Written answers

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Tourism Promotion
      6. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she will be put in place following the closure of Cork Airport to encourage tourism to County Cork; and if she will...
    • Media Pluralism
      11. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that she has put in place to secure the viability of the local print and radio media here; her plans to support the...
    • Online Safety
      13. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Online Safety and Media Regulations Bill 2020; and if she plans to bring this Bill through the Houses of the...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      14. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans of her Department to showcase objects from the national collections in rural communities; and if she will make a...
    • Tourism Industry
      15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the Fáilte Ireland business continuity scheme which supports businesses not covered by the Covid restrictions...
    • Caiteachas Ranna
      16. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén méadú a tháinig ar chistiú a Roinne i meastacháin 2021 faoi na ceannteidil Turasóireacht,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      17. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department continue to assist in the recovery of the tourism, sport, culture and entertainment...
    • National Sports Policy Framework
      19. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the strategies to support more women to take up leadership positions across sport; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tourism Industry
      20. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her strategies to assist the tourism hospitality industry to retain and regain qualified staff in the sector; and if she will make...
    • Swimming Pools
      21. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will increase funding for the provision of public swimming pools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43947/21]
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      22. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil díomá uirthi go bhfuil comhlacht poiblí (Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte, dar le Nuacht TG4...
    • Tourism Industry
      23. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has developed a strategy to address the chronic shortage of staff affecting the tourism and hospitality sector;...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      25. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that are being put in place to ensure that young persons return to sports. [47899/21]
    • Sports Funding
      26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports both capital and current expected to assist sports facilities across Ireland recognising the significant positive...
    • Olympic Games
      30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will conduct a review into the Olympics and Paralympics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47937/21]
    • Tourism Industry
      31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which she plans to transform and improve the tourism sector to ensure this valuable indigenous sector recovers from the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      32. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on plans to develop a night-time economy. [47461/21]
    • Culture Policy
      33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review the inconsistency across entertainment and promotional companies in relation to offering the personal assistant...
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht soiléiriú a thabhairt ar stádas na bpleananna teanga do na 26 Limistéir; cathain a mbeidh na 26 pleananna...
    • Digital Hubs
      35. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the roll-out of gteic facilities in Gaeltacht areas around County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent of any ongoing discussions she continues to have with the major stakeholders throughout the tourism, entertainment,...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      37. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of plans for a full return of indoor sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47927/21]
    • Arts Policy
      38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts that are being undertaken to provide general solutions which will help with costs in the arts sector; and the...
    • School Transport
      39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will reconsider her Department's refusal to fund transport costs to allow children in rural schools to attend events in arts...
    • Swimming Pools
      40. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the campaign by a group (details supplied); if she will examine the need for a pool facility in...
    • Employment Support Services
      42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures that are being examined to allow for the blended income streams, yearly fluctuations and short-term employment...
    • Film Industry
      43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's role in the certification of section 481 film relief and in monitoring compliance with the quality employment and...
    • Tourism Promotion
      44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on marketing the area encompassed by Tipperary town, Cashel and Cahir, County Tipperary as a unique tourism destination;...
    • Culture Policy
      45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the cases raised in an article in a newspaper (details supplied); the steps she will take to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      46. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the allocations made under the outdoor service enhancement scheme which has provided payments of up to...
    • Tourism Industry
      47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her strategies to address labour supply and skills requirements in the tourism and hospitality sector; and if she will make a...
    • Gender Equality
      48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to reduce gender disparity on Irish radio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47956/21]
    • Tourism Promotion
      51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to promote the Irish tourism and hospitality sector in 2022. [47942/21]
    • Arts Council
      53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a four month delay is typical in the case of an application by a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Sports Policy Framework
      54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to encourage a sports for all approach across sport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47929/21]
    • Sports Funding
      55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the case of a club (details supplied) and the need to upgrade existing pitch facilities to...
    • Budget 2022
      58. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will support the demands by groups (details supplied) for the implementation of the universal basic income for those working...
    • Oideachas Gaeltachta
      59. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an aontaíonn sí leis an taighde ar theaghlaigh de chuid Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta a sheol an tAire Stáit Jack...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met recently with the Media Commission; and when she expects its report to be finalised. [47848/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      61. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons who were tested for Covid-19 before and after each of the live test events that took place throughout summer...
    • Caiteachas Ranna
      62. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad airgid ón Státchiste nó ón gceadúnas teilifíse atá curtha ar fáil i...
    • Arts Policy
      65. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a universal basic income payment is still to be piloted for the arts sector in 2022; the rationale for changing the type of...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Commission on the Future of Media in Ireland; when the report of the Commission is expected to be published; and...
    • Oideachas Gaeltachta
      67. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é líon na nOifigeach Óige atá ag freastal ar na ceantair Ghaeltachta éagsúla, cad é...
    • Arts Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way the arts sector has used Departmental funding to advance and support the artistic community over the past year and the...
    • Irish Language
      69. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase supports for Irish speakers accessing State services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47920/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the third Covid support package currently being developed for coláiste samhraidh will be announced; and if she will make...
    • Creative Youth Plan
      72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will work with the Minister for Education to create a national strategy for the arts in schools, with dedicated funding, in...
    • Tourism Industry
      73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to support the tourism sector, which was disproportionately negatively impacted by the pandemic. [47941/21]
    • Tourism Funding
      75. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will undertake a feasibility study and liaise with Donegal County Council and other relevant statutory bodies...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider adding trained printers to the list of skill shortages which will facilitate supply shortages as in the case of...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of Programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their...
    • Farm Safety
      78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding available to the Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48102/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the restart grant will be extended over the coming 12 months; and the terms applying for the remainder of 2021 and into 2022. [47534/21]
    • Personal Injuries Commission
      80. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the substance of the initiatives in relation to the Action Plan on Insurance Reform (details supplied); the number...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are...
    • Work Permits
      82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date when the next round of critical skills permits will be announced; if he will be allocating additional permits for dairy farm...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of work exchange and WWOOFing practices under the current Covid-19 restrictions. [48138/21]
    • Data Centres
      86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or any person in his Department has met with a company or the director of the company (details supplied) in relation to the data...
    • Trade Missions
      87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he spoke to the Governor of Washington DC during his recent visit to the United States of America. [48363/21]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Inland Fisheries
      88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional funding will be made available to continue the Go Fishing outreach service to educational settings until...
    • Waste Management
      89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the additional commercial concerns that can compete in the farm plastics recycling market place and receive access to...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if information will be provided on previous and planned actions by RTÉ in response to the Report of the Joint...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the seven representatives from the academic and community sectors on the newly established RESS community...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if information will be provided on the change of timelines for auctions under the renewable electricity support scheme...
    • Environmental Schemes
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will allow households that received shallow energy improvements under the warmer homes scheme to apply for deeper...
    • Telecommunications Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagements with his Ministerial colleagues and the Commission for Communications Regulation regarding the issue of...
    • Environmental Schemes
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position in respect of the waiting times for the better energy warmer homes scheme in cases in which a person has...
    • National Broadband Plan
      102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department along with NBI has engaged with companies (details supplied) or any other third-party contractor to...
    • Environmental Schemes
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the primary focus of the EXEED grant scheme is carbon reduction or certification; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fisheries Protection
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish any data his Department obtained on numbers of salmon present in Irish waters over the past five...
    • Recycling Policy
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the proposed deposit return scheme of his Department excludes glass bottles; and if he plans to amend the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue...
    • Inland Fisheries
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 25 May 2021, the reason the works on the wall on the bridge in Ballylooby,...
    • Electricity Grid
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when persons will be able to sell surplus electricity to the grid (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Data Centres
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or any person in his Department has met with a company or the director of the company (details supplied) in...
    • Energy Policy
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he will justify the continuing use of the public finances to incentivise the unabated exploration and...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost in 2022 of recruiting fifteen additional full-time cybersecurity developers and analysts for the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Heritage Sites
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the transfer of the heritage sites in County Clare to Clare County Council; if there is a timeline for same; and if his...
    • National Development Plan
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Northern Ring Road in Cork will be included in the new phase of the national development plan. [47512/21]
    • Driver Licences
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time to exchange a foreign driving licence issued by a recognised state for an Irish driving licence; if his...
    • Traffic Management
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to introduce a congestion charge for cars in Dublin city centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47611/21]
    • Driver Test
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the detail of the waiting lists and waiting times at each of the driver test centres; the steps he is taking to address the exceptionally...
    • Air Services
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the legislation currently in place that enables airlines to regard wheelchairs as luggage and which therefore limits...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the supports available from his Department over the past 18 months for taxi drivers that were impacted by the Covid-19...
    • Bus Services
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of and reasons for short notice cancellations of bus route 30x30 Donegal to Dublin and Dublin to Donegal to date in 2021, in...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which a CIÉ pension scheme (details supplied) will commence; and if he has engaged with the company in respect of this...
    • Driver Licences
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when transferring a British driving licence to an Irish version many drivers are losing...
    • Programme for Government
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any...
    • Public Transport
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of public order incidents recorded on the Luas in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person with a progressive underlining health condition (details supplied) who has had a disabled driving permit has had...
    • Legislative Measures
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress and status of the horse-drawn carriage Bill; when he expects pre-legislative scrutiny to take place; and when the heads of...
    • Driver Test
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide additional resources to the Road Safety Authority to enable it to reduce driving test waiting lists, which are...
    • Public Transport
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to taxi fares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48258/21]
    • Road Tolls
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is taking steps to deal with numerous customer services complaints against a company (details supplied) from motorists; the steps...
    • Bus Services
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the routes and timetables on which 24-hour bus routes will be rolled out in 2022. [48368/21]
  • Department of Finance
    • Employment Support Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures in place to help artists and arts organisations cope with high insurance costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47926/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the help-to-buy scheme beyond the current expiry date due to Covid-19-related restrictions in 2020 and 2021 for building; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that artists and arts workers are supported through the employment wage subsidy scheme until mass gatherings are permitted again and...
    • Tax Credits
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of relief that has been granted to date under the stay-and-spend tax credit; and if the applicable dates for this concession will be extended. [47526/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of take-up of the bike-to-work scheme in the most recent 12 months for which data are available; and the average value of claims made. [47527/21]
    • Tax Yield
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the local property tax yield estimated by the Revenue Commissioners as a consequence of the revised property valuations, and the revised rates of payment.;...
    • Tax Code
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the rates of local property tax that will apply in 2022; and the conditions under which any exemptions or reliefs can be claimed in 2022. [47529/21]
    • Banking Sector
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to an Irish company that has been refused by the two largest banking companies in Ireland to open a business bank account; if his...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated level of profits NAMA is expected to generate. [47608/21]
    • Banking Sector
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the banking levy to 2022; if so, the rate at which he will extend it and its revenue target; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Yield
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 446 of 27 July 2021, if the revenue generated from the introduction of a 40% rate of capital gains tax on the disposal...
    • Tax Reliefs
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 35, 36 and 37 of 22 September 2021, the total amount in nominal terms of tax relief on pension contributions made by...
    • Tax Code
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the concerns raised by green growers in correspondence (details supplied) in the context of the carbon tax and Budget 2022; if he is...
    • Tax Reliefs
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to introduce tax reduction measures for the Irish fishing industry that would allow expenses such as harbour fees, ice plant fees and slip off...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any agencies under his...
    • Tax Yield
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT raised through the sale of bovine sexed semen in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Data
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of farmers who claimed €70,000 in young farmer reliefs in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Tax Reliefs
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the age young farmers can claim stamp duty relief to 40; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48057/21]
    • Tax Yield
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of carbon tax raised in relation to glasshouse growers in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Reliefs
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of including agricultural land which is subject to compulsory purchase order in capital gains tax entrepreneurial relief; and if he will...
    • Tax Data
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of farmers that availed of the opportunity to step out of income averaging as second time within a five-year period from 2020 to date; the average...
    • Tax Reliefs
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to retain consanguinity relief in its current form for the duration of the current Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Credits
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the succession tax credit to off-farm income on the basis of tax returns in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Alcohol Sales
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the monthly number of automatic renewals of licence renewals to date in 2021, in tabular form. [48106/21]
    • Banking Sector
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plan for a broad ranging review of the banking sector announced in Dáil Éireann in July 2021; when he will publish the terms of...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department and the Department of Health are engaging at a European level to ensure reform of tobacco taxes across the EU including...
    • Illicit Trade
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated value of cigarettes and tobacco products seized by Revenue Commissioners’ officials at Irish ports and airports to date in 2021; and if...
    • Tax Data
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be generated from an increase to 50% in the minimum effective tax rate of those earning more than €325,000 per year....
    • Defective Building Materials
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce taxation measures to address the unfair situation whereby commercial landlords who make up 60% of apartment and duplex owners can write...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Coast Guard Service
      222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason contracts which were furnished over two years ago by the solicitors acting for Coillte to the State Solicitors Office that...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      223. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to allow civil servants to continue to work remotely when they wish to in order to not to lose the benefits of work-life...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual savings from reducing salaries by 50% of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Ceann Comhairle, Leas Cheann Comhairle,...
    • Office of Public Works
      226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of OPW owned buildings in Blanchardstown village, Ongar village, Ashtown village and Castleknock village,...
    • Public Sector Staff
      227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of mobility moves at assistant principal and equivalent to secretary general including agreed moves and equivalent across the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent to date on the refurbishment of Longford and Athlone Garda stations. [48360/21]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Disability Services
      229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure equal access to all concerts and cultural events with the provision of personal assistant tickets for a person...
    • Sports Funding
      231. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a matter raised by a club (details supplied) in correspondence will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      233. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she in consultation with the relevant Departments, will ensure that the work put in by those in local media organisations is...
    • Budget 2022
      235. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to address and ensure the ten main concerns raised by a group (details supplied) are prioritised in...
    • Arts Policy
      236. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will be able to create a research section within her Department to maintain, continue and co-ordinate the...
    • Census of Population
      237. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will advocate for inclusion of questions regarding access and participation in culture, sports and the arts in the next...
    • Departmental Programmes
      238. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there will be an extension of a new Creative Ireland programme beyond 2022. [47798/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the recent relaxation of Covid-19 regulations now enables gyms and leisure centres to allow their members to avail of their...
    • Departmental Funding
      242. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a Gaeltacht college (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47974/21]
    • Programme for Government
      244. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of Programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      245. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place or proposed to encourage members and players to return to sports following full reopening; and if she will make...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      246. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the roll-out of all Gaeltacht language planning areas and Gaeltacht service towns; and if she will make a statement...
    • Sports Funding
      247. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place or proposed to address funding for sports organisations in view of losses suffered during the pandemic; and if...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      248. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeframe in place or proposed for rolling out the basic income scheme for artists. [35109/21]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there...
    • Sports Funding
      251. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is seeking an additional sports capital allocation in the forthcoming Budget for 2022; if consideration is being given to...
    • European Capital of Culture
      253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Galway 2020 legacy plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48220/21]
    • Budget 2021
      256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the way the €50 million allocated for live performance (details supplied) in budget 2021 was spent, in...
    • Departmental Funding
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the proposed funding schemes that will be made available to further support regional museums and other cultural facilities in...
    • Tourism Industry
      258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which the tourism industry is likely to recover over the next 12 months; if she plans to take any further...
    • Sports Funding
      262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when capital sports grants are likely to be awarded and granted in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48348/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which her Department has directly supported the arts in 2021; her plans for the future in this regard; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which employment is being restored throughout the arts community; if any further particular issues have arisen which...
    • Culture Policy
      268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department are engaged in the promotion of Irish culture at home and abroad targeting the tourism...
    • Irish Language
      269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department continue to promote and develop the use of the Irish language in all Gaeltacht areas...
    • Cyberbullying Issues
      271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she and her Department are taking to target and eliminate online bullying across various social media platforms; the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wildlife Protection
      272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most recent study that has been carried out by his Department on the seal population in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans, including timelines, for the establishment of the seafood working group which is planned to be a compensatory body...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it can be expected that his Department will establish the maritime area regulatory authority that will be an important...
    • Foreshore Issues
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if fees for foreshore licences for not-for-profit community groups and clubs will be waived; and if he will make a statement...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government updated sections of the Telecommunications...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information will be provided on the progress of a strategic environmental assessment of draft interim regulations with new...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the youth homelessness strategy as part of the new Housing for All plan; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the public sector benchmarking exercise used to evaluate and award the first bundle of social housing public private...
    • Local Authorities
      281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date from which 100% of the yield from local property tax will be retained within the county in which it is raised; and if...
    • Commercial Rates
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the waiver of rates will be extended over the coming 12 months; and the terms applying for the remainder of 2021 and into...
    • Housing Schemes
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new limits for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will come into effect; the gross income limit for single...
    • Housing Provision
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that are planned regarding the income limit for eligibility to go on a social housing list during 2022; and the...
    • Rental Sector
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the upper limit for a HAP rent in each of the four Dublin local authorities for families of different sizes; and if there are...
    • Housing Policy
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planned duration of restrictions on eviction notices under the special Covid-19 rules; and if he is considering any...
    • Housing Schemes
      289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has made any changes in the terms of the housing assistance payments available to pensioners and those who need...
    • Regeneration Projects
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received in 2021 for regeneration areas from local authorities; the number to be granted in 2021...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body which a farmer can contact to confirm if the farmer's holding has been removed from a SAC; and if he will...
    • Fire Safety
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units, by constituency, in which his attention has been drawn to fire safety defects, and by unit type...
    • Waterways Issues
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of boats removed from rivers, canals and inland waterways in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; the...
    • Local Authorities
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocations made to the four Dublin local authorities to fund the housing adaptation grant for older people and people...
    • Statutory Instruments
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a new statutory instrument is required to amend the tenant purchase scheme as recently announced in the Housing for All...
    • Housing Provision
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are being taken, under the new Housing for All plan, to increase the supply of housing for persons with...
    • Local Authorities
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 1 July and the publication of the Housing for All strategy, the cost to date to...
    • Housing Provision
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received annual reports setting out the progress in tackling homelessness and housing delivery in Galway city and...
    • Wildlife Protection
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that can be taken to ensure that Irish Water is no longer engaged in contaminating the habitat of endangered...
    • Defective Building Materials
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail his engagements with the National Building Control Office in respect of defective concrete blocks entering...
    • Housing Schemes
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if affordable housing schemes will be developed in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47841/21]
    • Derelict Sites
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times Mayo County Council has used the Derelict Sites Act 1990 in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular...
    • Fire Service
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff in the fire service in Dublin over each of the past ten years; the number of vacancies that currently...
    • Programme for Government
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if...
    • Electoral Process
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending the voting franchise for general elections to all persons who qualify to vote in local elections. [48142/21]
    • Foreshore Issues
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 28 September, the details of both the approved application and the...
    • Housing Provision
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the recently agreed social housing targets for each local authority with a sub breakdown of social housing...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      339. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the turnaround times for first time passport applications; the steps taken to reduce these turnaround times; if there has been additional...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any...
    • Middle East
      347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 23 September 2021 and his endorsement of the statement by EU Commissioner Lenarčič...
    • Consular Services
      350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of the consular assistance that he and his officials have provided to the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      363. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Defence Forces are having serious difficulties with the retention of personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Revenue Commissioners
      368. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any...
    • Air Corps
      369. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current total strength of Air Corps personnel; and the number of qualified military pilots, cadet pilots in training, qualified military...
    • State Visits
      370. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to invite his French counterpart to Ireland before the end of 2021. [48364/21]
    • Departmental Staff
      371. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of full-time civilian carpenters, roofers and electricians employed by his Department working in Gormanston Camp as of 27 September...
    • Civil Defence
      372. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost in 2022 if the budget for the Civil Defence increased by 12%. [48366/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Programme for Government
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their progress; and...
    • School Funding
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider re-establishing the school library fund that was cut in 2008 in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Patronage
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of a co-educational, non-denominational secondary school in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school...
    • School Transport
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) will miss school next week due to a lack of transport and that a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1079 of 27 July 2021, the position regarding the emergency works application; and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47606/21]
    • School Transport
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47617/21]
    • State Examinations
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a review of the scheme of reasonable accommodations at certificate examinations and consider broadening the current set of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be granted another special needs assistant to allow it to enrol more pupils with additional needs. [47643/21]
    • School Staff
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47663/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs employed in each primary and secondary school (details supplied) in County Meath in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS psychologists assigned to primary and secondary schools (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health and Safety
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the body with responsibility for the safety of children at school; and the body that has responsibility for the safety of school staff at school....
    • School Transport
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a grant to support parents in cases in which students have been refused school transport as in the case of students (details...
    • School Enrolments
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who reached 19 years of age or more while still in full-time secondary education in each the years 2015 to 2020. [47744/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided in respect of the case of a child (details supplied) with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disadvantaged Status
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the current DEIS review; the way a school (details supplied) can be considered for the status under plans to extend the DEIS...
    • Schools Building Projects
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the appropriate practical rooms will be provided for the students at a school (details supplied); the status of the overall project; and the...
    • Education Policy
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the provision of an assessment tool (details supplied) in Irish schools; if so, the extent of this examination;...
    • School Transport
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues relating to the bus route of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on an appeal for additional special needs assistant hours by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [47780/21]
    • School Accommodation
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary and post-primary schools approved for additional accommodation, including temporary accommodation; the stage they are currently at in...
    • School Enrolments
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for an Educate Together school in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school planning area; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Council for Special Education
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider requesting the NCSE to adopt a policy of assumption of allocation of a special needs assistant at secondary level in cases...
    • School Staff
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to commence a teacher recruitment programme to address shortages of teachers in certain geographical areas. [47875/21]
    • Programme for Government
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their progress; and...
    • School Facilities
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application for a physical education laboratory and equipment store made by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any...
    • School Transport
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on the review of the school bus service; when she expects the review to be complete; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase the number of ASD units in primary schools in south-western County Cork. [48139/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown, section by section, including a precise timeline for the commencement and the reason for the delay in commencement of the...
    • School Staff
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the position of a person (details supplied) in a school in County Mayo will receive its correct recognition and associated remuneration,...
    • Departmental Properties
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to secure the wooded lands owned by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pension application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48193/21]
    • School Staff
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student retention numbers can be lowered to allow minority ethos schools such as a school (details supplied) keep a minimum of two teachers;...
    • Public Sector Pay
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of restoring the Gaeltacht and island allowances paid to school teachers; if proposals exist to address the pay disparity for those...
    • School Management
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarification will be provided on a matter in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting on a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48261/21]
    • School Enrolments
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 28 September 2021, if a copy of a masterplan (details supplied) will be provided to this Deputy; and...
    • School Accommodation
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the prefabs in a school (details supplied) are leased or owned by her Department; if they are leased, if they will be replaced by the provider...
    • Budget 2022
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering proposals (details supplied) regarding schools funding as part of Budget 2022; her assessment of measures she may take in...
    • School Accommodation
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress of a Gaelcholáiste (details supplied); the efforts made by her Department to provide an adequate and permanent school...
    • Departmental Staff
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time quantity surveyor and civil and structural engineers employed by her Department as of 30 September 2019, 30 September...
    • School Accommodation
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that are currently operating within temporary accommodation; the names and locations of these schools, the length...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will investigate the possibility of increasing the income limit for pensioners when considering the fuel allowance in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that artists and arts workers are supported through the pandemic unemployment payment until mass...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for jobs initiative scheme participants be included in the winter fuel scheme (details supplied.) [47466/21]
    • Grant Payments
      431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms on which the €1,000 grant for short courses is being made available; and if there is a restriction on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering increasing the threshold of €100 over the equivalent rate of the State pension (contributory) as...
    • Employment Support Services
      435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the work placement scheme will continue during 2022; and if so, the terms on which it will be made available. [47538/21]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms on which paternity benefit and parental benefit are paid are scheduled to change during 2022; and if so, the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application by a person (details supplied) for the working family payment has not been put into payment; when...
    • Community Welfare Services
      439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers that work in County Cavan by office; the number of community welfare officers in the...
    • School Meals Programme
      440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the funding for the school meals programme in a school (details supplied) can be increased to reflect the number of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • State Pensions
      443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of any proposed change in calculating the State pension (contributory) moving from the total contributions...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in processing an application for supplementary welfare in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for their carer’s allowance appeal; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider extending the duration of child benefit to last until a child has completed secondary school...
    • Civil Registration Service
      450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a secular body is defined as one with 50 members or less with respect to the definition of a body permitted to...
    • School Meals Programme
      451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans for a hot school meals programme expansion for 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47892/21]
    • Programme for Government
      452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the depreciation rate for farm equipment and machinery to a standard 10% with regard to farm...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the assessable income limit for fuel allowance means test by 10% for a single person under...
    • Departmental Reports
      458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to publish a report (details supplied); the reason for the delay in doing so to date; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 28 September 2021, the number of students who are in receipt of disability...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance will be extended to those in receipt of illness benefit experiencing fuel poverty who are unable to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a back to education appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine extending the telephone support allowance to those in receipt of the State pension (contributory) but not...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount of the additional €5 million that was made available through Dormant Accounts funding for carers...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a companion travel pass will be issued to a claimant who has very limited mobility (details supplied); if the chief...
    • Employment Support Services
      468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of local employment services being funded by her Department to deliver construction skills training; the location...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those receiving illness benefit will be considered for the fuel allowance and the double payment at Christmas,...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to refuse an invalidity pension can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • State Pensions
      472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can be placed as a dependent on the pension payment of their spouse; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Tax Reliefs
      473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he, in conjunction with the relevant Departments will consider putting a scheme in place similar to the...
    • Departmental Policies
      474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasons for the delay to the successor of Better Outcomes, Brighter Future; when he expects same to be...
    • Child Poverty
      475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a child poverty unit has been established in his Department; if so, the staff and resources provided to the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the advice he sought from persons and bodies with expertise in GDPR concerning subject access requests by...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      477. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 16 September 2021, if he will consider matters raised in...
    • Childcare Services
      478. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to reduce the cost of childcare for parents with particular reference to ensuring as much support as...
    • Traveller Community
      480. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made towards delivering on each of the specific nine actions outlined under Cultural...
    • Youth Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase funding for resources for young persons and youth services in line with proposals by an...
    • Childcare Services
      482. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that early years and childcare workers are receiving adequate benefits, such as...
    • Youth Services
      483. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that can be taken to strengthen the role of an organisation (details supplied) and other organisations...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      484. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to introduce additional entry points during the year for parents availing of the ECCE scheme; and if...
    • Child Protection
      485. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to ratify the optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography;...
    • Programme for Government
      486. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      487. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors that have gone missing while in State care in each of the years 2010 to 2020...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown by section, including a precise timeline for the commencement and the reason for the delay in...
    • International Agreements
      490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to sign the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with a...
    • Disability Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that are in place to meet the 6% employment target for 2024 under the Comprehensive Employment...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will review the refusal of ECCE for a child (details supplied) considering the circumstances;...
    • Adoption Services
      493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications for declarations of eligibility and suitability to adopt from abroad that were made...
    • Disability Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider establishing a commission or a cross-party working group on ableism; and if he will make a...
    • Youth Work Supports
      495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will take on board the recommendation in the review by an organisation (details supplied) of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Construction Industry
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives that have been taken by Government to encourage women to take up construction skills training; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Student Accommodation
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to address the current student accommodation crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48339/21]
    • Third Level Education
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the breakdown between online and in-person learning that each of the higher education institutions are providing;...
    • Third Level Costs
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the terms on which post-graduate study can receive support towards fees and maintenance; and if there are plans to extend these schemes. [47532/21]
    • Grant Payments
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special maintenance rate is confined to students whose parents are in receipt of the working family payment or long-term social welfare...
    • State Bodies
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the members of the Student Grants Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47625/21]
    • Further and Higher Education
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all further educational institutes are required to devise and submit strategic and development plans for their campus; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Costs
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to students who have recommenced first year at universities after difficulties with Covid-19 in 2020; if there is...
    • Programme for Government
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their progress; and...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Prison Service
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if former prisoners (details supplied) had been given extra money by the prison to help them re-enter society; if this extra...
    • Departmental Investigations
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the case of a person (details supplied). [47592/21]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of any inquiry into the allegations made by an organisation in its mission to Ireland in 1977 which specifically...
    • Legal Aid
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the civil legal aid scheme; the timeframe in which it will be held; and the details of any public...
    • Residency Permits
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Alcohol Sales
      516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her planned reforms to licensing laws; and when she anticipates being able to publish these legislative proposals. [47747/21]
    • Asylum Seekers
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering the possibility of introducing an amnesty in respect of asylum seekers who are residents in the State...
    • Work Permits
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered allowing stamp 2 visa holders to work full-time in order to alleviate staff shortages in certain sectors...
    • Fines Administration
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines that have been issued for non-essential travel by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the steps a family (details supplied) need to take in order to receive or apply for citizenship; the steps...
    • Rights of Way
      523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for reform in the area of easements and rights of way and when she anticipates being able to bring legislation on the...
    • Prison Service
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects the position of chaplain to be appointed by the Irish Prison Service in Limerick and Portlaoise prisons. [47816/21]
    • Work Permits
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visas that were issued in the past five years including location and country of origin for the fishing industry...
    • State Pardons
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position in relation to efforts to pardon a person (details supplied); the updated timeline regarding the future...
    • Programme for Government
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if...
    • Visa Applications
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa extension can issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48066/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of assaults on gardaí in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by county; and if she will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Irish citizenship applicants currently waiting longer than 12 months for a decision on their application; and the...
    • Domestic Violence
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether a specialist domestic violence unit may be warranted in view of the cancellation of domestic violence...
    • Legislative Measures
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the Defamation Act 2009; the date for the expected completion of that review; and if she will make...
    • An Garda Síochána
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost in 2022 of increasing the number of sworn gardaí to 15,300 by the end of 2022; the estimated cost in...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 439 and 440 of 6 July 2021, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
  • Department of Health
    • General Practitioner Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Health if a new scheme will be considered as part of Budget 2022 to make a contribution towards or cover the costs of medical reports required for driving licences...
    • Health Services Staff
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty non-EEA doctors have accessing critical skills employment permits in Ireland; if his attention has been...
    • Programme for Government
      543. To ask the Minister for Health the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their progress; and if he will make...
    • Prison Service
      544. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) on remand will be transferred to another facility. [48174/21]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      546. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to modernise and integrate the IT infrastructure in his Department and the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47465/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and a general practitioner allocated to them in view of the circumstances of...
    • Health Services
      548. To ask the Minister for Health when early intervention will be provided to address the complex needs of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47468/21]
    • Nursing Homes
      549. To ask the Minister for Health if a detailed update will be provided on the new building development planned for St. Vincent’s Community Nursing Home, Mountmellick, County Laois; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      550. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for an operation in Galway University Hospital in view of the exceptional circumstances in this case; if...
    • HIV Incidence
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in delivering the commitments made in the HIV Paris Declaration to fast-tracking measures to end AIDS by 2030; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances in service in south eastern and mid-west HSE regions in each of the years since 2016; the number of staff employed in the ambulance...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for a procedure; when they can expect to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Eating Disorders
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the details of progress made in addressing the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders Goals 2019-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dental Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being put in place to ensure that medical card holders in County Laois have access to dental services; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Home Care Packages
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if the concept of a statutory homecare support has progressed; the terms on which the pilot scheme was made available; if an evaluation of the pilot scheme has...
    • Mental Health Services
      561. To ask the Minister for Health when each day care centre for service users with a mental health illness that remain closed will reopen by county in tabular form; the reason they have not...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the level of activity under the National Treatment Purchase Fund during the most recent 12 months for which data is available; the main categories of procedure...
    • Health Services
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons supported under the EU scheme for treatment abroad in the most recent twelve months for which data is available; the number that were...
    • Hospital Charges
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the charges made for private or semi-private beds in public hospitals; if the public hospital bed charge must be paid in addition to this charge; and if the...
    • Nursing Homes
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the changes being made to the fair deal scheme to reduce the assessment of vacant homes rented out or sold; and the date from which the new provisions will...
    • Disability Services
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age awaiting a first-time appointment since being switched to the new children’s disability network team for...
    • Hospital Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1364 of 9 September 2021, the monthly and yearly spend on antibiotics in each acute hospital for the year to date in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      569. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for a procedure at Sligo University Hospital; if the referral is general or...
    • Hospital Services
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the reason neonatal and premature baby ophthalmic care is unavailable at Letterkenny University Hospital; if there are plans to introduce this care; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if appointments will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47583/21]
    • Health Services
      573. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the backlog in audiology appointments in counties Cavan and Monaghan; when he expects this backlog to be cleared; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47593/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      577. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding Covid-19 cases in schools (details supplied). [47596/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for respiratory patients awaiting an appointment at the chest clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of patients currently...
    • Vaccination Programme
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the status of vaccines for persons here and their ability to travel in cases in which persons with habitual residence received both Covid-19 vaccinations...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      580. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will received a date for a scoliosis operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47614/21]
    • Health Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if the latest figures for the number of persons availing of methadone replacement treatment with a breakdown by treatment centre and a further breakdown by...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the production of the first business case as required under the public spending code for the proposed new national maternity...
    • Vaccination Programme
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to issue EU Digital COVID Certificates to Irish citizens resident here who received their vaccinations across the border in Northern...
    • Hospital Staff
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if a second physiotherapist will be reinstated in Fermoy Hospital, County Cork. [47641/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons who are currently on waiting lists to be seen by the child and adolescent mental health services in Galway by the length of time...
    • Hospital Facilities
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for planning permission has been lodged in respect of the planned outpatient block in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; when construction will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the reason primary school children in Mullingar, County Westmeath who wish to avail of the school vaccination programme are being offered appointments in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a physiotherapist at Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath, in each of the years 2018 to...
    • Community Care
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the storage costs to date for the now defunct community hubs in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47673/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the free HPV vaccine programme to girls in every age group who are still attending school; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the decision to transfer oncology day services including all ancillary services from University Hospital Kerry to the Bons Secours...
    • Health Services Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses, management and administrative staff employed by the HSE on 31 December 2019; the corresponding number for each category on 30 June 2021;...
    • Mental Health Services
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the annual revenue cost of a mental health bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47696/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialist dieticians, nutrition specialists and therapists specialising in eating disorders who work out of Ennis General Hospital through CAMHS...
    • Mental Health Services
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have been on the waiting list for CAMHS services at the end of each year between 2016 and 2020 in County Clare in tabular form....
    • Health Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for eye examinations in County Clare. [47702/21]
    • Dental Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a waiting list for dental examinations and check-ups in County Clare. [47704/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      610. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an outpatient appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the next-of-kin rule in order that both parents of single adults who are hospitalised are down as the point of contact rather than just one...
    • Data Protection
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the position of his Department that a school principal would be breaching GDPR by sending an email or letter saying to parents that there has been a...
    • Community Care
      614. To ask the Minister for Health when the contract management support units will be fully in place to support the various service providers across the nine community healthcare organisations;...
    • Disability Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the preclusions, exclusions or implications that exist for parents who gift via inheritance cash or physical assets to their next of kin in cases in which the...
    • Home Care Packages
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which home care support and access to resource centres for Alzheimer’s patients remains available in County Kildare; if any improvements...
    • Mental Health Services
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults awaiting appointments with the adult primary care psychology services; the average waiting times by community healthcare organisation,...
    • Eating Disorders
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children referred to community specialist eating disorder teams who had waiting times from assessment to treatment started within four...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      623. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; if his or her appointment has been classed as urgent; the position on the waiting list; the...
    • Health Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address waiting times for paediatric occupational therapy appointments in counties Roscommon and Galway; if all occupational therapists are...
    • Vaccination Programme
      626. To ask the Minister for Health when the EU Digital Covid certificate will be made available for Irish citizens vaccinated outside of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome in which the fair deal scheme has been approved but a spouse subsequently wants to separate and sell the family home; if the home can be sold in...
    • Mental Health Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the community schemes or job initiatives available to persons with a disability or mental health issue such as schizophrenia; and if he will make a statement...
    • General Practitioner Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if there is another general practitioner who accepts medical card patients in the Dún Laoghaire area, particularly for a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Dental Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the proposed review of the dental treatment services scheme contract will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47795/21]
    • Hospital Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Health when guidelines will be introduced to maintain consistency so partners can be present for the full birth and visiting times after the birth in maternity...
    • Disease Management
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to reduce inequalities with respect to access to patient services and health outcomes for members of the public who are diagnosed with coeliac...
    • Mental Health Services
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative long-stay and respite placements available in Cork city and county to residents of the Owenacurra Centre if its proposed closure goes ahead;...
    • Nursing Homes
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assessment breakdown in the case of a person (details supplied) availing of the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the health and social care career pathway; and if he will make a...
    • Residential Institutions
      642. To ask the Minister for Health if the Time to Move on from Congregated Settings policy of his Department will facilitate service users to continue to live in congregated settings in...
    • Registration of Nurses
      643. To ask the Minister for Health when the nursing registration will be completed in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47877/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his recent meeting with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47878/21]
    • Abortion Services
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have issued the promised invitation to all interested groups, organisations and members of the public to provide their views to inform...
    • Disability Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Health when the group home for persons with physical and sensory disabilities at Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, will be operational; the number of residents that...
    • Disease Management
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme since its inception; the number of persons that currently avail of the programme; the number of general...
    • Programme for Government
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their progress; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      665. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with an appointment for a shoulder MRI under the MRI winter initiative for general practitioners; the reason...
    • Ambulance Service
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address shortcomings in the delivery of ambulance services in County Mayo; the way this service compares to other services in the midlands and east...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any agencies under his...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median, and maximum wait time for children waiting on a MRI or CT scan by location [48038/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI and CT scan machines; and the number that are operational, non-operational and broken, respectively. [48039/21]
    • Hospital Procedures
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries for replacement joints which have been cancelled in the past three years due to a lack of replacement joints due to funding...
    • Health Services Staff
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff of the 14,700 announced in Budget 2022 which have been hired; the revised target for year end; the breakdown of onboarded staff by grade...
    • Health Services
      673. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a comprehensive fracture liaison service to provide high quality, evidence based care to those who suffer a fragility fracture with a...
    • Budget 2022
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if the required allocation will be prioritised in the upcoming health budget to facilitate the establishment of a fracture liaison service as per the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to implement the recommendations set out in the Trauma Systems for Ireland report 2018 to develop trauma centres and units in...
    • Hospital Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Office of Clinical Audit has developed a TARN dataset to collect functional and quality of life outcome data for all components of the major...
    • Health Service Executive
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE National Office for Trauma Services has established a formal trauma training committee and an appointed HSE lead for trauma education as is...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      678. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for occupational therapy, psychological therapy and physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Service Executive
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if all hand sanitiser purchased by the HSE from 2016 until February 2020 had a valid PCS number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48132/21]
    • Disease Management
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the timely diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease by medical professionals. [48141/21]
    • Health Services
      681. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide and cover the cost of care for women with pregnancy-related conditions such as gestational diabetes under the National Maternity Strategy;...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the CHO7 area awaiting a special needs assessment. [48158/21]
    • Health Services
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to reintroduce screening for scoliosis in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48183/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are currently awaiting scoliosis treatment and surgery; the current waiting time for both treatment and surgery; and if he will...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department has been engaging at a European level and with the European Director General for Health on the need for a common position...
    • Hospital Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the opening hours for the paediatric outpatient and urgent care centre in Blanchardstown Hospital; and if not, the barriers to same. [48209/21]
    • Health Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent application for respite care for a person (details supplied) will be granted given the severity of the family’s situation. [48211/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which basic primary care will be provided to private patients who are unable to access general practitioners due to lack of capacity; the way they...
    • Health Services Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if additional staff will be recruited for a centre (details supplied); when this will happen; the location in which he expects these positions to be...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for two years to see a urologist at University Hospital Limerick and over one year to see an ENT...
    • Mental Health Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Wexford; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six and more than 12 months,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting a speech and language appointment in County Wexford; the number who have been waiting less than 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than...
    • Dental Services
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have left the dental treatment services scheme in the past 12 months in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the current vacancies in Wexford General Hospital in tabular form; if they have been advertised; the length of time they have been vacant; and...
    • Home Help Service
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided in 2020 and to date in 2021, in County Wexford; the number of hours that were HSE direct provision; the number of hours...
    • Vaccination Programme
      700. To ask the Minister for Health if he in conjunction with the HSE will examine eliminating the fee facing parents of teenagers who missed out on the HPV vaccine in first year of school and...
    • Medicinal Products
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to zolgensma gene therapy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48243/21]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the processing of applications for primary medical certificates; if this has resumed since it was stalled due to Covid-19; if there is a...
    • Abortion Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1364 of 24 March 2021, the names of the individuals and groups from whom he received representations in relation to...
    • Hospital Staff
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of appointing one whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric teams; and the number of additional...
    • Community Care
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the national roll-out of heart failure integrated core projects in the community. [48370/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant dermatologist at Mullingar Regional Hospital; and the average waiting times to see the...
    • Mental Health Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in July 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 in community psychiatry, community psychology and community CAMHS areas in County Cork by...
    • Medical Cards
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card renewal forms will issue by post to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48391/21]
    • Dental Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are currently on waiting lists for dental appointments in County Wicklow by town and municipal district in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently awaiting an assessment of need in CHO6 and CHO7, County Wicklow; the number who have been waiting less than three...
    • Mental Health Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Wicklow; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six months; and if he will...
    • Home Care Packages
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are awaiting home care support in County Wicklow; the total number of hours allocated in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 in County...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for ophthalmology in County Wicklow; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      725. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding that has been made available to the collaborative farming partnership fund to date; the number of persons who have...
    • Pesticide Use
      726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on banning or restricting the use of glyphosate by public bodies. [48140/21]
    • Inshore Fisheries
      727. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will bring forward legislation to ban inshore fishing by large trawlers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47493/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      731. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address the use of 100 mm mesh gill nets for hake in Irish waters. [47500/21]
    • Veterinary Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the primary and secondary legislation underpinning the need for prescription with regard to veterinary medicinal products or...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that will receive reduced direct payments as a result of increased water levels at Lough Funshinagh; the mean,...
    • Farm Inspections
      735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a penalty arising from a Departmental inspection in the case of persons (details supplied) will apply on a recurring basis; and if...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to bring his proposed CAP strategic plan before the Houses of the Oireachtas for approval; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares within the State effected by ash dieback; the total amount for which applications to RUS have been successful;...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which the amount provided to a farmer under the hardship grant scheme is calculated; the last time this was reviewed;...
    • Livestock Issues
      741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) is entitled to have livestock retested via skin test prior to their herd being restricted; and if he...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      743. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers approved for the organic farming scheme in September 2021; if such holdings were horticultural, tillage or...
    • Animal Welfare
      746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to improve laws in relation to cruelty to animals given that there has been criticism that the Animal Health and Welfare...
    • Fishing Industry
      747. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider an intensive review of the mackerel policy including full public consultation to address the loss of fishing...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a detailed itemised statement of account will be provided for a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare in respect of the basic...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the Common Fisheries Control programmes under articles 60 and 61 of EU Council regulations that allow non-Irish...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licences issued by his Department in the past 20 years by location and any transfer of ownerships that have...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to examine diversification options for inshore fishermen, for example, spur dog which is being reported in increased...
    • Fisheries Protection
      753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the rationale and the data available to him that will close the crayfish fishery off the south coast for 2021 to...
    • Fishing Industry
      755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of prawn catch currently available to the fishing fleet of each member state in the EU in tabular form; if he will seek...
    • Forestry Sector
      756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for approval under the ash reconstitution and underplanting scheme that have been received in each of the...
    • Programme for Government
      759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of programme for Government commitments (details supplied); if they have been completed; if not, the timeline on their...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are...
    • Work Permits
      761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is liaising with the Department for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the matter of critical skills permits for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of increasing the State aid limit for young farmer relief from €70,000 to €140,000 in bands of...
    • Farm Safety
      763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the heading and sub-headings in the Revised Estimates which regard the allocation of funding for farm safety; the purpose of each...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of young farmers that have not had their business plans approved by Teagasc with regard to applying for young trained...
    • Energy Policy
      766. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has a target with regard to the growth of biogas or solar usage amongst farmers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      767. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the criteria of appeal regarding ANC payments for persons who ticked the wrong box and made a clerical...
    • Livestock Issues
      769. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 778 of 15 September 2021, if his attention has been drawn to an interruption to the service...
    • Agriculture Industry
      770. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler cattle by county as of 5 October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48112/21]
    • Veterinary Services
      771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of veterinary practices in Ireland; the number of veterinary practices which have transferred into corporate ownership in...
    • Forestry Sector
      772. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he plans to engage with farmers that are engaged with forestry with regard to the ownership of carbon credits; and if he will...
    • Animal Diseases
      773. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the prevalence of liver abscesses in cattle by county or smallest available geographic unit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of controlled finishing units by county or smallest available geographic unit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Farm Partnerships
      775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm partnerships; the number which name a woman as part of the partnership; the number of new farm partnerships...
    • Departmental Offices
      776. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cases that have been raised with the unfair trading practices unit within his Department; the current status or...
    • Horticulture Sector
      780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 15 September 2021, his views on the labour shortages in the mushroom sector; the...
    • Food Industry
      781. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentages and tonnage of Irish grain and imported grain used in the production of Irish whiskey; and if he will make a...
    • Control of Horses
      782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided to each local authority related to equine matters , by year from 2015 to date; the purpose of the...
    • Animal Welfare
      783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided to animal welfare charities regarding equine welfare ,by year from 2015 to date; the purpose of the...
    • Health and Safety
      784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to establish an Oireachtas inquiry into the meat processing sector in view of a resolution by Dáil Éireann and...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals for investment in the form of breeding initiatives to improve the quality of the Irish sport of horse and pony breeding...
    • Departmental Funding
      786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to the inclusion of equine farming in all Department funding schemes, for example, TAMS; if he will...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Control of Dogs
      787. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the public consultation of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 that was carried out in 2019; if the results of the consultation...
    • Insurance Coverage
      788. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when public liability insurance was first secured from her Department for the two existing mountain access project areas, that is, the...
    • Rural Schemes
      790. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will extend the timeline for the streetscape scheme due to difficulties with construction issues and the availability of...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      791. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are...