Written answers
Thursday, 6 May 2021
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the small business assistance scheme for Covid can be extended to non-rateable businesses whose turnover is below 25% of 2019; and...
- Company Law
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the non-financial reporting directive which requires that companies with over 500 employees in size need to report on...
- Legislative Measures
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when new legislation to introduce a more streamlined insolvency process for persons and businesses will be finalised; and if he will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason there is a backlog in the payment of the trading online voucher grants especially from the Dublin City Enterprise Board; if...
- Grocery Industry
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will financially support a brand (details supplied) in launching an aggressive campaign to support Irish goods and encourage...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of negotiations by Ireland to join the World Health Organization C-TAP initiative; the practical engagement to date by his...
- Brexit Supports
8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has considered providing training to businesses on becoming an authorized consignee to aid with post-Brexit trading;...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Legislative Measures
9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the waste management (circular economy) Bill; when he plans to introduce this Bill; and if he will make a...
- Island Communities
10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the strategies currently in place to specifically support islands with meeting renewable energy targets; the funding...
- Waste Management
12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will review the cost of pay-as-you-go rubbish disposal (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Energy Efficiency
13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of retrofitting to meet the target of 500,000 homes by 2030, by county; and if he will...
- Environmental Policy
14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making the allocation of funding to organisations or companies engaged in bog rewetting projects...
- Legislative Measures
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider amending the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 to provide a clear...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount the State has spent on carbon credits in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the sources of...
- Electricity Generation
20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide clarity on the type of scheme and the timelines of the proposed feed-in tariff for 2021; and if he...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Covid-19 Pandemic
21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider lifting the restrictions on motorcycle advanced driver instructors to allow them to return to work as they have no...
- Motor Tax
22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if officials in the motor tax office will contact the...
- Bus Services
23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a deviation from the present route of the bus services serving Johnstown, Maynooth to include Clonaugh...
- Aviation Industry
25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clarity will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the aviation industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Road Projects
26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Athy distributor route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23356/21]
- Aviation Industry
27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23390/21]
- Park-and-Ride Facilities
28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of park and ride facilities in each county; the details of proposed new park and ride facilities; the amount invested in park...
- Rural Transport Programme
29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses operating under the rural transport scheme; the number of kilometres this scheme covered in 2019; the number of...
- Road Traffic Offences
30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the inclusion of penalty points for those that park on footpaths and block access for pedestrians and...
- Road Network
31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will allow a review of planning permissions on a case by case basis rather than continuing with a...
- Appointments to State Boards
32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his efforts to reform of the Taxi Advisory Committee. [23462/21]
- Driver Test
38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures on foot of the announcements made on 29 April 2021 that are being introduced to allow driver testing and driver lessons along...
- Driver Licences
39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a lorry driver licence application was not processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Bus Éireann
40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take in relation to the proposed cuts to expressway services by Bus Éireann; if these cuts will commence on 15 May...
- Coast Guard Service
42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of purchase, installation and training in respect of the introduction of night vision technology to the CHC fleet by the Irish...
- Road Network
43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on proposals for the continued realignment of the R572 from the N71 to Castletownbere fishing port; if EU...
- Local Improvement Scheme
44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce a specific funding programme for the local improvement scheme due to the delay in having such roads repaired as...
- Marine Accidents
45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter (details supplied) in relation to a shipwreck will be examined. [23567/21]
- Department of Finance
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
46. To ask the Minister for Finance if the staycation grant could be adapted to allow mobile home owners claim tax back on their annual fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23541/21]
- Insurance Coverage
47. To ask the Minister for Finance if the action plan on insurance reform will address the disparity by which businesses and homes are denied insurance flood cover even in situations in which...
- Wage Subsidy Scheme
48. To ask the Minister for Finance when persons that received large bills due to the taxing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme can expect to receive reviews; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Code
49. To ask the Minister for Finance if the revised capital gains tax entrepreneur relief can be applied to gains arising from the disposal of agricultural assets; the qualifying assets that do...
- Banking Sector
50. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase transparency on retail banking fees and charges associated with personal pension products; if engagement has taken place with financial...
- Brexit Supports
51. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with the Revenue Commissioners on the possibility of offering a training service to businesses on becoming an authorised consignee to aid...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Government Procurement
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the survey results of the Office of Government Procurement client satisfaction survey from 2018 and 2020 will be provided. [23436/21]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an gcuirfidh sí ar fáil i bhfoirm thábla cén líon uaireanta le 10 mbliana anuas a chinn Údarás...
- Tourism Industry
54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider the requests of the members of an organisation (details supplied) and the inbound tourism sector for direct...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider including sports clubs for eligibility to the new scheme for outdoor seating and accessories for tourism and...
- Culture Policy
56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 28 April 2021, the legacy initiative plans under consideration by the board of Galway...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Island Communities
57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current funding allocation for housing on the islands; the number of social houses constructed on the islands in each of...
- Special Areas of Conservation
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process and the steps taken by his Department and or the local authority in cases in which a landowner is to be informed of...
- Home Loan Scheme
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approvals and rejections of applications of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by each local authority...
- Housing Policy
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is increasing the serviced sites funds allocation for a site (details supplied) to €100,000 per unit; and if his...
- Land Development Agency
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if discussion is taking place or has taken place involving his Department on the acquisition of a site by the Land Development...
- Heritage Projects
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the 12 foot medieval longboat which was discovered on the bed of the River Boyne, Drogheda in July 2007...
- Local Authority Housing
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided for local authorities to specifically provide homes for older persons; and if he will make a...
- Heritage Sites
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that structures of historical, social and architectural significance are not allowed to fall...
- Solar Energy Guidelines
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and review of exemptions...
- Local Authority Housing
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in the work of the high level housing delivery group with particular reference to building as many direct...
- House Prices
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which additional measures are underway to address the current housing crisis with particular reference to the...
- Housing Policy
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to urgently tackle the purchase of properties in bulk by pension fund sponsored investors (details supplied); and if...
- Local Authority Housing
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which through various local authorities abandoned and or derelict buildings in the centres of villages or towns...
- Planning Data
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions applied for and refused by county in each of the past three years to date; the way such...
- Local Authority Housing
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families who have in the year to date applied for local authority or similar housing, affordable housing and or...
- Home Loan Scheme
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to simplify access to Rebuilding Ireland home loans in order to accelerate their availability and meet the housing...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the decision to lift the ban on evictions and rent increases in view of the ongoing public health situation...
- Housing Assistance Payment
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the backlog of standards compliance checks on HAP landlords in Cork city and other local authority areas;...
- Housing Policy
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take measures to prevent co-living housing developments given the recent approval of such developments; and if he...
- Local Authority Staff
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there are only three full-time vacant homes officers in the State with none in County Cork. [23532/21]
- Housing Policy
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether affordability and not market value should be the criteria by which costing for cost-rental and affordable...
- Vacant Properties
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put measures in place to support the refurbishment of vacant property in towns and villages; and if he will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a commitment will be given to stop the policy of automatically cancelling first-time passport applications from children after six months...
- Human Rights
86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the treatment faced by followers of Falun Dafa in China; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Passport Services
87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passport services will resume; the measures that have been put in place to address the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Passport Applications
88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 31 March 2021, the status of negotiations by Ireland to join the World Health Organization C-TAP...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Data
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the most up-to-date and verified data on school absences; if there has been an increase in early school leavers since March...
- Special Educational Needs
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a significant lack of July Provision being offered in a special school in County...
- Sports Facilities
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the form of sports facilities that are planned for a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23326/21]
- Special Educational Needs
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on an application by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry for additional SNA hours for a pupil; and if she will...
- School Transport
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [23384/21]
- School Admissions
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that each child expected to transition to second-level in September 2021 in the Midleton and Carrigtwohill school planning...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for secondary schools in DEIS areas to cope with challenges of returning to school during the ongoing Covid-19 emergency...
- School Accommodation
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a revised cost plan needs to be prepared in advance of preparation and issuing of tender documents in relation to a school (details supplied);...
- Special Educational Needs
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been received for additional special needs assistant cover from a school (details supplied) in County Cork; when a decision...
- School Accommodation
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the policy of the planning and building unit not to share details with school principals and management details of the work path,...
- Education Policy
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student who has medical confirmation of health issues including extreme anxiety and as a result of said health issues has missed a...
- School Transport
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of buses operating under the school bus transport programme; the number of students carried on school bus transport in 2019; the...
- Island Communities
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies that are in place to support small schools and schools on island communities; the funding allocations that are made specifically...
- Education Policy
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve an exemption from the Irish language for a person (details supplied). [23504/21]
- School Staff
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the allocation of teachers to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23534/21]
- Special Educational Needs
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with the Minister of State with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion in actively facilitating the transfer of...
- School Patronage
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the maps used by her Department when carrying out the patronage process specifically in relation to an area (details supplied) will be...
- Departmental Strategy Statements
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 18 February 2021, if the statement of strategy 2021-2023 for her Department has been published; and...
- School Accommodation
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made and timelines for the provision of a permanent building for a school (details supplied); if extra provisions will be provided...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the model of allocation being used for SNA allocation for the academic year 2020-2021 and 2021-2022; when the allocations will be published for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for her Department not including students under the applied education programme who are living with very high risk family members;...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Code
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a universal basic payment for persons with severe physical or mental disabilities who cannot work as a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if forecasting for the pandemic unemployment payment that has been carried out for the coming months in consideration of the...
- Public Transport
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to extend free travel to those living with epilepsy; if her attention has been drawn to the implications for...
- Social Welfare Rates
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase the disability allowance or carer’s allowance payments; and if she will make a...
- Jobseeker's Allowance
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a jobseeker’s application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will make a...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- International Protection
119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that have requested their personal statement and testimony and submitted a subject access...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Island Communities
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current funding allocations and financial supports that are available for professional development and training for island communities; and...
- Third Level Education
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will work in consultation with the relevant institutions to ensure that educational psychology and counselling doctorates are brought in...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the situation in which an apprentice student (details supplied) is being delayed in progressing to the next phase due to a...
- Protected Disclosures
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to instances in which a person has made a protected disclosure to CIT or MTU and that CIT or MTU have since...
- Third Level Education
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places for home and EU students on graduate entry medicine programmes in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Third Level Fees
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contribution currently made by the Higher Education Authority towards graduate entry medicine per student; the cost of increasing the HEA...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the access to apprenticeship course run through Technological University Dublin (details supplied) which enables students to...
- Third Level Admissions
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional places will be sanctioned for Irish and EU students to study medicine as a result of the calculated grades process; the number of...
- Education and Training Provision
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost of safe passes; the percentage increase in the average price since January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Justice and Equality
- House Sales
149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to regulate for the purchase of buying a property with particular reference to the role of an estate agent given that...
- Protected Disclosures
150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a copy of the final independent external review of complaints of penalisation by a company (details...
- Road Safety
151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of average speed cameras nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23368/21]
- Prison Investigations
152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to include the person that highlighted the issue and documentary evidence they possess to assist the investigation in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of breaches of home quarantine that were recorded in each week in March and April 2021; the number of fines levied...
- Department of Health
- Medical Aids and Appliances
156. To ask the Minister for Health if a submission for funding to provide the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need...
- Palliative Care Services
157. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to palliative care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23307/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
158. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a process of quality control and inspection for the hotels being used for mandatory quarantine; the steps or process for persons in quarantine to...
- Hospital Facilities
159. To ask the Minister for Health the status of capital works planned for a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23310/21]
- Health Services
160. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for glasses by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23313/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the medical and scientific evidence available to him to justify the reason a hotel restaurant is safer than that of a regular restaurant or...
- Health Services Staff
162. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the increase in dementia adviser numbers nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23315/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
163. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Protection Surveillance Centre plans to resume its reporting on underlying conditions in confirmed cases of Covid-19. [23316/21]
- Hospital Appointments Status
165. 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. [23323/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
166. To ask the Minister for Health if gyms can open earlier given that the number of cases in County Kerry is currently at zero (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Vaccination Programme
167. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can negotiate that all health workers working in vaccination centres should not pay parking fees which are very pricy in some areas for the full...
- Covid-19 Tests
168. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which companies were selected by his Department and the HSE to carry out Covid-19 testing; if a public tendering process took place; if so, the...
- International Protection
169. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that Tusla, the HSE and IPAS have failed to...
- Health Promotion
170. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide accessible information on contraception and family planning including information accessible to persons with intellectual...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
173. To ask the Minister for Health if persons arriving into Ireland from a jurisdiction not on the mandatory quarantining list to attend a wedding is classified as essential travel; and if he...
- Care of the Elderly
174. To ask the Minister for Health when works to refurbish Monasterevin day care centre will be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23355/21]
- Medical Cards
175. To ask the Minister for Health if he will carry out an audit in counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly on the availability of dentists for those with medical cards with a view to addressing the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an ENT outpatient appointment at Tullamore Hospital for 1,2,3,4 and more than 5 years; the expected wait for new entrants onto...
- Care of the Elderly
178. To ask the Minister for Health if funding can be made available to groups assisting older persons on a multi-annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23366/21]
- Legislative Measures
180. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the safe access to termination of pregnancy Bill which is listed in the Summer 2021 Legislative Programme as preparatory work underway; the...
- Dental Services
181. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to advance a successor to the dental treatment services scheme considering the recent collapse in the number of dentists contracted on the scheme; if...
- Vaccination Programme
183. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to adopt the WHO recommendation of 25 March 2021 on the prioritisation of Covid-19 vaccinations for seafarers and aircrew; and if he will make a...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
184. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults...
- Vaccination Programme
190. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place for housebound persons under 70 years of age to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. [23401/21]
- Medicinal Products
191. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medicine toilex for young children with bowel issues is no longer being approved for use (details supplied); when a suitable replacement will be...
- Vaccination Programme
192. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not receiving the HPV vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23404/21]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
193. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults...
- Addiction Treatment Services
199. To ask the Minister for Health if future tax increases on alcohol or cigarettes will be ring-fenced for addiction treatment services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23415/21]
- Health Services
200. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a transport scheme to assist older persons get to hospital and back home following treatment in cases in which they are too weak to use...
- Vaccination Programme
202. To ask the Minister for Health when the pause on vaccinating healthcare workers will be lifted given that some staff in homeless services have not yet received their first vaccine; and if he...
- Dental Services
203. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an orthodontic appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23440/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
204. To ask the Minister for Health if vaccinated tourists from the United States of America will be able to enter Ireland by 3 July 2021; if a decision has not been made, when a decision will be...
- Alcohol Pricing
205. To ask the Minister for Health if further plans are being considered in regard to the introduction of minimum unit pricing of alcohol products in view of the announcement in Northern Ireland...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
206. To ask the Minister for Health if persons travelling from the United Arab Emirates will be required to quarantine if their vaccine is not EMA approved. [23454/21]
- Cancer Services
208. To ask the Minister for Health the level of cancer care being provided under current restrictions; and when normal cancer care services will resume. [23461/21]
- Island Communities
209. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are in place specifically to provide mental health services to island communities including the availability of counselling services for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
212. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the health services staff temporary accommodation scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23489/21]
- Vaccination Programme
214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the vaccine supply projection table for quarter two taking into account the revised version of the vaccine roll-out plan; and the changes to...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
215. To ask the Minister for Health if outdoor hospitality patrons will be subject to a time limit from 7 June 2021 as was the case when restaurants were previously open; and if he will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 70 years of age who have yet to receive a vaccine; the timeline for completing this cohort; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who arrived here in each week from 12 April 2021 to date who had been in a designated state in the previous 14 days; the number from each...
- Vaccination Programme
220. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place for persons who received their first Covid-19 vaccination in another country and have since moved to live in Ireland; if they will be...
- Health Services Staff
222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of internship positions offered to medical graduates each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23502/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing provisions to allow persons over 60 years of age who are certified as having been vaccinated in Ireland to use swimming pools...
- Covid-19 Tests
225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff the HSE has employed to carry out Covid-19 test and tracing activity; the number of additional staff the HSE has subcontracted...
- Maternity Services
226. To ask the Minister for Health when he will announce uniform access rights for birthing partners to maternity hospitals. [23519/21]
- Hospital Equipment
228. To ask the Minister for Health the ECMO facilities that exist for the treatment of persons with respiratory illnesses. [23544/21]
- Hospital Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health if a person being refused a blood test at the Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar is reflective of a new wider practice in which hospitals are no longer...
- Tobacco Control Measures
236. To ask the Minister for Health the position of his Department with regard to the use of selective and price comparison style price lists for tobacco products in retail stores; if his...
- Vaccination Programme
237. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a Covid-19 vaccination centre (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if it is open and operating; if not, the reason; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
240. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that authorised the appointment of a company (details supplied) to run the contact tracing centres; the mandate the company was given; the...
- Covid-19 Tests
241. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to using rapid antigen detection tests and their wider use in the community in particular in relation to at risk settings in the...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request in a document from an organisation (details supplied) to scale up locally adapted results-based...
- Forestry Sector
244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request in a document by an organisation and organisations (details supplied) in relation to introducing a full...
- Climate Change Policy
245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request in a document by an organisation and organisations (details supplied) in relation to developing, fund and...
- Agriculture Schemes
247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request in a document by an organisation and organisations (details supplied) in relation to expanding small scale,...
- Common Agricultural Policy
248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advocate to make beehives a livestock unit under the new CAP proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes
249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Results-Based Environment-Agri Pilot Project can be expanded to include low income farmers; and if he will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position under Covid-19 level 5 restrictions with respect to inter-county travel in order to carry out the measuring of ponies...
- Felling Licences
251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte receives preferential treatment when applying to the Forestry Service for felling licences; if specific staff are...
- Fishing Industry
253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to serious issues in relation to the removal of the derogation under article 61.1 are causing small...
- Agriculture Schemes
256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the €79 million fund announced in Budget 2021 to assist farmers with environmental projects; the amount...
- Felling Licences
258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the awarding of felling licences; the current backlog and waiting times; if he will introduce measures to...
- Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will increase inspections being carried out for TB in the west County Wicklow area; the average number of inspections in other...
- Maritime Safety
260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his review of the decision not to proceed with the sea survival centre at a school (details supplied) in County...
- Common Agricultural Policy
261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 25 March 2021, if there have been recent discussions with the European Commission in...
- Forestry Sector
262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for the completion of a natura impact statement in respect of a forestry application by a person (details supplied) in...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Vacant Properties
264. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to put measures in place to support the refurbishment of vacant property in rural areas; and if she will make a statement on...
- Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
265. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Athy food hub; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23357/21]
- Island Communities
266. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocations for housing grants and maintenance, regeneration and sustainability schemes for the islands; the schemes...
- LEADER Programmes
270. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grant aid for LEADER programmes available to private individual projects based on islands; her plans to increase funding; and if...
- Island Communities
275. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the strategies and funding in place to provide access for persons with disabilities on the islands including transport and...
- Community Development Projects
276. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when decisions will be made on the 2021 community development pilot programme applications; and if she will make a statement on the...
