Written answers

Tuesday, 23 November 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Official Engagements
      15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference. [55831/21]
    • Cabinet Committees
      21. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the work of the Cabinet Committee on Health. [55847/21]
    • Programme for Government
      38. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress report on the Programme for Government. [55795/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Accommodation
      62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a shortage of school places in Malahide and Portmarnock, County Dublin; and if she has plans to address this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to immediately establish a rapid and transparent system for reporting Covid-19 cases in schools; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will put in place arrangements to facilitate a hybrid leaving certificate in 2021 given the education of exam students has been disrupted...
    • School Curriculum
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she last met with an association (details supplied); and if she proposes to amend the new syllabus for agricultural science. [57322/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made with a school (details supplied) in regard to the purchase of the site on the Mill Road; the overall timeline for...
    • Departmental Policies
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reduce pupil teacher ratios in primary and secondary schools as announced in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided to schools regarding communication of a positive Covid-19 case in a school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to ensure students with additional needs in mainstream classes have access to an SNA if they need it; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the DEIS programme to additional schools in 2022 and 2023; the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta i dtaca le beartas a fhorbairt maidir le teagasc na Gaeilge agus leis an teagasc trí Ghaeilge i...
    • School Staff
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department ensures that all those working in schools have racial sensitivity training; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to prioritise reducing construction costs and timescales into the future given the expansive school programme...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to immediately re-establish contact tracing in Covid-19 cases in schools; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available for a portacabin for a counselling room in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 due to the loss of 40% of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which school building projects at primary and second-level throughout the country, including County Kildare, are proceeding in line...
    • Departmental Policies
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the development of a new digital strategy for schools and measures to further support digital online learning for primary and...
    • State Examinations
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for the option of accredited grades for the leaving certificate 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57212/21]
    • Education and Training Provision
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her progress to date in expanding the provision of post-primary education in Santry and Whitehall, Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the extension for a school (details supplied); if timelines can be provided for both construction and the provision of new...
    • Departmental Policies
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to progress the roll-out of the school inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57172/21]
    • School Inspections
      91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the non-essential school inspections visiting schools given the evolving and growing concern of Covid-19; and if she will...
    • School Staff
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism that has been put in place for schools to report failures to secure substitute teachers to teach replacement hours; if an analysis...
    • School Admissions
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will examine the situation vis-a-vis schools with ASD units whereby a child with autism has to apply first for a mainstream...
    • Schools Building Projects
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); the expected timescale for the commencement of same; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the establishment of a secondary school on Inisbofin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57308/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of the new Covid learning and support scheme which aims to help mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on...
    • Mental Health Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies in place to offer enhanced mental health supports for primary and secondary students; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing under the remit of her Department; the duration of each commission of investigation;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her officials will take on board the real problems with the building and prefects that a school (details supplied) is housed in. [55766/21]
    • Departmental Programmes
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications and grants under the school energy retrofit pathfinder programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the project for a new building for a school (details supplied) will be accelerated. [55765/21]
    • School Facilities
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give further consideration to the application by a school (details supplied) for the installation of a physical education lab and...
    • School Staff
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the availability of substitute teaching; her plans to allow retired teachers return in a substitution capacity; and...
    • School Facilities
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with a school and trust (details supplied) to ensure that the pitches traditionally used by the school remain available to both...
    • Special Educational Needs
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that each child or young person who is entitled to a special needs assistant or resource hours is allocated...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of and position regarding the Covid-19 school transport restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57213/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has carried out research into the need for a special school in east County Cork; if so, the details of same; and if she will...
    • School Admissions
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a shortage of school places in Swords, County Dublin; and if she has plans to address this issue. [57044/21]
    • Oideachas Gaeltachta
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an dtabharfaidh sí tuarascáil maidir le dul chun cinn an chomhairliúcháin ar athchóiriú Churaclam Gaeilge na...
    • Special Educational Needs
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if flexibility will be given to secondary schools (details supplied) in County Cork to ensure that no sixth class child with additional...
    • Departmental Reports
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the recommendations of a report (details supplied); and her plans to progress the recommendations. [57181/21]
    • Teacher Training
      114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will approve the intake numbers into both the bachelor of education and professional master of education for the next academic year; and...
    • School Admissions
      115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements she has had to date in relation to the alleviation of school place shortages for local children at a school (details supplied);...
    • School Transport
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of those applicants eligible for school transport that had or have not yet secured a place on a bus due to late payment of fees or...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the public health supports available to schools. [57303/21]
    • School Curriculum
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of the senior cycle review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57305/21]
    • School Staff
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to ensure that the requirement for close contacts to restrict movements for five days will not further impact on...
    • School Admissions
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resources that are being put in place to ensure that children in an area (details supplied) have sufficient secondary school places; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school leaders can expect to receive antigen testing for the school community; if antigen testing will require additional expenditure by the...
    • Education and Training Boards
      122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason ETB small second-level schools are not entitled to be designated as a small school for the purposes of the small schools' designation...
    • Special Educational Needs
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an application for additional support and an SNA allocation for a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her further plans to prevent and tackle bullying in schools, including cyberbullying and gender identity bullying; and if she will make a...
    • Island Communities
      125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support being provided to second-level students on the offshore islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57309/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that children attending special schools are being provided with adequate services for speech therapy, occupational therapy...
    • School Curriculum
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to update the relationships and sexuality education teaching resource material; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57254/21]
    • School Staff
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to address the difficulties being faced by principals trying to source substitute teachers; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advancement being made in providing a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57267/21]
    • School Staff
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of negotiations in relation to the improvement of pay and conditions for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the difficulties new and developing schools are facing in accessing special educational supports. [57262/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to arrange weekly mass-testing for Covid-19 across school settings; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department is taking to increase the level of special educational needs and ASD class places in County Cork; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57297/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the emergency measures that can be taken to remedy the conditions of the prefab classrooms at a school (details supplied); the progress of the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the planned allocation of the additional €18 million provision in Budget 2022 which will enable an expansion of the...
    • School Transport
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that all school bus capacity including special education transport will return to 100%, in relation to the return to full...
    • School Staff
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason education staff who were involved in delivering the summer provision are still waiting for their payments; when the payments will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when HEPA filters in each classroom will be installed given the growing international medical, building and environmental evidence and consensus...
    • School Funding
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase capitation grants in order that each school has the resources they need to deliver for all their students; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the audits carried out by her Department in respect of existing school buildings in Galway city, both vacant and occupied, to...
    • Departmental Programmes
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she plans to announce details of the extended DEIS programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57220/21]
    • School Transport
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport is running at 100% capacity; and the status of efforts to increase places for children on school buses across the State....
    • Departmental Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and breakdown of schools that had access to the summer education programme by county in 2020 and 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the opening timeframe and capacity of a new special school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if there are plans for the upgrade of the...
    • School Transport
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve pay and conditions to school escorts to encourage uptake of the position. [57317/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57198/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the announced measures to create an additional 1,700 special class places in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Projects
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); the level of engagement she has had with same; her plans for the continuity of the provision of Irish...
    • School Funding
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to provide finance to schools that do not have a recommended standard ventilation system. [57231/21]
    • School Staff
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by secondary schools in accessing funds allocated for Covid-19 catch-up...
    • State Examinations
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on the recent discussions that her Department has been having in relation to reform of the leaving certificate;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advancement in progressing a new school site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57266/21]
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the key findings of the research and evaluation study on the Gaeltacht school recognition scheme; and if she will make a...
    • School Funding
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports Budget 2022 has provided for capital planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57300/21]
    • School Curriculum
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that produced the homophobic materials recently removed from post-primary school teaching resources; the person or body that...
    • Special Educational Needs
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in County Cork expected to require a special school place in September 2022; and the number of spaces currently available,...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies to support children and young persons who are at risk of the highest levels of educational disadvantage; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children in primary schools are not wearing masks. [57228/21]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      173. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality last met. [57207/21]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Company Registration
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will extend the annual returns filing deadline to the Companies Registration Authority until at least 31 December 2021; and if...
    • Industrial Relations
      175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a campaign in relation to a company (details supplied); and his views on the call by the campaign...
    • Legislative Measures
      176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the monopolies created by big technology companies; his further views on the European Commission Digital Markets Act...
    • Departmental Meetings
      177. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the meetings and engagements he or the Ministers of State in his Department have had with organisations or companies in which minutes...
    • Company Registration
      178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider requesting the Companies Registration Office to relax administrative deadlines for submission of filings and...
    • Employment Rights
      179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of public holidays employees are entitled to in 2021 under the Holidays (Employees) Act 1961 (details supplied). [57615/21]
    • Industrial Development
      180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in County Westmeath by IDA supported companies 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form....
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Industrial Relations
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a campaign in relation to a company (details supplied); and his views on the call by...
    • National Broadband Plan
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a location (details supplied) will be connected by National Broadband Ireland; the changes to the anticipated...
    • Energy Conservation
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grant aid available for schools to improve their energy efficiency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Meetings
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the persons and companies he held a meeting with at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow; and...
    • Waste Management
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support the provision of segregated bins in public places which have high usage. [57060/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of inshore drift and draft net fishing licences that were relinquished in the 2005 decommissioning scheme;...
    • Climate Change Policy
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sector under which emissions from the Defence Forces are accounted for under the carbon budgets and sectoral...
    • Electricity Grid
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the percentage share of the average demand from each sector of the electricity market, that is,...
    • Exploration Industry
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 39 and 49 of 4 November 2021, the timeline for a decision on the granting of...
    • Departmental Communications
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of engagement his Department has had with youth climate groups in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of emissions produced in Ireland in each year over the past decade in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the schedule that sets out each heading of the 14 categories under which the National Broadband Plan...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the clean export guarantee payment for exported renewable electricity will be in place in January 2022; and if he...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed broadband will be delivered to a premises (details supplied). [57381/21]
    • Climate Change Policy
      200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a report on Irish peatlands and climate change by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagement with the European Commission to identify supports for the low-cost retrofit loan scheme; and if he will...
    • National Broadband Plan
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the installation of fibre broadband to a business (details supplied) will proceed under the National Broadband...
    • Departmental Schemes
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that have been retrofitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57629/21]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the decision to remove grants for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in view of the important role they are playing in...
    • Public Transport
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure a new station at Cabra, Dublin 7 is completed in parallel with the DART+ South West Project; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has established or will establish a coordination and or liaison group for sustainability officers in central Government offices and...
    • Civil Service
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the role of sustainability officers in the civil...
    • National Transport Authority
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail-based proposals included in the published draft as part of the consultation process on Connecting Ireland being run by the NTA...
    • Electric Vehicles
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has introduced legislation or protocols to ensure that electric vehicle owners in multiple-unit developments have a right to...
    • Bus Éireann
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a report (details supplied); if he will report this matter to the operator concerned; if they will explain the reason...
    • Labour Court
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a response to a Labour Court ruling (details supplied) and the implications that this will have to public service...
    • Air Services
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a subsidy will be put in place to encourage airlines to operate additional flights (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Projects
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be approved for the realignment project from Clogher Cross to Waterdyke, Shanballymore, Mallow, County Cork, on the...
    • Driver Licences
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will process and expedite the renewal of an SPSV licence for a person (details supplied) considering all necessary...
    • Dublin Bus
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend and increase the midnight service times for the Nitelink bus service in Dublin in view of the recent announcement of...
    • Air Services
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is an onus on the airline (details supplied) to provide alternative ground transport arrangements to passengers travelling from...
    • Marine Accidents
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to publish a report (details supplied) and urgently implement its recommendations regarding organisational structures that...
    • National Transport Authority
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Greystones, County Wicklow, is not included in the new TFI 90 minute fare introduced recently by the NTA; if there are plans...
    • Public Sector Staff
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public servants were put on short time during the Covid-19 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57457/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nature of the European Commission's letter of formal notice of 24 January 2020 concerning Council Directive (EU) 2017/159, Commission...
    • Bus Éireann
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the route 30 Bus Éireann 1 a.m. service from Donegal town to Dublin was cancelled on 15 November 2021; the operational...
    • Driver Licences
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a response will issue to representations made on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Éireann
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount raised in 2019 by Bus Éireann by charging passengers a fee to place a non-folding bicycle in the hold of a bus; and if he...
  • Department of Finance
    • Industrial Relations
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a campaign in relation to a company (details supplied); and his views on the call by the campaign for the company to...
    • Employment Support Services
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reintroduce enhanced supports through the employment wage subsidy scheme for this sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57466/21]
    • Departmental Strategies
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made in relation to implementing the recommendations of the Financial Inclusion Strategy; if he will provide a list of other...
    • Grant Payments
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if the fuel grant under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be increased in recognition of increasing fuel costs; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Support Services
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if further supports, in particular the expansion of the business resumption support scheme, are currently under consideration for the hospitality sector in...
    • Departmental Communications
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if a circular was issued in respect of the introduction of the personal to holder allowance by the Revenue Commissioners; if so, if this circular was sent to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the cycle to work scheme in 2019 and 2020; the number of persons who availed of it in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Schemes
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to a review of the temporary wage subsidy scheme guidelines, as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Banking Sector
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions his Department is taking to assist bank customers without smartphone technology to still have access to online shopping and other online banking...
    • Legislative Measures
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which members of the public may view and or inspect the Moneylenders, Credit and Mortgage Intermediaries Registers established under the Consumer...
    • Departmental Data
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue received and by type, that is, VAT or import duty on imports from Britain by month in 2020; and if the data is not available, if the global...
    • Tax Code
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who paid the domicile levy in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and to date in 2021; the amount collected under the levy in the same period; the...
    • Tax Credits
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason occupational therapists and physiotherapists working in front-line cancer services who require a fresh uniform on a daily basis and are required to...
    • Departmental Bodies
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of loan approvals by Home Building Finance Ireland in 2020 and 2021, with details on each approval including applicant, number of units, type of...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will be requested to consider extending the 25 November 2021 filing deadline for several weeks in view of the revised public...
    • Insurance Industry
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that hunting and point to point racing have seen their insurance options eliminated; his plans to address this...
    • Energy Conservation
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that mortgage and loan providers offer loans for homeworkers to retrofit their houses for energy efficiency. [57390/21]
    • Tax Credits
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that employers availing of the new tax credit for the digital gaming sector announced in Budget 2022 are asked to provide at a minimum the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance if the comprehensive review of the disabled drivers scheme has taken place; if there are proposals to change outdated legalisation on the strict qualifying...
    • Rental Sector
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tenant (details supplied) whose landlord is not resident in Ireland must pay tax on their rent directly to the Revenue Commissioners; and if this...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Staff
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public service staff were put on reduced hours or temporary lay-off during the Covid-19 pandemic. [57125/21]
    • National Monuments
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of plans to cut trees in the War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce pharmacy-led antigen testing for entry into hospitality. [57164/21]
    • Commemorative Events
      259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if further funding will be made available for commemorative activities in 2022 and 2023 to mark the final phase of the Decade of...
    • Grant Payments
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a person (details supplied) who qualified for the first round of the entertainment support grant but missed the second round...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her assessment of the challenges that are facing the hospitality sector in view of the current Covid-19 environment taking into...
    • Sports Funding
      262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if financial supports are available to a not-for-profit community sports club (details supplied) to assist with running costs such...
    • Departmental Schemes
      263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the proposed income guarantee scheme for artists to be piloted in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Court Judgments
      264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homeowners who built their dwellings prior to court rulings are entitled to have the remediation costs of their property to...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings conducted by the Disability Consultative Committee since its inception; the actions taken by the...
    • Local Authorities
      267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to or if he is kept informed of local authority owned land banks and the associated local...
    • United Nations
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Irish UNESCO Tentative List was last revised; when it will next be revised; the application process to include a...
    • Local Authorities
      269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the restrictions in place preventing local councils leasing property from investment firms implicated in war crimes (details...
    • Water Quality
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an announcement by the European Commission that it would refer Ireland to the European...
    • Departmental Bodies
      271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expedite the publication of the report by the working group on horticultural peat; the measures being adopted by...
    • Departmental Policies
      272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made in respect of the proposals contained within the Water Sector Transformation Policy Paper: Irish Water...
    • Hare Coursing
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans in relation to coursing clubs (details supplied) which are based in areas in which live hare coursing is banned but...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 6 October 2021, the result of his Department’s engagement with the Garda...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the local connection rule in relation to homeless services and its implementation by local authorities...
    • Legislative Measures
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the areas designated urban for the purpose of the Derelict Sites Act 1990. [57101/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a house affected by pyrite owned by an Irish family that are now living outside of Ireland can be included in the defective...
    • Water Charges
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increased cost facing customers with multiple water connections and particularly...
    • Derelict Sites
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authorities have furnished the details on the total number of derelict properties currently on their respective...
    • Building Regulations
      280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 2 November 2021, if the working group in his Department that is currently...
    • Fire Safety
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve the fire safety standards in apartments as part of the Programme for Government commitment to improve...
    • Housing Provision
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if arising from the Governments new Housing for All plan there will be a significant increase in demand for turnkey...
    • Departmental Data
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan applications, approvals and drawdowns in each month from January 2020 to October...
    • Planning Issues
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the membership of the working group appointed by the Attorney General to examine planning legislation; and...
    • Rental Sector
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the commission on housing once established will review the progress of cost-rental delivery in Ireland. [57340/21]
    • Housing Provision
      288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for winding up the strategic housing development application; and the final date a decision on a strategic...
    • Housing Policy
      289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to increase the eligible income limits in respect of social housing; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Housing Provision
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing development completions in 2021 and of completed strategic housing development applications...
    • Domestic Violence
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 10 November 2021, if he will provide the policy and procedural guidance issued to...
    • Planning Issues
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications under short-term letting regulations included in the Planning and Development Act 2000 for change...
    • Local Authorities
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the take-up in each local authority in each year since 2016 to date by option (details supplied). [57490/21]
    • Vacant Properties
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of properties which are vacant for longer than a transitional period which might become the target of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful applications made under the improvement works in lieu scheme in each of the past three years by local...
    • Departmental Funding
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the eligibility for the community monument fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections to examine the standards of rental accommodation undertaken by Westmeath County Council in 2019,...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      307. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      308. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 439 of 9 September 2021, the status of the application for the foreign birth registration of a person...
    • Passport Services
      309. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56945/21]
    • Foreign Policy
      312. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the current situation in Sudan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57056/21]
    • Passport Services
      313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a foreign birth registration will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57089/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      315. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the roll-out of vaccines to third-world countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57100/21]
    • Foreign Policy
      316. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of support being provided to persons facing extreme food scarcity in Madagascar; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Passport Services
      317. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite the return of documents to a person (details supplied) which were attached to a passport application; and if he will...
    • Brexit Issues
      318. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to issues faced by persons (details supplied) planning to enter Ireland via Belfast or Derry given the UK...
    • Foreign Policy
      320. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagement with both Presidents Herzog and Abbas on Israel’s designation of six Palestinian non-governmental...
    • Passport Services
      322. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the long delay in the issuing of a passport in the case of a person (details supplied). [57404/21]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 413 of 9 September 2021, if he will report on the progress on allocation of further resources to...
    • Departmental Funding
      324. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding provided to organisations (details supplied) from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57533/21]
    • Passport Services
      325. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason an online adult passport application by a person (details supplied) took 57 working days to be checked by the Passport Office;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Civil Defence
      326. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the transportation service to hospital appointments for persons with no transportation options which was being provided by voluntary...
    • Defence Forces
      329. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the targets the Defence Forces have for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and 2050. [57076/21]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process in relation to the return of testing and tracing within the education system and the way that will impact on the school environment...
    • State Examinations
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make arrangements for a hybrid examination for the leaving certificate in 2022 mirroring the approach which was taken in 2021 in view...
    • Education Schemes
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56906/21]
    • School Accommodation
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new schools established in each county in each of the past ten years in tabular form; the number that opened in temporary...
    • School Admissions
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans and schedules in place to ensure second-level capacity in Trim, County Meath matches the primary-level capacity in order to eliminate...
    • School Facilities
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances under which her Department funds new school halls in primary schools; if an application was received and considered from a...
    • State Examinations
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the difficulties faced by leaving certificate 2022 students due to Covid-19 when planning for this exam; if an advisory...
    • School Admissions
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the growing lack of secondary school places in south County Kildare; her plans to address this problem; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a school (details supplied); the timelines involved for completion; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units in secondary schools in south County Kildare; the location of each; the number of proposed ASD units in the pipeline; and...
    • State Examinations
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to offer students sitting the leaving certificate in 2022 the option to sit a written exam or get an accredited grade from the State...
    • School Transport
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further consideration will be given to extending the age permitted for bus drivers and the school transport scheme to above 70 years of age...
    • Schools Administration
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the catchment area for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57068/21]
    • School Staff
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the minimum 12-week wait for teachers providing additional tuition through the summer provision before they...
    • National Council for Special Education
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 11 November 2021, the terms of reference within the review of the education provision in special...
    • State Examinations
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a special arrangement for current leaving certificate students for 2022, for example, accredited grades for two...
    • School Staff
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the lack of substitute teachers at primary level; the measures being taken to ensure students do not miss out...
    • State Examinations
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the leaving certificate 2022 will take into account the disruption and loss of learning caused by...
    • School Admissions
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to school place shortages in a school (details supplied); and if she has plans to address the situation. [57146/21]
    • School Staff
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school secretaries pay (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57165/21]
    • School Transport
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport is returning to 100% capacity. [57186/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated weekly, monthly and annual cost of providing an antigen test daily to each teacher at primary and secondary level in the State....
    • Irish Sign Language
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the shortage in the lack of qualified Irish Sign Language interpreters in the classroom; and if she will...
    • School Facilities
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position in regard to the provision of replacement and extended facilities at a school (details supplied); the length of time this...
    • State Examinations
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that there is enough capacity in PPLI to meet the demand to sit leaving certificate Mandarin. [57237/21]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teaching council number will be issued to a person (details supplied) without further delay. [57238/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and or expected position in relation to the various school building projects at primary and second-level in respect of Celbridge,...
    • State Examinations
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will examine the situation whereby students suffering an epileptic seizure by their nature without warning prior to a leaving...
    • National Development Plan
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the capital funding allocation for education within the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of primary school places for children with autism in west County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when antigen tests will be rolled out for classroom close contacts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57375/21]
    • School Equipment
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of distribution of CO2 monitors to primary and secondary schools in an area (details supplied) in tabular form. [57384/21]
    • School Curriculum
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to support the roll-out of computer science as a leaving certificate subject. [57391/21]
    • Driver Licences
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the discrepancy by which persons over 70 years of age cannot drive school buses but the same persons are permitted to drive...
    • Schools Building Projects
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been secured for a new school (details supplied) at a location in County Cork; the next steps to be taken with regard to provision...
    • State Examinations
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering reforms of the leaving certificate for the future in view of the Covid-19 impact on same; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 346 of 16 November 2021, the considerations her Department has made in relation to the school's...
    • Departmental Funding
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has to review the rates awarded for assistive technology in view of the Departmental cap on funding for laptops; if consideration...
    • Schools Building Projects
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the construction of a new school on a site (details supplied) in Dublin 13 which already has planning permission for same; and if...
    • School Staff
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on progress in relation to the issue of the terms and conditions of school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to planning for the 2022 State exams; if consideration has been given to providing a predictive grades option; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children that are currently awaiting assistive technology from 0 to 6, 6 to 12, 12 to 18 and more than 18 months by county in...
    • State Examinations
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to adapt or alter the 2022 leaving certificate exam grading options in view of the previous disruptions experienced throughout their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to bus drivers’ concerns in relation to 100% capacity on school buses given the increase in transmission...
    • Special Educational Needs
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Council for Special Education is expected to issue a decision on an application to establishment of an ASD classroom at a...
    • Departmental Policies
      386. 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 classroom permitted relative to the number of...
    • Oideachas Gaeltachta
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cathain a chuirfidh sí tús leis an athbhreithniú ar an gcóras nua díolúintí ó staidéar na Gaeilge a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and or expected position in relation to the various school building projects at primary and second-level in respect of Maynooth,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains satisfied that children and teachers are safely and adequately protected from Covid-19 throughout the winter...
    • Schools Building Projects
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which her Department continues to respond expeditiously to requests for new schools or extensions to existing schools at primary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs placements remain available at primary and post-primary schools throughout County Kildare; the adequacy of such...
    • Departmental Policies
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which provision continues to be made to ensure the viability of smaller and denominational rural or urban schools; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which progress continues to be made towards permanent accommodation for a Gaelcholáiste in Maynooth, County Kildare; and if...
    • School Facilities
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time schedule for the provision of new second-level facilities at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and anticipated status of a large-scale capital project at a school (details supplied) the expected date for delivery; and if she...
    • School Enrolments
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the enrolment process at primary school level remains amenable to most families throughout the country; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Projects
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date or in hand in meeting the school place, replacement of facilities, new school requirements and special needs provision in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate provision for early years education remains an integral part of her Department’s objectives; and if she will...
    • Departmental Data
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers currently employed at primary level throughout the country; the extent to which this meets requirements at the present...
    • Departmental Priorities
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is determined to improve pupil-teacher ratios in all primary and second-level schools throughout the country; the...
    • Departmental Data
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals made monthly by schools who were refused the number of SNA or resource hours applied for regarding children and young...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Community Employment Schemes
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter in relation to the community employment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the request by an organisation (details supplied) to make provision for free travel passes to be...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57053/21]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average turnaround time from when a review with new medical evidence is sent to a medical assessor to when the opinion of...
    • Public Sector Staff
      422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grade that must be held to qualify for the role of deciding officer; the training provided on appointment to this role;...
    • Pension Provisions
      423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the decision will be made on an application for the old age pension (contributory) by a person (details supplied); and...
    • Civil Registration Service
      424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Civil Registration Service will be able to accept posted paper registrations; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the means testing requirement to qualify for the one-parent family payment; if exceptions are made for household income such...
    • Birth Certificates
      426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit from January 2021 to date; the number awarded...
    • Birth Certificates
      431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for the registration of the birth of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for the State pension (contributory) by a person (details supplied) will be determined in view of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a self-employed person can maintain their pandemic unemployment payment if they undertake three days employment and are...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [57402/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to increase the availability of activation schemes,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for an increase in family income support; and if she will...
    • Pension Provisions
      438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of talks with community employment supervisors in relation to their pension entitlements; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding capital funding; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE, Tusla or his Department can assist a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with an update on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made by his Department in advancing a national strategy on autism; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Provision
      442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way housing will be provided for asylum seekers (details supplied) given the housing crisis; and if he will...
    • Departmental Communications
      443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his offices have been in contact with a person (details supplied) regarding their work to help an Afghan...
    • Official Travel
      444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his recent visit to Jordan. [57346/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      445. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons including children seeking international protection who have been required to quarantine...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to centralise and streamline processes with the early years hive, Pobal and Tusla to avoid situations...
    • Departmental Funding
      447. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided to organisations (details supplied) from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      448. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a vacancy exists for an inspector of preschools and crèche in south County Tipperary; and if so, the...
    • Departmental Data
      449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of preschool and crèche inspections that have taken place in south County Tipperary in 2019,...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Ministerial Appointments
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with fifth year students when he is visiting a school (details supplied); if so, the date he plans to visit the school; and if he...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who completed an apprenticeship and became fully qualified tradespersons in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in...
    • Technological Universities
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a borrowing framework for the technological universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56975/21]
    • Grant Payments
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider continuing to extend the SUSI maintenance grant to persons being transferred from the jobseeker's transition payment to the...
    • Third Level Reform
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will bring forward an updated Higher Education System Performance Framework given the current framework was only intended to continue until...
    • Institutes of Technology
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that tutors in institutes of technology are not eligible for the single public service pension scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Technological Universities
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the suggestion that Dundalk Institute of Technology can achieve university designation as a standalone institute outside the...
    • Nursing Education
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with Trinity College in respect of the return to in-class lessons for nursing students (details supplied). [57078/21]
    • Third Level Examinations
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is planned to proceed with in-person exams in December 2021 in third-level institutions. [57444/21]
    • Third Level Admissions
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a mature student grant applicant (details supplied) in County Kerry who has established independent residency has had their...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Prison Service
      463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Covid-19 cases reported in each of the prisons here in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of Covid-19...
    • Court Accommodation
      464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the alternative temporary location for Roscommon District Court; when it is envisaged that the relocation will take place; the...
    • Mental Health Policy
      465. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will review the need for pre-arrest diversions to psychiatric services for persons with mental health...
    • Citizenship Applications
      466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a citizenship application in the case of a person (details supplied); when the...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Fines Administration
      468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that members of the public who travelled abroad during lockdown for essential...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is a 60-day waiting period when renewing a lottery licence for community organisations, sports clubs and...
    • Visa Applications
      472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has plans to increase staff levels at the Burgh Quay Registration Office to help speed up appointments for persons that...
    • Credit Register
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to reform personal insolvency legislation around the position for a person’s credit rating when they exit a...
    • Deportation Orders
      474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently on the deportation list. [57242/21]
    • Asylum Applications
      475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers currently being processed that will benefit from the amnesty for the undocumented. [57243/21]
    • Departmental Data
      476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish all details regarding the imminent investment programme for the past ten years including the individuals...
    • An Garda Síochána
      477. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured in 2022 for the purchase of additional dogs for the Garda dog unit and additional horses for the...
    • Immigration Policy
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department’s regularisation scheme is on track to be delivered in November 2021; and if she will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to improve the registration system at The Garda National Immigration Bureau, Burgh Quay Office given there have been...
    • Citizenship Applications
      489. 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. [57518/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons who do not register their seaweed harvesting rights established by long usage will lose those rights if they are not...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      491. To ask the Minister for Health if a Covid-19 Recovery Certificate is required to travel within the European Union if the person who has recovered from Covid-19 is also fully vaccinated; and...
    • Health Services
      492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent mental health nurses attached to each prison here in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; if this number will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cancer patients at St. James’s Hospital were asked to attend the hospital recently for a Covid-19 booster vaccination but instead received an...
    • Mental Health Services
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are waiting on a psychology service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area; and if he...
    • Health Services
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting on an occupational therapy service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area;...
    • Mental Health Services
      507. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting on a CAMHS psychiatry service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area; and...
    • Health Services
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting on a paediatric service in hospital or in the community; the average waiting time after completion of an assessment of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are currently waiting for paediatric appointments in hospital or in the community; the average waiting times by CHO area in tabular...
    • Health Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a social work service; the average waiting time after completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a pre-school support service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area; and if he...
    • Home Help Service
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for appointments in home support services: the average waiting times by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on an ophthalmology service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area; and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      535. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for appointments in complementary and play therapy: the average waiting times by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the number of interventions received on average after a child is identified as needing a nursing service after the completion of an assessment of needs since...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a hospital-based medical or surgical service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO...
    • Dental Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a dentistry service; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO area; and if he will make...
    • Health Services
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on a service for the deaf and hard of hearing; the average waiting time after the completion of an assessment of needs by CHO...
    • Disability Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of interventions received after a child is identified as needing a service for the deaf and hard of hearing after completion of an...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence regarding obtaining a vaccine certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56886/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      550. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that young persons turning 18 years have seamless access to specialist prescriptions for medications such as ritalin given that the adult...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to update the EU digital Covid certificate to include proof of booster vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56894/21]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider adding capacity to walk-in Covid-19 test centres given many are lacking in appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      554. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with a hoist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56900/21]
    • Health Services
      555. To ask the Minister for Health when audiology services will be made available at Tuam primary care centre, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56901/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      556. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be given a date for an assessment by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56902/21]
    • Health Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE provides funding to an organisation (details supplied); if there are formal agreements in place with the organisation; if he plans...
    • Hospital Facilities
      560. To ask the Minister for Health when work on the delivery of 26 new ICU beds at St. James's Hospital will commence; the level of funding that has been allocated for this project; when these...
    • Hospital Services
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on a first appointment in the outpatients' diabetes clinic in the UL hospital group aged 18 to 24 years, 25 to 34 year, 35 to 44...
    • Health Services Staff
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delays in recruiting for the four diabetes clinical nurse specialist posts, the three dietitian posts and the additional two consultant...
    • Hospital Services
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the University Limerick Hospitals Group will be included in the remaining six diabetes centres acquiring dose adjusting for normal...
    • Hospital Admissions
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions through the University Limerick Hospitals Group accident and emergency department or the acute medical assessment unit due to...
    • Hospital Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over the age of 18 years who were admitted through the University Limerick Hospitals Group accident and emergency department or the acute...
    • Health Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the necessary funding for the resumption of the national diabetes register Sláintecare project as a priority; if his attention has been...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if a device will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56921/21]
    • Residential Institutions
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential service providers that have established family forums under the Terms of Reference for Family Forums 2018 (details supplied); the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      571. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a query regarding the provision of an EU digital Covid certificate to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI machines located in public and voluntary hospitals; the number operating on a 24-hour basis; and the number operating seven days a week....
    • Hospital Facilities
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres in public and voluntary hospitals; the number that are closed currently; the number that are operating on an eight, 16 or a...
    • Hospital Equipment
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI machines and theatres that have not been used at all in the past six months; the locations of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce activity related funding to fund the HSE in future to ensure that hospitals get paid for the work they do and to encourage more outputs....
    • Hospital Staff
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of management to patients in the public and voluntary hospitals; and the way this compares to private hospitals. [56933/21]
    • Hospital Procedures
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage increase in cost to the State on average in the delay of scoliosis operations on an annual basis. [56934/21]
    • Departmental Policies
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce universal healthcare for children. [56935/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if hormone treatments which are considered high-tech scripts will be covered either by the medical card or drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered sending each household a set of antigen tests and face masks that meet European standards due to the rising case numbers of Covid-19 at...
    • Vaccination Programme
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if a provision will be introduced for those who could not receive their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine for medical reasons due to a reaction to the first...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that heavily pregnant women who have tested positive for Covid-19 and require medical attention are left in...
    • Departmental Bodies
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the total allocation and expenditure of the Health Research Board since 2006, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56978/21]
    • Health Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Health when the group home for persons with physical and sensory disabilities in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan will be operational; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital will be expanded to operate on a 24 hour seven days per week basis; and if he will make...
    • Health Services
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent nurses in each hospital, former LHO or smallest geographic unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56997/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent nurses in Cavan General Hospital in each of the years 2009 to 2020, inclusive, and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of his Department’s spending on health and social care in each of the years 2017 to 2020, inclusive, and to date in 2021; and if he will...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the funding drawn down by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2017 to 2020, inclusive, and to date in 2021, in tabular form; the amount...
    • Health Service Executive
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent number of bank or agency staff contracted to the HSE by staff group in each of the years 2017 to 2020, inclusive, and to date in...
    • Home Care Packages
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the homecare staffing crisis; his views on whether home carers should be included in the critical skills exemption for...
    • Undefined
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if a generator will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57055/21]
    • Hospital Transfers
      598. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) who is a patient in University Hospital Kerry will be urgently transferred to Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      599. To ask the Minister for Health when a booster programme will be available for those who have received a single vaccination jab and who need to travel within the European Union given that the...
    • Health Services
      600. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment from the early intervention team; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no active haematology department in University Hospital Kerry; his plans to have this department fully operational; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide resources to increase the number of palliative care beds in the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar by four beds and increase a second...
    • Undefined
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding medical centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57115/21]
    • Hospital Admissions
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of incidents of needle spiking that have been treated in Irish hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57116/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of vaccination type of patients currently hospitalised with Covid-19 who have previously been vaccinated against the virus; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the level of subsidy on antigen tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57119/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if he is engaging with private hospitals in the context of rising Covid-19 hospitalisations and ICU capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the level of Covid-19 vaccine stockpiles currently available to Ireland for each vaccine in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57123/21]
    • Undefined
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of devices for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57128/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      610. To ask the Minister for Health if Beaumont Hospital is short five neurology nurse specialists (details supplied); the efforts that are being made to fill these posts; when the posts will be...
    • Dental Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the FEMPI and PPE supply related issues following the release of figures (details supplied) which show that two thirds of dentists have left...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if a Covid-19 test centre will be opened for the Drogheda urban, rural and east County Meath local electoral areas in view of the increasing and very...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide weekly statistical updates to Deputies on the Covid-19 virus (details supplied). [57163/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for an orthodontic appointment. [57167/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional permanent critical care ICU beds that will be delivered as part of the winter planning within the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will...
    • Hospital Staff
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to provide 100 additional neurology nurse specialists across Ireland; his plans to add eight extra nurses for the Mater Misericordiae...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      618. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for orthopaedic surgery. [57184/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      619. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an ophthalmology appointment. [57185/21]
    • Hospital Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined additional pathways to care through the use of Nenagh hospital in order to alleviate the demand on University Hospital Limerick; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      621. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to a letter from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the poor treatment of student nurses and midwives during the Covid-19...
    • Disability Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the situation with respect to the operation of the progressive disability services programme in the Cork region; if he is satisfied that children attending...
    • Departmental Reviews
      623. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 562 of 16 November 2021, if the three-year review must be initiated or completed by January 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reports
      624. To ask the Minister for Health when a report on the death of a person (details supplied) will be published. [57256/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional ICU beds that have been added to the health system since 1 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57270/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if the weekly data collected and reported by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre on the epidemiology of Covid-19 outbreaks and clusters are accurate; if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      631. To ask the Minister for Health when it was decided to administer Covid-19 booster shots given the waning of the antibody within the vaccines administered; to whom it was decided to...
    • Hospital Admissions
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all ICU admissions in relation to Covid-19 from 1 September to 12 November 2021, inclusive; the age profile and the existence of underlying...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all Covid-19 deaths that occurred between 1 September and 12 November 2021, inclusive; the age profile and the existence or non-existence of...
    • Nursing Homes
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new residential places that will be provided in 2022 excluding those who have a residential service already and are transferring to a better...
    • Medicinal Products
      639. To ask the Minister for Health when the budget 2022 changes to the thresholds for the drug payments scheme are expected to take effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57367/21]
    • Primary Care Centres
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with regard to the east Meath primary care centre; when it will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57371/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently practising in Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that a stroke discharge plan is put in place for each person who has suffered a stroke leaving an acute hospital setting....
    • Ambulance Service
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the recommendations of the National Ambulance Service emergency service baseline and capacity review. [57394/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for an ophthalmology operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57398/21]
    • Primary Care Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the site in Ratoath, County Meath purchased by the HSE with a view to building a primary care centre; the status of plans to deliver a primary...
    • Abortion Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 2 November 2021, if in each case in which a baby survived the abortion procedure medical assistance or palliative...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will he consider making a statement and taking questions in Dáil Eireann on the contract issued by his Department to a company (details supplied)...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list numbers in Cork University Hospital transferring from paediatric diabetes care to adult diabetes care. [57412/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants needed in order to assure sufficient care for all diabetics in Cork University Hospital. [57413/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to launch a national recruitment strategy for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57420/21]
    • Health Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if the capacity for MRI diagnostics and treatments for public patients is short of what is needed; if he has plans for new investment in capacity or initiating...
    • Abortion Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 16 November 2021, if he will provide the details of the notifications to date in 2021 given that he has advised...
    • Health Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 562 of 9 November 2021, the model of care, clinical pathways or guidelines the national clinical programme plans to...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      659. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the current capacity for PCR testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57463/21]
    • Medical Cards
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card holders must pay for blood tests carried out at their general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57472/21]
    • Health Services
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances by which there was a power outage at Tallaght Hospital on 17 November 2021; and the impact the outage had on the services provided at the...
    • Mental Health Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time that children who are involuntary admitted to adult mental health units spend in such units; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      666. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 868 of 28 April 2021, the status of the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57478/21]
    • Departmental Policies
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to reduce carbon emissions in the healthcare supply chain. [57480/21]
    • Organ Donation
      668. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to bring forward new legislation on organ donation. [57484/21]
    • Health Services
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available as a matter of urgency for a family (details supplied). [57485/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time it took to recruit and fill a post for each staff group grade group in the HSE in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form....
    • Health Service Executive
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advertised posts for recruitment for each staff group grade group in the HSE currently in tabular form. [57489/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      672. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publicly promote the Covid-19 vaccination booster campaign in order to tackle the lower levels of uptake of the booster vaccine particularly in...
    • Departmental Data
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €31 million announced in Budget 2022 for women’s health will be allocated; the sub-allocation to measures within the new measures...
    • Departmental Funding
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €30 million announced in Budget 2022 for national strategies will be allocated; the sub-allocation to measures within this new measures...
    • Departmental Data
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds closed in Kerry General Hospital in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [57519/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinicians that have left their posts by CHO area in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57525/21]
    • Health Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health when a service (details supplied) will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57526/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      694. To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment has begun for the dual diagnosis team in CHO3; the location in which the team will be operational; the location of same; the supports it will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if a second temporary replacement doctor will be allocated to a general practitioner practice (details supplied) from which two doctors have recently retired;...
    • Nursing Homes
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has a reserve of healthcare staff or professionals to assist nursing homes in instances of staff shortages or staffing emergencies arising from...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken in consultation with other relevant Departments and their agencies to ensure that the legislation on the prevention of the spread of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider accelerating and directing additional resources to the booster vaccine roll-out in order to mitigate the need for further lockdowns; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the point at which a person will be considered unvaccinated in circumstances in which they receive two vaccines and do not receive the third vaccine; if they...
    • Alcohol Advertising
      704. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 is implemented ensuring that children are protected from alcohol marketing, particularly the...
    • Hospital Services
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the cause of the recent power outage at University Hospital Tallaght, leading to the cancellation of all scheduled outpatient and day appointments; and the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      706. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [57622/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if a site (details supplied) is in the ownership of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57631/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      708. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 843 of 27 January, the status of plans by the HSE to provide a new base for the ambulance service in Drogheda, County...
    • Vaccination Programme
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to provide a facility in Drogheda, County Louth to ensure the swift roll-out of the Covid-19 booster shots to the population in Drogheda,...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide a permanent Covid-19 testing centre in Drogheda, County Louth, given the high rate of infection in the community and the fact that the...
    • Hospital Staff
      711. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding neurology nurses in Cork University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57637/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to correspondence from a representative organisation (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a substantive reply; if he...
    • Health Service Executive
      714. 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. [57643/21]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Horse Racing Industry
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding assistance and help being sought from the grassroots of Irish racing; and if...
    • Agriculture Industry
      716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tagging requirements of sheep; the details of the tracking system or central register for identification; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if membership of a domestic scheme run by a semi-State body (details supplied) will be a requirement for entry in the suckler carbon...
    • EU Regulations
      719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the application to the European Union for protected geographical indication status for Irish beef; and if he will make...
    • Animal Welfare
      720. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the deadline for the submission of dung samples for faecal egg count testing as a part of the BEEP scheme is one month...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of penalty interest that has been applied to farmers who did not avail of a deferral for the beef exceptional aid measure,...
    • Departmental Meetings
      724. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of all official engagements and meetings that he has attended with specific regard to farm safety since assuming office;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the heading and subheadings in the Revised Estimates that deal with the allocation of funding for fisheries; the purpose of each...
    • Agriculture Industry
      728. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 774 of 5 October, the counties that have more than eight controlled finishing units; the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      729. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be heard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57006/21]
    • Animal Welfare
      730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to review the Control of Horses Act 1996; if he further plans to introduce legislation amending the Act; and if he will...
    • Animal Passports
      731. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is a delay in having passports for foals issued; and the actions he plans to take to address same. [57069/21]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Harness Racing Industry
      734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding consideration of the funding request put forward to his Department by an association (details supplied); the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57124/21]
    • Animal Welfare
      737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the fact that since the introduction of S.I. No. 681/2019 - Animal Health and Welfare (Sale or Supply of Pet Animals)...
    • Forestry Sector
      738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the support available to landowners who have suspected or confirmed Dutch elm disease. [57387/21]
    • Fishing Industry
      740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that inshore fishers are eligible for the tie-up scheme. [57389/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the provisions of regulation Statutory Instrument S.I. 538/2001 are active and applicable to all current proposed afforestation...
    • Animal Diseases
      744. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the recent reports of avian flu on the island of Ireland; if he has spoken with his counterparts in the Northern...
    • Forestry Sector
      745. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approvals for forest road licences that have issued to date in 2021; the number of those licences that issued to...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure that the final version of CAP payments include recognition of hedgerow quality as a potent means of...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Family Resource Centres
      747. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding strands available to a family resource centre (details supplied) in order to maintain the work it undertakes in the...
    • Road Projects
      748. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way an allocation of local improvement scheme funding was spent by Mayo County Council (details supplied); the details of the road...
    • Island Communities
      749. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a project (details supplied); when the project is likely to proceed to construction and the associated timeline; and if...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      750. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if LEADER funding is available to cover a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57439/21]
    • Sports Funding
      751. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if financial supports are available to a not-for-profit community sports club (details supplied) to assist with running costs such as...
    • Rural Schemes
      752. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made in implementing the undertaking in the Programme for Government to deliver a rural development programme (details...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      753. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total allocation to the LEADER programme for the last two CAP periods; the proposed allocation for the forthcoming CAP period; the...