- Sports Capital Programme
362. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 262 and 273 of 10 February 2021, if an update will be provided in respect of a grant; the...
- Sports Organisations
363. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention or that of Sport Ireland has been drawn to continuing challenges in respect of staff and the recruitment process...
- Craoltóirí Seirbhíse Poiblí
364. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an difear ó thaobh aschur na seirbhíse nuachta teilifíse i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge ag RTÉ,...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
368. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if financial supports will be extended into 2022 for tour operators (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Irish Language
369. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the...
- Tourism Industry
371. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the work her Department is undertaking to support the tourism sector as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a...
- National Concert Hall
372. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reasons the National Concert Hall received €11.824 million in 2021 compared to €3.062 million in 2020 from her...
- Gaeltacht Policy
373. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for Gaeltacht courses for summer 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22002/21]
- Tourism Industry
374. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views regarding the ability of aquariums to remain in business and the potential negative impact closures could have on...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
375. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Programme for Government commitment to prioritise the work of Údarás na Gaeltachta in strengthening...
- Tourism Industry
376. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure the revival of tourism in Cork city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21799/21]
- Irish Language
378. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to engage with local authorities to increase the promotion of the Irish language; and if she will make a statement on...
- Tourism Policy
379. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to develop a sustainable tourism policy document and in advance of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
380. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her engagement with and the supports in place for local newspaper and radio outlets during the pandemic; and if she will make a...
- Sports Capital Programme
382. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the 2020 Sports Capital and Equipment Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21808/21]
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
383. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the assessment of the impact of Brexit and Covid-19 on Údarás na Gaeltachta and its...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
384. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her engagement with the hospitality sector in relation to the reopening and easing of restrictions; and if she will make a...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
386. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the activities of Údarás na Gaeltachta; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21801/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
387. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address matters raised in correspondence in relation to non-elite sports (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Creative Ireland Programme
388. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the new €2 million fund to be administered by Creative Climate Action – Creative Ireland; the aims...
- Tourism Industry
390. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagement her Department has had regarding a possible successor to the stay and spend incentive; if engagement has taken...
- Sports Capital Programme
391. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of examining the applications under the sports capital and equipment programme; the breakdown of applications by county...
- Sports Events
392. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has had discussions in terms of supporting a possible joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup; if so, the details...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
393. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that have been provided to cultural institutions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Island Communities
396. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if discussions have taken place in relation to maximising the tourism potential of the islands considering their prioritisation in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
397. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the reopening of the outdoor and self-contained sectors; and if she will...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
401. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Údarás na Gaeltachta Strategic Plan for 2021 – 2025; when the plan will be finalised; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
402. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial supports available for churches that on the instruction of the Government have closed and have moved services online...
- Departmental Contracts
403. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of each contract entered into by her Department and the agencies under her remit to deal with Covid-19 management and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
404. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will include covering awnings and canopies as items that may be purchased in respect of the outdoor dining grant in view of...
- Sports Capital Programme
405. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter regarding an application by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
406. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by her Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the...
- Sport and Recreational Development
410. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if horse riding lessons for children are classed as underage non-contact training; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Tourism Funding
411. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will advise on grants for a glamping business that wishes to provide pods specifically for persons with disabilities. [22327/21]
- Tourism Industry
413. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the recovery of the tourism sector nationally in the event of getting Covid-19 under control; and if she will make a...
- General Data Protection Regulation
414. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she will address the protection of privacy given the global tendency by various media outlets to avoid...
- Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
415. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she can take to discourage breaches of compliance with best regulatory media practice; and if she will make a statement...
- Arts Promotion
416. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to be in a position to assist in the promotion of the arts post-Covid-19 given the challenges...
- Sport and Recreational Development
418. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects the reopening of the sporting sector in the event of controlling Covid-19, having particular...
- Departmental Funding
423. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of her Department’s budget for 2021 with regard to the...
- Sports Funding
425. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to be in a position to assist the various sporting organisations nationally by way of grants or...
- Swimming Pool Programme
427. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she proposes to fund swimming pools in 2021 having particular regard to the interest likely to be generated in...
- Sports Facilities
428. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of playing pitches in Dublin city which details the number of all-weather pitches available to clubs,...
- Departmental Transport
429. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by her Department or agencies under her remit with hybrid or...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Local Authority Services
430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if wet pubs will be included in his proposed waiver for street furniture. [21225/21]
- Quarrying Sector
431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by his Department to local authorities that have to reinstate land relative to the...
- Wildlife Protection
432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 3 February 2021, if a decision has been made with regard to a declaration of...
- Housing Issues
433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is intended that the independent working group to examine defective housing will receive public submissions; when such...
- Housing Assistance Payment
434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason local authorities are not provided with discretion on eligibility for those marginally above the income threshold...
- Wind Energy Guidelines
435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impacts of geophysical surveys for the Dublin array wind farm on local fishers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rental Sector
436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rented houses and apartments nationally; the number of these properties that are houses with multiple occupancy;...
- Residential Tenancies Board
437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspectors employed by the Residential Tenancies Board nationwide and by county; and if he will make a statement...
- Housing Issues
438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Independent Working Group to examine defective housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Homeless Persons Data
440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report into the deaths of persons experiencing homelessness. [21321/21]
- Traveller Accommodation
441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the spend to date by local authorities of the Traveller accommodation budget; and the breakdown of this spend on...
- Housing Provision
442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up to date position regarding the ability of homeowners (details supplied) in County Kildare to purchase their own homes;...
- Invasive Plant Species
443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 24 February 2021 (details supplied), the progress that has been made by the...
- Youth Homelessness Strategy
444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the youth homelessness strategy; the person or body that will be tasked with drafting this strategy; when...
- Housing Provision
445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units built in 2019 and 2020 that were one-bedroom units; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Parks
449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be ensured that deer fences are fitted on the boundary fencing around national parks (details supplied); and if he...
- Shared Ownership Scheme
451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed shared equity scheme will commence. [21387/21]
- Rural Resettlement Scheme
452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the rural settlement policy will be reviewed to address the chronic shortage of available housing for sale in rural areas;...
- Housing for People with Disabilities
453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action being taken to address access to social housing for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on...
- Water Quality
454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the water supply is tested at the domestic level to ascertain if the supply is in breach of the maximum level of lead...
- Housing Provision
455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding details approved by his Department for a social housing lease agreement between an organisation (details supplied)...
- Fire Service
456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of all costs associated with the closure of a service (details supplied) including all costs associated with...
- Housing Data
457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications submitted in the first quarter of 2021; the number of applications...
- Homeless Persons Data
459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homelessness task force and housing delivery task force meetings that have taken place in the past six months;...
- Housing Data
460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a list of all organisations and persons he has consulted in preparation of his Housing for All plan will be provided; when...
- Housing Provision
461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the draft national architecture policy; when the next phase of the consultation will take place; when he will...
- Water Quality
462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending the bathing season in Dublin Bay to year round to facilitate year round water testing which will allow...
- Water Pollution
463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the Irish Water admission that in the four year period 2017-2020 a total of approximately 8.875 million cubic...
- Housing Data
466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in quarter 1 of 2021 via the repair and lease scheme. [21575/21]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Programme for Government commitment to reduce emissions into coastal seas in particular Dublin Bay by...
- Wildlife Conservation
472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if steps will be taken to remove red and amber listed birds from the Open Seasons Order given they are threatened birds of the...
- Housing Data
473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a year by year schedule of retrofitting to meet the target of 500,000 homes by 2030; and if he will make a...
- Climate Change Policy
474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional staff (details supplied) will be considered to develop climate action teams at local authority level; and if he...
- Defective Building Materials
475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will carry out an urgent review of the financial assistance that will be required by the State to include County Clare...
- Turf Cutting
476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person can continue to cut turf on their own private bog on land that they own. [21724/21]
- Homeless Persons Data
479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the findings of a recent survey (details supplied) of persons that are homeless. [21736/21]
- Housing Data
480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding his Department has allocated to each local authority for the purpose of maintenance and repairs of council houses...
- Traveller Accommodation
481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to each local authority specifically for Traveller accommodation in each of the past five years; the...
- Tourism Industry
482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered providing targeted supports to zoos and aquariums such as Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park; and if he...
- Wildlife Data
483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department collects data on the estimated number of birds killed on an annual basis by coming into contact with onshore...
- Irish Language
484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through...
- Housing Policy
486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the documentation that is acceptable to prove residence for an exemption of non-principal private residence; if there is a...
- Residential Tenancies Board
487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties which are registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in each local authority in tabular form;...
- Rent Data
490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action proposed to be taken to deal with the non-registration of rented accommodation given that in some local authority...
- Wildlife Conservation
491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of allocated conservation ranger positions in County Kerry; if these posts are filled; and if he will make a...
- Housing Issues
493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to a manufacturing firm whose turnover is...
- Programme for Government
496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to increase funding to political parties to support youth, gender...
- Departmental Contracts
497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with local authorities regarding waiving street furniture licence fees as part of an interdepartmental...
- Local Authority Housing
499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of direct builds of social housing by Dublin City Council in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [22184/21]
- Departmental Expenditure
500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Northern Ireland
502. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which together with the UK Government, an all-out effort is being made to address the emerging situation in Northern Ireland...
- Passport Applications
503. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an emergency passport renewal will issue to a healthcare professional (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Diplomatic Representation
504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the recent announcement of deportations of Syrian and other asylum seekers from Denmark to detention centres outside the EU...
- Northern Ireland
505. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that have been taken to investigate the procurement of the rights of a book (details supplied) as was suggested in Dáil...
- Public Procurement Contracts
506. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of Ireland on the UN Database of Companies Operating in Israel’s Illegal Settlements published in 2020; if this database...
- Passport Applications
507. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if exceptions can be made in the case of persons who require an Irish passport for purposes of work visas overseas notwithstanding the...
- Brexit Issues
508. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of officials that worked on the Brexit talks that were permanently based in Brussels in the critical run up period from October...
- Ministerial Meetings
509. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the briefings and the number of briefings he had with the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and his officials...
- Passport Applications
512. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21615/21]
- Foreign Birth Registration
513. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in registering the foreign birth of a person (details supplied); when the application will be concluded which is...
- Middle East
514. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read a recent report (details supplied); his views on the report; his further views on whether it is now time to begin speaking in...
- Irish Language
515. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish...
- Passport Services
517. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase staff in the passport office to deal with the backlog of applications that have mounted during Covid-19 restrictions...
- Departmental Contracts
520. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and...
- Human Rights
521. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 5 November 2020, the progress made regarding a person (details supplied) in India; and if he...
- Departmental Expenditure
522. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged...
- Departmental Transport
524. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric models;...
- Department of Defence
- Irish Language
525. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish...
- Search and Rescue Service Provision
527. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his engagements with the Minister for Transport in relation to the Air Corps providing a search and rescue service; if his attention has been...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
528. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and the...
- Departmental Expenditure
529. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for...
- Departmental Transport
531. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric models; and...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Autism Support Services
532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of autism classes in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21128/21]
- Departmental Reviews
536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the independent review into the 2020 leaving certificate calculated grades system will be completed and published; and if she will make a...
- School Transport
537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21159/21]
- Teaching Council of Ireland
538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors who are currently registered with the Teaching Council as non-teacher guidance counsellors; and if she will...
- Departmental Reports
539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to implement the recommendations of the 2019 report on career guidance that was commissioned by his Department and produced by...
- Teaching Qualifications
540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that have been taken to recognise the role of non-teacher qualified guidance counsellors working within second-level education...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarification on a matter in relation to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21254/21]
- School Facilities
542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarification on a matter in relation to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21256/21]
- School Transport
543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review concessionary school transport and make students eligible to travel to their nearest and second nearest schools; and if she...
- Public Sector Pay
544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary school teachers returning to Ireland from Abu Dhabi having taught in private schools there and wishing to resume teaching in Ireland...
- State Examinations
545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the RACE emergency provisions during State examinations will recommence; the number of submissions which were received on this...
- Autism Support Services
546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project for the ASD class in a school (details supplied); and the timeline for the completion of works; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21328/21]
- School Accommodation
551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of additional secondary school places (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects construction works to commence on a school (details supplied); and the expected duration of such works. [21435/21]
- School Transport
553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure Ireland does not have a repeat of the capacity issues in school transport which happened at the start of the current academic...
- Special Educational Needs
554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the freeze in reprofiling schools to determine their complex needs hours for the 2021-2022 academic year; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the building of a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21482/21]
- Autism Support Services
556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding primary school places for children with additional needs in the Dublin 12 area; the steps each school in Dublin 12 has...
- Departmental Contracts
557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if background checks are carried out on contractors and consultants in relation to the school remediation works currently being conducted by...
- Fire Safety
558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the frequency with which school fire hydrants are tested; the steps taken to repair them if found to be non-operational; and if she will make a...
- Schools Data
559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Westmeath who failed to complete the leaving certificate cycle in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
- School Transport
565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has carried out a review of the school transport schemes in view of the difficulties many parents in rural Ireland have in...
- Counselling Services
568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school children awaiting emotional counselling and therapeutic supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- National Educational Psychological Service
570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current level of service from NEPS at primary and post-primary level; her plans to increase NEPS support to schools; and if she will make a...
- Education Policy
571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to pilot workshops on well-being and resilience including trauma in order to inform approaches for school leaders in primary and...
- School Enrolments
578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when there will be a full review of the irregularities in relation to the allocation of resources for two schools (details supplied) in County...
- Gaelscoil Issues
579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills conas a fhreastalóidh sí ar an éileamh ar Ghaeloideachas ag an meánleibhéal i ndeisceart Bhaile Átha Cliath sa...
- School Transport
580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a school (details supplied) in the post-primary school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Supervision and Substitution Scheme
581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if emergency measures will be put in place for a school (details supplied) due to a lack of available teachers from the substitute panel; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students are being permitted to quarantine at boarding schools; and if so, the measures being taken to ensure that they are not interacting...
- School Facilities
584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence in relation to internet access for a school (details supplied). [21842/21]
- Special Educational Needs Staff
585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the publication of a circular by her Department with regard to a frontloaded SNA allocation model; and if her attention has...
- Special Educational Needs
586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that behaviour analysts within special schools for children with autism and complex needs are retained in the entirety of the...
- Irish Language
587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish language;...
- Education Policy
589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional learning support that is available for children that enter the primary education system before the cut off point for exemption for...
- School Staff
590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have between 20 to 23, 24 to 27 and 28 to 31 teachers within their schools in tabular form. [21984/21]
- Special Educational Needs
591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of behaviour analysts for children with autism and complex special educational needs (details supplied) in County...
- School Transport
592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1051 of 21 April 2021, if it is accepted that a school (details supplied) has traditionally been a feeder...
- Special Educational Needs
594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to address the shortage of secondary school places for children with special educational needs in Cork city; and if she...
- School Transport
595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if users of the school bus transport system cannot avail of the medical card waiver if they are on concessionary tickets; if this is the case...
- National Educational Psychological Service
596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason pupils in a school (details supplied) do not have access to an educational psychiatrist; and her plans to put this service in place in...
- School Curriculum
597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the relationship and sexuality programme developed by an organisation (details supplied) will be used in primary schools; and if so, the way...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the recommendations made in the Caranua report Facing the Future Together: Discussing Ireland’s Lifelong Responsibility to...
- School Enrolments
599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school students projected to transition to secondary level in each of the four school planning areas of Cobh, Midleton and...
- School Transport
600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 922 of 21 March 2021, when a school (details supplied) will be notified of a decision in respect of its...
- Special Educational Needs
601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are open to the parents of a child (details supplied) in securing a specialist school placement after being unsuccessful three...
- School Accommodation
602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken by a person (details supplied) to help ensure their child can attain a place at a school; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for a ten-year-old child to qualify for school personal resource hours with an IQ of less than 90; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Building Projects
606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in respect of its application for necessary additional accommodation works; the...
- School Completion Programme
608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding allocated to the School Completion Programme in 2010, 2020 and to date in 2021. [22113/21]
- Special Educational Needs Staff
609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new model of SNA provision will be released to schools (details supplied) by her Department; the reason for the delay; and if she will...
- Special Educational Needs
610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of running the school and home-based summer provision programme for children with special educational needs in 2020. [22118/21]
- DEIS Scheme
611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of running the DEIS summer camp programme in 2020. [22119/21]
- Home School Community Liaison Scheme
612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of hiring one additional home school liaison officer. [22120/21]
- Special Educational Needs
613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SET hours allocated in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [22121/21]
- Departmental Contracts
615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of each contract entered into by her Department and the agencies under her remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and the...
- Schools Building Projects
619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for new secondary schools to be built for the north Dublin city area; the number of new places that will be made available; and if she...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the use of outside facilities (details supplied) by schools under current Covid-19 restrictions; and if guidance has been...
- School Staff
621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current expenditure on guidance counsellors in secondary schools; and the cost of employing a full-time guidance counsellor for each...
- Schools Data
622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in sixth year of secondary school and in sixth class of primary school, respectively in the 2020-2021 academic year. [22191/21]
- Teaching Council of Ireland
623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of newly-registered primary school teachers with the Teaching Council who received their teaching qualification from a college...
- Special Educational Needs
625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD classes in both primary schools and post-primary schools per county annually between 2014 and 2020, inclusive in tabular form....
- School Transport
626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in respect of school transport refunds (details supplied). [22254/21]
- Departmental Expenditure
627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by her Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for...
- School Costs
629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention been drawn to calls to remove the voluntary contribution from schools given the financial difficulties each year for families...
- State Examinations
630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if State examinations in 2022 will be modified to accommodate for disruptions in teaching and learning as a result of Covid-19; and if she will...
- Departmental Transport
631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by her Department or agencies under her remit with hybrid or electric models; and...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- School Meals Programme
632. 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 considering the school serves one of...
- Illness Benefit
633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of application for an illness benefit in the case of a person (details supplied);...
- Social Welfare Benefits
634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been refused benefit payment for a 65 year...
- Pension Provisions
635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the proposed pension deal her Department has drafted in conjunction with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform...
- Employment Support Services
636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects Intreo offices to reopen to the general public; the steps she has taken to ensure that those who need to...
- Carer's Allowance
637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal for carer’s allowance will be expedited in the name of persons (details supplied). [21232/21]
- Pensions Council
638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the decision by the Pensions Commission not to publish the submissions it received during...
- State Pensions
639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason former gardaí who worked in the public sector prior to April 1995 do not have entitlement to a State pension...
- Community Employment Schemes
640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will carry out a review of the payment made to participants under the community employment scheme in which the current...
- Social Welfare Schemes
641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the regional breakdown by county of requests for supports available under the reasonable accommodation fund 2016-2020; the...
- Civil Marriages
642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to entitling qualified civil celebrants to solemnise weddings; and if she will make a...
- Pensions Reform
644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a 2014 OECD report (details supplied); her further views on its finding that current pension fee caps are...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the support and incentives available to part-time employees currently receiving the pandemic unemployment payment who are...
- Community Employment Schemes
647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make contact with a centre (details supplied) whose maintenance worker is due to conclude their community...
- Family Resource Centres
648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the family resource centres in County Mayo which receive funding from agencies under her remit; and if she will make a...
- Community Employment Schemes
649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently review the possibility of providing set 12 month extensions to the contracts of community employment and...
- Jobseeker's Payments
650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the conditions under which a person receiving a jobseeker’s payment can be referred to a JobPath provider; if they...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria used to determine if a recently unemployed person can avail of the various back to education schemes and retain...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement payments currently being paid. [21572/21]
- Fuel Allowance
653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considered an extension to the fuel allowance season; if so, the reason it was decided not to extend the allowance as...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis for the denial of the pandemic unemployment payment to those over 66 years of age that are self-employed and have...
- Carer's Allowance
655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was only granted a reduced carer’s allowance on means grounds as a result of a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address an issue in relation to persons who may have applied for a pandemic unemployment payment with the...
- JobPath Programme
659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if JobPath has been closed down in accordance with the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2019; if...
- Labour Activation Measures
660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans or those of her Department with regard to so-called activation measures such as JobPath (details supplied); and if...
- Irish Language
661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through...
- Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by €35 for all children. [21979/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a dedicated phoneline or email service for community employment workers, community employment projects...
- Pensions Council
665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1204 of 21 April 2021, the date on which she wrote to the Pensions Council requesting...
- Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme
666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the 13 weeks requalification anomaly by early intervention and referral of persons on partial capacity...
- Employment Support Services
667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1183 of 21 April 2021, the number of persons employed through the JobsPlus scheme; and...
- Departmental Contracts
668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of each contract entered into by her Department and the agencies under her remit to deal with Covid-19 management...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy with regard to the continuation and payment of the pandemic unemployment payment after 30 June 2021; and if she...
- Youth Unemployment
672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions taken by her Department to date to implement EU Council Recommendation, A Bridge to Jobs, Reinforcing the Youth...
- Pensions Reform
673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the pensions auto enrolment system; the expected commencement date for the implementation...
- Lobbying Regulation
674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the bodies and advisory structures under the aegis of her Department which are subject to the transparency...
- School Meals Programme
675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to extend the school meals programme into the summer months in 2021 for all current participants. [22165/21]
- Employment Support Services
678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of proposed changes to the delivery of public employment services; her plans to retain the...
- State Pensions
679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the qualified adult allowance under the contributory pension for a person (details supplied) can be backdated to when they...
- Enterprise Support Services
680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the enterprise support grant; the number of grants that have been approved to date; and if she will make a...
- Community Employment Schemes
681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made on the creation of a community employment scheme for the disabled (details supplied); and if...
- Community Welfare Services
682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by community welfare officers in each of the years 2018 to 2020, by county; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expected timeframe for a decision on an application for the domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied);...
- Free Travel Scheme
687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend access to free travel to persons with epilepsy and other long-term health conditions that are ineligible...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance
689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount awarded as travel supplement under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme for the past five years in tabular...
- Departmental Transport
690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by her Department or agencies under her remit with hybrid or...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Direct Provision System
691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider the relocation of a person (details supplied) to a Dublin centre given that they have...
- Legislative Measures
694. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will bring forward legislation on banning so-called conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ persons; and if he...
- Anti-Racism Measures
695. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the interim report of the Anti-Racism Committee which held its first meeting on the 18 June 2020 will be...
- National Childcare Scheme
696. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the national childcare scheme community based...
- Child Detention Centres
697. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children placed in Oberstown Childrens Detention Campus for periods of up to three years, three to...
- National Childcare Scheme
698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the impact on the viability and continuation of services (details supplied)...
- Carer's Leave
699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending carer's leave to support carers who left work to care for a loved one, given the...
- Family Resource Centres
701. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget allocation for the family resource centre programme in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in...
- Departmental Policy Functions
702. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the relationship between the National Standards for Foster Care 2003 and the draft national standards for...
- Direct Provision System
703. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision centres after their leave to remain applications...
- Domestic Violence Services
704. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children who accessed Tusla-funded domestic violence refuge accommodation to date in...
- Child and Family Agency
705. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of cases taken or legal proceedings issued by persons against Tusla in each of the past five years....
- Protected Disclosures
707. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of protected disclosures made to his Department by social workers since he took office. [21742/21]
- Child and Family Agency
708. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that Tusla paid to private foster care companies, including those that vet and support foster...
- Children in Care
709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have died while in receipt of State care in each of the past five years and to date...
- Child and Family Agency
712. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of data breaches Tusla has suffered in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and if he...
- Foster Care
714. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if foster parents are required to cease paid employment in order to provide foster care; if they are entitled to...
- Asylum Seekers
715. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of the pilot programme to introduce vulnerability assessments for asylum seekers; the persons...
- Irish Language
716. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department and agencies, under his remit, facilitate persons wishing to engage with...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
718. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with his Ministerial colleague at the Department of Education in respect of the...
- Gender Equality
719. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1210 of 21 April 2021, if he will provide a schedule of the works...
- Foster Care
720. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has had engagements with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its concerns with the replacement of...
- Departmental Contracts
721. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19...
- Youth Work Supports
722. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the allocations to the individual funding lines and schemes (details supplied) arising from the additional...
- Youth Services
723. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the allocation of €1 million for six new projects under the UBU Your Place Your Space...
- Wards of Court
725. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1249 of 24 March 2021, if young persons taken into wardship in 2020 and to...
- Family Resource Centres
726. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided by his Department or agencies under his remit annually to family resource centres; the...
- Direct Provision System
727. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the direction he has given to the providers of catering in direct provision centres to accommodate the altered...
- Disability Services Funding
728. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are funding streams available for community groups in County Donegal to provide for a wheelchair swing...
- Departmental Expenditure
729. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in...
- Department of Education and Skills
- EU Funding
731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received any of the State allocation of the EU React funding; if so, the amount; and the areas of expenditure under the...
- Nursing Education
732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1298 of 21 March 2021, if the current intake quota for student nurses at third-level is due to limits on...
- Third Level Fees
733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will review the possibility of retrospective further tax relief on third-level fees; if measures will be considered which can...
- Student Grant Scheme
734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider amending the Student Support Act 2011 to support Irish students studying within the EU who would qualify for SUSI support if...
- Third Level Admissions
735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places available for students wishing to study medicine in Irish universities; the annual intake of first year students; his views...
- Erasmus+ Programme
736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish students enrolled in Erasmus abroad and in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21464/21]
- Third Level Education
737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish students enrolled on joint programmes abroad and in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21465/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place in relation to mandatory hotel quarantine for returning non-Erasmus third-level students; and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department plans to allocate funding to pre-apprenticeship training programmes that work predominantly with early school leavers and offer...
- Youthreach Programme
746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills he capacity in each of the youthreach services in County Westmeath in tabular form. [21514/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure financial assistance towards the cost of quarantine is put in place for returning students who are currently on unpaid...
- Third Level Fees
752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the recent fee exemption for Erasmus students to all students that are required to spend time overseas as part of their course;...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional investment that will be required to reduce the staff-student ratio to 15:1. [21611/21]
- Third Level Fees
754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who are Irish citizens that are denied the free fees initiative under the residency criteria, that is, having not been...
- Language Schools
755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of meetings he or his officials have had with stakeholders from the English language school sector; the status of his plans to ensure...
- Student Support Schemes
756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commission a cost-benefit analysis review of adding a university (details supplied) and other open colleges which issue QQI awards and...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting 14 months to move to the next stage of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Fees
758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a situation that has arisen in which non-national leaving certificate students hoping to progress to further...
- Third Level Costs
760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to the State of abolishing the student contribution charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21759/21]
- Student Universal Support Ireland
762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that applied for a SUSI grant in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of students that were...
- Irish Language
764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish language;...
- Technological Universities
766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made towards giving Thurles and Clonmel university towns status; the approximate date by which such status will be formally...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and the...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants who are registered on craft apprenticeship pre-apprenticeship programmes; the number of these participants who are...
- Student Grant Scheme
771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work of the student grants appeals board in 2019 and 2020; the number of meetings held by the board; the number of appeals...
- Lobbying Regulation
772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the bodies and advisory structures under the aegis of his Department which are subject to the transparency code; if all such...
- Third Level Education
773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are taking place to identify and prioritise the students that can return to third-level campuses as soon as possible; if work has...
- Third Level Admissions
776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1298 of 21 April 2021, if this is an exhaustive list of all quotas on intake numbers applied to third level...
- Third Level Institutions
779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1302, 1340 and 1341 of 21 April 2021, if his Department or the HEA monitor or collate information on the...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the funding of the Technological University Dublin pilot pre-apprenticeship programme between industry, the HEA and the Social...
- Third Level Institutions
782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question Nos. 1313 and 1314 of 21 April 2021, if the total planned Exchequer programme B and National Training Fund,...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1318 of 21 April 2021, if his Department or any other State agency monitor or collects data in relation to...
- National Training Fund
786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1326 of 21 April 2021, the annual and reserve surplus of the NTF by 2025 if expenditure remained stable but...
- Departmental Expenditure
787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for...
- Departmental Advertising
788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by his Department on advertising and public messaging in print, broadcast and online since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the...
- Student Support Schemes
789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of core funding provided to public institutions that is ring-fenced for student supports, for example, counselling, access office,...
- Electric Vehicles
790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric models; and...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Property Management Companies
791. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if management companies are entitled to charge interest rates of 16% on management company fees; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Funding
792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which funding from the community safety innovation fund will be allocated. [22067/21]
- Anti-Racism Measures
793. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she can ensure a fair and even balance between the right to freedom of expression and the rejection of...
- Workplace Relations Commission
794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to a Workplace Relations...
- Victim Support Services
795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the training provided to An Garda Síochána and employees of the Courts Service in dealing with victims of sexual...
- Online Safety
796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a campaign (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21286/21]
- Irish Language
797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to ensure that persons can apply for work and residency permits and citizenship in Irish; and if she...
- Visa Applications
798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21288/21]
- Taxi Licences
799. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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...
- Legislative Programme
800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the gambling control Bill will be published; and if the Bill will explicitly transfer gambling addiction to the remit of...
- Garda Training
801. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a training programme exists or has been introduced for gardaí and Garda staff to build their competency and skills to...
- Road Traffic Accidents
802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported collisions and traffic incidents occurring at or 100 metres before or after Knockmaroon Hill,...
- Road Traffic Offences
803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons summoned to court for not paying a fixed charge notice for speeding by District Court in 2019, 2020 and...
- Garda Transport Provision
804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided to purchase five additional vans for the Garda armed support unit. [21427/21]
- Road Traffic Offences
805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons summoned to court for not paying a fixed charge notice for driving while holding a mobile phone by...
- Garda Support Services
806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of dogs currently in the Garda dog unit that are trained in explosives. [21429/21]
- Garda Equipment
807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number evidential breath testing machines allocated to each Garda division as of 16 April 2021, in tabular form. [21430/21]
- Garda Support Services
808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capacity of each motorcycle shed for roads policing motorcycles in each roads policing unit base in tabular form. [21431/21]
- Garda Civilian Staff
809. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any handwriting experts are employed by An Garda Síochána; if not, the plans to employ handwriting experts. [21432/21]
- Garda Investigations
810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of investigations carried out by gardaí into breaches of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 in each of the years...
- Garda Equipment
811. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the last time Garda public order shields and helmets were last updated; and when they are next scheduled to be updated. [21434/21]
- Visa Applications
812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a visa in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will...
- Garda Stations
813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant Garda residences attached to Garda stations; the number of other Garda properties surplus to requirement;...
- Visa Applications
814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received work visa applications in respect of persons (details supplied) who have work permits; and when such visa...
- Naturalisation Applications
815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Bench Warrants
816. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding bench warrants in each of the years 2016 to 2020, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Garda Data
817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding European arrest warrants for Irish citizens in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; and...
- Legal Aid Service
818. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions being taken to address lengthy waiting lists for mediation services provided by the Legal Aid Board; and if she...
- Naturalisation Applications
820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Visa Applications
821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision will issue in respect of an appeal for a visa in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Policing Co-operation
822. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide a multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalation team that will include members of An Garda...
- Legislative Reviews
823. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the application of the Criminal Procedure Act 1967, if necessary by an amendment to section 4(b) thereof...
- Garda Data
826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge penalty notices issued in 2020 and to date in 2021 for public order related offences by Garda...
- Garda Transport Provision
828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda roads policing vehicles that came into the fleet in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the number of roads...
- Legislative Measures
829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to change the law to ensure that persons responsible for killing spouses or civil partners do not benefit...
- Firearms Licences
830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of silencers for firearms that are licensed in Ireland. [22115/21]
- Departmental Contracts
831. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of each contract entered into by her Department and the agencies under her remit to deal with Covid-19 management and...
- Legislative Reviews
832. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to recognising divorce which has occurred outside of the State prior to 1986; and if she will...
- Housing Issues
833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to inflation of house prices through the practice known as gazumping; the action that can be...
- Departmental Expenditure
834. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by her Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the...
- International Protection
836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the waiting times for international protection related interviews. [22323/21]
- Department of Health
- Covid-19 Pandemic
837. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the progress towards combatting the Covid-19 pandemic with particular reference to the need to ensure that...
- Vaccination Programme
838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in the HSE west, CHO2 area for child psychologists; the current situation regarding the filling of these vacancies; the number of...
- Maternity Services
839. To ask the Minister for Health if it is HSE policy that partners can attend the 20-week scan given this is not being implemented in University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
841. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will issue guidance to businesses relying on international students as a matter of priority in order that they can make provisions for the...
- Health Services
843. To ask the Minister for Health if further assistance will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21140/21]
- Health Insurance
844. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some insurance companies are refusing to provide health insurance to persons who become ill as a result of receiving the Covid-19 vaccine; if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
845. To ask the Minister for Health if a person travelling to a country on the quarantine list for surgery can obtain an exemption from mandatory quarantine; if so, the way they apply for same;...
- Hospital Appointments Status
847. 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. [21157/21]
- Primary Medical Certificates
848. To ask the Minister for Health when community medical doctors will be in a position to recommence regular primary medical certificate assessments following legal clarification in relation to...
- Vaccination Programme
849. To ask the Minister for Health when and the way in which housebound persons will be vaccinated; when housebound persons in County Waterford will be vaccinated; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
852. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing compositions of each public health department; the number of approved posts by grade, filled and vacant, respectively; and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Communications
858. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on integrating public health on an all-island basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
859. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on developing all-island contingency planning to prepare for future island-wide epidemics; and if he...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
862. To ask the Minister for Health the reason student nurses have to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to take up employment given this does not apply to their senior colleagues; and if he...
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use
863. To ask the Minister for Health the prerequisites for adding products to the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; if products can only be added to the Programme if previously prescribed in...
- Health Services Expenditure
864. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an analysis of the overall spending on pharmaceuticals in the health service; if so, the conclusions of same; the...
- Vaccination Programme
866. To ask the Minister for Health if certain essential personnel working in pharmaceutical companies will be prioritised for vaccination (details supplied). [21190/21]
- Motorised Transport Grant
868. To ask the Minister for Health when it is envisaged that the motorised transport grant and similar supports towards the purchase of an automatic or adapted vehicle will be restored; and if...
- Health Services
869. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outstanding applications for acceptance to residential institution settings by CHO area, broken down in internal areas within each CHO and the...
- Pension Provisions
870. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a pension increase for a person (details supplied) who worked for the HSE. [21226/21]
- Health Services Access
871. To ask the Minister for Health when chiropody services will be made available in Tuam primary care centre, Tuam, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21233/21]
- Covid-19 Tests
872. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to implement the recommendations of a report (details supplied) on Covid-19 rapid testing in respect of the graduated return of...
- Vaccination Programme
876. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a difference in payment for persons administering Covid-19 vaccinations depending on if they are nurses or doctors. [21242/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
877. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Health (Amendment) Act 2021 and the associated regulations in order that those who already have had Covid-19 can be exempt from mandatory...
- Pharmaceutical Sector
878. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21246/21]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
879. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the upcoming legislation on the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21250/21]
- Hospital Appointments Status
880. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21252/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
881. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the chair did not invite the members to endorse the minutes of 25 February 2021 NPHET meeting at the meeting on 18 March 2021; the reason the...
- Pharmacy Services
882. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore the FEMPI cuts in the pharmacy sector. [21263/21]
- Maternity Services
884. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the distress current restrictions at maternity hospitals are causing expectant mothers and their partners; the basis for...
- Vaccination Programme
885. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be vaccinated soon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21272/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
886. To ask the Minister for Health if travelling to attend a wedding is classified as essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21284/21]
- Mental Health Services
887. To ask the Minister for Health the reason supports are not being provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21289/21]
- HSE Staff
888. To ask the Minister for Health when the outcome of the job evaluation for homecare support assistants which was promised in September 2020 will be published; if the recommendations of the...
- Vaccination Programme
889. To ask the Minister for Health if those aged between 60-69 years of age will be offered an alternative vaccine to a vaccine (details supplied) in cases in which they have a significant...
- Tobacco Control Measures
890. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the sale and use of vaping and e cigarettes by children and young adults; the regulations in relation to same; if he plans to amend...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
892. To ask the Minister for Health if contact tracing calls are recorded; if so, the reasoning for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21307/21]
- Maternity Services
895. To ask the Minister for Health when the restrictions will be eased at Limerick Maternity Hospital given that the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin has lifted the restrictions on partners; and if he...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
897. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients with significantly reduced lung capacity are not receiving early vaccinations given the dangers that Covid-19 poses to their health; and if...
- Hospital Appointments Status
899. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21339/21]
- Alcohol Pricing
900. To ask the Minister for Health when minimum unit pricing will be implemented as prescribed in the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018. [21340/21]
- Health Research Board
901. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Research Board drugs and alcohol behavioural study will be published. [21341/21]
- National Drugs Strategy
902. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the mid-term review of the National Drugs Strategy. [21342/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
904. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification regarding mandatory hotel quarantine for children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21356/21]
- Abortion Services
905. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce measures to ensure care for women who initiate legal abortions in Ireland but whose abortion fails beyond the 12-week timeline and...
- Mental Health Services
906. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cross border directive mental health referrals that have been sent to Northern Ireland in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in...
- Addiction Treatment Services
909. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 9 September 2020, the status of the promised alcohol addiction treatment service in Galway city; if a building has...
- Cross-Border Co-operation
910. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have availed of the cross border directive for each service (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
912. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the pop-up walk-in Covid-19 test centres by test centre; the locations they are or have been in operation; the way in which the locations are...
- Health Services
915. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements of persons with endometriosis to medical treatment here and abroad; the extent to which this is covered by the public system; the extent to...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
916. To ask the Minister for Health the speed with which the legislative changes to exempt vaccinated persons from a mandatory hotel quarantine upon arrival in Ireland will take effect; and if an...
- Maternity Services
917. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that an ad hoc approach is not being taken by different hospitals to allowing partners to access antenatal appointments and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
919. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding children travelling with applicable travellers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21401/21]
- Vaccination Programme
920. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their Covid-19 vaccine; when they will receive same; and if this can be arranged as a matter of...
- Child Protection
921. To ask the Minister for Health the training regarding child protection provided to staff supervising the hotels in which mandatory hotel quarantine is carried out; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
922. To ask the Minister for Health the number of those reported to Deputies as having died with Covid-19 at a HSE mid-west briefing on 26 March 2021, that had Covid-19 recorded as the disease or...
- Vaccination Programme
923. To ask the Minister for Health the acute hospitals that have been contacted for lists of heart failure patients with regard to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement...
- Crisis Pregnancy Services
924. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to regulate rogue crisis pregnancy agencies that seek to delay and misinform those seeking information on abortion services; and if he...
- Mental Health Services
925. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalation team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21409/21]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
926. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an urgent general practitioner referral x-ray in each acute hospital; the waiting time for such an x-ray in each acute hospital;...
- Maternity Services
927. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity and an update in relation to partners of pregnant person’s attendance at prenatal appointments, labour and delivery (details...
- Hospital Admissions
928. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an admission date to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. [21413/21]
- Hospital Facilities
929. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the seven additional isolation rooms in the bone marrow unit at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; when this project will commence;...
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
930. To ask the Minister for Health the number of STI clinics nationally; the staffing numbers at each; the vacancy numbers at each; and the length of time the vacancies have existed. [21418/21]
- Hospital Facilities
931. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cryotherapy machines in each public and voluntary hospital; and the number of persons waiting for appointments to use these machines in each...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
933. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times to see a consultant paediatric vascular surgeon at CHI Crumlin. [21421/21]
- Hospital Facilities
934. To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatres and operational theatres respectively at Tallaght University Hospital in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [21422/21]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
935. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times to see a consultant paediatric urologist at CHI Temple Street. [21423/21]
- Vaccination Programme
936. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their vaccine against Covid-19; the reason for the delay in this vaccination; and if he will make a statement on...
- Disabilities Assessments
937. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the lack of access to an assessment of social care support needs for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
938. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this practice of requiring training in the absence of a job offer is in line with...
- Health Promotion
939. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the actions and targets of the Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016-2021; if the subsequent action plan will be clarified; if he will consider the...
- Medical Cards
940. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21476/21]
- Vaccination Programme
942. To ask the Minister for Health if priority will be given to parents of children and adults with intellectual disabilities in terms of the vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on...
- Stroke Care
943. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to a person (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to services for a person over 65 years of age; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Provision
944. To ask the Minister for Health when the oculist service for the provision of prosthetic eyes for young persons will be available again particularly in relation to persons (details supplied);...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
946. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of his Department and the timelines with respect to the reopening of day care centres and such facilities for older persons who have been fully...
- Health Services Provision
949. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a significant community effort to secure funding for a life-saving treatment for a person (details supplied); if his...
- Vaccination Programme
950. To ask the Minister for Health the position of persons aged 60 to 64 years of age who are in group 4 on the vaccine schedule; and his plans to resolve a lacuna in the vaccine roll-out as it...
- Disability Services Data
951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff with disabilities and those without disabilities employed by State-funded disability service providers; if State-funded disability service...
- Hospice Services
952. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the siting issue for a new hospice in Tullamore, County Offaly. [21524/21]
- Vaccination Programme
953. To ask the Minister for Health when the vaccination of pharmacy staff will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21532/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
956. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of a dispensation to the travel restrictions for those travelling to disability sports training based outside of their own...
- Vaccination Programme
957. To ask the Minister for Health the list of conditions which details were requested on in relation to each of the acute hospitals which have been contacted for lists of patients with regard...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
959. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the accompanying passenger who has to travel with the patient does not have their Covid-19 test which is mandatory covered by the treatment abroad...
- Treatment Abroad Scheme
960. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of fees that are covered for airline tickets and those that are not covered under the treatment abroad scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Vaccination Programme
961. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the quarter 1 prioritisation exercise carried out by HIQA; if an evaluation of the varicella chickenpox vaccine has been included in this work;...
- Health Services Staff
962. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provide on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the practice of requiring training in the absence of a job offer is in...
- HSE Data
964. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1028, 1029 and 1030 of 24 February 2021, the details and all documentation related to donations over €100,000 for...
- HSE Donations
966. To ask the Minister for Health if an audit has been conducted to assess compliance with the HSE national financial regulation No. 17. [21602/21]
- Vaccination Programme
971. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to approve and to use a vaccine (details supplied) in the current Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
974. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21613/21]
- Health Services Staff
975. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the resolution of the public health doctors and consultant deal in particular the terms for roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
976. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that died with Covid-19 from 1 February 2020 to 15 of April 2021, by county; the number that died in private nursing homes, HSE nursing...
- Mental Health Services
977. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in which patients of mental health services were prescribed excessive amounts of medication in the previous five years, by county; the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
978. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred for HSE nursing homes in the management of Covid-19 to date; the geographical distribution of the funding; and the number of HSE...
- Vaccination Programme
985. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a Covid-19 vaccine. [21683/21]
- Treatment Abroad Scheme
986. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding was refused under the treatment abroad scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) given a previous application was approved on 20...
- HSE Staff
987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff based in speech and language therapy that are currently redeployed to other duties by each CHO; the corresponding figures for each month...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
989. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the acquisition of gloves for carers for essential caring purposes given that carers are currently acquiring these without assistance and...
- Medical Cards
990. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the issue of general practitioners and charging patients with medical cards for individual blood tests; if his attention has been drawn to...
- Health Services Funding
991. To ask the Minister for Health the original budget allocation for primary care in 2020 in each CHO; the outturn for same in 2020; and the budget allocation for 2021, in tabular form. [21699/21]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
992. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a wheelchair in CHO5, by area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21704/21]
- Medical Cards
994. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have a medical card in New Ross, County Wexford. [21706/21]
- Primary Care Centres
995. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans for a primary care centre in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21708/21]
- Health Services Provision
997. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans for a service (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21710/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
998. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be made to allow for a process for persons to apply for an exemption from the mandatory hotel quarantine as provided under the relevant...
- Vaccination Programme
999. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their Covid-19 vaccine. [21726/21]
- HSE Staff
1000. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit advanced nurse practitioners dedicated solely to children with Down syndrome in 2021 and or in 2022. [21732/21]
- Obesity Strategy
1001. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the short-term five-year targets for overweight and obesity as outlined in A Healthy Weight for Ireland (details supplied); if the targets for...
- HSE Data
1006. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner referrals and attendance numbers for symptomatic breast disease and prostate rapid access clinics in each of the past five...
- Vaccination Programme
1007. To ask the Minister for Health when persons diagnosed with cystic fibrosis will receive their vaccination for Covid-19 particularly those aged 18 to 21 years; and if he will make a...
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions within CAMHS Wexford south and CAMHS in Wexford north. [21854/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1013. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances in which a Covid-19 case has been reported among staff or residents of nursing homes since vaccination; and if he will make a...
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
1016. To ask the Minister for Health if he will order a general review of the use and overuse of psychiatric medication in children across all CAMHS and primary care health services and in...
- Health Screening Programmes
1017. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the breast screening process to those under and over 50 to 69 years of age profile (details supplied); and the reason they have been...
- Vaccination Programme
1020. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not including the HPV vaccine on the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21865/21]
- HSE Data
1022. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE senior trainees that are undergoing international training in the dilation and evacuation procedure (details supplied); the location such...
- Irish Language
1023. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the Irish language; and if he...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
1025. To ask the Minister for Health if the HPV vaccine will be made available under the drugs payment scheme to allow teenagers that wish to get the vaccine while the school administration...
- Covid-19 Tests
1026. To ask the Minister for Health if an exemption from the requirement to have a PCR test entering the country at present could be provided for children with a disability that are over six...
- Third Level Education
1027. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of six national foundation education programmes for nurses in critical care, surgical pre-assessment, acute medicine, unscheduled...
- Health Services Staff
1028. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant ophthalmic and oculoplastic surgeons at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin in each of the past three years in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1031. To ask the Minister for Health if an outbreak of Covid-19 in the workplace is a criterion that is applied in respect of applications by healthcare workers to avail of the temporary...
- Health Services Staff
1032. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to applications submitted by healthcare workers for the temporary accommodation scheme to be administered by the HSE directly...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1037. To ask the Minister for Health if evidence from other jurisdictions has been examined in cases in which outdoor hospitality has remained open throughout tight restrictions; and if he will...
- Health Services Provision
1039. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that the HSE paid for to receive eating disorder care in the United Kingdom; the cost of this care annually in each of the years 2014...
- Health Services Funding
1040. To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore funding to the community based non-profit counselling services to 2011 levels with adjustments for inflation; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
1042. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to the plans to sell off facilities for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities (details supplied); and if he...
- Speech and Language Therapy
1043. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a Cork school that provides in-school support for students with a facility for deaf children retains a speech and language therapist;...
- Special Educational Needs
1045. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE budget allocated per child diagnosed with needs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22028/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1046. To ask the Minister for Health if patients with a psychiatric illness will be vaccinated according to groups 4 and 7 or by age; if some patients have already been vaccinated under group 4;...
- General Practitioner Services
1048. To ask the Minister for Health when a new general practitioner will be assigned following a request to change general practitioner in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
- HSE Reports
1049. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of each of the recommendations outlined in a 2017 HSE report (details supplied); the number of these recommendations that have been implemented...
- Departmental Properties
1050. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 11 March 2021, the status of talks in relation to a building (details supplied) and specifically talks between...
- Health Services Provision
1051. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1803 of 24 March 2021, if a service (details supplied) is being provided; the services in place and running; if patients...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1052. 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. [22053/21]
- Health Services Staff
1055. To ask the Minister for Health the reason given by clinicians leaving CHO7 in their exit interviews in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22062/21]
- Drugs Payment Scheme
1056. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the inclusion of fixapost on the drugs payment scheme given that it treats a condition more serious to the patient in respect of potential...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1057. To ask the Minister for Health when a vaccination centre (details supplied) will open. [22065/21]
- Victim Support Services
1058. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make free psychological supports available to all victims once their court case ends in view of the fact that a range of supports are provided to...
- Health Services Provision
1059. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund an extension in treatment for a person (details supplied). [22082/21]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
1060. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time persons are waiting for an otolaryngology department appointment by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Local Authority Services
1061. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the use and availability of public toilets run by both the local authorities and businesses; if businesses are allowed to operate...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
1062. To ask the Minister for Health if the generation of interspecies chimeric, hybrid embryos are subject to regulation here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22099/21]
- Vaccination Programme
1063. To ask the Minister for Health if the scheduling of the second HPV vaccine in schools has been delayed; and when it will be administered. [22105/21]
- Home Help Service
1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Laois and Offaly currently on waiting lists for home help hours, homecare packages and respite by category; and if he will...
- Psychological Assessments
1065. To ask the Minister for Health when appropriate access to a psychologist will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22108/21]
- Primary Care Centres
1066. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the long-awaited and urgently needed primary care centre for north Clondalkin, Dublin 22; the reason for the current hold up on the centre; the...
- Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
1070. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the commitment in the Programme for Government to examine the way to support local drugs and alcohol taskforces in...
- Court Judgments
1071. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an analysis to determine if the recent Zalewski judgment by the Supreme Court has any implications for those regulatory...
- Departmental Contracts
1072. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and reaction; and the name of the...
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use
1073. To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant will be able to prescribe under the medical cannabis access programme and have it covered under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will...
- Medicinal Products
1074. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the treatment lanadelumab for hereditary angioedema; when he expects a final decision to be made on its funding; and if he will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1076. To ask the Minister for Health the public Covid-19 guidelines with respect to outdoor holiday campsites that cater for self-contained vehicles only; and if clear information will be...
- Medical Research and Training
1079. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work and research his Department has been conducting into long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22203/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1080. To ask the Minister for Health if travel to a different country for a medical appointment or medical reasons is reasonable grounds for travel; if such action is allowed in law; if a person...
- Departmental Correspondence
1081. To ask the Minister for Health the policies in his Department regarding the correspondence carried out by the Minister of the Department in the conduct of Department businesses or in...
- Medicinal Products
1082. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign led by an organisation (details supplied) regarding access for all persons with type 1 diabetes to the...
- Vaccination Programme
1084. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time at each vaccination centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22228/21]
- Medicinal Products
1085. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the review conducted on the cost effectiveness of flash glucose monitoring technology for those with type 1 diabetes; if he will consider...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1088. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22241/21]
- Mental Health Services
1089. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken in response to the Mental Health Commission December 2020 Report Mental Health Services for Older People; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1090. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for admission to Beaumont Hospital for spinal surgery; and if he will make a statement...
- Information and Communications Technology
1093. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline and expected completion date for the move of over 200 legacy financial systems in the health service to a single integrated financial and...
- Departmental Expenditure
1094. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for this advice...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1096. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to discretionary or new temporary rules that can be applied to persons suffering from long-Covid such as a person (details...
- Vaccination Programme
1098. To ask the Minister for Health if those aged over 60 years of age have a choice in relation to the vaccine which will be administered to them particularly persons that have been prone to...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
1099. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all National Treatment Purchase Fund offers made to University Hospital Kerry in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the details of offers which...
- Dental Services
1100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Wexford participating in the dental medical card scheme; his plans to address the number of dentists leaving the scheme which...
- Vaccination Programme
1101. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which general practitioners, pharmacists and other authorised personnel are progressing the Covid-19 inoculation programme; if all of the...
- Departmental Correspondence
1104. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that were taken to retrieve information and correspondence that was shared by the then Minister for Health regarding the GMS general practitioner...
- Vaccination Programme
1105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22361/21]
- Departmental Transport
1106. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric models; and if he will...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Afforestation Programme
1107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2050 of 24 March 2021, the minimum level of afforestation needed to ensure the survival of...
- Forestry Grants
1108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2004 of 24 March 2021, the number of hectares issued in financial approvals by the Forestry...
- Forestry Sector
1109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2005 of 24 March 2021, if the Forestry Service inspectorate has any authority outside that...
- Forestry Data
1111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2008 of 24 March 2021, the cost of the various reports on aspects of forestry issued by...
- Forestry Sector
1112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 2011 and 2012 of 24 March 2021, if any licence that was appealed and went to the Forestry...
- Departmental Staff
1113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 11 March 2021, the name of the two senior inspectors listed; the number of ecologists...
- Departmental Expenditure
1115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 11 March 2021, the breakdown of the exact running costs of the Forestry Service in...
- Forestry Sector
1116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a submission made in August 2012 by the NPWS (details supplied) regarding forestry licence applications was acted upon once...
- Departmental Staff
1117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way the project manager for the woodland project was selected; the qualifying criteria needed to fill the role; if the new...
- Agriculture Schemes
1118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider putting in place a top-up payment on grant schemes to reflect the additional costs that disabled farmers incur...
- Forestry Sector
1119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation, road and felling licence applications received by county; the number of decisions issued by county; the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will lift the restrictions and allow farmers selling at marts to attend at the mart for the sale given that many farmers do...
- Departmental Funding
1124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of funding of the €1.8 billion allocated to his Department announced in Budget 2021, in tabular form; and if he...
- Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
1125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason commonage lands and lands containing heather are excluded from the proposed results based environment agriculture pilot...
- Agriculture Schemes
1126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the €79 million for agri-environmental pilot measures in the 2021 budget is being spent; and if he will make...
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
1132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the terms and conditions of the TAMS scheme for low emission slurry spreading equipment to allow...
- Harbours and Piers
1133. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when work on dredging Howth harbour will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21347/21]
- Forestry Sector
1134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the way the number forestry licences with ecology input processed between November 2020 to February 2021 equates to one...
- Departmental Staff
1135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has engaged or employed an ecologist from outside the State to assess forestry licences. [21353/21]
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
1136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to a matter (details supplied) regarding the ANC stocking rate retention of seven months; and if he...
- Forestry Sector
1137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.1999 of 24 March 2021, if he will provide additional information (details supplied); and if he...
- Greyhound Industry
1138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he last spoke formally with the CEO of Greyhound Racing Ireland. [21416/21]
- Harbours and Piers
1139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts by his Department working with Donegal County Council to secure the necessary funding to complete the...
- Fisheries Protection
1140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure the immediate publication of the European Commission 2018 audit and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority...
- Fur Farming
1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1983 of 24 March 2021 and pursuant to the Programme for Government 2020, the status of...
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization
1143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of Ireland’s contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Properties
1144. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the land and buildings under the control and management of his Department across Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Horse Sport Ireland
1145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the relationship his Department has with Horse Sport Ireland; the basis on which that relationship was set up; the reporting...
- Agriculture Schemes
1146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with representatives from the farming community such as an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the new...
- Environmental Schemes
1148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to use revenue from carbon tax increases to fund the new environmental scheme for farmers; and if so, the amount...
- Irish Language
1149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the...
- Food Imports
1151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of food detector dogs currently in use; and when this number was last increased. [21985/21]
- Departmental Correspondence
1152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention and that of the Minister of State with responsibility for Research and Development, Farm Safety and New Market...
- Gorse Burning
1154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking to address illegal gorse fires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22012/21]
- Food Exports
1155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are obligations for export health certificates on products of animal origin to be carried out by a registered vet; and if...
- Agriculture Schemes
1158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if as per the programme for Government, Our Shared Future, €1.5 billion raised from carbon taxes will be ring-fenced for use...
- State Bodies
1159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the inclusion of the poultry industry under the remit of an organisation (details supplied) which...
- Poultry Industry
1160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the establishment of a fund co-financed by industry and the Government for the Irish poultry...
- Departmental Contracts
1161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of each contract entered into by his Department and the agencies under his remit to deal with Covid-19 management and...
- Basic Payment Scheme
1162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the arrangements in place to compensate families in circumstances in which a family member had entitlements which were transferred...
- Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
1163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person who becomes the owner of a farm enterprise following the death of the previous owner can continue to receive the...
- Nitrates Usage
1164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty facing farmers who are abiding by nitrates derogation rules and are awaiting grant...
- Fishery Harbour Centres
1165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some fishing vessels are unable to gain access to Howth Fishery Harbour Centre to...
- GLAS Issues
1166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2020 GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Expenditure
1167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies...
- Departmental Advertising
1168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department on advertising and public messaging in print, broadcast and online since January 2020 to date in...
- Departmental Transport
1172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by his Department or agencies under his remit with hybrid or electric...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
1173. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding available to non-profit organisations that run residential and refuge services to convert buildings to make them...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1174. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the Covid-19 supports available to local community centres such as a centre (details supplied) in County Meath which have suffered a...
- Broadband Infrastructure
1175. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has engaged with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Minister for the Environment,...
- Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
1176. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if properties in County Carlow were proposed for inclusion in the landmark rural regeneration projects funding programme; if so, the...
- Departmental Funding
1177. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the process in respect of an application for funding (details supplied). [21671/21]
- Rural Development Programme
1178. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the legislation required to underpin the recently published policy on rural development Our Rural Future; the timetable for the...
- Departmental Funding
1180. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has received an application from a group (details supplied) for funding to support its programme; the extent to which she...
- Irish Language
1181. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit facilitate persons wishing to engage with their services through the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1183. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial supports available for churches that on the instruction of the Government have closed and have moved services online at...
- Departmental Contracts
1184. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost of each contract entered into by her Department and the agencies under her remit to deal with Covid-19 management and...
- Departmental Expenditure
1185. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent by her Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies...
- Departmental Transport
1187. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of replacing State vehicles which are owned by her Department or agencies under her remit with hybrid or electric...