Written answers

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Licences
      97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of foreshore licence applications that are currently in progress or pending relating to wind energy development in...
    • Derelict Sites
      99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his plan to assist more local authorities to acquire derelict properties compulsorily if necessary. [46473/21]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way his Department in conjunction with Irish Water plans to provide modern sewage infrastructure to villages lacking...
    • Student Accommodation
      102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant student accommodation change of use given the ongoing student...
    • Local Authorities
      103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he or his Department have had with Galway city and county councils with regard to allocating resources for...
    • Departmental Reports
      104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the final report of the working group on horticultural peat will be published. [46428/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the incentives he plans to introduce to assist first-time buyers in purchasing second-hand houses; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to legislate to grant a further extension to planning permissions for residential housing delayed by Covid-19 and...
    • Housing Policy
      107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and those of his Department to reserve units in housing developments for first-time buyers as set out in the Housing...
    • Construction Industry
      109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on and plans to address the concerns regarding the increasing cost of raw materials in the construction industry...
    • National Biodiversity Plan
      111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to participate in the upcoming COP15 on biological diversity in Kunming, China; his involvement and...
    • Local Authorities
      112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he or his Department had with Galway city and county councils in 2021 to address the funding and legacy debt...
    • Housing Schemes
      114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the inclusion of the refurbishment as well as the purchase cost of houses by first-time buyers in the Rebuilding...
    • Departmental Funding
      115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the new Croí Cónaithe fund will support villages and towns across rural Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the long delay in the publication of the State architecture policy. [46408/21]
    • Derelict Sites
      118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding given to Cork City Council to address dereliction given the high dereliction levels in the city. [46404/21]
    • Domestic Violence
      119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are being taken to identify and support social housing recipients and applicants along with their families...
    • Housing Provision
      120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses completed by Cork City Council and Cork County Council in the past five years; the expected number of...
    • Maternity Leave
      122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date on establishing and implementing maternity leave arrangements for councillors; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the Housing First model from 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46392/21]
    • House Prices
      124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to concerns raised by the National Competitiveness Council in its Ireland’s Competitiveness...
    • Housing Provision
      125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the finding in a report by organisations (details supplied) that persons with a disability are more likely to...
    • Rental Sector
      126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the introduction of the deposit protection scheme for renters which was legislated for in 2015 has been postponed...
    • Housing Schemes
      127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to incentivise property owners to refurbish residential properties in towns and villages; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      128. 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...
    • Water Services
      129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that working arrangements between local authorities and Irish Water can be improved in order to enhance the delivery...
    • Planning Issues
      130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider removing the section in the draft development plan guidelines which restricts councillors from addressing...
    • Housing Schemes
      131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider increasing the cap on housing grants such as the housing aid for older people scheme and the housing...
    • Defective Building Materials
      132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the final submission by persons (details supplied) to the defective blocks working group that he established in...
    • Rental Sector
      133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider effective rent controls that will both reduce rents and maintain them at an affordable level in view of...
    • Housing Policy
      134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the amendments to the Household Means Policy of March 2021 allow for recent changes in circumstance to be taken into...
    • Electoral Commission
      135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress he has made in establishing an Irish electoral commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46448/21]
    • Housing Provision
      136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to the idea of prefabricated and modular housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Parks
      137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the NPWS; and when the review is expected to be published. [46449/21]
    • Housing Policy
      138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the income thresholds given that inflation and the cost of living has increased significantly over the...
    • Housing Provision
      139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the constraints leading to delays and blockages in the provision of housing; the actions being taken by his Department to...
    • Housing Schemes
      141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the current situation in which the funding for housing adaptation grants is inadequate to cope with demand,...
    • Defective Building Materials
      142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report from the housing defects working group; if recommendations will be published in advance of Budget...
    • Housing Schemes
      144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options that are under consideration for mid-income families who cannot secure sufficient mortgages in circumstances in...
    • House Prices
      145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that his housing policies are not inflating prices even further in view of the latest CSO...
    • Planning Issues
      147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the new guidelines for the development of rural houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Provision
      150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can draw down extra funding for house building purposes in the remainder of 2021 and in 2022 to boost...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that Garrylucas bog, County Cork is designated as a natural heritage area. [46420/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to introduce a social housing passport scheme to allow households to move from one local authority list to...
    • Vacant Properties
      154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support that has been provided to each of the respective local authorities to enable them to bring vacant and derelict...
    • Housing Policy
      155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he proposes to amend the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46331/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to introduce supports to assist first-time homeowners to deal with the unprecedented rise in the cost of building...
    • Planning Issues
      157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the Departmental working group set up to investigate potential amendments to building regulations to...
    • Housing Schemes
      158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the excessive processing time in many local authorities for housing applications and HAP applications and...
    • Housing Provision
      159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the likely or estimated number of cost-rental units that his Department will approve within the next 12 months. [46317/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the future plans for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme in the context of the Housing for All plan;...
    • Heritage Sites
      167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will visit Knocklofty House, Clonmel to view the state of disrepair of the structure; and if progress has been made in...
    • Defective Building Materials
      168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to the implementation of a 100% redress scheme for homeowners affected by the MICA and pyrite scandal; and...
    • Rental Sector
      170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of evictions arising from Residential Tenancy Board adjudications; the reasons given for these evictions; and if he...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to bring forward legislation to give effect to the key recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller...
    • National Biodiversity Plan
      173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to enhance biodiversity measures in the Wild Nephin National Park, County Mayo; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the submissions for funding, building or purchasing housing in Dublin 6W, 8, 10, 12 that have been received from Dublin City...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the expert group set up to review the effectiveness, implementation and operation of the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider setting up an expert panel to investigate and quantify the extent of the use of defective concrete blocks...
    • Vacant Properties
      179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the turnaround time for vacant council houses in Cork city has now reached 64...
    • Housing Provision
      180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to reach the targets for council-built social housing in Housing for All when the sale of public...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the white-tailed sea eagle programme following the release of 21 chicks into the wild over the summer; and if he...
    • Local Authorities
      182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve the compulsory purchase powers of local authorities following the publication of Housing for All; and if...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Expenditure
      183. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of providing secretarial services to all retired Taoisigh in each of the years 2017 to 2020. [46047/21]
    • Employment Data
      184. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of households that have one or more self-employed member of the household. [46365/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      185. To ask the Taoiseach the number of businesses that have closed either temporarily or permanently in total and separately due to Covid-19 in 2020 and to date in 2021. [46478/21]
    • State Bodies
      187. To ask the Taoiseach the locations of all offices and buildings either owned or used by his Department or by public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit which are usually open to...
    • Departmental Communications
      188. To ask the Taoiseach if he has deleted text messages or email correspondence related to Government or official communications at any point since January 2020 to date. [45047/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      189. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider the suggestion by a person (details supplied) that everyone who died during the Covid-19 pandemic would be remembered in a national commemoration....
    • Cabinet Confidentiality
      190. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding Cabinet confidentiality; if his attention has been drawn to any member of Cabinet who has contravened Cabinet confidentiality since the formation...
    • Census of Population
      191. To ask the Taoiseach if a census of population will be conducted. [45115/21]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      192. To ask the Taoiseach the steps taken by his Department to support the implementation of the national remote work strategy Making Remote Work; the approximate number or percentage of staff...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      194. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department’s IT infrastructure is monitored for security breaches on a 24/7 basis; and the guidance provided from Government on same. [45319/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      195. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the persons who responded; and the...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason home care sector workers cannot be recruited from outside the European Economic Area; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Trade Agreements
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will publish the Four EU Free Trade Agreements – Opportunities and Impacts for Ireland report. [46139/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so,...
    • Grant Payments
      202. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a list will be provided of all grants and supports by grant type and amount provided to a company (details supplied) by...
    • Legislative Process
      203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made on plans to update the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996, specifically the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      204. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the former workers in a company (details supplied) will be eligible for the special payment announced by him on 21 September 2021...
    • EU Directives
      205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives relating to his Department that currently require transposition into Irish law; the number of such...
    • Redundancy Payments
      206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of the redundancy scheme and plan which he recently announced in the media that his Department is working off....
    • Departmental Data
      207. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of venues that have applied to be a designated venue under the Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and...
    • Work Permits
      209. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is proposed to approve permit applications in respect of workers for meat processing plants; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Labour Market
      210. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 15 September 2021, the actions that have been completed in his Department since 14 June...
    • Trade Agreements
      211. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the Copenhagen Economics Report into the trade deals which he referenced at the Oireachtas Committee on...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of advanced technology buildings by local authority currently under consideration by the IDA; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected percentage of homes in the National Broadband Plan intervention areas that will be connected to fibre...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the ESB is obligated to notify his Department of the number of reported power faults that take place on a national,...
    • Electricity Generation
      219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a feed-in tariff will be provided for the microgeneration of sustainable energy in Ireland; the number of solar...
    • Departmental Schemes
      220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the expansion of current and introduction of new schemes for retrofitting of homes and the urgent need to...
    • National Broadband Plan
      221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that a road (details supplied) has been excluded from the intervention area for the National Broadband Plan,...
    • North-South Interconnector
      224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will give further consideration to the renewed call of a local authority in relation to the proposed north south...
    • Water Supply
      225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out research on water wells running dry in the Robinstown Shambo, County Meath; if the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a property (details supplied) was updated on the NBI website with a possible connection date of 2022, given...
    • Electricity Grid
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current electricity grid capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46538/21]
    • Electricity Generation
      229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total solar energy production in Ireland since 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the areas that he will be highlighting in relation to Ireland's decarbonisation role for COP26; if it is intended to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce a grant support scheme to assist charities in carrying out retrofit of their facilities; and if he...
    • National Broadband Plan
      233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a school (details supplied) will be connected under the National Broadband Plan given that it is unable to access...
    • Waste Management
      237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if details of the destination of waste shipped from waste management facilities in Cork city will be provided. [46695/21]
    • Pension Provisions
      238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which a person (details supplied) can obtain their records for pension purposes; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria for application under the farm and community biodiversity initiative which saw Lough Ennell excluded from...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Licences
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans changes to driver licensing arrangements in order that AM class vehicles will be allowed to be driven on a B licence; and if...
    • Rail Network
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a timeline for the completion of the DART+ coastal north project will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he has refused to appoint a new chair of the Shannon Group; and when he plans to do so. [46085/21]
    • Departmental Communications
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any communication from the Taoiseach or his office regarding the need for funding of a new pedestrian bridge at Ardfinnan,...
    • Rail Network
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of investment in the Cork light rail project under CMATS. [46094/21]
    • Road Projects
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of a bypass for Killaloe, County Clare including the construction of a new bridge crossing the River Shannon;...
    • Bus Services
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the F spine of the BusConnects programme in Dublin will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46125/21]
    • Cycling Facilities
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress of the Finglas to Killester cycleway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46126/21]
    • Road Safety
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the lack of lighting at the entry and exit ramps of junction 6 Celbridge and Leixlip, County Kildare will be examined (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the...
    • Rail Network
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of and position regarding the DART interconnector in the context of the Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area...
    • Air Services
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of air routes and airlines he has engaged with in respect of the restoration of pre-pandemic air routes: if...
    • Electric Vehicles
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fully electric buses and separately plug-in electric buses that have been purchased by the State in each of the past five...
    • Departmental Budgets
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budgets allocated by or on behalf of his Department for transport projects in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in Dublin, Galway, Cork and...
    • Driver Test
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the anomaly by which if a person has paid their motor tax online, but not yet received the motor tax certificate,...
    • Electric Vehicles
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of public power points for electric vehicles in County Donegal; the locations of same; and his plans to increase this number....
    • Traffic Fines
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to raise the fixed-charge penalty that may be issued by traffic wardens and members of An Garda Síochána for parking...
    • Waterways Issues
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding a barrier on a walk and cycle route of the Royal Canal (details supplied); and the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the electric car grant will be extended until 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46559/21]
    • Rail Network
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns regarding potential delays to the DART plus and MetroLink projects; the actions that are being taken to...
    • Public Transport
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that are being taken to improve public transport services from rural areas to designated cancer centres for scheduled day case...
    • Traffic Management
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to allowing the use of bus lanes by volunteer drivers transporting persons to and from medical...
    • Driver Licences
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to further extend expiry dates for initial basic training certificates issued from 30 June 2019 given that applicants were...
    • Public Transport
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if free travel pass holders are still required to pay a fee when travelling on public transport; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Coastal Protection
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has commissioned research on the implications of climate change on the Dublin transport network, particularly the continued impact...
    • Rail Network
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement there has been with Westmeath County Council, Irish Rail and other interested parties regarding the reopening of Killucan...
    • Road Projects
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has provided an assessment or a business case to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the case...
  • Department of Finance
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if the special arrangement for registered early learning and care and school-age children services to be exempt from the employment wage subsidy scheme...
    • Tax Collection
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will defer the local property tax for properties built and purchased since 2013 for a period of 12 months in view of the economic hardship faced by...
    • Tax Code
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45945/21]
    • Banking Sector
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans to require mortgage providers to display their approval from the Central Bank; if additional protection will be provided to consumers when...
    • Budget 2022
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider fully extending tax relief to counselling and psychotherapy as a qualifying health expense in Budget 2022; and if he will reconsider the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to make adjustments in the tax saver rail ticket system to facilitate workers who are returning to the workplace on a two day or three-day work...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if advice will be provided in relation to an appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46024/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance when the resumption of applications for primary medical certificates will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46029/21]
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax treatment of a term-time worker (details supplied) in education will be examined. [46031/21]
    • Tax Code
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to publish the submissions received by his Department during the public consultation in the context of OECD proposals for a global minimum...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the extension of the employment wage subsidy scheme within the hospitality and tourism sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider supporting the 9% VAT retention up until 2023 within the tourism and hospitality sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Yield
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised to the Exchequer from the discretionary trust tax from 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; the estimated revenue that could be raised by a 1%...
    • Customs and Excise
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered implementing a maximum customs processing fee post-Brexit given that different couriers and postal carriers charge vastly different...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance if applicants and or employers who were initially approved to avail of the temporary wage subsidy scheme for domestic employees and or childminders and who...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the persons who...
    • Tax Data
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance the full tax expenditure data relating to the forgone cost of tax expenditures associated with private pensions for the year ending 31 December 2020; the...
    • Tax Yield
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional corporation tax that could be expected to be generated in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively if the bailed-out banks had applied...
    • Banking Sector
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance the processes that are in place to enable businesses in Ireland to use online banks which are based overseas with ease; if there are mechanisms in place to...
    • Tax Rebates
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance when a rebate in respect of VRT on a personal motor vehicle adaptable for disability will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance if an event (details supplied) received public funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46652/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance the total spend related to the Special Assignee Relief Programme in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [46674/21]
    • Tax Code
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if landlords of apartments and duplexes, excluding local authorities and approved housing bodies, can write off service charges and levies to fund the...
    • Tax Data
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of a reduction of the rate of VAT on energy bills from 13.5% to 9% for a 12-month period; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for an urgent introduction of a vacant property tax to alleviate the ongoing accommodation crisis; his further views on whether the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Appointments to State Boards
      299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the most recent guidance issued by his Department regarding State appointments. [44309/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a progress report on the refurbishment of a Garda station (details supplied); the indicative timeframe for the...
    • Waterways Issues
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of works on a river (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45957/21]
    • Budget 2022
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will increase official development assistance as part of Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45996/21]
    • Flood Risk Management
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45999/21]
    • Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of increasing for the funding for the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General by 10%, 15% and 20%, respectively....
    • Public Sector Pay
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons at secretary general level in the civil service who are receiving payments in each of the four categories or bands...
    • Departmental Properties
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the length of time an organisation (details supplied) has had use of the buildings at a location free of charge; the reason such an...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the...
    • Heritage Projects
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the OPW plans to upgrade the condition of the public car park at Castletown House in Celbridge, County Kildare; the method of...
    • Office of Public Works
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the OPW manages its customer service process in respect of advising the public of the way in which it manages...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total underspend in terms of current and capital expenditure broken down by Department. [46524/21]
    • EU Programmes
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the PEACE PLUS cross-Border EU programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46666/21]
    • Coastal Protection
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of and position regarding plans to counter the impact of climate change, in particular the impact of a rise in sea level and...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 27 July 2021, if she will convene a meeting between her officials, the CSSO and a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      314. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding has or will be allocated to Fáilte Ireland to enable it to issue another call for applications for grants under...
    • Departmental Reports
      315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to implement the recommendations in the report by the Night-time Economic Taskforce; the timelines for delivery of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      316. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce a continuity grant scheme for inbound tour operators similar to that introduced in Budget 2021; and if she...
    • Grant Payments
      317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding allocated to applicants for the sports capital grant in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Homeless World Cup
      318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on Ireland hosting the Homeless World Cup; if her Department has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria set down by her Department to ensure that parity was achieved for smaller or newer clubs within an organisation that...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has engaged with Longford County Council regarding proposals to establish a skate park in Longford town. [46820/21]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Nitrates Usage
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to promote compliance with the Nitrates Action Programme Regulations namely the European Communities...
    • Planning Issues
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times between January 2017 to August 2020 that the board of An Bord Pleanála overruled the recommendation...
    • Student Accommodation
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of loans provided by the Housing and Finance Agency to each institute of higher education for each year data is...
    • Heritage Projects
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of towns awaiting progress for the commencement of phase one of the collaborative town health check process; the...
    • Local Authorities
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of acquisition funding that has been provided to Clare County Council between 2016 and 2020, in tabular form....
    • Housing Schemes
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review HAP bands for social housing tenants. [46004/21]
    • Defective Building Materials
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his officials have engaged with and-or liaised with Ministers and-or officials in other jurisdictions in respect of...
    • Water Pollution
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to ensure that safety issues regarding drinking water are quickly identified and...
    • Housing Schemes
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the fresh start principle for applications to State-run affordable housing and loan schemes outlined in the Housing for...
    • Water Supply
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed Shannon pipeline for water provision is still being considered by Government; and the timelines and current...
    • Census of Population
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected timelines for the completion of the national census and consequent Constituency Commission report. [46089/21]
    • Planning Issues
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is considering within the planning appeals system to curb the challenges of serial objectors; and if he will...
    • Tax Exemptions
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible for new, incomplete estates to be added to the list of unfinished estates exempted from local property tax;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Coastal Change Management Strategy steering group, will report on its initial findings and recommendations...
    • Departmental Schemes
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Donegal County Council for the retrofit scheme replacement of single-glazed windows and...
    • Housing Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the provision of housing for victims and survivors of domestic abuse and violence in the Housing for All plan....
    • Water Supply
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to conduct a plebiscite to ensure that the water supply infrastructure remains in public ownership; and if he will...
    • Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his engagements with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the context of audits, inspections and...
    • Departmental Staff
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of recruiting seven additional full-time architectural engineering inspectors for his Department...
    • Housing Schemes
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to increase the maximum award limits, even temporarily, to local authorities and their housing grant recipients...
    • Departmental Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of refurbishments carried out under each of the void casual let refurbishment schemes, respectively, by local...
    • Local Authorities
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties owned by Limerick City and County Council; the number that are occupied; the number that are voids;...
    • Waterways Issues
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the situation with Waterways Ireland in which water levels in the Grand Canal, in some cases have dropped...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with the stakeholders of the Gearagh special area of conservation, County Cork in advancing the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support a ring-fenced funding allocation of the disabled persons grant scheme and improvement works for use when...
    • Housing Schemes
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request that the publication of annual figures by the Housing Agency related to those availing or requesting...
    • Departmental Data
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has invested in revised digital transformation to facilitate an online application system for housing...
    • Waterways Issues
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention or that of Waterways Ireland has been drawn to issues regarding a barrier on a walk and cycle route of the...
    • Student Accommodation
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to bring forward a new...
    • Housing Schemes
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans that have been issued to non-first-time buyers who instead qualify due to...
    • Water Quality
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the examination by the Bathing Water Expert Group into increasing the frequency of bathing water monitoring; if...
    • Local Authorities
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 24 June 2021, the status of the review of the position in relation to the filling...
    • Homeless Data
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the latest homelessness statistics; his plans for the winter period; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Student Accommodation
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to curtail the conversion of student accommodation to temporary short-term tourist accommodation as supported by a...
    • Departmental Reports
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department subsequently provided a separate submission to him on the Interim Report, the Minority Report and the review...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the correct legal decision threshold is being applied to relevant evidence and submissions when he is...
    • Rental Sector
      373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the issues the legislation to strengthen tenancy will cover; and if he plans to adjust the indexation of rents to harmonised...
    • Housing Schemes
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Land Development Agency will be able to apply for either the cost rental equity loan or the affordable housing fund for...
    • Wildlife Protection
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions taken by his Department or public bodies under his remit to inspect and regulate the premises and working...
    • Housing Provision
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new houses provided in the past 12 months through direct local authority build, affordable housing or Part 5;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects the Housing for All strategy to be implemented fully in the short-term; the number of house...
    • House Prices
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which his Department continues to monitor house price inflation; the action that is in-hand or likely to be...
    • Housing Provision
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of local authority housing applicants recorded by each local authority by county; the likely time schedule to...
    • Heritage Sites
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which heritage buildings continue to be protected and preserved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Schemes
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be possible to front-load expenditure on housing projects, local authority and affordable, in 2021 in order to make...
    • Departmental Strategies
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which further flexibility can be incorporated in the Housing for All programme with particular reference to...
    • Housing Schemes
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland loans approved and drawn down in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • House Prices
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take action to discourage house price increases that currently make it difficult or impossible for first-time house...
    • Housing Schemes
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households approved for adaptation works by local authority in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021,...
    • Local Authorities
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority households approved for housing adaptation works but which are yet to be carried out broken down...
    • Fire Stations
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the fire stations currently assessed as needing upgrading works; and when each of these works will be undertaken. [46819/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the affordable housing in the area of Cherrywood, Dublin as a result of the local infrastructure housing...
    • Housing Policy
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all Part Vs delivered over the past five years, by local authority including the cost to the local authority or...
    • Housing Schemes
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the retrofitting programme for local authority housing by number of units to be retrofitted each year to 2030;...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the establishment of a citizens' assembly on Ireland's biodiversity crisis. [46208/21]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      403. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45968/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      407. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the...
    • Equality Issues
      408. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland supports the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action against racism and racial discrimination, xenophobia and related...
    • Passport Services
      409. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue for travel on 28 September 2021 in the case of a person (details supplied); if an individual and specific reply...
    • Equality Issues
      411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the urgent help needed by the Tigrayan people; if he will raise this matter with his EU colleagues and at...
    • Citizenship Applications
      414. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding and status of an application for Irish citizenship by a person (details supplied). [46386/21]
    • Passport Services
      416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications received by the passport office on a monthly basis from January 2020 to August 2021, in tabular form; if...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      425. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received a submission from an organisation (details supplied) relating to a funding request for the Asgard programme; and his views on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      426. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the persons...
    • Defence Forces
      427. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and location of Civil Defence units currently operating from temporary accommodation; his plans to provide permanent accommodation;...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Protected Disclosures
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commission an inquiry into the handling of protected disclosures and the failure of relevant authorities to act promptly and protect...
    • School Transport
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students by county in tabular form; and the number of children who were unsuccessful in their application for concessionary school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [45973/21]
    • School Funding
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received a proposal (details supplied); if her Department is in a position to provide funding for this proposed facility;...
    • Programme for Government
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding updating the national anti-bullying plan as committed to under the programme for Government; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the CO2 monitors supplied to schools; the measures being taken to address defective monitors; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to ensure the education system can meet demand in Swords, County Dublin with regard to its growing population; and if...
    • School Funding
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the reported shortage of books in school libraries; the actions her Department is taking to ensure adequate supply; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been an update in relation to the provision of an Educate Together school in Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Funding
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the investment she will make to a school (details supplied) to ensure that it has the buildings and facilities that it requires; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will sanction the transportation of a disabled child (details supplied) by the school bus service to a respite centre on a...
    • Education Policy
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to increase public investment in the education sector given in the OECD report on Government investment in education, Ireland...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CO2 monitors that have been delivered to schools; the number of monitors required for the total commitment of a monitor in every...
    • Departmental Schemes
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish an ex gratia scheme to compensate the victims of institutional abuse for persons who did not take legal action against the...
    • School Funding
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered restoring library grant funding for primary schools in the context of budget 2022; her views on whether such...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all DEIS schools within the area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts she will take to reduce class sizes which remain largely above the EU average; her plans to increase the capitation grant funding for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 394 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the persons...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will revisit the guidance relating to close contacts of individuals with confirmed cases of Covid-19 in order to minimise disruptions to...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans in place for the development of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date including planned commencement date and the estimated schedule to complete the construction of a school building (details...
    • School Funding
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application submitted by a school (details supplied) for connection to the natural gas network. [46272/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time staff by grade working in the school transport section of her Department; and the number of vacancies by grade currently...
    • School Accommodation
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent to date on the renting of prefabs at a school (details supplied). [46302/21]
    • School Funding
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details suppled) will be in a position to draw down its physical education equipment grant; and if this will be paid directly to...
    • School Staff
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will put in place more supports for teaching principals and in particular those who teach in schools with special classes as...
    • School Curriculum
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to broaden the sex education provided in secondary schools to be more inclusive of those in the LGBTQ+ community; and if she will...
    • Departmental Communications
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dedicated email addresses for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact his Department and bodies under his aegis as outlined in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the adoption of a national transition year programme for students who are blind or vision impaired with ring-fenced funding...
    • Teacher Training
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a part of career guidance training, information and understanding of the challenges that face students with sight loss...
    • Special Educational Needs
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to introduce access to immediate assistive technology, similar to the proposal by an organisation (details supplied); and...
    • School Curriculum
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her role or that of school inspectors with regard to the procurement of a certificate of exemption from studying Irish; if such certificates can...
    • School Transport
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details suppled) had to pay for school transport given that Bus Éireann informed them that it did not have a bus for...
    • School Accommodation
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is in receipt of an application for prefab replacement for a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if she will...
    • School Transport
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is not included on the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46557/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools that are awaiting construction across the country following tenders for construction having been...
    • Road Network
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of a road (details supplied) that is still under the remit of her Department; if...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 22 June 2021, if a reply in respect of changing status can be furnished by the Teaching Council...
    • National Broadband Plan
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be connected under the national broadband plan given that it is unable to access the school's broadband...
    • School Admissions
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new school place will be facilitated for a child (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46595/21]
    • School Transport
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full school transport service is being provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46599/21]
    • Education Policy
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to reduce class sizes in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46614/21]
    • School Staff
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will facilitate additional flexibility with regard to the staffing schedule for schools that are dealing with particular...
    • School Facilities
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46628/21]
    • School Accommodation
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding a permanent site for a school (details supplied). [46673/21]
    • School Funding
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46675/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special needs classes introduced in the Dún Laoghaire area in the past 18 months; the number in train to be...
    • Education Policy
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that is being made for the growing demand for Irish medium education for learners in the Fingal area; if her attention has been...
    • School Accommodation
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied) which is yet to break ground; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classrooms are included in the total number of classrooms for primary schools when determining the allocation...
    • School Enrolments
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first-year students a school (details suppled) will be permitted to enrol in the 2022-2023 school year; if her Department will...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Data
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total social insurance collected for the year ending 31 December 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Pensions
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the total contributions approach for calculating the State pension...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to extending the purchasing of voluntary contributions to those who are no longer in...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is planning to make changes to the community employment programme; if so, the details of same; and if she will make a...
    • State Pensions
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there has been a review of the method of calculating PRSI contributions for the State pension (contributory) particularly...
    • Employment Schemes
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the JobPath programme; and if it will be continued after October 2021. [46146/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued;...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on illness benefit enhancements; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Insurance
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yield that would be generated if the entry threshold for persons to access social insurance coverage increased...
    • Departmental Data
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2022 if the fuel allowance increased to €31.50 per week. [46277/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide €68.5 million to increase weekly carer payments by €8, the carer’s support grant to...
    • Departmental Policies
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide €3 million in annual funding towards a dedicated carer’s pension for long-term family...
    • Departmental Reports
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cost of disability report will be published as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU Directives
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will facilitate online application methods for the blind for social protection services through welfare.ie in...
    • Employment Support Services
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints that have been received from participants on the work placement experience programme; and if she...
    • Social Insurance
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social insurance credits will be awarded to self-employed persons who have been in receipt of the pandemic unemployment...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons transitioning from illness benefit to partial capacity benefit will continue to be eligible for the fuel...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a community employment scheme placement will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who are in receipt of a disability allowance who post-leaving certificate take up college offers outside of this...
    • School Meals Programme
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing hot school meals for every DEIS school in Ireland; and the number of DEIS schools already...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints received by her Department against social welfare inspectors; and the breakdown of complainants by...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Expenditure
      523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that has been allocated to organisations that provide services that combat domestic, sexual and...
    • After-School Support Services
      524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a family (details supplied) in County Kildare are not being offered free after-school tuition given...
    • Health Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the proposed introduction of baby boxes for all new parents will begin. [46735/21]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department as a data controller will grant access to the medical records for those survivors of mother...
    • Youth Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the new UBU Your Place Your Space contract will allow detached youth work; and if he will make a...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if St. Kyran’s in Rathcoole, County Wicklow was included in investigations regarding mother and baby...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 497 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided...
    • Departmental Budgets
      531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost in 2022 if the budget for better start early years specialist within his Department increased...
    • Child and Family Agency
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff members Tusla has referred to CORU over concerns over standards, practice or misconduct in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will facilitate a meeting with a service (details supplied) and with Members of the Houses of the...
    • International Protection
      535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when persons seeking international protection will be sent to a direct provision centre (details supplied); if...
    • Child and Family Agency
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of front-line social workers employed by Tusla in areas (details supplied) during each of the years...
    • Departmental Communications
      538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the Minister for Finance with regard to extending the EWSS exemption beyond Q3...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to change the number of entry dates into the ECCE system; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are available for childcare facilities continuing to employ high staff levels to facilitate...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to reduce down the time period for SOLAS craft apprenticeship training given that there is currently a waiting list of up...
    • Student Accommodation
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he plans to take to address the issue of the acute shortage of student accommodation with particular reference to the immediacy of the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the drop-out rate from apprenticeship for each trade per year since 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45960/21]
    • Third Level Costs
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of overpayment paid out by SUSI since 2018; the details of the cause of these overpayments in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so, the persons...
    • Third Level Education
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 13 May 2021, the cost of extending to those studying for a professional doctorate in counselling...
    • Third Level Costs
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of SUSI recipients with farm income included within the assessed household; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46366/21]
    • Third Level Education
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first-year enrolments and the number of graduations, respectively in dentistry in each of the years 2006 to date; and if he will...
    • Third Level Admissions
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dedicated email addresses for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact the CAO; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Projects
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his ongoing work with the Department of Health on workforce planning for the health service and the way the numbers studying...
    • Student Accommodation
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are being given to higher institutes of education to support students during the housing crises; if his Department will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support that will be given to third-level educational institutions to reconvene in-person classes safely for the upcoming academic year....
    • Departmental Reports
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the findings of the independent consultants appointed by the European Commission to assess the Cassells report in advance of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will put in place measures that would see colleges refund students who are being forced to take lectures online given that vaccination...
    • Third Level Admissions
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a student (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46623/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any plans to standardise university Covid-19 restrictions to national public health measures; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legislative Measures
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her position on offences related to non-fatal strangulation; if her attention has been drawn to reforms in Northern Ireland in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered fast-tracking citizenship applications of those applicants who worked on the front lines during the...
    • Immigration Status
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a stamp 1G visa will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Law Cases
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a maintenance enforcement application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Traffic Fines
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices which have been issued by An Garda Síochána using the new statutory instrument for...
    • Immigration Policy
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider issuing flexible visa entry arrangements for persons (details supplied) in view of a significant...
    • Freedom of Information
      568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all freedom of information requests received by her Department for the duration of this Government have been dealt with...
    • Prison Service
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an appointment will be made to a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46133/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing time for applications for citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46189/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to allowing persons who have residency in Northern Ireland to apply for Irish citizenship based...
    • Coroners Service
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a coroner will be reappointed to cover south County Tipperary following the retirement of the coroner; the number of cases...
    • Immigration Status
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the visa applications that were accepted for Afghans included applications prior to May 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her reason for omitting amendments to the Succession Act 1965 from the heads of the courts and civil law (miscellaneous...
    • An Garda Síochána
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug searches that have taken place in County Tipperary since 1 September 2020; and the number of arrests and...
    • Civil Service
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts she and her officials have made to engage and consult with the 4,000+ civil servant Garda staff who are fearing a...
    • Immigration Policy
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are circumstances in which the fees for an application for naturalisation can be waived. [46347/21]
    • Immigration Status
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an asylum case (details supplied). [46572/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Gardaí attached to Finglas and Ballymun stations, Dublin 9 and 11 in each of the past ten years by...
    • Residency Permits
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo for a permanent residence card for their...
    • An Garda Síochána
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda strength in the DMR by division in each of the years the years 2016 to 2020 and in June 2021, in tabular form. [46706/21]
    • Asylum Applications
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will request her Department to...
    • Departmental Functions
      586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the persons or bodies that have the legal authority to authorise surveillance including phone tapping; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Health
    • Home Help Service
      587. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that an adequate number of healthcare assistants can be sourced here or within the EEA; if he is satisfied that pay, conditions and...
    • Departmental Communications
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he or any person in his Department have had any communications with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and or the HSE regarding the future of...
    • Disability Services
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the process that a young person with an intellectual disability follows when they exit formal schooling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46184/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the processes in place to ensure that parents of children born via assisted human reproduction such as IVF and surrogacy are able to secure legal guardianship...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons in the CHO Dublin north city and county who are currently awaiting an appointment for child psychology services at CHI...
    • Hospital Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if child psychology services at CHI Temple Street are currently accepting new referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45939/21]
    • State Properties
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his visit to the site of the former nursing home at Crooksling, County Dublin; if he has made a decision in respect of the future of the...
    • Dental Services
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of dental practitioners currently providing dental care to persons holding a medical card under the dental treatment services scheme in CHO...
    • Budget 2022
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered a pre-budget submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45953/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      605. To ask the Minister for Health when Covid-19 booster vaccines will be available for those who are immunocompromised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45956/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has put forward proposals to compensate front-line healthcare workers for their outstanding efforts to date in dealing with Covid-19 (details...
    • Dental Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to the provision to dental services (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45971/21]
    • Hospital Procedures
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish hospitals perform surgery on unborn children for any conditions; and if so, if a list of the conditions and the location in which they are carried out...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45986/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can obtain a Covid-19 vaccination certificate in Ireland after being vaccinated in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding available for new residential care places for children with complex needs; the number of places which will be created as a result of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and address the wait time for a very urgent procedure for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46023/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      615. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to assist women with infertility issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46025/21]
    • Primary Care Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get an appointment for a primary care certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46027/21]
    • Home Help Service
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the home help hours for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46030/21]
    • Disability Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the level of engagement that has taken place to date with children’s service providers in the CHO Dublin north city and county area and in the wider CHO...
    • Health Strategies
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Sláintecare and the process to fill vacancies on the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Primary Care Centres
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of Swords primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46042/21]
    • Alcohol Sales
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s efforts to curb binge drinking of alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46043/21]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to tackle youth smoking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46044/21]
    • Hospital Charges
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that in the very rare occasion of a person receiving a Covid-19 vaccination having an adverse reaction that results in a stay in hospital...
    • Abortion Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the high level of general practitioners and maternity hospitals that are not providing abortion services; the steps he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      627. 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. [46056/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; his views on whether psychosocial...
    • Health Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available to provide a diabetes psychology resource to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the Integrated Model of Care...
    • Hospital Staff
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; his...
    • Health Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is currently engaged in retaining any of the existing services other than residential care in the Owenacurra Mental Health Facility in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for removal of school based clinical supports for students attending a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that took place with a school (details supplied) in County Dublin regarding the implementation of the progressing disability services for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently liaise with his Ministerial colleagues regarding the provision of school based clinical supports for students who have complex disabilities...
    • Health Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made with regard to supports for an association (details supplied) with regard to a lifelong pathway of care for those with Prader-Willi...
    • Dental Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have withdrawn from the medical card scheme in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [46091/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the National Immunisation Advisory Committee have undertaken a scientific analysis on the possibility of the ivermectin drug being used...
    • Health Service Executive
      642. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has returned to full ICT functionality; and if not, the estimated date for achieving this. [46110/21]
    • Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the roll-out of community hubs for cardiology services in Cork city and county as part of Sláintecare; the...
    • Budget 2022
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year health and well-being budget for 2022, including for a child and well-being service. [46121/21]
    • Health Services
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost in 2022 of adding 1,000 beds to the acute hospital network. [46122/21]
    • Gender Recognition
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost in 2022 of clearing waiting lists for gender reassignment. [46123/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost in 2022 of clearing waiting lists for autism assessment. [46124/21]
    • Nursing Homes
      648. To ask the Minister for Health when the changes to the fair deal scheme as legislated for in the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021 will become operational; the current...
    • Eating Disorders
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting residential services and treatment with respect to the national clinical programme for eating disorders; and if he...
    • Disability Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if the progressing disability services programme has been stopped in respect of its application to special schools and that special schools that heretofore had...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the outpatient eye care waiting list. [46143/21]
    • Health Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will resume in-person breastfeeding support groups. [46144/21]
    • Hospital Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that elective surgeries have been cancelled at University Hospital Kerry since 9 September 2021 with no plan to...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the plan to address overcrowding at University Hospital Kerry, which has led to the cancellation of elective surgeries for an extended...
    • Hospital Procedures
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the details of the plan to ensure that elective surgeries can resume at University Hospital Kerry, even if at a limited capacity; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the details of the plan to address the shortage of consultants and nursing staff at University Hospital Kerry given these staff shortages...
    • Hospital Services
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision has been made to downgrade University Hospital Kerry from a model 3 hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46152/21]
    • Health Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated prevalence of type 1 diabetes here; the number of continuous glucose monitoring systems and insulin pumps, respectively, in use; and if he will...
    • Budget 2022
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if the pre-budget submission for an organisation (details supplied) has been brought to his attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46155/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      663. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made for a home support application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46159/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if second-dose Covid-19 vaccines can be accessed at local vaccination centres if first dose Covid-19 vaccines were received in a hospital; and if he will make...
    • Community Care
      666. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to reopen the respite services at Drumboe House, County Donegal for children and young adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be made available for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46163/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      668. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for an eye operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46165/21]
    • Disability Services
      669. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal who has been diagnosed with autism will have a speech and language and an occupational therapy appointment...
    • Medicinal Products
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement process for the drug Zolgensma for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy; the progress made to date; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      671. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for ophthalmic surgery in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the reason physiotherapy appointment frequency have changed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46169/21]
    • Community Care
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding was sought in 2020 from estimates to provide seven day per week respite at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Workers Register
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn to processing times to have qualifications recognised and register with CORU for social workers who qualified in Northern Ireland...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who was vaccinated using their English name will be able to have their EU Digital COVID Certificate amended to match the Gaeilge version of their...
    • Disability Services
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if the intellectual disability service received a multidisciplinary team proposal for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for positions within the mental health services in County Donegal; the corresponding length of the vacancies in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      682. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for procedures in Letterkenny University Hospital; if the referral is general or...
    • Disability Services
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation to each service provider in respect of each person with an intellectual disability; the scale of payments; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications waiting for a primary medical certificate by county; the current application processing time for a primary medical certificate; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes aged 18 years and over who are waiting on a first appointment to the outpatients diabetes clinic in any of the University...
    • Health Services
      688. To ask the Minister for Health if University Hospital Limerick is included in the remaining six diabetes centres to become dose adjusting for normal eating licensed in 2022 (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding in budget 2022 to provide a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse for the adult diabetes clinic in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes over the age of 18 years attending University of Limerick hospital's group adult diabetes service who are using insulin...
    • Health Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health when the current application process for the HSE insulin pumps tendering contract will be completed; when the new list of insulin pumps will be sent to the...
    • Health Services Staff
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if the extra funding required to provide the appropriate diabetes staffing resources to provide access to the dose adjusting for normal eating programme for...
    • Healthcare Policy
      696. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for a national diabetes register given 10% of the health service annual budget is spent on diabetes care; the reason there is no current...
    • Hospital Facilities
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress with regard to the installation of x-ray facilities and diagnostic facilities in the primary care centre in Tuam, County Galway; when he...
    • Hospital Staff
      698. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of administration staff at the department of oncology at Tallaght University Hospital; if funding will be provided...
    • Abortion Services
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to research published (details supplied) that drew attention to the fact that there is uncertainty among abortion performing...
    • Health Services Staff
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy in place to enable occupational therapists across all clinical areas to pursue upgrades (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Promotion
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place as a matter of urgency to deal with the backlog in the CervicalCheck screening; his further plans with regard to the number of...
    • Disability Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3083 of 27 July 2021, if the daily transport charge being charged to service users in CHO1 is also being levied...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all extra capital expenditure under Covid-19 funding measures since March 2020; and the capital expenditure by project and location. [46240/21]
    • Medical Inquiries
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe for the establishment of the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe for the appointment of the four epilepsy nurse specialist posts to manage the patient safety requirements for women who are prescribed...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility criteria of the HSE aids and appliances scheme; the items available through the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46245/21]
    • Health Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding has been withheld from an organisation (details supplied); if he will reconsider the provision of such funding to keep the service in...
    • Hospital Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for locating the major trauma centre at the Mater Hospital contrary to best international practice of co-locating major trauma centres with...
    • Health Services
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the suspension of BreastCheck screening services over the pandemic; and if a breakdown will be provided of cancelled appointments by CHO...
    • Dental Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that were registered for the dental treatment support scheme in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of the additional €5 million allocated for home support hours as committed to in the National Service Plan 2021 delivered to date....
    • Health Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Centre by county of residence in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that persons who received their first vaccine dose in another country and their second dose in Ireland may apply for an EU Digital COVID Certificate...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      719. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1184 of 9 September 2021, when new guidelines for addiction recovery group meetings will be published; if these...
    • Health Services Staff
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of a national lead in genomics by the HSE; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46262/21]
    • Health Promotion
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering the option of providing resources in Budget 2022 to enable the reduction in the age of those women who can avail of a free breast check;...
    • Primary Care Centres
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the completion date and timeline for opening for the Ballyboden primary care centre; the services to be provided on opening and over time; the anticipated...
    • Hospital Staff
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time staff by job title working in the medical assessment unit at Nenagh General Hospital; and the number of vacancies by job title in...
    • Hospital Equipment
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fractional CO2 laser machines that are in use in CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin; and if there are sufficient trained staff available in both...
    • Hospital Staff
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time vacant nursing posts in South Tipperary General Hospital; and if a recruitment campaign will be launched to fill these vacancies. [46280/21]
    • Third Level Education
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2022 of providing 65 additional general practitioner training places. [46281/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which HSE has spent and will spend the €3.94 million allocated on specialist eating disorder services in 2021. [46282/21]
    • Care Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide €5 million in annual funding to deliver the carer’s guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46289/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide €5 million to publish a refreshed National Carers’ Strategy Action Plan 2021-2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Leave
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce the statutory home care scheme including an annual entitlement to 20 days respite and a carer needs assessment for full-time carers; and...
    • Care Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work to establish a commission on care to include an examination on the role, reliance and recognition of family carers in long-term care provision;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      733. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1429 of 9 September 2021, if the required permission cited in the question for general practitioners taking annual leave...
    • Hospital Staff
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital (details supplied) will be allocated additional resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a student (details supplied) is currently being denied access to their clinical placement on the grounds that they declined to disclose their...
    • Hospital Staff
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAAC-approved consultant posts across each discipline and specialty; the basis on which they are filled, that is, permanent, temporary and...
    • Home Care Packages
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the home support grant which were approved in counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo in the period 2011 to 2020 and to date...
    • Health Services
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances surrounding the relocation of the adult audiology service from St. Fintan’s, Portlaoise to Tullamore; when this service will resume in...
    • Mental Health Services
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an appointment in each Jigsaw for video and phone support appointments and face-to-face appointments in tabular form. [46368/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      744. To ask the Minister for Health if young persons who did not partake in the HPV vaccine programme during their first year of secondary school may still avail of the programme at a later date;...
    • Care Services
      745. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allocated a full-time residential place. [46379/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      749. To ask the Minister for Health when the terms of reference for the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will be published; if a company or...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the processing of applications for primary medical certificates; if processing has resumed since it was stalled due to Covid-19; if there is a...
    • Health Services Staff
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional therapeutic staff under the newly established children’s disability network model that have been resourced to date in 2021 as...
    • Mental Health Services
      753. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the proposed closure of the HSE building Prague House, Ennistymon as it has been deemed condemned; if his attention has been...
    • Dental Services
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in the dental treatment services scheme in Ballina and Belmullet, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46444/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      757. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ring-fence funding for the eye clinic liaison officer programme until 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46479/21]
    • Health Services
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the point of care for appropriate conditions such as wet AMD, out of acute hospitals into primary care settings in the community; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the recruitment of 50 additional ophthalmologists at a cost of €10.3 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46481/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to the standardisation of the technical aids grant scheme run by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46482/21]
    • Departmental Data
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to produce CHO segregated annual figures related to adults and children with a diagnosis of vision impairment and in relation to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with HSE offices to offer the blind welfare allowance payment electronically to recipients going forward; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the HSE overall budget that has been allocated to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence supports between 2016 and 2020. [46499/21]
    • Disability Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the State to accommodate a disabled person in a residential setting or nursing home per annum. [46500/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get an operation; the reason for the long delay to be called for same; the reason the allocated hospital has no...
    • Health Services
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused funding by the HSE to go to England to undergo mesh removal surgery on the basis that it is available...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      770. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46548/21]
    • Health Services
      771. To ask the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; his views on the need for a national diabetes register;...
    • Mental Health Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who requested mental health services in University Hospital Kerry accident and emergency department in each of the years 2017 to 2020;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for a review of the current availability for the reimbursement support for FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring sensors to be extended...
    • Vaccination Programme
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a Covid-19 booster vaccine for those over 60 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46562/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to help with the provision of a replacement general practitioner service in Templemore, County Tipperary, following the retirement of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position in regard to the full reopening of day centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46570/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      777. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation and availability of supports regarding assisted human reproduction such as IVF and surrogacy will be made available; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      778. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove the necessity to undertake a hotel quarantine upon arrival in Ireland for Irish citizens living in Argentina that have been fully...
    • Mental Health Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of psychology services in the Headford and Lackagh primary care service, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      782. 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. [46598/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      783. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation for assisted human reproduction with particular reference to surrogacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46608/21]
    • Official Engagements
      784. To ask the Minister for Health if he will facilitate a meeting with a family (details supplied) in County Kildare given the ongoing issues for the family and the previous correspondence...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      785. To ask the Minister for Health when appointments will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46612/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; his views on the fact that psychosocial...
    • Health Services Staff
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if a diabetes psychology resource will be provided to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the Integrated Model of Care for the Prevention and...
    • Hospital Staff
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; his views on...
    • Health Services Staff
      790. To ask the Minister for Health when the specialist community diabetes teams under the enhanced community care programme be appointed; if it will be available to all persons with diabetes...
    • Healthcare Policy
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips to all women who develop gestational diabetes...
    • Health Services
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the costs involved for the use of a hotel (details supplied) by the HSE since the Covid-19 pandemic to date; the services that were provided for those costs;...
    • Health Services
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the eligibility for breast screening and genetic testing to all women aged 25 and over considering the cost savings involved in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount that the State spent on personal protective equipment, which either never arrived or was not fit for use when it arrived; and if he will make...
    • National Children's Hospital
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total cost of the construction of the new national children’s hospital to date; and the estimated final cost of construction for the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      813. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the overpayment of rent to the landlords for the building from which his Department operates on Baggot Street; the amount of overpayment that was...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the hotels or premises with which the State entered into contracts for use as self-isolation facilities and emergency hospital beds throughout the pandemic;...
    • Mental Health Services
      817. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects a national psychology led postnatal depression and mental support network to be introduced in each primary care team; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons over 69 years of age are not eligible for breast cancer screening. [46737/21]
    • Dental Services
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists participating in the dental medical card scheme in County Tipperary in 2019 and 2020. [46752/21]
    • Care Services
      830. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a submission from an organisation (details supplied) in relation to Budget 2022; and if he will prioritise family carers and carers in his...
    • Budget 2022
      831. To ask the Minister for Health his priorities for cancer service funding during Budget 2022 discussions; if is in receipt of proposals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      833. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has plans to add folic acid to flour and bread products in the interest of public health in view of emerging evidence from the United Kingdom...
    • Health Service Executive
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unused or underused HSE-owned buildings by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46814/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the areas in which the unfilled consultant positions in Mullingar Regional Hospital exist; and the action that has been taken to fill these roles. [46822/21]
    • Health and Safety
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals or centres of care per county which have been assessed as having asbestos in the buildings; and the actions that have been taken to ensure the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fishing Industry
      838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Department responsible in relation to a matter (details supplied); and the steps he will take to ensure the matter is brought to...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45959/21]
    • Harbours and Piers
      840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide the €3 million urgently required by Donegal County Council to upgrade the pier at Rathmullan,...
    • Maritime Safety
      841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the new sea survival centre at the National Fisheries School, Greencastle, County Donegal; and when this will be...
    • Agriculture Industry
      842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consideration his Department has given to encouraging the integration of the beef and dairy sectors; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be compensated for confiscated livestock. [46057/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider amending the Forestry Act 2014 in order that the definition of forestry is changed from 0.10ha to 0.50ha to allow...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers (details supplied) are being penalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46111/21]
    • Agriculture Industry
      847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections carried out by inspectors from his Department on horticultural businesses by functional area in each of the...
    • Forestry Sector
      848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a forestry application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reviews
      849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make available the terms of reference of the review by his Department of the review of the 2011 and 2017 EIA Regulations...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so,...
    • Forestry Sector
      851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of and position regarding the forestry licensing log-jam; the number of licences which have been granted; the number which...
    • Agriculture Industry
      854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if urgent consideration will be given to the issues outlined in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the poultry sector;...
    • Nitrates Usage
      855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of penalties relating to fencing to prevent access from grazing bovines to watercourses for drinking purposes issued under...
    • State Bodies
      857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time equivalent staff currently assigned to the Unfair Trading Practices Enforcement Authority; and if he will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the intended timeline to bring forward legislation to establish a new office of national food ombudsman, regulator or equivalent; and...
    • Animal Welfare
      859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any increased prevalence of liver abscesses in cattle in factory-controlled feedlots and any...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the €1.5 billion ring-fenced from the carbon tax is intended exclusively for the agri-environmental scheme or for broader...
    • Greyhound Industry
      861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhound injuries and deaths at a location (details supplied) to date in 2021, by date; the names of the dogs; and the...
    • Live Exports
      862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will halt plans to export live Irish pigs to China given the cruelty involved in live export (details supplied). [46650/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licences issued during each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; if he will provide an update on efforts...
    • EU Regulations
      864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to meet the requirements of EU Regulation 2019/6 through primary or secondary legislation; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 818 of 15 September 2021, the actions he has taken in response to a factory in Northern Ireland...
    • Animal Welfare
      868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that are taken by his Department or public bodies under his remit to inspect animal welfare organisations before such...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Library Services
      870. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will be providing updated guidelines to public libraries in relation to restrictions on computer usage due to Covid-19 in...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      871. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of and position regarding the dormant account funds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46093/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      872. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 825 of 15 September 2021, if tenders for the courses and training provided were issued; if so,...
    • Community Development Projects
      874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will extend the street and shop front grant past November 2021 (details supplied). [46364/21]
    • Departmental Projects
      876. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of upgrading a helipad (details supplied); the stage it is currently at; when it is likely to go to tender; and if she will...
    • Community Development Projects
      877. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the external review of the walks scheme will be published (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....

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