Written answers

Tuesday, 15 June 2021

  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      56. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the potential impact on Ireland’s corporation tax rate in view of the agreement concluded at the recent meeting of the G7 countries; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance if a viability test will be applied to all childcare providers seeking Covid-19-related employment wage supports until the end of 2021; and if he will make a...
    • EU Funding
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated net contribution Ireland will make to EU funds in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31513/21]
    • Tax Code
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance if it will be ensured that changes to the local property tax take into account the incomes of the homeowners in question; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Industry
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to make insurance premia more affordable by limiting the large profits in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the current tax exemptions for real estate investment trusts and Irish real estate funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Revenue Commissioners
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of settlements that have been made to the Revenue Commissioners by companies or employers due to bogus self-employment and unpaid PRSI in each of...
    • Housing Schemes
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rent-to-buy scheme will continue after 2021. [31752/21]
    • Insurance Coverage
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to insurance companies refusing to provide cover to persons with fully managed type 1 diabetes. [31799/21]
    • Housing Policy
      76. To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of access to capital in the site acquisition and housing construction market; the places in which bottlenecks exist; if he is satisfied with the...
    • Banking Sector
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance if a public banking forum will be developed by the Government. [22908/21]
    • Tax Code
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he expects a potential 15% universal corporation tax as agreed at the recent G7 meeting to impact on Ireland’s position as an...
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the effective tax rate in the form of dividend withholding tax paid by Irish real estate funds as a proportion of operating and pre-tax profits respectively in...
    • Banking Sector
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions recently with a bank (details supplied) on its decision to withdraw from the market and with another bank in relation to its plan to...
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that while EU fiscal rules limit Government deficits to 3% of GDP and a debt of 60% of Ireland’s GDP, the 2020 budget deficit here...
    • Fiscal Policy
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent IFAC report (details supplied) which states that the Government has failed to deliver on its commitment to publish a credible medium-term...
    • Tax Code
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the impact for households of the changes to the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31777/21]
    • Fiscal Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address aggressive tax planning as part the Government’s priority reform commitments made under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan;...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance the increases there have been in the purchase of State prize bonds in each of the past three years; the monetary amounts that have been invested in these bonds...
    • Banking Sector
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to engage with representatives of the major banks that are either pulling out of the Irish market or restructuring their high street...
    • Tax Credits
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding making the save and spend scheme more dynamic to enable a greater level of take-up in order to stimulate the tourism industry; and if he...
    • Universal Social Charge
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of not charging any USC on the first €13,000 of assessable income; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Schemes
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of developments in which all or a portion of units in that development are subject to forward purchase private rented sector sales that have been...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his attendance at the recent G7 finance ministers meeting in London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31705/21]
    • Tax Code
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans with regard to changes to the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will be taking to support businesses as they reopen in the coming months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31776/21]
    • Programme for Government
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of progress to implement the programme for Government commitment to reduce the cost of insurance and increase competition in the market. [31807/21]
    • EU Funding
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the use of the €2.5 billion allocated to Ireland under the SURE instrument operated by the European Commission; and if he will make...
    • Insurance Coverage
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance his policy in relation to increasing flood insurance coverage and the provision of risk equalisation in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the business resumption support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31768/21]
    • Tax Code
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance the examinations his Department is undertaking regarding the proposal by the International Monetary Fund of a solidarity tax on those companies which...
    • Grant Payments
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to reconfigure the disabled drivers and passengers' scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31773/21]
    • Tax Code
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the impact assessment on the changes to taxation charged to so-called cuckoo funds in particular the impact on affordability of housing;...
    • Insurance Coverage
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his engagement with the insurance sector specifically related to individuals and businesses that are unable to get flood protection...
    • Insurance Industry
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the measures his Department is taking under the action plan on insurance reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31762/21]
    • Economic and Social Research Institute
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent ESRI report (details supplied); his further views on whether the recurrent tax levied on wealth and assets could raise substantial...
    • Insurance Industry
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the policy statement published by the Financial Conduct Authority on 28 May 2021 to end the practice of dual pricing in the insurance market; if...
    • Corporate Governance
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the legislation governing financial and corporate behaviour here is fit for purpose; if not, the changes he plans to make; and if he will...
    • Credit Unions
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no recourse for complaint regarding decisions taken by the nominations committee of a credit union....
    • Fiscal Policy
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reforms which would exempt green capital expenditure in order to address the climate emergency given the review by the European Commission of the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Websites
      134. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date. [30873/21]
    • Departmental Reviews
      135. To ask the Taoiseach the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were incurred; and if so, the details of...
    • Departmental Websites
      136. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites and mobile applications...
    • Census of Population
      138. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any engagements with the CSO with regard to the rescheduling of Census 2021. [28374/21]
    • Planning Issues
      141. To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied that his endorsement of several planning applications submitted and yet to be submitted to Dublin City Council by a developer (details supplied) in a...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Transfer of Undertakings
      142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a bank (details supplied) will be contacted to remind it of its obligations under TUPE legislation. [30559/21]
    • Redundancy Payments
      143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review the temporary changes to redundancy rules during the Covid-19 emergency period in view of the ongoing reopening...
    • Enterprise Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland plans to open a new office in Vancouver, Canada. [30715/21]
    • Transfer of Undertakings
      145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the transfer of undertakings obligation on employers will apply to the proposed closure and transfer of business by a bank...
    • Immigration Policy
      146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which the review of Economic Migration – Review of the Occupational Lists being undertaken by his Department will...
    • Employment Rights
      147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a report by organisations (details supplied) concerning employment conditions in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      148. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for small businesses who are struggling to reopen in the weeks ahead with a turnover of less than...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if restrictions on time limits for dining will be altered as the Covid-19 vaccination process moves forward; and if he will make a...
    • Enterprise Policy
      152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the review by his Department of the casual and occasional trading licensing legislation commenced; if this review has been...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 1 June 2021, the breakdown by sector and type of breach detected by the Workplace...
    • Departmental Websites
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of Vote 32 for enterprise, trade and employment with headings and subheadings for 2021, in tabular form. [31385/21]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 1 June 2021, if a breakdown by sector and type of breach detected by the Workplace...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if advice will be provided in relation to matters raised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31447/21]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 1 June 2021, the breakdown by sector and type of breach detected by the Workplace...
    • Employment Rights
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects that the high-level working group on collective bargaining will report; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which his Department supports persons with disabilities to access the mainstream job market. [31868/21]
    • Health and Safety
      170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the meaning of the term ventilation in the context of his Department’s recently published Work Safety Protocol that was...
    • Departmental Staff
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty...
    • Work Permits
      172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislation for a person who is currently in the country and does not have a work permit at present but would like to apply for a...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date by which the micro-generation support scheme will go live; the dates for interim stages to go live; and if he...
    • Energy Prices
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to ensure that all persons at the end of...
    • Telecommunications Services
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a fibre connection will be available for Coachford Village, County Cork and more specifically a location (details...
    • Climate Action Plan
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of submissions made to the public consultation on the Climate Conversation - Climate Action Plan 2021; and...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implications for Ireland of the recent cyberattack on a pipeline system (details supplied) that resulted in a state...
    • Data Centres
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he plans to deal with the growing energy needs of data centres with Eirgrid’s generation capacity...
    • Energy Policy
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of plans to make Ireland a leader in hydrogen storage; and the estimated cost of a hydrogen 50 MW...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of responses to the public consultation on the microgeneration support scheme. [30812/21]
    • National Broadband Plan
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Broadband Ireland broadband hub (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes on the waiting list for the warmer homes scheme; and the number of households by the qualifying...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1...
    • Departmental Reviews
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if...
    • Litter Pollution
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount granted and-or drawn down in the context of the additional €5 million fund established to tackle...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if approval will be given for the unit price for the export of solar units to the national grid in relation to the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the target set for the number of premises passed and available for connection in County Mayo in 2021 under the National...
    • Energy Conservation
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the launch of an updated SEAI retrofit scheme. [31222/21]
    • Postal Services
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding a request by a union (details supplied) for funding for An Post; and if he will make a statement...
    • Energy Conservation
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes retrofitted in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form on each retrofitting programme; the spend...
    • Departmental Websites
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the...
    • Waste Management
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 12 May 2021, the way his Department will support persons with long-term...
    • National Broadband Plan
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan in Cork city and county; the number of premises in Cork city...
    • Environmental Policy
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures being taken to improve the traceability of stolen scrap metal with particular reference to catalytic...
    • National Broadband Plan
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will include areas such as Rathmichael, Old Connaught, Bride’s Glen, Ballycorus and Shankill in the...
    • Environmental Policy
      206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the value of the levy per tonne paid on farm plastics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31453/21]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Departments represented on the interdepartmental committee which oversees the implementation of the National Cyber...
    • Digital Hubs
      211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it will be ensured that section 15(6)(c) of the Digital Hub Development Agency Act 2003 will be observed and that a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the formal review process that is examining a premises (details supplied) in County Galway for...
    • Departmental Staff
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of...
    • Climate Action Plan
      214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding currently contained in the Climate Action Fund; the projects that received funding from the fund to date in...
    • National Oil Reserves Agency
      215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding currently contained in the National Oil Reserves Agency Fund; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Litter Pollution
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the €5 million fund allocated to litter prevention (details supplied); the way this...
    • Fishing Industry
      217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fishing licences issued in County Wexford in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [31994/21]
    • Litter Pollution
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the €3 million fund allocated to anti-illegal dumping measures (details supplied); the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Emergency Services
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to continue with the fully civilianised search and rescue services provided by a civilian helicopter operator (details...
    • Transport Policy
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to any issue preventing an Irish citizen holding an Irish road transport management CPC and resident in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure physical distancing and the wearing of face coverings on public transport, buses, trams and trains given...
    • Haulage Industry
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if online CPC courses will be offered for HGV drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30656/21]
    • Driver Test
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current wait time for a practical driver test; the measures that are being taken to reduce the wait time; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the deadline for the submission of safety improvement works 2022. [30680/21]
    • Greenways Provision
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to renovate and improve the pedestrian walkway along the train line that goes above Lough Atalia in Galway city; if he has...
    • Driver Licences
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide an extension to the expiry date of driver licences beyond the current cut-off date of June 2021; his views on...
    • Rail Network
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that used each of Iarnród Éireann intercity routes and commuter routes in each of the years of 2018 to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve the installation of additional rapid e-car chargers throughout County Meath. [30721/21]
    • Ports Policy
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the post of chairperson of Cork Port Authority will be filled. [30722/21]
    • Transport Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the penalty to release vehicles seized under the Road Traffic Act 2016 was...
    • Rail Network
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount Iarnród Éireann spent on improving the quality of audio announcements on the DART in each of the years of 2019, 2020...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the European Commission has procured €2.6 billion worth of antigen tests for aviation (details supplied); if Ireland will...
    • Driver Test
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants currently awaiting a driver theory test in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30766/21]
    • Cycling Policy
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if measures will be taken to address the issue of cyclists who continue to use footpaths in locations in which segregated cycle lanes...
    • Bus Services
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers on Bus Éireann route 424 in both directions in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by month...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were...
    • Rail Network
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the upgrading the Ballybrophy and Roscrea to Limerick railway line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30893/21]
    • Pension Provisions
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to bridge the funding gaps between two CIÉ group pension schemes, the regular wages scheme and the salaried employees or...
    • Driver Test
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) can book a date for their driver test in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Network
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the level of funding awarded to Tipperary County Council will be increased ahead of the next three year roads works programme in order...
    • Driver Test
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific details regarding the rules and regulations for the election of members of the Approved Driving Instructors Stakeholders...
    • Aviation Industry
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering measures to assist the restart of aviation and international travel (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Maritime Safety
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of unannounced inspections by the Marine Survey Office of fishing vessels eligible for the atypical work permit scheme for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Government plans to recognise the Covid-19 travel certificates for entry into the State that have been issued by non-EU states in the...
    • Military Aircraft
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual breakdown of the value of US military use of Shannon Airport to the airport since 2000, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take to prioritise essential services staff for theory tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31240/21]
    • Public Transport
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of making the bus, train fleet and bus and train stations wheelchair accessible; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Websites
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their...
    • Road Safety
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will carry out a review of the blanket application of the speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour in place on all regional and local...
    • Driver Test
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driver test; the waiting times for a test in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Irish Rail will carry out the remedial works urgently required at Lacken Drive, the Railway Bridge and O’Loughlin Road,...
    • Driver Test
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons currently waiting to take a driver theory test in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Projects
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of works at R263 Fintra Bridge, Killybegs, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31555/21]
    • Rail Network
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the National Transport Authority report into the Navan rail line; the date on which it will be published; and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the driver theory test centre in Ennis, County Clare is only open three days per week as opposed to five days per week; and if...
    • Driver Licences
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a change of licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31634/21]
    • Bus Services
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Bus Éireann national routes will be allowed increased capacity on buses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the opening hours of the driver theory test centre in Ennis, County Clare; the reason the RSA has made...
    • Road Projects
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a price discrepancy being quoted in the cost of the M20 by him and that being quoted by the...
    • Bus Services
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann is cancelling or has cancelled the weekly route servicing Whitegate, County Clare; if so, the replacement service...
    • Driver Licences
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31830/21]
    • Bus Services
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated additional Exchequer funding that will have to be provided to Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus in each year to help them...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to support the taxi sector specifically in 2020 and 2021, by each initiative; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocated to the public charge point scheme in 2021; the spend on the scheme in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of charge...
    • Aviation Industry
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to instances in which airline companies recruit trainee pilots for flight time while grounding rostered...
    • Public Transport
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish and or supply this Deputy with a copy of the preliminary business case in respect of the MetroLink to south-west...
    • Driver Test
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting a driver test in each test centre area by age, in tabular form. [31981/21]
    • Public Transport
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a transport police pilot on public transport. [31982/21]
    • Bus Services
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a bus route has changed in recent months (details supplied). [31985/21]
    • Driver Licences
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person must relinquish their UK driver licence in order to receive an Irish driver licence from the Road Safety Authority; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be assigned a date for a driver test. [32015/21]
    • Foreign Policy
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has considered declaring Belarussian airspace a no-fly zone for Irish aircraft given recent events. [32024/21]
    • Driver Licences
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is expected that those drivers over the age of 70 who availed of an extension to their driver licences without submitting a medical...
    • Driver Test
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will consider adjusting the essential worker and non-essential worker criteria for driver tests in order to speed up...
    • Disability Services
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made by the National Transport Authority in establishing a formal engagement process with key disability representative...
    • Public Transport
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that all train and DART stations are staffed to assist persons with disabilities board and alight from...
    • Transport Policy
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Bus Éireann mobility scooter policy will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32114/21]
    • Traffic Management
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which traffic management, road and bridge realignment are in hand or proposed to address the long-time traffic management...
  • Department of Finance
    • Vacant Properties
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in respect of the Revenue Commissioners taking responsibility for collecting data on vacant homes in respect of the length of vacancy and the level...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the parameters for the criteria that qualify a business as a start up for the purposes of receiving the employment wage subsidy scheme which...
    • Insurance Industry
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance if car insurance providers are entitled to discriminate in the provision of insurance policies based on age; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concerns of an association (details supplied) that the future viability of the plans to operate services of a bank from post offices is in...
    • Tax Reliefs
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer on an annual basis of the tuition tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30567/21]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance if a schedule will be provided of the transactions NAMA has had historically with companies (details supplied); the value of same; the breakdown by the asset...
    • State Bodies
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance the end dates of the terms of office of each of the chief executive officers or equivalent in each of the public bodies or publicly funded bodies under his...
    • Tax Code
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the application of the 5% VAT rate on all period products here (details supplied); if Ireland is maximising the use of the lower VAT rate; the...
    • Tax Data
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claims for a benefit under the Israel-Ireland double taxation agreement in each of the past five years; the number that required further...
    • Tax Code
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 17 April 2018, if he has sought the alteration of the EU VAT Directive to allow for the removal of VAT charges...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason uncompleted houses (details supplied) would not be sold individually by NAMA to persons who are willing to complete the necessary work to make...
    • Tax Yield
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that was collected through the sale of dogs in each year for the past five years. [30710/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance if funding will be provided for the purchase of two additional backscatter vans for the Revenue Commissioners. [30724/21]
    • Official Engagements
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with the United States Secretary of the Treasury since their appointment; and if so, the nature of those engagements. [30741/21]
    • Tax Code
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional supports will be provided to small traders who rely on imports from outside the EU in view of the decision to apply VAT on items imported from...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reviews
      342. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were incurred; if so, the...
    • Tax Code
      343. To ask the Minister for Finance if clarification will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to increasing the local property tax on holiday homes; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      344. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to the Exchequer of the research and development tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30984/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to the Exchequer of the knowledge development box; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30987/21]
    • Banking Sector
      349. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 2 June 2021, if he will address an issue in which a person (details supplied) in County Clare cannot get access to...
    • Tax Exemptions
      350. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the reintroduction of capital gains tax exemptions in certain circumstances (details supplied); his views on whether such a...
    • Tax Code
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance if a parent who is fully financially supporting their child who resides outside of the EU can claim tax relief on their income; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Yield
      352. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated in capital gains tax from the disposal of cryptocurrency assets in 2018, 2019 and 2020; his views regarding the paying and filing of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      353. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons on the employment wage subsidy scheme are still not being allowed to draw down their mortgages; the...
    • Tax Code
      356. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered altering the fact that barristers must pay VAT at 23% for their professional fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31259/21]
    • Climate Action Plan
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Climate Action Plan contains no proposal to allow disabled drivers who avail of the drivers and passengers with disabilities scheme to claim...
    • EU Regulations
      358. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites and mobile...
    • Housing Policy
      360. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recent article by the Economic Social and Research Institute (details supplied); if the recommendations have been considered by his Department...
    • Tax Code
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance if the interest penalty for tax warehousing for self-employed persons will be deferred until 2022. [31383/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      363. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the 9% tax on hospitality to the end of September 2022 rather than the beginning of the same month (details supplied); and if he...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      364. To ask the Minister for Finance the taxation rates that are applied in the case of compensation being paid to a landowner for a compulsory purchase order being made against the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      365. To ask the Minister for Finance if the case of a company (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31475/21]
    • Tax Code
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to reports that the Irish affiliate of a company (details supplied) paid no tax in 2020 on profits of €260 billion; and if he...
    • Tax Reliefs
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the finding from a recent report (details supplied) which states that restricting some of the less well targeted, tax expenditure reliefs and...
    • Summer Economic Statement
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recently reported comments of the Chief Executive of the NTMA who stated that short to medium term environment for debt refinancing will be...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      375. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 25 May 2021, if consideration will be given to deregistering a vehicle given that the vehicle in question was...
    • Tax Code
      376. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of consultation there is into Ireland’s tax treaty policy given that a statement is due on same by the end of 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Services
      379. To ask the Minister for Finance if a lending agency can refuse a person a loan based on their age. [31817/21]
    • EU Bodies
      380. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 21 April 2021, if the proposal with regard to the addition at European Council level of the words by the use of...
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reform of the EU Fiscal Rules Stability and Growth Pact as they currently stand; if he will be making a submission to the Commission’s...
    • Insurance Industry
      382. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with both the construction industry and underwriters regarding professional indemnity insurance for construction professions and...
    • Tax Code
      385. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised by increasing the corporate tax rate from 12.5% to 15%, 16%, 17% and 17.5%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Credit Unions
      386. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of the restrictions on credit unions regarding the amount a customer can have on deposit; the purpose of the restrictions; and if this will be...
    • Vacant Properties
      388. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a vacant residential property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31865/21]
    • Public Sector Staff
      390. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty acting allowance for over...
    • Insurance Industry
      391. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is at the discretion of insurance brokers to charge a fee to clients for an insurance quote as opposed to paying the brokers fee themselves; if the...
    • Tax Code
      392. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised through the betting tax levy in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31965/21]
    • Cycling Policy
      393. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that have availed of the bike- to-work-scheme for 2020 and to date in 2021. [31974/21]
    • Tax Code
      394. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which non-compliant properties for property tax can become compliant; the financial penalties involved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Inflation Rate
      396. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which inflationary tendencies have been detected in the economy; if specific action is required in response to same; and if he will make a...
    • Economic Growth
      397. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he expects Ireland’s economic forecast to be affected by international development; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Interest Rates
      399. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which Eurozone countries are likely to be affected by indications to increase interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU Agreements
      400. To ask the Minister for Finance if the EU and Eurozone countries in particular remain committed to ensuring that taxation remains within the responsibility of national governments; and if he...
    • Budget 2021
      401. To ask the Minister for Finance if he remains satisfied that the budget for 2021 continues to be adequate to meet contingencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32083/21]
    • Brexit Issues
      403. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains confident that adequate provision has been made or is in course thereof to offset any negative impact from Brexit; and if he...
    • Banking Sector
      406. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that lenders continue to engage with borrowers who have fallen into arrears for reasons outside of their control; if...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      407. To ask the Minister for Finance when Irish home borrowers can borrow at similar interest rates to that available throughout Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32089/21]
    • Banking Sector
      409. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department continues to monitor changes to the availability of credit throughout Europe; the extent to which Irish banks continue to...
    • Brexit Issues
      410. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department has identified negative issues arising from Brexit; the availability of action to address such issues in the short and...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      412. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which the reopening of the economy is in line with previous expectations with particular reference to the maximisation of opportunities through...
    • Services Sector
      414. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which his Department continues to monitor activities in the manufacturing and services sectors and thereby identifying potential strength and...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Inflation Rate
      415. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which inflation has affected the construction sector; the actions needed in response to same; and if he will make a...
    • Civil Service
      416. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that many employees in the Civil Service are having with their employers regarding...
    • Planning Issues
      417. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a company (details supplied) has sought and been given a letter of consent from the State in relation to the inclusion of buildings...
    • Museum Projects
      418. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will request the OPW to extend the opening hours of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the grounds of the Royal Hospital,...
    • Office of Public Works
      419. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the major projects that have been delayed; the planning matters that resulted in the delay; the amount unspent as a result in tabular...
    • Public Sector Staff
      420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the end dates of the terms of office of each of the chief executive officers or equivalent in each of the public bodies under his aegis...
    • Energy Policy
      421. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each of the agencies under his aegis and the publicly funded agencies of the ESRI and the IPA have included transport and travel in...
    • Office of Public Works
      423. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works is encumbered in public sector energy reductions due to the array of older and heritage buildings in its...
    • State Bodies
      425. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or any of the bodies under his aegis or the publicly funded bodies of the IPA and the ESRI have persons employed in...
    • Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Issues
      426. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department, the bodies under his aegis or the publicly funded bodies of his Department are covered by the Irish Human Rights and...
    • Cycling Facilities
      428. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to resurface and widen the cycle lane on North Road in the Phoenix Park taking into account the recent works that...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      429. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      430. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      431. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Programme for Government commitment to allocate €1.5 billion over next ten years to an agri-environment scheme...
    • Civil Service
      432. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm the statements by Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance,...
    • Office of Public Works
      433. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details and costs of the structural repairs carried out on the banks of the River Maine in County Kerry in the past five years; and...
    • Houses of the Oireachtas Commission
      435. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if secretarial assistants are currently employed by the Houses of the Oireachtas; the number that have applied for incremental credit;...
    • Mental Health Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the work his Department has undertaken to implement the youth mental health pathfinder project in terms of administrative, budgetary,...
    • Freedom of Information
      437. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if TDs are exempt from Freedom of Information charges. [31001/21]
    • EU Funding
      438. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Ireland has requested under article 25(3) of the regulation establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility to redact information...
    • Office of Public Works
      439. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the final report as part of the Phoenix Park transport and mobility options study; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Websites
      442. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their...
    • Office of Public Works
      444. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full schedule of works to be undertaken at Navan Garda station; the overall budget for the project; the estimated...
    • Departmental Staff
      446. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty...
    • Litter Pollution
      447. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if bins located in St. Stephen’s Green and Iveagh Gardens are solar compactors; his views on reports that they are currently full...
    • Public Sector Staff
      448. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to employ an additional 50 social workers. [31656/21]
    • National Development Plan
      450. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if provision has been made in the National Development Plan for the full cost of making homes in counties Donegal and Mayo safe under...
    • Vaccination Programme
      451. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the policy his Department will adopt for employees who opt out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      452. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a sports capital grant application by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Arts Policy
      453. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce a universal basic income pilot for artists as recommended by the Arts Recovery Taskforce; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      454. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of clubs that availed of the Covid-19 small club grant; the amount of funds drawn down as a part of this grant...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      456. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to allow the return of live music performances. [30691/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      457. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the State agencies under the remit of her Department that have provided her Department with copies of their 2020 annual report and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      458. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the circus sector can reopen following the most recent announcement on Resilience and Recovery: The Path Ahead; if there has...
    • Arts Policy
      459. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has given consideration to the setting-up of working groups or a communications forum on cultural and entertainment renewal...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      460. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020...
    • Departmental Reviews
      461. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      464. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason outdoor swimming classes are prohibited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30982/21]
    • Arts Policy
      466. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of the €270,063,000 current expenditure on arts and culture programmes outlined in Budget 2021 that has been...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      467. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of the €60,732,000 capital expenditure on arts and culture programmes outlined in Budget 2021 that has been...
    • Caiteachas Ranna
      468. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad den chaiteachas reatha €58,782,000, arna leagan amach i mBuiséad 2021, atá caite go dtí...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      470. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of the €270,063,000 current expenditure on arts and culture programmes outlined in Budget 2021 that consisted of...
    • Caiteachas Ranna
      492. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an raibh an caiteachas breise €3.5 milliún a fógraíodh do TG4 i mBuiséad 2021 ina chaiteachas aon uaire...
    • Departmental Funding
      496. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown by heading (details supplied) of the additional Covid-19 funding provided in the budget 2021; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      503. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the additional €3.5million announced for TG4 in Budget 2021 is a once-off spend as a result of Covid-19; and if it is...
    • Departmental Funding
      506. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the additional €55 million announced in budget 2021 for the business support scheme is a once-off Covid-19 payment for...
    • Arts Council
      519. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the distinction between the roles of the Arts Council and Culture Ireland; the relationship between the two agencies; and the...
    • Arts Policy
      521. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the procedure, mechanisms and supports the State or State agencies provide to cities or local areas bidding for and hosting the...
    • Tourism Funding
      522. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount paid to Fáilte Ireland in administration for administration of the Covid-19 grant funding that it was responsible...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      523. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will investigate the case of drive-in concerts and performances that operate in open air venues with car access only; if...
    • Departmental Websites
      524. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of...
    • Departmental Funding
      527. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if supports are available to a local community organisation (details supplied) now or going forward to assist it in progressing...
    • Tourism Industry
      529. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure Fáilte Ireland is supporting the private coach tourism industry with financial packages and stimuli...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      531. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current supports and grants available to a business (details supplied); the consideration that has been given to future...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      532. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the permissibility of live music at weddings; the steps she is taking to ensure that live music can resume in a safe...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      534. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on the proposed increase in the pensions-in-payment RTÉ superannuation scheme; the steps she is...
    • Sports Funding
      535. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the increased application to the sports capital grant scheme will be considered in the allocation of such funding; and if she...
    • Tourism Promotion
      537. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered promoting Ireland as a destination for EU school trips post Brexit given that it will be more difficult for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      538. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government has plans to introduce a differentiation between cinema and drive-in cinemas in Covid-19 regulations; and if she...
    • Irish Language
      539. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of grants or scholarships available through her Department to assist students in third-level education studying the...
    • Online Safety
      540. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the general scheme of the online safety and media regulation Bill does not include a statutory mechanism for persons to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      542. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports her Department has made available for persons working in the live entertainment sector who despite not being allowed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      543. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the protocol for organisations that wish to organise outdoor cultural and sports events for August 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      545. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of employees in her Department and the bodies under the aegis of her Department who have been in receipt of a higher...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      546. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered altering the music and entertainment business assistance scheme to cover an average turnover of the previous...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      547. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which the cultural and sporting events selected to run as pilot events were selected; the selection criteria; the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Horticulture Sector
      548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report on harvesting on Irish bogs will be published (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Sector
      549. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impact that a delay to the issuing of forestry licensing is having on timber prices for...
    • State Properties
      551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a 35-year State property lease pursuant to the State Property Act 1954 (as amended) will issue to a club (details...
    • Housing Schemes
      552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is easy access to persons to discuss the Rebuilding Ireland loan scheme given concerns that the phone numbers...
    • Rental Sector
      553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide additional funding to the Residential Tenancies Board to allow it to recruit additional adjudicators and...
    • Housing Schemes
      554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider fast tracking the housing assistance payment scheme in local authorities in which there is a backlog of...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are obligated to maintain a mandatory minimum setback distance for the construction of wind turbines near...
    • Defective Building Materials
      558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason recommendations outlined in completed engineers' reports on the IS465 register at stage one of applications and...
    • Water Quality
      563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered daily testing of bathing sites in circumstances in which there has been recurrent sewage and pollution...
    • Defective Building Materials
      564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the inclusion and integration of County Clare into the defective block scheme available elsewhere on the west...
    • Housing Schemes
      565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to reconcile the low HAP thresholds in County Clare with the increasing rents in the region such as in the case of...
    • Housing Policy
      566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the inspections of houses that are in a contractual agreement with a local authority have been resumed such as in the case...
    • Housing Schemes
      567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing supports that are in place for a person who had to leave the family home due to domestic violence (details...
    • Planning Issues
      568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider placing a conservation order on the former home of Thomas Clarke at 31 Richmond Avenue, Dublin given that...
    • Local Authorities
      569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount due to each local authority in respect of arrears which are currently due from residential tenancies; and if he...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of the briefing notes and recommendations provided to him by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife...
    • EU Directives
      571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the annual State wide derogation declaration that he signed on 30 April 2021 is compliant with the EU...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to amend the legislation regarding the standard for testing of concrete blocks used by National Standards...
    • Water Services
      574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to water services; and if he will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the defective block scheme specific to counties Mayo and Donegal; and if consideration will be given to...
    • Hen Harriers
      576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the hen harrier threat response plan will be published; the reason for the long delay in the publication of the plan; and...
    • Local Authorities
      578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to local authorities in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021 to deal with the issue of...
    • Derelict Sites
      579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time equivalent derelict sites inspectors by local authority in tabular form. [30705/21]
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided in 2019 and 2020, respectively for the compulsory purchase of sites by local authority in tabular form....
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given approval to a society (details supplied) for the purchase of 13 houses at Laurelville, Mill Road, Corbally,...
    • Local Authorities
      584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income limit for social housing by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30767/21]
    • Vacant Properties
      585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant residential properties in County Wexford on the vacant homes register in tabular form. [30768/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the approved housing bodies involved in the mortgage-to-rent initiative; the banks that are involved in the initiative; the...
    • Local Authorities
      587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the local authority decarbonisation zones; and the list of zones selected. [30814/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January...
    • Departmental Reviews
      590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external...
    • Local Authorities
      591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual local authority income and expenditure for the period 2008 to 2019 for the rental accommodation scheme, housing...
    • Departmental Data
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units provided by local authorities in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30909/21]
    • Housing Policy
      595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the working family payment is seen as temporary income which does not demonstrate ability to repay a mortgage but is...
    • Local Authorities
      596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of unsold affordable homes being used for social housing by local authority; the annual cost of servicing the loans...
    • Departmental Data
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants on the social housing list for each local authority area by qualifying house type need, that is, 1,...
    • Legislative Measures
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation in respect of strategic housing developments will not be reintroduced following the expiration of said...
    • Departmental Reviews
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos.794 and 796 of 21 April 2021 and 342 of 11 May 2021, if he stands over the contents of...
    • Housing Policy
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1946 of 6 September 20219, when the internal working group to consider a long-term...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of NPWS works for areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31093/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter in relation to the shared equity scheme (details supplied). [31183/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to improve the MICA redress scheme in cases in which a person with a large mortgage and whose home is...
    • Heritage Council
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to the National Biodiversity Data Centre in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31251/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed at the National Biodiversity Data Centre by rank; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • European Court of Justice
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a resolution of the 2008 Court of Justice of the European Union ruling in a case (details supplied) is expected; the...
    • Planning Issues
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on the review by his Department of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on...
    • Departmental Websites
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance...
    • Electoral Process
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on reducing the voting age for local and European elections to 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Wildlife Protection
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the briefing notes and any recommendations provided to him by his Department and the National...
    • Defective Building Materials
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has consulted with the Health and Safety Authority to establish its role in liaising with Donegal County...
    • Forestry Sector
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details with regard to woodland management plans (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Financial Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 17 November 2020, if a strict time limit will be applied on financial...
    • Local Authorities
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is planned to reform the way central government supports local government as a result of the decision to allow local...
    • Departmental Strategies
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with Disabilities 2022-2027; and if he will make...
    • Housing Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the capital assistance scheme by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and...
    • Grant Payments
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability by 5%,...
    • Property Registration
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a dealing in the Land Registry (details supplied) will be processed in view of the fact that this dealing is ongoing for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the regulations for outdoor dining (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31559/21]
    • Insurance Industry
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of the local authority mortgage protection insurance scheme through the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme;...
    • Departmental Staff
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a...
    • Rural Schemes
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the working group on rural planning guidelines in his Department; and when revised guidance on the issue of...
    • Local Authorities
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Cork Event Centre; and when he last meet the local authority responsible for same. [31988/21]
    • Vacant Sites
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant land bank sites in ownership by each local authority, in tabular form; and the location of each land...
    • Housing Schemes
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications submitted and approved, respectively by quarter and month to Wexford...
    • Housing Provision
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on the homeless housing list in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32001/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review will be published for the 2016 tenant incremental purchase scheme. [32026/21]
    • Seanad Reform
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on plans for reform of Seanad Éireann. [30931/21]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Priorities
      641. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his priorities for the forthcoming Generation Equality Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31964/21]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      644. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the foreign births register will reopen; the length of time it will take to clear the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      645. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport for a minor (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30523/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      646. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the conditions for a person (details supplied) who is fully vaccinated and is travelling to Scotland on 19 July 2021 to visit family. [30524/21]
    • Passport Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports in the backlog waiting to be issued (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30605/21]
    • Irish Aid
      649. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any Irish foreign aid to either other countries, charities or international bodies has been appropriated by terrorist organisations or...
    • Human Rights
      650. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised the illegal detention of an Irish citizen (details supplied) and the alleged genocide of the Uighur Muslims by the CCP with the...
    • Official Engagements
      651. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister to date in 2021. [30737/21]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      652. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to upgrade the Irish Honorary Consul in Cancun, Mexico to a consulate general office. [30744/21]
    • Passport Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current timeframe for all backlogged applications for passports to be cleared; the emergency procedures in place for persons who must...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      655. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      656. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      659. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30970/21]
    • Human Rights
      662. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised abuses of human rights in Morocco in the context of the opening of an Embassy in Morocco including the ongoing annexation...
    • Departmental Websites
      663. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their...
    • Passport Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when it is intended that that Passport Express services will resume; if his attention has been drawn to the serious impact the delay in...
    • International Agreements
      667. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 277, 278, 279, 280 and 281 of 3 June 2021, if no European Council decision is required to approve...
    • Passport Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way persons (details supplied) can acquire a passport in order to travel for essential reasons with their newly born child given the...
    • Trade Agreements
      669. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government plans to begin proceedings at the European Union for the suspension of the free trade agreement signed by the EU and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      670. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the arrangements being made to enable Irish passport holders who are resident in Northern Ireland to avail of the proposed EU Digital Covid...
    • Passport Services
      671. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to extend the validity of signatures already witnessed for passports at the passport office specifically in relation to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      673. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts his Department is making to ensure that member states adopt a uniform approach of accepting a negative PCR test result 72 hours...
    • International Bodies
      674. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the election of Syria as a new member of the World Health Organisation executive board given the current nature and purported...
    • Passport Services
      675. 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. [31849/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      677. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty acting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      678. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland’s engagement and role in the US administration formed expert working groups with Canada, Mexico, the...
    • Passport Services
      680. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) given that the application was received by the Passport Office on 1 January 2021;...
    • International Sanctions
      681. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the sanctions that will be imposed on the Belarusian Government given recent events. [32025/21]
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Properties
      683. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Fort Shannon, County Kerry is still in the charge of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30478/21]
    • Naval Service
      684. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the contract for the replacement of LÉ Eithne will be put out to tender. [30728/21]
    • Defence Forces
      685. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces plan to run advertisement campaigns in the print media and national television stations to attract new recruits into the...
    • Naval Service
      687. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the statements made by an organisation (details supplied) to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 25...
    • Defence Forces
      688. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the statements made by an organisation (details supplied) to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 25...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      689. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the cross-border healthcare initiative which is due to finish in December...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      690. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      691. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were incurred;...
    • Defence Forces
      692. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 1 June 2021, if he will respond to the question regarding whether a national strategy for military...
    • Departmental Websites
      694. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites...
    • Air Corps
      696. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the statements made by an organisation (details supplied) to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 25 May 2021 that there...
    • Departmental Staff
      697. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty acting...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • State Examinations
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the possible challenges facing leaving certificate students in accessing entry to universities outside of...
    • School Transport
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transportation will be approved for a student (details supplied). [31912/21]
    • School Enrolments
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that the second-level schools in the Midleton and Carrigtwohill school planning area will be able to cater for the demand for...
    • School Funding
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school libraries grant will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30479/21]
    • School Textbooks
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will audit all school textbooks to ensure inclusivity and visibility of breastfeeding families from preschool onwards; the way in which...
    • Library Services
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether access to books and reading is important for young children particularly those who might not have other means to access a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30536/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home school community liaison officers currently employed; the number of schools they work in; and the current cost of employing...
    • School Staff
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education teachers employed in schools; and the cost of employing these teachers. [30539/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken towards providing an autism unit and special class in a school (details supplied); when the unit will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); if the school will be ready by the beginning of August 2021 in order to prepare...
    • School Enrolments
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected enrolments at primary and secondary level for the 2021-2022 academic year. [30555/21]
    • School Transport
      712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport support will be secured for a child (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school secretaries and caretakers pay conditions and salaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30608/21]
    • Educational Reform
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for the leaving certificate 2022; if the exam will consist of a combination of accredited grades and modified papers; and if...
    • School Accommodation
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on the arrangements in relation to the contingency arrangements for a school (details supplied) to be located in interim...
    • Special Educational Needs
      718. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional two areas in which the school inclusion model is being piloted in 2021; and if there are plans to extend the scheme for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; the estimated cost of same. [30725/21]
    • School Staff
      720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the loss of six jobs in a school (details supplied) following a National Council for Special Education review;...
    • Education Schemes
      721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the summer provision is available to childcare providers and preschool students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30771/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a primary school (details supplied) will be provided with the full-time SNA and SET support required for the students with special needs in...
    • Public Sector Pay
      725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to provide pay parity between teachers who qualified pre-2011 and post-2011; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress being made with the new school buildings for a school (details supplied). [30852/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were incurred;...
    • School Costs
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism through which the State can assist parents with fees in circumstances (details supplied). [30894/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the Government’s approval for the July provision for pupils with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the requirements for teachers to wear masks in a primary school setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30944/21]
    • Teacher Training
      735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and her officials will intervene in cases in which teachers who previously qualified with the HDip are now returning to teaching and being...
    • Schools Building Projects
      736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) will lose all access to green space through planned works; if she...
    • Departmental Staff
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of workers employed by her Department and in each office or agency under the aegis of her Department that earn less than the living...
    • Special Educational Needs
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathway in education for children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31005/21]
    • State Examinations
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the leaving certificate results date has been announced as 3 September 2021 and not in August 2021 as per usual (details supplied)....
    • Teaching Qualifications
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes planned in terms of the new recognition of overseas teaching qualifications. [31126/21]
    • School Admissions
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the struggle to get a school placement for a student (details supplied); and if her Department can guarantee a...
    • State Examinations
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alterative that has been set up to allow a person (details supplied) to sit all the leaving certificate examinations in 2021 if they have a...
    • School Funding
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget for information technology equipment for both primary and secondary schools; the number of devices purchased from this per...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      747. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classes at primary school level with 30 pupils or above by county in tabular form. [31139/21]
    • Education Costs
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost per additional classroom provided at primary and post-primary level. [31144/21]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio in DEIS schools by one point; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31151/21]
    • Education Costs
      760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to designate an additional 10 schools as DEIS band 2; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31152/21]
    • School Facilities
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools participating in the school meals programme that do not have a canteen. [31154/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special educational teachers that have been hired this academic year; and the number of additional special educational...
    • School Accommodation
      774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on the ownership of the former site of a school (details supplied) and whether she has information for plans for...
    • State Examinations
      775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the decision to publish the leaving certificate results on 3 September 2021 and publish them in mid-August to allow...
    • School Transport
      777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 1,000 additional places in the school transport system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31254/21]
    • State Examinations
      778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reasonable accommodations for students who have an epileptic seizure immediately before or during a State exam allowing them...
    • School Staff
      779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher transferring from one Gaelscoil to another Gaelscoil via the temporary reassignment scheme is entitled to continue to receive a...
    • Departmental Websites
      780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites...
    • School Transport
      782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can be provided with information on the outcome of their appeal for their child to be provided with school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that a person with special needs (details supplied) is provided with an appropriate school place; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to make provision in the context of Covid-19 for online learning in exceptional cases of children living with vulnerable family members...
    • Special Educational Needs
      785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home-based July provision will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places available under the school transport scheme in the academic year 2020-2021; and the share of capacity under the scheme...
    • Special Educational Needs
      788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 in today’s terms in a similar...
    • State Examinations
      789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if date for the issuing of the leaving certificate results (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will approve the tender for a school (details supplied) which was first initiated in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 cost in today's terms in a similar...
    • State Examinations
      793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for reasonable accommodation in cases in which students who experience a medical emergency immediately before or during an...
    • Special Educational Needs
      794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated additional cost of increasing funding for the school-based summer July provision programme of education for children with complex...
    • Schools Building Projects
      796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding the development of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31590/21]
    • School Transport
      797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the qualifying conditions for the school transport scheme will be reviewed to reduce the current radius of 4.8 kilometres as the qualification...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post-primary schools currently using their gym facilities to accommodate students given Covid-19 social distancing; and the number...
    • School Staff
      799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will adhere strictly to the staffing ratios announced for DEIS schools given the extra difficulties faced by such schools...
    • Special Educational Needs
      800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is set to lose one teacher and five SNAs from its allocation for the 2021-2022 school year; if this...
    • Schools Building Projects
      801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed tender for a campus (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31641/21]
    • School Attendance
      802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to restore the school completion programme to 2010 levels. [31671/21]
    • Departmental Properties
      803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has conducted a valuation for the land at Harold’s Cross bought by her Department from the Irish Greyhound Board; the...
    • School Curriculum
      804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours per week of physical education class should secondary school children participate in under the curriculums for junior cycle...
    • School Admissions
      805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) who cannot find a place in a special school for their child will receive a...
    • State Examinations
      806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided in relation to the case of a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31722/21]
    • School Facilities
      807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in respect of the provision of replacement new school facilities at a school (details supplied); the next stages in the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 13 January 2021, the extent to which the various projects referred to therein have progressed in the...
    • School Curriculum
      814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Irish sign language has not been included as a curricular subject (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Admissions
      817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to ensure that students in Northern Ireland are not disadvantaged from accessing third-level places here due to the delay...
    • School Discipline
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of expulsions that have been recorded from special schools in each of the past five years by county in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements her Department has in place to assist the seamless transfer of a child expelled from a special needs school to another; and if...
    • State Examinations
      821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if alternative arrangements are being put in place for leaving certificate students who miss exams due to a positive test for Covid-19; and the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 18 May 2021, when the NCSE policy advice on education provision in special classes and special...
    • School Staff
      828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined permitting primary school teachers to transfer panel rights between counties; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Admissions
      829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of admissions for the recently announced additional needs school in Cork; the number who applied for a place; the number of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a construction date has been identified for a project (details supplied). [31977/21]
    • School Transport
      832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received by her Department in each administrative area for school transport for the coming academic school year; the...
    • Teacher Training
      833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish Sign Language trained teachers currently working in schools controlled by her Department. [31980/21]
    • School Attendance
      834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Wexford who failed to complete the junior certificate cycle in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • School Enrolments
      835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will permit a school (details supplied) to enrol additional pupils given that it has the spare capacity; if she has received a request...
    • Schools Building Projects
      836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 343 of 15 December 2020, the status of the capital appraisal process; the estimated timelines for...
    • School Staff
      837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the developing post application by a school (details supplied) for an additional mainstream post; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the establishment of permanent premises for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32060/21]
    • School Management
      840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the serious concerns raised by a school (details supplied) in respect of implementing the recommendations as stated in a...
    • School Transport
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the eligibility criteria for availing of school transport with particular emphasis on concessionary transport pupils who have to...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Birth Certificates
      842. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the birth certificate application of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have availed of Abhaile vouchers, by county; the categories in which the applications were made;...
    • Employment Support Services
      844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on criticism by an organisation (details supplied) of Government plans for a regional employment service that seeks...
    • Family Resource Centres
      845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding streams available for a family and community resource centre to purchase land adjacent to its property for...
    • School Meals Programme
      846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided for the school meals programme for the 2020-2021 academic year. [30540/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for persons who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and had their payments ceased as a...
    • Disability Services
      848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the uptake and funding rates of the disability awareness support scheme between 2017 and 2021, in tabular...
    • Haulage Industry
      849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advertise grants for Heavy Goods Vehicle, HGV, and bus driver lessons as part of the back to work scheme given...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's application by a person (details supplied) who is providing full-time care for both...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider automatically extending the free travel scheme to persons who lose their driving licence due to a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      856. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing maternity benefit from 26 weeks to 29 weeks. [30726/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff by grade working in the household benefits section; and the number of vacancies by grade within the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of advocates in the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities; and the estimated full-year cost of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the carer's support grant by €75, €150 and €225,...
    • State Pensions
      861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will allow an individual grievance, conversation or mediation regarding an unsolved pensions issue ongoing...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households eligible for schemes (details supplied) effective from 1 August 2018. [30826/21]
    • Low Pay Commission
      863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the implementation of the universal basic income pilot committed to as part of the request to the Low Pay...
    • Departmental Schemes
      864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on allowing schools (details supplied) with registered charitable status to participate in the Tús scheme; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of social welfare payments for April, May and June and to date in 2021; and the number in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January...
    • Departmental Reviews
      867. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of each value-for-money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure on the back to education allowance for each year for which data is available; if this cost covers fees and-or...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way the artists pilot scheme for social protection has been developed since 2017; the number of artists who have been...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that receive child benefit payments; and the number of children these are in respect of. [31166/21]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the full rate of carer’s allowance. [31207/21]
    • Irish Sign Language
      880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review by her Department of the functioning of the IRIS application; if she will consider keeping the...
    • Departmental Data
      881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department can withhold personal data for up to seven years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31234/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there can be a grace period of reopening for business owners who are on the pandemic unemployment payment and are taking...
    • Parental Leave
      883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding parent’s leave benefit; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a training fund of up to €1,000 is available for persons in receipt of jobseeker’s payment but is...
    • Departmental Websites
      886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to arrears of a contributory pension. [31368/21]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the threshold for earned income in order to qualify for deserted wife’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 supports will remain in place for certain sectors beyond September 2021; and her views on whether certain...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s benefit allocation of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employees who are on secondment from her Department to other organisations; the number of these who are in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the amount spent...
    • Pension Provisions
      898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department has in place to address concerns of seconded local employment scheme and community employment...
    • Departmental Schemes
      899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the EmployAbility Service by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the walk peer programme to extend the service to each county; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disregard which now applies to disability allowance recipients who have been granted bursaries, stipends or...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31545/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      905. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make the form for the benefit payment for 65-year olds available to download and print rather than on request...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of artists that have qualified to date for State supports under the various Covid-19 pandemic support schemes; the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a carer’s allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Departmental Data
      911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals to each job club by location in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [31644/21]
    • Maternity Leave
      912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to extend maternity leave by 52 weeks. [31655/21]
    • Employment Schemes
      913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons accessing employment services through INTREO in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date 2021, in...
    • Departmental Strategies
      914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the pathways to work strategy 2021-2024 will be launched; if further information on the announced work placement...
    • Parental Leave
      915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing six weeks of parental benefit which would be the same rate as maternity benefit but which...
    • Departmental Data
      916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing maternity, paternity and adoptive benefit by €10 per week. [31666/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be an extension for those on community employment schemes beyond 2 July 2021 after receiving little or no...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which persons contracted to airline companies that are rostered to pilot but are only paid when flying may access...
    • Departmental Schemes
      919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of job coaches employed in regard to the use of job coaches for disabled jobseekers as a way of improving access...
    • Departmental Staff
      920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employees in her Department and the bodies under the aegis of her Department who have been in receipt of a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements her Department has made to facilitate and enable parents of newborn children access children’s...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a basic social welfare payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused the over 65 years benefit payment (details supplied); and if previous...
    • Departmental Data
      924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of a carer’s allowance payment in County Wexford; and the breakdown of the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Equality Issues
      926. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to introduce an amendment to the Equal Status Act 2000 and the Equality Act to prohibit discrimination...
    • Departmental Meetings
      927. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if another date will be arranged for a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      928. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if officials in his Department have requested that a company (details supplied) contact service providers in...
    • Direct Provision System
      929. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the freephone support service for those in direct provision is provided by a service (details...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department has been impacted by the ransomware attack on the Department of Health; and...
    • Departmental Policies
      931. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to change the definition of a family to allow for the recognition cohabiting couples as a family; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      932. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will extend the foster care allowance for children up to 23 years of age; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      934. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the recipients of the €450,000 allocated to the local authorities play and recreation grant fund for the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      935. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a commission into the expansion of the provision of personal assistance services to persons...
    • Departmental Staff
      936. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered the appointment of a health and social care officer to work horizontally between the...
    • Departmental Funding
      937. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way childcare providers can access the funding allocated under Annual Capital Programme 2021 of his...
    • Childcare Services
      938. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made in relation to the provision of part-time and wrap-around childcare; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Data
      939. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the foster care allowance by €10 per week per child aged under 12 years...
    • Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Issues
      940. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will extend the scope of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 to include the bodies...
    • Departmental Funding
      941. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way funding accompanying the summer of play initiative can be accessed. [30845/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      945. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence...
    • Departmental Reviews
      946. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date;...
    • Youth Services
      947. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of youth organisations in receipt of funding from his Department; the amount of funding allocated by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to childcare providers that are unable to provide full hours service due to the...
    • Equality Issues
      949. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 5 May 2021, the status of the preparation of the legislation to end...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 641 and 642 of 24 February 2021, if the correspondence between him and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      951. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all correspondence between him and or his Department and the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby...
    • Departmental Funding
      952. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount allocated in 2019, 2020 and 2021 to the provision of youth services; and the amount of this...
    • Departmental Websites
      964. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on...
    • Direct Provision System
      966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all direct provision accommodation centres; the number of persons resident in each...
    • Departmental Funding
      967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams for a youth work project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      969. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding that was allocated to the childcare services reopening grants; and the amount of this...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding that was allocated to ECCE service providers at the 70% rate; and the amount of this...
    • Childcare Services
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure childminders are represented in any decision making group on the future of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the post of director of ICT in Tusla has been filled continuously since 2017; the dates on which positions...
    • Departmental Schemes
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has received an application for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be fully implemented; when the decision support...
    • Departmental Funding
      989. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a once-off bridging grant of €2 million to an organisation (details supplied) to...
    • United Nations
      990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Ireland will proceed to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights...
    • Childcare Services
      991. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of referrals by public health nurses for sponsorship under the national childcare scheme by month...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      997. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated in 2020 on the once-off Covid-19 capital grant for providers funded by his Department...
    • Childcare Qualifications
      998. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated additional cost of increasing the learner fund to allow all childcare workers currently holding...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1000. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated additional cost of the roll-out of Aistear across the early years sector. [31652/21]
    • Childcare Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the subsidy under the affordable childcare scheme from €20 to...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1004. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing funding for the access inclusion model by 15%. [31668/21]
    • Childcare Services
      1006. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated additional cost in 2022 of increasing the universal minimum subsidy across the affordable...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1008. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown in funding allocated under Vote 40 in the Revised Estimate for Budget 2021 for programme A:...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken by Tusla to put a service level agreement in place with a service provider (details supplied);...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of expenditure spent on advertising the public notice entitled Mother and Baby Home Records...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1015. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will launch an advertising campaign explaining the way to make a subject access request to his...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1016. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent by his Department and the commission on advertising the mother and baby homes commission of...
    • Departmental Advertising
      1019. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on advertising for the consultation process on the development of the restorative recognition...
    • Domestic Violence
      1021. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department will publish legislative proposals for paid leave relating to domestic violence as agreed...
    • Childcare Services
      1023. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if staff salaries represent 70% of the cost of the childcare sector; his views on whether this is 70% of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1024. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown including early childhood care and education, ECCE pay and non-pay, the access and inclusion...
    • Departmental Funding
      1025. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated in 2021 to the asylum and migration integration fund; the amount spent to date; and the...
    • Departmental Communications
      1026. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans for his Department to develop an awareness campaign promoting the benefits of employing...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1027. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department were to develop an awareness campaign promoting the benefits of employing disabled persons to...
    • Childcare Services
      1028. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on matters raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of their concerns on the future viability...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Education
      1031. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the institutional or other scholarships available including grants from research funders to students in third-level education...
    • Grant Payments
      1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if as part of the SUSI review process, he will consider extending the fee grant to the four approved institutions in Northern Ireland as is...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1033. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase driver courses for HGV drivers and bus drivers in County Tipperary by providing more spaces for training at the ETB centre...
    • Third Level Fees
      1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the high cost of third-level fees here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30661/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1035. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the pandemic unemployment payment is not included in the income disregard for the SUSI grant...
    • Grant Payments
      1036. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance available to a person (details supplied) to help with their third-level education. [30702/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1038. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pandemic unemployment payment will not be taken into account when assessing a student’s eligibility for SUSI; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Education
      1039. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the buildings that were purchased by University College Dublin or Trinity College Dublin from 2015 to 2020; the cost per building; and the...
    • Technological Universities
      1040. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or the Department of Education has carried out a review of technological university funding models as recommended by the TURN...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1041. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to promote specialised training such as the certified special events professional managed by an association (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1042. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to date; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1043. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were incurred;...
    • Third Level Education
      1044. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is anticipated that students in third-level education will be able to return to on-campus learning from September 2021; and if he will...
    • Research and Development
      1045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 1 June 2021, if 27,755 persons engaged in research and development or 16,609 persons employed as...
    • Grant Payments
      1046. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of exempting GEM from the progression criteria of SUSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30934/21]
    • Third Level Education
      1047. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of annual new enrolments on research masters and PhD courses for the most recent year available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Research and Development
      1048. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made towards the target set in Innovation 2020 to establishing a successor to the Programme for Research in...
    • Third Level Education
      1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of springboard+ courses provide each year; the breakdown between public and private education providers for each year; and if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of staff and students who will have been vaccinated in further and higher education institutes; and if he will make a statement...
    • Third Level Education
      1051. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students studying pre-law in further education in each of the years since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education and Training Provision
      1053. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure workers who need to resit or sit the safe pass course can be do as soon as possible given the serious waiting...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1054. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the investment account of the national training fund; the way it is held; if investments are made using the funds within the...
    • Grant Payments
      1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with the Minister for Social Protection with regard to reports that many pandemic unemployment payment recipients...
    • Institutes of Technology
      1058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a review of GMIT appointments raised by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31241/21]
    • Departmental Websites
      1059. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites...
    • Third Level Costs
      1062. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2021 if the student contribution charge was reduced by €100, €200, €500, €1,000 and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1063. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a reply to correspondence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31498/21]
    • Grant Payments
      1064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who accessed the fund for students with disabilities over the past three years by educational institution; the average...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1066. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the current backlog will be addressed in the SOLAS administered apprenticeship program as in the case of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      1067. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the CAO to ensure that the HPAT results are released before the CAO course change...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1068. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Solas is no longer running the apprenticeship course in the craft of floor and wall tiling; and...
    • Third Level Costs
      1069. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost per undergraduate nursing student and medical student under Vote 45; the average full economic costing of a nursing and medical student...
    • Grant Payments
      1070. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most up-to-date fee levels and recurrent grant allocation model weightings for different types of provision; the process through which fees...
    • Third Level Fees
      1071. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average fee level in institutes of technology, technological universities and universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Grant Payments
      1072. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a list will be provided of all the examples of top-slicing that has been taken from existing core grants rather than additional funding since...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1074. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide each expenditure item in the national training fund in tabular form; the anticipated date of completion of the funding...
    • Technological Universities
      1075. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any change to the 60/40 split of the HEI allocation as a result of emerging technological universities; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      1076. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the total grant allocation for higher education estimated to go on research and which is counted towards public research and...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1077. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 592 of 11 May, the anticipated year of completion or inclusion within the overall block grant allocation...
    • Grant Payments
      1080. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure on SUSI each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31832/21]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1082. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocated capital investment since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31834/21]
    • Education and Training Boards
      1083. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending access to the fund for students with disabilities to all 26 further education and training programmes; and if he...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1084. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non-EU students who enrolled in higher education in each of the past two years. [31895/21]
    • Grant Payments
      1085. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider revising the residency rules governing eligibility for the SUSI grant that prevents Irish citizens who return from non-EU...
    • State Examinations
      1086. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 659 of 24 February, if he will provide assurances that the delay in issuing of the 2021 leaving...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1087. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the City of Dublin Education and Training Board has unilaterally decided to withdraw VTOS and...
    • Grant Payments
      1088. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to reverse the decision to include the pandemic unemployment payment in SUSI grant applications; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1089. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who avail of Erasmus or study abroad programmes for the upcoming academic year will be provided with a Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the...
    • Third Level Fees
      1090. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the refusal by the University of Limerick to refund, or partially reimburse, postgraduate students for an...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1091. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for payment structures to higher education institutes in circumstances in which institutions decide to opt for a blended or whole-time...
    • Grant Payments
      1092. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter in terms of the calculation of SUSI grants to include the pandemic unemployment payment for 2020 (details supplied). [32037/21]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1093. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare who is currently completing a plumbing apprenticeship since March 2020, which was a nine month...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Deportation Orders
      1094. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality , further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 25 May, if special consideration can be given to the health circumstances of an...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1095. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application for a person (details supplied); if she will arrange for them to receive a...
    • Immigration Status
      1096. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed for a person (details supplied) to regularise his or her status, whose stamp is now expired and...
    • Prison Service
      1097. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects prison visits to resume as part of the exit from level 5 of the Living with Covid-19 Plan. [30543/21]
    • Programme for Government
      1098. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the programme for Government commitment to review the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011. [30544/21]
    • Immigration Status
      1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is acknowledged that an applicant (details supplied) will be unable to provide requested documentation for 2015-2019;...
    • Court Sittings
      1100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that under the current system of admissions to Ennis courthouse there is no update...
    • Prison Service
      1101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons released from prison in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [30624/21]
    • Residency Permits
      1103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Data Protection
      1104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to issues raised at the meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice regarding discussions...
    • Courts Service
      1106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions or fines and the number of court appearances, respectively, resulting from equine seizures in Cork...
    • Probate Applications
      1107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the fees imposed on personal applicants in respect of probate applications is far greater than the amount which...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the work of the interdepartmental group chaired by her Department to examine misuse of vehicles, namely...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered amending the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 to allow for children to receive Irish...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on purchasing mountain bikes for An Garda Síochána in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form....
    • Courts Service
      1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons convicted of burglary in the Trim District Court area in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular...
    • Drug Dealing
      1117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drugs seizures in cases in which the monetary value of the drugs was in excess of €1 million in 2019,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of companies that supplied An Garda Síochána with ballistic helmets and ballistic...
    • Courts Service
      1123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons sentenced to one-two, two-three, three-four and four-five years for possession of a knife in a public...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda community officers for each district in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Programme
      1125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider introducing the relevant legislation to regulate the process of purchasing a home or property with...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vetting applications on which a decision has yet to be made; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the processing of short stay C visas will recommence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30990/21]
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      1132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position with the proposed community based CCTV systems nationwide; if the GDPR issues have been addressed; if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Work Permits
      1135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-EEA migrant fishers that are currently enrolled in the atypical work permit scheme; the number of renewals...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31198/21]
    • International Protection
      1137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recommendations made under section 21(3) of the International Protection Act 2015 to date in 2021; and if she...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the office in her Department that can be contacted by a person who is experiencing delays in the security clearance element of...
    • Crime Prevention
      1140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests, prosecutions and convictions for the theft of catalytic converters or for handling stolen catalytic...
    • Departmental Websites
      1141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance...
    • Legislative Measures
      1143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the offences relating to online abuse and harassment which are currently legislated for; the offences she plans to legislate...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in the Cork west division; and the number of gardaí in the same...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      1145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a sporting organisation can apply for a licence to enable it to fundraise in all counties by means of an...
    • Prison Service
      1146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 215 and 224 of 26 May 2021, if she will request the Irish Prison Authority to refer a...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if public sector employees are being transferred as staff members to An Garda Síochána without agreement; if they...
    • Legal Aid
      1148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the Personal...
    • Parole Boards
      1149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recommendations made to her by the Parole Board in 2021; the number in which she accepted the recommendations of...
    • Visa Applications
      1150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a South African citizen with residency in the UK can enter Ireland for holidays without the requirement of a visa; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at Laytown Garda station in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she...
    • Personal Debt
      1154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to concerns that the legal system involving personal insolvency arrangements was on the brink...
    • Residency Permits
      1155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); the progress to date in determining any...
    • Departmental Staff
      1156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of employees in her Department and the bodies under the aegis of her Department who have been in receipt of a...
    • Visa Applications
      1157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-EU student visas issued in 2019 and 2020; the average length of time it has taken to process these visas;...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      1158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to support the restoration of birthright citizenship in Ireland against the wishes of the Irish electorate who...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of burglaries reported to An Garda Síochána in County Wexford by Garda district in 2019, 2020 and to date...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is on track to give 6,500 citizenship applicants the opportunity to complete their Irish citizenship by the...
    • Visa Applications
      1163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the processing of working visas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32048/21]
    • Legal Aid
      1164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason legal aid is not available to persons taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights, particularly in view of...
    • Prison Service
      1165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the name of the independent company that has been appointed to carry out an independent review of the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      1166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the impact that a delay to the issuing of forestry licensing is having on timber prices for the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients of pillar 1 funds in 2020 in bands (details supplied) per county in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the recent letter issued to a group (details supplied) refusing it a position on the CAP consultative committee has since been...
    • Fishing Industry
      1174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the impending requirement that all fish species landed here are weighed at the pier...
    • Forestry Sector
      1175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an afforestation application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Welfare
      1176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the dog microchip figures for 2020. [30709/21]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Exchequer funding allocated to Horse Racing Ireland covers the salaries of persons (details supplied); and if not if their...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Exchequer funding allocated to Greyhound Racing Ireland covers the salaries of persons (details supplied); and if not if their...
    • Product Labelling
      1179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact an association (details supplied) has taken a complaint to the EU against his Department...
    • State Bodies
      1180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the State agencies under the remit of his Department that have provided copies of their 2020 annual report and 2020 financial...
    • Departmental Functions
      1181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the dog control unit should move to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30781/21]
    • Climate Action Plan
      1182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the costs of the proposed joint venture between Coillte and ESB, that is, action 50 of the interim climate actions....
    • Forestry Sector
      1183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a forestry licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30836/21]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the qualifying criteria for a farm, company or other entity to receive CAP related payments; the maximum limit a person or entity...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in his Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he is making to ensure a sensible design and pragmatic implementation of good agricultural environmental conditions and...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1188. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether CAP reforms must not adversely impact production capability of Irish farms and that Irish farms must not be...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal for a minimum economic output metric to be used in defining a genuine farmer in circumstances in which...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal for funds generated from redefining genuine farmers to be earmarked for young farmers to encourage...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he is taking to minimise the impact of eco-schemes on each farmer’s basic payment; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      1193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of current contracts pertaining to non-EEA migrant fishers working under the terms of the atypical work permit scheme for...
    • Gorse Burning
      1194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 2 June 2021, the membership of the inter-agency gorse fire group; the number of times...
    • Animal Welfare
      1196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 2 June 2021, if he plans to conduct an up-to-date report on deer management in County...
    • Forestry Sector
      1197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any private land owners have been approved afforestation licences on the same land type now being proposed by his Department as...
    • Departmental Websites
      1201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of...
    • Brexit Issues
      1203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements that have been taking place to develop an aligned border operating model process between the EU and UK governments...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an appeal mechanism in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31629/21]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of discussions between Horse Racing Ireland, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and the various pony racing...
    • Departmental Staff
      1208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to commitments to support horse and pony racing; and if he will make a...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on requests by a representative organisation (details supplied) to ensure that the new CAP insulates smaller and medium...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1211. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of proposed opening dates in respect of National Broadband Ireland broadband connection points; and if...
    • Water Safety
      1213. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the traditional nationwide water safety weeks can proceed in order to ensure that children nationwide continue to learn water...
    • Ferry Services
      1214. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it will be ensured that the minimum daily service is amended from two to four crossings per day regarding the tender for Clare...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1215. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the expenditure incurred by staff in her Department under the heading of travel and subsistence from 1 January 2020 to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1216. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2019 to date; if external costs were...
    • Employment Support Services
      1217. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the proposed pilot scheme to turn rural pubs into remote working hub as outlined in Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy...
    • Departmental Websites
      1218. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of...
    • Tidy Towns
      1220. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if tidy towns grant funding can be awarded to groups (details supplied). [31320/21]
    • Departmental Investigations
      1221. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an investigation (details supplied) underway within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regeneration Projects
      1222. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the eligibility criteria for the 2021 town and village renewal scheme has been considered and taken into account for the funding...
    • Departmental Staff
      1223. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of employees in her Department and the bodies under the aegis of her Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty...
    • Library Services
      1224. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to provide grants to local authorities for the provision of library services to primary schools; and if she will make a...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1225. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the unsuccessful properties in County Wexford that were proposed for inclusion in the landmark rural regeneration projects funding...
    • Community Development Projects
      1226. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the reintroduction of development officers for communities and villages; and if she will make a statement on the...

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