Written answers

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Schemes
      75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to assist families who need three-bedroom homes at an affordable cost (details supplied). [3315/22]
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the draft interim regulations on solar panel installations; if he is conscious of the need to expedite...
    • Housing Schemes
      77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the details of the new initiatives for affordable purchase will be completed; and when these schemes will open for...
    • Housing Provision
      78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of genuinely affordable homes to rent and to buy on an estate (details supplied) and Poolbeg, Dublin...
    • Departmental Meetings
      79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the organisations or persons he or the Minister for State have met in the past two years in relation to development plans...
    • Derelict Sites
      80. 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 registers;...
    • Departmental Communications
      81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department sent a memo to Dublin City Council in November 2021, informing the Council to cease the acquisition housing...
    • Departmental Schemes
      82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the submission from Donegal County Council in relation to the issue of MICA in local authority housing...
    • Housing Provision
      83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the social housing output as of the end of Q4 of 2021. [3323/22]
    • Vacant Properties
      84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that he is taking to reduce vacancy and dereliction rates in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes built in 2021; the projections for 2022 currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3342/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount being allocated to South Dublin County Council for the new local authority home loan scheme that is replacing the...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider appointing a member with a background and expertise in sustainable design, planning and environmental...
    • Housing Policy
      88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will assess the impact of buy-to-rent developments on the price of housing and rent levels; and if he will...
    • Vacant Properties
      89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which highlights that in 2020 approximately 4,000 properties...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that Garrylucas bog, County Cork is designated as a natural heritage area immediately. [3087/22]
    • Planning Issues
      92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the lack of one-off rural housing planning applications which have been granted by South Dublin County Council in...
    • Rental Sector
      93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that he will address rising rental costs for properties in areas outside Dublin such as rents in counties Roscommon and...
    • Departmental Priorities
      94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a redress scheme for homeowners impacted by defective properties; if he has given consideration to the Defective...
    • Housing Schemes
      95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the cost rental scheme in local authorities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide further details on the way that a person who has been through the insolvency process can access the local...
    • Local Authorities
      98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that county councils will not approve mortgages for persons who have been offered...
    • Housing Schemes
      99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to increase the income limits for eligibility for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Provision
      100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social houses that were built, allocated and delivered by approved housing bodies in 2020 and 2021; and if he...
    • Vacant Properties
      101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with local authorities on the issue of vacant properties which are owned by them; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rate of expenditure of funding from his Department for the provision or enhancement of housing for persons with a...
    • Water Services
      104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ongoing negotiations between the various parties on the creation of a single water utility. [3327/22]
    • Housing Policy
      106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further effort is needed to accelerate the Housing for All programme in order to ensure more flexibility in respect of...
    • Local Authorities
      108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work to examine the mechanism for funding local authorities to address anomalies in allocations across...
    • Departmental Policies
      110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the National Policy on Architecture to support and promote architectural quality and sustainability; the...
    • Derelict Sites
      111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure that the position of derelict sites officer is full-time in each local authority; the number...
    • Departmental Funding
      112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 11 November 2021, the current status of the tender for the construction of the...
    • Departmental Data
      113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total area of State land that the Land Development Agency can use for housing purposes over the next three years. [3346/22]
    • Housing Provision
      115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work carried out on increasing housing options for persons with a disability and for older persons with additional needs;...
    • Housing Schemes
      116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is intended to publish the regulations for the revised tenant purchase scheme; if there will be further changes to...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of accommodation provision for members of the Travelling community; and the budget provision and spend in this...
    • Derelict Sites
      118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will act without delay to introduce additional new measures to help bring derelict houses back into use as homes for...
    • Housing Policy
      121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress of the examination by all Departments of their existing portfolio of properties; if...
    • Maternity Leave
      124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the work underway to introduce maternity leave for councillors; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Policy
      125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put in place cost rental and cost purchase housing or affordable housing models. [3344/22]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress in relation to expanding the Housing First approach to supporting persons experiencing homelessness; and if he...
    • Building Regulations
      128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the Departmental working group that was set up to investigate potential amendments to building...
    • Local Authorities
      129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Cork County Council and Cork City Council to improve on the current timelines to complete all...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the findings of the report A Hidden Crisis: Traveller homelessness in the South West published 18 January 2022;...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Strategic Review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service report, the second and third review phases; and...
    • Construction Industry
      132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement his Department has had with other stakeholders on ensuring the availability of suitably skilled construction...
    • Energy Conservation
      133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to be in a position to issue a new call for proposals and applications for retrofitting projects from local...
    • Waterways Issues
      134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planned timeframe for the various stages of the next River Basin Management Plan for Ireland once the current public...
    • Departmental Schemes
      135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the legislation underpinning the revised MICA redress scheme will be published; his views on whether the sliding scale...
    • Housing Provision
      136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons and households on local authority waiting lists by local authority and county in tabular form. [3319/22]
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the publication of the revised wind energy development guidelines; the reason for the significant delay in...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to launch a national pilot wastewater scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3058/22]
    • Waterways Ireland
      141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of capital funding drawn down in 2020 and 2021 in respect of waterways developments; the capital funding provided...
    • Departmental Schemes
      142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the extension of the defective block remediation scheme to County Clare. [3115/22]
    • Local Authorities
      143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of estates which have progressed to being taken in charge for 2020 and 2021 in Cork county and city; the number of...
    • Housing Schemes
      144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to implement the shared equity home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3354/22]
    • Vacant Properties
      145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the introduction of the new local authority-led programme for compulsory purchase orders of vacant properties...
    • Housing Provision
      147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build social homes and new build affordable homes that were delivered in County Mayo in 2021; the targets...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review for planning exemptions for solar panels for educational and community buildings; and if he...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Legislative Measures
      150. To ask the Taoiseach if he will propose legislation that will provide for the review and or appeal of decisions made by the Director of Public Prosecutions. [2897/22]
    • Cabinet Committees
      151. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [3311/22]
    • Consumer Prices
      152. To ask the Taoiseach the way that the consumer price index has changed annually in Ireland from 2008 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2702/22]
    • Departmental Data
      153. To ask the Taoiseach the current rate of unemployment in County Clare; and the rate of unemployment in County Clare over the past ten years. [2727/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      154. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the investigation into the leak of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation; the details of any report received from the...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      155. To ask the Taoiseach his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a breakdown for each related...
    • Census of Population
      156. To ask the Taoiseach the preparations made to date for Census 2022; the census date; and the date for publication of the preliminary report. [3606/22]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Enterprise Support Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the financial supports that are available for a person (details supplied) starting their own business; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of financial Covid-19 supports directed towards a hotel and hospitality group (details supplied) in...
    • Employment Schemes
      159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider amending the employment permit programme to include therapists for spa facilities given the inability of hotel...
    • Employment Rights
      160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an instance in which a hotel and hospitality group has failed to provide persons with a statutory...
    • Trade Missions
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of virtual trade missions to Vietnam that were held in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fishing Industry
      162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when legislation will be introduced on foot of the agreement reached between his Department and the Department of Transport to give...
    • Health Services Staff
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the consideration that has been given to adding physiotherapists and occupational therapists to the critical skills occupations lists...
    • Labour Market
      165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts being made to expedite applications for a general employment permit in sectors in which labour demand is high; and if he...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence...
    • Ministerial Staff
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civilian and Garda Ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • North-South Interconnector
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a reply will issue regarding a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the north south...
    • Energy Conservation
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts he is taking to address the long waiting list for the SEAI warmer homes grant; the extent to which Covid-19...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed broadband will be available in the Walterstown, Nurney area of County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Production
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the hydrogen strategy will be published; if persons will be able to make observations on this strategy; if persons...
    • Electricity Generation
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Government approval in the November 2021 Policy statement on Electricity Supply (details supplied) does not include...
    • Sustainable Energy Communities
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Local Energy Assessment Fund funding for sustainable energy communities; and if he will make a...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement of his Department to date with other Departments and stakeholders regarding the enhancement of the...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of Ireland’s fuel security at Whitegate Oil Refinery east County Cork; if the industry is protected...
    • Angling Sector
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a river (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reopened for salmon fishing in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Policy
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the additional measures his Department is undertaking to supply the expected demand for energy in...
    • Data Centres
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on extending the ban on data centres to counties outside Dublin on a temporary basis following recent...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the roll-out of the clean export premium; the date the required payment mechanism will be...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available regarding broadband at a location (details supplied): the steps taken in relation to full...
    • Energy Conservation
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that the target of 500,000 homes to be retrofitted by 2030 and with 400,000 heat pump installations was...
    • Departmental Reports
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of external reports commissioned in 2021; the cost of each; the external reports that were...
    • Mining Industry
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a prospecting licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3572/22]
    • Ministerial Staff
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of civilian and Garda Ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Cycling Facilities
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislation under which cycle lanes and cycle bollards are installed; and if the management of the council require consents to...
    • Public Sector Staff
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any public servants working for a group (details supplied) were put on short time working during the pandemic; and if he will make a...
    • Haulage Industry
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will reinstate the EU rules on driving time and resting time for hauliers; the safety and impact assessments that were carried...
    • Coast Guard Service
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the search and rescue aviation tender; the timeline for a decision and expected milestones; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 to address the scourge of scramblers in communities; the timescale to which...
    • Site Acquisitions
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the sell-off in late 2021 by Shannon Development of the entire Tarbert-Ballylongford landbank (details supplied) in County Kerry to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for increasing the number of electric charging points for electric vehicles in an area of Dublin (details supplied); the...
    • Driver Licences
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide an exemption for those whose initial basic training certificate expired before they were called for a motorcycle...
    • National Car Test
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the NCT (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3285/22]
    • Driver Test
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3376/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of public chargers in Dublin city and county by charging capacity; the number of vehicles which can be charged at any given...
    • Bus Éireann
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that used the 109x Dublin to Cavan Bus Éireann route in both directions in of 2020, 2021 and to date in...
    • Bus Services
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering the introduction of a replacement service for the Galway to Dublin 20/X20 bus service which ceased operations in...
    • Rail Network
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the commencement of works for the construction of a new train platform at Kent station, Cork for the provision of...
    • Motor Industry
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the fuel types of second-hand passenger vehicles imported into Ireland for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to prepare legislation for motorway filling stations to increase the number of rapid charging points for electric vehicles and...
    • Fishing Industry
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of instances of non-compliance that were detected by the Marine Survey Office or referred to the Marine Survey Office by other...
    • Rail Network
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current progress on DART+ projects; the expected progress for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3478/22]
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a plan within his Department to encourage the Dublin Airport Authority to recommence the issuing of taxi permits; and if he...
    • Aviation Industry
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide public service obligation funding for flights between Cork and Belfast; if this is on target to be delivered in...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence...
    • Parking Provision
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a campaign organised by a disability group (details supplied) to improve the availability and quality...
    • Climate Action Plan
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown by mode and year of the 500,000 additional daily public transport and active travel journeys by 2030 as outlined in the...
    • Departmental Reports
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of external reports commissioned in 2021; the cost of each; the external reports that were received by his...
    • Ministerial Staff
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda drivers;...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Schemes
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to delays in the administration of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; the appropriateness of such delays;...
    • Insurance Industry
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department made a submission to the Central Bank public consultation regarding its proposals with regard to differential pricing in the motor and...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that charitable status has been deactivated for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2888/22]
    • Departmental Programmes
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the total spend related to the Special Assignee Relief Programme in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. [2942/22]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulations that are in place and the powers the Central Bank has to ensure that social media influencers or others advertising or promoting the use of...
    • Departmental Policies
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of Ireland for the reform of the EU economic governance framework; his proposals for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3138/22]
    • Tax Code
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the beauty industry is subject to a VAT rate of 13.5% while the hairdressing sector pays a 9% rate; if this anomaly can be rectified; and if he...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a breakdown for...
    • Employment Schemes
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the 31 December 2021 deadline for companies to register for the employment wage subsidy scheme given that some...
    • Dental Services
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the interpretation of the Revenue Commissioners that dental practices are not now VAT free enterprises particularly in...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Staff
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Government policy during the pandemic can be taken to mean that public servants were protected from short time working...
    • Coastal Protection
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the new sea wall will be built at Magheraroarty, Gortahork, County Donegal to protect the beach from further erosion; and if he...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he and or his officials made amendments and or suggested amendments to the business case presented by the Minister for Agriculture,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civilian and Garda Ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda...
    • An Garda Síochána
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if construction work has commenced on a new Garda station at Bailieborough, County Cavan; if so, the estimated timeframe for completion;...
    • National Lottery
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the organisations that receive finance through the good causes Lottery funding (details supplied); and the amount that...
    • Flood Risk Management
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief scheme for the River Slaney, Enniscorthy town, County Wexford; if there is a completion date for this...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence...
    • Civil Service
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of transfers of civil servants to County Donegal that have taken place through the mobility list in each of the past three...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if EU Digital COVID Certificates should be used in swimming pools to fall in line with gyms and leisure centres; and if she will...
    • Census of Population
      264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if records are available for the Census of Population undertaken in 1821 and 1831; and if there is work in progress to try to...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concerns in Northern Ireland in relation to limited access to RTÉ channels...
    • Sports Organisations
      266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial support that her Department can provide to a club (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider the use of an antigen test to allow access to a leisure facility in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin for a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria and methodology for determining the allocations for the local sports partnership small grant scheme five, the...
    • Sports Funding
      273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grant schemes under which sports clubs can apply for funding for lighting not floodlights to facilitate night and winter...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will meet with a person (details supplied) from the live entertainment sector informed by her Department that they are not...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Schemes
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new MICA redress scheme will result in any upfront costs for homeowners; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Policy
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that a local authority can grant a transfer from social housing. [2912/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the HAP agreement between landlords and tenants is fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Greenways Provision
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current progress being made with the Barrow Blueway; the cost of the project to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Waterways Ireland
      280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the board for Waterways Ireland will be fully reinstated. [3034/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the review of the planning system regarding delays to development of housing and critical infrastructure; and...
    • Statutory Instruments
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that have been made to SI No. 484 of 2015 - Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 to enable...
    • Waterways Ireland
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that water and electricity services are not provided in public moorings during the winter mooring period; if he...
    • Departmental Communications
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the engagement by his Department with Limerick City and County Council regarding homes and properties impacted...
    • Departmental Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rate of expenditure of funding from his Department for the provision or enhancement of housing for persons with a...
    • Housing Schemes
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that applicants for local authority housing can include a preference for another local authority area while persons...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which remain to be completed in order to finalise the new guidelines for renewable generation at wind farms; when...
    • Water Quality
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department is carrying out to address water quality issues arising from farming activities across Ireland,...
    • Coastal Zone Management
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the National Coastal Change Management Strategy which was due at the start of 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the housing delivery action plans received by his Department from local authorities to date...
    • Vacant Properties
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the commitment to ensure that vacant homes officer roles in local authorities are full-time positions; the...
    • Departmental Priorities
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that his Department deems appropriate for homeowners who have difficulties with huge numbers of starlings in the...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on An Bord Pleanála’s IT transformation plan; the legislative changes that are...
    • Health Service Executive
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to HSE owned properties in the Portrane area of County Dublin that are currently derelict; if...
    • Housing Schemes
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of his plans to change the over-occupancy rule in the mortgage-to-rent scheme (details supplied); when these...
    • Departmental Data
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of short-term let properties issued with warnings in relation to required change of use permissions cross tabulated...
    • Local Authorities
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new staff provided to each local authority to deliver affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the underspend of his Department for 2021; the percentage of underspend that will be carried over to 2022; and if he will make...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the over 2,500 children who...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based...
    • Housing Schemes
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the full year expenditure for housing assistance payment, rental accommodation scheme and leasing for 2021 will be...
    • Horticulture Sector
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that he chose to set aside the recommendation of the report of the Working Group on Horticultural Peat with...
    • Housing Schemes
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a scheme (details supplied) to help persons who buy derelict properties to renovate and live in is expected to be...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the management measures that the National Parks and Wildlife Service is putting in place to prevent further deterioration of...
    • Departmental Data
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing scheme currently in hand or proposed in 2022 by each local authority by county in tabular form; and...
    • Housing Schemes
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing applicants currently in receipt of HAP or rent support; the extent to which progress is being made to...
    • Housing Policy
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an audit has been carried out to determine the best value for money to his Department of direct build local authority...
    • Departmental Funding
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can draw down extra funding for house building purposes in the remainder of 2021 and in 2022 to boost...
    • Housing Policy
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has considered additional measures to address the housing crisis with particular reference to the...
    • Departmental Data
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average price of a house deemed to be in the affordable category; the number built, acquired or under construction at...
    • Departmental Staff
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of staff employed by grade in the offshore licensing unit in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022;...
    • Local Authorities
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority units to be completed by Westmeath County Council by the end of 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Rental Sector
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being considered by his Department to assist renters in the current housing crisis; and if he will make a...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of his work to tackle homelessness in counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections carried out by local authorities in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and...
    • Water Services
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new sewerage scheme grant for towns and villages which are not served by Irish Water infrastructure will be rolled...
    • Ministerial Staff
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      336. 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. [2881/22]
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      338. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had recent contact with his British counterpart regarding the UK Nationality and Borders Bill 2021 which will impact on free...
    • Travel Documents
      339. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if difficulties have arisen for Irish citizens in securing visas or travel documents from the Ethiopian authorities to enter Ethiopia; and...
    • Passport Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that a marriage certificate sent by a person (details supplied) was not returned to them; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      344. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Northern Ireland
      345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and with members of the Northern Ireland Executive in...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason his Department did not issue a statement in relation to the brutal repression of an uprising in Kazakhstan which resulted in the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the time at which he attended Iveagh House in the evening of 17 June 2020; and if there were indications of a social gathering when he was...
    • Departmental Investigations
      348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when it was decided to conduct a Departmental investigation into the event in Iveagh House on the evening of 17 June 2020. [3458/22]
    • European Union
      349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has sought assistance from the European Commission in respect of the continuing detention of a person (details supplied); if not, if...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland’s engagement with the European Commission in relation to the Commission Work Programme 2021 and particularly...
    • Ministerial Staff
      352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda drivers;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      353. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will give consideration to the provision of a pandemic service medal for the Defence Forces given the acknowledgement of the significant...
    • Air Corps
      354. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to an issue in the Air Corps (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3211/22]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      355. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Provision
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the parents of a student (details supplied) can expect the results of their appeal to her Department under section 29 of the Education Act...
    • Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans for an Irish language secondary school in the Swords, Malahide area of County Dublin (details supplied). [2899/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when the school will be completed and the children moved...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and location of all schools which have applied for emergency works, renovations or extensions to their properties in County Carlow;...
    • State Examinations
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the junior certificate in view of the disruption caused to the academic year by Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of ventilation enhancements in schools; the amount of funding allocated for ventilation enhancements to date under the Enhanced Minor...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools in County Donegal which are not categorised as DEIS schools will be reassessed to ascertain if they will now qualify for DEIS...
    • School Staff
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will oblige teachers to use FFP2 face masks in the interest of health and safety; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2943/22]
    • School Curriculum
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop and or introduce gender-focused sexual education in all areas of the education sector; and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Examinations
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provisions will be put in place for students who may be unable to sit their mock examinations and State examinations due to having been deemed...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a scheme to allow schools to introduce renewable energy technology; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2972/22]
    • School Staff
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her officials have met with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss its respect for SNAs campaign; if she is satisfied with the...
    • School Facilities
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools with designated ASD units in Cork city and county that are accepting enrolment for September 2022; the locations of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to consolidate a school (details supplied) on a single site location; the plan and steps for doing same; the timeframe for achieving...
    • School Accommodation
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied) for the renovation of an old building to accommodate...
    • School Transport
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 7 October 2021, the progress that has been made between her Department and an agency (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the land on which a permanent building for a school (details supplied) will be built has been transferred from the current owner; when a...
    • School Accommodation
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials in her Department have received and considered the application made by a school (details supplied) for a new school building on the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of the sites that were considered in advance of the decision to proceed with the use of the Magee Barracks site in...
    • Education Policy
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop and implement a national policy on sexual harassment and assault in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child who is deemed high-risk of contracting Covid-19 and is being home-schooled will be marked absent from school; if the authorities will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times she has met her officials in relation to a project (details supplied); and if there is a definitive timeline established for...
    • School Transport
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive transport on the school transport scheme. [3292/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive approval to appoint a contractor. [3300/22]
    • Question Heading for question(s) 384
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in view that an update was requested early in 2021 by this Deputy; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils that have sat the State examination in computer science in each year since the subject was first introduced; the number of...
    • Departmental Functions
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will process an incremental credit claim from a teacher (details supplied) without delay given that such a delay in this case...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the DEIS bands reassessment as committed to in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3399/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3401/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects a school (details supplied) to receive clarification from her Department regarding the policy of integration from an ASD unit to...
    • School Staff
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of each of the teaching supply panels; the number of teachers on each panel in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will raise the criteria for new SNAs to be hired to be a relevant QQI level six qualification or equivalent. [3459/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in an area (details supplied) that applied for funding for HEPA filters or similar ventilation systems; and if she will...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a...
    • Departmental Functions
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address an issue raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3516/22]
    • Departmental Programmes
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will be informed whether they have been included in the expanded DEIS programme; when they will see the programme commence in their...
    • Ministerial Staff
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civilian and Garda Ministerial drivers in her current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda drivers; and the...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Correspondence
      400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will expedite...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the legislation governing the invalidity pension means test for claiming an increase for a spouse, civil...
    • Departmental Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit applications made to her Department from County Carlow from...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are supports available to a person (details supplied). [2949/22]
    • Employment Support Services
      408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that computer equipment being used by a group (details supplied) which is due to close shortly can be...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when invalidity pension arrears will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age in receipt of the carer’s allowance. [2980/22]
    • Programme for Government
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions taken to date to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to improve jobseeker supports for...
    • Departmental Data
      414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the €203, €250 and €300 rates of payment per week of the pandemic unemployment...
    • Departmental Budgets
      416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the jobseeker's allowance for those young persons under 25 years of age who are currently on...
    • Departmental Data
      417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age on the back to education allowance scheme in January 2020 and January 2021;...
    • Employment Schemes
      418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age who were on the youth employment support scheme in January 2020 and January...
    • Employment Support Services
      421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age who are in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance and...
    • Employment Schemes
      428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has had with trade unions and stakeholders on the local employment tender in 2022; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that all recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment had a legitimate entitlement to the payment; if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to cases in which medically vulnerable persons who have completed the period of entitlement...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the amount of repayment in respect of a previous overpayment can be reduced in the case of a person (details supplied)...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered changing the criteria of the back to education allowance to allow those who have been on and off the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of PPS numbers issued to persons on a monthly basis for the past five years to date excluding those issued to...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to including homes under the value of €300,000 as exempt from inclusion as capital...
    • Social Welfare Code
      436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to introduce legislation to recognise the status of long-term surviving cohabitants; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is flexibility with regard to the five-year rule for reapplying to the back-to-work enterprise allowance for those...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the full year expenditure for rent supplement in 2021 will be available. [3519/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the criteria which are applied to means tested social welfare benefits such as disability allowance and medical cards...
    • Pension Provisions
      441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recommendation in the report on the Commission on Pensions that the method for calculating entitlement to...
    • Care Services
      442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on family carers being excluded from the recently announced payment of recognition of €1,000; and if she...
    • Ministerial Staff
      444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in her current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      445. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish the review of the provision of accommodation for victims of domestic violence. [3265/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      448. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the roll-out of the baby box scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3002/22]
    • Asylum Seekers
      449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the arrangements he is making for refugees in a centre (details supplied) having fled Afghanistan to have family...
    • Parental Leave
      451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasoning and rationale behind the end age for parental leave being 12, extending to 16 in circumstances in...
    • Children in Care
      452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children under 12 years of age in Tusla care by area. [3217/22]
    • Protected Disclosures
      462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a report (details supplied) which was completed in October 2020 will be provided to him, the board of Tusla...
    • Nursing Homes
      463. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that have been taken to address the matters raised by the Ombudsman in the report, Wasted Lives: Time...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and...
    • International Protection
      465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1077 of 19 January 2022, the number of persons accommodated in approved...
    • Direct Provision System
      466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision applications planned to be accommodated in each county under the allocation key...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Further and Higher Education
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available for mature students that wish to study part-time on a course that is not covered by Springboard+; and if he will...
    • Education Policy
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to date to develop and or introduce a gender-focused sexual education awareness campaign in the higher education sector. [2960/22]
    • Student Mobility
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is currently undertaking a review of student mobility on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a...
    • Ministerial Staff
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civilian and Garda Ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda drivers; and the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Naturalisation Applications
      472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied). [2882/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce legislation to ensure that the public is informed of disciplinary findings concerning members of An Garda...
    • Legislative Reviews
      475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is expected that the ongoing statutory review of the Personal Insolvency Acts will be completed and the resulting...
    • An Garda Síochána
      476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of cash seized by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2021; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      479. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their certificate of naturalisation and citizenship; and if she will make a...
    • Alcohol Sales
      482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to further amend legislation relating to the sale of alcohol in order that small supermarkets will be allowed in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that scammers in response to the launch of the Garda National Immigration Bureau new...
    • Citizenship Applications
      485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for Irish citizenship; when a decision will issue in this case; and...
    • Residency Permits
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Ballymun and Finglas drugs unit and in the Ballymun and Finglas community policing unit in...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that her Department is taking to address violence against women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3160/22]
    • Central Statistics Office
      492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will work with the Central Statistics Office to develop a national sexual violence survey and ensure that this is...
    • Work Permits
      493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which a Filipino person whose fiancé is an Irish citizen and living in Ireland can obtain a visa to come to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review into the age limits for joining An Garda Síochána will be completed; the status of the review; and if...
    • Policing Co-operation
      498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has in conjunction with her officials and or the Garda Commissioner developed a plan for an all-Ireland police force....
    • An Garda Síochána
      499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí per Dublin metropolitan region area in each of the years 2011 to 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to implement legislation to protect those facing harassment but who would be excluded from applying for a barring or...
    • Departmental Data
      501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons convicted for possession of knives and other articles under section 9(1) Firearms and Offensive Weapons...
    • An Garda Síochána
      502. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau as of 1 January 2020, 1...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence will be completed and published. [3442/22]
    • Fishing Industry
      504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-EEA fishers that have been enrolled in the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers in the subsequent...
    • Stardust Fire
      505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if jurors for the Stardust Inquest will be entitled to be paid as they are in criminal cases; and if she will make a statement...
    • Immigration Policy
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the case of persons (details supplied) who do not qualify for the Afghan Admission...
    • Legal Aid
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the provision of criminal free legal aid and civil free legal aid in County Limerick in each of the years 2016 to...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her Department’s total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based...
    • An Garda Síochána
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 12 December 2017, if she will provide the total number of hours and the associated...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the last date on which she and or her officials were briefed with an update by the DPP and or An Garda...
    • Immigration Policy
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an expanded Afghan refugee programme will be introduced; the reason that there is a family limit of five persons on the...
    • Visa Agreements
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider granting an extension to the number of hours of employment allowed for a person (details supplied) under...
    • Immigration Support Services
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be granted an appointment at the INIS office on Burgh Quay given that they cannot get an...
    • Ministerial Staff
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian and Garda Ministerial drivers in her current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus...
  • Department of Health
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work to introduce specialised training for counsellors and therapists on sexual violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3164/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      519. To ask the Minister for Health the steps and arrangements that are being put in place to recruit staff members for homecare packages and homecare hours to ensure that eligible persons are in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if agency and porter staff assigned to hospitals throughout the pandemic are eligible for the €1,000 frontline workers’ payment; if HSE home help...
    • Health Services
      521. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has made an allocation for the operational budget of the North Inner-City Drug and Alcohol Task Force for 2022; and if this allocation for...
    • Hospital Staff
      522. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant endocrinologists for adults who are based in Letterkenny University Hospital. [2883/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for review appointments for diabetes patents at Letterkenny University Hospital. [2884/22]
    • Hospital Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the paediatric diabetes shared centre of excellence between Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital. [2886/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who are currently on the diabetes pro-wellness team at Letterkenny University Hospital; the person who is the lead staff member; and the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a face-to-face appointment for a person (details supplied) with a doctor has been moved to video call on a different date. [2914/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for a hospital appointment in County Carlow by age category; the procedure that they are waiting for or assessment and...
    • Home Help Service
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours being provided in County Carlow in 2022; the way this compares to 2020 and 2021; the number of persons currently waiting...
    • Health Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the current waiting time for the National Gender Service which stands at over two years from the initial referral; his views...
    • Departmental Schemes
      532. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of the current eligibility framework for the long-term illness scheme including the basis for existing hospital and medication charges will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      533. To ask the Minister for Health when the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate by the State will be ended given the high rates of transmission of Covid-19 among persons who are vaccinated...
    • Vaccination Programme
      534. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2947/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to access to the recovery certificate; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2957/22]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the St. Raphael's Covid-19 test centre in Youghal, County Cork has been removed from the HSE website; if the HSE plans to cease its testing...
    • General Practitioner Services
      538. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of general practitioners in the Newbridge area of County Kildare; his plans to encourage general practitioners...
    • Vaccination Programme
      539. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the vaccine for children between five and 12 years of age is administered in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Meetings
      543. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to reschedule a meeting with an association (details supplied). [2978/22]
    • Home Help Service
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify a matter raised in Dáil Éireann (details supplied); if he will provide the details of the scheme in question; and if he will make...
    • Home Care Packages
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) is currently providing care services to the HSE; and if there are plans for the arrangement between the contractor and the HSE...
    • Vaccination Programme
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of options available to a person (details supplied). [3016/22]
    • Dental Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the orthodontic assessment waiting list in County Galway; the current waiting time on the list; the number of patients on the...
    • Hospital Transfers
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the transfer of a child (details supplied) from Sligo University Hospital to Temple Street Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will...
    • Health Strategies
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the report of the national review of specialist cardiac services; the unit or individual agent responsible for implementation; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      550. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver a 24-7 primary percutaneous coronary intervention service in Waterford; the way he plans to achieve same; the additional staff required to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      551. To ask the Minister for Health when children between 12 to 16 years of age who are vaccinated over three months will receive their Covid-19 booster vaccination. [3024/22]
    • Health Services
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the consultant Sláintecare contract negotiations; the date and details of the last meeting between negotiators; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors hired on the Sláintecare contract since September 2021; the number of doctors hired on other contracts since September 2021; and if...
    • Health Services
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the status of regional health area development; the status of the implementation actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3028/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      557. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish waiting list ramp down targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3030/22]
    • Health Services
      558. To ask the Minister for Health the date of the last and next meeting of the Sláintecare implementation programme board; the record of attendance for each meeting; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in creating the HSE grade of orthodontic therapist; the steps he has taken to expedite the creation of such a grade; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      560. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the issuance of Covid-19 passes including booster updates via paper copy sent by post as the default for those over the age of 65; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired for each area of early intervention by CHO and LHO in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [3039/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is on the patient list of a doctor; and if the person will be notified of when they will be seen. [3043/22]
    • Legislative Reviews
      564. To ask the Minister for Health when an independent chair will be selected for the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the way that the person...
    • Nursing Homes
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of items the HSE has provided to nursing homes in CHO 1 under grant aid from 2010 to date. [3054/22]
    • Grant Payments
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the way and the location in which organisations can apply for grants under the Women’s Health Fund announced in budget 2022. [3061/22]
    • Legislative Reviews
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update the terms of reference for the review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to clarify that...
    • General Practitioner Services
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of general practitioner hours that are spent working in cosmetic clinics nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3068/22]
    • Health Services
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Women’s Health Fund 2022; the criteria and application process for this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3080/22]
    • Medical Inquiries
      576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1947 of 27 July 2021, if he will provide an update in relation to the proposed inquiry into the licensing of sodium...
    • Health Services
      577. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive equipment from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3105/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      578. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 924 of 2 November 2021, the status of the discussions and consideration mentioned in the reply regarding the availability...
    • Mental Health Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the block grant funding model dispersed via the HSE mental health service in order that section 39 residential addiction support and...
    • Health Services Staff
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to the provision of additional staffing resources in order to ensure that sufficient staff are in place in hospital wards in...
    • Disability Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled appointments in the past year for hospitals for services for disabled persons; his plans to ensure disabled persons can access services...
    • Health Services Staff
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the steps the HSE is taking to provide a full-time doctor in the dispensary premises at Ballynacargy, Mullingar, County Westmeath to replace the doctor who has...
    • Health Service Executive
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE building and property department has plans in place to upgrade, refurbish and extend the HSE dispensary premises at Ballynacargy, Mullingar, County...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      585. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) will receive their updated EU Digital COVID Certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3126/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      588. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical graduates from the UK or Northern Ireland are no longer eligible to apply for internships with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Help Service
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3137/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      590. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to cease the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate; the timeline for the lifting of domestic restrictions related to the use of the certificate;...
    • Health Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for hearing aids by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3141/22]
    • Dental Services
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that medical card holders can avail of dental treatment under the dental treatment services scheme; if he will take into...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      595. To ask the Minister for Health when the inquiry into the historic use of sodium valproate announced in October 2020 will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3159/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if an increase in homecare via homecare package can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      597. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which those who did not provide an email address at the time of their Covid-19 booster will receive their vaccination certificate; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the hours during which the critical care retrieval service for children is currently available; the reason this does not operate on a 24/7 basis; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) is being refused a Covid recovery certificate after testing positive for Covid-19. [3174/22]
    • Dental Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 6 October 2021, when the dental treatment services scheme which was cut back significantly during the financial...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      602. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin. [3178/22]
    • Health Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider lowering the age for bowel cancer screening to 30 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3182/22]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason PCR sites in Mallow and Youghal, County Cork have been removed from the online option; and if a commitment will be made to providing local PCR...
    • Hospital Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to establish palliative care beds in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken by his Department to ensure that staff employed at MyOptions are trained in providing practical information to women on positive...
    • Mental Health Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the review of child mental health services in County Kerry will be examined and reviewed; and if he...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the full cost of the investigation and report by a company (details supplied) into the cyber-attack on the HSE; if the procurement guidelines were followed in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) with regard to Covid-19 vaccination; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3274/22]
    • Abortion Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases that have been recorded in which births of infants born alive following a termination of pregnancy as defined in section 2 of the Health...
    • Ambulance Service
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the intermediate care ambulance services currently operating in each CHO catchment area; the funding allocated to each CHO for the provision of such services...
    • Hospital Staff
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of neurology nurses for University Hospital Waterford; if he has plans to address the urgent need for these positions to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on research carried out by his Department in relation to the HPV vaccine uptake; if further roll-out is being considered for qualifying...
    • General Practitioner Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the cost to the Exchequer of ShannonDoc services in County Clare between 2017 and 2021, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      624. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the ongoing attendance and visiting restrictions in hospitals; if the current HSE guidance will be reviewed to allow families and friends...
    • Medicinal Products
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has considered a recommendation from the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics which states that venetoclax in combination with obinutuzumab should...
    • Vaccination Programme
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the booster campaign for immunocompromised persons who were offered a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as part of their primary vaccine regime;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the €90 million allocation for antiviral drugs to treat Covid-19; the cohorts of patients he expects will be treated with antiviral drugs;...
    • Dental Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that will be taken to ensure that dental treatment will be available to a family (details supplied) that has been waiting many years for treatment;...
    • Abortion Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether not offering contact details for abortion services is a sign that a pregnancy service is disingenuous; and his further views on whether...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public and private healthcare workers he estimates will qualify for the pandemic recognition payment, by sector and staff grade; when this...
    • Hospital Staff
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants by speciality post that are currently vacant in each hospital of the CHI Hospital Group as of 17 January 2022; the length of time...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon in each hospital group by hospital; the average waiting time to see a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the daily figures for Covid-19 cases amongst children including the number of hospitalised children, the number of children in ICUs and the...
    • Dental Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health when medical card holders will be entitled to dental care cover for those in need of urgent care as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is only counting positive PCR tests for primary students despite guidance issued to the schools advising principals to treat positive...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if persons working in the home support service that the HSE provides will receive a once-off €1,000 tax-free payment. [3471/22]
    • Registration of Births
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to significant backlogs in registering a birth in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3483/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if funding from his Department has been allocated for the purpose of recruiting additional neurological clinical nurse specialists for Beaumont Hospital; and...
    • Community Care
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding that has been allocated to each CHO area to facilitate persons under the age of 65 who have been inappropriately placed in nursing homes...
    • Disability Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently being actively recruited to fill posts in the Brú Chaoimhín children’s disability network teams (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff employed by the health service during the pandemic by role. [3514/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address an issue outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3515/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include home support workers and staff who work in the disability service sector in the recognition payment of €1,000; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the contracts that are given to companies that are contracted by the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 899 of 2 November 2021, the number of interim reports by the Farrelly commission of investigation that have not been...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      659. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publish up to date age-related data in relation to Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations; the reason for the delay in publishing up-to-date Covid-19...
    • Health Services Staff
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent tissue viability nurses in position within each primary care area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3565/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that private healthcare employees contracted to Government bodies do not qualify for the €1,000 bonus when they endured the same pressures...
    • Hospital Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 549 of 9 November 2021 and the response from the South/South West Hospital Group, if an amended response will be issued...
    • Nursing Homes
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed amendment to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 to remove disincentives against the rental of vacant properties by...
    • Dental Services
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary school children who missed dental screenings due to external circumstances such as school building closures and redeployment of staff...
    • Ministerial Staff
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda drivers; and the total costs...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      668. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme applications submitted to his Department in 2021; if his attention has been...
    • Work Permits
      670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is instructing his officials to make the necessary arrangements with their counterparts in other Departments to enable work...
    • Forestry Sector
      671. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will produce projections on the number of licences by category (details supplied); if it is accepted these are voluntary...
    • Environmental Policy
      680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if guidance on the legislation governing limitations on common ragwort, field thistle, spear thistle, broad-leaved dock and curled...
    • Forestry Sector
      681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for excluding the Slievethoul and Saggart Hill forests from the conversion process to multi-generational broadleaf forests...
    • Harbours and Piers
      683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of works for the smooth pier development (details supplied) at Killybegs Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Welfare
      684. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an nationwide audit has been carried out into dog pounds; and if there are plans to carry out an audit in the future. [3056/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      685. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the methodology used regarding the composition of a business case that was presented to the Department of Public Expenditure and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      686. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a green low-carbon agri-environment scheme or GLAS appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the salary for the new Chief Executive Officer of Horse Racing Ireland was set at a higher rate than that previously...
    • Departmental Data
      691. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dairy cows there were in County Tipperary in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3236/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      694. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry licences his Department projects it will issue in 2022; the number that are projected to be new licences for...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when CCTV cameras will be installed on racecourses and in race yards as has been recommended to him; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 9 December 2021, the breakdown of when the 682 GLAS participants planted land, the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      700. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of improvements in terms of safety, well-being and care of greyhounds and dogs in Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      701. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is proposed to revise costings for farm improvement works to be grant-aided under targeted agricultural modernisation scheme,...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1172 of 2 November 2021, the location in the terms and conditions of the basic payment scheme...
    • Ministerial Staff
      705. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in his current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Island Communities
      706. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the new ferry, which will service Tory Island, will be put into operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2913/22]
    • Departmental Priorities
      707. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to develop and-or introduce gender-focused sexual education in the community organisation sector. [2958/22]
    • Domestic Pets
      708. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of successful, and unsuccessful, prosecutions that were made on behalf of the State in 2019 and 2020 in terms of dog owners...
    • Departmental Schemes
      710. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be provided for the LEADER food initiative in County Kerry to fund a number of projects at locations...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      711. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her Department's total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence with a...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      712. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has made recent introductions between local authority broadband officers and satellite broadband companies regarding...
    • Ministerial Staff
      713. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of civilian and Garda ministerial drivers in her current corps of drivers; the breakdown of the civilian versus Garda...

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