Written answers

Thursday, 9 September 2021

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Enterprise Policy
      1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland plans to open an office in Rome, Italy. [41463/21]
    • Health and Safety
      2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of HSA investigations carried out to date in 2021, by county. [41515/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under...
    • Weather Events
      4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the compensatory measures that will be put in place for businesses (details supplied) following weather events in February 2021. [41610/21]
    • Work Permits
      5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to reopen applications for work permits for dairy farm assistants in early 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Enterprise Policy
      6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding through technology gateways received by each EU NUTS 2 and 3 regions in the State per year since 2016, in tabular...
    • Company Registration
      7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current length of time it is taking for documents to be scanned and uploaded on the CRO system; the reason for any delays; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department or a State agency booked or paid for an event (details supplied); if so, the date the booking was made; the reason...
    • Zero-hour Contracts
      9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action that can be taken in relation to carers on zero hour contracts (details supplied). [41736/21]
    • Departmental Meetings
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the meetings held by his Departmental officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in...
    • Company Registration
      11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to defer the latest date for filing returns to the Companies Registration Office due to the difficulties businesses and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if advice will be provided on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41878/21]
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will address the situation in relation to the removal of seating in shopping centres in the context of Covid-19...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the formal or informal roles held by a person (details supplied) with his Department or with any associated State agency; and if he...
    • Industrial Development
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the new solar farm (details supplied in Cork accessed funding through the IDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41927/21]
    • Work Permits
      16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide information in relation to his Department’s recent decision to allow non-EEA care assistants to work in...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Enterprise Policy
      19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are available to disabled entrepreneurs. [42180/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are available to businesses that missed the deadline for the small business assistance scheme for COVID; and if he...
    • Intellectual Property
      23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has a draft timetable for full preparations up to and including the necessary referendum on the European Unified Patent Court...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Department played any role in the procurement of ventilators from China at any point from 1 January 2020 to 1 January...
    • Brexit Supports
      28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new Brexit impact loan scheme an important support for Irish businesses who are facing challenges arising from Brexit and...
    • Business Regulation
      29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the licensing and regulatory framework in place for the barbering trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42638/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who...
    • Intellectual Property
      32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure that Covid-19 vaccine trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights waiver is addressed...
    • Government Communications
      33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has ever used his personal phones for Government business; and if so, if the personal phones have been hacked during his term of...
    • Freedom of Information
      34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021;...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42991/21]
    • Industrial Development
      36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of properties owned by the IDA in Tipperary town; and the number of vacant IDA properties in Tipperary town. [43005/21]
    • Work Permits
      38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to reopen applications for work permits for dairy farm assistants in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Government Communications
      39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and or his special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months....
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Data Centres
      40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to assess the water and energy requirements for data centres; his views on the impact on water...
    • Departmental Staff
      41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and...
    • Energy Conservation
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to ensure that social housing funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 can...
    • Electricity Generation
      43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the microgeneration scheme will be opened for households to allow them to share excess energy to the national grid;...
    • Energy Conservation
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the qualifying grant year of 2006 for insulation and heating control grants in houses will be extended to houses...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the person or body that are the beneficiaries for the new solar farm (details supplied) in Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis...
    • Energy Policy
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of work into developing a policy statement on the importation of fracked gas; and if he will make a statement...
    • Electricity Grid
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding electricity outages; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will take steps in order that two properties (details supplied) in Clonegal, County Carlow that are in the process...
    • Climate Action Plan
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 15 June 2021, the status of his plans to provide the National Dialogue on...
    • Telecommunications Services
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to concerns and proposals (details supplied) in relation to a possible deterrent for scam calls which...
    • National Broadband Plan
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken to date to accelerate the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan; the emission reduction impact...
    • Energy Conservation
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the independent analysis of the warmth and wellbeing scheme first commenced by an organisation (details supplied)...
    • Telecommunications Services
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his Department have engaged with communications and telecom providers regarding the increase in the amount of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed fibreoptic broadband is expected to be available in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Electricity Generation
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the changes that have taken place to the electricity market rules in order to enable micro-generated electricity to be...
    • Waste Management
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the Joint Oireachtas Committees...
    • Environmental Schemes
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 16 June 2021, the progress to date of the National Parks and Wildlife...
    • National Broadband Plan
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to upgrade broadband services at livestock marts; the timeline for each mart concerned; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the working group established to examine the national end-of-waste applications backlog; the...
    • Environmental Policy
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the carbon capture and storage feasibility study being conducted on behalf of his Department; the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, as part of the target of reducing 51% of emissions over 12 years includes specific annual targets; and if he will...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for...
    • Recycling Policy
      74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans in place to tackle the plastic crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42727/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit are accommodating requests for persons to...
    • Climate Change Policy
      76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the 2020 annual transition statement will be published as required by section 14(1) of the Climate Action and Low...
    • National Broadband Plan
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of missing the target for the roll-out of high speed rural broadband in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Air Quality
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress being made on the development of a national clean air strategy; when he will publish this strategy; and if...
    • Data Centres
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the progress being made to develop efficiency standards for equipment and processes for data centres as...
    • Government Communications
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of correspondence with the Department of Foreign Affairs following the hacking of the phone of the Minister,...
    • Freedom of Information
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated...
    • Departmental Communications
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and or his special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Coast Guard Service
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2022 if the budget for the Irish Coast Guard increased by 5%. [41459/21]
    • Rail Network
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount Iarnród Éireann spent on maintenance on the Dublin to Sligo rail line in each of the years of 2019, 2020 and to date...
    • Bus Services
      91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding a bus service (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles that passed through the toll on the M4 between junction 8 and Junction 10 in each of the past five years and to...
    • Bus Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if suggested bus routes (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41525/21]
    • Transport Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a response will issue to queries raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the agreement of dangerous goods by road; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under the...
    • Transport Policy
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide resources to city councils to employ bicycle mounted enforcement officials in order to assist them in issuing fines...
    • Aviation Industry
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if legal provisions have been made to ensure aisle chairs are provided onboard every flight for wheelchair users; the steps he is taking...
    • Driver Test
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an essential driver (details supplied) in County Kerry will be given a date for a driver test; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number, type, that is, fatal, serious, and minor and location of collisions recorded on each national road and motorway in each of...
    • Departmental Staff
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Driver Licences
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the renewal of driver licences; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the arrangements currently in place to facilitate essential driving training lessons to be carried out in Portlaoise, County Laois and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for inclusion on the safe routes to school scheme by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he...
    • Rail Network
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals for investing and upgrading a railway line (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42034/21]
    • Local Authorities
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that each local authority received under the bridge rehabilitation capital fund in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form;...
    • Road Projects
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that has been provided by the Government for the A5 upgrade in each year since the original commitment was made in...
    • Rail Network
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the construction of the National Train Control Centre is on budget; the amount that has been spent to date on the National Train...
    • Transport Policy
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding for transport projects that has been bid for and or awarded under the European Regional Development Fund in 2020...
    • Aviation Industry
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount granted or loaned to Irish airlines and aviation companies during 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the trial of free public transport in Cork city and county. [42099/21]
    • Driver Test
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time for a driving test in Raheny test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42118/21]
    • National Development Plan
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding committed to under the National Development Plan for road projects that is allocated to road projects outside of...
    • Driver Test
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons whose driver theory tests have been postponed at short notice on...
    • Aviation Industry
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to review and publish an updated national aviation policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42186/21]
    • Legislative Programme
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to publish a drone policy for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42187/21]
    • Road Projects
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if options are available in order to maintain the height of a tunnel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position regarding persons seeking to apply for a learner permit and in relation to driver licences; the timeline with...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address queries by a person (details supplied) in relation to their car tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42265/21]
    • Rail Network
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the terms of reference of the Strategic Rail Review which is being commissioned in cooperation with the Department for Infrastructure in...
    • Airport Policy
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had engagements or plans to engage with organisations (details supplied) in relation to the proposals for work practice changes...
    • Rail Network
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence in relation to the Barrow railway bridge and the strategic rail review (details...
    • Bus Services
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allocate staff to Ennis bus station given the very high number of staycations around the county and the lack of services...
    • Electric Vehicles
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an electric car charging point will be installed at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to implement a jury recommendation arising from a case (details supplied); and the date on which his Department last reviewed...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide information on road traffic collisions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42423/21]
    • Road Safety Authority
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the State about funding provided to the RSA on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42426/21]
    • Bus Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement between his Department and the National Transport Authority with regard to the provision of replacement Bus Éireann...
    • Driver Test
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the RSA to retain the nursing profession as essential workers for the emergency driving test request system. [42502/21]
    • Cycling Policy
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to consider making the wearing of helmets mandatory for cyclists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42549/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his plans to legislate for e-scooters; the expected timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42629/21]
    • Road Safety
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the wearing of protective clothing and head gear when using bicycles, e-scooters and skateboards will be made...
    • Dublin Bus
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans in his capacity as shareholder and the implementation date for a new pension plan for employees of Dublin Bus; and if he will...
    • Road Network
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a recent assessment estimated that Wexford County Council requires €196 million...
    • Departmental Staff
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who live in...
    • Driver Test
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current wait-time for driver tests in locations (details supplied); the number of persons who are currently waiting to be tested;...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit are accommodating requests for persons to work from home....
    • Driver Test
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the motorbike initial basic training certificate to all persons who could not take their driver test due to...
    • Transport Policy
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce regulations for e-scooters. [42810/21]
    • Driver Test
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for a driver test for a person who requires a licence for work (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Cycling Facilities
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any powers in place or under consideration which would require that premises which are open to the public would have...
    • Rail Network
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the lift at Howth Junction and Donaghmede railway station which allows access for...
    • Driver Test
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timetable for clearing the backlog in driving test waiting times due to the easing of restrictions; and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driver licence renewal may be expected to be processed for a person (details supplied). [42861/21]
    • Driver Test
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Electric Vehicles
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and value of electric vehicle grants provided over the past five years by hybrid and fully electric, in tabular form; and if...
    • Telecommunications Services
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to address the recent increase in the number of scam phone calls; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Government Communications
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office.. [42935/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the...
    • Road Safety Authority
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the treatment of lorry drivers by the RSA; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [43000/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency in the...
    • Public Transport
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details in relation to tax saver commuter cards for part-time workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43046/21]
    • Road Safety
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if advice will be provided on a matter in relation to certification for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Government Communications
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and or his special advisors and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months....
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the Minister for Health in relation to tax relief being extended to counselling and psychotherapy as a qualifying health...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the situation in which a company (details supplied) reported to have informed prospective buyers in a development that their contracting...
    • Currency Exchange
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and or the Revenue Commissioners have evaluated the potential for tax liability concealment and or avoidance as a consequence of the use of the various...
    • Departmental Staff
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under the aegis of his...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria for the working from home allowance will be reviewed given that those who availed of the help to buy scheme to purchase their home in 2020 are...
    • Financial Services
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if the commercial terms under which public investment was made by ISIF in a company (details supplied) assure the State preferential access to genome data...
    • Tax Collection
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected by the Revenue Commissioners in excise duty on mineral oils in the form of mineral oil tax and carbon tax since 2016 to date in 2021....
    • Financial Services
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of the deemed disposal of exchange traded funds for taxation purposes after eight years; if he plans to change this arrangement for small...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if a business which is only open to the public for a fixed period of time each year can claim the Covid restrictions support scheme during any other part of...
    • Tax Forms
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to defer the latest date for filing self-employed and corporate tax returns for 2020 this year due to the difficulties businesses and accountants...
    • House Prices
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request banks to extend the lifetime of mortgage approval for borrowers given the dearth of affordable properties to buy and the increase in house...
    • Childcare Services
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase tax relief on childcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41942/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department; the costs this has...
    • Insurance Industry
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to insurance companies declining employer’s insurance to disabled employers who manage their own support services in...
    • Tax Credits
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 5% tax credit (details supplied) will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42001/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the tax relief applied to general practitioner referred physiotherapy costs to general practitioner referred therapy sessions...
    • Banking Sector
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance the total invested by the State and the cash received to date in disposals, redemptions and coupons, dividends and fees; the net cash position and valuation...
    • Pension Provisions
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the practice in the public service whereby retirees receive a monthly pension payment and an interim payment of...
    • Tax Credits
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the 30 per cent research and development tax credit regime for small and micro companies provided in the Finance Act 2019 is not yet operable; and...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address issues (details supplied) regarding VRT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42112/21]
    • Financial Irregularities
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank will investigate the widespread credit reporting errors in 2019 and 2020 by a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • House Sales
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme, which is due to end in 2021, will be extended to help those trying to buy their own home; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if the employment wage subsidy scheme will continue to be made available to childcare providers in quarter 4 of 2021 without the income reduction...
    • State Assets
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the sale of a company (details supplied); the implications of the sale for the State's investment through the Irish...
    • Insurance Industry
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance his advice on an insurance matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42559/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if a Revenue Commissioners relevant contracts tax refund will be paid to a self-employed person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for a person to appeal a decision on vehicle registration tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42568/21]
    • Tax Data
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount collected by local authorities through local property tax for 2019. [42574/21]
    • Financial Instruments
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if an increase in the rate of VAT for the hospitality and tourism sector from 9 to 13.5% has been included in the projections outlined in the Summer Economic...
    • Insurance Industry
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason young drivers in certain counties pay extremely high insurance premiums especially the counties Limerick and Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters concerning refunded exit taxes (details supplied). [42857/21]
    • Government Communications
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance if his ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42924/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of responses...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance the advice he can provide on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42979/21]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42992/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency in the lifetime of this...
    • Tax Code
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out research to examine the revenue raised by other states from the issuing of personalised number plates and vehicle...
    • Telecommunications Services
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and or his special advisers and-or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43071/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost of extending the employment wage subsidy scheme in its current form until 31 March 2022 and 30 June 2022, respectively. [43168/21]
    • Tax Code
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been afforded to increasing the fishers' tax credit and the seafarers' allowance for crewmen to incentivise more workers into the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Regulations
      228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the planned changes regarding SIPO rules and regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41443/21]
    • Office of Public Works
      229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has plans for refurbishment works at any Garda stations within the J or R Districts over the next six...
    • Telecommunications Services
      230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will introduce a public sector email provider here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41555/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under...
    • Office of Public Works
      232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide all documentation and engagement the OPW has had with the local authority and any other entity, private or public,...
    • Flood Risk Management
      233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an environmental impact assessment was undertaken in respect of the Lough Funshinagh flood scheme; if planning permission was...
    • Departmental Bodies
      234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost for a new ombudsman for older persons. [41765/21]
    • Office of Public Works
      235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans in 2021 to install benches in an area (details supplied); and if no plans for the installation of benches is being considered,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reopen or develop a Garda station in County Wicklow (details supplied); if not, if he will consider allowing the use of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department was consulted in relation to and or approved payments, expenses and or other benefits including pension terms for a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • An Garda Síochána
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to make Athlone Garda station wheelchair accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42000/21]
    • Defence Forces
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person who was a member of the Defence Forces can carry their Army service into the Civil Service for pension purposes if they take...
    • Office of Public Works
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs incurred by the Office of Public Works in completing the scaffolding enabling investigative and entablature repairs works to...
    • Legislative Measures
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to reverse the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, cuts to the fees of barristers contracted...
    • Departmental Reports
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made on implementing the key recommendation from the 2020 Building Innovation Report to establish and fund a...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration is being given to making the use of building information modelling mandatory in public procurement construction...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42150/21]
    • Departmental Functions
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42220/21]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on an issue (details supplied) in relation to a premises for a community employment scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Flood Risk Management
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the completion of the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42800/21]
    • Brexit Supports
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the overall amount of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund for Ireland; the percentage of this to be allocated to the seafood sector in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department approved the expenditure associated with the role of government UN Special Envoy on Freedom of Expression proposed by...
    • Government Communications
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42930/21]
    • Office of Public Works
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW would see merits in a new forum to oversee the governance and management of all of Galway City's historic waterways in one...
    • Freedom of Information
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency in the...
    • Government Communications
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he and or his special advisors and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months....
    • Summer Economic Statement
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures included by cost, description and Department in the €8.1 billion in temporary spending for 2022 outlined in table 4...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Tests
      264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when antigen testing will be rolled out as an option for access to indoor dining; the reason for delays in implementing antigen...
    • Departmental Staff
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in her Department and in each State and semi-State body...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the return of wheelchair hurling for fully vaccinated persons; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Digital Archiving
      267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she will report on the feasibility of establishing a digital legal deposit scheme for large-scale, systematic and sustained...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when live music will be permitted back in indoor hospitality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41816/21]
    • An Maolú i leith na Gaeilge san Aontas Eorpach
      270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cur síos a dhéanamh ar cén comhordanú atá déanta ag a Roinn leis an Aontas Eorpach chun an...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when indoor sports training is likely to recommence; and when guidelines will be issued. [41974/21]
    • State Bodies
      273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of details of consultants retained by Fáilte Ireland including the name of the consultant, project work, cost...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the refurbishment costs carried out by Údaras na Gaeltachta on its factory premises in the Baile Ghib...
    • Departmental Schemes
      276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the basic income guarantee pilot scheme for artists as per the report by the oversight group which she previously...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if businesses can refuse access to indoor hospitality to customers using the HSE vaccination card, with photo identification, as...
    • Sports Funding
      281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when he expects to announce the sport capital grant allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42420/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      284. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within her Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) to facilitate the safe return of dance, drama, music...
    • Sports Funding
      287. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when decisions will be made on the 2021 applications under the capital sports grant scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      289. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding swimming lessons for autistic children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42886/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures being taken by her Department to ensure the long-term stability of the arts and entertainment sectors; and if she...
    • Sports Funding
      291. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when payment of outstanding grants can be made to a club (details supplied) at the earliest possible date; and if she will make a...
    • Government Communications
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during her term of office. [42934/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests responded to by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of her Department over the preceding decade. [42999/21]
    • Sports Funding
      297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which a new large-scale sport infrastructure fund will open for prospective applicants. [43006/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of her Department or associated agency in...
    • Departmental Communications
      300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she and or her special advisors and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role she has in the provision of proper pension provision for RTÉ pensioners; when the last increase was received by...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Building Regulations
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to address anomalies in planning regulations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Quality
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the surveys being carried out under the Water Framework Directive in the south-east; the expected timeframe for...
    • Housing Policy
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to a review of the income housing thresholds for housing waiting lists within local...
    • Departmental Funding
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide more funding to local authorities to maintain beaches and coastal communities; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless persons who have died in the State in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [41509/21]
    • Housing Policy
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the scope of the purchasing activity he envisages under section 8 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021; and the provisions it is...
    • Departmental Staff
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State...
    • Housing Policy
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce incentives to encourage housing downsizing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41679/21]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of funding for Traveller specific accommodation that was drawn down by each local authority since 2014; the...
    • Departmental Data
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of persons presenting as homeless in County Mayo each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Schemes
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans on reforming the existing tenant purchase scheme for local authorities as the conditions of the current scheme...
    • Heritage Sites
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41852/21]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and...
    • Planning Issues
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans are in place to extend planning permission due to delays arising from Covid-19 (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Waterways Ireland
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether businesses operating under a licence issued by Waterways Ireland are eligible for a commercial...
    • Housing Policy
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review legislation on adverse possession or squatting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41923/21]
    • Hare Coursing
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide all of the findings returned following the research carried out by the National Parks and Wildlife Service...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Vacant Properties
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the geo-mapping work of vacant homes currently underway in local authorities; if his...
    • Departmental Schemes
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41983/21]
    • Housing Policy
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 13 July 2021, in relation to HAP eligibility and maintenance payments the reason...
    • Fire Stations
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans for a new fire station in Ballymahon, County Longford. [42041/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful applications under the mortgage allowance scheme by year and local authority. [42042/21]
    • Water Supply
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of water allowances for both Irish Water and group water scheme consumers; if he is committed to...
    • Housing Policy
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the Affordable Housing Act 2021 to be fully enacted; when he expects the new regulations contained within it...
    • Housing Schemes
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the net benefit if any to the Exchequer in discounted terms of part V agreements concluded between 2012 to date compared with...
    • Housing Provision
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current number of unfinished developments by each county or local authority in tabular form; the number that are fully...
    • Turf Cutting
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the turf cutting compensation scheme for 2021. [42240/21]
    • Defective Building Materials
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the pyrite remediation scheme; if he will consider properties in County Tipperary for inclusion in the...
    • State Properties
      345. 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
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of the amount granted to each local authority in respect of adaptation grants for persons with a...
    • Heritage Projects
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding under the historic structures fund will be allocated to a project (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are permitted to provide housing grants made through the persons with a disability scheme which are...
    • Planning Issues
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for planning reform within Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42371/21]
    • Rental Sector
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the RTB website should be used to make rental histories of properties public, without tenant details,...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homeless accommodation is required to allow residents to remain for the entirety of the day given the pandemic situation....
    • Housing Schemes
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the body that inspects the quality of local authority contracted construction. [42447/21]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that has been drawn down by Mayo County Council for a scheme from 1 January 2019 to 30 August 2021, in tabular...
    • Water Services
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a rural water well grant will be provided to a family (details supplied) in County Kerry that has a substandard mains water...
    • Defective Building Materials
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to pursue those responsible for supplying detective concrete block containing pyrite and mica; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the way the low income limits for County Tipperary under the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 is...
    • Local Authorities
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount collected by local authorities through commercial rates for 2019. [42575/21]
    • Housing Policy
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a development of four units on 0.4 ha is exempt from Part V; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42586/21]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is grant aid available to replace non-functioning domestic wastewater treatment systems; and if he will make a...
    • Vacant Properties
      366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions in the National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy that have been fully completed; the actions that are pending...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts of capital assistance scheme and capital loan subsidy scheme loans issued by local authorities to approved housing...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a submission will be dealt with for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [42679/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the tenant incremental purchase scheme to allow those that were tenants of part V houses prior to the...
    • Disability Services
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on providing fully accessible changing places toilet facilities open to the public in all buildings in which his...
    • Environmental Policy
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the Status of EU Protected Habitats and Species in Ireland Report’s finding that the...
    • Local Authorities
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a plan in place to address the backlog of housing adaptation grant, housing aid for older persons grant and...
    • Housing Schemes
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will identify funding streams or any grant funding available within his Department to supplement and incentivise the...
    • Legislative Measures
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reform and update the legislation governing the establishment and operations of fun fairs including health and...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the species of birds that are currently included in the open season hunting list that have also been identified...
    • Government Communications
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42928/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is scope to amend provisions relating to the housing assistance payment as it operates in County Galway to reflect...
    • Freedom of Information
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Departmental Bodies
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the National Coastal Change Management Strategy Steering Group; the number of times the group has met...
    • Departmental Investigations
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 6 July 2021, if the file relating to the investigation, which named two suspects,...
    • Housing Provision
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the strategic housing development process is underway by his Department; the date on which the legislation...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42995/21]
    • Local Authorities
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with each local authority on recruiting full-time dedicated EU officers; the local authorities that have EU...
    • Defective Building Materials
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the difficult circumstances pertaining to a family (details supplied) in County Donegal whose lives have...
    • Housing Schemes
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when applications can be made for the first home shared equity scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43024/21]
    • Planning Issues
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to grant a further extension to planning permissions for residential housing delayed by Covid-19 and by building...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency...
    • Housing Policy
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the evictions moratorium in the interest of the physical and psychological health of persons seeking homes...
    • Departmental Communications
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and or his special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the issue of youth homelessness; the number of young persons who have become homeless in the past three...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Staff
      403. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under the...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      404. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the recruitment process used to appoint a person (details supplied) to the position of special envoy for freedom of expression; the location...
    • Passport Services
      405. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41619/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      409. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the impact a non-FDA approved vaccine (details supplied) will have on admissions to the United States for essential reasons for Irish...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      413. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the foreign births register will be reopened; the estimated backlog in applications; if he will consider reviewing the way the register...
    • Passport Services
      415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to address long delays in waiting for passport applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41854/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department;...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in regard to the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan will receive a response; and if he will...
    • Good Friday Agreement
      425. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an itemised list of sections of the Good Friday Agreement; and the status of the implementation or lack thereof of each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      426. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of funding provided to date through his Department to UNESCO for its programme on comprehensive sexuality education; the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      427. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the situation in Pakistan (details supplied); if discussions have taken place within his Department in...
    • European Union
      429. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to European court cases. [41465/21]
    • Humanitarian Access
      433. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures taken by his Department to assist in the transfer and relocation of Afghan citizens following the takeover of the government of...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      435. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of Ireland regarding recent political events in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42245/21]
    • Defence Forces
      436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent ECAT mission sent to Kabul airport; the role of Dáil Éireann in this regard if any; and if he will...
    • Passport Services
      437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration is being given to reducing the two year waiting time for a person to change their name on their passport after having their...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      440. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he plans to take in relation to aid and the relocation of Afghan citizens at risk of torture and murder given the escalating...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      443. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person [details supplied] is included on the foreign births register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42419/21]
    • Passport Services
      444. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is a discretionary process to renew a passport card in circumstances in which an old age pensioner has very limited finances...
    • Visa Agreements
      445. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of E3 visas between the United States of America and Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42478/21]
    • Consular Services
      446. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that persons have had in making contact with the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan;...
    • Passport Services
      447. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of standard passport applications and renewals that are currently awaiting processing to date in 2021, broken down by each county...
    • Residency Permits
      449. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to repatriate to Ireland Irish nationals and Afghans currently in Afghanistan who have Irish residency; and if he...
    • Human Rights
      450. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42518/21]
    • Government Communications
      453. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the circumstances whereby his mobile phone was hacked; the information taken from the phone; the reports that were made to An Garda...
    • Human Rights
      456. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps the Government has taken through its role on the UN Security Council and by other means to address the high volume of violence...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      459. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who live in the...
    • United Nations
      466. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his aims and objectives for Ireland’s Presidency of the United Nations Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      468. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is prepared to offer asylum to Afghan academics who are at threat from the Taliban; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      471. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a matter regarding a holiday visa for a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42881/21]
    • Government Communications
      473. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42925/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      475. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the...
    • Consular Services
      477. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position generally regarding Irish embassies in non-EU countries assisting Irish citizens in their endeavour to receive a Covid-19...
    • Government Communications
      478. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and or his special advisors and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43072/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      480. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the British government to reinstate access for the Irish fishing fleet to the waters around Rockall. [43162/21]
    • Northern Ireland
      481. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the British government on the jurisdiction of Lough Foyle; and if his attention has been drawn to the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      482. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of retaining the 700 members of the Defence Forces on post-1994 contracts scheduled to retire in 2022; if a scheme has been...
    • Departmental Staff
      483. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under the aegis...
    • Electoral Process
      484. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the process of getting postal ballots to serving and retired members of the Defence Forces to ensure they are received and returned in time; and...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      485. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department; the...
    • Pension Provisions
      486. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if consideration will be given to making the Military Service Allowance pensionable for pre-1990 pensioners in view of the fact that arising...
    • Defence Forces
      487. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is considering increase the maximum age for recruitment to the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42617/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      488. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who live in the...
    • Freedom of Information
      490. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      491. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42989/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      492. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency in the lifetime...
    • Government Communications
      493. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he and or his special advisors and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43067/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Funding
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most appropriate avenue through which an organisation (details supplied) can apply for potential funding streams within her Department; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the temporary site for a new secondary school (details supplied) in County Cork. [41437/21]
    • Education and Training Provision
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a laptop for a child with learning difficulties will be granted for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry before the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which a company (details supplied) is reclassifying teachers previously deemed to be very-high-risk to high-risk; and if she will...
    • Third Level Education
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transition rates from post-primary to higher education in each year since 2011, by DEIS and non-DEIS schools; and if she will make a...
    • Education and Training Provision
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transition rates from post-primary to further education and training in each year since 2011, by DEIS and non-DEIS schools; and if she will...
    • Departmental Staff
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in her Department and in each State and semi-State body under the aegis...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are several pieces of legislation which have not been fully implemented in relation to the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building further to the building of a new school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no panel for SNA substitute teachers given that it is the process deemed necessary for mainstream substitute teachers; and if...
    • School Curriculum
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce mental health and resilience modules in secondary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41720/21]
    • State Examinations
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the leaving certificate in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41731/21]
    • School Staff
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the matter of remuneration of school secretaries (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41824/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a special needs assistant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41973/21]
    • Departmental Policies
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the implementation of a programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41977/21]
    • School Enrolments
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an analysis has been conducted on the demand for post-primary school places in the Dublin 9 area; her plans to ensure a sufficient number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Covid-protocols in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41981/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the stage 1 submission for a school extension (details supplied) will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42004/21]
    • School Staff
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation regarding negotiations with school secretaries in terms of their employment conditions and their pension entitlements; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the sites acquisition and property management unit of her Department will issue a decision in respect of an application for consent to allow...
    • Special Educational Needs
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional SNA hours will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42126/21]
    • School Staff
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in finalising the pay and conditions for school secretaries and caretakers with a union (details supplied); the timeline for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of reform of the summer provision; the status of an issue raised in relation to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Teaching Council has the right to refuse recognition to a qualified teacher who has been registered with the council since 2009 (details...
    • School Staff
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school secretaries who are currently paid under the 1978-79 scheme across all school types. [42182/21]
    • Residential Institutions
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to the residential institutions redress scheme; the number of applications approved and paid to date; the average payment;...
    • School Curriculum
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding greyhound racing in the curriculum (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Facilities
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms or teaching spaces that currently have a carbon dioxide monitor installed, by county, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of SNAs in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42312/21]
    • School Transport
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason additional buses are not being sourced given that all seats on buses cannot be utilised due to Covid-19 restrictions resulting in some...
    • State Examinations
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any representations were made to her or by either of (details supplied) in relation to the possibility of running predictive grades for the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding special needs assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42320/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene and seek an urgent resolution to the matters halting the progression of a school building project (details supplied) in...
    • School Transport
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students who will not receive bus tickets due to no payment or medical card received before the deadline date, late...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42384/21]
    • School Transport
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if capacity under the school transport scheme will return to 100% capacity in line with the return of general public transport in view of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible to access information or a list of tutors for the July provision for 2022/2023 school year in the Kilkenny area. [42386/21]
    • School Transport
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the operation of the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42410/21]
    • School Curriculum
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the addition of driver education to the curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42425/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to support the children identified in the audiology misdiagnosis in counties Roscommon and Mayo within the education...
    • Schools Building Projects
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a primary school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42526/21]
    • School Transport
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a post-primary school in County Kerry (details supplied) will be confirmed to be the second nearest school under the school transport scheme...
    • Special Educational Needs
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to commence all sections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; her plans to revise the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will issue a directive to national schools advising that pupils can wear masks if they wish. [42552/21]
    • Child Abuse
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to cases of abuse at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if she has engaged with the school and or the...
    • School Facilities
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason secondary school children are still not allowed access to lockers and are being required to carry excessively heavy school bags as a...
    • School Transport
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the commitment to provide concessionary school transport to students going to their second nearest post-primary school will be extended to...
    • Project Ireland 2040
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school capital projects she will include in the redrawn Project 2040; and when she met the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on the...
    • School Staff
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made towards the regularisation of pay, pension and terms of employment for school secretaries and caretakers; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that a school building project (details supplied) will proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42647/21]
    • School Facilities
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request school management bodies to facilitate the return of indoor sports activities which have used school facilities in the past....
    • School Staff
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and her Department can investigate, advise and provide a solution to an issue in relation to a teacher (details supplied) at a school; and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-SNA ratio to 2:1 at both primary and secondary level. [42657/21]
    • Departmental Data
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs employed in September 2020 in special classes in secondary schools. [42658/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within her Department and particularly to encourage remote working for those who live in the...
    • State Examinations
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the stakeholder process on planning for an alternate sitting of the leaving certificate 2022 will commence; if she will ensure that an...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit are accommodating requests for persons to work from home. [42753/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide carbon dioxide monitors for every teaching room in each primary and secondary school in the State. [42775/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact on tenders for school building capital projects the rise in construction costs will have. [42814/21]
    • School Transport
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional buses provided for school transport when at 50% capacity will be retained for 100% capacity. [42815/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to fast-track the delivery of the 32,000 CO2 monitors to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42824/21]
    • School Transport
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary post primary cycle school bus ticket applications refused in 2021 on the basis of the reduced capacity allowed on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide reassurance to parents of children who are returning back to school settings that adequate Covid-19 safety measures are...
    • Schools Building Projects
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the permanent site location for a school (details supplied); her plans for a temporary site for the 2022-2023 academic year; and if...
    • School Facilities
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support being provided to a school (details supplied) given the difficulties it is facing with enrolment due to the lack of certainty on the...
    • Departmental Functions
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a representation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42905/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to implement a system of lateral flow testing specifically for the protection of teachers from Covid-19; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CO2 monitors which have been delivered to schools; the number left to deliver; the deadline for delivery; and if she will make a...
    • Government Communications
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42921/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress on the building of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); if a suitable site has been identified for...
    • Freedom of Information
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of freedom of information requests responded to by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of her Department over the preceding decade. [42990/21]
    • School Staff
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a school (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43016/21]
    • Departmental Policies
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circulars that have been issued to schools which give guidance on reopening after the summer holidays; if any guidance has been given to...
    • School Staff
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in finalising the pay and conditions for school secretaries and caretakers; if the finalisation of these issues will be...
    • School Transport
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide transport for a person (details supplied) with an intellectual disability to attend a school; and if she will make a...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of her Department or associated agency in the lifetime of...
    • Government Communications
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and or her special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43068/21]
    • School Funding
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her advice on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the lack of funding for primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in finalising the pay and conditions for school secretaries and caretakers; the timeline for the finalisation of these...
    • Departmental Functions
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43194/21]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Employment Support Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding schemes under the remit of her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had their disability allowance reduced when they got married and is now relying on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a conclusive response to their application for a disability allowance; and if...
    • Employment Support Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis for Turas Nua keeping files open on persons after they begin full-time employment even in cases in which persons...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of a couple (details supplied) who have been without their pension due to an administrative...
    • Departmental Schemes
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the vetting procedure that is carried out on positions submitted by an employer to the work placement experience programme...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for qualifying for the short-term enterprise allowance; if previous experience in Ireland or abroad disqualifies...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in her Department and in each State and semi-State...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a weekly payment will be backdated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the unfair situation in which parents of children with disabilities and in receipt of a disability...
    • Freedom of Information
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of occasions since 2014 her Department has refused to process a request under freedom of information using section...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions taken with regard to commitments made to community employment supervisors (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to increase funding to the National Advocacy Service for persons with disabilities by 10%. [41772/21]
    • Departmental Data
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of passenger journeys for which her Department compensated the licensed transport operator under the free travel...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons with certain disabilities (details supplied) to continue to receive the fuel allowance...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carer’s allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Public Services Card
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put applications for the public services card online; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41894/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if previous recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment who have returned to work can requalify for the pandemic...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a decision on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons living alone over the age of 80 years receive an increased living alone allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in her Department or bodies under the aegis of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in circumstances in which a person who has been on disability allowance for a number of years, is a single...
    • Rural Schemes
      680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the implications of the six-year rule which was introduced in 2017 that will see participants forced...
    • Departmental Data
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the Widow and Widowers’ pension. [42039/21]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      682. 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. [42048/21]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the operation of the recovery and benefit assistance scheme in cases in which payments by an insurance company...
    • Public Services Card
      685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the difficulties a person (details supplied) is having with obtaining a public services card; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the income from a retained firefighter (details supplied) is being used to calculate income for the back to school...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on the disability allowance can avail of the enterprise support grant. [42179/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a decision on a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are issues, delays or otherwise in the application process for persons requiring PPS numbers; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to grant passes under the free travel scheme to persons who suffer from epilepsy, and who are not eligible for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situation facing family carers promoted to apply for jobseeker’s payment when their industry has not yet opened...
    • Employment Support Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the latest figures for the take-up of paternity leave; and the average cost per claim. [42329/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment of illness benefit can continue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will accept a request for an appeal and an oral hearing in respect of the decision made in the case of a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Direct Provision System
      704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the estimated €3.9 million (details supplied) current spending related to implementing the new direct...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a pandemic unemployment payment scheme appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the extension of the duration of community employment schemes where appropriate for workers who feel...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if sick benefit entitlements will be adversely affected for persons who were in receipt of PUP payments...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a supplementary welfare allowance will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a student (details supplied) is eligible for jobseeker’s allowance given that the course is designed to allow for...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a carer’s allowance will be made payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within her Department in particular to encourage remote working for those...
    • Social Welfare Code
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the rationale for the averaging rule as it applies to State pension calculations; if she accepts that...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a request to retain a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with particular reference to the fact that both...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the tendering processes that were followed in respect of the allocation of contracts under the JobPath programme in 2021; the...
    • Public Services Card
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to long waiting periods experienced by persons needing to obtain a public services card; and...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an independent review into the activities of social welfare inspectors at ports and airports with a view...
    • Government Communications
      728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during her term of office. [42932/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of freedom of information requests responded to by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of her Department over the preceding decade. [42998/21]
    • Departmental Reports
      732. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects the Pensions Commission will finalise its report and submit it; if a timeline is in place for same; and if...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      733. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of her Department or associated...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a widower's pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Data Protection
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she and-or her special advisers and-or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • International Protection
      736. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is involved in the resettlement plans for Afghani citizens following the takeover of the...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      739. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the legislation to provide for a right to flexible working will be published; when he plans to have it...
    • Departmental Data
      740. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received from communities under the community sponsorship Ireland scheme for refugees...
    • Children in Care
      741. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children living in State care currently. [41499/21]
    • Departmental Policies
      745. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      746. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline in relation to commitments under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
    • Children in Care
      747. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to review the rates paid to foster parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      748. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 8 September 2020, the status of the 13 trainee psychologists who...
    • Child and Family Agency
      749. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of the total budget for Tusla in 2021 that was set aside for counselling services. [41805/21]
    • Legislative Process
      751. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 has not yet been fully enacted over five and a half...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      752. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the slow pace of progress in achieving disability rights in Ireland; and if...
    • Parental Leave
      753. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered engaging with employers to encourage them to top up rates of parent’s benefit to...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      755. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under...
    • Immigration Policy
      756. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has been working to update The Migrant Integration Strategy-A Blueprint for the Future; and if...
    • Asylum Seekers
      757. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position regarding the resettlement of further Afghan refugees in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Health Promotion
      758. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address excessive consumption of unhealthy foods in preschool settings particularly in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      759. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing each of the income thresholds in the NCS by 20% and by 50%. [42324/21]
    • Child and Family Agency
      765. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of extending aftercare supports to persons up until the age of 26 years. [42333/21]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      766. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Covid-19 guidelines for early childhood settings have required children to use single-use items which...
    • Direct Provision System
      767. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in direct provision. [42347/21]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      772. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his advice on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the opening of a preschool; and if he will make a...
    • Rights of the Child
      774. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ratify the second optional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the details of...
    • Child Abuse
      775. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention and that of Tusla has been drawn to cases of abuse at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1;...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      776. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      777. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if information is available to persons who were born in a mother and baby home (details supplied) during a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      778. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit are accommodating requests for...
    • Departmental Budgets
      779. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will create a capital budget line to build playgrounds in areas that do not have same. [42773/21]
    • Child and Family Agency
      780. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his response to HIQA’s report on Tusla’s Child Protection and Welfare Services in Cork. [42774/21]
    • Departmental Reviews
      781. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the review of the Equal Status Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42909/21]
    • Government Communications
      782. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42919/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      784. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020...
    • Children in Care
      785. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of relative and non-relative carers, respectively approved in each month for the past 36 months by...
    • Government Communications
      787. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and or his special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate...
    • Domestic Violence
      788. 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 on...
    • Carer's Leave
      789. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration has been given to the possibility of extending carer’s leave for employees across all...
    • Departmental Funding
      790. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams within his Department which may be of potential assistance to ongoing fundraising effort...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      791. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the potential funding streams within his Department, Pobal or by alternative means to support the establishment...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Strategies
      792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to introduce the necessary learning opportunities within third-level education facilities in terms of artificial intelligence and...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide further details in relation to the pilot programme on antigen testing his Department is conducting; and if he will make a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in relation to third-level apprenticeships, lifelong learning and dealing with the growing demand for skilled workers in new industries...
    • Grant Payments
      795. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SUSI applications that were rejected on the basis that the pandemic unemployment payment brought their income over the threshold in...
    • Third Level Education
      803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of international students of full-time higher education students in the public and private higher education sectors, respectively;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of English language students in the State in each of the years since 2016; the number of English as a foreign language students in...
    • Departmental Staff
      807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under the aegis...
    • Further and Higher Education
      808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1243 of 27 July 2021, the number of places it is anticipated that will be added under each of the...
    • Third Level Staff
      810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 24 June 2021, the overall percentage of academic and research staff in full-time permanent...
    • Nursing Education
      811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if placements for nursing students from public higher education institutes are provided in private hospitals; the number of placements provided...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if experience providing on-the-job training to apprentices qualifies towards teaching and training experience if a tradesperson wishes to pursue...
    • Departmental Funding
      813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding received by private colleges, institutes of technology and universities under Springboard and Springboard+ in each year for...
    • Third Level Costs
      814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1069 of 15 June 2021 and further correspondence in this regard of 22 July 2021 (details supplied), if the...
    • Third Level Reform
      815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether reform to the HEA legislation should contain an explicit reference to the aim of restoring the Irish language as is...
    • Third Level Education
      816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding successfully drawn down by each HEI as part of the 2014 – 2020 Horizon programme; the amount successfully drawn down...
    • Science Foundation Ireland
      817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of SFI funding received by each EU NUTS 2 and 3 region in the state per year since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Education
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of PhD students enrolled in each HEI since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41691/21]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the off-the-job training capacity for each craft apprenticeship in 2019, in tabular form; the off-the-job training capacity for each craft...
    • Further and Higher Education
      823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total public funding received by private colleges under vote 45 previously 26 and the National Training Fund in each year since 2011, in...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in the construction sector in each of the years 2000 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Fees
      828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of successful appeals made to SUSI in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [41828/21]
    • Further and Higher Education
      830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 2148 of 27 July 2021, if all specified nursing places are in public institutes of higher education; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41883/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department; the...
    • Third Level Fees
      833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SUSI grant recipients including a parent in receipt of a widows or widowers pension. [42038/21]
    • Third Level Education
      837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the long-awaited reopening of third-level education; and if...
    • Further and Higher Education
      838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make formal enquiries to Solas regarding the delay in making the education and training fund agreed available to workers (details...
    • Language Schools
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when English language schools will be permitted to enrol international students; the reason English language schools are being treated...
    • Direct Provision System
      840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the estimated €10 million (details supplied) current spending related to implementing the new direct provision system;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allow a late appeal for a person (details supplied). [42581/21]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gender breakdown in construction-related apprenticeships over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42619/21]
    • Third Level Education
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has directed third-level institutes to resume in person teaching; if students who have no choice from their college but to continue remote...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who live in the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42817/21]
    • Third Level Fees
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in Ireland applying for the SUSI grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42888/21]
    • Student Accommodation
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in Ireland in student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42889/21]
    • Third Level Fees
      854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the SUSI grant scheme review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42890/21]
    • Government Communications
      857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42926/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the difficulty prospective trade apprentices experience in finding an apprenticeship employer in view of the...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42993/21]
    • Further and Higher Education
      862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next higher education research and development survey will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43025/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      865. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency in the lifetime of...
    • Government Communications
      866. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he and or his special advisers and-or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43073/21]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Land Issues
      867. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the body that regulates the boundary regulations regarding privately owned homes (details supplied). [43032/21]
    • Drug Dealing
      868. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the monetary value of crack cocaine seized by An Garda Síochána in the R District in 2021. [41462/21]
    • Traffic Management
      869. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide more funding to An Garda Síochána to conduct traffic management; and if she will make a statement...
    • Crime Prevention
      871. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has established a working group in respect of the use of cryptocurrencies by organised crime entities and or gangs to...
    • Residency Permits
      872. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in her Department and in each State and semi-State...
    • Visa Agreements
      874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to introducing a digital nomad visa in Ireland as has been introduced in other EU countries;...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      875. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for a certificate of naturalisation as they are...
    • Peace Commissioners
      876. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of peace commissioners appointment in County Tipperary in 2020-2021, by local electoral area; and the total number...
    • Immigration Support Services
      877. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a new appointment scheduling system for the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service can be expected; the amount spent...
    • Prison Service
      880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the prison inspection reports she currently has possession of; and when she plans to publish them. [41696/21]
    • Legislative Programme
      881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the laws related to defamation. [41697/21]
    • Residency Permits
      882. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      883. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to bring forward amendments in relation to the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016....
    • Prison Service
      884. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to provide an additional staff grade psychologist in a prison. [41774/21]
    • Family Law Cases
      887. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to a review of the operation of the section 47 assessment system in contentious custody and access cases...
    • Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
      888. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the statutory inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) will commence. [41717/21]
    • Immigration Status
      889. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a case pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) in the case...
    • Direct Provision System
      890. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the findings of a review of the opening of a direct provision centre (details supplied) will be published; and if she will...
    • Departmental Data
      892. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knives seized from 2016 to date in 2021, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41925/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      895. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures she is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Immigration Status
      896. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a stamp 1G extension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Support Services
      897. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when first-time appointments at the Immigration Service, Burgh Quay, Dublin 2 will resume; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Deportation Orders
      898. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation letters issued to Afghani citizens who are resident in Ireland by month to date in 2021. [42026/21]
    • Court Procedures
      899. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times each year in which section 2 of the Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011 was used as the reason...
    • Humanitarian Access
      900. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered introducing a specific humanitarian programme similar to previous SHAP or International Humanitarian...
    • Citizenship Applications
      901. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42137/21]
    • Commissioners for Oaths
      902. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide this Deputy with a list (details supplied). [42155/21]
    • Legal Aid
      903. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the relocation of the Legal Aid Board office in County Waterford has been brought to her attention; if discussions have...
    • Crime Prevention
      904. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to concerns and proposals (details supplied) in relation to a possible deterrent for scam calls which have...
    • Gambling Sector
      906. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to prohibit on-line gambling websites from restricting winning customers online while...
    • Citizenship Applications
      907. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42340/21]
    • Family Reunification
      909. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process through which a person who has qualified for refugee status in the State but who has young children in their home...
    • Deportation Orders
      910. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the request to set-aside a deportation order in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      911. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a family (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Visa Applications
      912. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the qualifying income criteria for a visa application for an elderly dependent in cases in which family reunification is being...
    • Citizenship Applications
      913. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42427/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      914. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will update Dáil Éireann on matters in relation to the GSOC report on the death of a person (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      915. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if central funding is available for the continuation of existing text alert schemes; the details of the funding process; and if...
    • Crime Prevention
      916. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will take appropriate action to deal with the prevalence of illegal fireworks being set off in the greater Dublin area...
    • Legislative Process
      917. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the sex offenders (amendment) Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42529/21]
    • Residency Permits
      918. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for leave to remain in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Immigration Status
      919. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date to regularise their status in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Visa Applications
      921. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of visa applications in the case of persons (details supplied); when visas can expect...
    • An Garda Síochána
      923. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed across the Tipperary division in each of the years since 2015 to date. [42607/21]
    • Drug Dealing
      926. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the practice of drug dealers enticing young people into using illegal drugs by initially providing them with free...
    • Prison Service
      928. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the situation regarding the calculation of pension entitlements for prison officers who joined the service since June 1995 and...
    • Immigration Status
      930. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [42688/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      932. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within her Department in particular to encourage remote working for those...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      934. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality that reforms of the naturalisation process permit applications from persons with pending applications under section 3 or...
    • Human Trafficking
      935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a response to the Republic of Ireland being classified as Tier 2 Watchlist of the Trafficking in Persons...
    • International Protection
      937. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that international protection is provided to Afghan protection applicants currently in Ireland through an...
    • Family Reunification
      938. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will fast-track family reunion applications and broaden the criteria for Afghan refugees in the country especially those...
    • International Protection
      939. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will halt refusals for leave to land and access to the international protection process for Afghan people. [42799/21]
    • Coroners Service
      940. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff employed in each coroner’s court; and the average number of deaths dealt with in the past five years...
    • Citizenship Applications
      942. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Government Communications
      943. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42929/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      945. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of freedom of information requests responded to by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      946. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will investigate with An Garda Síochána if it holds or collects data on reports from parents, schools or...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      947. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of her Department over the preceding decade. [42996/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      948. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made on plans to modernise the law on the administration of oaths in judicial and other proceedings; if she plans...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      949. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of her Department or associated agency...
    • Government Communications
      950. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she and or her special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18...
    • Crime Prevention
      951. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a new criminal offence for pet abduction which would recognise that pets are valued as more than just...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      952. To ask the Minister for Health if emigrating to a different country was classified as essential travel during Covid-19 travel restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      954. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to clear the backlog of waiting lists to see mental health therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41424/21]
    • Dental Services
      955. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the dental treatment services scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41427/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      956. To ask the Minister for Health the current and future funding streams that will be available for addiction services specifically funding that will be made available to organisations (details...
    • Health Services
      957. To ask the Minister for Health if he will delay the current situation in relation to cancer care; the status of any Covid-19 delays to services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      958. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate an immediate public enquiry into the Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Care Packages
      959. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add additional funding to home support packages. [41431/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      960. To ask the Minister for Health the status in relation to antigen testing and the expert panel group; the pilot programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41432/21]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      961. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41433/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      962. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the situation facing a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41434/21]
    • Disease Management
      963. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement the National Hepatitis C Treatment Programmes into the Irish Prison Service as is set out in the HSE National Service Plan for 2021; and...
    • Hepatitis C Incidence
      964. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is still on target to reach the World Health Organisation goal of eliminating hepatitis C by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      965. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the payment system to be implemented further to his recent statement on the refund system for eligible patients who obtain...
    • Eating Disorders
      966. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in regard to the challenges that face persons suffering from eating disorders particularly in relation to the pressures on acute and day services;...
    • Mental Health Services
      967. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions to be filled in CHO8 mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41440/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      968. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a hospital appointment. [41444/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      970. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification regarding weddings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41449/21]
    • Medical Research and Training
      971. To ask the Minister for Health the location a copy of the rules and regulations applicable to higher specialist training in public health medicine can be obtained; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      973. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the waiting times for ambulances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41474/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      974. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Covid-19 funding for enhanced infection controls and staffing has been withdrawn from private nursing homes (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      975. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who contracted Covid-19 in a hospital setting on a monthly basis since 1 March 2021. [41476/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      978. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the State through the use of walk-in testing centres for asymptomatic persons since the start of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      979. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who died from non-Covid-19 related illnesses but who had tested positive for Covid-19, although they were asymptomatic at the time of death, are...
    • Health Services
      981. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lung cancer diagnoses in Ireland in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [41484/21]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      988. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the attempts by the HSE to shut down certain homeless soup runs in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41491/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      989. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from a charity or organisation expressing concerns over a perceived increase in mental ill health or suicide rates since he...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      992. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims notified to the CervicalCheck Tribunal since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41497/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims notified or proceedings issued against CervicalCheck in each of the past five years, and to date in 2021, regarding the alleged misreading...
    • Health Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an increase in the number of cancer patients travelling to Northern Ireland for treatment; and if he will provide this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      995. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty faced by Irish citizens who are abroad in obtaining a Covid-19 recovery certificate when they have tested...
    • Emergency Departments
      997. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a national protocol and guidelines for providing food to patients in accident and emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to set up an email address for queries about the EU digital Covid-19 certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41523/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which a special needs psychiatrist already committed to by the HSE will take up a permanent position in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) about the EU digital Covid-19 certificate; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to extend the flash glucose FreeStyle Libre device to persons over 21 years of age. [41540/21]
    • Disease Management
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to establish a diabetes register. [41541/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual expenditure change if provision of continuous glucose monitor, CGM, devices was replaced with flash glucose monitoring devices, for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the reason full Covid-19 data is not being published in particular the data on test numbers, positivity rates and data on Covid-19 cases...
    • Mental Health Services
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which efforts are being made to upgrade and expand children and adolescent mental health services with particular reference to the need for...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41556/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health when a second endocrinologist will be appointed to University Hospital Waterford; if he will provide details regarding the start date; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health the wait times for brachytherapy by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41559/21]
    • Hospital Services
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health the reason brachytherapy is not available at the University Hospital Waterford; his plans to introduce brachytherapy for public patients at University...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an endoscopy at University Hospital Waterford; the number of persons who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) calling for compensation for healthcare staff in recognition for their...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health the amount a company (details supplied) is being paid to operate the EU digital Covid certificate helpline on behalf of his Department; and if there are...
    • Hospital Services
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health the services that will be provided in the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; if services will include primary percutaneous...
    • Hospital Staff
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of the additional interventional cardiologists and supporting staff to enable University Hospital Waterford to...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health if the second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford will be fully equipped to the same standard as the first laboratory; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body under the aegis of his...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health the risk-benefit analysis carried out by National Immunisation Advisory Committee, NIAC, with regard to the Covid-19 vaccination of the 12 to 15 years of age...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1030. To ask the Minister for Health the illness rate, hospitalisation rate, ICU rate, long Covid rate and mortality rate per 100,000 for each age cohort from 12 years of age upwards in relation...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health the system in Ireland to count and detail each side effect that occurs as a result of each Covid-19 vaccine delivered; the body that collects this...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce legislation to amend the assisted human reproduction Bill to ensure that children born to LGBTQ+ couples will have a legal...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health when pre level 3 medical exams will recommence. [41624/21]
    • Residential Institutions
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA or the HSE have undertaken any prosecutions against any residential care facilities, proprietors, persons in charge and entities for any breaches of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the compensation or reward that will be paid or given to nurses and midwives in view of their efforts throughout the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if...
    • Health Services
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding support for persons and families dealing with dementia given the lack of understanding of the illness and the effects it has on many...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding support for persons suffering the effects of long Covid and who are unable to return to work; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health the precise criteria around the rights of partners at the birth of their child; if decisions are made on an individual basis or on foot of general policy; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been appraised of expressions of dissatisfaction from expectant mothers who have had difficulty arranging for their partners to be present at...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case (details supplied) in which it was ruled that an EU...
    • Departmental Projects
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health if further details will be provided on capital projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41643/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health if a citizen of the Republic of Ireland who has been fully vaccinated by the public health authorities in Northern Ireland can obtain an EU digital Covid...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health if the national children’s hospital will have any genome research facilities; if so, the details of the planned facilities and the future services; and...
    • Programme for Government
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to establish a national genetics and genomics medicine network; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity level each adult disability day service provider provided after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted to allow them to reopen; the amount of funding...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health the current policy definition of fully vaccinated in the context of Covid-19; if immunocompetent persons under 50 years of age with a previous laboratory...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of free general practitioner care for children aged between six and 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the temporary shutdown of HSE IT systems with regard to the steps and their associated timeline to restore IT capacity and resume normal...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many expectant parents are still being refused access to their partner for pre-natal appointments, delivery...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Templemore, County Tipperary is set to lose one of its two general practitioners; and his plans to address...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health if persons on invalidity pensions who reach retirement age can retain the use of medical cards regardless of income (details supplied); and if this will be...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health if certification of ineligibility for vaccination where advised by a medical professional will be provided as part of the digital Covid certificate or other...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has received submissions from a group (details supplied) with particular reference to the efforts of such carers throughout the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it was possible to ensure the availability of the highest possible standards of care and attention for older patients throughout the...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the effects of alternatives to tobacco smoking with particular reference to the need to ensure that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the ongoing attendance and visiting restrictions in hospitals; if the current HSE guidance will be reviewed to allow families and friends...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to the vaccination of persons aged 16 and older; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation relating to the helipad at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of doctors in Mayo University Hospital currently and in 2020 including intern doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41728/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [41730/21]
    • Disability Services
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated current and capital cost of 100 additional residential places for persons with a disability. [41739/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to expand current HSE personalised budget demonstration project pilots for persons with disabilities to each CHO for 90 persons (details...
    • Care Services
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of doubling existing respite hours; and the number of hours or days and nights that this would provide. [41743/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of an additional dementia key worker. [41751/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a 1% and 5% increase to the day care services current and capital budgets. [41754/21]
    • Disability Services
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to move 100 adults with a disability aged under 65 from a nursing home to assisted living; and the breakdown of ancillary costs. [41757/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 150 additional therapists for children’s disability network teams. [41758/21]
    • Departmental Data
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 additional speech and language therapist posts. [41761/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health if Fáilte Ireland guidelines precluding music at wedding receptions will be updated to reflect SI No. 385 of 2021 which allows music at weddings; if such...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he is preparing plans to overhaul the various hospital and treatment waiting lists in respect of various elective procedures which have...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure to be followed to obtain a primary medical certificate; if there are any current delays in obtaining same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the director of the decision support services to submit the code of practice in respect of Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act...
    • Mental Health Services
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of locations of CAHMS services across the State; and the operating hours for each service. [41795/21]
    • Dental Services
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in the dental treatment services scheme by LHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41799/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health when general practitioner care without fees will be extended to carers in receipt of the carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work undertaken to reopen the GMHS; the progress made to date regarding the recruitment of permanent staff at St James's Hospital, Meath...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the indicative timeframe for when the GMHS will fully reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41812/21]
    • Disability Services
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any delay in the roll-out of progressing disabilities services programme in particular to (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered introducing a bonus for healthcare workers who worked on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health when the full range of support and required services will be provided in person to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health when appropriate access to a psychologist will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); when arrangements can be made for same; and if he will...
    • Dental Services
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health if an exception will be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41823/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health when he anticipates an options appraisal will be completed for the upgrade of the ICU at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Projects
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health when the project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41836/21]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health the meetings held by his departmental officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in relation to the issue of...
    • State Bodies
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health if a new healthy Ireland council is being established; if so, the way in which membership will be comprised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Bantry General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41846/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of rehabilitation and detox beds currently open respectively by facility in tabular form. [41849/21]
    • Health Services
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the establishment of a dedicated intestinal failure unit in Ireland; the assistance in place for those currently travelling...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports of the inability to perform scans at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin; the manner in which this is impacting both the treatment of...
    • Abortion Services
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health the companies or organisations that provide prenatal diagnostic testing to women accessing abortion in Ireland; if Irish general practitioners or hospitals...
    • Mental Health Services
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health when the full range of supports, including primary care psychology support, will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41864/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41867/21]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the long-term review examining the existing clinical placement allowances payable to student nurses and midwives on supernumerary clinical...
    • Health Strategies
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made by his Department to date in relation to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Health’s Report on addressing Vitamin D...
    • Health Services
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health when arrangements for assisted living and sheltered accommodation will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources he will make available in order to provide HPV vaccination options to secondary schools for those not vaccinated in the 2020-2021...
    • Health Service Executive
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent to date by the HSE in rebuilding systems after the cyber-attack; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41879/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for orthopaedic treatment nationally; the average waiting for orthopaedic treatment for County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the closure of applications for the pre-exposure prophylaxis scheme in a number of hospitals (details supplied); the steps...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41885/21]
    • Health Services
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the future of Sruthan House, Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41897/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the position with regard to the harm reduction worker who was assigned to the Drogheda area in 2020 to manage the concerning lack of needle exchange provided...
    • Health Strategies
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €23 million announced in Budget 2021 for Sharing the Vision that has been released to the HSE to date; if a full breakdown will be...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was spent in 2020 to expand the provision of talking therapy in Ireland; his plans to continue to increase access to talking therapies; and if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to persons who, for medical reasons, cannot receive a first and or second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine; the steps he will take...
    • Hospital Staff
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the current vacancies in CUH in tabular form; if they have been advertised; and the length of time they have been vacant. [41936/21]
    • Departmental Data
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health the payments made by large pharmaceutical companies based in Ireland in the past five years; the amounts involved in these payments; and the purpose of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding vaccination centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41945/21]
    • Departmental Policies
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department; the costs this has...
    • Ambulance Service
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the under-resourcing of the Athlone ambulance service in the context of a town of its size and the huge area it serves; his...
    • Health Services Staff
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to recruitment issues in the homecare sector; if he is taking steps to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health if there are hospitals in which cardiac rehabilitation phase III is not operational in view of the strong evidence base for cardiac rehabilitation and the...
    • Tax Code
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the evaluation currently underway of the sugar-sweetened drinks tax; when details of the tax are due to be completed and published; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are in place for persons who suffer with agoraphobia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42017/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to adjust the blood transfusion policy regarding men who have sex with men in line with evidence-based practice as has recently occurred in the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person who was vaccinated abroad can receive a digital Covid pass (details supplied) which is readable in Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Service Executive
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health if it is current HSE hospital policy to carry out PCR tests on the deceased; the names of all hospitals that have carried out PCR tests on the deceased; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health the current restrictions on indoor addiction recovery support groups; and the timeline for the lifting of same. [42033/21]
    • Pension Provisions
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that retirees from the HSE who are members of the public service pension scheme and are paid their pension...
    • Medicinal Products
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42046/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for early intervention services by service in County Tipperary; the average waiting time; the efforts being made to reduce...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients attending hospitals with strokes to date in 2021 and in each year for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the removal of yoga studios from class exemptions during level 3 restrictions; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all of the increased bed and ICU capacity delivered since March 2020; the number of additional healthcare staff employed by the HSE since 2020;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2066 of 27 July 2021, if NIAC has reviewed further information or studies available regarding the use of mixed...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to address the challenges facing Irish citizens resident in Canada who have received a mixed mRNA vaccine approved by Health Canada yet do not...
    • Health Services
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 22 April 2021, if a full-time residential place will be secured for the person. [42080/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health when he last spoke with the heads of the maternity hospitals on the issue of partner access; the date of that meeting; and the outcome of same. [42081/21]
    • Health Services
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can obtain portable tables from the HSE for wheelchair users who are bed bound. [42084/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of graduates hired in the areas of occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language, dietetics and audiology in each CHO area, by each...
    • Medical Cards
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [42089/21]
    • Health Services
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the status of day care centres; and when a centre (details supplied) will reopen. [42091/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of persons (details supplied). [42092/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a lack of neurologists in hospitals in County Cork for those with MS such as a person (details supplied). [42093/21]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if any private cyber-security firms have been contracted to his Department or the HSE since 12 May 2021; if so, the details of the contract that has been...
    • Disability Services
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children seen across all areas of intervention in each CHO area since the commencement of the Progressing Disability Services Policy on 19 April...
    • Home Care Packages
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health if a homecare package will be provided to a person (details supplied). [42096/21]
    • Hospital Services
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to directives underway in each hospital children’s ward in which parents who must stay overnight with their child for...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to date to his Department and the HSE to repair the damage caused by the recent cyber-attack in tabular form. [42098/21]
    • Data Protection
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the number of Kerry residents, distinguishing between children and adults who have had genomic and DNA data gathered on them under the...
    • Health Services
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the incidence of presentations at hospitals in the State with myocarditis, aneurysms and clotting disorders per month in the first eight...
    • Home Help Service
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health when home help will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42109/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish the second National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 2021- 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the safety of giving the HPV vaccine and the full adult Covid-19 vaccine to young children and teenagers given that it is a concern of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected for the use of the drug Ivermectin for patients that have been partially or fully vaccinated presenting with Covid-19; and if he...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines that have had to be disposed of due to the fact they were unused and went out of date. [42125/21]
    • Health Services
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health when a personal assistant service will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42128/21]
    • Hospital Services
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed response as to the reason Beaumont Hospital is denying medical care to Covid-19 unvaccinated patients who are on the transplant...
    • Health Services
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health the most appropriate method of transport for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42148/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health the 2019 and 2020 budget and staffing composition of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer. [42151/21]
    • State Bodies
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health the 2019 and 2020 budget and staffing composition of HIQA. [42153/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists currently working within HSE services in south County Tipperary; the efforts south Tipperary HSE services are making to find a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists in Beaumont Hospital; the length of their wait broken down into 3 months segments in tabular form. [42163/21]
    • Disability Services
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapist assessment in CHO9. [42165/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42174/21]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 50 patients (details supplied) cannot be seen by the community podiatry team in Rathass primary care centre, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health his advice on a matter (details supplied) in relation to podiatry support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42181/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will re-examine bringing in staff on a contract basis with regard to the major issue in relation to the lack of speech and language therapists in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42199/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1248. To ask the Minister for Health if one to one music classes are identified as a personal service; and if he will provide clarity on the return of one to one music classes under the current...
    • Health Services Staff
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of permanent or temporary posts that are available in a region for health care support assistant posts by county; the reason there are little or no...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding the vaccination programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42216/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the recruitment crisis in the homecare sector; if he is satisfied that his Department’s policy on this sector will deliver on...
    • Health Services Staff
      1253. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to companies (details supplied) in each month since March 2020 to August 2021. [42226/21]
    • Dental Services
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for primary school children in each county; the number of children still awaiting their routine second and sixth class dental check-ups for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1256. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); when they will be called to have the procedure carried out; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1257. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add emphysema and asthma to the long-term illness scheme or otherwise reimburse costs; the reason these conditions are not included on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists as inpatients and outpatients, respectively in all departments in University Hospital Waterford; the breakdown for the...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Maternity Hospital project board is required to comply with the updated Public Spending Code lifecycle by submitting three separate business...
    • Hospital Services
      1262. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will increase diabetic services at University Hospital Limerick (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a compensation scheme for families of health workers who have died from coronavirus; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards for the implementation of The National Medical Laboratory Information System project which was promised to begin roll-out...
    • Medicinal Products
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement application of a drug (details supplied); the expected timeframe for the completion of negotiations regarding the pricing and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding payment to pharmacies for the administration of vaccines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      1271. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to continue a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42296/21]
    • Health Services
      1272. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 25 February 2021, if a further response will issue to queries (details supplied). [42300/21]
    • Health Promotion
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address excessive consumption of unhealthy foods in preschool settings particularly in relation to celebrations (details supplied);...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected to take place to seek clarity for those persons who have had a severe reaction to the first-dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and are...
    • Departmental Funding
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding for appropriate respite services for persons affected by Prader Willi Syndrome in view of the ultimate cost savings of such a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to address the crisis in recruitment in the homecare sector in view of the savings and other advantages to homecare as opposed to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health when indoor classes (details supplied) are allowed to recommence. [42321/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42322/21]
    • Health Services
      1282. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a series of matters raised by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42351/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42354/21]
    • Home Help Service
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help will be allocated to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42361/21]
    • Hospital Services
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health if an extension to a current hospital stay may be granted to facilitate additional medical assessment as to such a time that family members who are currently...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1286. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the decision to withdraw the Defence Forces in their vital support role in the vaccination centres in Galway considering that their role has...
    • Ambulance Service
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to the health service of an emergency ambulance response to a 999 call; and the average cost to the health service of an emergency ambulance...
    • Emergency Departments
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health the fully absorbed cost of the average emergency department attendance; and the average daily running cost of a hospital bed in an accident and emergency...
    • Hospital Charges
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person will be reviewed (details supplied); and if the HSE can offer assistance in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42381/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the Departments involved in the development of the EU Digital Covid Certificate portal; the status of the development process detailing any...
    • Departmental Data
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the age of 18 years awaiting a first-time appointment since being switched to the new children’s disability network team...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the delivery and full operationalisation of the single integrated financial and procurement management system; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1314. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding for a five-year hypertension awareness and behaviour change campaign led by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure full funding for the recommendations of the new stroke strategy and ensure its publication alongside a comprehensive implementation plan;...
    • Primary Care Services
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to ensure access to diagnostic testing brain natriuretic peptide blood testing and echocardiography at primary care level; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1318. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the roll-out of heart failure community integration teams countrywide and on ensuring that their roles are standardised across all CHO areas; and...
    • Hospital Services
      1323. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand cardiac rehabilitation services to be widely accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42460/21]
    • Health Services
      1324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure adequate national capacity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation to all patients for whom it is recommended, ensuring staffing and resources are...
    • Hospital Charges
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove inpatient charges for public hospital care at a cost of €30.6 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42462/21]
    • Medical Cards
      1326. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce prescription charge for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42463/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42464/21]
    • Departmental Regulations
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the HSPC guidelines in relation to visits to residential care facilities statutory regulations under the powers invested in him under Health...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a group (details supplied). [42466/21]
    • Nursing Homes
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce legislation to implement best practice nursing home universal design that is dementia-friendly and suitable for family connection and...
    • State Bodies
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand and strengthen HIQA powers in relation to care home facilitates and rotate HIQA inspectors with unannounced inspections only. [42468/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there needs to be a full public inquiry into nursing home deaths, denial of resident rights and unsafe practices during the Covid-19...
    • Health Services
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of episodes purchased in 2020 and to date in 2021, respectively and the average length of an episode by addiction rehabilitation and detox facility...
    • Departmental Funding
      1336. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department has still not sent funding for projects funded under the National Drugs Strategy allocation in Budget 2021 to the HSE. [42475/21]
    • Nursing Homes
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health if changes to the fair deal scheme introducing three year caps apply to cash assets. [42476/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health if persons in quarantine who were fully vaccinated with a vaccine (details supplied) were released on appeal; if any discretion on the quarantine period is...
    • Hospital Services
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of the central sterile services department at Roscommon Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42496/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 14 July 2021, the current status of the Portiuncula Hospital 50-bedroom ward block development; when this project...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 7 July 2021, when Portiuncula Hospital will take delivery of a new CT scanner; when the accommodation works will...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have availed of the Portiuncula cardiac outreach service funded under a Sláintecare Integration Fund grant in each of the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the waiting room at the modular outpatient department at Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; when the reconfiguration...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants who had to isolate after coming in contact with a Covid-19 positive patient; the impact this isolation has had on outpatient...
    • Health Services
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for audiology appointments in counties Roscommon, Galway and Mayo for children and adults; his plans to address the waiting times;...
    • Dental Services
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health the reason dental extractions for children who require a general anaesthetic cannot be carried out at Roscommon or Portiuncula Hospitals; if there are plans...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person who has availed of two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in two different EU countries can avail of the EU Digital Covid Certificate; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for mental health services by CHO and age category; and the breakdown by the length of time they have been waiting in...
    • Health Services
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health further to commitments given by his predecessor to Dáil Éireann on 10 December 2019 on Report Stage of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019,...
    • Hospital Services
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen by the rapid access haematuria clinic at Roscommon University Hospital; the cancer detection rate; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ambulance Service
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 583 of 17 December 2020, 646 of 3 February 2021 and 160 of 7 July 2021, the reason that the HSE has refused to...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which had a TRASNA telemedicine stroke machine installed; the number of times the equipment was used in the past 12 months in each hospital; the...
    • Disability Services
      1359. To ask the Minister for Health if the Strengthening Disability Services Fund of €20 million announced in 2020 has been distributed in full; if not, the amount currently available in...
    • Medical Cards
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health if the PCRS will re-issue a breakdown of the income and outgoings in relation to the decision that was made on a medical card application by a person (details...
    • Health Service Executive
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE IT systems will be back to normal service; and when Members can resubmit parliamentary questions on HSE operational issues for answer (details...
    • Health Services
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by University Hospital Kerry in external consultancy fees relating to microbiology. [42572/21]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health further to the WRC Labour Court Recommendation LCR22195 on interim compensation for travel the reason the HSE is now seeking repayment of overpaid travel...
    • Health Service Executive
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of money sought by the HSE from home support workers for travel compensation since 1 March 2020; the number of persons involved; and if he...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Southdoc have reneged on their commitment to a full return to service in their Blackpool facility and will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health the due diligence his Department and the HSE took to ensure that any personal protective equipment procured by the State during the Covid-19 pandemic had not...
    • Hospital Services
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reinstating the phlebotomy service at Peamount Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42598/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42600/21]
    • Health Services
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the calls from a group (details supplied) for increased investment in a number of areas costed at €85 million as part of Budget...
    • Disability Services
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied). [42614/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff by role that would be considered a full cohort by area and team in the new CDNTs in Cork; and the number of staff currently employed in...
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      1375. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the sodium valproate inquiry announced in November 2020; when the terms of reference will be published, the make-up of the membership of the...
    • Departmental Data
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of developing a national strategies inclusive of such costs as public and sectoral consultations, consultant fees and other ancillary costs based on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for MRI scans for the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; the steps being taken to address the backlog with MRI scans and to improve the...
    • Health Services
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for audiology appointments per county or the nearest geographical division currently; the corresponding figures for each of the...
    • Dental Services
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being put in place to ensure that medical card holders have access to services under the dental treatment scheme; if his attention has...
    • Departmental Data
      1382. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of public funding that an organisation (details supplied) has received from Government Departments between 2013 and 2021, inclusive in tabular...
    • Health Service Executive
      1384. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to investigate procurement procedures within the HSE to determine if there are any instances of the HSE being overcharged by private and voluntary...
    • Child Abuse
      1385. To ask the Minister for Health if any retrospective complaints have been made regarding the sexual abuse of minors in a hospital (details supplied) which may have occurred from the late...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who live in the regions; and if...
    • Legislative Measures
      1387. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and his plans regarding the statutory homecare bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42723/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health when diabetics over the age of 21 years will receive Libre FreeStyle Sensors under the medical card, long-term illness or hardship scheme; and if he will make...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit are accommodating requests for persons to work from home. [42759/21]
    • Health Services
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate funding in Budget 2022 for the establishment of a State-funded contraception scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Care of the Elderly
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure the resumption of all daycare services for elderly people in community hospitals immediately. [42781/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1393. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to amend the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Bill as a result of the Special Rapporteur’s report, Review of Children’s...
    • Hospital Services
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all maternity hospitals put in place safe procedures for nominated support partners to attend for all stages of labour including...
    • Abortion Services
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the safe access to termination of pregnancy bill. [42784/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in the acute adult mental health psychiatric units in Cork University Hospital and Mercy University Hospital whose discharges...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health the implications of the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling in case C-663/18 for Irish legislation concerning cannabidiol. [42791/21]
    • Health Services
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to specialist care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42833/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will report on the number of Covid-19 related deaths on a daily basis. [42834/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in providing improved ambulance and ancillary emergency care to persons in Connemara, County Galway; the process that will be...
    • Health Services
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the future of Sruthan House, Dundalk, County ,with respect to the recently announced Reframing the Challenge, Continuing Our Recovery and...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected for the approval of a cannabis-based product (details supplied) owing to the fact that it is greatly helping many persons with...
    • Mental Health Services
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected regarding the budget for mental health given the impact Covid-19 has had on mental health and given that services are extremely...
    • Home Help Service
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home help that are waiting for additional hours or new applications, respectively by county; the length of time waiting; the...
    • Medical Cards
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the non-medical card patients of a general practitioner (details supplied) can be transferred to another practice as a matter of urgency...
    • Hospital Staff
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken regarding conditions and understaffing at Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42863/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) from County Donegal will receive a rheumatology appointment for Our Lady’s Hospital, Manorhamilton; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health the areas in which the additional €10 million allocated to mental health due to the impact of Covid-19 in 2021 announced in February 2021 has been...
    • Health Services
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42882/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1418. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being considered to encourage maximum take-up of the 2021 winter flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42893/21]
    • Health Services
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being considered to prepare hospitals for the winter season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42894/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to exempt those under 18 years old from contact tracing specifically in cases in which it matters to the school environment; and if he will make a...
    • Government Communications
      1421. To ask the Minister for Health if his ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during his term of office. [42927/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of responses...
    • Hospital Services
      1424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive care beds that have been provided since he announced the expansion of critical care capacity to 446 beds in December 2020; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42987/21]
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42994/21]
    • Dental Services
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health the advice he can provide about a dental services issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43003/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place for general practitioner cover in circumstances in which general practitioners take annual leave; and if these arrangements are in...
    • Hospital Services
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that prevail with respect to an MRI scanner within University Hospital Kerry operated by a company (details supplied). [43019/21]
    • Registration of Nurses
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health the current processing times for applications for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland by general nurses who trained in the UK; if...
    • Dental Services
      1434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card scheme does not cover the cost of dental care for 12 to 16-year-olds; and if he has plans to change same. [43053/21]
    • Health Services
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be deployed in budget 2022 to address the unprecedented backlog in cancer service demands; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health the work he has undertaken to address cyber-security measures faced by the Health Service Executive to prevent further cyber-attacks; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Charges
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider abolishing inpatient charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43059/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the guidance that has been given for visiting of care homes and other residential homes for the elderly and disabled in the new plan for lifting of...
    • Government Communications
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health if he and or his special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43074/21]
    • Health Services
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new early intervention teams that have been established since February 2020 in view of the programme for Government commitment to fully...
    • Health Services Staff
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health the number of service providers by type of provider contracted by the HSE to provide rehabilitation services by community health organisation, CHO; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100; the estimated cost of reducing same in increments of €15; and if he...
    • Dental Services
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health the annual spend on the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2000 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43089/21]
    • Health Services
      1449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community rehabilitation teams currently in operation for each community healthcare organisation, CHO; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Ambulance Service does not recognise intermediate care operatives as ambulance personnel; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence regarding vaccination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health the units by community healthcare organisation, CHO, or any smaller unit in which HSE dental services have been limited to emergency provision only for...
    • Health Services
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided regarding a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43098/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      1458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants at Beaumont Hospital performing full removal of transobturator mesh implants; the number of surgeries performed in the past month;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health if there are or will be any special procedures including supervision by an immunologist of persons who are vaccine candidates but are likely to suffer from...
    • Health Services
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing additional dedicated children’s beds for psychiatric care to stop the practice of using beds in adult psychiatric...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health his position in relation to the recent HSE commitment to recruit medical and nursing students as vaccinators; if these positions will be reimbursed; if the...
    • Health Services
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health when x-ray services will be reinstated in University Hospital Waterford; the number of persons awaiting an urgent general practitioner referral x-ray in the...
    • Disease Management
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease and to ensure that persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme...
    • Health Services Staff
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Consultant Applications Advisory Committee regularised approved consultant posts; the number of posts registered on the Doctors Integrated...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health the supports and safeguards that have been provided for vaccinators who do not have professional indemnity insurance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health if he and the HSE have considered plans submitted by a society (details supplied) relating to a dedicated unit to treat and rehabilitate patients with...
    • Health Services Staff
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assistant psychologists that are currently working in a voluntary capacity within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43115/21]
    • Health Services
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the current national pilot assistant psychology programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43117/21]
    • Dental Services
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have withdrawn from the dental service scheme in the period 31 May 2020 to 31 May 2021, by county and by CHO area in tabular form;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing at least one advanced nurse practitioner in each heart failure service unit. [43121/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      1483. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE patients who have been facilitated for treatment in the United States for full or partial removal of transobturator mesh implants; if a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1484. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to restore pay equality for consultants on type B contracts; the additional cost of any back pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      1485. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of a 100% uptake each year of the HPV vaccine. [43127/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 50 new healthcare assistant posts. [43128/21]
    • Health Services
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the immediate funding need for dementia-specific day care services provided by a society (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost for the school immunisation programme if uptake was to be 100% each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43130/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1490. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Education, the HSE and higher education institutes to ensure that students on clinical placements in hospitals who opt...
    • Health Services Staff
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health the number and types of staff required to safely staff an adult critical care bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43133/21]
    • Medical Research and Training
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to increase the general practitioner trainee intake to 250; the number of places provided for each of the past five years; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health the occupancy rates of both inpatient acute and ICU beds for each hospital group on 1 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43138/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of establishing a permanent Covid-19 testing and tracing unit with the capacity to manage 500 cases a day; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health the all-in revenue cost of an acute inpatient bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43140/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1502. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies that currently exist in CHO5 across psychiatry, psychology, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, counselling and...
    • Health Service Executive
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health the way consultancy firms utilised by the HSE strategy and planning will be managed in the future; the steps that are currently being undertaken by his...
    • Health Services Staff
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to restore pay equality for consultants on type C contracts; the additional cost of any back pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of completing the repatriation of CervicalCheck screening services and diagnostics into a single public laboratory; the number of staff...
    • Health Services Staff
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing four whole-time-equivalent heart failure clinical nurse specialists per 150,000 persons; the estimated number of...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health the number of training NCHD posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43150/21]
    • Medical Internships
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 180 expand medical intern training places in 2022; the requirements for such an expansion in terms of...
    • Health Services
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing BNP blood testing and echocardiography at primary care level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43152/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing a dedicated cardiac physiologist in each heart failure unit. [43153/21]
    • Community Care
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing community paramedicine resources by 5%; the staffing composition of current community paramedicine; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of making heart failure community integration teams available nationally and standardising their roles across all CHO areas; and if he will...
    • Dental Services
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health if orthodontic appointments will be expedited for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43180/21]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Industry
      1519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the interim solutions being considered to support farmers impacted by EU Directive 2019/904 prohibiting products in Ireland used to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation for Sea Fisheries Protection Authority for each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [41457/21]
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      1521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the fishery harbours under the remit of his Department he has visited to date in 2021; and the purpose of each visit. [41458/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      1522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in his Department and in each State and semi-State body...
    • Fishing Industry
      1523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the landing facility at Cromane, County Kerry will be delivered as previously promised through the European Maritime and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which staff shortages at district veterinary offices have been recognised with particular reference to Kildare; if he...
    • Forestry Sector
      1525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the administrative difficulties associated with the issue of tree felling licenses has been fully resolved to...
    • Animal Diseases
      1526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which ongoing efforts continue to be made to identify the sources of bovine TB in certain areas throughout the...
    • Veterinary Services
      1530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which it is expected to make basic veterinary products available to the farming community through licenced providers...
    • Animal Welfare
      1531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to introduce new legislation to protect animals from cruelty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41715/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      1532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of research staff employed at the Foras na Mara Marine Institute in Newport in each year since 2006; the total number of...
    • Food Industry
      1534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the meetings held by his Departmental officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in...
    • Veterinary Services
      1535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will withdraw proposals for veterinary prescriptions for essential parasite treatments (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Funding
      1536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41866/21]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position regarding the definite answers on grant aid for dairy investments going forward; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in his Department or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the sheep welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      1541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry for a felling licence will be processed; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      1543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a harvesting grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41988/21]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a reconstituted scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41990/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      1548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a national forest certification scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Farm Safety
      1549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his Department’s farm safety research project BESAFE - Behaviours for Safer Farming: The health and safety of...
    • Grant Payments
      1550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be no clawback of grants received in cases in which a farmer trading as a sole trader has grants less than €80...
    • Forestry Sector
      1552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42102/21]
    • Livestock Issues
      1553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding stocking density and rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42129/21]
    • Grant Payments
      1555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issue of farm payments to farmers (details supplied) who were affected by the fires in the Killarney National Park will be...
    • Veterinary Services
      1557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure a competitive market for the supply of antiparasitic veterinary medicines in view of the fact that...
    • Grant Payments
      1558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/21]
    • Livestock Issues
      1560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work carried out by his Department to conduct a consultation process with local authorities and other stakeholders to bring a...
    • Wildlife Protection
      1562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his plans to extend the badger vaccination programme nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42208/21]
    • Animal Welfare
      1563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his plans for Teagasc to mainstream animal welfare considerations across its teaching and advisory services for...
    • Waterways Issues
      1566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the systems that are in place to issue licences to allow access to a lakeside slipway (details supplied) in County Westmeath; the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding the BEEP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fishing Industry
      1572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of landings at Dingle and Castletownbere ports from Irish and non-Irish vessels for each of the 36 months from January...
    • Brexit Issues
      1577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to issues UK citizens are experiencing when bringing pets here; if there are measures being...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42389/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      1579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process by which assessment and monitoring of inshore fishing information is gathered namely razor clam fishing; and if he will...
    • Trade Agreements
      1581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 9 July 2019, the steps he has taken to provide data to support the climate threats...
    • Trade Data
      1582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the awareness campaign that has taken place to date in relation to the transposition of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive into...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within his Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding his Department provided to each local authority for the maintenance and development of small piers and...
    • Fishing Industry
      1586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the applications of the National Inshore Fishermen's Association and the National Inshore Fishermen's Organisation to...
    • Forestry Sector
      1587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1275 of 31 March 2021, if he will make available the Forestry District Inspector’s...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the increases in fertiliser prices. [42770/21]
    • Animal Welfare
      1590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking to implement a co-ordinated national antiparasitic programme. [42772/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      1591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of financial support or revenue compensating package that the State will provide to the fish processing sector in Ireland...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to introduce a grant scheme for farmers who will be required to put in place waste water tanks separate from effluent...
    • Forestry Sector
      1594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the decision to refuse remuneration to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Government Communications
      1595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42918/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      1597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021;...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of his Department over the preceding decade. [42988/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      1599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a tree felling licence will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43030/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of his Department or associated agency in...
    • Government Communications
      1601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and or his special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18...
    • Fishing Industry
      1602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide an estimate in cooperation with the relevant fishermen and fishermen’s co-ops as to the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will share the new report in relation to the recent review of the cost benefit analysis of the Deep Water Quay project for Ros...
    • Forestry Sector
      1605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a forestry application for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43196/21]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Data
      1607. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current policy regarding the employment of persons with disabilities in her Department and in each State and semi-State body...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1608. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the pilot insurance indemnity policy for hill farmers; her plans to introduce this scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1609. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures she is taking to promote or facilitate remote working for staff in her Department or bodies under the aegis of her...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1610. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41984/21]
    • Office of Public Works
      1611. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of plans by the OPW to repair a road (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1612. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeframe in relation to the announcement of the future work programme of the mobile phone and broadband task force; and if she...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1614. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps being taken to facilitate remote working within her Department in particular to encourage remote working for those who live...
    • Emergency Services
      1616. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will ensure that the leading lights on the helicopter pad on Cape Clear Island used for emergency services are repaired as a...
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      1617. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of her engagement with the West Cork Development Partnership concerning the employment of additional rural recreational...
    • Island Communities
      1618. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the publication of an islands policy. [42806/21]
    • Government Communications
      1619. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Ministerial phones have been hacked or attempted to be hacked during the term of office. [42931/21]
    • Freedom of Information
      1621. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of freedom of information requests responded to by her Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021;...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1622. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost of each commission of investigation under the remit of her Department over the preceding decade. [42997/21]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1623. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of formal and informal roles held by a person (details supplied) in the name of her Department or associated agency in the...
    • Government Communications
      1624. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she and or her special advisers and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18...

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