Written answers
Thursday, 7 October 2021
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Offices
9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when in-person appointments will resume in social protection offices. [48665/21]
- Social Welfare Payments
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the reduced rate of jobseeker’s allowance for persons under 26 years of age who are...
- Employment Support Services
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms of reference of the procurement tender in relation to the request for tender of the Regional Employment Service...
- Social Welfare Payments
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers availing of parent’s leave and parent’s benefit since the extension was announced on 1 April 2021;...
- Departmental Schemes
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review into the farm assist scheme. [47521/21]
- State Pensions
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific actions her Department will be taking to address low-income farmers being locked out of State pension schemes....
- Social Welfare Payments
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are currently available to families with children in hospital; if consideration has been given to placing a...
- Fuel Prices
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the fuel allowance given the significant increases in fuel prices. [48661/21]
- Social Welfare Payments
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on increasing the disability allowance personal rate by €20 a week. [48682/21]
- Public Services Card
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 28 July 2020, the status of the cost-benefit analysis of the public services...
- EU Directives
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Article in the EU Directives on Public Procurement 2014/24/EU in which it states that it is obligatory to go to public...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to the establishment of a Covid-19 discretionary fund to assist households with heating and...
- Social Welfare Payments
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the exceptional needs payment, urgent needs payment and supplementary welfare allowance...
- Pensions Reform
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status and timeline for the introduction of a pension auto-enrolment system; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Employment Support Services
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a stakeholder forum which would include community organisations, service users, elected...
- Social Welfare Payments
37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to maintain the enhanced illness benefit scheme for Covid-19; and if the scheme will be extended in circumstances in...
- Arts Policy
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are being examined to exempt qualifying arts sector workers from unsuitable activation measures during...
- Social Welfare Payments
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the income disregard for the carer’s allowance until it is in line with...
- Employment Schemes
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rural social scheme will be amended to enable participants who wish to remain on the scheme until pension age; and if...
- Employment Support Services
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the proposed privatisation of local employment services. [47684/21]
- School Meals Programme
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children availing of hot school meals in Fingal, County Dublin; the number nationally; and if she will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the deadline for moving those in receipt of €203 on the pandemic unemployment payment to the...
- Employment Support Services
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work her Department plans to carry out with employers in order to match persons currently on the live register or on the...
- Social Welfare Payments
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether persons on illness benefit should be included in the fuel allowance scheme. [48535/21]
- Community Employment Schemes
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that Tús and community employment places on schemes are filled; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Policies
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way the universal basic income payment will be distinguished from a working age payment that is also being discussed; and...
- Departmental Data
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the fuel allowance per main qualifying payment in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Community Welfare Services
53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the low morale that exists amongst community welfare officers due to the increased workload...
- Departmental Data
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have signed off from the pandemic unemployment payment in County Louth since the peak of claims in...
- Social Welfare Inspections
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the absence of statistical data on the use of site visits including home visits by social...
- Employment Schemes
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the take-up of the additional 3,000 places for employment support schemes announced as part of the 2020 July...
- Departmental Data
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a pandemic unemployment payment who have transferred to the work placement experience...
- Employment Schemes
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new local employment schemes contract will cater for walk-ins; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48612/21]
- Departmental Policies
62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions
63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date position in relation to the provision of pensions for community employment supervisors; and if she will make a...
- Care Services
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to acknowledge the significant burden on carers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. [48660/21]
- Employment Support Services
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the EU directive or regulation on public procurement that requires the dismantling of the current local employment services...
- Rural Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that self-employed fishermen and women who crew fishing vessels but who do not meet the current criteria...
- Employment Support Services
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place or planned to support groups facing additional challenges accessing work such as lone parents, persons...
- Departmental Data
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons under 25 years of age in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in County Mayo; the number...
- Rural Schemes
72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing a rule in relation to the rural social scheme (details supplied); her views on the adequacy of...
- Employment Support Services
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the detail of the changes to community employment service criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48634/21]
- School Meals Programme
74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to providing a hot school meal for every DEIS school in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the number of persons currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in County Wicklow; the...
- State Pensions
77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the commitment to benchmark pension rates in the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; and if she will make a...
- Employment Schemes
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new local employment scheme contract will take account of current providers that experience issues with cash flow; and...
- Employment Support Services
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to improve employment opportunities for persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on...
- Employment Schemes
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has assessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons who have been supported under the back to work enterprise...
- Social Welfare Payments
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove PhD stipends and scholarship awards for PhDs from means-tested social welfare payments as she has already...
- Employment Support Services
86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that employees about to finish their Covid-19 related payment have ready access to an alternative payment...
- EU Directives
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific clauses her Department is quoting from under the EU directive in regard to the public tendering process for local...
- Departmental Policies
90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has examined the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection and Rural and Community Development...
- Rural Schemes
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the six-year cap on participation on the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
- State Pensions
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be an increase in the old age pension in budget 2022 given rising living costs; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Payments
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be a review of the rates of payment for the parent’s leave and benefit scheme to ensure that parents can...
- Departmental Priorities
106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the national action plan against racism. [48559/21]
- Asylum Seekers
107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an independent inspection regime of accommodation centres for asylum applicants will be established. [48557/21]
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will facilitate subject access requests from survivors seeking personal information from the archive of...
- Child Protection
111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been brought to recent reports which raise concerns about child protection and governance...
- Departmental Correspondence
112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Cork City Council has presented her with the results of an accessibility audit undertaken in the city and if...
- Domestic Violence
113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 6 July 2021, the status of the strategic review by Tusla of...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the Government’s plans for a restorative recognition scheme for survivors of mother...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the current status of the Childminding Action Plan considering the crisis in capacity within the...
- Direct Provision System
117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected that HIQA will commence inspection of direct provision accommodation; and if he will make a...
- Youth Services
120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people and youth...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress in developing proposals for an agency which would drive the development of early childhood...
- Childcare Services
123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that are being taken to address the staff shortage issues in childcare facilities; and if he will...
- Departmental Funding
124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he will take to increase the funding and resources for services combating gender-based violence and...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken to progress a thorough investigation of the grounds at the former Bessborough Mother and...
- Medical Cards
126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the work undertaken to date to fulfil obligations arising from an amendment to...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is proposed to expand the capital grant scheme for the provision of upgraded and or additional childcare...
- Departmental Reviews
128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a recommendation in a report by an adoptee organisation (details supplied). [48685/21]
- International Protection
129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made implementing the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1237 of 27 July 2021, the status of the report of the interdepartmental...
- Direct Provision System
133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to take children out of the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on...
- Childcare Services
134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the current review into the national childcare system; the expected timeframe for completion of...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes to applications will be opened. [48558/21]
- Departmental Policies
137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress on the successor to the Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: the National Policy Framework for...
- Special Educational Needs
138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase specialist supports for children with additional needs attending afterschool services; and...
- Childcare Services
139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his proposals to ensure that childcare providers have the resources to pay adequate wages to staff in childcare...
- Third Level Admissions
141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the barriers faced by persons within the naturalisation process in accessing...
- Childcare Services
142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered greatly expanding the role of the county childcare committees in order that they could...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of work by the expert group established in September 2019 to develop a new funding model for ELC and...
- Parental Leave
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is the policy of his Department to extend parent’s leave in 2022 and in subsequent years; the final...
- Domestic Violence
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a commitment will be given to increase the number of domestic violence refuge spaces above the current...
- Medical Records
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is the case that some survivors submitting subject access request applications for their records are being...
- Child Protection
149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which reports relating to children at risk have been updated during the lockdown; the extent to...
- Departmental Priorities
150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way his Department is assisting Youth Climate Justice efforts; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Childcare Services
151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that childcare is affordable and accessible to all families; and if he will...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to alter the eligibility for the ECCE scheme given the cut-off dates currently set as part of...
- Direct Provision System
153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 3 December 2020, the reason the latest inspection report on the...
- Departmental Policies
154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department supports play and play facilities nationally; and if he will make a statement on...
- Asylum Seekers
155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of commitments to transfer unaccompanied minors to Ireland as refugees; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Data
156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the results of the survey of providers and parents and the data gathered in respect of the review of the...
- Direct Provision System
157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the process to end the direct provision system. [48683/21]
- Departmental Reports
158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the work of the Anti-Racism Committee; when he expects the final report to be published; the...
- Domestic Violence
160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the development of proposals to provide a statutory entitlement to domestic violence leave; and if he will make...
- Divorce Process
161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will liaise with the Minister for Justice on the matter of some section 47 assessments and reports given...
- Departmental Policies
163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he intends to publish the review into the national childcare scheme; the way he plans to implement the...
- Child Protection
165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the treatment of children in residential care or...
- Departmental Data
166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total allocation in 2021 for the childcare capital grant scheme; the projected drawdown of this funding by...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to expand autism specific services in the early years sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Youth Services
168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that has been provided in capital grants to support national youth organisations and local youth...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Rights
169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of mistreatment of vulnerable migrant workers in the Irish meat industry (details...
- Work Permits
170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the impact of his decision to exclude home carers from the critical skills exemption list to the...
- State Properties
171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the provision of a second advance technology facility for Tralee, County Kerry; the type of industry for which the...
- Job Creation
172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current position in relation to the operation of a company (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
- Employment Rights
173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention or that of his officials has been drawn to a change of ownership of a hotel (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Local Authorities
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fines issued for dog fouling in each local authority area in the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021,...
- Renewable Energy Generation
178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the SEAI will continue to provide grants for the installation of solar PV panels in 2022; and if he will make a...
- Broadband Infrastructure
179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available in Meentulla, Murroe, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electricity Generation
180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if State bodies under his aegis are involved in or propose to become involved in projects for developing large-scale...
- Departmental Correspondence
181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if concerns outlined in correspondence (details supplied) will be given urgent consideration; and if he will make a...
- Broadband Infrastructure
182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will investigate the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied). [48895/21]
- Climate Change Policy
183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the 2020 annual transition statement will be published as required by section 14(1) of the Climate Action and Low...
- Fuel Poverty
184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he plans to introduce in winter 2021-22 to address fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Tax Code
185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a series of matters regarding the taxation of vehicles (details supplied) in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on...
- Transport Policy
186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the BusConnects process will take regional connections into account from the county to the city transport hubs (details supplied). [48752/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if instructions will be in place regarding wearing of facemasks for transport workers in which close contact is unavoidable such as for...
- Taxi Licences
188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of illegal taxi operators detected in 2019 and 2020; the number of illegal operators detected in each county; the number of...
- National Car Test
189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NCT centre in Killarney, County Kerry, is closing and combining with Tralee's; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Bus Services
190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a bus shelter in a town (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Driver Licences
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make temporary changes to allow class D/DE licence holders to drive HGV type vehicles under class C to counter the current...
- National Car Test
192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an NCT test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48829/21]
- Traffic Fines
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to use his power to increase by statutory instrument the fixed charge penalty notice fine for offences such as parking on a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the lifting of restrictions in October 2021 will also remove the restriction on sanitary and toilet facilities at driver test centres...
- Bus Services
198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a shortage in drivers for the Local Link bus service due to the restriction which prevents operators from using drivers over...
- Road Projects
200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a roads project (details supplied) in County Kerry will be funded in order to progress in 2022, given the importance of the...
- National Development Plan
202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport project included in the NDP for Connacht; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48976/21]
- Cycling Facilities
203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide funding as promised for the cycleway along the promenade in Galway given that approval for same has been given by...
- Rail Network
204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects a railway order application for MetroLink to be submitted in view of his recent comments regarding a seven year delay to...
- Cycling Facilities
206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of two delayed public bike schemes stations in Limerick city (details supplied). [49065/21]
- Road Safety
207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address an accident black spot on the N71 between Skibbereen and Ballydehob (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Finance
- Defective Building Materials
209. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to issues of persons whose homes are affected by pyrite and so therefore have no market value and are exempt from paying the...
- Revenue Commissioners
210. To ask the Minister for Finance when offices of the Revenue Commissioners will reopen to members of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48891/21]
- Tax Yield
211. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected increase or decrease that will occur in the next five years from corporation tax if the rate of corporation tax is increased from 12.5% to 15%;...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Acht na Gaeltachta
213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a dhéanfar fógra faoi réir 9(2) d’Acht na Gaeltachta 2021 ag fógairt go bhfuil i gceist...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Provision
214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place or planned to improve housing options for persons with a disability and their families; and if he will...
- Housing Policy
215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when regulations for affordable housing will be issued to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Investigations
218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 9 September 2021, if it remains his position that no file relating to an...
- Nitrates Usage
219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider redrafting the draft nitrates plan for further consultation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Horticulture Sector
220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the point at which his attention was drawn to the fact that the report of the working group on horticultural peat would not be...
- Housing Policy
221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the existing schemes and his proposals as outlined in Housing for All to convert existing but vacant commercial premises,...
- Forestry Sector
222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to protect the small remnant of ancient oakwood at the Uragh woods Special Area of Conservation from destruction by...
- Vacant Sites
223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites placed on the vacant sites register of each local authority since 2015. [48942/21]
- Foreshore Issues
226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is planned to make a decision in relation to breaches of the foreshore laws in a location (details supplied); when...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a passport has not been finalised in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Irish Aid
228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the financial commitments his Department has made for 2022 and beyond to fund the UNESCO programme Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future O3; the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process involved in applying for an ASD unit in a local school; the assessments that would be needed to be undertaken by the children...
- School Transport
230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport grant can be extended to students attending schools in circumstances in which a bus is unavailable such as in a case...
- School Facilities
231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the new school facilities at a school (details supplied). [48771/21]
- School Transport
232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for the times of a school bus service (details supplied) in County Mayo to be reviewed and amended in view of the difficulties...
- School Funding
233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of funding for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [48875/21]
- School Staff
234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a newly qualified teacher (details supplied) who was offered a contract in July 2021 and who furnished all necessary documentation and...
- Educational Disadvantage
235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in preparations for a refined DEIS programme; if the DEIS programme is being expanded to other schools in the meantime;...
- Education Policy
236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow any flexibility for rural schools when it comes to retaining a teacher in which student numbers have reduced given the...
- School Staff
238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will fund a release day per week for teaching principals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48918/21]
- Education Policy
239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent national supply panel will be put in place for primary and special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48919/21]
- School Staff
240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reduce the teacher allocation and retention thresholds for two, three and four teacher schools; the current allocation and retention...
- Education Schemes
241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the primary capitation grant will be restored to €200 per pupil which was the rate in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Funding
242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a tender project for a school (details supplied). [48934/21]
- School Facilities
244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a school (details supplied) will be provided with a fully complete campus of its own with all the required laboratories and...
- School Staff
245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will change the annotation on teacher’s salary payslips in order that the summer provision programme no longer appears as autistic...
- Educational Disadvantage
246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals lodged in the past 12 months in relation to the amount awarded for assistive technology applications; the number of those...
- Schools Building Projects
247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an update will be published for parents on the status of developments for a school (details supplied) given the appointment of a consultant...
- School Staff
248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of substitute teachers from supply panels who have been deployed since schools have reopened by county, in tabular form; and if she...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Fuel Poverty
249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons in receipt of the benefit for a 65 year-old payment are not entitled to the fuel allowance payment; if she...
- Social Welfare Schemes
250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of the benefit for a 65 year-old payment will receive the Christmas bonus; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Payments
251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the eligibility criteria that bar persons in receipt of illness benefit from receiving the fuel allowance...
- Pension Provisions
252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her engagement in dealing with the issue of pensions for community scheme supervisors; and if she will make a...
- Youth Unemployment
253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to tackle youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48640/21]
- School Meals Programme
254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48641/21]
- Community Employment Schemes
255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the decision to change the tendering process to "for profit" as in the case of the recent...
- Social Welfare Appeals
257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Rates
260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the income limits for the fuel allowance in budget 2022 given the rising cost of fuel prices. [48781/21]
- Departmental Data
261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints made under her Department'’s customer charter against social welfare inspectors in each of...
- Social Welfare Schemes
262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered broadening the fuel allowance qualifying conditions to include those partaking in the community...
- General Register Office
265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time for registering a birth and registering a death; and the number of applications awaiting...
- Departmental Data
266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of child benefit; and the number of applications currently waiting to be...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of PPS numbers; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed....
- Covid-19 Pandemic
268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the offices under her Department that remain closed to the public due to Covid-19. [48948/21]
- Civil Registration Service
269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the civil registration office in Dublin remains closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48949/21]
- Child Poverty
270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures undertaken to prevent and alleviate poverty during childhood; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Community Employment Schemes
271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter relating to the community employment scheme (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Policies
272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to respond to the various demands received in pre-budget 2022 submissions...
- Social Welfare Schemes
273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current and expected position regarding the age at which applicants may qualify for the old age pension in the future,...
- Social Welfare Appeals
274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department can accommodate earlier processing of appeals in respect of all categories of payment...
- Social Welfare Rates
275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can foresee an increase in the various allowances operated by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
- State Pensions
276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the State pension, contributory; the extent to which this number is likely to...
- Departmental Data
277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in...
- Social Welfare Payments
279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of invalidity pension; the extent to which the number has fluctuated over the past two years...
- Social Welfare Appeals
285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals filed in respect of decisions made under the headings of jobseeker’s allowance, disability...
- Social Welfare Payments
287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons aged 100 years or more in Ireland and in receipt of an appropriate social welfare payment or have...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision has been made for public sector employees reaching mandatory retirement age prior...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Rights of People with Disabilities
292. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether Ireland is fully honouring its commitments under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons...
- Childcare Services
293. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to address the serious challenges in staff recruitment and retention within...
- Parental Leave
294. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with employers to encourage them to top-up employee parent’s leave rates to encourage...
- Paternity Leave
295. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to encourage the take-up of paternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Strategies
296. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made under First 5, the whole-of Government strategy for babies, young children and their families;...
- Youth Unemployment
297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he has undertaken within his remit to address the issue of youth employment and youth...
- Asylum Seekers
298. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement by his Department with children within the asylum system; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Childcare Services
299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase funding for the childcare sector in Budget 2022. [48756/21]
- Youth Services
300. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the submission from an organisation (details supplied) with its business plan for the...
- Child Protection
301. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the protections that have been put in place and-or the consultation he or Tusla have with An Garda...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the current payscale for early year and childcare workers and ensure that they are paid a...
- Departmental Funding
304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if information regarding potential avenues of State funding from his Department will be provided to a service in...
- Child Protection
307. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which adequate support is available to children at risk in all situations throughout the country;...
- Equality Issues
310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department continues to monitor any breaches of equality legislation whether of a...
- Departmental Data
311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places available to children or women who may find themselves in need of secure...
- Disability Services
312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the degree to which he and his Department have received pre-Budget 2022 submissions from the disability sector...
- Youth Services
316. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent of the dialogue his Department has had with the youth sector throughout the country over the past...
- Disadvantaged Status
320. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department continues to monitor children deemed to be disadvantaged; his plans in...
- Domestic Violence
321. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a refuge centre for victims of domestic abuse will be established in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2022; the...
- Vaccination Programme
322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if birth parents of children in care have a say in the administration of the Covid-19 vaccine to their children...
- Departmental Data
324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of newborn babies under two weeks old taken into State care in each Tusla service area in each of the...
- Children in Care
326. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children taken into State care in each Tusla service area in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to...
- Guardians Ad Litem
327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total spend on guardian ad litem arrangements in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the...
- Youth Services
328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commit to increasing investment in youth services in line with the proposals of the National Youth...
- Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied migrant minors who have gone missing while under Tusla’s care annually since...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
330. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions his Department has had with regard to provision for additional capacity across the education...
- Youth Services
331. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding his Department will be providing to re-engage young people with youth services and to increase...
- Youth Unemployment
332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proactive steps his Department will take over the next 12 months to address youth unemployment in Ireland;...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Costs
333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene to increase grant support for students unable to secure accommodation and forced to commute. [48755/21]
- Grant Payments
334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who received SUSI grants in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Admissions
337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take regarding a CAO appeal by a person (details supplied). [48965/21]
- Science Foundation Ireland
339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to offer the positions of director and chief scientific adviser at Science Foundation Ireland to the same person; his views on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Proposed Legislation
340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish a gambling control Bill; and the reason for the delay given the commitments made by the Government that...
- Residency Permits
341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter in relation to a stamp three holder (details supplied). [48793/21]
- Departmental Data
342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of fixed charge penalty notices issued for illegal parking offences issued in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in...
- Departmental Priorities
343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to promote high-visibility policing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48853/21]
- Cybersecurity Policy
344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will determine the steps the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau and the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau are taking...
- An Garda Síochána
345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount and volume of drugs and cash seized by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in...
- Asylum Applications
347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in respect of the offices which were acquired by her Department in Cork city and county over two years ago...
- An Garda Síochána
348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of armed support unit raids there have been on family homes and dwellings in each of the years since 2015 to date....
- Judicial Appointments
354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of District Court judges appointed in County Kildare; the number of cases that are in a backlog to date in 2021; and...
- Immigration Status
355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date that has taken place in the case of a person (details supplied); if a particular person or persons have...
- Courts Service
356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to ensure that the Courts Service is permitted to release photographs of persons convicted of murder and other...
- Humanitarian Access
358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forward the commencement date of the humanitarian admissions programme for Afghan nationals to October 2021,...
- Department of Health
- Pension Provisions
360. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 organisations will be recognised for their invaluable work for communities by delivering parity of treatment in relation to pensions for workers;...
- Departmental Funding
361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the required funding is made available to safeguard the necessary services, ensure lifelong supports for persons with intellectual and...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
362. To ask the Minister for Health if a monitor will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48742/21]
- Disability Services
363. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of assessments of need completed under the Disability Act 2005 that included a diagnosis of a disability, on an annual basis in 2018, 2019 and...
- Tobacco Control Measures
367. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the total public expenditure committed to the Tobacco Free Ireland initiative in 2019 and 2020 within his Department, the health and well-being...
- Health Services
368. To ask the Minister for Health the day care centres that are back in operation for an area (details supplied); the centres that are not open; and the reason for same, in tabular form. [48753/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
372. To ask the Minister for Health if instructions will be in place regarding wearing facemasks for transport workers and others in which close contact is unavoidable after the lifting of...
- Medicinal Products
373. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding in Budget 2022 to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years...
- Vaccination Programme
376. To ask the Minister for Health if a student (details supplied) can receive a HPV vaccination under the HPV vaccination programme in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
377. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [48766/21]
- Proposed Legislation
378. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for impending legislation to be enacted regarding the diagnosis of an autistic child by a psychologist or health professional (details supplied)....
- Mental Health Services
379. To ask the Minister for Health if all necessary supports including additional staff, clinicians and administration staff, training for staff and all necessary clinic resources have been put...
- Hospital Appointments Status
380. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48777/21]
- Cross-Border Co-operation
381. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 431 of 13 May 2021, the reason data is not recorded on referral centres in relation to applications for prior...
- Health Services
383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of persons that are waiting to be seen in the national gender service by CHO, LHO and age group; and if he will make a statement...
- Medicinal Products
385. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to remove the age restriction on funding for the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system for persons with diabetes over the age...
- Care Services
386. To ask the Minister for Health if it is his Department’s policy that HSE funding committed to persons in healthcare and residential facilities must be accounted for and spent solely...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
387. To ask the Minister for Health if there are consequences in place if a venue has breached the guidelines by not checking EU Digital COVID Certificates while admitting persons to the...
- Hospital Services
388. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan is to reduce its accident and emergency services from 24 hours to 12 hours...
- Hospital Staff
390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48813/21]
- Health Service Executive
393. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding for Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Services
394. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients diverted from Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan accident and emergency to Our Lady’s Hospital, Drogheda accident and emergency in...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
396. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans for the new regional hospital which is to be located in Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48820/21]
- Hospital Services
399. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan has been under resourced and understaffed in a planned manner designed to...
- Health Services
400. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reopening of a day-care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48830/21]
- Mental Health Services
401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a counselling appointment in primary care; the average waiting time in each CHO area from 2019 to date in 2021, in tabular...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
403. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 29 September 2021, if his plans to roll-out the EU Digital COVID Certificate to Irish citizens vaccinated outside...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
404. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with a consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48838/21]
- Disability Services
405. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a place in a suitable day facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48839/21]
- Budget Process
406. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a budget submission from organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48844/21]
- Disability Services
407. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding provided to the HSE for residential provision in the disability sector is so limited that only 56 new emergency residential placements could...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
408. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19 treatments which are currently in use in Ireland; if each has full approval or emergency approval; the date each treatment came into use in...
- Home Help Service
409. To ask the Minister for Health if home help will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48848/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will note correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the proposed pandemic payment for healthcare workers; his views on the fact that these workers...
- Care Services
411. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that respite services are restored for a person (details supplied) as soon as possible. [48858/21]
- Vaccination Programme
412. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to persisting issues with the portal for those vaccinated in Northern Ireland to apply for an EU Digital COVID Certificate; the...
- Health Services
413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for audiology appointments in the CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48876/21]
- Medicinal Products
422. To ask the Minister for Health when zolgesma will be approved for use here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48897/21]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
423. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has made no provision in its budgets for the provision to a person (details supplied) of a brace; if he will request the HSE provide the...
- Disability Services
424. To ask the Minister for Health if the budget provided to an association (details supplied) will be substantially increased in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Funding
425. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a substantially increased budget for respite services for persons using the services of an association (details supplied); and if he will...
- Hospital Staff
427. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 696, 697, 698; 711 and 747 of 15 September 2021, when the National Consultant Appointments Advisory Committee will...
- Departmental Properties
429. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a closed facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48950/21]
- Patient Safety
430. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the serious situation in relation to patient safety (details supplied) in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) receives the medical attention they require; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48956/21]
- Abortion Services
432. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out on the possible negative effects of the greater use of telemedicine during the Covid-19 pandemic for interaction with...
- Vaccination Programme
433. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of young girls and boys who received a dose of the HPV vaccine in 2020 and to date in 2021. [49018/21]
- Hospital Staff
437. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to appoint nine extra neurology nurse specialists at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49024/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
438. To ask the Minister for Health if the €100 pandemic payment for clinical placements will be paid to student nurses and midwives this academic year; if not, the financial supports that...
- Hospital Charges
439. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider removing carpark charges for cancer parents as per the pre-Budgetary 2022 by an organisation (details supplied) request in view of the...
- Hospital Staff
440. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the shortfall of eight neurological nurses in University Hospital Limerick as highlighted by a group (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Hospital Charges
442. To ask the Minister for Health the gross sum of in-patient charges charged by the HSE across all hospitals in 2020. [49032/21]
- Mental Health Services
445. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made with regard to the Programme for Government commitment to extend the remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund to secure timely...
- Disabilities Assessments
446. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children as of 1 October 2021 or latest date available that were awaiting a first assessment of need from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005...
- Disability Services
447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional residential places, respite nights and new emergency residential placements for people with a disability that have been made available...
- Health Services Staff
449. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the staffing deficits of over 168.91 whole-time equivalent HSCP posts that exist across the children disability network teams in CHO4 when...
- Hospital Facilities
450. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the upgrade of Dunmanway hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49064/21]
- Vaccination Programme
451. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the HPV vaccine. [49068/21]
- Health Service Executive
452. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to engage with a committee (details supplied) in a meaningful way to resolve the current issues; and if he will make a statement on...
- Assisted Decision-Making
453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason section 83 of the Assisted Decision Making Capacity Act 2015 has not been commenced; the timeline for the commencement of same; and if he will make...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Industry
454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to introduce measures to address concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Agriculture Schemes
455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48773/21]
- Nitrates Usage
456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding farmers in slurry derogation areas; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Agriculture Schemes
457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48852/21]
- Nitrates Usage
458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had regarding the draft nitrates action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48857/21]
- Departmental Data
459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of areas of specific constraint (islands) payments by county; the average payment by county; the...
- Agriculture Schemes
460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided to knowledge transfer schemes for each year from 2016 to date in tabular form; the individual schemes...
- Horse Racing Industry
462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided to Horse Sport Ireland from 2016 to date in tabular form; the purpose of the allocation by year; and if he will...
- Agriculture Schemes
463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if equal recognition and opportunities will be provided for equine farmers through access to TAMS schemes; and if he will make a...
- Horse Racing Industry
465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect the equine industry’s integrity through the National Equine Anti-Doping Programme; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if full attendances at racecourses will be moved forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48926/21]
- Agriculture Schemes
468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will introduce frost reconstitution in order that young plantations heavily effected by late spring frost can...
- Semi-State Bodies
470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the appropriateness of a semi-State body under his remit receiving sponsorship form a betting company (details...
- Live Exports
471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the animal welfare assurances he has put in place for the recent trade deal involving the transport of live breeding pigs to another...
- Horticulture Sector
472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the withdrawal of an organisation (details supplied) from discussions surrounding industrial hemp; and if he will...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
473. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of town and village renewal applications (details supplied). [48743/21]
- Seirbhísí Oileán
474. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development an bhfuil sí ar an eolas nár sheol an bád lasta ó Ros a’Mhíl chuig Inis Meáin Dé hAoine seo...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
475. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application to the Covid stability fund (details supplied). [48749/21]
- Departmental Schemes
476. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a public funding stream under her Department is available for an entrepreneur to develop a town centre market and social area on...
