Written answers
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Census of Population
2. To ask the Taoiseach if persons living in a charity-run homeless hostel will be counted as homeless in the census in 2022. [62207/21]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Public Sector Pensions
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some ESB retirees with pensions through the superannuation scheme have not received an...
- Legislative Programme
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which he will progress the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2021 in view of the fact that a European Union directive related to...
- Export Controls
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of dual-use export licences, by country, for each of the past five years. [62126/21]
- Military Exports
7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of military export licences, by country, for each of the past five years. [62127/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department has taken to support employers following the most recent announcement of Covid-19 related restrictions; and...
- Consumer Protection
9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 7 December 2021, the steps he is taking to ensure that the Competition and Consumer...
- Diaspora Issues
10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has proposals to incentivise the return to Ireland of citizens with skills, training, experience or professional expertise in...
- Departmental Policies
11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62192/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter regarding supports for the hospitality sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Trade Agreements
13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on talks and agreements that have taken place with member states in respect of tariffs for steel products...
- Public Services Card
14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the mandatory requirement for a public services card to access public services other than that of the Department of Social...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Postal Services
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a club (details supplied) in County Kerry will be assigned an Eircode postcode; and if he will make a statement on...
- Climate Action Plan
16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the just transition fund for Lanesboro and the wider area (details supplied). [62064/21]
- Recycling Policy
17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposed flat-rate deposit under the deposit return scheme on...
- National Broadband Plan
24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with local authority members regarding concerns relating to national broadband roll-out; and if not, if he...
- Departmental Schemes
25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has undertaken research regarding the costs of retrofitting a second-hand house up to the ##A-rated...
- Fuel Inspections
26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way his Department intends to encourage local authorities to enforce the national smoky coal ban that is due to come...
- Air and Water Pollution
32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to tackle air pollution, particularly in urban areas and cities; and if he will make a statement...
- National Broadband Plan
33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the reason a property 100 mfrom the fibre cable will have to wait a...
- Waste Management
34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 20 June 2018, the status of an annual support towards pay-by-weight bin...
- Departmental Policies
35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022....
- Wind Energy Generation
36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of offshore wind turbines currently in operation; the number constructed in each of the years 2001 to 2020...
- Electricity Grid
38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of electricity consumed in Dublin and nationally in each of the years 2001 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in...
- Energy Production
39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the risk analysis that has been taken regarding the proposed new gas power plants and the liabilities of the State under...
- Post Office Network
40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to legislate for security in post offices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if policies are being developed to allow householders to have kerbside chargers where they have no driveways and it would be hazardous to...
- Public Sector Pensions
42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress of the updated pension scheme for Dublin Bus drivers; if there are reasons for the delay in implementation; and if...
- Road Safety Authority
43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that driving instructors have been unable to access bathroom or sanitation facilities at RSA...
- Bus Services
44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the cessation of the Bus Éireann express service from Galway to Limerick via Shannon Airport which...
- Public Transport
45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to greater flexibility of current public transport incentives such as taxsaver tickets given the greater...
- Road Safety Authority
46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the lack of sanitary and-or bathroom facilities for driving instructors (details supplied) at RSA...
- Departmental Policies
47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022; and if he will...
- Driver Licences
48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify and review an application by a person (details supplied) to the National Driver Licence Service; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 8 December 2021, the size of the population of 19- to 23-year-olds upon whom the budget of...
- Road Projects
50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be an announcement made in 2021 for funding for the road safety improvement works on the N73 Mallow to Mitchelstown road....
- Electric Vehicles
51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of successful applications to his Department for the installation of rapid e-car chargers in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by...
- Department of Finance
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the funding available to a business in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Exemptions
54. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans for a VAT exemption for psychotherapists given that they are currently the only allied health profession with a requirement to register for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
56. To ask the Minister for Finance if it will be ensured that the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, includes an automatic qualification for hospitality businesses that qualify for the...
- Tax Reliefs
57. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the trans-Border worker’s relief post-January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62071/21]
- Tax Collection
59. To ask the Minister for Finance if research is under way with regard to the potential impact on motor tax revenue an increased uptake of electric vehicles will have; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Policies
60. To ask the Minister for Finance the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62194/21]
- Public Sector Staff
61. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of non-financial or pension supports and resources being made available directly or indirectly through his Department and bodies under his aegis to...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if his officials have considered giving additional support to businesses and hotels that are just over the threshold for the employment wage subsidy scheme but...
- Revenue Commissioners
63. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have discontinued all face-to-face interaction with citizens; and, if so, if such a service will be restored. [62282/21]
- Tax Code
64. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to granting reductions in the local property tax for homeowners in developments in which property management fees are to be...
- Banking Sector
65. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that as a consequence of closures of branches by a bank (details supplied), there are no ATM facilities in Moate,...
- Tax Code
66. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department intends to apply reduced or zero-rated VAT rates on new sanitary products, such as menstrual cups and period proof underwear in line with...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Policies
67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021 and his main priorities for 2022; and if he will...
- Flood Risk Management
68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works can give advice and assistance to homeowners likely to be prone to flooding as a result of climate change;...
- Public Sector Staff
69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of persons who retired across the public sector over the past five years to date, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Wildlife Regulations
74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a bat derogation licence was in place at a location (details supplied). [62271/21]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
75. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide clarity on the LPSS 2021: Strand II criteria; if a panto has to have a turnover of €100,000 in one year...
- Sports Funding
77. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide this Deputy with a schedule of financial supports, not including the sports capital grant, that she and-or Sport...
- Departmental Policies
79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by her Department during 2021; and her main priorities for 2022. [62203/21]
- Television Licence Fee
80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of television licence fines that were issued by An Post in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if...
- Departmental Schemes
81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the full details, including the rate of payment, application details and other relevant information of the...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Provision
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if departmental guidance is provided to local authorities to determine the proportion of their houses that are appropriated...
- Vacant Sites
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have adopted, and have yet to adopt, a vacant sites policy, in tabular form. [62081/21]
- Vacant Properties
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes that are unoccupied, by local authority area. [62082/21]
- Local Authorities
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have an approved overdraft; and the levels of same by local authority, in tabular form....
- Homeless Persons Supports
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the homelessness figures for counties Louth and Meath, respectively, in tabular form; the number of persons...
- Departmental Policies
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62198/21]
- Homeless Accommodation
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons living in charity-run homeless hostels are counted as homeless in his Department’s figures; and if he will...
- Housing Provision
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of serviced sites fund, affordable housing funding and affordable purchase homes that have been completed to date in...
- Planning Issues
96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give advice to local authorities and An Bord Pleanála with regard to granting planning permissions for...
- Homeless Persons Supports
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be a review of the transfer of homeless services from the Department of Social Protection in February 2019 to...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62024/21]
- Irish Prisoners Abroad
101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62065/21]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken in 2021 and the steps he will take in 2022 to increase the number of Covid-19 vaccines for developing countries; and...
- Departmental Policies
103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62195/21]
- Passport Services
104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to a passport application; if he can assist in getting these...
- Common Travel Area
107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns with his British counterpart regarding the nationality and borders Bill which will impact on free movement in this...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
108. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if allegations of a recent sexual assault on an Irish soldier at an Irish military overseas United Nations mission involving another Irish...
- Departmental Policies
110. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62190/21]
- Department of Education and Skills
- State Examinations
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) with regard to the 2022 leaving certificate examinations; if she will consider...
- School Transport
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to ensure that a family (details supplied) living in emergency homeless accommodation can access transport in order that...
- Schools Building Projects
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person in her Department who is managing the delivery of the final permanent school building for a school (details supplied); if their...
- Special Educational Needs
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the minimum essential qualification for special needs assistants in line with a campaign (details supplied); and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a payment will be issued to the contractor who carried out work in installing temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied); and...
- Departmental Policies
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by her Department during 2021; and her main priorities for 2022. [62191/21]
- School Accommodation
118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an application for accommodation by a school (details supplied) will be finalised and approved at an early date; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Covid situation in schools; and the measures she is taking to alleviate the spread of the virus at primary and secondary level...
- School Equipment
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a cost-benefit analysis has been conducted on the installation of air filtration systems in primary schools throughout the country; and if she...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering closing schools early or extending closure over the Christmas holidays in view of the increasing numbers of...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Death Certificates
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date a death certificate will be processed for a person (details supplied) by the local coroner; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was denied the fuel allowance for the winter when their household received the fuel...
- Homeless Persons Supports
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if families living in emergency homeless accommodation can access an exceptional needs payment to pay for taxis for their...
- Social Welfare Benefits
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to refuse an application for a carer's allowance can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied);...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting time from application to approval for the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit, by month from January 2021...
- Pension Provisions
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends on charging PRSI on pensioners over 66 years of age, as per the recommendation of the Pensions Commission; and...
- Departmental Records
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the name of a person (details supplied) can be amended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62185/21]
- Departmental Policies
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by her Department during 2021; and her main priorities for 2022....
- Social Welfare Benefits
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is in receipt of their full entitlement of illness benefit; and if she will make a statement...
- State Pensions
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the State pension (contributory) over the past five years to date; the number of persons...
- Departmental Data
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who retired across the public and private sector combined over the past five years to date, in tabular...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 28 September 2021, if consideration will be given to including partial capacity...
- Tax Code
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of weeks of pension payments that are notified to the Revenue Commissioners as the basis for calculating tax...
- Social Welfare Payments
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears of invalidity pension due will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [62284/21]
- Pension Provisions
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding pension...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Early Childhood Care and Education
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the analysis his Department has carried out on introducing flexibility in the lower age limit for the ECCE...
- Departmental Policies
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Covid-19 Tests
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students at higher education institutions (details supplied), who make up approximately 12% of the higher education student population...
- Departmental Policies
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62196/21]
- Covid-19 Tests
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €9 million allocated to antigen tests for third level students is designed and intended to ensure in-person examinations at the end...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Immigration Support Services
156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the promised new IT system to prevent bots block booking INIS appointments at the Burgh Quay office is now operational; and...
- Prison Service
157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ways in which the Bangkok Rules are being upheld in Ireland’s women’s prisons in relation to the agreement...
- An Garda Síochána
165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting times for Garda vetting applications to be processed; if this process has been delayed by Covid-19; and if...
- Departmental Policies
166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by her Department during 2021; and her main priorities for 2022. [62199/21]
- Domestic Violence
167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has had engagement with organisations (details supplied) or similar agencies to tackle the increase in domestic...
- Department of Health
- Covid-19 Pandemic
168. To ask the Minister for Health if the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has been detected in meat processing plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62385/21]
- Health Promotion
170. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1136 of 9 September 2021, if he will provide an update on strategic action 1.4 of the Healthy Ireland Strategic Action...
- Mental Health Services
174. To ask the Minister for Health the way his Department has deployed the additional €10 million in funding for auxiliary mental health announced in February 2021 as part of COVID-19...
- Health Services Staff
175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed within the health service, by categories (details supplied), for the year ending 31 December, in each of the years 2014 to 2020...
- Hospital Facilities
176. To ask the Minister for Health the projected timeline of the transfer from University Maternity Hospital Limerick to the main University Hospital Limerick campus; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
178. To ask the Minister for Health the maternity services that are offered in Ennis General Hospital; and the days of the week and the times these services are available. [62037/21]
- Primary Care Centres
179. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the number of maternity services through primary centres when they are developed across the county. [62038/21]
- Hospital Overcrowding
180. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the high trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick will impact capacity; the reason for approving the transfer of maternity...
- Primary Care Services
181. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to tackle the waiting list for a child to be placed with a primary care paediatric occupational therapist (details...
- Prison Service
182. To ask the Minister for Health the number of female prisoners who were awaiting transfer for an inpatient psychiatric placement over the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make...
- General Practitioner Services
183. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners allocated to medical card holders and general practitioner card holders following a refusal of three general practitioners...
- Eating Disorders
186. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can refer patients with specific eating disorders to a service (details supplied); the procedure for public patients to access this service; and if...
- Home Care Packages
187. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the crisis in home care in that packages are being approved but the care is not being provided given the lack of home care...
- Departmental Funding
191. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to local drugs and alcohol forums in each of the years 2008 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Staff
193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the appointment of locum consultants; and if he will make a...
- Dental Services
194. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has been in contact with dental treatment services scheme dental contractors to confirm whether they are currently providing...
- Mental Health Services
195. To ask the Minister for Health the application process for groups to avail of the €10 million once-off funding announced in budget 2022 for mental health; the way mental health...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
199. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment that has been carried out to date into the potential impact on COPD patients in Ireland further to a field safety notice (details supplied),...
- Vaccination Programme
200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision not to renew a contract for the use of the Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road as a vaccination centre, given the significant queues...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
201. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 certificates will still be required after February 2022. [62175/21]
- Primary Care Centres
202. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the east Meath primary care centre is not expected to be operational until quarter four of 2022 given that the HSE is hopeful that negotiations...
- Departmental Policies
203. To ask the Minister for Health the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62197/21]
- Vaccination Programme
204. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a medical exemption for those who have been advised against getting a Covid-19 vaccine for medical reasons; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
206. To ask the Minister for Health if an Irish citizen travelling from Ireland to the UK and back is required to have a negative RT-PCR test upon their return to Ireland; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Facilities
208. To ask the Minister for Health the planned relocations and co-locations of hospitals; the timelines and prioritisation for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62270/21]
- General Practitioner Services
209. To ask the Minister for Health if it is part of health policy to promote out-of-hour general practitioner relief services nationwide. [62281/21]
- Home Care Packages
210. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the pilot home care scheme that has just started; the locations covered; the way it will be operated; and the outcomes planned for the pilot....
- Vaccination Programme
211. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to shortfalls of the booster vaccine supply in pharmacies in parts of north County Wicklow (details supplied); and if he will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
212. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the assessment of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on 2 December 2021 in the context of the Covid-19 Omicron variant, given...
- Disability Services
214. To ask the Minister for Health if a hostel for disabled persons (details supplied) in County Cork will be reopened to pre-Covid-19 service levels; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Vaccination Programme
215. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of Covid-19 vaccine information campaigns specifically for migrant communities; the organisation responsible for conducting the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
217. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that adequate arrangements are in place and being implemented in relation to necessary restrictions on persons arriving to this country; and...
- Hospital Staff
218. To ask the Minister for Health the status of ongoing issues with consultants in University Hospital Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62394/21]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for a single farm payment. [62026/21]
- Livestock Issues
221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if at a cross-compliance inspection of a sheep flock, there is an allowance for sheep to be sent to the factory after weaning; and if...
- Agriculture Schemes
224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of grants that have been paid out on solar panels under TAMS; his plans to increase the rate of grant to 60%; and if he...
- Departmental Policies
225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by his Department during 2021; and his main priorities for 2022. [62188/21]
- Assisted Animal Reproduction
226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an up-to-date register exists in Ireland of registered germinal product establishments including canine semen and has been...
- Agriculture Industry
230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is an impending shortage of fertiliser due to the increased cost of the supply...
- Food Industry
231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the pledges made and initiatives taken by Ireland in the agricultural sector at the COP 26 United Nations...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that are in place in meat processing plants to halt the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided to a scheme run by a farming organisation (details supplied) annually since 2017; the role of his...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Policies
235. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the main policy achievements and initiatives undertaken by her Department during 2021; and her main priorities for 2022. [62201/21]
