Written answers

Tuesday, 9 November 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Functions
      45. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [50787/21]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of Pillar Two of the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project; his assessment of the impact of this on the Irish...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 to complement the recently published Housing for All plan to deliver more affordable and...
    • Tax Code
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to improve regulation in relation to tax fraud schemes and to ensure that scandals such as in a recent case (details supplied) do not...
    • Tax Reliefs
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that those who avail of the new digital gaming relief are subject to ensuring quality employment and training; and if he will make a...
    • Credit Unions
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government commitments relating to credit unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Industry
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he has to address the process of price walking in insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54353/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a risk assessment regarding the winding down of the employment wage subsidy scheme and the potential impact on employment...
    • Defective Building Materials
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance the communication he has had or meetings he has held with retail banks and insurance companies with respect to contributions through levies or otherwise to a...
    • Tax Code
      89. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a short-term reduction in the rate of VAT charged on energy and certain other household utility bills to assist households with escalating...
    • Banking Sector
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct banks to provide customers with written banking statements on a monthly basis if requested by the customer. [54421/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      93. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in counties Cork and Kerry, respectively that have registered under the business resumption support scheme in tabular form; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that recommendations that arise from the proposed review into extending section 664A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to include...
    • Tax Reliefs
      95. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that film producer companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief (details supplied) are regularly and on a routine...
    • Tax Code
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he has to amend the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54324/21]
    • Film Industry
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the highest 5% rate of the regional film development uplift for claims made after 31 December 2021; if there are...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in each supported by the employment wage subsidy scheme and its predecessor since the start of the pandemic; the value of the support in...
    • Banking Sector
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had recent discussions with banks (details supplied) in relation to the protection of employment due to their respective decisions to exit the Irish...
    • Departmental Schemes
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of received and granted applications for both residential and commercial properties under the living city initiative for Limerick city; his...
    • Tax Reliefs
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered ending the Special Assignee Relief Programme in the interests of just taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54399/21]
    • Inflation Rate
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he sees the possibility of inflation causing complications in the course of recovery from the financial effects of Covid-19; if this issue...
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has or will make a submission to the relaunched review of EU economic governance in particular with regard to fundamental reform of the Stability and...
    • Financial Services
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance the controls he can put in place in relation to the marketing of crypto assets ahead of any EU directives coming into force, for example, the Markets in...
    • Tax Reliefs
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the schemes and supports that are available at present for disabled drivers to acquire and or adapt their own car. [53063/21]
    • Tax Code
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plans regarding double tax rules for cross-Border workers (details supplied) who are based in Ireland given the temporary Covid-19 waiver on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of workers aged under 25 years of age whose wages are subsidised through the employment wage subsidy scheme; if he will provide a breakdown on...
    • Insurance Industry
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to bring about reduced premia in the insurance sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54340/21]
    • Tax Yield
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has made projections in relation to the expected change in corporation tax receipts. [54432/21]
    • Banking Sector
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance if discussions are expected with senior officials of a bank (details supplied) regarding the future use of its soon to be vacated units in towns and villages...
    • Tax Code
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider abolishing the local property tax and replace the tax with a graduated second, third, fourth and so on home tax ensuring that the family...
    • Tax Avoidance
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Ireland’s tax system is consistent with Ireland's stated commitment to equitable development and working with poorer countries to...
    • Tax Reliefs
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of employees with gross pay in excess of €100,000, €200,000 and €300,000 who availed of tax relief on their pension...
    • Housing Schemes
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have availed of the help-to-buy scheme in Cork city and county in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in view of the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on recent engagements he has had with the insurance sector in relation to the high cost of insurance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the taxes on fuel and home heating oil similar to other EU countries (details supplied) to ease the pressure on vulnerable persons and...
    • Tax Reliefs
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to developing an application or website to assist with the administration of tax relief for remote workers announced as part of...
    • Tax Code
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the decrease in the flat rate of VAT; and the likely impact on farmers. [51556/21]
    • Inflation Rate
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on inflation and the rising costs of living currently challenging persons; the measures being considered to address this issue; and if he will make...
    • Insurance Industry
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his engagement with the insurance sector specifically related to persons and businesses that operate recreational facilities and...
    • Inflation Rate
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with his EU colleagues in the context of addressing the issue of inflation throughout the European Union; if corrective measures...
    • Housing Schemes
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the assistance available to assist first-time buyers in the property market in the context of Budget 2022; the number of persons these measures will benefit;...
    • Rental Sector
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider immediate measures to support renters in the private rental market including the introduction of a refundable tax credit equivalent to one...
    • Insurance Industry
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made in his Department’s areas of responsibility under the Action Plan for Insurance Reform. [54344/21]
    • Tax Exemptions
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to increase the threshold on the small benefit exemption scheme on a once-off basis in 2021 in the Finance Bill to allow employers show...
    • Housing Schemes
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the promised review of the help-to-buy scheme; the person or body that will carry out the review; the terms of reference of the review; the...
    • Banking Sector
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons with eating disorders are currently unable to get a mortgage due to the fact that they are being...
    • Tax Reliefs
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have availed of tax relief and support for those working from home in Cork city and county in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to...
    • Tax Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would have been generated had the full rate of capital gains tax applied to the disposal of assets by IREFs and REITs in each of...
    • Inflation Rate
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance his projections for the inflation rate in the coming year and its likely impact on the economy, consumers and the public finances. [54379/21]
    • Banking Sector
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he and his officials have had with a bank (details supplied) regarding the decision by the bank to close branches across the country; and if...
    • Economic Policy
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to date to divest from fossil fuel investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54322/21]
    • Banking Sector
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the sale of a portion of the State’s shareholding in a bank (details supplied); the brokerage costs of the sale to date; if he plans to...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing; the duration of each commission of investigation; the deadline for each commission of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Public Sector Staff
      163. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants that are employed by the Chief State Solicitors Office for each of the past three years; the grade of each; and the budget allocated to the...
    • Departmental Functions
      164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [54412/21]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      165. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland. [54770/21]
    • National Development Plan
      166. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 12 October 2021, when specific allocations for 2021, 2022 and 2023 will made for Project Ireland 2040 cross-Border funding to...
    • Departmental Consultations
      168. To ask the Taoiseach the breakdown of all external consultancy fees paid by his Department in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [53737/21]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reverse a decision to exclude homecare workers from the critical skills exemption to the non-EEA employment permit system...
    • Industrial Development
      173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the proposed industrial park for Ballina, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54033/21]
    • Work Permits
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a valid work permit application has been received in respect of a critical skills visa for a person (details supplied); the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Schemes
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person (details supplied) qualifies for an SEAI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54026/21]
    • Departmental Bodies
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the resources and staff that will be available for the National Retrofit Delivery Body; the cost of establishing the...
    • Electricity Grid
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost to EirGrid of funding wind farm operators for times when there is a curtailment or dispatch is down, for...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current estimates of his Department and of the agencies under his remit of the amount of CO2 created in the...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contribution that floating offshore wind can make in contributing to producing renewable energy and further...
    • Climate Action Plan
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of the 183 actions in the Climate Action Plan 2019 that have been implemented to date; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the recruitment of a director of the Irish National Cyber Security Centre; when the job specification...
    • Departmental Schemes
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the background, take-up and roll-out of the digital skills for citizens scheme over the past two...
    • Departmental Funding
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Dublin local authorities that applied for and were successful under the environmental fund for local authorities...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way to obtain payment for electricity supplied to the National Grid as a result of installation of solar panels at...
    • Electricity Grid
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the investment programme by EirGrid on improving the national grid; the way this investment is...
    • Energy Prices
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the average monthly electricity wholesale price in Ireland is greater than the European average; the steps...
    • Electricity Generation
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which microgeneration of electricity might be used by the agri-food producing sector to mitigate against...
    • Departmental Schemes
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that have applied for SEAI solar grants; the number of homes that have been granted for each year...
    • National Broadband Plan
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the installation of fibre broadband in Cadamstown, County Offaly (details supplied) will proceed under the...
    • Electricity Generation
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a new policy on microgeneration will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54309/21]
    • Climate Change Policy
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount paid by the State in respect of it missing its climate change targets to date; and the estimated amount...
    • Equality Issues
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request confirmation from all public bodies under his aegis and all bodies publicly funded by his Department...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications approved and number of charge points delivered by county under the public point charge scheme; and if he will...
    • Haulage Industry
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a series of matters in relation to diesel vehicles (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Licences
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a course (details supplied) will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53962/21]
    • Haulage Industry
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if express lanes for HGVs will be put in place in line with other EU countries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driving test in County Tipperary since 1 January 2021 until 30 October 2021 in each test centre in...
    • Public Transport
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the Local Link service in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the report on the future of the western rail corridor; and the action he will take in respect of a Sligo to Limerick...
    • Road Projects
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the N/M20 Cork to Limerick project; the steps to be taken going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Services
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that used Dublin Bus Route 84x in each direction in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Ports Policy
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the Port of Cork to vacate the Tivoli site in order to allow the site to be redeveloped for housing and transport needs;...
    • Driver Licences
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons in each of the past five years who have temporarily or permanently surrendered their driving licence due to a...
    • Public Transport
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if will consider expanding the eligibility criteria for the young adult travel card scheme to include private bus and coach operators;...
    • Coast Guard Service
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene in the ongoing issues between the Irish Coast Guard management and volunteers which has resulted in the Doolin...
    • Electric Vehicles
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric State vehicles as a percentage of the overall number of State-owned vehicles as at 31 August 2021; and if he will...
    • Coast Guard Service
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the savings made since the downgrading of the cliff rescue element of the Irish Coast Guard station based in Bunbeg, Letterkenny, County...
    • Haulage Industry
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts that are being made to ensure that the measures announced by France in retaliation against the UK in relation to the...
    • Equality Issues
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public bodies under his aegis and bodies publicly funded by his Department have a procurement policy which includes consideration of...
    • Departmental Funding
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all bodies in receipt of direct grant assistance from his Department that are not public bodies for the purposes of the...
    • Equality Issues
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all public bodies under his aegis and all bodies publicly funded by his Department are in compliance with the Web Accessibility...
    • Disability Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that will be taken by his Department for any public body or any publicly funded body under his aegis which is non-compliant...
    • Road Safety Authority
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the practice within the Road Safety Authority of not renewing contracts for staff who have almost...
    • Haulage Industry
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that will be introduced as a matter of urgency to assist the haulage industry due to the particular problems facing that...
    • Traffic Management
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct Transport Infrastructure Ireland to introduce significant traffic calming measures on the N71 in Leap village at the...
    • Driver Test
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the persons who have undertaken the initial basic training for learner motorcyclists but who have been unable to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle SEAI grant relief for hybrid plug-in vehicles has been reduced from €5,000 to...
    • Haulage Industry
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if urgent consideration will be given to the issues outlined in detailed correspondence from a representative organisation (details...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if discussions are expected to give VAT and taxation incentives to encourage landowners back into forestry in order to contribute to the Climate Action Plan....
    • Tax Rebates
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if a series of issues (details supplied) in relation to fuel costs and carbon tax for transport operators will be examined; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Coverage
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken in respect of the provision of premiums by insurance companies to persons in homes that are not designated as a flood risk; and if his...
    • Tax Code
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the way travel and subsistence payments for the construction sector, known as country money, are set; if there are discussions to increase the payments; and...
    • Banking Sector
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the refusal by Irish banks to finance mortgages for so-called cargo container houses due to the fact they are not fixed...
    • Tax Reliefs
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to include e-scooters as eligible methods of transport under the cycle to work scheme. [54014/21]
    • Tax Rebates
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to increase the ceilings of repayment of VRT and VAT on the purchase of vehicles for disabled persons with a primary medical certificate (details...
    • Insurance Coverage
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the refusal of insurance companies to insure hunt and harrier packs resulting in closure for these businesses; and if he will make a statement...
    • Banking Sector
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene in the timing of the branch closures by a bank (details supplied) by replicating the actions of the UK financial sector regulator which...
    • Tax Code
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider removing the 50% limitation in the Finance Bill 2021 on the amount of land that can be used for solar farms in relation to capital...
    • Insurance Coverage
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged with a company (details supplied) in particular with regard to homes under its insurance cover which now have confirmed cases of...
    • Vacant Properties
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the audit of vacant properties being undertaken by his Department; and if this audit will include the reason for vacancy. [54368/21]
    • Tax Exemptions
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance if a house is exempt from the local property tax in circumstances in which the person is visually impaired and their house has been modified for their needs;...
    • Banking Sector
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has identified barriers to entry in the non-investment sector of the Irish banking market and anti-competitive commercial practices by Irish...
    • Departmental Schemes
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans that are in place for the expansion of the employment and investment incentive scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53168/21]
    • Tax Reliefs
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider applying a change to the corporation tax return which would oblige multinational companies to disclose the state research and development...
    • Tax Avoidance
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will take to eliminate the opportunities for companies to use Ireland in tax fraud measures as exposed in files (details supplied); and if he...
    • Tax Credits
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for incapacitated child credit in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will request the Revenue Commissioners...
    • Banking Sector
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether in the context of a bank exiting the Irish market and selling its loan book that in the case of any family home mortgage being sold on to...
    • Tax Reliefs
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance if the provisions of section 97A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (details supplied) are subject to a limit on the number of individual residential units...
    • Tax Data
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from section 28 of the Finance Bill 2021 that inserts a new section 25A into the Taxes...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses that are receiving payments under the employment wage subsidy scheme; the amount has been paid in total under the scheme to date in...
    • Tax Data
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from the provisions of section 72 of the Finance Bill 2021 that removes the prohibition...
    • Inflation Rate
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he continues to monitor any inflationary tendencies in Ireland with a view to corrective action if required; and if he will make a...
    • Eurozone Issues
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has had discussions with EU finance ministers in his role as president of the Eurogroup, the various issues which now constitute a...
    • Banking Sector
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he continues to review any difficulties faced by borrowers who may have had to postpone meeting scheduled mortgage payments during the...
    • Inflation Rate
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which house price inflation here is likely to affect economic performance in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54723/21]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which home borrowers here can expect to be able to borrow at interest rates that prevail throughout Europe and in accordance with the single...
    • Brexit Issues
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the ongoing effect of Brexit on the economic performance in Ireland as well as other EU Member States; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which corporation tax changes are likely to impact on this country’s future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54727/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the future fiscal measures, if any, required throughout the Eurozone in the context of Covid-19 recovery; and if he will make a statement...
    • Financial Services
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the activities of investment funds here with particular reference to the need to ensure that...
    • Economic Growth
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects the economy to recover over the next year after the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Issues
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has in mind any further Brexit-related economic interventions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54733/21]
    • Tax Code
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of green and glasshouse growers as per correspondence in the context...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Staff
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if special consideration will be given to civil servants with disabilities in terms of returning to the office; and if he will make a...
    • Project Ireland 2040
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views and vision for the upgrading of basic infrastructure here in order to better cater for the increased population; and if he...
    • Public Sector Staff
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mileage rate for public servants using a hybrid car; the way in which it was calculated when it was introduced; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a new scheme will be developed to facilitate e-scooters that operates like the bike to work scheme. [54014/21]
    • Public Sector Staff
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the pregnancy-related aspect of the sick leave scheme is being consistently applied for public servants (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department distributed return to the workplace packs; if so, the individual items contained in each pack; the country of origin...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the official policy of his Department regarding the acceptance of requests by civil service workers who wish to remain working from home...
    • Budget 2022
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the demographic costs for disability for 2022 were calculated in Budget 2022; the details of the allocations to...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if indoor games such as darts, pool, snooker and so on are now permitted in an indoor hospitality setting; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total allocation of funding for the National Concert Hall in Budget 2022. [53984/21]
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a bhfuil sí ag súil le fios a bheith aici faoin leagan amach a bheidh ar na coláistí Gaeilge an...
    • Departmental Programmes
      303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the various elements of the creative youth programme; the way it has been rolled out in the administrative area of Dún...
    • Sports Funding
      305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 28 September 2021, the reason for the delay by her officials to meet with a club...
    • Commemorative Events
      307. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation made to each local authority in 2020 and 2021 for commemorating the Decade of Commemorations; the amount drawn down...
    • An Garda Síochána
      308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ar cuireadh a Roinn ar an eolas sular glacadh an cinneadh ar an 13 Iúil 2021 fáil réidh leis an dualgas ar...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with Sport Ireland and or Basketball Ireland in respect of anomalies regarding the way in which the sport of...
    • Tourism Promotion
      310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason Tourism Ireland is not promoting Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands internationally; and if she will make a statement...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Agriculture Industry
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the time for the spreading of manure in County Donegal in view of the weather conditions over the...
    • European Court of Justice
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures Ireland has taken to comply with the European Court of Justice judgment arising from litigation (details...
    • Water Quality
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which water quality continues to be monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54188/21]
    • Vacant Sites
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of individual vacant sites and beneficial owners to which the vacant sites levy has been applied; the amount of...
    • Electric Vehicles
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review will be carried out on the current guidelines for electric car parking space installations (details supplied); and...
    • Hare Coursing
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if eight hares were killed on the first day of a coursing meeting by a club (details supplied) on 15 October 2021; the results...
    • Local Authorities
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority (details supplied) made an application for affordable housing in any location in the county; the...
    • Housing Schemes
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure to date on homeless HAP. [54018/21]
    • Septic Tanks
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of septic tanks at private dwellings that were inspected (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will undertake a fundamental review of An Bord Pleanála to ensure that its decisions are made with good quality...
    • Rental Sector
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the establishment of a deposit retention scheme given the legislation passed on this matter by the Houses of the...
    • Planning Issues
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the final date for strategic housing development pre-planning applications to An Bord Pleanála; and the expected final...
    • Defective Building Materials
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update following on from the publication of the Report from the Working Group on the Defective Concrete...
    • Local Authorities
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the slow process in relation to the insulation of local authority properties in an area (details supplied); the...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Water Services Acts allow for the taking in charge of...
    • Planning Issues
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps or avenues that are open to a person or community when they wish to appeal a decision or An Bord Pleanála; and...
    • Housing Provision
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for a local authority and or housing association in advance of purchasing a house on the private market; and if...
    • Local Authorities
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of council housing applications with Carlow County Council as of November 2021. [54253/21]
    • Wind Energy Generation
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the schedule plan and forecasts his Department has outlined regarding the regulatory and legislative developments still...
    • Housing Provision
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a policy position on the construction of cargo container houses; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the publication of the report of the working group on the use of Peat Moss in Horticulture; if the findings...
    • Water Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants available from his Department for group sewerage schemes; if he plans to increase the grants; the arrangements in...
    • Rental Sector
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Residential Tenancies Board can provide a breakdown per county of the number of reports from landlords, tenants or...
    • Fire Service
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the terms of reference for the review of the model of local authority retained fire services delivery, with...
    • Architects Register
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement the recommendations in the July 2013 report titled Report on the Title of the Architect; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that have been retrofitted to date by county through the 2021 energy efficiency retrofitting...
    • Planning Issues
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take...
    • Housing Schemes
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of loan applications to the Housing Finance Agency from higher education institutions that have not been approved...
    • Harbours and Piers
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when dredging will commence at Magheroarty Pier, Magheraroarty, Gortahork, County Donegal; the reason this application has...
    • Wildlife Protection
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to works carried out in the basement of Emo Court in January 2019 prior to the granting of a...
    • Community Development Projects
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the long-promised community centre for St. Mary’s Park Estate, King’s Island, Limerick (details...
    • Grant Payments
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the maximum grant amounts for housing adaptation grants for elderly persons and persons with...
    • Environmental Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the decarbonised zones project; when decarbonised zones will be approved, guidelines issued and when the...
    • Local Authorities
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the sources of funding for the planned decarbonised zone activity and the support for project managers to enable local...
    • Housing Policy
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to the sale of two-bed local authority houses to existing housing tenants in certain...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights
      354. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to disturbing reports coming from Afghanistan regarding the treatment of members of the LGBT+ community by...
    • Passport Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54009/21]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      362. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the military coup that took place in Sudan on 25 October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54043/21]
    • Passport Services
      363. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons that work in the Passport Office in Cork and Dublin since January 2020 to date; the number still working from home;...
    • Consular Services
      374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all honorary consuls that have been appointed in Ireland since the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations was...
    • Middle East
      375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in view of the declaration by Israel that six Palestinian civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian territory are terrorist...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      376. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current average waiting time for the processing of foreign birth registrations; his plans to address delays and backlogs due to...
    • Human Rights
      378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the initiatives being taken at United Nations Security Council level or elsewhere within the European Union to protect human rights and...
    • Passport Services
      379. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in the processing of a passport application by a person (details supplied) despite the fact that there is an...
    • Haulage Industry
      384. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that are being made to ensure that measures announced by France in retaliation against the UK over the fisheries dispute will...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      386. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way a person (details supplied) can secure the return of sensitive information submitted as part of the foreign birth registration...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      390. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the established figure and the current strength levels of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54168/21]
    • Air Corps
      392. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the established figure and the current total strength of Air Corps personnel; and the number of qualified military pilots, cadet pilots in...
    • Naval Service
      393. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service operations and patrols which have been cancelled to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces
      394. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of women in the Defence Forces by rank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54173/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a response form the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to schools that have excluded children from certain educational activities, after-school activities, or school...
    • Site Acquisitions
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with NAMA or a receiver in respect of a site in Donaghcumper, Celbridge, County Kildare that is suitable for a school building...
    • School Admissions
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reassess the application to expand the first-year intake of a secondary school (detail supplied); the schools adjoining it which have...
    • School Facilities
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a sruth Gaelach will be approved for a school (details supplied) which is a feeder school for a Gaelscoil; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be considered for funding for additional accommodation given the fact that it has recently become a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be considered for additional special educational needs accommodation in view of the fact that there is large...
    • School Accommodation
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to ensure that a school (details supplied) can cater for the growing school going population in the area; if her...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a NEPS psychologist (details supplied) will not be replaced while they are out on maternity leave; if it is planned to review this...
    • School Equipment
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has an application system in place to enable schools to apply for HEPA air filtration systems; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken a review of all temporary accommodation agreements for schools that have been in operation for more than five...
    • Departmental Reports
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Education Indicators Report 2021 intended for publication in Q1 2021 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the scheme of reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations does not provide comprehension assistance to students who have...
    • School Costs
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing a HEPA air filtration device for every primary school, secondary school and special school classroom. [54228/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a new school building at a school (details suppled); if sanction will be given to the school to provide another first year class...
    • Special Educational Needs
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the matters raised in correspondence by person (details supplied) regarding the July provision programme; and if she will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a school can put its name forward for consideration as a possible candidate for the SEAI schools energy retrofit pathfinder...
    • Schools Building Projects
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school building and expansion projects in east County Cork due to a shortage of school places to meet the high demand; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to recommence testing and contact tracing in primary schools; if there are plans to provide schools with air filtrations...
    • Schools Building Projects
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to provide a single campus national school for Gort, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54295/21]
    • School Staff
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of substitute teachers that are on each substitute teacher supply panel across the country; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Home Schooling
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when home tuition will be provided to a leaving certificate student (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage a project (details supplied) is at; the amount provided for in respect of this project; and the date on which it is anticipated the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that the national training programme for SNAs is a fully accredited programme on the Irish National Framework of...
    • School Staff
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the one release day per week for teaching principals will only extend to the end of the current school year as it appears to suggest in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to appoint a sufficient number of special needs assistants in a school (details supplied) to ensure the safe and...
    • School Transport
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the school transport scheme is not available to children in a school (details supplied); and the action that will be taken to ensure...
    • Special Educational Needs
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 2 November 2021, the reason the application by the school for an ASD unit was refused; and if she...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be given to an application for the summer works programme by a school (details supplied) to repair the current treacherous state...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the major internet issues occurring on a daily basis in a school (details supplied) and that the National...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when Covid-19 restrictions in schools will next be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54515/21]
    • School Admissions
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be permitted to take on another first year class in the academic year 2022-2023 given the demand for ETSS...
    • School Accommodation
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has in the past or will provide funding for preschool accommodation on the grounds of national schools; and if she will make a...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the increase in funding for the DEIS programme following budget 2022; when it is likely the additional allocation of €18...
    • State Examinations
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to proposals (details supplied) regarding an option and-or alternate leaving certificate 2022 examination in the...
    • School Equipment
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of defibrillators which are currently physically on site in primary and post-primary schools nationwide; if figures are not available,...
    • School Admissions
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to facilitate an additional class of first year students at a school (details supplied) for the academic year beginning in...
    • School Accommodation
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department in relation to classroom size in primary schools; the minimum size of class that is allowed under the rules; and if...
    • School Facilities
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department in relation to having en-suite toilets in classrooms in primary schools; if there is a policy to ensure all primary...
    • School Accommodation
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the minimum standard of accommodation laid down for special education teacher and multi-purpose rooms; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguarding measures that are currently implemented in schools in relation to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Redundancy Payments
      453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who will be excluded by the clause which prevents former community employment supervisors from getting...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance will be offered to a person (details supplied) to issue a new PPS number in order that compliance with the LPT...
    • Registration of Births
      456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to address the difficulty persons in County Wicklow are experiencing in accessing walk-in...
    • State Pensions
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department proposes to recover the alleged amount of overpayment of State pension (non-contributory) from a...
    • Employment Support Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the community schemes or job initiatives available to persons with a disability or mental health issue such as schizophrenia;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a retired garda can apply for carer’s benefit; if such a person would qualify for the half-rate carer’s...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the savings exemption limit of €5,000 for persons with a disability in receipt of rent...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the working family payment is not considered a qualifying social welfare payment for the back to education...
    • State Pensions
      465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has sufficient insurance contributions for a State pension (contributory); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for fuel allowance by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed given the person in question was found...
    • State Pensions
      467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter in relation to a difference in payment rates to a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current time it is taking to process domiciliary care allowance reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the partial capacity benefit payment will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied). [54262/21]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of older persons are excluded from the fuel allowance on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the meaning of the phrasing, the date on which the decision takes effect is prescribed as the date on which payment of...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the rule with regard to child benefit and the qualifying conditions for receipt of the benefit in cases in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disability allowance will continue to be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons diagnosed with long Covid will be eligible to receive the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pensions Reform
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way the Report of the Commission on Pensions will be assessed by the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if there is a timeline...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Human Rights
      478. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding Ireland's adoption of the definition of anti-Semitism of an organisation (details...
    • Childcare Services
      479. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding for childcare in each of the years from 2011 to 2020 as a percentage of GDP and as a...
    • Direct Provision System
      482. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position of plans to end direct provision and implement an alternative system that will effectively...
    • Domestic Violence
      483. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of domestic violence refuge spaces in each county in tabular form; the plans to increase funding for...
    • Care Services
      484. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies in Tusla in the Dublin area by district; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic Violence
      487. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the publication of National Review of Emergency Domestic Violence accommodation carried out by...
    • Legislative Programme
      488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date he is working to for the publication of the disability (miscellaneous provisions) Bill; and when he...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when details of the restorative recognition scheme for survivors of mother and baby and county home institutions...
    • Children in Care
      491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline on the establishment of the proposed service for the parents of children in care; and if he will...
    • After-School Support Services
      492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department taking to ensure that, once health restrictions allow, children living in Dublin 12...
    • Childcare Services
      493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide information on any large-scale capital investment in childcare proposed for 2023. [54507/21]
    • After-School Support Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding is available to purchase a prefab to start an after-school service at a school (details supplied) in...
    • Domestic Violence
      495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the audit of domestic violence accommodation by Tusla which was due to be published earlier in 2021 will be...
    • Adoption Services
      496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 651 of 10 March 2021, if correspondence will be made available to this...
    • Child and Family Agency
      497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are supports in place for families who may be called into a meeting with Tusla, but who may not be...
    • Direct Provision System
      498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his knowledge of the concerns surrounding health and safety of a direct provision centre (details supplied); if...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Health Services Staff
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his officials have requested a copy of the McHugh Report into the pay of student nurses and midwives; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the decreasing share of students from DEIS schools going on to higher education; the steps that are being...
    • Further and Higher Education
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he anticipates that further education and training options will be fully integrated within the CAO application system; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have appealed a SUSI decision not to award them a SUSI grant in each of the past five years and to date in 2021; and...
    • Third Level Education
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to prepare the third level education system to meet the demands that will be placed on it by the enactment of the...
    • Grant Payments
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider implementing the announced reforms of SUSI for this academic year to address the rising cost of living impacting students and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by his Department to increase the number of apprenticeships for the new retrofitting plan; the bodies that will be...
    • Further and Higher Education
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retrofitting centres of excellence that have been established to date; the location of each; the number of trainees currently...
    • Third Level Costs
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 814 of 9 September 2021, the average cost for each undergraduate medical student on the Exchequer rather...
    • Project Ireland 2040
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated per year for the cross-Border Project Ireland 2040 infrastructure projects under his remit in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she received interim reports in 2020 and or 2021 in advance of a final report regarding a case (details supplied). [53980/21]
    • Immigration Policy
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of proposals to regularise undocumented migrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53995/21]
    • Court Judgments
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of penalties including fines and terms of imprisonment that have been issued for the possession with intent to sell...
    • An Garda Síochána
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the old Garda barracks in Templederry, County Tipperary is still considered an operational station; if the building is...
    • Citizenship Applications
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing times for applications for citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54083/21]
    • Immigration Policy
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will announce the precise terms of the proposed scheme for regularising the status of undocumented workers; the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an organisation (details supplied) will be consulted as part of the review process in view of the recent announcement that...
    • Visa Applications
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54129/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications to the new pre-clearance visa scheme that was introduced for UK nationals who came to Ireland after...
    • Direct Provision System
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason persons residing in direct provision who are awaiting the outcome of applications to remain in the State cannot work...
    • Immigration Policy
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a new process will be developed in the State to deal with the cases of third-country national persons who have been deemed...
    • An Garda Síochána
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request An Garda Síochána to report on the outcome of Operation Tombola over the 2021 Halloween period in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will arrange for the return of the passports of persons (details supplied) who applied for naturalisation some weeks...
    • Deportation Orders
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) was deported under an order signed on 21 September 2010 by the then Minister for...
    • Legislative Measures
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017; the expected completion and...
    • International Protection
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing Afghan citizens temporary refuge in Ireland while awaiting confirmation of their citizenship...
    • Deportation Orders
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision to deport will be revoked in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality cén fáth ar dhearbhaigh sí, ar an 13 Iúil 2021, nach bhfuil dualgas a thuilleadh ar ábhar...
    • Immigration Status
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) and their family to regularise their status; and if she will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding which was set aside in Budget 2021 to purchase new Garda vehicles; the number of new Garda vehicle...
    • Visa Applications
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if advice can be provided in relation to obtaining a visa to come to Ireland as per a scenario (details supplied); and if she...
    • Citizenship Applications
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has given consideration to a reduction in the cost of applying for citizenship to take account of the duration of...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding opening hours for pubs as opposed to nightclubs with late licences; if they are allowed to open late again under the current...
    • Hospital Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health when cardiac rehabilitation services in Nenagh General Hospital will be restored (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53959/21]
    • Medical Cards
      547. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a medical card; if their application will be re-examined for a medical card to issue given the deteriorating...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      548. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation recognising international surrogacy alongside retrospective declaration of parentage will be targeted to be published; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a lack of specialist palliative care for paediatric patients in the HSE south east region; his plans to put in place new...
    • Ambulance Service
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the ambulance services in Cork city and county are properly resourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54001/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in the Covid-19 compliance unit within the HSE who monitor the hospitality sector are themselves fully vaccinated thus allowing entry to hospitality...
    • Hospital Staff
      552. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the provision of neurology specialist nurses at Cork University Hospital is significantly less than national...
    • Vaccination Programme
      553. To ask the Minister for Health when a group (details supplied) will be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccination. [54011/21]
    • Hospital Services
      554. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 739 of 27 January 2021 and 1676 of 21 April 2021, the status of the suspension of water birth services; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to schools, organisations or sports clubs in receipt of taxpayer funding excluding children from certain activities of that...
    • Vaccination Programme
      556. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that will be made for persons who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons given the extension of the legislation requiring vaccine passports in...
    • Hospital Staff
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has received funding applications to appoint a consultant endocrinologist, a clinical nurse specialist for diabetes and a dietician for diabetes in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place in terms of additional staff or resources to deal with the fact that 336 patients waiting for an initial diabetes outpatient clinic...
    • Disease Management
      561. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a plan to address the fact that University Hospital Limerick is the only hospital group in the country being excluded from expansion of DAFNE dose...
    • Health Services Staff
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff qualified to use insulin pumps and support patients to do same in each CHO broken down in tabular form. [54036/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic beds designated for pelvic fractures in each of the seven hospital groups in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of staff by grade on duty or on call on night shifts in each model 3 or model 4 hospital for each month since January 2020 to October 2021,...
    • Home Care Packages
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54050/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the reason NPHET meeting minutes were and are only released six to eight weeks after the meeting in question especially when meetings were occurring on a...
    • Hospital Staff
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding appointing a clinical psychologist to the County Wexford acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team given the need for psychosocial...
    • Dental Services
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in counties Laois and Offaly, respectively, who provide services under the dental treatment services scheme. [54099/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of his Department has been drawn to the fact that there are persons who received second doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in other EU member states...
    • Hospital Staff
      577. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the additional nurses (details supplied) needed at Cork University Hospital; the plans that will be put in place to facilitate same; and if he...
    • Disability Services
      578. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for speech and language therapy, as recommended in an assessment of need in early 2020. [54115/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54120/21]
    • Disability Services
      580. To ask the Minister for Health when there will be full return of adult disability day services in the Cork north Lee area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54127/21]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if children awaiting psychology services can be supported to attend private services with support from the national treatment purchase fund; if not, if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists operating in the Ireland East Hospital Group in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form;...
    • Eating Disorders
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if a group (details supplied) will be included as part of the advisory group to the national eating programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Claims Agency
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the status of incidents entered into the national incident management system, by month, in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      586. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with the aid for which he or she has applied; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      587. To ask the Minister for Health his legislative proposals relating to surrogacy, with particular reference to ensuring that the interests of the children and parties are sufficiently...
    • Vaccination Programme
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if plans are being put in place to ensure that those who are issued immunosuppressants in their homes are referred for their Covid-19 booster shot given that...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      589. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Investigations
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome on the investigation into the illegal removal of organs from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54221/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54223/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure that the response times for ambulance services are as fast as possible, with particular reference to the north County...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      593. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals to allow those who, on medical grounds, are not fully vaccinated to be allowed to fully participate in society; if he will introduce an exemption...
    • Vaccination Programme
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available to persons to receive a booster vaccine in circumstances in which a person received a vaccine (details supplied) and is...
    • Hospital Staff
      595. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 21 September, if the vacancy for the psychiatrist has been filled in the day hospital in Kilrush; if so, when...
    • Health Services Staff
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if it is projected that there will be a sufficient number of home care workers to further progress the time to move on from congregated settings strategy in...
    • Disability Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the figure earmarked in tables 1a and 1b of the Disability Capacity Review to 2032: A Review of Social Care Demand and Capacity...
    • Departmental Budgets
      599. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress on transferring the disability budget from his Department to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a minimum amount of Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC content that a cannabis product seeking to be added to the Medical Cannabis Access Programme must...
    • Health Services Staff
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if he is giving consideration to the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists across Ireland, which...
    • Health Services
      602. To ask the Minister for Health when chiropody services will be made available in Athenry, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54292/21]
    • Dental Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the dental services in County Galway that will take on new medical card patients; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many pensioners in County...
    • Mental Health Services
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if the details of the costings for the renovations of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, County Cork will be made available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide explicit assurances that no plans are in place to downgrade services currently in operation at Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise,...
    • Departmental Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who at present avail of the fair deal scheme, by primary care centre and primary health network catchment area, in County Cork, in...
    • Health Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a child (details supplied) who has waited two years for services has been informed that there will be three...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider publication of updated guidance for addiction recovery peer support meetings given that restrictions did not lift on 22 October but...
    • Health Services Staff
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the number of palliative care teams and staff by community healthcare organisation, CHO, area. [54438/21]
    • Patient Safety
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the current backlog of unreviewed safeguarding concerns in respect of the abuse of adults by community healthcare organisation, CHO, region....
    • General Practitioner Services
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on a matter regarding payments to general practitioners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider putting in place mental health teams dedicated to supporting expectant and bereaved mothers, and families. [54444/21]
    • Health Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on recommendation 4 of HIQA Overview report of the HIQA monitoring programme against the National Standards for Safer Better Maternity...
    • Home Care Packages
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be given that 18 hours of home care for a person (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54455/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the plans are in place for the appointment of a HSE podiatrist to replace a person (details supplied) who retired in February 2021 in the Bantry area and who...
    • Dental Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to update the dental treatment services scheme (details supplied); when the scheme will be updated; and if he will make a statement...
    • Home Care Packages
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if the seven hours home care for a person (details supplied) will be provided despite the company that provides this person home care indicating it will not be...
    • Health Services
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the cross-Border service level agreements which exist between hospitals and hospital groups, trusts north and south in tabular form; the discipline services...
    • Medicinal Products
      622. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 643 of 21 September 2021, if the HSE has sourced funding for the remaining four advanced nurse practitioners as part of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for those who meet the criteria for a vaccine booster shot but are unable to leave their homes; the body that will be responsible for the...
    • Health Services Staff
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time of the recruitment clearance and staff orientation processes for international and domestic recruitment campaigns across staff group or...
    • Disability Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that disability services in County Cork are offering parents speech and language therapy courses instead of direct...
    • Hospital Facilities
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the investments and costs required for upgrading the two major trauma centres; the expansions of services which will be required; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and position regarding the primary care centre proposed for the Collinstown site in north Clondalkin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of active general medical services scheme contracts and other contracts for general practitioner services with the HSE for each year since 2011....
    • Health Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria under which the selection and consultations for the Sláintecare healthy communities fund were made. [54521/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives who leave the HSE within one, five and five years of taking up employment. [54529/21]
    • Disability Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the disability respite services that are currently available in Inishowen, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54533/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a service (details supplied) was still operating until recently on a reduced two-day service despite Covid-19 restrictions being lifted; the reason...
    • Health Services Staff
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of overtime hours worked on a weekly basis by medical and nursing grade staff in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form. [54537/21]
    • Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the population of each CHO and sub-CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54542/21]
    • Proposed Legislation
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the public health obesity Bill which was pledged under the Programme for Government. [54544/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to set up a Covid-19 test centre in Connemara given the upsurge in cases in view of the long distances that persons from Connemara have to...
    • Health Services Staff
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to recruit more genetic consultants in Ireland in view of the fact that presently there are only three and estimates suggest 15 are needed;...
    • Medicinal Products
      647. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1150 and 1151 of 31 March 2021, when his Department will act on the recommendation of a company (details supplied); the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged as soon as possible in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54572/21]
    • Health Strategies
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to publish a successor strategy for rare diseases following the expiration of the National Rare Disease Plan 2018; and if he will make...
    • Vaccination Programme
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to roll-out the Covid-19 vaccination programme to those under 12 years of age; if there will be a prioritisation of vulnerable cohorts; and...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital project applications which have been submitted by each hospital, by hospital group, for new bed units and wards and treatment capacity...
    • Hospital Staff
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies by staffing category and grade at each hospital, by hospital group; the length of time these vacancies have been open; and if he will...
    • Freedom of Information
      655. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision letter will issue to a person (details supplied) in relation to a freedom of information request; and the reason this Deputy’s office...
    • Medicinal Products
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered including cariban on the drug payment scheme for persons suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time each stage in the capital application process takes in the context of new build acute inpatient beds; the length of time of the...
    • Health Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the operations of a centre (details supplied); when it will be fully operational to pre-Covid-19 levels; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will consider allocating a locum doctor to provide consistent cover for a practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      660. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive access to services given that the child has had no community services since December 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the portal for Irish passport holders who were vaccinated outside of Ireland and the UK to obtain an EU digital Covid certificate is still not...
    • Hospital Services
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the theatre in Navan hospital was closed on 3 November 2021 until March 2022 (details supplied); the way the decision to close the accident and...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the volume of available blood in the hospital service for each of the past ten months. [54607/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      664. To ask the Minister for Health when he will meet with Members of Dáil Éireann from County Meath and with the members of a campaign group (details supplied) to discuss the future of...
    • Health Services Data
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been diagnosed with cancer in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [54616/21]
    • Health Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who attended BreastCheck clinics in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [54619/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new Covid-19 outbreaks reported in residential care settings in each month since the start of the pandemic by month; and the settings from which...
    • State Claims Agency
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and-or families who have to date made claims against the State via the State Claims Agency in connection with the death of their loved...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has begun to outsource the final assessment of need paperwork to a private provider; the reason for this; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting on speech and language therapy; and the length of waiting time for a first appointment by CHO area in tabular form....
    • Mental Health Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting on child psychology services; and the length of waiting time for a first appointment by CHO area in tabular form. [54629/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure compliance with the Covid-19 regulations for pubs and restaurants; the number of compliance checks and enforcement actions...
    • Community Care
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of authorised officers in each CHO nationwide in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54675/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date for their pacemaker operation to take place. [54756/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are currently only three neurology nurse specialists at a hospital (details supplied); and his plans to increase the number of neurology nurse...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which St. Vincent's Healthcare Group sought an operating licence from his Department for the proposed maternity hospital; if this licence is a...
    • Health Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if St. Vincent's Healthcare Group is a section 38 or a section 39 organisation; if St. Vincent's University Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital, Dún...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the stage at which the preliminary business case in preparation by the national maternity hospital project board for the proposed new maternity hospital is; if...
    • Health Service Executive
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recruitment agencies with which the HSE has entered contracts; the names of such agencies; the dates on which the HSE entered into each contract;...
    • Health Services Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff and workers working for the HSE at present. [54780/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to publish the Brandon report without further delay in deference to the families concerned and in the interests of accountability;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      694. To ask the Minister for Health when the final Sláintecare contract will be published; his views on whether the letter of 27 October 2021 from HSE national human resources regarding the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date an afforestation grant and premium scheme application was made by a person (details supplied); the outcome of this...
    • Departmental Staff
      696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 20 October 2021, the details of the metrics contained in the performance management and...
    • Forestry Sector
      697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the backlog in forestry licences, that is, the number of licence applications in the system at the end of August...
    • Insurance Coverage
      698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the challenges being faced by the hunt and equine sector arising from their difficulty in getting...
    • Bord Bia
      699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address concerns that Bord Bia is due to pay annual rent of €1.5 million for its new offices at 140 Pembroke Road,...
    • Electricity Generation
      700. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which microgeneration of electricity might be used by the agri-food producing sector to mitigate against carbon...
    • Climate Change Policy
      701. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which his Department has examined the various potential options for micro electricity generation, farm management, tree...
    • Animal Diseases
      702. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are ongoing in the context of bovine TB eradication with particular reference to the need to identify animal or bird...
    • Forestry Sector
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 39.5 acres, 16 hectares of forestry land owned by Coillte (details supplied) is for...
    • Climate Action Plan
      706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide clarification on what he and his Department understand by the term stabilisation with respect to policies or...
    • Harbours and Piers
      707. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the possible provision of funding to complete works to the wall at the pier entrance in Helvick, County...
    • Animal Diseases
      708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the increase in outbreaks of TB...
    • Fishing Industry
      709. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will publish the recently concluded survey by the Marine Institute on brown crab stock in coastal waters here; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      712. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the payments due to a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [54264/21]
    • Fur Farming
      713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to include rabbits on the list of animals covered by the fur farming ban in the upcoming Animal Health and Welfare...
    • Departmental Equipment
      714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total funding allocated for on-farm investments in Budget 2021 and Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total funding available for on-farm investments between 2023 and 2027 with regard to the €100 million allocated as part of...
    • Fishing Industry
      716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has developed or is developing a strategy to support sustainable and eco-friendly inshore fishing; the grant...
    • Harbours and Piers
      719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will release to this Deputy the most recent development plans devised by his Department for a harbour extension at Dunmore...
    • Fishing Industry
      721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to create additional educational and training opportunities including apprenticeships for young persons to enter the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a specific import licence is required in cases in which a person or body wishes to import fertiliser from a third country, that...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 660 of 12 October 2021, the number of cattle slaughtered from controlled finishing units in...
    • Agriculture Industry
      724. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can engage with the representative farming organisations to discuss the unsustainable price increase in fertiliser...
    • Forestry Sector
      725. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of any lands sold by Coillte, any lands currently for sale and any lands being considered for sale over the past five...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Proposed Legislation
      730. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current status of the Bill aimed at indemnifying farmers against liability for walkers on their property; and if she will make a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      732. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current number of remote working hubs by county; the level of funding allocated to the building of these remote working hubs; and...
    • National Development Plan
      733. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount as a percentage and in euro of the National Development Plan which was allocated to development outside of Dublin; and the...
    • Rural Schemes
      734. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a community sports, recreation and youth facility consisting of playing pitches, walkways and recreation areas in proximity to a...
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      737. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a community sports, recreation and youth facility consisting of playing pitches, walkways and recreation areas in proximity to a...

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