Written answers
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Office of the Attorney General
17. To ask the Taoiseach the full extent of the special and exceptional arrangements made by the Government to facilitate the appointment of the Attorney General in June 2020, which allowed for...
- Citizens' Assembly
36. To ask the Taoiseach if he will create a citizens' assembly to work on issues of all-Ireland integration and further unity on the island. [56473/21]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine a work permit application in relation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Redundancy Payments
39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if persons now facing redundancy from their place of employment will have their reduced working weeks forced on them during the...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Horticulture Sector
40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he proposes to address the issues raised in the horticultural sector with particular reference to the...
- Renewable Energy Generation
41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has given consideration to the use of biofuels in home heating (details supplied); and his plans for...
- Electricity Supply Board
43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and the Pensions Authority have signed a minimum funding standard submitted to them by the trustees of the defined...
- North-South Interconnector
44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated CO2 footprint of overheating the proposed north-south interconnector compared to the undergrounding the...
- National Broadband Plan
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the home of a family (details supplied) will be connected under the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a...
- Broadband Infrastructure
46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a broadband connection at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Climate Change Policy
47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the 2020 annual transition statement will be published as required by section 14(1) of the Climate Action and Low...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of schemes to increase the number of charging points for electric vehicles in Knock, County Mayo in view of the fact that...
- Departmental Correspondence
50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention or that of his officials has been drawn to or have entered into correspondence with the RSA to notify his Department that...
- Departmental Communications
51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the case of a person (details supplied). [56269/21]
- Bus Services
52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the provision of a bus shelter (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Programme for Government
53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the commitment on page 14 of the Programme for Government to establish a national public transport forum; and if he will...
- Electric Vehicles
54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to help improve the availability of electric vehicles in Ireland in view of the fact that...
- Transport Policy
57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to preserve the value of internal combustion engine cars coming up to the previously promoted 2030 ban on the sale of...
- Driver Licences
58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most expeditious, seamless and efficient process to obtain or renew a driving licence in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
- Public Transport
59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is still the plan to appraise the three options on the southside of Dublin in relation to MetroLink (details supplied). [56418/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines for protective screens in taxis that are used as a protective measure to protect drivers against Covid-19; if his attention...
- Air Services
62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the review that has been agreed to take forward to assess potential options for supporting viable air services from Belfast...
- Road Safety Authority
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is the case that a number of driving testers who had their temporary contracts extended are now to be made redundant by the RSA just...
- Road Projects
64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Glasson bypass, County Westmeath. [56474/21]
- Pensions Reform
65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 27 July 2021, when he expects the statutory instruments to be signed for a pension scheme...
- Programme for Government
66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to fulfil the programme for Government commitment to run a pilot to examine the potential for ride-sharing...
- Bus Services
67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the subsidies provided to Bus Éireann and all other public bus services annually in each of the years 2018 to 2021....
- Department of Finance
- Revenue Commissioners
68. To ask the Minister for Finance if adjustments will be made by the Revenue Commissioners in terms of determining the basic exemption and increased exemption rates applicable to paid...
- Financial Instruments
69. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the claim that section 62 of the Finance Bill 2021 will have a negative impact on the housing crisis as is it will preclude parents from being...
- Housing Schemes
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if a couple who are first-time buyers who recently bought an unfinished house, which was never inhabited and which was built in 2009, in an unliveable...
- Insurance Industry
71. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will investigate a case in which an insurance company refused a new motor insurance policy to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry due...
- Tax Code
72. To ask the Minister for Finance if all assistive technology and mainstream technology devices have been made exempt from VAT for persons who are blind or vision impaired, as is recommended in...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Public Works
76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ascertain from the OPW its plans for a property (details supplied); the length of time the property has been vacant; if it...
- Public Sector Staff
77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a series of matters in relation to the executive officer Irish panel and the mobility scheme (details supplied); and...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Schemes
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the finances allocated to a project (details supplied); the value of the proposed loan from the EIB; and the other ways it is...
- Pension Provisions
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence by a local fire fighter (details supplied); the assistance and advice...
- Vacant Sites
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties on each of the derelict sites registers by local authority when reports were submitted for 2020, in...
- Departmental Communications
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Cork City Council in view of its upcoming budget deficit. [56330/21]
- Public Participation Networks
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role his Department plays in the public participation networks; the number of full-time staff in each by local authority;...
- Local Authorities
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes by local authority area in which asbestos is present in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Public Private Partnerships
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on public private partnership social housing developments that have photovoltaic panels installed but are not...
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of NPWS staff by county; the vacancies the NPWS has in each county; and the reason for these vacancies. [56412/21]
- Electoral Process
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the Electoral Acts to repeal the prohibition on a person of unsound mind from standing for election to the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff that have returned to the offices of the Passport Office since August 2021; the exact number of persons who are actually...
- Departmental Communications
99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement has he had with his European Union counterparts with regard to the forcible eviction of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
100. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the impact he envisages the development of a new cadet school at the Curragh will have in terms of recruitment; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Consultations
101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the public and private consultation initiated by his Department on ways to preserve and manage the Curragh Plains, County...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Admissions
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be provided for a school (details supplied) to allow for an increase in the student population specifically in order...
- Schools Building Projects
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning application will be submitted to Meath County Council for the planned permanent school building for a school (details supplied);...
- Departmental Administrative Arrangements
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a remedy for a person (details supplied) as due to an overpayment beyond their control they have been denied a grant for their...
- State Examinations
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made for predictive grades in the 2022 leaving certificate exam; and if it will be a traditional exam format in 2022. [56243/21]
- Departmental Priorities
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deal with shortages of post-primary school teachers in Cork city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56266/21]
- Special Educational Needs
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [56273/21]
- Schools Administration
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider closing schools on 17 December 2021 for the Christmas holidays to enable families to spend Christmas with vulnerable loved...
- School Accommodation
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent site will be sourced for a school (details supplied) within the assigned catchment area; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Departmental Reviews
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to formally include schools (details supplied) as DEIS band one schools in the context of the recent review by her Department of the...
- Departmental Schemes
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the counselling grants for school completion will be realised to services (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to ongoing concerns in a school (details supplied) in relation to an inability to get substitute teachers to...
- Departmental Data
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching staff, SNAs and administrative staff that have taken Covid-19-related leave to date in 2021, by month and county in...
- Departmental Administrative Arrangements
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which all payments will be made under the July provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56435/21]
- State Examinations
118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to ensure that students who are due to undertake the leaving certificate examinations in 2022 will not be placed at a...
- Social Media
119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the high volume of primary school children being bullied on social media and the lack of education surrounding...
- School Facilities
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to include and or transfer all or in part and or provide on a long-term nominal lease basis, lands to a new school (details...
- State Examinations
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken to incorporate the student voice when it comes to leaving certificate reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Question Heading for question(s) 122
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided with credited contributions for the periods they have been...
- Community Employment Schemes
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been excluded by the clause which prevents former community employment supervisors from...
- Pension Provisions
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the credits paid in the UK for an Irish national (details supplied) should not count towards their treatment benefit and...
- Public Services Card
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a public services card was not accepted as photographic identification for a person (details supplied) when...
- Social Welfare Benefits
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can apply for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56331/21]
- Death Certificates
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the backlog in issuing death certificates; and when she expects this to be cleared. [56404/21]
- Social Welfare Benefits
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for injury benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will be issued for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56550/21]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Legislative Measures
132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is planned to reinstate the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 which lapsed with the...
- Domestic Violence
133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports being put in place in County Cavan to support victims of domestic violence on a...
- Child Protection
135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 174 and 175 of 10 November 2021, if he will detail the causes of death in...
- Child Poverty
136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for a national strategy to tackle child poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56223/21]
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a coroner’s inquest has not been ordered in respect of the Tuam burial site and other...
- Departmental Inquiries
138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for a commission of inquiry into wardship to be carried out in tandem with the planned opening of the...
- Legislative Measures
139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the assisted decision-making (capacity) (amendment) Bill will be published; if a decision has been made to...
- Equality Issues
141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action he is taking to assist those who are blind or visually impaired to gain employment; and if he will...
- Legislative Measures
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the communication regarding the certain institutional burials (authorised interventions) Bill from...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Admissions
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter raised in correspondence in relation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Pension Provisions
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a pension review for a person (details supplied); if clarity will be provided in this regard; if his attention has been drawn to...
- Institutes of Technology
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the situation in which tutors at institutes of technology on contracts of indefinite duration are unable...
- Departmental Data
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 10 November 2021, if he will provide a further breakdown of Higher Education Authority operational...
- Education Schemes
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 10 November 2021, the reason all retrofitting centre of excellence courses are non-NFQ aligned and...
- Departmental Data
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total enrolments on all green skill and sustainability programmes running across the tertiary system in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 10 November 2021, if the single apprenticeship system that both consortia-led and craft...
- Third Level Admissions
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will urgently review and provide assistance in respect of a SUSI application by a person (details supplied) which remains unanswered...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprentices registered to consortia-led apprenticeships that were already employed by the company for more than six months; and...
- Departmental Data
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduate entry medical students in each year since 2006, excluding non-EU international students; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Funding
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for the drawdown from the fund for former workers of a company (details supplied); and when this criteria was adopted by SOLAS....
- Third Level Admissions
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students currently enrolled on undergraduate courses in a public higher education institution that are not eligible for the free...
- Departmental Funding
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to the innovation through collaboration fund; the projects funded, partners and funding allocated in tabular form;...
- Further and Higher Education
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students from universities in Northern Ireland were able to register for Erasmus for the winter semester of the 2021-2022 academic year; if...
- Departmental Expenditure
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report detailing the past five years Department expenditures clearly delineated between all capital and non-capital...
- Third Level Admissions
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to guarantee that there will be a greater number of third-level places created for the leaving certificate class of...
- Further and Higher Education
174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is entitled to retain the special rate of maintenance grant for the 2021-2022 academic year based on income from...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Departmental Correspondence
175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received or sent correspondence to the Sentencing Guidelines Committee of the Judicial Council; and if she will make...
- Prison Service
176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a transfer under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons 1983 in the case of a...
- Citizenship Applications
177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when it...
- Visa Applications
178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if applications for visas can be treated with urgency in the case of a family (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- An Garda Síochána
179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Gardaí attached to Swords Garda station, County Dublin in each of the past ten years by rank in...
- Citizenship Applications
180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56449/21]
- Visa Applications
181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her officials have been in touch with a person (details supplied) in regard to their visa request lodged with the visa...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the Office of Inspector of Prisons Covid-19 thematic inspection reports on Shelton Abbey Prison,...
- Immigration Status
183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay a person (details supplied) has experienced in renewing a GNIB card; and if she will make a statement...
- Immigration Policy
184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of foreign nationals refused leave to land at Irish ports of entry since January 2021. [56555/21]
- Department of Health
- Disability Services
189. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that there is no ongoing risk to service users in all disability day and residential units following the revelations in County Donegal; and...
- Health Service Executive
190. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of public funds allocated from the 2020 HSE Service Plan to facilities (details supplied). [56462/21]
- Disability Services
191. To ask the Minister for Health the main initiatives undertaken by his Department since 27 June 2020 to improve access to therapeutic and multidisciplinary services for young children with...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
192. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56197/21]
- Hospital Staff
193. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to fund a clinical psychologist for the multidisciplinary diabetes team in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
194. To ask the Minister for Health the scientific data or evidence that supports restricting indoor dining and entry into pubs, night clubs, gigs and indoor facilities for vaccinated persons or...
- Health Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children on physiotherapy waiting lists by CHO for each quarter since quarter 4 2018, in tabular form; the number of those waiting...
- Departmental Data
207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children on orthodontics waiting lists by CHO for each quarter since quarter 4 2018, in tabular form; the number of those waiting more...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
214. To ask the Minister for Health when it is envisaged that a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment to meet with a consultant in the department of ophthalmology,...
- Suicide Prevention
216. To ask the Minister for Health the counselling supports that are in place for families who are living with loved ones who have suicidal indentations; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products
218. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be granted access to fremanezumab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56257/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
219. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 certificates for partners is expected to be rolled out for maternity hospitals as a means of access. [56265/21]
- Care Services
220. To ask the Minister for Health when respite will be reinstated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56271/21]
- Childcare Services
221. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new HIQA guidelines, specifically the regulations to replace the National Standards for Foster Care with the new Child Care Services...
- Dental Services
222. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE dental services in County Kerry are available to medical card holders given there is no private dental services available for medical card holders....
- Hospital Services
224. To ask the Minister for Health when respite services will resume in Fermoy Community Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56276/21]
- Vaccination Programme
225. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can avail now of a vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56278/21]
- Hospital Staff
227. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy in place increase the number of neurology nurses from its current low base to 100 and in the case of St. James’s Hospital from four to ten...
- Health Service Executive
229. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will reinstate respite service for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56315/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
230. To ask the Minister for Health if further consideration has been undertaken regarding a system for medical exemption to the EU Digital COVID Certificate following recent discussions with the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
231. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56341/21]
- Vaccination Programme
232. To ask the Minister for Health if NIAC has recommended that persons in the very-high risk category will receive their booster vaccinations; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make...
- Health Service Executive
234. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by the HSE to provide expanded access of anti-IL-5 therapies for severe asthma; if there is a limit in place on the number of...
- Healthcare Policy
235. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to restore rehabilitation beds to pre-Covid-19 levels. [56354/21]
- Departmental Data
236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new addiction beds by type, such as rehab, detox, stabilisation and so on, opened since 1 January 2021 by facility in tabular form. [56355/21]
- Departmental Strategies
240. To ask the Minister for Health the role of the taskforce coordinator. [56359/21]
- Health Services Staff
243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently employed in each of the children’s disability network teams by role in County Cork. [56363/21]
- Legislative Measures
244. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed gambling control Bill. [56364/21]
- Healthcare Policy
245. To ask the Minister for Health if the target to ensure that cancer referrals from a general practitioner into a hospital will be made electronically and each hospital group will facilitate...
- Departmental Data
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age group (details supplied). [56415/21]
- Health Service Executive
255. To ask the Minister for Health if the restored overtime pay as set out in HSE HR Circular 31/2021 will be paid for non-consultant hospital doctors; and if they will also be paid for back pay...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
256. To ask the Minister for Health the reason public health bodies are not being instructed to resume close contact tracing and informing close contacts due to the high level of numbers in...
- Departmental Data
259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sterile crack pipes that have been distributed by the HSE and charity services in County Galway to date in 2021; the way this compares with 2020...
- Primary Care Centres
262. To ask the Minister for Health when construction of the Tullow primary care centre serving Tullow, Rathvilly and Hacketstown will commence (details supplied); the current status of the...
- Vaccination Programme
263. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that there is a small cohort of persons who for underlying medical reasons are advised by their medical professionals not to take a...
- Health Service Executive
264. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request a review of the decision to refuse an application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Data
265. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels in a centre (details supplied); the posts that are in place; and the number in each one. [56491/21]
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
266. To ask the Minister for Health the findings of a pilot service offering free at-home test kits for STI screening to Dublin, Cork and Kerry; and his plans to make this a permanent nationwide...
- Health Services
267. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the My Options unplanned pregnancy support services webpage available in the ten most common languages spoken in Ireland. [56525/21]
- School Equipment
268. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of defibrillators in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56536/21]
- Vaccination Programme
269. To ask the Minister for Health if a vaccination clinic will be available in Drogheda, County Louth for the application of booster vaccines in the months ahead; and if he will make a...
- Health and Safety
270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it mandatory for public bathrooms for men to have sanitary bins installed for men who use incontinence pads for safe disposal; and...
- Psychological Assessments
271. To ask the Minister for Health if psychological assessments of needs are being carried out in a centre (details supplied); the number carried out to date in 2022; the longest waiting time;...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
272. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been contacted by HSE contact tracing teams as a result of close contact tracing in nightclubs and music venues since their...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Horticulture Sector
273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he proposes to address the issues raised in the horticultural sector with particular reference to the need to ensure...
- Agriculture Schemes
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the EU legislation that prohibits the extension of TAMS funding at a 60% grant rate to women over 55 years of age; and if he will...
- Common Agricultural Policy
275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 20 May 2021, the amount of funding provided to pillar 2 schemes from the Exchequer and...
- Agriculture Schemes
280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56367/21]
- Common Agricultural Policy
281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 10 November 2021, if the 58.53% of farmers better off with 100% convergence is relative...
- Departmental Data
283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times his Department has appealed a decision that was made by the Agriculture Appeals Office from January 2011 to...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Covid-19 Pandemic
284. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the new €9 million fund to support community groups impacted by Covid-19 announced on 11 November 2021 is separate to the...
- Public Participation Networks
285. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role her Department plays in the public participation networks; the number of full-time staff in each by local authority; and the...
- Departmental Strategies
286. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role her Department plays in the delivery of the National Drugs Strategy. [56336/21]
