Written answers

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Curriculum
      60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to introduce objective sex education in all primary and post-primary schools; if it will be ensured that religious ethos...
    • School Places
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase second-level school capacity in east County Cork given the projected increase in population in the area in the coming years;...
    • Island Communities
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the reintroduction of an allowance for teachers on offshore islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4222/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to deliver on her capital building programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4009/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new school building projects or extension projects will include special education facilities or incorporate the principles of universal...
    • School Accommodation
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allocating funding for the provision of a sensory garden, play space and six car parking spaces to accompany the construction...
    • Special Educational Needs
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the entry qualifications for SNAs from QQI level 3 qualification (details supplied) to a QQI level 5 or 6 to reflect the...
    • School Places
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 42 new schools planned for 2019 to 2022 under the online patronage preference system that have permanent sites and buildings;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied) to expand its facilities to support learning. [4601/22]
    • School Curriculum
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to develop a new national policy in relation to sexual harassment for the school curriculum. [4359/22]
    • School Accommodation
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of new classrooms and subject rooms at a school (detail supplied) in County Clare. [4626/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget for new school building projects for 2022 and for the next five years; the amount of funding available; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to address issues of teacher shortages at all primary and or second-levels schools throughout...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to address the funding shortfall that some schools are experiencing between the cost of the air filters required for classrooms and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a school extension at a special needs school (details supplied); the remaining steps in the approval process; the...
    • Education Policy
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress under the STEM Education Policy Statement 2017-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4677/22]
    • School Site Acquisition
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4688/22]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address large classes in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4010/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 which is due to commence in January 2022; when the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the steering group and advisory group have been established as part of the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs...
    • School Places
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has identified an immediate solution to the significant lack of placements for new students from the local catchment area...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classrooms in primary and post-primary schools that have HEPA filters; when she expects all classrooms to have HEPA filters; and if...
    • School Transport
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are transport supports available to students who have to travel outside of their county for school due to the fact they cannot find a...
    • School Staff
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a resolution has been found on the provision of pensions for school secretaries since the recent progress made on their pay and conditions; and...
    • School Places
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a shortage of secondary school places across north County Dublin; and if she has plans to address this issue....
    • Disadvantaged Status
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) has not been profiled for DEIS designation in the most recent review given that Tullow, County Carlow...
    • School Transport
      96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her efforts to ensure that all students who have been deemed eligible for school transport, including those that missed the...
    • Oideachas Gaeltachta
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills céard é stádas an Pholasaí don Oideachas Gaeltachta 2017 – 2022 agus a iarraidh uirthi soiléiriú a thabhairt...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the wearing of face masks of an FFP2 or higher standard is mandatory in all school settings; and if she will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the framework for sustainable funding for a centre (details supplied); the date of the last meeting between her Department and the...
    • School Places
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who will require a primary and secondary special school place in County Cork in September 2022; and the number available....
    • Education Policy
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in achieving at least 400 multi-denominational primary schools by 2030 as committed to in the Programme for Government. [4821/22]
    • School Facilities
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies in place to offer mental health supports for primary and secondary students, including access to emotional well-being supports in...
    • State Examinations
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will facilitate a hybrid leaving certificate as operated in 2021. [4360/22]
    • School Site Acquisition
      105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a commencement date can be given for schools’ (details supplied) campuses given that the work of Kildare County Council has been...
    • Special Educational Needs
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional pupils that will receive places in special education classes; and the breakdown of the number of additional special...
    • School Transport
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that school transport is provided to other second-level schools for new students unable to obtain a placement for enrolment in...
    • Education Policy
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment advisory report on senior cycle reform; when she will publish the report; and if...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a fhoilseofar polasaí nua Gaeilge do scoileanna taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina...
    • Education Policy
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategy of her Department to increase the number of students undertaking science, technology, engineering and mathematics for the leaving...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the supports she is providing to school leaders while they continue to navigate Covid-19 protocols in schools. [4820/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address special education needs in south-west areas of County Cork. [4648/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider centrally procuring HEPA filters and distributing to all schools. [4641/22]
    • State Examinations
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the junior certificate 2022; her views on whether the students sitting the exams are adequately prepared; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the major build project for a school (details supplied); and the expected timelines of progression to the next stage of planning...
    • Special Educational Needs
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation for special education in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4707/22]
    • Education Policy
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will now consider implementing the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third-level and getting rid of the traditional...
    • Schools Building Projects
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an overview of her Department’s plans for the construction, extension and refurbishment of schools in County Clare;...
    • School Equipment
      122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the oversight process on progressing the delivery and implementation of accessible infrastructure for disabled students such as...
    • School Facilities
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of her long-term plans to ensure that canteen and physical infrastructure is provided to all schools nationally. [4823/22]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy for integrating digital technology into teaching and learning in Ireland; and the structures that are in place to oversee the rapid...
    • Bullying of Children
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategy to prevent and tackle bullying in schools, including plans to engage with relevant stakeholders; and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Examinations
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the arrangements for the 2022 leaving certificate; and if planning is now being put in place to integrate modules of...
    • School Site Acquisition
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4684/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will have access to therapists. [4130/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work of the DEIS technical group; if DEIS status will be extended to additional schools in 2022 following the funding included...
    • School Costs
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme as announced in Budget 2022. [4690/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding set aside for HEPA filters for classrooms; the amount of funding drawn down to date; and the breakdown of the funding drawn...
    • School Transport
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials of her Department will engage with Bus Éireann in relation to an altered school bus route (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the difficulties that new and developing schools are facing in accessing special educational supports. [4819/22]
    • School Curriculum
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports that could be put in place to raise awareness of the European Union for primary and secondary school students; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide for students with a serious illness to resit the leaving certificate prior to the CAO results being released; and if she...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to support students in an alternative education setting, including its regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Conservation
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the calls for an acceleration of the proposed works and refurbishment for a school (details supplied) in County Laois....
    • School Staff
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the recruitment of teachers and special needs assistants in line with Budget 2022; and if she will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to address higher energy costs within schools. [4691/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the delivery of an ASD unit for a second-level school in Ballincollig, County Cork; if delivery for this unit will be in August...
    • School Staff
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount in pension contributions for teachers made by her Department in 2021; and the projected total pension contributions in each of...
    • School Curriculum
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes made to relationships and sexuality education in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4689/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a special school in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4616/22]
    • School Transport
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns related to the lack of flexibility in the allocation system for school buses; if a review of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of granting the final approval for an extension at a secondary school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the average timeline involved...
    • School Curriculum
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to ensure that gender-based violence is addressed as part of the school curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disadvantaged Status
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the impact of Covid-19 on retention rates for students and the gap in retention between DEIS and non-DEIS schools; her plans to...
    • State Examinations
      155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans that have been enacted by her Department during the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years to date to prepare for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied) in County Laois; and the expected timeline for work to begin. [4615/22]
    • Education Policy
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether single sex schools are an outdated model for both primary and secondary schools; and the steps her Department will take to...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that have been provided to DEIS schools and their staff and pupils in order to assist with learning during Covid-19 pandemic,...
    • School Places
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that are being made to provide an additional secondary school in Cork city and in the eastern suburbs of Cork given the exceptional...
    • School Transport
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport system; when the final report is expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4669/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the SNA sector and its trade union to agree a new minimum qualification requirement at QQI level 6 for all new SNAs. [4657/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the plans for the new three-school campus at Buncrana (details supplied) do not include sporting grounds and facilities, considering...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work of the inter-Departmental partnership group chaired by her Department which oversees the implementation of the Policy on...
    • Departmental Funding
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports her Department can provide for the further development of organisations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the equality of pay and the terms and conditions for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that each child or young person who is entitled to a SNA or resource hours is allocated these supports. [4649/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to address the lower progression rate to third-level among DEIS schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4675/22]
    • School Site Acquisition
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of engagements that have taken place with the landowner of a proposed new school site (details supplied); if there has been engagement...
    • State Examinations
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding home schooled students who did not receive calculated grades in 2020 and who were not in a position to sit their leaving...
    • School Site Acquisition
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had with a school (details supplied) in relation to its new permanent school location; and if she will make a...
    • School Patronage
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the issues at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford. [4607/22]
    • School Curriculum
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will abandon the proposed changes to the leaving certificate Irish curriculum considering that it would discriminate against students who...
    • School Places
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration that is being given to extending school places at a school (details supplied). [4355/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the qualification required to become a special needs assistant which has not changed in the past 42 years under the QQI national...
    • Island Communities
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a secondary school in Inishbofin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4223/22]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Data
      182. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has commissioned any polling of the general public related to possible or existing policies within the remit of his Department for the period 1 January...
    • Climate Change Policy
      183. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the actions as set out in the Climate Action Plan 2021 in the areas of just transition, carbon pricing, electricity, enterprise, built environment, the...
    • Demographic Data
      185. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons who live in County Monaghan whose place of employment is in another county. [4378/22]
    • Cabinet Confidentiality
      186. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 25 January 2021, the terms of reference of the investigation and examination of arrangements for the management of documents...
    • Programme for Government
      187. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the well-being indicators referred to in the Programme for Government to point out inequalities and help ensure that policies are driven...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Intellectual Property
      188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government’s position on the proposed TRIPS waiver on mRNA Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which he expects the heads of the right to request remote work Bill to be finalised; and if it will be ensured that the...
    • Industrial Development
      190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA supported companies based in County Monaghan; the year that each was established in County Monaghan; the number of...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to facilitate remote working particularly taking into account the childcare challenges faced by many working...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the full range of business supports in place for persons starting a business other than in those sectors supported by Enterprise...
    • Data Centres
      194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Government Enterprise Statement on Data Centres will be updated. [4421/22]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when remote working legislation will be introduced; if he will ensure that employees have the right to work from home in...
    • Corporate Governance
      196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is considering the promotion of appropriate corporate governance standards by adopting codes of conduct for a wider...
    • Consumer Protection
      197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost of recruiting three additional whole-time equivalent digital content executives for the Competition and...
    • Work Permits
      198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of plans for the development of seasonal work permits. [4574/22]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the fees and costs paid to a company (details supplied) for its report on the impact of the Mercosur trade deal on Ireland; and if he...
    • Company Registration
      200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of a new company registration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4747/22]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports his Department offers for start-ups that can be accessed by persons in receipt of illness benefit when they are trying...
    • Legislative Process
      202. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of Acts, or sections or other provisions of Acts, for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in...
    • Personal Injuries Assessment Board
      203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of claims assessed by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board which resulted in no award being made in each of the years...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that referrals to the Workplace Relations Commission are being dealt with within satisfactory timeframes; his...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had to date with the SME growth task force proposed in the programme for government. [5151/22]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Air Quality
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of Environmental Protection Agency official air quality monitoring systems; and the location of each. [4249/22]
    • National Broadband Plan
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of all of the information disclosed by his Department to the Commission for...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the final draft of the renewable electricity support scheme terms and conditions will be published; the number of...
    • Air Quality
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of consultations that have taken place in relation to the development of the national clean air strategy;...
    • Climate Change Policy
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that are being taken to progress the new just transition commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the development of an approach to cost-effectively retrofit public sector building stock by 2030 as set...
    • Climate Change Policy
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the annual transition statement for 2020 will be published; and the reason that it has not been published to date....
    • Energy Conservation
      228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if recommendations have been finalised on the implementation of changes to ensure that the warmer homes scheme better...
    • Data Centres
      230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the recent report carried out by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities on the use of energy by data...
    • Energy Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if persons with multiple homes, including non-principal private residences, holiday homes, property types (details...
    • Energy Conservation
      232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment , further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 30 November 2021, when a reply will issue. [4476/22]
    • National Broadband Plan
      233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new premises available to order and passed under the national broadband plan; the number of new premises...
    • Environmental Policy
      234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the intended timelines with regard to the publication of expert guidance on the regulation of peat extraction in the...
    • Energy Policy
      236. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date with the strategy to combat energy poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4511/22]
    • Inland Fisheries
      237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider designating Lough Ennell as a wild brown trout fishery in the western lakes plan; if his attention...
    • Legislative Process
      238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be...
    • Energy Conservation
      239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated carbon emission reduction savings, as modelled by his Department, by bringing 100,000 poorly insulated...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of the projected 8GW of onshore wind capacity by 2030 as envisaged by the 2021 Climate Action Plan that...
    • Departmental Reports
      242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish in full the report by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Inland Fisheries
      243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will maintain the 2021 duties in respect of a special local draft net licence to fish the Owenea and Owentocker...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if assistance is available to nursing homes such as a nursing home (details supplied) for green renewable energy or...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Illegal Dumping
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will legislate to make illegal littering and dumping an offence under the Road Traffic Acts in order to allow gardaí impose...
    • Transport Policy
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the pilot scheme proposed in the programme for Government to examine the potential for ride sharing apps...
    • Road Projects
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the list of applications being considered by his Department relative to new roads infrastructure in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; the...
    • Road Safety
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland has plans to improve safety along the N25 under the Waterford to Glenmore road scheme in County...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will publish the results regarding the impact of speed and speed limits on greenhouse gases and pollutants and proposals to...
    • Transport Policy
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the review of the community car scheme is currently under way to consider expansion of the scheme as set out in the climate action...
    • Active Travel
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all refused applications by Cork City Council for an active travel funding 2022 allocation. [4332/22]
    • Public Transport
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the introduction of a new flexi taxsaver travel ticket; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4345/22]
    • Bus Services
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding a bus service (details supplied) in County Kildare. [4412/22]
    • Active Travel
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria used to determine the suitability of a project for active travel funding. [4413/22]
    • Driver Test
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driver theory test and a driver test by county for the past two years to date in tabular form; and if...
    • Traffic Management
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of traffic light pedestrian crossings without audio signal technology in Ireland. [4571/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicle charging points available in County Westmeath; the location of each; his plans to increase the number of...
    • Road Network
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that no funding was allocated for works on the N24 and N25 roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4735/22]
    • Driver Test
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 19 January 2022, if he will give further consideration to addressing issues at national test...
    • Legislative Process
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his...
    • Public Transport
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated yearly carbon emissions reduction savings as modelled by his Department by increasing the number of persons using public...
    • Cycling Facilities
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to install water bottle refill stations alongside bike-sharing scheme stands as Dublin City Council is doing on Clarendon...
    • Active Travel
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be additional funding for active travel announced for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4800/22]
    • Emergency Services
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Sligo Airport will be specifically named as one of the four bases in the new tender process for the national air-sea rescue service in...
    • Public Transport
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Leap cards in operation in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [4911/22]
    • Driver Licences
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options a taxi driver has to renew their licence in cases in which they cannot get an answer to emails or phone calls to the National...
    • Bus Éireann
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position of Bus Éireann in relation to the carrying of bikes on its services. [5060/22]
    • Bus Services
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 139 bus which goes from Naas to Maynooth through Rathcoffey, County on the route R408 could be rerouted after Rathcoffey through...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance the person or body that is liable for the payment of carbon tax due on coal sold from north of the Border; the person or body that is liable for the payment...
    • Insurance Industry
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance if an office has been established within Government tasked with encouraging greater competition in the Irish insurance market as outlined in the programme for...
    • Credit Unions
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of his review of credit unions; if this review will facilitate credit unions becoming community banks; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing the VAT rate on the purchase of defibrillators by cardiac first responder groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Industry
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some insurance companies apply a loading on policy premiums of cardiac first responder volunteers who notify...
    • Departmental Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of voluntary salary and pension surrenders for 2020 and 2021, by Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4575/22]
    • Legislative Process
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his Department; the reason...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance the average length of time taken by the Revenue Commissioners to revert to customers via the online inquiry system; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the inclusion of gas and nuclear energy in the European Union Taxonomy as being compatible with contributing to fighting climate change; and if...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received an explanation or reason from the Revenue Commissioners with regard to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that social care workers are not listed by the Revenue Commissioners as a profession and are unable to claim...
    • Tax Credits
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a single parent who is living with a partner who is unemployed is unable to claim tax credits for their...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Environmental Policy
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the development of a roadmap to promote greater use of lower-carbon building material in construction; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider including other categories of workers, such as social care workers, who have also had to attend work throughout the...
    • Standards in Public Office
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans within his Department to remove the requirement for all six Standards in Public Office Commission members to sit...
    • Inflation Rate
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a series of issues in relation to construction costs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his...
    • Public Sector Staff
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected timeframe for a panel transfer to counties Cavan and Monaghan for a person (details supplied); the steps taken to ensure...
    • State Properties
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the acquisition of the former Inagh Garda station by an organisation (details supplied) [4989/22]
    • Flood Risk Management
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the full estimated amount of funding required for the Enniscorthy flood defence scheme, estimated at €51 million, is...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      306. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the review of the large-scale infrastructural fund will be completed; if there is scope for awarding new grants to projects...
    • Commemorative Medals
      307. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the auction set to take place on 29 January 2022 for the purchase of the 1916 medal presented...
    • Museum Projects
      308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a museum (details supplied) will open again; and if the museum will continue in the current form as a public museum for the...
    • Departmental Funding
      309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is grant funding available for authors to help cover the cost of graphic design for an instructional book prior to...
    • Tourism Promotion
      310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Tourism Ireland plans to launch major tourism advertisement campaign on billboards in major subway stations, train stations and...
    • Online Safety
      311. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the post of Online Safety Commissioner is being advertised within the State only; if the role is also being advertised outside...
    • Planning Issues
      312. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that the sum of €353,784 in Covid-19 cultural support grants was returned to her Department since the pandemic...
    • Legislative Process
      313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in...
    • Sports Funding
      314. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the next round of funding applications for the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; the closing date for the next...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the pilot basic income scheme for artists will be eligible for comedians and comedy writers to apply for; if comedians and...
    • Tourism Industry
      318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress to date with the proposed Irish Sea way along the east and south-east coast to boost tourism; and if she will make a...
    • Culture Policy
      319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the location of a cultural centre or sections of cultural institutions in the historic Moore Street area of Dublin,...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Harbours and Piers
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he can take with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to address the large-scale bureaucracy...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department sought legal advice in relation to section 34 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 before the...
    • Housing Policy
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 372 of 9 September 2021, his plans to review the tenant incremental purchase scheme to...
    • Wildlife Protection
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff that have been assigned to the recently established wildlife crime unit in the National Parks; the number...
    • Heritage Projects
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a final report was furnished to him with regard to an archaeological excavation (details supplied); if so, if a copy of the...
    • Departmental Consultations
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of consultations and the name of each consultation that has commenced or is ongoing in his portfolio; the timeline...
    • Coastal Protection
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the national coastal change management strategy is expected to be published which is now overdue; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units delivered by each local authority under the buy and renew scheme in each of the years 2017 to...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders commenced and completed by each local authority in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in...
    • Defective Building Materials
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has conducted an analysis of homeowners who will be unable to avail of the MICA redress scheme due to an inability to...
    • Housing Policy
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on Croí Cónaithe Towns and Villages; the timeframe for this scheme to be initiated; if...
    • Defective Building Materials
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the revised defective block redress scheme; when the legislation will be published; and when the new scheme...
    • Planning Issues
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the roll-out of a nationwide e-planning system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4409/22]
    • Water Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the report commissioned by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities of the Eastern and Midlands Water Supply...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total annual spend in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 on homeless accommodation. [4432/22]
    • Departmental Data
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the available data on the number of non-principle private residencies in the State; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those who fall into the demographic category of long-term disabled and or the...
    • Housing Policy
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total allocation of funding to Dublin City Council for the affordable purchase and affordable cost rental homes at...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken by his Department to promote and fund dedicated LGBTQI+ emergency accommodation within homelessness services;...
    • Legislative Process
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed...
    • Planning Issues
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of planning applications processed in 2021 in each local authority; and the number of qualified planner...
    • Housing Provision
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average number of weeks that the four stage approval process is currently taking for social housing new builds that were...
    • Departmental Policies
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new State architecture policy will be published. [4803/22]
    • Housing Policy
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of housing policy objective 1.2 in Housing for All; if the quarter 3 2021 deadline was met; and the projected time...
    • Hare Coursing
      418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hares captured during each coursing season (details supplied) in tabular form. [4987/22]
    • Regeneration Projects
      419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a stage 1 application for the regeneration of an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • National Parks
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of deer in Killarney National Park; the size of the population increase between 2006 and 2021; and if he will make...
    • Property Registration
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve the efficiency of the Property Registration Authority to deal with its current backlog; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if holders of stamp 4 status in the country will be eligible to apply for the new local authority home loan. [5075/22]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Number 307 of 25 January 2022, the further three domestic violence refuges that are at an...
    • Planning Issues
      425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the details of Article 10(6)(a) will be published for local authorities given that the previous provisions for this...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 490 and 491 of 19 January 2022, the timeline for the publication of the report...
    • Electric Vehicles
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to assist local authorities to make charging points for electric vehicles available in local authority owned...
    • Water Services
      428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on using section 19 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5178/22]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • International Relations
      429. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of his discussions with the Russian Ambassador and at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council in relation to the proposed...
    • Passport Services
      430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of extra staff that have been allocated for the passport office out of the 300 committed to in November 2021 to deal with the...
    • International Relations
      431. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is committed to ensuring peace and stability in Bosnia-Herzegovina; his views on the recent actions by the President of Republika...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      433. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application (details supplied). [4284/22]
    • Passport Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue for a person (details supplied) and their parents’ passports returned without further delay. [4481/22]
    • Legislative Process
      439. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his...
    • Passport Services
      441. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be processed on time for a child (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that this child is due to travel...
  • Department of Defence
    • Naval Service
      442. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he plans to take to ensure that the Naval Service has access to a primary radar system as referenced in the 2015 White Paper on...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      444. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the military exercises by states other than Ireland that have taken place within Ireland’s exclusive economic zone over the past 20 years...
    • Legislative Process
      445. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his Department;...
    • Defence Forces
      446. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received a report from the Chief of Staff regarding his recent engagement with the Russian ambassador; if he sanctioned this high...
    • Naval Service
      447. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current position in relation to the replacement of the LÉ Eithne with a multipurpose vessel; the timelines for the commissioning of the...
    • Air Corps
      448. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has conducted a re-evaluation of the requirement for airlift capacity by the Air Corps subsequent to the deployment of an...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to a request (details supplied). [5104/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on the development of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5200/22]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in relation to the proposals to amalgamate schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a hybrid format for the leaving certificate in 2022 given the serious disturbance to student education over the past three...
    • Departmental Programmes
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the operation of the ADAPT building programme of her Department; the way it operates in respect of taking projects from approval...
    • School Funding
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for grant aid for major capital works by a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make...
    • State Examinations
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student with epilepsy that experiences a medical emergency such as a seizure immediately before or during a leaving certificate exam and is...
    • Legislative Reviews
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 will commence; the person or body to which interested...
    • Special Educational Needs
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which the four autistic spectrum disorder classrooms designated for a new school (details supplied) are all to be based in the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ex-gratia scheme for former pupils of a school (details supplied) is to be extended to include former boarders. [4380/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for reviewing the minimum qualification for special needs assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4386/22]
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeframe for the conclusion of a process (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4387/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is strongly considering the proposals raised in a campaign (details supplied); if the entry level qualifications will be...
    • Education Policy
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide quality learning opportunities to non-religious students in schools with a religious ethos when they opt not to participate...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she anticipates that schools will see a corresponding easing of measures that have been put in place over the course of the Covid-19...
    • School Transport
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of school transport needs will be carried out for a school (details supplied) in respect of school transport under the primary school...
    • School Textbooks
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is grant funding available to aid completion of design of educational publications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4480/22]
    • School Staff
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that her Department has taken to urgently fill the temporary vacant post of physics and chemistry teacher at a school (details...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that currently have HEPA filters in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4512/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the planning application for a school build (details supplied) will be lodged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4517/22]
    • Pension Provisions
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to major delays experienced by principals and teachers when they request a pension statement from the pensions'...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal fees that were incurred by her Department following the decision to contest the legal challenges brought forward by two home-schooled...
    • Island Communities
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the reintroduction of an allowance for teachers on offshore islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4224/22]
    • School Accommodation
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a secondary school in Inishbofin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4225/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a series of matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to a school; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Process
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in her Department;...
    • Teacher Training
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on efforts to deliver a home economics teacher training course for a college (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD classes in Tullow town, County Carlow; if her attention has been drawn to the severe shortage of ASD classes in Tullow; the...
    • School Equipment
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the installation of a lift to facilitate a disabled student will be completed at a school (details supplied) following approved funding...
    • Special Educational Needs
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4356/22]
    • Online Safety
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to teach students in primary and secondary schools to stay safe online; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4678/22]
    • School Accommodation
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional temporary accommodation to meet the September 2022 needs of a school (details supplied) [4853/22]
    • School Patronage
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the expansion to a double stream school for a national school (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [4854/22]
    • School Accommodation
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4856/22]
    • Site Acquisitions
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on all the actions that have been taken to identify a temporary and a permanent site for a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is on schedule to move to its permanent premises for September 2023 given delays in the commencement of building...
    • School Funding
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out in respect of the €20 million capital allocation announced in budget 2022 to schools for the purchase of books, audio...
    • School Transport
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an urgent review will be carried out in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited; and if she...
    • School Inspections
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the Polasaí don Oideachas Gaeltachta by the dedicated inspectorate team...
    • Departmental Programmes
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 23 November 2021, the status of the roll-out of the refined DEIS model; the timeline for the...
    • School Admissions
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a secondary school place in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and or facilitated; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special education classes that have opened in the country in each of the years since 2016; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 757 of 19 January 2022 and the response from the State Examinations Commission (details supplied), if she...
    • School Staff
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) in respect of the latest position of school secretaries and their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the policy of five-day self-isolation for close contacts in special education schools will be updated with the easing of restrictions; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for play therapy and counselling that is available to schools in counties Roscommon and Galway; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will communicate with residents whose homes back onto the yard of a school (details supplied) and the school leadership in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 23 November 2021, the precise position in respect of the various planning stages for each project as...
    • School Facilities
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of replacement or extended facilities at a school (details supplied); the length of time this particular...
    • Special Educational Needs
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs placements remain available at primary and post-primary schools throughout County Kildare; the adequacy of such...
    • School Accommodation
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which her Department continues to respond expeditiously to requests for new schools or extensions to existing schools at primary...
    • Schools Building Projects
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and anticipated status of the large-scale capital project at a school (details supplied); the expected date for delivery; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date or in hand in meeting the school place, replacement of facilities, new school requirements and special needs provision in...
    • School Staff
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers currently employed at primary level throughout the country; the extent to which this meets requirements at the present...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is determined to improve pupil-teacher ratios in all primary and second-level schools throughout the country; the...
    • School Facilities
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time schedule for the provision of new second-level facilities at a school (details supplied); the extent of recent progress made in respect...
    • Education Policy
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which provision continues to be made to ensure the viability of smaller and denominational rural or urban schools; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing projects underway in County Kildare as part of the additional accommodation programme at primary and post-primary level; the status...
    • School Enrolments
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the enrolment process at primary-school level remains amenable to most families throughout the country; and if she will make...
    • Official Engagements
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss an educational proposal which was submitted to her earlier in January 2022;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if primary schools are permitted to hold extra-curricular activities following the recent lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Employment Support Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if business supports exist for new businesses in the automotive services sector that are taking on new employees, who are...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a PPS number can issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4242/22]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to meet the increased cost to recipients of the household benefits package in relation to the electricity...
    • Pension Provisions
      531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied). [4281/22]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a working family payment application by a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an explanation of the difference between a ministerial order and a ministerial announcement; and if she...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are in place or will be put in place for persons (details supplied) who lost their jobs in March 2020 due...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4295/22]
    • Social Welfare Offices
      537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will investigate the continual difficulties that persons have been having for many weeks in contacting the local...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of social welfare appeals that were successful in the past two years. [4305/22]
    • School Meals Programme
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for the school meals scheme; when a decision is likely to be...
    • Registration of Births
      540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of senior citizens who are living alone and not in receipt of the living alone allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are options available to a person (details supplied) to be able to claim fuel allowance here; and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 on 20 October 2021, the number of partial-rate State pension (contributory) which...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of an alleged overpayment in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a jobseeker’s allowance application in the case of a person (details...
    • Legislative Process
      549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of Acts, or sections or other provisions of Acts, for which a commencement order has yet to be...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare and the carer payment level of same;...
    • Community Welfare Services
      551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of offices and locations in Leinster in which members of the public can meet a community welfare...
    • School Meals Programme
      552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has considered increasing the base rate for the school meals programme; her views on whether the...
    • Departmental Data
      553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1051 of 19 January, if she will in future consider increasing rates for the part-time...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are in place for persons aged over 66 years, who are still working and have to isolate due to Covid-19...
    • Service Level Agreements
      555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual value of the service level agreement between her Department and an organisation (details supplied); and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5040/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if partial capacity benefit is available to self-employed persons who have been ineligible for illness benefit or invalidity...
    • Food Poverty
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the food poverty working group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5082/22]
    • Social Insurance
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recommendation in the report by the Commission on Pensions published in October 2021, which seeks to impose...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on reviewing the maternity benefit payment rate. [5180/22]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Strategies
      564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish follow-up information on the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017-2020. [4882/22]
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on and response to a key conclusion in The Cost of Disability in Ireland – Research Report that...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the eligibility for children to avail of early childhood care and education, ECCE, is capped at...
    • Childcare Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a transitional fund available for child care facilities from May to August 2022; if so, if a child...
    • Legislative Programme
      569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is planned to re-instate the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016; if he plans to remove the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla in 2021; and the breakdown of the source of the referrals and primary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      571. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if assistance will be provided in accessing autism spectrum disorder preschool support for a child (details...
    • Domestic Violence
      572. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of beds that have been available in women’s refuges in County Wexford at year end in each of...
    • Legislative Process
      574. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet...
    • Child and Family Agency
      575. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Tusla will finalise its annual business plan for 2022. [4990/22]
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      577. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied migrants who arrived alone into Irish ports who were referred to Tusla in 2020 and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific basis on which lectures at Maynooth University over a certain number of students are being continued online while catering...
    • Further and Higher Education
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of education and training opportunities offered under the SOLAS green skills action programme due to be completed by...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has worked on clearing Covid-19-related backlogs in apprenticeship as part of climate action No. 222 in the climate action...
    • Third Level Admissions
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who deferred a place on the CAO in 2021 for entry to university in September 2022. [4440/22]
    • State Examinations
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who sat the leaving certificate in 2021 who have applied to the 2022 CAO. [4441/22]
    • Legislative Process
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his Department;...
    • Third Level Education
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who did not complete year one and-or officially withdrew from their third level education course in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021...
    • Grant Payments
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to extend SUSI grants to cover student fees for those attending university in the North of Ireland given students can qualify for...
    • Third Level Education
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had to date with further and higher education institutions to put in place a strategy to develop new fast-track, mid-career...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Prison Service
      591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide information regarding the current use of in-cell technology by the Irish Prison Service, aside from...
    • Fines Administration
      592. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers listed in court for speeding by District Court in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the process to claim Irish citizenship for a person who was born in the UK but has been living in Ireland for...
    • Prison Service
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisons that have had reports from the Office of the Inspector of Prisons in each year since from 2016 to date by...
    • Alcohol Sales
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the recommendations of an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the open...
    • Immigration Policy
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if immigrants to Ireland are checked for previous criminal records; if immigrants from the European Union or outside of the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update in respect of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied). [4439/22]
    • United Nations
      599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is considering setting up an anti-corruption inter-agency steering committee to better coordinate corruption...
    • An Garda Síochána
      600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian and Garda personnel assigned to the anti-corruption unit of An Garda Síochána; the rank or...
    • Financial Irregularities
      601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is considering the establishment of a single anti-money laundering supervisory authority for designated...
    • Prison Service
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women incarcerated in the State by prison in each year since 2010 to date; and the number serving sentences of a...
    • Courts Service
      604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Courts Service or any other public body produce annually a...
    • International Terrorism
      605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism has not been ratified by Ireland; and if she will...
    • Electronic Tagging
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason her Department in consultation with the Irish Prison Service decided to end the use of electronic tagging; the...
    • Prison Service
      607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total prison population by year for each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of prisoners...
    • Coroners Service
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of notifications made to her Department by coroners with respect to the details of all unidentified human remains...
    • Prison Service
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of recommendations 2.12 and 2.13 in respect to female prisons and prisoners from the National...
    • Legislative Process
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed...
    • An Garda Síochána
      611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána by rank who previously worked for the PSNI; and if she will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4845/22]
    • European Council
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 (details supplied); and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 2 November 2021, if she has received a response from An Garda Síochána...
    • Asylum Seekers
      615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a series of matters in relation to the regularisation scheme application process for asylum seekers...
    • Residency Permits
      616. 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...
    • Legal Aid
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the current premises owned and leased by the Legal Aid Board; the overall cost of each lease...
    • Prison Service
      618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are currently in prison or out on temporary release for cannabis-related offences; and if she will...
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost in each of the past five years to forensically test cannabis; the amount of time that is taken up in the forensic unit...
    • Drug Dealing
      620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been convicted for grooming children into the drug trade; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      621. To ask the Minister for Health if rehab care workers in the community are deemed eligible for the Covid recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4994/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      623. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with their documentation; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5048/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the €1,000 bonus to drivers who assist doctors on call through the Midoc service (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [5061/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      626. To ask the Minister for Health when payment will issue to a person (details supplied). [4240/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the way those who were vaccinated outside the State but received their Covid-19 booster in Ireland can obtain a vaccination certificate; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the €1,000 Covid-19 bonus payment to patient-facing nurses in the disability sector. [4245/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median and maximum waiting times in days for each waiting list by specialty and by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if ophthalmology treatment can be facilitated at St. Conal's Hospital, Letterkenny, County Donegal, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will recommend that hyperemesis medication taken by pregnant women be covered by the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a site for public services for adults with ADHD in CHO6; the timeline for the same; if a consultant psychiatrist was appointed in quarter 4 of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee plan to revisit its recommendation in relation to the interval between the primary vaccine series and booster...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      635. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a CT scan at University Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4283/22]
    • Hospital Equipment
      636. To ask the Minister for Health when the estimated date for a machine (details supplied) will be functional; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4292/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in implementing each measure from the 2019 Labour Court recommendation on the terms and conditions of nurses and midwives; the amount...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to include practice nurses who vaccinated persons in the €1,000 bonus given that nurses who administered vaccinations in the vaccination...
    • Dental Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health when dental services will resume in St. Joseph’s Community Hospital, Stranorlar, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4337/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4339/22]
    • Medical Cards
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the qualifying criteria for a medical card if a person is undergoing cancer treatment; his plans to extend the medical card to all patients undergoing cancer...
    • Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 23 September 2021, his plans to roll out the Sligo model of eye-care to areas other than those already...
    • Hospital Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans regarding the €3 million funding for the development of specialist palliative care inpatient units in the north east (details...
    • General Practitioner Services
      646. To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner visits for children under seven years of age which was committed to in Budget 2022 will commence; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if nurses working with a general practitioner practice in the community can be considered for receipt of payment of the bonus for frontline healthcare workers;...
    • Health Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeframe for when the new outpatient ophthalmology services for the South/South West HSE area currently being developed in Ballincollig, County...
    • Healthcare Policy
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the work which has been conducted in relation to general practice and primary care policy for implementation of Sláintecare; and if he will make a...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the maximum reimbursement levels for orthopaedic surgery under the Cross Border Directive; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the omission of general practice nurses from the frontline worker pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Registration of Births
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is upwards of a two-month delay in registering a birth in the register of births, deaths and marriages in County Cavan; his plans to address...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      663. To ask the Minister for Health if funding or grants are available to help persons who need a permanent oxygen machine with the electricity costs of running oxygen machines required as part...
    • Medicinal Products
      664. To ask the Minister for Health his position in relation to a drug (details supplied) and for the approval of the drug for use here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4397/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 healthcare workers will be entitled to the pandemic payment bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4398/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs of 25 March 2015 has not been signed; the necessary legislative or...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the World Health Organization Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products of 12 November 2012 has not been signed; the necessary...
    • Hospital Staff
      673. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 886 of 19 October 2021, when the outcome of the 2022 proposal for additional nursing posts will be approved; and if...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      674. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for assessment in the Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [4484/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialist neurology nurses sought by site by the neurology clinical programme and clinical lead for 2021 and 2022; the number of neurology...
    • Hospital Services
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the policy on the minimum number of specialist palliative care inpatient units by smallest geographic unit or CHO area; if any such area does not currently...
    • Disease Management
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a delegation of persons who live with Lyme disease and who have much to offer in terms of informing policy and working on creating...
    • Patient Safety
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the amount and value of payments made by each acute hospital for preventable accidents in tabular form; the amount which relate to incidents of mortality; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialist nursing positions that are advised by models of care and clinical programmes which are either unfunded or funded but unfilled in...
    • Health Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Health when respite service will recommence in Belmullet Community Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4506/22]
    • Departmental Data
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims which have been made to the CervicalCheck Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4507/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded and open critical care beds; when the next critical care bed census will report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4513/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      685. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Service Plan 2022 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4514/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making the HPV vaccine available free of cost to all persons up to age of 45 years given the October 2018 announcement from the Food and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the €1,000 bonus to carers who work in the homes of persons with disabilities and who worked 12-hour shifts and provided care for...
    • Health Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to expand the weight management services throughout the country. [4521/22]
    • Patient Files
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the status of unique patient identifiers; the number of identifiers in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4523/22]
    • Departmental Projects
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each major information and communications technology digital transformation and modernisation project; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the year-on-year nominal change in headcount and whole-time equivalent for each staff grade in the public health service as of December in each of the years...
    • Hospital Staff
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional consultant posts budgeted for in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [4527/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres in operation by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4529/22]
    • National Children's Hospital
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the expected handover date of the National Children’s Hospital; the expected date by which it will be fitted-out and operational; the expected month for...
    • Health Services
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the elective centre proposals; when he will publish further material in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4533/22]
    • Disability Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health when early intervention services including access to speech and language therapy and occupational therapy will be facilitated for a child (details supplied);...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects currently being developed or underway; the number of wards and beds these will provide; if these are replacement or additional...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for audiology appointments per CHO and former LHO by quarter during 2021 and to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time medical, nursing and dental staff by job title working in the dental clinic at Roscommon University Hospital; the number of vacancies...
    • Disability Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if the appropriate services will be expedited for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4576/22]
    • Health Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the agency spend for each quarter in 2020 and 2021. [4579/22]
    • Hospital Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges and bed days lost by hospital in each quarter for 2020 and 2021. [4572/22]
    • Departmental Data
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the annual spend on private ambulances from 2018 to 2021. [4555/22]
    • Emergency Departments
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 75 years of age waiting over 24 hours in an emergency department for hospital beds. [4556/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the status of homecare waiting lists; the number of hours budgeted for compared to the hours that were provided in 2020 and 2021; the number budgeted for in...
    • Disability Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech and language therapy waiting lists for children; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the status of physiotherapy waiting lists for children; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4560/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the status of cataract waiting lists; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4561/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if a definitive start date will be provided for the two newly-appointed psychologists to the Celbridge and Kilcock primary care centres; when a start date will...
    • Health Services
      719. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4567/22]
    • Hospital Services
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the elective throughput in each model 3 and 4 hospital in each month of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [4582/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment for orthopaedic surgery at the Midland Regional Hospital,...
    • Healthcare Policy
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the Government’s position on the European Union Pharmaceutical Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4590/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      723. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for surgery in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commissions of Investigation
      724. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 899 of 2 November 2021 and 658 of 25 January 2022, the reason that the first and second interim reports of the Farrelly...
    • Legislative Process
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his Department; the reason for...
    • General Practitioner Services
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing entitlements made available through agreements to general practice; the basis on which entitlements are apportioned; if the entitlements of...
    • Primary Care Services
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if he has conducted a census of existing private sector primary care infrastructure particularly as it relates to general practices; and if this factors into...
    • General Practitioner Services
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the last time that the HSE reviewed the general practice out-of-hours service; the recommendations of the review; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Community Care
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on implementing each enhanced community care reform in 2021. [4783/22]
    • Dental Services
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of active dentists on the dental treatment services scheme by county in each month in 2021. [4786/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of paid employees working in the addiction sector. [4790/22]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children waiting for assessment of needs by county and waiting periods of less than three months, three months plus, one year plus and...
    • Hospital Admissions
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons that required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital bed and commode that is needed for a property for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4846/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      751. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for orthopaedic surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4848/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 bonus will be paid to frontline staff that worked through the pandemic and are now retired, retiring or otherwise planning to leave the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      753. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided for a chair for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4860/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the salary scale in respect of the position of Secretary General of his Department; the point at which the Secretary General is on; and if...
    • Vaccination Programme
      755. To ask the Minister for Health if 12 to 16 year olds will be eligible to receive a booster dose before their EU Digital COVID Certificates expire. [4862/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      756. To ask the Minister for Health if the once-off €1,000 tax free payment to frontline workers will issue to frontline workers in section 39 disability service providers (details...
    • Transport Policy
      757. To ask the Minister for Health when a transport support scheme to replace the removal of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant will be introduced; the current status of same;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services in Galway city and county by area; the number of children that have been waiting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      759. To ask the Minister for Health when visitors to a person (details supplied) will be facilitated given recent announcements to lift a number of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of dialysis transport to the HSE for 2019, 2020 and 2021 for patients requiring access to this vital therapy; the breakdown of the cost by each...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment for admission to the National Rehabilitation Hospital....
    • Primary Care Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if posts have been filled for both the ophthalmologist and optician contracted by the HSE to deliver primary care services for children in County Louth; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full details relating to the proposed appointment of an expert group to examine the handling of the pandemic; the way the process will...
    • Health Services
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake a review of the case of a person (details supplied) to ascertain the appropriateness of their treatment a number of weeks before their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the way that a person that does not hold an Irish passport and has availed of two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in two different countries can avail of the EU...
    • Hospital Procedures
      768. To ask the Minister for Health when visiting hours will resume in nursing homes and hospitals given that pubs and restaurants are operating at normal hours (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Dental Services
      769. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of dentists participating in the dental treatment service scheme for medical card patients; his views on the sharp decline in number of...
    • Primary Care Centres
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres that have been developed to completion in 2019, 2020 and to 31 December 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is on target in delivering additional primary care centres for 2022; the number of additional primary care centres that will be fully...
    • Health Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare professionals employed under community intervention teams in 2019, 2020 and to 31 December 2021; the number employed by county and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department will take to increase the number of general practitioners by an additional 1,260 to 1,660 general practitioners by 2028 in order to...
    • Health Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the implementation of the healthcare innovation Sligo cataract scheme nationally in which community optometrists co-work with...
    • Dental Services
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm receipt of correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the 23% VAT rate being applied to payments from associates...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      790. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on diagnostics waiting lists; the number waiting more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5030/22]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to promote and advertise the use of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive scheme to help alleviate waiting lists for medical procedures; and if he...
    • Fire Service
      792. To ask the Minister for Health if firefighters will be considered to be frontline workers in order to qualify for the €1,000 bonus (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if full-time home carers (details supplied) will be considered for the €1,000 pandemic bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5042/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if a corrected Covid-19 recovery certificate will be issued to a person (details supplied). [5043/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if care assistants who were calling to Covid-19 positive patients will avail of the Covid bonus for healthcare workers. [5046/22]
    • Dental Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practices that hold dental treatment scheme contracts with the HSE by county; the number of notifications which the HSE has received in 2021 of...
    • Departmental Reviews
      799. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1742 of 19 January 2022, if he issue a full reply. [5068/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of baseline acute inpatient beds open and funded including those which have been funded, opened and fully staffed but are closed for illness or...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 802
      802. To ask the Minister for Health further to a previous Parliamentary Question, the number of the 688 acute inpatient beds which opened which were newly opened; and the number of existing beds...
    • General Practitioner Services
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to ensure that residents in Portlaoise, County Laois and surrounding areas have access to the services of a local registered general...
    • Medical Cards
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to address the frequency with which persons with long-term illness are requested to reapply for their medical card; his views on the frequency of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently engaging in CareDoc services in CHO5 broken down by those contracted to do so and those providing the service....
    • Abortion Services
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if the recently-appointed Chair to lead the three-year review of abortion legislation was one of the small number of candidates he identified as suitable and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the procurement process that took place to source the estate agent, auctioneer involved in securing a location that led to identification of a facility...
    • Abortion Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the date that the research component of the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 led by a person (details...
    • Health Services
      811. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5106/22]
    • Hospital Services
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the amount Cork University Hospital has paid to patients for preventable incidents in the past three years in tabular form. [5107/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that private patients who cannot gain access to a general practitioner cannot have a general practitioner nominated to them in the same way as...
    • Abortion Services
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the process being put in place as part of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to gather data on the experiences of women...
    • Hospital Charges
      815. To ask the Minister for Health when the in-hospital charges for children will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5154/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 18 November 2021, the reason a detailed response was not received in relation to medical practitioners with Irish...
    • Health Services
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to fully implement the recommendations contained in reports (details supplied) and all...
    • Mental Health Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the longest duration experienced by a CHO4 mental health service staff member in a formal grievance case in 2020 and 2021; the total number of weeks from the...
    • Disability Services
      827. To ask the Minister for Health his views on and response to a key conclusion in the Cost of Disability in Ireland research report finding, that measures to address the additional costs of...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 20 January 2022, the reason that his Department is reporting an appeal was not received...
    • Teagasc Activities
      829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc as a State body is answerable to him as laid out in the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act 1988; if Teagasc...
    • Animal Welfare
      830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department is taking to protect the endangered old Irish goat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4329/22]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant funding schemes are available to farmers to help meet the costs of river erosion prevention measures; and if he will make a...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has published reports to date with regard to equine anti-doping further to the report of...
    • Horticulture Sector
      834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for commissioning an independent expert to work with all suppliers to ascertain the level of horticultural peat stocks...
    • Agriculture Industry
      836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in view of the investigation his Department is carrying out, it would be prudent to suspend upcoming inspections scheduled by a...
    • Food Industry
      845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of plans for a food ombudsman. [4573/22]
    • Animal Welfare
      846. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the requirements that are in place for inspectors from his Department to be in attendance at horse markets; and the paperwork checks...
    • Trade Agreements
      847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of engagements he and his Department have had with European Commission with respect to the Mercosur trade deal; and if he...
    • Animal Sales
      850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the scheme to provide marts with up to €5,000 to assist with the installation of online bidding equipment is operational;...
    • Agriculture Industry
      851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts to provide protected geographical indication status for natural Irish beef; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Food Labelling
      852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts to register Achill Island sea salt as a protected designation of origin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in his...
    • Forestry Sector
      854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with Coillte on the need to erect proper stockproof sheep fencing on its lands at Derryclare, Connemara, County...
    • Agriculture Industry
      855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of the exploration of pathways to encourage earlier finishing of beef animals as per action 315 of the Climate Action...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average age of beef cattle slaughtered by quarter and by year in each of the years 2010 to date in tabular form. [4892/22]
    • Animal Culls
      857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms on which poultry was culled arising from recent outbreak of bird flu by county; if compensation has been paid to...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the reported kill numbers at European Union approved slaughter plants originating in controlled finishing units represent exact or...
    • Agriculture Industry
      859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will respond to the escalation and high price of fertiliser which is having a major impact on farming families. [5069/22]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Community Development Projects
      862. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding her Department has granted across rural development for projects on Arranmore Island including all roads. [4285/22]
    • Legislative Process
      863. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a list of Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts for which a commencement order has yet to be signed in her...
    • Departmental Policies
      864. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 plan; the plans that are being implemented in relation to same;...
    • Local Development Companies
      869. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the local development companies that mention sexual, domestic or gender-based abuse and or violence description in their action plans...

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