Written answers
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Cybersecurity Policy
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government...
- Flexible Work Practices
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Work Permits
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether additional work visas need to be issued to non-EU nationals in order to tackle the labour force shortage in...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Natural Gas Imports
7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will issue a Ministerial policy directive under section 29 of the Planning Development Act 2000 to An Bord...
- Cybersecurity Policy
8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided...
- Flexible Work Practices
11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work;...
- Energy Conservation
13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of waiting times for assessments and completion of works under the SEAI warmer homes scheme; and if he...
- National Broadband Plan
14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a property (details supplied) cannot avail of high-speed broadband; when this area is due to be surveyed; the...
- Departmental Schemes
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that concerns that proposed changes to the requirements of the better energy...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Cybersecurity Policy
16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on...
- Flexible Work Practices
17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate...
- Driver Test
19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45526/21]
- Driver Licences
20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a refund for a replacement driving licence can be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Driver Test
21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45528/21]
- Tax Reliefs
22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions that have taken place to date between the NTA and his Department in relation to additional supports and changes to the...
- Driver Test
23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45735/21]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Avoidance
26. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Ireland’s tax system is consistent with Ireland's stated commitment to equitable development and working with poorer countries to...
- Tax Data
27. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue generated in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 that were the capital allowances claimed against intangible assets onshored...
- Cybersecurity Policy
28. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on same; and if he will...
- Tax Code
29. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual estimated cost of reducing VAT on domestic electricity bills by 1%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45325/21]
- Tax Yield
30. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT collected on domestic electricity in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45326/21]
- Flexible Work Practices
31. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number or percentage...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
33. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the temporary wage subsidy scheme, employment wage subsidy scheme and Covid restrictions scheme compliances programmes respectively; the...
- Tax Reliefs
34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will prioritise the inclusion of lithium battery plant machinery on the triple E register to avail of accelerated capital allowance; his views on the...
- Tax Avoidance
39. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any company, other than a company (details supplied) that is using an equivalent of the so-called single malt tax avoidance...
- Tax Data
43. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties in which the PPSN of the tenant has been allocated to the property for the purposes of local property tax by county in 2019, 2020 and...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Cybersecurity Policy
44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on...
- Public Procurement Contracts
45. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process underway by the Office of Government Procurement in relation to a possible new framework for the procurement of cloud video...
- Flexible Work Practices
46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate...
- Ministerial Appointments
48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with the process of Government appointments in view of recent events; and his views on whether the Public Service...
- Budget 2022
49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the €51.8 million from the National Training Fund is treated as normal Government expenditure for the purposes of budget 2022;...
- Budget Process
50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a recent Parliamentary Budget Office report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45515/21]
- National Development Plan
51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date of the final publication of the revised National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45522/21]
- Third Level Staff
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current...
- Public Sector Staff
53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of general service vacancies filled by Irish language candidates during 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 in counties Donegal and...
- An Garda Síochána
54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the project timeline for the provision of new accommodation at a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Cybersecurity Policy
55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from...
- Sports Funding
56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeframe for the announcement of the allocation of sports capital funding grants; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Flexible Work Practices
57. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps taken by her Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Freedom of Information
59. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the published findings of the Office of the Information Commissioner under a case (details...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Environmental Policy
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidelines or regulations that apply to the mulching of mountain land in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Cybersecurity Policy
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from...
- Flexible Work Practices
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Homeless Accommodation
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of family homeless hubs and the capacity to accommodate family sizes of two, three, four, five and above persons in...
- Housing Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the construction status of a development (details supplied); the reason for the delay; if a revised schedule and expected...
- Commercial Rates
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funeral directors no longer qualify for a commercial rates waiver for funeral...
- Housing Policy
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is taking action to ensure that persons suffering from chronic illnesses which put their health at serious risk can...
- Commercial Rates
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to waive commercial rates owed to local authorities beyond the end of September 2021; and if he will make a...
- Hedge Cutting
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to amend legislation in respect of the regulation of boundary hedges and hedgerows with particular reference to...
- Water Services
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if not for profit organisations can be liable for large wastewater removal charges from Irish Water (details supplied); and if...
- State Bodies
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the establishment of the proposed new marine and climate unit within the SID structure of An Bord...
- Wildlife Conservation
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revoke the open season order for those species that have been classified as red list bird species and of...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Cybersecurity Policy
75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on...
- Patent Applications
76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current approximate wait time for first-time passport applicants to receive their passport; and when his Department estimates the wait...
- Passport Services
77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can assist with the resolution of an urgent case of an Irish child (details supplied) stranded abroad and unable to return to school...
- Flexible Work Practices
78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate...
- Passport Services
80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the content of the planned passport reform programme of his Department; the timeline of the planned roll-out; and if he will make a statement...
- Foreign Conflicts
81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions the Government has taken and is taking through its role on the UN Security Council and by other means to contribute to the search...
- Election Monitoring Missions
84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continuation of the decision due to Covid-19 restrictions to suspend the deployment of any of the 500 persons who have been...
- Department of Defence
- Cybersecurity Policy
85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on same;...
- Flexible Work Practices
86. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number...
- Defence Forces
88. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role that members of the Reserve Defence Forces played at vaccination centres during the pandemic; the number of members that were stationed...
- Department of Education and Skills
- National Broadband Plan
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is engaging with National Broadband Ireland to ensure that schools currently devoid of broadband services will be fast-tracked...
- Cybersecurity Policy
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on same;...
- Education Standards
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on progress made to date on the commitment to reduce the primary level pupil-teacher ratio to 25:1 with emphasis on those...
- Educational Disadvantage
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mainstream teaching posts, special education teaching posts and special needs assistants added at each of primary and post-primary...
- Site Acquisitions
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has identified a site in Glanmire, County Cork for a new special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45358/21]
- Flexible Work Practices
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken by her Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number or...
- Educational Disadvantage
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available to a DEIS school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45405/21]
- School Equipment
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite an intervention by the school’s broadband service for a school (details supplied) given the poor broadband service...
- Schools Administration
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children suffering from cyclical vomiting syndrome will be able to sit the 2022 leaving certificate in an alternative sitting should their...
- Special Educational Needs
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) in County Donegal is not getting access to SNA support; if additional information supplied will be...
- Education Schemes
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of schools are awaiting payment for the DEIS literacy and numeracy summer camp; the...
- School Accommodation
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding the new school building and ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- State Examinations
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal of an accredited grade in respect of a student (details supplied) in County Kerry will be registered and reviewed; and if she will...
- School Curriculum
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to introduce digital literacy and online safety into the core education curriculum at primary and secondary school level; and if she...
- School Transport
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to address the crisis of school bus places in the current school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Accommodation
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the new secondary school build to be based in Charlesland, Greystones, County Wicklow; when planning permission to build will be...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline planned research into the impact on student learning from the disruption during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make...
- Departmental Strategies
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the development of a new digital strategy for schools and measures in place to further support digital online learning for primary...
- School Management
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop new measures to support school leadership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45748/21]
- State Examinations
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in place to support students due to sit the leaving certificate examinations in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Projects
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures taken to implement the two priority projects planned under the EU-NRRP funding of €63.5 million for school broadband and...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- State Pensions
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in relation to women who were working in the home for a long time not eligible for certain pension entitlements;...
- Cybersecurity Policy
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from...
- Community Employment Schemes
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is currently considering putting a further extension in place for participants on community employment and Tús...
- Flexible Work Practices
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken by her Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Social Welfare Payments
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be made on a working family payment application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Banking Sector
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the further action that has been taken to address banking charges on overseas pensions; if elimination of charges on those...
- Parental Leave
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of parents that have taken parent’s leave and benefit since the scheme was extended from two to five weeks;...
- State Pensions
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a chief appeals officer review of the decision on a State pension (contributory) backdating...
- Social Welfare Appeals
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of further information submitted for a review of a decision on a carer’s...
- Employment Schemes
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount the operation of JobPath has cost in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; if there has been an...
- Community Employment Schemes
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Cybersecurity Policy
131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance...
- Flexible Work Practices
132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of any investigations into the leak regarding the report on the mother and baby homes; and if he will...
- Childcare Services
135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proposals he has to improve childcare provision under the national childcare scheme for children whose...
- International Protection
136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that were deemed adults by the International Protection Office and placed into direct...
- Grant Payments
137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending the ECCE grant for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
- Disability Services
138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide supports and recreation centres for families with autism and other such spectrums; and if...
- Assisted Decision-Making
139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Bill to amend the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; the other technical issues...
- Legislative Programme
140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 which provides for the monitoring structures...
- Disability Services
141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the distinction that is being made in his policy work between organisations for persons with a disability and...
- International Agreements
142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 442 of 20 January 2021 and 179 of 12 May 2021, the exact outstanding...
- Departmental Funding
143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the projects or grantees in his recently announced €1 million funding for children’s services...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a subject access request from survivors seeking personal information from the archive of the Commission of...
- Asylum Seekers
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the postnatal supports that are available to asylum seekers who give birth in Ireland; the policy that is...
- Childcare Services
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the anomaly whereby parents who do not work or study cannot access the national childcare...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Education
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure that in-person lectures at a university (details supplied) recommence in alignment with other third-level...
- Cybersecurity Policy
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on same;...
- Flexible Work Practices
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current requirements with regard to apprenticeship programmes (details supplied). [45407/21]
- Third Level Admissions
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the number of students who have failed to get any CAO offers due to errors in the student exam number; if...
- Third Level Education
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body which determines whether graduation ceremonies will be held in person or online; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the backlogs in apprenticeship schemes due to the delays as a result of Covid-19 restrictions. [45705/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure students can return safely to in-person teaching in further and higher education contexts. [45707/21]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Coroners Service
160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for an inquest at each coroner’s office. [45286/21]
- Cybersecurity Policy
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from...
- Flexible Work Practices
162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken by her Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Department of Health
- School Facilities
164. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the public health supports available to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45751/21]
- Departmental Contracts
165. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1072 of 28 April 2021, the costs paid to those same companies from March to September 2021. [45279/21]
- Ambulance Service
166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances in Cork city and county in each of the years 2016 to 2021, by ambulance depot in tabular form. [45283/21]
- Departmental Functions
168. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative powers underpinning the office of disabilities appeals in his Department; the way decisions can be appealed from this office through the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant haematologist at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; the average waiting times to see a consultant; and...
- Hospital Staff
170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant neonatologist and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist working in the maternity unit at St. Luke's General Hospital,...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
171. To ask the Minister for Health the capital investments that have been sought by the Ireland East Hospital Group for Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; the status of each application; the status of...
- Hospital Staff
172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time head and neck oncology nurse specialists at the Mater Hospital in each of the years of 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular...
- Emergency Departments
174. To ask the Minister for Health when works are due to commence on the new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time staff by job title working in the orthopaedic department of Tullamore Regional Hospital; the number of staff vacancies by job title...
- Health Services Staff
176. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting four additional full-time dental hygienists for both CHO 6 and 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff positions unfilled at Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45298/21]
- Health Services
179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community-based neurorehabilitation teams in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45300/21]
- Hospital Procedures
180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric video fluoroscopy procedures that took place at CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form;...
- Hospital Staff
181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time nutrition specialists working in Letterkenny University Hospital in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Cybersecurity Policy
182. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government on same; and if he will...
- Health Services
183. To ask the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45323/21]
- Vaccination Programme
185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a situation in which a person (details supplied) is experiencing a huge delay in receiving their vaccine certificate; and if he will make a...
- Data Protection
186. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1603 of 21 April 2021, if there has been an outcome to the inquiry by the Data Protection Commission which is referred to...
- Departmental Functions
187. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of the independence of the Office of the Disability Appeals Officer; if this is part of his Department; if there are senior persons in...
- Hospital Facilities
188. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of removing hospital car parking charges; the status of the HSE review requested in March 2018 on this matter with a view to establishing...
- Health Services
189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE pilot scheme for a free home STI and HIV testing service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45335/21]
- Traveller Community
190. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of the National Traveller Health Action Plan; the status of the HSE steering group on this plan; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Services
192. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the roadmap to pre-pandemic access in all maternity units and maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45338/21]
- Community Care
194. To ask the Minister for Health when the specialist community diabetes teams under the enhanced community care programme will be appointed; if it will be available to all persons with...
- Hospital Staff
195. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
196. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a diabetes psychology resource to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the Integrated Model of Care for the Prevention and...
- Hospital Staff
197. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; and if he...
- Departmental Schemes
198. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips to all women who develop gestational diabetes...
- Departmental Data
199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
201. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme to all persons with type 2 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45347/21]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
202. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need;...
- Health Services Staff
204. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse in all 18-dose adjusting for normal eating certified diabetes...
- Flexible Work Practices
206. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number or percentage...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
208. To ask the Minister for Health if provision can be made for manual hard copy passenger locator forms to facilitate the electronically challenged and those without smart phones; and if he...
- Disability Services
209. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment for occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45442/21]
- Dental Services
212. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ongoing problems with the availability of dental treatment to patients with a medical card; if his attention has been drawn to the number of...
- Health Services
216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide supports for amputees and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45478/21]
- Hospital Staff
217. To ask the Minister for Health when the four currently unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts approved in 2018 will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45512/21]
- Medicinal Products
218. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate and the establishment of a stakeholder group to review safety...
- Hospital Appointments Status
219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a hospital appointment in Navan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45516/21]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on outpatient waiting lists in tabular form at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; if he will provide a breakdown or medical...
- Dental Services
222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting lists in counties Louth and Meath for dental appointments by local area in tabular form. [45519/21]
- Nursing Homes
224. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021; the projected full year costs of the changes to the cap on farms and businesses;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for gynaecology appointments; the waiting times for urgent and routine referrals in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021,...
- Hospital Services
226. To ask the Minister for Health if results of blood tests taken at accident and emergency can be accessed by the gynaecology department in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting and the waiting times for urgent and routine MRI referrals in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Appointments Status
228. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for hip surgery at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme covers Irish citizens travelling to receive cancer treatments not available in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Services
239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2020; the number of these patients who had diabetes; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients by county treated for foot ulcerations which do not require a full or partial limb amputation in 2020; the number of those patients who...
- Hospital Services
243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2020 by county on persons under 65 years of age; the number of these patients...
- Health Services Staff
248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent senior podiatrists and whole-time equivalent basic grade podiatrists employed by the Health Service Executive in 2018, 2019...
- Hospital Procedures
249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient podiatry appointments delivered by hospital group in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the number of outpatient podiatry appointments delivered by...
- Hospital Services
250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of podiatry appointments delivered by CHO area in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the number of podiatry appointments delivered by CHO area to persons with...
- Ambulance Service
251. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an ambulance did not collect a person (details supplied) as scheduled; if the case will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
252. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the plans in place for a facility (details supplied) given the date for the transfer of responsibility for the provision of...
- Dental Services
253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists struck off the dental register by the Dental Council in each of the years 2018 to 2020 in CHO9. [45609/21]
- Hospital Appointments Status
254. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45620/21]
- Mental Health Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the lack of mental health beds; his further plans to ensure that persons in need of secure psychiatric beds are not left in the criminal...
- Civil Registration Service
257. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give urgent attention to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Dublin civil registration office; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
258. To ask the Minister for Health when additional financial resources will be allocated to the regional drugs task forces, such as the north east regional task force in view of the increasing...
- Disability Services
259. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the staffing levels including the number of persons in each role for each of the children’s disability network teams operating in County...
- Hospital Appointments Status
261. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of a young person (details supplied) will be addressed with regard to waiting for an MRI under general anaesthetic. [45704/21]
- Health Strategies
262. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation plan of the new National Maternity Strategy; when the implementation plan will be published and made available; and if he will...
- Health Promotion
263. To ask the Minister for Health when Ireland will fully implement the WHO Code of Marketing for breastfeeding; the efforts which have been made to date to address ethical concerns regarding...
- National Maternity Hospital
264. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the HSE board of members rejected the proposed governance structure of the new national maternity hospital for fear it will give...
- Health Services Staff
266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 24 lactation consultant posts that have been filled: the locations in which they have been made; if these positions have been filled; and if...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45280/21]
- Cybersecurity Policy
268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from...
- Flexible Work Practices
269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Forestry Sector
271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on their application for a tree felling licence; and if he...
- Agriculture Schemes
272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degrees and qualifications his Department accepts in order to exempt persons from having to complete a green certificate to meet...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Cybersecurity Policy
273. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; the guidance provided from Government...
- Community Development Projects
274. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has plans to introduce a further tranche of community enhancement programme funding given that community centres are incurring...
- Flexible Work Practices
275. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps taken by her Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the...
- Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna
277. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development an bhfuil i gceist ag oifigigh na Roinne casadh le coiste (sonraí tugtha) go luath le forbairt na cé in Inis Meáin a...
- Tidy Towns
278. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will ensure a tidy towns grant is awarded to a group (details supplied). [45479/21]
- Cycling Facilities
279. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider extending the three year bike pilot initiative for the provision of high-quality upcycled bicycles and e-bikes...
