Written answers

Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has considered establishing a commission to consider the constitutional future of Ireland. [47289/21]
    • State Bodies
      2. To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; and if there are any agencies under his...
    • Office of the Attorney General
      3. To ask the Taoiseach the full title and record number of each and every set of legal proceedings including commissions, inquiries and inspections in which the Attorney General has acted as...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      6. To ask the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for Q3 2021 on his Department’s website. [48959/21]
    • National Development Plan
      7. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage at present or are...
    • Departmental Data
      9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of women on each board; and...
    • National Development Plan
      11. To ask the Taoiseach the annual allocated funding as provided for in the National Development Plan for each project from 2021 to 2030 through the shared island fund in tabular form. [49880/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      16. To ask the Taoiseach the funding and strategic supports his Department and the shared island unit will provide to the North West City Region initiative. [49898/21]
    • National Development Plan
      20. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department and the shared island unit in increasing air connectivity on the island as committed to in the National Development Plan 2021-2030. [49903/21]
    • Office of the Attorney General
      21. To ask the Taoiseach the full complement of secretarial services available to the Office of the Attorney General; and the full breakdown of the costs associated with these services. [49906/21]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he plans to expand the work permit scheme; if he will consider the pig industry having regard to the concern...
    • Data Centres
      24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to introducing environmental policy and guidelines in relation to data centres in conjunction and...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a number of employees that have been deemed unable to return to their place of work full-time by...
    • National Development Plan
      26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at...
    • Departmental Communications
      27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when additional advice (details supplied) will be issued to employers and employees in relation to the return to the workplace. [49474/21]
    • Employment Rights
      28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to engage with payroll software developers in the planned roll-out of statutory sick pay for 2022;...
    • Departmental Data
      30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the...
    • Trade Data
      32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of eucalyptus imports in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49613/21]
    • Regional Development
      33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the taskforce established to focus on the development of the Shannon Estuary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Court Procedures
      35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the State’s defence of the Court challenge taken against the employment regulation order for the security...
    • Departmental Contracts
      36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to...
    • Departmental Meetings
      37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any meetings which he or officials of his Department have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to address a matter (details supplied) in relation to vaccinations in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for high-speed broadband in their area; and if he will...
    • National Development Plan
      40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National...
    • Waste Management
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the location to which waste is shipped from the Port of Cork by a company (details supplied). [49330/21]
    • Grant Payments
      43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to allow for part insulation grants through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to cater for...
    • Fuel Quality
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the strategy to address the sale of domestic solid fuels that do not meet the pollution and emission standards that will...
    • Departmental Reports
      45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the Interdepartmental Group for the Delivery of Offline Services report; if he has received a...
    • State Bodies
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an applicant is required to submit any other material (details supplied) when applying to the Environmental...
    • Departmental Data
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish his Department’s new national implementation plan for the United Nations sustainable...
    • Departmental Schemes
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will reopen the better energy home deep retrofit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49574/21]
    • Departmental Data
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected yearly percentage decrease in the use of fossil fuel products by category as a result of the increasing...
    • Departmental Contracts
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication...
    • Turf Cutting
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the regulatory measures that are being considered as part of an examination into the use of harvest peat sod; and if he...
    • Grant Payments
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a decision has been made on an application for approval of a thermodynamic solar hot water system for the better...
    • Departmental Consultations
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns of concerned communities regarding the limitations of the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the microgeneration support scheme will be introduced; if he envisages any delays; and if he will make a statement...
    • Environmental Schemes
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of smart meters across the country; the number of households that have had smart meters...
    • Climate Change Policy
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the funding from the Climate Action Fund will be made available in 2021 including for the community climate action...
    • Environmental Policy
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to put in place a countrywide, sector-wide just transition commission on a statutory footing; and if he will...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Rail Network
      59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the all-island strategic rail review will be launched. [49897/21]
    • Electric Vehicles
      60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the roll-out of the EV charger infrastructure across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49911/21]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish all assessments and correspondence received by him or his Department from TII in relation to the N26 second phase as...
    • Rail Network
      62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the carrying out and completion of the All-Island Rail Review; the provisions he has made for the completion of the...
    • Cycling Facilities
      63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a full update in respect of completion of the pedestrian and cycle connections on all sections of the Sallins bypass;...
    • Bus Services
      64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make any of the current bus routes in Galway city run on a 24-hour basis as has been done with a number of Dublin Bus routes;...
    • Rail Network
      65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline for the strategic rail review; if the western rail corridor forms part of the review; when he expects a draft...
    • Cycling Policy
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the policy for bike sharing outside of Dublin; if the NTA will continue investing in station-based bike sharing schemes for the...
    • National Development Plan
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which projects that fall under his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage;...
    • Cycling Policy
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the current regulations regarding the use of bicycle lights; if there is a minimum or maximum flash rate...
    • Transport Costs
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49315/21]
    • Road Projects
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on prioritising a by-pass of Tipperary town as part of the N24 project; the reason there was no mention of same in the National...
    • Rail Network
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail will increase the number of carriages from four to six on the 17:20 Galway to Dublin train. [49366/21]
    • EU Regulations
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the system of supplementary charging for suitcases and so on by airlines is subject to any regulation, either nationally or at EU...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the lifting of restrictions in October 2021 will also remove the restriction on accessing sanitary and toilet facilities at driver test...
    • Driver Licences
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the delay in the processing of a licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when regulations and or legislation in respect of e-scooters will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49385/21]
    • Road Network
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) who had the M8 motorway built through their land over 15 years ago will receive their final payment; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a question by this Deputy at the Oireachtas Select Committee on Transport and Communications of 29 September 2021 (details...
    • Rail Network
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the railway station in Killbarry, Blackpool, County Cork will be reopened. [49521/21]
    • Bus Éireann
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a LocalLink bus service will be provided for the Kilcully and the upper Glanmire areas in Cork. [49522/21]
    • Departmental Data
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the...
    • Driver Licences
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test application by a person (details supplied) will expedited given the applicant requires the test for work purposes; and...
    • Road Projects
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be granted to Galway County Council following its application for funding for the Derrarthe Móre Road, Carraroe,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to...
    • Departmental Priorities
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts he is making to support the transition from private car to public transport for commuters to third-level education; and if he...
    • Public Transport
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the Leap card does not apply in Laytown and Gormanston but does in north County Wicklow, both equidistant from Connolly...
    • Bus Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that all public bus services that serve rural areas have the capacity to transport bikes. [49871/21]
    • Driver Test
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driver theory test in County Wicklow by month in 2021, to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of reports that have been commissioned over the past 20 years to examine the potential reopening of the Western Rail Corridor...
  • Department of Finance
    • Sports Funding
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance if the underspend from the stay and spend scheme will be considered to go toward sports capital grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49087/21]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 21 September 2021, the criteria under which criteria psychologists, who are awaiting regulation by CORU under the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to fully extended tax relief to accredited counselling and psychotherapy professionals as a qualifying health expense in Budget 2022 and the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a copy of the Statistical Report for the Special Assignee Relief Programme 2019 by the Revenue Commissioners; when the report will be...
    • Banking Sector
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he or his officials have had with a bank (details supplied) in relation to lifting the pay cap in view of comments by its CEO; and if the pay...
    • Insurance Industry
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in respect of public liability insurance in the context of start-up businesses and existing businesses (details supplied) being...
    • Tax Collection
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance if a local property tax return can be made through the post using a hard copy form; if his attention has been drawn to difficulties faced by taxpayers who are...
    • Tax Code
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance the justification for the 4% interest charged per annum on deferred local property tax in cases in which the Revenue Commissioners make a determination that a...
    • National Development Plan
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which projects that fall under his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage; the extent to which...
    • Banking Sector
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance if a decision has been made on whether to extend the banking levy considering the last payment under the legislation is to be made no later than the 20...
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of REITs operating in the Irish market; and the number of properties held by these REITs. [49326/21]
    • Departmental Data
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of property purchases, residential and rental, which included the purchase of more than ten properties in each of the years 2015 to 2020. [49328/21]
    • Banking Sector
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of automatic teller machines closed by county in each of the past five years; and the number which were installed in each of the past five years by...
    • Tax Appeals Commission
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of recruiting four additional assistant principal officer case managers for the Tax Appeals Commission. [49367/21]
    • Tax Code
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unlike commercial landlords, owner-occupiers and social landlords cannot write-off their defects levies...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses availing of debt warehousing with the Revenue Commissioners; the total amount of debt that is warehoused; if the Revenue...
    • Housing Schemes
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to extend the help to buy scheme to include second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49446/21]
    • Horticulture Sector
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the financial difficulties and need for special relief for glasshouse growers in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Fuel Quality
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the Revenue Commissioners plan to deal with the sale and supply of domestic solid fuels that do not comply with Ireland's new emission standards that...
    • Departmental Meetings
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the engagements his officials have had with the Revenue Commissioners in respect of the IIP in the context of common...
    • Departmental Data
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of women on each...
    • Court Judgments
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the qualification criteria for the disabled drivers tax concessions scheme is currently being carried out in view of a recent Supreme Court...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received correspondence (details supplied); the status of a response being issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49623/21]
    • Departmental Data
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected revenue of the carbon tax receipts in each of the years from 2021 to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49632/21]
    • Banking Sector
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure a bank must follow in instances in which it proposes to close a retail bank premises in which the State has an interest; and the degree to which...
    • Departmental Contracts
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the...
    • Tax Code
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal outlined in the European Commission public consultation on updating the rules on excise duties for manufactured tobacco products for...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Development Plan
      133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the source of funding for the National Development Plan over the next ten years. [49241/21]
    • Agriculture Industry
      134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to allocate revenue generated from the carbon tax to farmers; the timeline he envisages for this distribution; and if he will...
    • Parking Provision
      135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans and actions taken to date to enhance availability of and to ensure priority to disabled parking, parking for the elderly and...
    • National Development Plan
      136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the overpayment of rent to the landlords for the building from which the Department of Health operates on Baggot Street;...
    • Pension Provisions
      138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider an increase for the D1 stamp fixed pension recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49341/21]
    • Flood Risk Management
      139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way flood that risk maps are created; the way a person who is of the view that their area has incorrectly been included in a flood...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is internal correspondence in relation to a person (details supplied); if so, if that documentation will be made available to...
    • Departmental Data
      141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the...
    • Brexit Supports
      142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Ireland’s share of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, which is approximately €1 billion, will be targeted at the Border...
    • Departmental Contracts
      143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Census of Population
      144. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the preparatory work that has been done to date for digitisation and uploading of the 1926 census in line with the Statistics Act...
    • National Development Plan
      145. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of her Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are...
    • Irish Language
      146. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that her Department proposes to promote the use of the Irish language through the development of a network of Irish...
    • Departmental Funding
      147. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the method by which applications can be made for the large-scale sport infrastructure fund; the timeframe for same; and if she...
    • Departmental Bodies
      148. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department that have boards in which members have an obligation to appear...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      149. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when restrictions on the use of sports grounds changing facilities will be reviewed to allow for whole teams to collectively use...
    • Arts Policy
      150. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the proposed universal basic income pilot scheme for those working in the arts industry; when it will commence; and...
    • Departmental Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of State boards under the remit of her Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board;...
    • Grant Payments
      152. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a grant for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49670/21]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      153. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 5 October 2021, the amount of additional funding mentioned that is specifically being...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      154. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the source of the €65 million additional spending for sporting organisations as announced recently by her Department; if...
    • Departmental Contracts
      155. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020...
    • National Sports Policy Framework
      156. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made in achieving Action 6 of the National Sports Policy 2018-2027. [49869/21]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Tourism Industry
      158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action being taken to provide tourist facilities at Liscarton Castle, Navan, County Meath. [49233/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the total funding currently committed to by Government for the Narrow Water Bridge for 2021, 2022 and each...
    • Legislative Measures
      161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 21 September 2021 and responses to recommendations 1 and 2 in the table, the...
    • Constituency Commission
      162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review constituency boundaries considering the recent population estimates (details supplied). [49152/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding information received in respect of a complaint made in respect of agencies in his Department to the...
    • Housing Provision
      164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an estimated completion date for the review of income eligibility for social housing (details supplied);...
    • Culture Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there are no interpretation facilities for the Tailteann Games at Tailteann, Downpatrick, County Meath. [49229/21]
    • National Development Plan
      170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan...
    • Housing Schemes
      171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken a study into the age profiles of those in receipt of the housing assistance payment. [49294/21]
    • Departmental Data
      174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social houses built in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the cost of the social housing by unit. [49324/21]
    • Housing Schemes
      176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to deal with the growing problem of persons on HAP receiving rent increases in cases in which their HAP...
    • Wildlife Protection
      177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns with the construction of windfarms on sandbanks on the east coast of Ireland and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a series of queries raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of businesses that did not qualify for rates waivers...
    • Departmental Data
      179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the performance of each local authority with respect to their housing supply targets in each of the years...
    • Housing Schemes
      180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the incorporation of the serviced sites fund into the affordable housing fund; his further views on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are supports for retirees in receipt of the State pension whose homes may be affected by pyrite but do not have the...
    • Housing Schemes
      182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to cases whereby individuals and couples who wish to purchase a second-hand home but earn...
    • Fire Service
      184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase funding to replace the Dublin Fire Brigade fleet of vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each...
    • Fire Stations
      187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding providing facilities for a fire station at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Regional Development
      188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if city and county development plans must be consistent with the relevant regional, spatial and economic strategy and relevant...
    • Fire Service
      189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of hydraulic turntable ladders available to the Dublin Fire Brigade; when each was acquired; the location from...
    • Housing Schemes
      191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to exceptions to the clawback provision in the context of affordable housing which was put in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in...
    • Building Regulations
      193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the process which describes the testing and analysis of concrete block and poured concrete cement mix in Ireland...
    • Housing Schemes
      194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that any scheme for the remediation of homes with pyrite or MICA in the block work will not be limited on a...
    • Planning Issues
      195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is intended to have public consultations as part of the planning legislation review that was announced on 28 September...
    • Housing Schemes
      196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable rental homes that will be completed by the end of 2021 via the cost rental equity loan. [49818/21]
    • Planning Issues
      199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the completion and publication of the updated guidelines for rural planning that were due to be published in Q1...
    • Housing Policy
      200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the 2021 housing needs assessment report will be published by the Housing Agency. [49822/21]
    • Departmental Data
      201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to Limerick City and County Council for emergency accommodation for 2020 and 2021; and the amount spent...
    • Planning Issues
      202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if exemptions to planning permission fees will be provided for a community and school seeking planning permission to put in...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the establishment of a citizens’ assembly on biodiversity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Data
      204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the Government’s Reconciliation Fund for 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [49901/21]
    • Passport Services
      205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49086/21]
    • Museum Projects
      207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to ensure the survival of a museum (details supplied). [49133/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will examine the applications of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49203/21]
    • Departmental Priorities
      209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the travel arrangements he is making to Ireland for Afghan nationals with visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49221/21]
    • National Development Plan
      210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an...
    • Passport Services
      212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number or estimated number of Irish citizens whose passports expired while they were resident abroad during the Covid-19 pandemic. [49292/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when persons (details supplied) will receive a decision on their Irish citizenship application which was submitted in April 2020; and if he...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the approval of passports for the children of a family (details supplied) who have been approved on the foreign births register will be...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to make an official visit to Singapore before the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49469/21]
    • Foreign Policy
      218. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 30 September 2021, his views on the need for concrete measures to dissuade the Israeli...
    • Departmental Data
      222. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if partial processing of foreign birth registrations can resume at level 5 given that many persons who submitted applications for foreign...
    • Departmental Contracts
      225. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date...
    • Departmental Meetings
      226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any meetings which he or his officials have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or pharmaceutical...
    • Foreign Policy
      228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the conflict in Yemen and the efforts Ireland is making at both an EU level and on the UN Security Council to attempt to...
  • Department of Defence
    • National Development Plan
      230. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an...
    • Naval Service
      231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the Naval Service vessel renewal and replacement programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49275/21]
    • Air Corps
      232. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an overview of the Air Corps aircraft renewal and replacement programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49276/21]
    • Defence Forces
      233. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel who departed or left the Defence Forces in each of the past five years to date in 2021. [49331/21]
    • Departmental Meetings
      237. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date that the Spanish air attaché visited Casement Aerodrome in the spring of 1992; and the rank and names of the foreign personnel...
    • Defence Forces
      238. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant promotions positions waiting to be filled in the Defence Forces as of 4 October 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      240. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      241. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in...
    • Departmental Properties
      242. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the organisations operating out of Columb Barracks that have a lease. [49924/21]
    • Departmental Data
      244. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the prescribing figures for malarone, doxycycline and lariam for overseas service in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [49926/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education Schemes
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2022 of increasing the funding for the school completion programme by 10%. [49364/21]
    • School Transport
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that is being made regarding the review of the school bus service; when the review will be completed; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the way a programme could become embedded into national education policy; and...
    • School Transport
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering returning school transport to full capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49159/21]
    • Education and Training Provision
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home tuition has not yet been sanctioned for a pupil (details supplied); when it is likely to be sanctioned given that this tutorage...
    • Special Educational Needs
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit will be provided at a school (details supplied); the timetable for this to be announced; and if she...
    • School Staff
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deal with the lack of second level teachers in Dublin city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49204/21]
    • Education Policy
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reduce class sizes at primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49206/21]
    • School Staff
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in restoring middle management positions at primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49207/21]
    • Capitation Grants
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the capitation grant per pupil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49218/21]
    • School Facilities
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the commencement and progression of the deep energy retrofit for schools built prior to 2008 to deliver on 2030 and 2050...
    • School Staff
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the recent decision by her Department to stop allowing banking special education teacher hours lost by lack of substitute...
    • School Transport
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if queries raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of a bus escort query will receive a response; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will undertake a full technical inspection to consider the current state of a school building (details supplied); and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be granted a transfer to a school in order that they can avail of a place in its ASD unit. [49243/21]
    • National Development Plan
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of her Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced...
    • Schools Building Projects
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new post-primary school for Sallynoggin and Cherrywood, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the recent Departmental decision to stop the banking of special education teacher hours lost by a lack of substitute availability...
    • Schools Building Projects
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a plan to extend the temporary accommodation for schools (details supplied) given the land ownership issues that are delaying the...
    • School Transport
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects the 50% capacity rule for school transport to be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49335/21]
    • School Costs
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) requires a €100 admission fee in order to apply for placement at the school; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to amend procedures to permit adult escorts such as special needs assistants to accompany children in their care on mainstream...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated net cost to the Exchequer of funding fee paying schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49381/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the impact of the decision by her Department to stop banking SET hours lost by the lack of substitute...
    • School Accommodation
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total costs her Department has incurred on temporary accommodation land, prefabs and former educational buildings in County Wicklow in each...
    • Schools Building Projects
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full review of the overall process for the handover of a new school building will be undertaken by her Department as a result of the...
    • School Patronage
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress which has been made in evaluating the potential in local areas in which there is a substantial demand for non-religious education...
    • School Equipment
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49409/21]
    • School Accommodation
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to provide additional funding for the inclusion of ASD classrooms in a school (details supplied). [49423/21]
    • School Transport
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a family (details supplied) in County Kerry is eligible for a special education school transport grant; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Facilities
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the primary school library fund will be reinstated in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49479/21]
    • School Accommodation
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the urgency of providing additional classroom accommodation for a school (details supplied) given the need for six additional...
    • Departmental Data
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of State boards under the remit of her Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of...
    • Departmental Strategies
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish her Department’s new strategy for education for sustainable development. [49571/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the situation in which children who have moderate to severe additional speech and language and occupational therapy needs are placed...
    • School Staff
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will retain the developing school post at a school (details supplied) in which the risk of losing a teacher will result in classroom...
    • Special Educational Needs
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the needs of children that have moderate to severe requirement for additional speech and language and occupational therapy...
    • School Curriculum
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to proposals by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment that appear to suggest a change in the Irish...
    • Education and Training Boards
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of buildings being rented by the CMETB in County Cavan; the address of each building; and the cost to rent these per annum. [49681/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary schools will take into account the difficulties that many transition year students face in trying to get relevant work experience at...
    • School Staff
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which teacher's salary payments for the summer programme is marked as autistic programme; if...
    • School Transport
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the concessionary scheme for a family (details supplied). [49700/21]
    • School Staff
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in relation to the terms and conditions of school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Patronage
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 375 of 5 October 2021, the part the absence of non-denominational and coeducational schools play in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in...
    • School Transport
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of those eligible for school transport applicants that had or have not yet secured a place on a bus due to late payment of fees by...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay with works at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; the schedule of works to deliver this project; and if she...
    • School Equipment
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a tablet device that was agreed to be supplied to a child (details supplied) will be delivered to their school. [49789/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been unable to begin their long-awaited education in a specialised setting despite the school being...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that payslips relating to remuneration for the summer programme are no longer annotated as autistic programme and that a more...
    • School Transport
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the journey time of a person (details supplied) to school is taking so long; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49882/21]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Pension Provisions
      312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      313. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for parents seeking PPS numbers for newly registered births; her plans to address any delays; and if...
    • Registration of Births
      314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans due to delays experienced by parents trying to register their child’s birth resulting in a delay in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a recipient of disability allowance who is not married, a civil partner or a cohabiting with another person and is...
    • Pensions Reform
      316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the total contributions approach for calculating the State pension (contributory)...
    • Education Schemes
      317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the rules relating to a course (details supplied) in Ulster University, Coleraine, County Derry; if it...
    • Fuel Prices
      318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider that all persons aged 70 and over qualify for the fuel allowance to reflect the increased cost of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a carer's benefit review will be processed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a carer’s payment application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if the decision can...
    • National Development Plan
      321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of her Department and are within the revised National Development...
    • Disability Services
      322. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if increasing the rate of domiciliary care allowance has been considered with regard to the cost of disability and the cost...
    • Fuel Poverty
      323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to include recipients of the part-time job...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered a pre-budget submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49390/21]
    • Redundancy Payments
      325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provision that her Department made for redundancy payments accruing from postponed redundancies from 2020 and to date in...
    • Pension Provisions
      326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for non-contributory pensions was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49426/21]
    • Employment Support Services
      328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the arrangement between her Department and local employment service providers constitutes contracts of indefinite...
    • Pension Provisions
      330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made in negotiations on the pension entitlements of community employment supervisors; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the back to education allowance can be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Data
      335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons deemed eligible for the fuel allowance in Dublin 1, 3, 7 and 9 in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to...
    • Fuel Poverty
      337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to protect vulnerable persons from the risk of fuel and energy poverty owing to the rising cost of...
    • Pension Provisions
      338. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the UK contributions of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry were considered in the assessment of their State...
    • Departmental Data
      339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of State boards under the remit of her Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each...
    • Employment Support Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that are being taken to address the staffing shortages in the Ballymun Intreo office (details supplied); and if she...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to raise the income limits for the fuel allowance given the increasing cost of fuel. [49676/21]
    • Departmental Contracts
      344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and value of all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in...
    • Departmental Functions
      345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the phone service of her Department for queries for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas will resume which was moved...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will disregard half-rate carer's allowance as income as part of the means test for the fuel allowance when the income...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      347. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the rights of persons with disabilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      348. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes contains so little...
    • Equality Issues
      349. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will seek State funding to the yellow flag programme run by an organisation (details supplied) to build a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid to a company (details supplied) annually; the number of children involved in each of the years...
    • Child Safety
      353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will view toddlers and babies being delivered to emergency foster care with no cot, food or...
    • Equality Issues
      354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the way an innovative, intercultural solution...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      356. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 488 of 5 October 2021, the number of minors, not being unaccompanied...
    • National Development Plan
      358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised national...
    • Child and Family Agency
      359. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Tusla front-line social worker vacancies in areas (details supplied) in June 2021, in tabular...
    • Maternity Leave
      360. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide paid maternity leave for women who have experienced a miscarriage; and if he will make a...
    • Economic and Social Research Institute
      361. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the recent Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report which found that just 36% of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of hiring an extra 400 social workers and 160 aftercare workers, respectively. [49363/21]
    • Departmental Data
      363. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      364. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood care and education, ECCE-only childcare providers, that are providers that do not...
    • Departmental Funding
      365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the programmes, further supports and initiatives that are funded under programme B:5 sectoral programmes for...
    • Direct Provision System
      366. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address matters raised in correspondence in relation to the direct provision system (details...
    • Rights of the Child
      367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will include the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography from...
    • Disability Services
      368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to revaluate the ECCE capitation for childcare providers to reflect the increased cost of living and...
    • Departmental Contracts
      370. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior...
    • Disability Services
      371. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled persons organisations as defined by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
    • International Agreements
      372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Disability Participation and Consultation Network meets the State’s obligations under Article 4(3)...
    • Child Safety
      373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a risk assessment has yet to be carried out in a case (details supplied); if he will raise the issue...
    • Child Protection
      374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the case of a child (details supplied) currently has no social worker appointed to it given that the...
    • Child Abuse
      375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of alleged perpetrator risk assessments for sexual abuse required and pending in each area in tabular...
    • Child Protection
      376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently without a designated social worker; the length of time they have been waiting...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education Policy
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline of the formulation of the national access plan for 2022-2026. [49411/21]
    • Education Schemes
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give consideration to reviewing the way the pandemic unemployment payment is assessed as income earned outside of term time for the...
    • Education Costs
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 545 of 28 September 2021, if he will provide further detail and an explanation for the increase in the...
    • Education Policy
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department plans to undertake a universal design review of all further education and higher education institutions in Ireland; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of...
    • Education Policy
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on removing the residency criteria from the free fees initiative. [49597/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the €105 million for the third-level sector to safely return in September 2021 announced on 21 July 2021 that has been paid...
    • Education Policy
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a report has been submitted to his Department regarding a new campus for Cavan Institute, Cathedral Road, Drumalee, County Cavan; and if the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in...
    • Student Unions
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a student union food bank (details supplied) running out of food for students due to over demand in less than an hour. [49864/21]
    • Education Schemes
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant aid is available for a person (details supplied) who is a single mother returning to education who does not qualify for a SUSI grant;...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Citizenship Applications
      396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49089/21]
    • Crime Prevention
      398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of text alert groups registered with An Garda Síochána by county in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49088/21]
    • Departmental Investigations
      406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish an investigation into (Details Supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49118/21]
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans by An Garda Síochána to extend Operation Irene across the Dublin mid-west area throughout the...
    • Victim Support Services
      410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the supports and services available to the plaintiff following a court case that involves...
    • Citizenship Applications
      411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the purpose for which a Garda Síochána or PSNI report would be requested from an application of Irish citizenship...
    • Victim Support Services
      412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered the matter subsequent to her Department’s analysis of issues and supports needed for victims of...
    • Probate Applications
      413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties that the Covid-19-related delay in probate applications is causing for...
    • National Development Plan
      414. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of her Department and are within the revised national development plan...
    • Victim Support Services
      415. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a policy or guidelines in relation to when An Garda Síochána are investigating credible allegations of...
    • Immigration Support Services
      416. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be granted an appointment at the INIS office on Burgh Quay in order to present their new...
    • Seized Property
      418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total value of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the past five years and to date in 2021, by county....
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value of social welfare payments recovered by the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the past five years and to date in...
    • Deportation Orders
      421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Afghan citizens resident in Ireland who have received deportation letters in each of the past five years and to...
    • Human Trafficking
      422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons charged with human trafficking offences in the State in each of the past ten years; the number of persons...
    • An Garda Síochána
      423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations closed in each of the past ten years by county. [49302/21]
    • Prison Service
      424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times inmates, staff or prison officers have been assaulted or have reported assaults inside prisons in each of...
    • Animal Welfare
      427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda investigations into illegal puppy farms and or illegal dog breeding establishments in each of the years...
    • An Garda Síochána
      429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new unmarked Garda vans that came into the fleet in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and...
    • Prison Service
      430. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons released from prison in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [49377/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their citizenship application; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domestic Violence
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the new strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizenship Applications
      436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); if the passport of the person submitted as part of the...
    • Departmental Reports
      437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to implement the report by her Department, Supporting a Victim’s Journey: A Plan to Help...
    • International Protection
      438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to cancel an International Protection Office application in the case of a person (details...
    • Residency Permits
      439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Programmes
      442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the implementation of the Justice Plan 2021 with particular reference to the relevant sections...
    • Departmental Data
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is correspondence or documentation in the possession of her Department that confirms that a person (details supplied)...
    • An Garda Síochána
      445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Cavan-Monaghan drugs unit as of 1 January 2020 and 5 October 2021, in tabular...
    • Gambling Sector
      446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects to publish the general scheme of the new gaming and lotteries Bill; if she will review the upper...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work undertaken to date in the matter of the Commission of Investigation known as the Hickson Inquiry which formally...
    • Prison Service
      448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans for the old Cork City Jail on Rathmore Road, Cork. [49537/21]
    • Departmental Programmes
      449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 257, 258, 259 and 260 of 27 May 2021, if she has considered the second phase of the IIP...
    • Departmental Data
      450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of State boards under the remit of her Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each...
    • Victim Support Services
      451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 836 of 31 March 2021, the status of the mapping exercise to identify the nature, spread...
    • Departmental Websites
      452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a new set of answers was posted on 16 June 2021 on the eJustice Portal1...
    • Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
      453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which her office received a submission from her Department’s Secretary General to approve a review by senior...
    • An Garda Síochána
      455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda civilian staff who retired in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [49659/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Residency Permits
      457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • An Garda Síochána
      458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recruitment plans for An Garda Síochána for 2022; if the pre-Covid-19 2020 recruits have commenced formal...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions, fixed penalty notices or other sanctions that have been made under the Protection of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of referrals to the Garda youth diversion programme in each of the years 2010 to 2020 for offences (details...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020...
    • Citizenship Applications
      463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to reduce the time applicants are waiting for the processing of their citizenship applications. [49865/21]
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the reason applicants for the EU Digital COVID Certificate who were vaccinated in the Northern Ireland but are residents in Ireland require proof of an Irish...
    • Health Services
      466. To ask the Minister for Health if the supply of test results for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49094/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      467. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49095/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent cardiac physiologists employed in Ireland; the number of whole-time equivalent cardiac physiologist roles currently vacant;...
    • Health Services
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the number of echocardiogram machines in Ireland, including in acute hospitals and primary care; the location of these machines; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on waiting lists for echocardiography services; the number of these patients waiting 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18 months and 2, 3 and 4 plus...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      471. To ask the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) was successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49112/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      472. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the call by an organisation (details supplied) for an additional eight neurology nurses for University Hospital Limerick. [49125/21]
    • Health Services
      473. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided to a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49126/21]
    • Medical Cards
      474. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant or assistance is available to a medical card holder towards the cost of electricity for a COPD machine; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      475. 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. [49132/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      476. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to amend the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 to address the current barriers to both parents in families who have children via surrogacy...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned children’s hospital for Cork; and the timeline for same. [49140/21]
    • Community Care
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangement his Department will put in place to deliver day centre services to older persons in the Loughrea, County Galway catchment area given that St....
    • Vaccination Programme
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HPV vaccines are not being administered in schools; the details of the changes that have been made to the vaccination programme; the reason persons...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assistive device for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49154/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives his Department is undertaking to tackle the crisis in primary care whereby general practitioners' practices in north County Kildare and...
    • Departmental Data
      482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Kildare on waiting lists in each of the past five years in tabular form (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Help Service
      486. To ask the Minister for Health if home help will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49186/21]
    • Health Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to improve transport services from rural areas to designated cancer centres for scheduled day case treatments; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      488. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the human tissue (transplantation, post-mortem, anatomical examination and public display) Bill; and his plans to progress it through the Houses...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      489. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting lists for heart, lung, kidney, liver or pancreas transplants. [49196/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has developed contingency plans to ensure that services for conditions such as COPD, cystic fibrosis and lung fibrosis are protected in the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      491. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to appoint a senior official to manage liaison regarding the rare disease plan (details supplied). [49198/21]
    • Departmental Contracts
      492. To ask the Minister for Health if he or any official from his Department has held meetings or conducted correspondence with a company (details supplied) from 1 January 2017 to date; if his...
    • Departmental Data
      494. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for mental health services by CHO, county and age category; the breakdown by the length of time they have been waiting...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for over six months to see a surgeon at University Hospital Limerick to address a debilitating...
    • Departmental Data
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons per emergency department bed, intensive care unit bed and coronary care bed for each hospital with an emergency department. [49228/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with the orthopaedic clinic at the Midland Regional Hospital,...
    • National Development Plan
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at an advanced stage at...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the new national cervical screening laboratory; if the project has experienced any delays or overspends; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the number of samples or slides which CervicalCheck has sent abroad to foreign labs for testing in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [49282/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide statistics relating to the average length of time persons spent waiting for an ambulance in each county in Ireland in each of the past five...
    • Health Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions over the past ten years in which, under pressure, the HSE or a hospital group has advised persons seeking to attend accident and...
    • Health Services Staff
      504. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses or healthcare professionals who have resigned from their posts since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in each public hospital. [49298/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons or groups who have issued letters of claim against the State regarding the death of their loved ones from Covid-19 in HSE or State-run...
    • Health Service Executive
      506. To ask the Minister for Health the persons or body that conducts the HSE staff survey; and the breakdown of participation in the HSE staff survey in addition to overall staff participation....
    • Hospital Services
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the full cost of the renaming of South Tipperary General Hospital to Tipperary University Hospital; the breakdown of all costs associated with the name change;...
    • Legislative Programme
      510. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation will be delivered to provide legal recognition to both parents who have children through surrogacy either in Ireland or abroad; and if he will...
    • Home Help Service
      511. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an urgent case in which home help hours are urgently required by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Health when the updated implementation plan of the National Maternity Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49351/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      514. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their amended EU digital Covid certificate. [49354/21]
    • Health Services
      515. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding Killarney community nursing unit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49355/21]
    • Hospital Services
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds closed in each of the past five years by county; and the breakdown on the cited reasons for the closures. [49356/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      517. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding vaccinations in secondary schools given many have now been scheduled in HSE vaccination centres on an individual basis; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      519. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant gastroenterologists based in Roscommon University Hospital in each of the years of 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and...
    • Health Services
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the number and locations of child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, units that accept admissions during out of hours periods in tabular form....
    • Vaccination Programme
      522. To ask the Minister for Health the costs for the fitting out of a vaccination centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49373/21]
    • Medical Cards
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if a new medical card can be applied for retrospectively for a medical bill in circumstances in which the person applied for the card within eight weeks of the...
    • Hospital Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the intensive care unit and the emergency department at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [49413/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics employed by the National Ambulance Service, by county, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [49421/21]
    • Departmental Funding
      528. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49425/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to shorten waiting lists for scoliosis operations for children; if he will combat the delays that occurred due to Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      530. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans under way to assess additional Covid-19 vaccines for validation or accreditation with the European agencies or the European Medicines...
    • Vaccination Programme
      533. To ask the Minister for Health when a vaccine compensation scheme will be established in view of the urgent recommendations made in the Expert Group Report to Review the Law of Torts and the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49440/21]
    • Health Services
      535. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address health issues arising for women experiencing perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause; his views on the significant impact menopause in...
    • Dental Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1350 of 9 September, when dental surgery for children will be restored at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable for children to wait in excess of 52 weeks for access to psychology services with particular reference to the importance...
    • Hospital Facilities
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the location at which the new acute inpatient beds of the circa 1,140 announced in budget 2021 have been or will be opened in 2021; the number at each...
    • Health Services Staff
      543. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time opticians employed by the HSE who work in counties Monaghan and Cavan in each of the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days per...
    • Hospital Staff
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the posts at Cavan General Hospital that have been offered to applicants but await a start date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49468/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      550. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; if they are classed as urgent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49488/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the planned removal of HSE facilities in Dublin that facilitate quarantining for Roma families (details supplied); and his...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      552. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment with the audiology service can be arranged for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in order to arrange a free digital hearing aid; and...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if the independent advisory committee for social behaviours review has concluded its review of the blood donation ban for gay men, bisexual men, transgender...
    • Medical Cards
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who currently operate contracts under the general medical scheme to treat persons holding a medical card or general...
    • Vaccination Programme
      558. To ask the Minister for Health the number of girls aged 12 to 13 years who were eligible for the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccination programme, from September 2009 to September 2010, who...
    • Hospital Facilities
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the planned additional hospital beds to be delivered between 2022 to 2026, by location and bed type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49507/21]
    • Primary Care Centres
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the locations in which there is an open primary care centre; the locations of planned additional primary care centres to be opened in 2021, 2022 and after; the...
    • Health Services
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assessments of need that have been undertaken for children aged 18 years and under in Dublin 1, 3, 7 and 9 in each of the years 2016 to 2020; the...
    • Legislative Measures
      566. To ask the Minister for Health when sections 13 and 19 of the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018 will be commenced in view of the findings of a recent research study (details supplied) which...
    • Hospital Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the reason women attending antenatal appointments in Cavan General Hospital are being instructed to attend appointments alone in the case of appointments...
    • Hospital Staff
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if he in consultation with the HSE will accede to a request to increase the number of neurology nurse specialists at University Hospital Limerick in view of...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if PIN numbers will be expedited for nurses from abroad (details supplied) who have completed their application to register with the Nursing and Midwifery...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      570. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the compensation for front-line workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49547/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes aged 18 years and over who are waiting on a first appointment to the outpatients diabetes clinic in any of the UHL groups;...
    • Departmental Data
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the number of women on each...
    • Health Services
      573. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided for the provision of a meaningful respite service attached to a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to providing additional funding for new medicines specifically orphan medicinal products in the context of budget 2022; and if...
    • Departmental Reports
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the date or timeline his Department will publish the report by an organisation (details supplied) on the HSE drug reimbursement process; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the rejection of payments by the primary care reimbursement services for general practitioners under the maternity and infant care scheme relating...
    • Health Services Staff
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if all student nurses and midwives on placement are receiving the announced €100 allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49595/21]
    • Dental Services
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Bantry Hospital dental and orthodontic services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49596/21]
    • Hospital Procedures
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and medical treatments that have been postponed for each of the past 20 months due to Covid-19. [49602/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the resources necessary to employ an additional 100 neurology nurses across the health service in Ireland including nine additional nurses...
    • Healthcare Policy
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the programme for Government commitment to publish an updated national rare diseases plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49608/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide national, regional and departmental breakdowns of which HSE IT systems such as databases, virtualisation servers, emails and other elements...
    • Health Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if University Limerick Hospitals Group is included in the remaining six diabetes centres to become dose adjusting for normal eating licensed in 2022; if a...
    • Hospital Staff
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding in budget 2022 to provide a minimum of one whole-time equivalent diabetes specialist pump nurse for the adult diabetes clinic in...
    • Hospital Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 18 years of age that are attending University Limerick Hospitals Group adult diabetes service and using insulin pump therapy to...
    • Hospital Staff
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign led by an association (details supplied) seeking extra neurology nurse specialists across Irish hospitals; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the Covid-19 funding allocated to a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49636/21]
    • Hospital Services
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if an MRI machine in use at University Hospital Kerry is used exclusively for private patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49637/21]
    • Health Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the new supports that will be forthcoming from his Department in 2021 and 2022 for the 40,000 persons with epilepsy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medicinal Products
      600. To ask the Minister for Health when the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate to epilepsy patients will be established; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that the medical assessment unit in Nenagh General Hospital is only seeing approximately four to six patients per day...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      602. 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. [49651/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the pilot waiting projects which have taken place in the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, Our Lady's Hospital Navan and University Hospital Kerry; the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which centres of excellence are constituted in relation to oncology services in public hospitals; the criteria that has to be satisfied before a...
    • Hospital Staff
      607. To ask the Minister for Health when a permanent oncologist will be in place at St. James’s Hospital following the retirement of the previous specialist; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      608. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49668/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the number of State-funded mental health services in an area (details supplied); the number of mental health workers and professionals employed in these...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have had colposcopy appointments delayed, postponed or cancelled since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. [49678/21]
    • Health Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CervicalCheck smear tests carried out in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [49679/21]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied) under the treatment purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists currently working in Beaumont Hospital; if he has plans to increase the number of neurology nurse specialists in the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      614. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49693/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the status of The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Proposals; when they will be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49694/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccination cards that are unaccounted for across the vaccination system. [49696/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      617. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 678 of 15 September 2021, the status of the establishment of a stakeholder group to address ongoing concerns relating to...
    • Health Service Executive
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recruitment for the six epilepsy specialist nurse posts approved by the HSE for the implementation of the Valproate Pregnancy Prevention...
    • Hospital Staff
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the shortage of neurology nurses in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49705/21]
    • Health Strategies
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of his Department has been drawn to any differential in survival rates for breast cancer between patients who are diagnosed and treated in the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      621. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to prevent persons under 18 years of age from accessing cosmetic fillers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49708/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to provide a brace for patients with pectus carinatum condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49709/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if Xalacom eye drops could be reimbursed by the HSE; if the NCPE completed a review on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49710/21]
    • Disease Management
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for the inclusion of chronic kidney disease in the HSE Integrated Care Programme for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease. [49721/21]
    • Disability Services
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if the dedicated on-site supports in place at special schools in the CHO DNCC area prior to the roll-out of the progressing disability services programme of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the number and value of all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the...
    • Care Services
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if a minimum four-night respite service at an annual funding cost of €333,000 will be provided at MooreHaven Centre in Tipperary town immediately; if a...
    • Mental Health Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists that have been hired to work in CAMHS since 1 July 2021, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49781/21]
    • Disability Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver the 90 new residential places needed every year from 2020 to 2032 to cater for changes in size and age structure of the disability...
    • Dental Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and position regarding the dental treatment services scheme with specific reference to the unsustainable trend of dentists exiting the scheme...
    • Departmental Contracts
      639. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 6 October 2021, if he will provide further details on the contracts referred to, such as their purpose. [49792/21]
    • Health Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private intermediate care beds funded, procured, used or leased in 2020 and to date in 2021, by service type. [49793/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given to the reopening of the daycare centre in Clonakilty Community Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a recent academic study (details supplied) which has concluded that continued effort is needed around the awareness and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate and advise on reports that the Primary Care Reimbursement Service is not paying rural general practitioners for the service they provide...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need in each HSE region. [49868/21]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Data
      652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of women registered as farmers by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49092/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      654. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to deal with ash dieback in trees across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49223/21]
    • National Development Plan
      655. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of his Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at...
    • Forestry Sector
      656. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total area of afforestation planted in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49265/21]
    • Animal Welfare
      657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made to deal with the rising tide of animal cruelty; the number of cases that have been prosecuted on indictment...
    • Veterinary Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of whole-time equivalent persons assigned to wildlife management within the district veterinary office in Waterford tasked...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle slaughtered from controlled finishing units in September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Food Industry
      661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantities of chilled and frozen beef imported from Poland in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when persons (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive their 2021 area of natural constrains payment; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      663. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if salmon farm licences that have ceased to operate at sites for a continuous period of more than two years will be revoked; and if...
    • Forestry Sector
      664. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to relax or rescind the afforestation rule (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49520/21]
    • State Bodies
      665. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of State boards under the remit of his Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board;...
    • Live Exports
      666. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the recently signed agreement between Ireland and China for the export of live breeding pigs to China has an end date in place; if...
    • Forestry Sector
      672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports, financial or otherwise available for landowners who wish to return holdings previously committed to forestry and are...
    • Departmental Contracts
      673. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      674. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who availed of the derogation regarding the BEAM scheme who are currently on track to meet the required 5%...
    • Horticulture Sector
      675. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to seed potato producers in Scotland ceasing to prepare seed potato inputs for Irish farmers as a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of all official engagements and meetings attended by him or Ministers of State within his Department during the period 1...
    • Forestry Sector
      678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter in relation to Coillte leases (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49802/21]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry has had another field visit following the reversal of a 2019 basic payment...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • National Development Plan
      683. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which projects that fall within the aegis of her Department and are within the revised National Development Plan are at...
    • Animal Breeding
      684. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of registered puppy farms and registered dog breeding establishments in each of the years from 2010 to 2020. [49316/21]
    • Community Development Projects
      689. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount in grants and funding awarded to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past ten years throughout the country;...
    • Departmental Data
      691. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of State boards under the remit of her Department or its agencies in tabular form; the number of members of each board; the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      692. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to...

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