Written answers

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

  • Department of Health
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      64. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made in relation to the long-awaited roll-out of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21...
    • Health Services
      67. To ask the Minister for Health the organisations that are now providing services previously provided by the North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force given his that Department has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      69. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who needed hospital treatment as a result of contracting Covid-19; the measures he is taking to deal with the long-term effects on...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      71. To ask the Minister for Health his interaction with an association (details supplied) to date; and the steps that he plans to take to address the particular healthcare needs of those affected...
    • Hospital Services
      72. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the necessary provision of additional capacity at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh is given urgent consideration; when the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      73. To ask the Minister for Health if the good work that staff in settings caring for children have undertaken throughout the pandemic will be acknowledged (details supplied); and if they will be...
    • Health Services
      74. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals that have made to National Incident Review Panel since publication of its last annual report in 2018, by year of referral, the CHO area...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      75. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Capital Plan for 2022 includes developments in Ballina District Hospital and Belmullet Community Hospital. [7826/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      76. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the cross-Departmental strategic workforce advisory group in relation to capacity issues in home care provision. [61937/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      77. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add hyperemesis treatment to the drug repayment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7762/22]
    • Health Services
      79. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reviews that have been commissioned by the HSE for each of the three categories identified in its Incident Management Framework since the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      80. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure the availability of an adequate number of general practitioners to meet the demand at various practices throughout the county...
    • Disability Services
      81. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the waiting lists of the children’s disability network teams in County Cork for access to assessments and therapies....
    • Home Help Service
      82. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours that will be provided to older persons in counties Laois and Offaly during 2022. [7947/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      83. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2022 HSE service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7969/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      84. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the 2019 Agreement on Contractual Reform and Service Development for General Practice; the additional investment per...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      85. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with spina bifida who are on waiting lists for operations by hospital group area; the longest waiting time on each list; the steps he is...
    • Primary Care Centres
      86. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new Finglas primary health care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7928/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      87. To ask the Minister for Health the action he has taken to date to ensure that those who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine have received adequate compensation. [6688/22]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      88. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a business case for the proposed new National Maternity Hospital as required under the Public Spending Code; if not, the status of the...
    • Disease Management
      89. To ask the Minister for Health the status of development of disease-specific registries as part of Ireland’s health information strategy; if work has commenced on registries for any...
    • Hospital Staff
      90. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that Cork University Hospital is provided with funding to allow for the employment of the required number of neurology nurses; and if he will...
    • Healthcare Policy
      91. To ask the Minister for Health when he will establish regional health areas; the form these will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7843/22]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      92. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the site selection for the adult acute mental health unit at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mortality Rates
      94. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland had the eighth highest incidence rate and fifth highest mortality rate for breast cancer in the...
    • Disability Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that day services for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients have yet to reopen in County Mayo (details supplied);...
    • Dental Services
      96. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to address the crisis in the school dental scheme in County Laois; and the progress to date to restart the adult dental...
    • Health Strategies
      97. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reinstatement of a national director for the Mental Health Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7726/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      98. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he will consider new initiatives to deal with backlogs and waiting lists in respect of various procedures; if he will consider setting up...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      99. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding allocated for the National Treatment Purchase Fund for 2022; and the way this compares with the allocations in each of the past five years....
    • Budget 2022
      100. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of expenditure of the additional €31 million secured in Budget 2022 for women’s health initiatives; if the programmes that are...
    • Primary Care Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the efforts to improve community health services in Fingal, County Dublin in line with growing population centres; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      102. To ask the Minister for Health the work underway to increase the number of frontline nursing and midwifery staff in hospitals to help increase capacity and improve experiences for both staff...
    • Disability Services
      103. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the recommendation of the report by the Ombudsman, Grounded: Unequal access for people with disabilities to personal transport schemes,...
    • Home Help Service
      104. To ask the Minister for Health if persons will be allowed to source their home help from reputable private providers in situations in which the HSE is unable to follow through on its...
    • Disability Services
      105. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve autism services in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7883/22]
    • Eating Disorders
      106. To ask the Minister for Health the details of progress made in addressing the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders Goals. [7898/22]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      107. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the completion of capital works at Lifford Hospital, County Donegal; the services that will be available at the hospital post completion of...
    • Health Services Staff
      108. To ask the Minister for Health if employees of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland hospital group that have been accepted onto the nurse training programme in a college (details supplied)...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      109. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to create an entire short stay ward in Merlin Park Hospital community nursing unit which would deliver a minimum of 13 respite beds; the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      111. To ask the Minister for Health when he will make a decision on the name of the new children’s hospital; if he has given consideration to naming it in honour of a person (details...
    • Emergency Departments
      112. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to meet with elected representatives in County Meath regarding his proposed closure of Navan Hospital accident and emergency department; and if so,...
    • Health Services Staff
      113. To ask the Minister for Health if additional neurology nurses will be appointed nationwide. [7772/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      115. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the roll-out of HPV vaccine mop-up clinics to cater to children that have missed out on same in first year. [7774/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate additional resources to HSE for additional out-of-hours general practitioner cover in rural areas. [7827/22]
    • Disability Services
      117. To ask the Minister for Health the new funding that is being provided for HSE disability services in 2022. [7907/22]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      118. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of a new facility (details supplied) in County Carlow to replace the outdated prefabricated facility which is home to the...
    • Dental Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the current wait times for children awaiting orthodontic services in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      120. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there is a continuous audit of medication across CAMHS to ensure that the overmedication that is currently practised comes to an end;...
    • Ambulance Service
      121. To ask the Minister for Health when County Carlow will have an ambulance base which is fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7830/22]
    • Hospital Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Health the position following the visit of the National Director of Acute Hospitals to University Hospital Kerry in November 2021; if there is a plan to address the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      123. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commission a full inquiry into deaths in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic in view of calls for such an inquiry among many relatives,...
    • Hospital Procedures
      124. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding that is being made available to provide children with spina bifida with needed surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      125. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in addressing the backlog of audiology appointments in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [7835/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      126. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the issues in accessing general practitioner care in Lucan, County Dublin; the actions that are being taken to improve...
    • Vaccination Programme
      127. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines that have been administered in pharmacies in each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7989/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      128. To ask the Minister for Health his views on urgently commencing a review of north Kerry CAMHS cases. [7717/22]
    • Emergency Departments
      129. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 2 December 2021, the engagement he or his Department had with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in...
    • National Children's Hospital
      130. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the purpose and future use of the construction supply depot for the new national children’s hospital on Davitt Road,...
    • Medical Cards
      131. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering suspending all reviews of the eligibility of existing medical card holders for the remainder of 2022 in view of the rapid rise in the cost...
    • Health Strategies
      132. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a new cardiovascular health strategy; if he will deliver 24/7 cardiac cover for the southeast area of the country; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      133. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the current wait times experienced by women for gynaecological services in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      135. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be implemented to reduce the long delays in orthopaedic assessments and follow-up procedures for patients from counties Cavan and...
    • Health Strategies
      136. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for e-health and remote delivery. [6835/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      137. To ask the Minister for Health the options his Department is examining in order to meet the needs and concerns of the families who lost a family member in a nursing home (details supplied)...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      138. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects hospital waiting lists and waiting times to reduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7970/22]
    • Health Strategies
      139. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Neurorehabilitation Strategy. [7771/22]
    • Health Services
      140. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of community step-down beds in County Cork. [7930/22]
    • Hospital Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Health the additional services that will be delivered to Monaghan Hospital in 2022. [7836/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      142. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to reduce acute hospital and community waiting lists. [7905/22]
    • Disability Services
      143. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his efforts to reduce the waiting list for early intervention in speech and language therapy in north western areas of Dublin; and if he...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the provision of an elective hospital in the mid-west area. [7773/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      145. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the appointment of a chief social care officer for social care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7727/22]
    • Hospital Services
      146. To ask the Minister for Health when the acute beds in the renovated wing of Abbeyleix Hospital will be brought into use; when all beds in the community nursing unit will be utilised; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for a CAMHS appointment in the north Tipperary, south Tipperary and east Limerick local health office areas respectively; the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      148. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support broadening the range of products considered as suitable for use under the Medical Cannabis Access Programme in the context of the ongoing...
    • Hospital Facilities
      149. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ongoing infrastructure improvements to the neonatal intensive care facilities at the Rotunda Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      150. To ask the Minister for Health when the capital application will be approved for the modular build at Belmullet District Hospital; the status of the proposed project; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      151. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to accelerate the treatment programme for children with spina bifida. [7926/22]
    • Health Services
      152. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of the Keltoi service. [7943/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion of renovation works to the St. David’s unit at Clonakilty Community Hospital which is to be used as a further CAMHS unit...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      154. To ask the Minister for Health when persons that received a booster Covid-19 vaccination in Northern Ireland will receive an updated EU Digital COVID Certificate; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that have been provided by the HSE to parents and children affected by the CAMHS scandal since the launch of the look back report. [7716/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner care will be extended to six and seven-year-olds. [7910/22]
    • Health Services
      158. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to improve menopause supports for women; if he will put in place a women’s health structured care programme; and if he will make...
    • Emergency Departments
      159. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the extension of the emergency department and associated works at Mayo University Hospital; the steps that are being taken to accelerate the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      160. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the backlog of assessment of needs for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5446/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      161. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms available and options being explored in relation to truth for families following the deaths of persons (details supplied) given the exclusion of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      162. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase capacity across relevant paediatric specialties to deliver treatment for persons with scoliosis and spina bifida who have been waiting...
    • Health Services Staff
      164. To ask the Minister for Health if staff employed on the HSE MyOptions hotline have been trained to provide advice and information for expectant mothers on relevant social welfare...
    • Hospital Staff
      165. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of plans to address the recruitment challenge in the health service which has left a significant number of consultant and hospital posts vacant...
    • Disability Services
      166. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in relation to the full publication of a report (details supplied) into abuse at a facility in County Donegal; and when the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      167. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 workers will receive the pandemic bonus payment. [7904/22]
    • Hospital Procedures
      168. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme in order to align the rate being charged for procedures undertaken by hospitals in Northern...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      169. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken an assessment of the impact of Covid-19 restrictions or lockdowns on cancer services; if his attention has been drawn to an...
    • Mental Health Services
      170. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fill the vacant posts in CAMHS across the country as one of the measures to ensure that children are not being overmedicated; and if he will make...
    • Vaccination Programme
      171. To ask the Minister for Health if secondary school students that could not avail of the HPV vaccine due to the fact that they started the school year in 2018-2019 will be able to avail of...
    • Health Strategies
      172. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the Food Reformulation Task Force and the efforts to implement the Roadmap for Food Product Reformulation in Ireland; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      173. To ask the Minister for Health if homecare workers will receive the pandemic bonus payment. [7906/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      174. To ask the Minister for Health the size of the budget for medicines; and the plans to manage it more effectively. [6836/22]
    • Disability Services
      175. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address waiting lists for assessments and therapies for the children’s disability network teams in south-west areas of County...
    • Emergency Departments
      176. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the ongoing trolley crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7725/22]
    • Health Services
      177. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase the number of sexual assault treatment units nationally; the level of current delays in the processing of forensic evidence at...
    • Mental Health Services
      178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for a CAMHS appointment in the Laois-Offaly local health office area; the number of these children who are also on a waiting...
    • Health Strategies
      180. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Mental Health Strategy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7795/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      181. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care centre in Swords, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7724/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      182. To ask the Minister for Health the cause of the delay in issuing updated EU Digital COVID Certificates (details supplied). [7677/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      183. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that patients presenting to Cavan General Hospital accident and emergency department requesting treatment for mental health issues are being turned...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that student nurses due to receive payments for working during the Covid-19 pandemic will be paid immediately; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken by his Department to support the increased numbers of general practitioners for training and setting up practices; and if he will make...
    • Home Help Service
      186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours that will be provided to older persons in counties Longford and Westmeath during 2022. [7876/22]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Schemes
      187. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office has finalised the indicators for assessing the effectiveness of Government retrofitting schemes to reduce energy poverty. [7895/22]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      188. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by his Department in respect of its targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable...
    • Public Sector Staff
      189. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of departmental civil servants and State agency employees, respectively, under his remit working in County Wexford and their respective...
    • Electric Vehicles
      190. To ask the Taoiseach the number of electric vehicle charging points that are available for use by staff across all carparks provided for use by his Department throughout the country. [7374/22]
    • Job Creation
      191. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which employment in the manufacturing sector has grown in the past five years to date. [7331/22]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Trade Missions
      193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to Italy is scheduled for the first half of 2022. [7636/22]
    • Work Permits
      194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the processing of work permits; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the range of supports provided by his Department to social enterprises. [7912/22]
    • Work Permits
      196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an application by a person (details supplied) for a work permit will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if support is available to a business in view of the circumstances outlined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the environmental aid scheme has been renewed since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8366/22]
    • Business Regulation
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will help SMEs by streamlining the annual statutory reporting procedures for incorporated bodies given that the current...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Strategies
      202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work that has been carried out since he has taken office to develop a green hydrogen strategy; and if he will make...
    • Climate Action Plan
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Climate Action Plan for 2022 will be published. [7594/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration has been given to allowing persons who have had partial works completed under the warmer homes scheme...
    • Postal Services
      206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 1 December 2020, the progress his officials have made during their...
    • Pension Provisions
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 28 September 2021, if he will provide an update; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the seven successful community projects in RESS-1; if all the projects are still progressing; and if he...
    • Air Quality
      209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if compensation will be provided to those in the fuel merchant industry following the implementation of the smoky fuel...
    • Departmental Schemes
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the funding, the target set and the number of houses completed for each retrofitting scheme in each...
    • Departmental Strategies
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the review of the implementation of the Energy Poverty Strategy 2016-2019 will be published. [7894/22]
    • Waste Management
      215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of proposals to provide an annual support towards the cost of bin charges for homes in which a family member...
    • State Bodies
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total funding allocated to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland from 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of successful better energy warmer home applicants by local authority in Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated carbon reduction savings made by upgrading 100,000 homes under the new attic and cavity wall insulation...
    • National Broadband Plan
      229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact a company (details supplied) which provides satellite broadband to the...
    • Environmental Policy
      230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will give consideration to banning per- and poly-fluoroalkylated substances. [8346/22]
    • Climate Change Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 17 June 2021, the status of progress made towards the Annual Transition...
    • Fuel Poverty
      232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the ESRI-led research network on fuel poverty and the work with which it has been tasked; and the...
    • Departmental Funding
      233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding and resources that will be made available for insulation of flat complexes and public housing stock; and if...
    • Energy Prices
      234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements that have been made to ensure that persons who are in own-door direct provision will get the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Reviews
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review by his Department of the supply of renewable transport fuels in Ireland, such as biofuels, advanced biofuels, e-fuels,...
    • Tax Yield
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of motor tax raised in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7429/22]
    • Traffic Management
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that are being taken to alleviate traffic tailbacks for commuters in Rathcoole, County Dublin as they enter Rathcoole via the...
    • Fishing Industry
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts have been made to resolve an issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7445/22]
    • Pension Provisions
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of discussions to end a long-running dispute surrounding a pension for workers of a company (details supplied). [7528/22]
    • Bus Services
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene in the case of a bus shelter (details supplied) that has been delayed multiple times over the past 18 months. [7537/22]
    • Aviation Industry
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has engaged with airlines to highlighting the need to check passport expiry dates when purchasing flights; the...
    • Transport Costs
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing free or heavily discounted public transport in the greater Dublin region on a trial basis to encourage...
    • Rail Network
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding drawn down by the electrification of rail services project in the Cork metropolitan area to date; and if he will...
    • Public Transport
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2022 if Iarnród Éireann doubles the number of its revenue protection officers. [7643/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if taxi drivers that have already qualified for the current National Transport Authority scheme to purchase more environmentally friendly...
    • Rail Network
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to appoint an independent engineering expert for local communities to engage with during construction of the MetroLink as is...
    • Public Transport
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria for applications under the travel access scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7710/22]
    • Greenways Provision
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and or the National Transport Authority and or Irish Rail have conducted a feasibility study regarding the use of a disused rail...
    • Public Transport
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the promise made at Budget 2022 for half price public transport tickets for those under the age of 23; and if a definitive...
    • Parking Provision
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the relevant regulation governing any obligation on private car park operators in areas such as shopping centre car parks to provide...
    • Military Activities
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the dates in the past 20 years for which his Department was informed of military exercises being carried out in the skies above Ireland...
    • Departmental Consultations
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that was spent on consultation fees for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8021/22]
    • Road Projects
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the restoration of the road network in the aftermath of the Christmas flooding in County Wexford...
    • Electric Vehicles
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of e-charging points which are installed and working across the country and the number of charging points yet to be...
    • Public Sector Staff
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Government policy during the pandemic can be taken to mean that public servants working under the auspices of his Department were...
    • Traffic Management
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the excessive number of HGVs driving through the town of Abbeyleix on a daily basis in order to avoid...
    • Road Tolls
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to put in place the M50 toll; the cost to construct the infrastructure for same; the revenue that was ring-fenced to...
    • Public Sector Staff
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8251/22]
    • Road Projects
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the preferred route option of the proposed upgrade of the N25 national road between Midleton and Carrigtwohill County Cork that was...
    • Rail Network
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the renovation works on set down bus stop, taxi ranks area of Bray train station will commence; and if his attention...
    • Bus Services
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private bus companies operating to and from Galway city are dropping off and picking up...
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to ensure that there are no further delays in primary medical certificate applications due to no board of appeals being available...
    • Departmental Schemes
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7987/22]
    • Tax Rebates
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners that have made energy upgrade investments in recent years will be able to avail of tax rebates given the increased level of supports now...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if a business (details supplied) which diversified during the pandemic in an effort to remain solvent can access the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he...
    • EU Agreements
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that Ireland paid into the EU unrecycled plastic packaging levy in 2020 and 2021; and if the moneys came from the central budget and not from the...
    • Customs and Excise
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider an adjustable qualifier to apply to excise duty on units of fuel to provide for a maximum and minimum unit prices as a measure to mitigate...
    • Tax Code
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the carbon tax on motor diesel and petrol raised respectively in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will conduct a review of the living cities initiative to identify the way that the scheme can be extended further through interrelated plans and...
    • Tax Code
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if the taxation of exchange traded funds is being reviewed; if such funds will continue to be taxed differently than individual stocks; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the long wait times customers at several of the country’s largest banks have to wait for customer service; if he has...
    • Tax Code
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered raising the capital gains tax allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7493/22]
    • Departmental Consultations
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the retail banking review public consultation process; the start date of the public consultation process; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance the advice he can provide in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7527/22]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to address the wider issue raised in correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7556/22]
    • Customs and Excise
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the duties and VAT that apply to vehicles imported into this jurisdiction and registered in cases in which such vehicles were previously imported into...
    • Tax Code
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the arrangements in relation to structural improvements and enhancements to rental properties in Budget 2023 such as through retrofitting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of active employment wage subsidy scheme claims and the amount paid, by month in Dublin during 2020 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Fuel Inspections
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of fuel tanks tested for marked fuel in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and the number of positive tests in each year in tabular form. [7631/22]
    • Tax Reliefs
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax relief is available on the cost of the renovation of listed or buildings proposed to be listed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/22]
    • Banking Sector
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with the special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in respect of the formation of a company (details supplied) in the...
    • Brexit Issues
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the application of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7732/22]
    • Tax Yield
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount received in the Exchequer in each of the years 2011 to 2021 from the taxes imposed in the hospitality sector on tips, gratuities and service...
    • Insurance Industry
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a community run and operated community centre (details supplied) which has not had an insurance claim over 15 years has seen its premia rise...
    • Tax Code
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance if the new European Union VAT rules agreed in December 2021 at European Council level will impact on Ireland's existing derogations from European Union VAT...
    • Banking Sector
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that mortgage applicants that have suffered from mental health issues in their lives are not discriminated against when...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that Ireland has not requested pre-financing from the Recovery and Resilience Fund. [8123/22]
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has instituted any mechanisms for determining the environmental impact of certain categories of digital financial transactions, such as the...
    • Credit Register
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Central Credit Register which is operated by the Central Bank to expedite an application for a credit check by a person (details...
    • Tax Reliefs
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to making childcare costs tax deductible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8330/22]
    • Tax Yield
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 8 February 2022, the breakdown of carbon tax income by year and categorised baseline, additional and total. [8356/22]
    • Tax Code
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue liability that sports clubs incur in instances in which they are granted a house from a developer to offer as a prize in the course of their...
    • Tax Reliefs
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider abolishing the current disregard amount in place in respect of tax relief on college fees for PAYE parents who are not eligible for...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Defective Building Materials
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the OPW ensures that buildings it has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA and deleterious...
    • State Bodies
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the bodies that will be migrating to shared financial services in 2022, in tabular form (details supplied); the date they...
    • Public Sector Staff
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the intended form and timeline of the planned review to examine salaries and appointments; if the review will encompass salaries for...
    • Flood Risk Management
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the up-to-date position on advancing flood defence at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8063/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that Ireland has not yet submitted a payment request from the Recovery and Resilience Fund. [8124/22]
    • Office of Public Works
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, the dates that the buildings and sites mentioned came into the possession...
    • Departmental Bodies
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times the Civil Service Accountability board met; the dates of these meetings; the reason the board has not met since...
    • Environmental Policy
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration given to the per- and poly-fluoroalkylated substances content of single-use food containers in procurement policy....
    • Flood Risk Management
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide flood gates for the properties and businesses within the areas affected by flooding in the Bantry area of County...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of each referendum held in the State since the 2000, in tabular form. [8449/22]
    • Public Sector Pay
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will encourage public sector and civil service employers to top-up the salaries of employees availing of the paid parents' leave...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Irish Language
      323. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that the Irish language translation of a village name can be corrected such as in a case (details supplied) in County...
    • Television Licence Fee
      324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider reforming the legislation relating to television licensing to allow for persons to appeal decisions of...
    • Sports Events
      325. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of the projected annual funding she will make to an organisation (details supplied) to host an...
    • Sports Funding
      327. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of the totality of grant-aid and or financial assistance provided to organisations in respect of...
    • State Bodies
      329. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the person or body responsible for the maintenance and storage of files from the former Council of Education, Recruitment and...
    • Grant Payments
      330. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grant funding is available through her Department that would assist in the purchase of replica uniforms for a community-based...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      331. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure that the basic income for artists pilot will not negatively impact on disabled artists that receive...
    • Film Industry
      332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons currently employed in the film and television industry in the State. [8117/22]
    • Culture Policy
      335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the areas in which the funding that her Department provided to Galway 2020 was spent in tabular form. [8323/22]
    • Tourism Industry
      337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she has made provision for the recovery of the tourism sector in the course of 2022 notwithstanding the damage...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that her media portfolio responsibilities can best be used to confront the activities of various media channels or other...
    • Departmental Funding
      339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider providing extra financial support to help with the running of Bantry tourist office which is run at present...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Schemes
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will put in place to ensure the new schemes under the National Retrofit Plan do not result in tenants being...
    • Housing Policy
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a provision for a situation in which a perpetrator against whom a safety order limits proximity to a person...
    • Urban Development
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Town Centres First policy applies to towns in urban settings. [7446/22]
    • Construction Industry
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to encourage or incentivise medium-size builders who wish to build and who are facing obstacles from the banks and...
    • Housing Schemes
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider opening up the repair and lease scheme to the private market and not just to local authorities for a pilot...
    • Housing Policy
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Dublin City Council has submitted a housing delivery action plan to his Department for the delivery of social and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a matter regarding the defective block scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Provision
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing and affordable housing projects under construction across the four Dublin local authorities by...
    • Grant Payments
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an eircode is required before well water grants can be considered by a local...
    • Mortality Rates
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of homeless persons who died in Dublin by month, age and cause of death in 2021, in tabular form (details...
    • Political Funding
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been made to his Department by political parties to fund activities specifically to...
    • Legislative Measures
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the European Commission has indicated at any time concerns or comments in relation to the general scheme of the Housing and...
    • Legislative Programme
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to introduce legislation to allow local authorities to carry out audits on the procurement of homeless...
    • Departmental Functions
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all functions which fall within the responsibility of his Department and a list of all of...
    • Planning Issues
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cases dealt with by An Bord Pleanála in each of the years 2017 to 2020, in tabular form. [7791/22]
    • Local Authorities
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all allocations in local housing authorities in Dublin; the allocations that went to the housing waiting list,...
    • Electoral Commission
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commission is to be established to revise the boundaries of the local election areas; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Schemes
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget for housing adaption grants in 2019, 2020 and 2021 in each local authority; the amount spent on housing adaption...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he intends to introduce to help persons experiencing a relationship breakdown and domestic violence to access...
    • Housing Policy
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 25 January 2022, if he will increase the number of house acquisitions given the...
    • Departmental Funding
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spending by his Department allocated to local authorities or any other body for retrofitting social housing stock...
    • Departmental Surveys
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered supporting the expansion of the Monaghan hedgerow survey across the State on a recurring basis; and if he...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a dedicated conservation management plan has been put in place for the Lough Hyne marine nature reserve including Barloge...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the forthcoming citizens' assembly on biodiversity includes marine biodiversity. [8036/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the maximum grant allowed for housing aid for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention and that of his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service has been drawn to a project undertaken...
    • Planning Issues
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he intends to take following the decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse substitute consent to the ESB for the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available to homeowners effected by pyrite that are not eligible for the remediation scheme due to the...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to initiate a scheme from within his Department’s capital resources to provide a wastewater treatment...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a national or local policy stipulating that emergency accommodation must be wheelchair accessible; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of mortgage to rent schemes approved by local authorities since 2018. [8312/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 9 February 2022, the definitive timeline for the bringing forward of amendments to...
    • Grant Payments
      385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person (details supplied) can avail of the new grant due to be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rental Sector
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protections and rights of a tenant whose landlord is initiating an eviction on grounds (details supplied); the person or...
    • Defective Building Materials
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale that his Department is relying on (details supplied) to bolster the suggestion that the costs calculations of...
    • Planning Issues
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps and or sanctions that can be applied to a developer that commences a development without submitting notice of a...
    • Housing Schemes
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the first home affordable purchase shared equity scheme; when the scheme will be available to...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      391. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) which was due at the end of 2021 will be processed urgently; and if he will make a...
    • Official Engagements
      398. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times he has spoken with the Mexican ambassador to Ireland either in person or virtually in 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Passport Services
      399. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total number of passports issued for each month from 1 January 2021 to 31 January 2022, by the number of passport renewals and the...
    • Middle East
      401. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether that as long as Israel continues to illegally seize Palestinian land to build settlements, evict Palestinian families...
    • Consular Services
      403. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if will provide an update on the progress made to date in respect of a case to the persons that are directly involved (details supplied)....
    • Passport Services
      404. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 380 of 8 February 2022, if he will provide further clarification on the passport application of a...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      405. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can assist a person (details supplied) to obtain a social security number from the United States of America; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      407. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish the correspondence from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs seeking that the State restates its commitment to not...
  • Department of Defence
    • Military Activities
      408. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the dates in the past 20 years about which Ireland was informed of military exercises being carried out in Ireland's exclusive economic zone by...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      409. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of situations that have arisen whereby members of the Defence Forces who were injured in the course of their duties and subsequently...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the decision to reduce Covid-19 leave for teachers and school staff to ten days; if there are exemptions to this in cases in...
    • Education Schemes
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding or supports are available from her Department for grants to study in other European Union member states. [7448/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional places in a special reading school (details supplied) and in special reading schools generally throughout the...
    • Capitation Grants
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rate of capitation per pupil in primary, secondary and special schools, respectively. [7465/22]
    • School Transport
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 1,000 additional bus places on the 2022-23 school transport scheme. [7466/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to deliver on a capital building programme in a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Special Educational Needs
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the use of school buildings to facilitate the July provision in the context of the summer provision for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will commence the refurbishment of a site in order that a school (details supplied) can move into the premises; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to the parents of a child (details supplied) who is on a waiting list for a place in two reading schools in Dublin. [7515/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7583/22]
    • Site Acquisitions
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that is being made in securing a site for a school (details supplied); the engagement that has been held with the various...
    • School Admissions
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places available in reading schools for children with severe dyslexia; and her plans to expand the provision given these places are...
    • School Management
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the trustees of a school (details supplied). [7623/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way her Department ensures that the buildings for which her Department has responsibility are built using blocks that are free from mica and...
    • School Admissions
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the number of places in reading schools for children with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7656/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school-specific contact tracing teams remain in place to support schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7662/22]
    • School Management
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the situation regarding the requirements for the appointment of an administrative principal in primary schools; if she will...
    • Irish Language
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish-speaking schools in the State by county; and if they are a primary or second-level school in tabular form. [7713/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of the proposed new second-level school at the site at a school (details supplied); the reason that in April 2013...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage her Department is at to appoint a retail service provider to complete broadband connections to schools, including a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residential Institutions
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 28 April 2021, the stage of the work of the Inter-Departmental Group with regard to matters relating...
    • School Staff
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when talks will resume with the Workplace Relations Commission, unions and school management (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Discipline
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all correct procedures have been followed in dealing with an incident (details supplied); if all evidence including any arising from an...
    • Teacher Training
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for Gaeltacht courses in summer 2022 which must be completed by student teachers; if contingency planning has been put in place for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the special educational needs organiser post in County Offaly as this post has been vacant since August 2021;...
    • School Staff
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to resolve the issue of school secretaries and caretakers being forced to sign on for social welfare payments...
    • Special Educational Needs
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details regarding special needs and autism spectrum disorder classes in second-level schools in County Laois; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of the report following the assessment of school (details supplied) by the planning and development unit on 4 November...
    • Special Educational Needs
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special needs class will be approved for a secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8203/22]
    • Education Policy
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her approach to school planning in the South Dublin County Council area specifically to address the inconsistency in approach to same; the reason...
    • Special Educational Needs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include the CHO1 area in the extension of the pilot of the school inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and-or the relevant body under her aegis will review the circumstances of a number of children from an area (details supplied);...
    • Site Acquisitions
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will receive a deputation (details supplied) regarding the acquisition of a site for a new school from a group; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an appointment for a SENO will be made (details supplied); the temporary measures that are in place to deal with queries in this area from...
    • Schools Building Projects
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of new school buildings for a school (details supplied) and destined to move into new premises located on the grounds...
    • Education Schemes
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that was made available for the school seals scheme in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022; and the number of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special class (details supplied) is not being sanctioned by a SENO despite additional accommodation funding being awarded for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if it will be delivered with urgency given the demand for...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for incremental credit by a person (details supplied); and if a decision will be issued to the person. [8446/22]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will announce a lengthy extension to the fuel allowance season as a priority as a measure to provide assistance and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families who receive child benefit payments; and the number of children these are in respect of. [7451/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention been drawn to an anomaly with the living alone allowance that means some single persons are not entitled to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Pensions
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a pension; if an appeal process is available in this case; and if she will...
    • School Meals Programme
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing hot school meals free of charge to all DEIS primary school pupils.; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of active pandemic unemployment payment claims and value by month in Dublin from 2020 to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rent supplement payments being made at present. [7627/22]
    • State Pensions
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who are in receipt of a State pension (non-contributory); the number of these who are in employment;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims submitted and the number of persons that have received enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; the number...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualification mechanism for the living alone allowance; her proposals to allow single persons to claim this allowance or...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of jobseeker’s payments will be afforded flexibility regarding their payments being made to bank...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare payments can now only be collected at post offices; the rationale behind the decision; the measures put in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to include the carer's allowance in the list of qualifying social assistance payments for fuel allowance given...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 3 February 2022, when she received the review on farm assist; if she will publish...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied);; and if she will...
    • Departmental Data
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of workers in the film and television industry that are currently in receipt of the jobseeker's allowance,...
    • Employment Support Services
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if contact with an alternative case officer can be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding illness benefit payments for a married couple (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a...
    • State Pensions
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is in receipt of their full pension entitlement given their working record; if a full...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if regulation 130 of SI. 142/2007 is the only legislation which allows her Department to make deductions from the one-parent...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will approve an application by a person (details supplied). [8354/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of illness benefit that is being paid to a person (details supplied) can be increased; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total capital and current expenditure budget for 2021 and 2022 of his Department for domestic, sexual and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons including children seeking international protection who have been required to quarantine...
    • Departmental Data
      516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of emergency reception and orientation centres operating in the State in 2021; the capacity and...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the provision of a dedicated women’s refuge for victims of domestic...
    • Domestic Violence
      519. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 26 January 2022, if he will provide a full reply. [7589/22]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when reforms to the funding model for early learning and childcare services will be introduced; and if he will...
    • State Bodies
      526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the role Tusla had in providing supports for children and their families that were accessing CAMHS in south...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide further details on the once-off measure costing €37 million in relation to the...
    • State Bodies
      528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the practice of State agencies such as Tusla competing with families trying to buy homes on...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that the State is meeting its commitments under the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention including the...
    • State Bodies
      530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of all adoption records held by Tusla; and the safeguards that have been put in place to ensure the...
    • Adoption Services
      531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all adoption records have been scanned by Tusla; and the standard of same. [8128/22]
    • Childcare Services
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the targeted measures that are currently in place to increase the availability of childcare and creche places in...
    • Children in Care
      535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in the State currently in the care of private fostering companies. [8191/22]
    • Child Protection
      538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of phone calls received by Childline in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [8194/22]
    • Children in Care
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if private fostering companies operating in the State are subjected to inspections by HIQA. [8195/22]
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the training and information that will be provided to persons that will use the decision...
    • Health Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of works on the new greenfield site for a service (details supplied); when works are likely to...
    • Childcare Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 26 January 2022, the amount of the estimated €690.9 million...
    • Adoption Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that he did not appoint experts with lived experience of adoption, mother and baby homes and related...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the introduction of incentives for plumbers, electricians and other trades to take on apprentices and subsidise their wages...
    • Defective Building Materials
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way his Department ensures that the buildings his Department has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when in-class training as part of an electrical apprenticeship of a person (details supplied) will commence at a training centre; and if he will...
    • Institutes of Technology
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his role in the appointment and reappointment of presidents of institutes of technology; the factors that he is obliged to take into account...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in the construction sector by type in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8181/22]
    • Tax Reliefs
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider abolishing the current disregard amount in place in respect of tax relief on college fees for PAYE parents who are not...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • House Sales
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the practice of listing houses as available for bidding that are sale agreed; if she will...
    • Legislative Measures
      554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the queries raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011. [7550/22]
    • Legislative Reviews
      555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of the operation of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 will be published; and if she will...
    • Travel Documents
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the facility that is in place in cases in which an applicant needs to travel aboard during the travel document renewal process...
    • Peace Commissioners
      560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list all peace commissioners appointed from 1 July 2020 to date; the area in which they were appointed;...
    • Common Travel Area
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons all Irish and UK citizens arriving at Dublin Airport from the UK are routinely subjected to passport checks by...
    • An Garda Síochána
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if figures are available relating to concerns raised with An Garda Síochána in respect of sexual abuse, physical...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 510 of 25 January 2022, if she will provide a full reply. [7560/22]
    • International Protection
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of return orders issued under section 51A of the International Protection Act 2015. as amended, in total and...
    • Prison Service
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when in-person family visits to prison will resume on a weekly basis with no restriction on the number of visitors or children...
    • An Garda Síochána
      568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of legislation to bring the use of CCTV for Garda investigations into GDPR compliance; and if she will make a...
    • Legal Aid
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a review of the payment levels to solicitors and barristers for the provision of services under civil...
    • An Garda Síochána
      570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional Garda patrols on public transport in the greater Dublin area as part of efforts to make public...
    • Immigration Status
      572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) is eligible to apply to the undocumented scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities to answer Parliamentary Question Nos. 476 and 478 of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to meet the commitment to have citizenship applications processed within a year; the number of...
    • Domestic Violence
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering a scheme similar to Operation Encompass being rolled out in Northern Ireland for children that are...
    • An Garda Síochána
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incident types recorded on the Garda PULSE system under the Mental Health Act 2001 detained under category in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected residency status and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); if...
    • Legislative Reviews
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the organisations and or groups she has consulted with as part of the review into Part IV of...
    • Residency Permits
      582. 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...
    • Citizenship Applications
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in respect of the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a...
    • Prison Service
      586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the conclusions found in a report by an organisation (details supplied) that indicates there has been little...
    • Legislative Reviews
      588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will review of the impact of the Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) Act 2011 particularly as...
    • Prison Service
      589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for achieving single-cell occupancy for all prisoners in the Irish prison system. [7777/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding parental alienation; and if she will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 2 February 2022, her views on whether it is best practice from a corporate...
    • Citizenship Applications
      593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications that have been finalised and determined on a monthly basis for the period January 2021...
    • Legislative Programme
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for a major overhaul of the licensing laws; the timeframe for the publication of the new intoxicating liquor Bill; if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in reopening Bawnboy Garda station, County Cavan; the timeline for the opening of the station; and if she...
    • Legal Aid
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the commencement of the planned review of the civil legal aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
      597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the status of a public inquiry in relation to the case; and if she will...
    • Missing Children
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children reported missing in the State in each of the past ten years. [8184/22]
    • Citizenship Applications
      601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and vans attached to Louth Garda division as of 1 February 2020 and 8 February 2022, in tabular form;...
    • International Protection
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of applications, the number of successful and unsuccessful applications made under section 56 of the...
    • Legislative Programme
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the legislation which will make changes to locksmith licences will come into effect; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that have been made by persons wishing to renounce their Irish citizenship from 2012 to date; and if...
    • Sports Organisations
      616. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the position in respect of sports clubs offering houses as prizes in the course of their fundraising...
    • Immigration Policy
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 452 of 15 December 2020, the number of occasions that the evaluation committee has sought...
    • An Garda Síochána
      618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with the Garda Commissioner and or the Garda traffic corps in respect of developing a proactive strategy to...
    • Immigration Policy
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to reducing the fees for registration for the scheme for the regularisation for long-term...
    • Citizenship Applications
      621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8444/22]
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if persons working as administrators on contract for the HSE at vaccination centres will be eligible for the €1,000 bonus for healthcare workers; and if...
    • Mental Health Services
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the work that is being undertaken to develop an independent complaints mechanism for children and adolescents accessing mental health services and supports;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be eligible for the €1,000 payment allocated to frontline workers for their efforts during the pandemic. [8318/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who cannot return from hospital until a care package is in place; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Strategies
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations of the Women's Health Taskforce for endometriosis patients; his plans for the implementation of those recommendations; the steps being...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the outpatient waiting lists at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7433/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments which were cancelled, postponed and rescheduled in University Hospital Galway in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, in...
    • Mental Health Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for CAMHS in budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7443/22]
    • Disability Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health if another round of the fund to develop sensory gardens will be opened; if so, when new applications will be accepted; if similar funding streams are currently...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the date changes were brought forward by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service relating to deferral policies for blood donations, in particular when the change...
    • Mental Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of the provision of appropriate care for their child; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ambulance Service
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if an inspection has been undertaken at a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7472/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including other workers who have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as those who work in residential drug...
    • Primary Care Centres
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care centre in Tullow, County Carlow; the timeline for when this facility will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the women's health task force to consider the way care for women with hyperemesis can be improved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health if the Shannondoc out-of-hours general practitioner service will continue to operate out of St. Mary’s Hospital, Thurles; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7505/22]
    • Protected Disclosures
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures submitted to him or a relevant official concerning the CAMHS services in each CHO region concerned since the Protected...
    • Mental Health Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in CAMHS services in each of the CHO regions; and the details of those staff working in the disciplines recommended in A...
    • Disability Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Health when funding for disability services in CHO2 will be released for 2022; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7511/22]
    • Health Services
      659. To ask the Minister for Health when respite care and other services will recommence at full capacity at Drumboe House, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7519/22]
    • Dental Services
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to secure a dentist for the primary care centre in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. [7529/22]
    • Home Help Service
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that are not being completed due to staff shortages by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Service Executive
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant, derelict or otherwise unused properties, that is, commercial, residential or other, owned by the HSE; and the name, location and size of...
    • Climate Change Policy
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE climate plan and decarbonisation strategy; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7534/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the number, size and associated emissions and energy efficiency of buildings owned by the HSE and other public hospitals which have an energy rating of less...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will qualify for the healthcare workers’ pandemic bonus; and if so, the way they can receive the payment. [7538/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding ambulance and paramedic personnel who are unvaccinated; if such personnel will be returned to front-line duty in the near future; if a...
    • Disability Services
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the three-year backlog list in order for a child with autism to be seen in CHO6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7544/22]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      672. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a full assessment of needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7552/22]
    • Disability Services
      673. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive access to occupational therapy and physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7553/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if home carers are included in the Covid-19 bonus payment for frontline workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7554/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists, by type and hospital, in tabular form. [7592/22]
    • Pharmacy Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not sanctioned the implementation of the hospital pharmacy agreement between a union (details supplied) and the HSE; the reason his...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7597/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to provide funding in budget 2023 to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21...
    • Care Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 28 September 2021, the status of support networks for a person (details supplied). [7604/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if risk assessments have been carried out regarding the wearing of masks in schools by students. [7608/22]
    • Dental Services
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if it will be ensured that orthodontic treatment is provided urgently for a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list since 2016; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a surgical procedure across each specialty in six-month intervals, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital bed days required by patients subdivided into persons under 65 years of age and persons over 65 years of age who were treated for foot...
    • Medicinal Products
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the use of a drug (details supplied) to help with a condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7629/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be issued their EU digital Covid certificate. [7630/22]
    • Hospital Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year capital and current costs that would be required to increase the opening hours of the heart failure clinic at Nenagh Hospital from 10...
    • Hospital Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent clinical nurse specialists in stoma care in each of the years of 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022; and the hospitals in...
    • Hospital Facilities
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that currently operate a helipad within their grounds and are able to accept flights on a 24-7 basis; and the hospitals that have a helipad...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures procured by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2021 and to date in 2022, by the type and speciality of each procedure in tabular...
    • Disease Management
      695. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the benefits of the participation of five Irish hospitals in the European Reference Network on Rare Diseases; if participation will help further...
    • Health Services
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if a meeting was held with persons (details supplied) in 2003 that led to the decision to halt a review into missing samples from a family in Askeaton, County...
    • Legislative Measures
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021; if he plans to propose an extension of its provisions; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      698. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the long-acting antibody treatment Evusheld available for the prevention of Covid-19 in immunocompromised patients; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if home care workers employed by private companies to care for HSE clients as part of a home care package will be eligible for the pandemic bonus payment; and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the full membership of the programme board for implementation of Sláintecare; the dates on which it has met; the business conducted at each meeting; and...
    • Nursing Homes
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if private nursing homes are responsible for providing medical equipment such as air mattresses and specialist chairs or whether patients are responsible for...
    • Mental Health Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent CAMHS assessment can be immediately provided for a person (details supplied); the referral pathway in order that these acute and urgent cases may...
    • Psychological Assessments
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a preschool assignment and a psychological assessment by an organisation (details supplied) based in south-west Dublin. [7739/22]
    • Health Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of making nicotine replacement therapy free of charge to all those enrolled in smoking cessation programmes; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medicinal Products
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that women with hyperemesis can access the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7751/22]
    • Research and Development
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the work undertaken by his Department to promote research in the third-level education sector on genetics and genomics; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      710. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will have an assessment of need completed and the necessary services put in place. [7778/22]
    • Health Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons from CHO8 who used the Cross Border Directive in order to avail of health services in Northern Ireland in each of the years 2017 to 2021....
    • Hospital Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the current healthcare services provided in the Louth Hospital; and the agencies and bodies that hold responsibility for these services. [7780/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of the planned primary centre for Dundalk, County Louth. [7781/22]
    • Hospital Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the current healthcare services provided in the Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and the agencies and bodies that hold responsibility for these services. [7782/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service (details supplied) in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7787/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of a position (details supplied); the details of the role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7790/22]
    • Dental Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s discussions with an association (details supplied) in relation to agreeing a new contract and provision for dental care...
    • Mental Health Services
      718. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of CAMHS consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7806/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      719. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of consultants in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7807/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional permanent ICU beds that will be delivered in quarters 1, 2, 3 and 4 of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7808/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses that have left HSE employment prior to retirement age since January 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7809/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned audit of the National Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7821/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the grades, jobs, positions and organisations that are entitled to the €1,000 Covid bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7822/22]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective hospitals that are currently either in pre-planning, planning or construction across the country; the number that are in active...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the wait time for a person (details supplied) for an eye clinic appointment at University Hospital Limerick to address a blocked eye duct; and if he will make...
    • Medicinal Products
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) can be considered on compassionate grounds for nivolumab in view of the personal circumstances of the case....
    • Health Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health his views on musculoskeletal scans being read by radiographers as is the practice in Britain; if he is examining or plans to make these changes; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Sláintecare consultant contract; the number of contracts issued to date; if the contract has been agreed with an organisation (details...
    • Home Care Packages
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being considered in relation to the difficulties of those in need of homecare packages; the measures that are being considered to address...
    • Health Services
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure that there are no delays in primary medical certificate applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7880/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the booster roll-out to children under 14 years of age given the changes in the EU Digital COVID Certificate requirements for travel abroad;...
    • Hospital Admissions
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions that occurred through University of Limerick Hospitals Group accident and emergency or the acute medical assessment unit due...
    • Health Strategies
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the publication of the stroke strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7981/22]
    • Disability Services
      754. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that supports such as the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance will be restored for disabled drivers; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Equipment
      755. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an allocation of funding for a permanent public MRI machine for Wexford General Hospital;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7991/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      757. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 25 January 2022, if he has approved the HSE submission to his Department for the formal recognition of the grade...
    • Mental Health Services
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided in 2022 for the provision of mental health services; if specific funding is allocated for suicide prevention services; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a review of staffing levels across the health service and ensure that extra permanent posts are sanctioned to ensure that the health service...
    • Mental Health Services
      760. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of staff and resourcing for the national child and adolescent mental health service and the damage caused to children and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      761. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of statistics from the HSE regarding the number of children who have been hospitalised with Covid-19 since December 2021 in the context...
    • Health Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the section 38 agencies that operate in County Clare; the type of service provided by each; the total grant received by each agency in each of the years 2016...
    • Medical Cards
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of the population of County Clare with a medical card or general practitioner visit card in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practising general practitioners in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly employed community nurses in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term residential care centres and long-term residential care beds in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if...
    • Home Care Packages
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of publicly financed home care hours per person, by age, in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with his, the Secretary General's and any other departmental staff attendance at a wellness expo in Dubai; the costs related to...
    • Health Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied); if it will be ensured that the infant receives the required treatment in a timely manner;...
    • Mental Health Services
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical CAMHS teams in each CHO; the multidisciplinary make-up of each; the number which have permanent consultant psychiatrists; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that pre-exposure prophylaxis services are available in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8033/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      782. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1055 of 31 March 2021, the entire duration in weeks for the CHO staff member mentioned in the response from the...
    • Mental Health Services
      783. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the review of CAMHS in view of the recent Kerry CAMHS scandal; the details of the person or body that is conducting the review; if the review...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8052/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      785. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 2 December 2021, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; if the procurement of the...
    • Health Services
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the status of respite services in Galway city and county; when respite services will be fully restored to pre-pandemic levels; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Bodies
      788. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the cross-departmental strategic workforce advisory group which will examine workforce challenges in home support and nursing homes; when the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      789. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 2 December 2021, the status of the construction of the two orthopaedic theatres with ancillary accommodation for...
    • Primary Care Centres
      790. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 2 December 2021, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway city west; the location of same; if a...
    • Disability Services
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the basis upon which eligibility for personal assistant support for a disabled person is determined; the current statutory basis for this eligibility; if a...
    • Health Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the section 38 agencies that operate in County Clare; the type of service provided by each; the total grant received by each agency in each of the years 2016...
    • Medical Cards
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of the population of County Clare with a medical card or general practitioner visit card in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      797. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practising general practitioners in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly employed community nurses in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term residential care centres and long-term residential care beds in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular for; and if...
    • Home Care Packages
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of publicly financed home care hours per person, by age, in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      809. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases in the context of school aged children; if he is considering reinstating contact tracing in schools or PCR...
    • Health Strategies
      810. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review recommendation on screening mammograms for women under 35 years of age; if there are plans to allow routine screening mammograms for women...
    • Disability Services
      811. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation for the reason the diagnostic team within the Children’s Disability Network team 12 in Cork is not yet in operation;...
    • Care of the Elderly
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure that older persons can age in their own home with dignity and independence as long as possible. [8096/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      813. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand the home care sector. [8097/22]
    • Care of the Elderly
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address what the World Health Organization Global Report on Ageism states is evidence of ageism in the provision of long-term care of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      821. To ask the Minister for Health if nurses, such as those who work in a registered charity (details supplied) which has a service level agreement with the HSE, will be included in the proposed...
    • Dental Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practitioners by county; and the number of same who accept medical card patients, by county (details supplied). [8107/22]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      823. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 4 November 2021 and with reference to the lack of evidence to provide for a move towards limiting the maximum...
    • Health Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure adequate services are provided given the increasing prevalence of dementia in Ireland which is projected to increase and more...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to change the Covid-19 testing rules to allow persons aged four to 39 years of age to access HSE PCR testing; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      826. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons under 40 years of age who have not yet been boosted due to testing positive for Covid-19 in the...
    • Departmental Functions
      827. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and the actions under way to restructure his Department; the measures that will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8131/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8143/22]
    • Hospital Admissions
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented to hospitals with poisoning from codeine in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8144/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were prescribed methadone suboxone as a substitute for codeine in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      834. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce financial supports for persons receiving IVF treatment in the assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of having fully staffed mental health teams in each CHO across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8173/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has for the Royal Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin 4; and the efforts that will be made to protect this important building; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      844. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work his Department is undertaking on a workforce review for mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 vaccines donated to developing countries either directly or through the COVAX Initiative are mRNA vaccines; if measures have been put in place to...
    • Mental Health Services
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the child and adolescent mental health services waiting list in each local healthcare organisation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Care of the Elderly
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to address care of people with dementia in their home given that some people may not meet the narrow criteria for personal care but do...
    • State Claims Agency
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases taken against the HSE relating to perinatal mental health issues; the number of cases settled in this area in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Mental Health Services
      858. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for primary care psychology services per community healthcare organisation, CHO; the number waiting up to three months,...
    • Health Services Staff
      860. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the workforce plan for the health service; the areas that have the largest deficits; the steps being taken to address same; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      862. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding each of the National Clinical Programmes relating to disciplines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the medical and financial support services available, including nursing home support and fair deal scheme support, in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19-related visiting restrictions that apply in hospitals (details supplied); if there is a standard rule; if each hospital can have its own...
    • Health Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include heart failure under the long-term illness scheme in view of the expenses associated with the medications for this chronic illness; and if he...
    • Health Strategies
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the contraception implementation group has met since December 2021; the consultations that have taken place with relevant stakeholders on...
    • Health Services Staff
      872. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to proceed with statutory regulation for psychotherapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8277/22]
    • Qualifications Recognition
      873. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to recognise the qualifications of persons with a level 8 honours degree in psychotherapy and counselling; if the HSE will offer employment...
    • Mental Health Services
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the way funding given to charities for mental health services is monitored; if he will ensure that psychotherapists employed by these charities are paid a fair...
    • Health Services
      875. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to regulate crisis pregnancy agencies and the information and services they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8283/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      876. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including personal assistants in the €1,000 front-line worker bonus as per the requests by organisations (details supplied); and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if their children can attend the same general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age who are waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy at the end of January 2022 or the latest...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the number of parents who have put in a complaint that their child did not receive an assessment of needs in a timely manner; the number upheld for the years...
    • Mental Health Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of existing mental health supports for children in County Wicklow; the number of children under 18 years of age who are waiting three...
    • Medicinal Products
      891. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department has had any engagement with a union (details supplied) in relation to the charge currently levied on the monthly monitor dosage system...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      893. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing staff working in the dialysis unit at University Hospital Limerick will receive the €1,000 Covid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • General Practitioner Services
      894. To ask the Minister for Health when the general practitioner visit card will be extended to children under 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8334/22]
    • Dental Services
      895. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a dental appointment. [8355/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      897. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a motorised chair for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8378/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to roll out ACCES Team Homeless Mental Health Service across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8383/22]
    • Abortion Services
      901. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will issue guidance in relation to the abortion of unborn children in cases in which life-limiting conditions are suspected to exist in view of the...
    • Health Services
      902. To ask the Minister for Health the support and services in place for persons who have had a brain tumour as it is seriously impacting on their ongoing health; the facilities that are in...
    • Health Service Executive
      903. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent action will be taken to resolve the dereliction of an HSE-owned building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8412/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      904. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which a major reconfiguration of the health services can be undertaken with a view to a specific deadline in 2022 for the elimination of various...
    • Dental Services
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which provision can be made or is being made to address the deficiencies in the orthodontic services throughout the country; the number of...
    • Hospital Staff
      908. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further increase the number of hospital consultants throughout the country with a view to ensuring an adequate spread of skills throughout the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      910. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department will engage with paediatric specialists involved in treating scoliosis, spina bifida and other associated conditions...
    • Health Services
      911. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate provision can be made in the short term to deal with various aspects of women’s health with a view to ensuring minimum...
    • Health Services Staff
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he will ensure the replacement of vacancies throughout the health service at consultant, doctor or general practitioner levels; and if he...
    • General Practitioner Services
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of general practitioners currently employed throughout the health services; the extent to which this compares with international norms per...
    • Health Services Staff
      918. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultants currently employed throughout the health services; the extent to which this compares with international norms per thousand of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which ongoing progress is being made is respect of the development of Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8430/22]
    • National Children's Hospital
      921. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress on the National Children’s Hospital; the anticipated completion date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Abortion Services
      923. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the management and-or termination of pregnancies as anticipated in the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 has been...
    • Dental Services
      924. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange with the HSE to publish a list with contact details of all dentists in each CHO who currently accept medical card patients; if he will...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      926. To ask the Minister for Health when the case of a person (details supplied) will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8440/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      927. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty in getting a general practitioner to accept new clients in some parts of the country; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      929. To ask the Minister for Health if a recent examination has been undertaken of the drug and alcohol task forces’ catchment areas with a view to the changing needs for resources and...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7428/22]
    • Fishing Industry
      931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts that have been made to resolve an issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Greyhound Industry
      932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the incidents and injuries which caused racing fatalities at greyhound tracks in 2021; if post-mortems were carried...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department will take to assist farmers with soaring costs in fuel, electricity and concentrates. [7489/22]
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he and his European counterparts are having regarding CAP rates given the difficult financial year farmers are having...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that will be put in place to assist farmers with the challenges they will face in meeting the objectives of the Climate...
    • Live Exports
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will incentivise farmers to consider live exports. [7492/22]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase the amount paid to applicants with regard to the targeted agricultural modernisation schemes grant to reflect...
    • Forestry Sector
      938. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of forestry licences required by the forestry industry for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Harbours and Piers
      940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Howth harbour project; and the progress that will be delivered in 2022. [7599/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the licensing targets for private felling licences for 2022 are sufficient to mobilise the forecasted volume available in 2022 as...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7622/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when section 9 of the Greyhound Racing Act 2019 will come into force. [7638/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forestry industry had an input into the decision making on licensing targets for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreshore Issues
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can legislate for any activity on the seabed that belongs to a body (details supplied) particularly in Lough Foyle and...
    • Forestry Sector
      949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 5,250 licences his Department will issue in 2022 will fulfil the needs of the forestry sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Greyhound Industry
      952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the €500,000 debt at a racetrack (details supplied) was cleared by Greyhound Racing Ireland; and the terms and conditions...
    • Animal Sales
      954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep imported to the State by year and origin in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; if tariffs...
    • Fur Farming
      955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with mink farmers since the Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021...
    • Coastal Protection
      956. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which his Department was informed in the past 20 years of military exercises being carried out in Ireland's exclusive...
    • Forestry Sector
      957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to immediately address the alarming decline of afforestation applications which at present are not sufficient to achieve...
    • Fishing Industry
      958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure a more equitable distribution of the mackerel quota regarding the inshore fishing fleet; and if he...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 796 of 15 September 2021, the manner in which the carbon footprint measurement in the...
    • Departmental Functions
      962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time equivalent staff within the unfair trading practices unit in his Department by grade; the number of cases it...
    • Forestry Sector
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the forestry statistics indicating the level of afforestation and the amount of broadleaf afforestation by local...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 788 of 15 September 2021, the progress that has been made with regard to developing a successor...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that it is ensured that aquaculture licences are subject to fair due process throughout the statutory and public consultation...
    • Milk Supply
      967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to introduce production restrictions on milk or dairy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8048/22]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to ring-fence a portion of TAMS funding for slurry storage on tillage farms; if there will be additional machinery...
    • Animal Sales
      969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of horse fairs and sales inspected by departmental officials in 2021. [8135/22]
    • Animal Welfare
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of officials designated to the inspection of premises in which animals are kept. [8137/22]
    • Harbours and Piers
      973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if vital dredging works can be funded from the recently announced €35 million piers and harbours funds at local authority...
    • Animal Welfare
      974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will take to ensure that there is robust enforcement of equine and animal welfare specifically the enforcement of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 808 of 8 February 2022, if the correspondence will be resent given that the applicant has not...
    • Fisheries Protection
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next industry briefing from the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority will take place; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishing Industry
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the recently agreed European Union Control Plan for fish landings in piers and harbours across the State is...
    • Fishing Communities
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consultation that he has undertaken with inshore and island fishermen around the coast on the sustainability of the crab species;...
    • Harbours and Piers
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding is available to make improvements to pedestrian safety in public areas in harbours under the ownership of his Department...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8353/22]
    • Animal Breeding
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department and agencies under his remit are taking to ensure the survival of the pure bred Irish draught horse; and if...
    • Animal Welfare
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide data of improvements in terms of safety, well-being and care of dogs, excluding greyhounds; and if he will make a...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals on hand with the Aquaculture Licensing Appeals Board in six month intervals by the length of time they are...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Urban Development
      989. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Blackpool, County Cork will be allocated a town centres first officer. [7447/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      990. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of whole-time equivalent posts that are currently vacant in the Charities Regulator; the estimated full-year cost of...
    • Rural Schemes
      991. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the announcement will be made of the successful applications under the town and village renewal scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      992. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way her Department ensures that the buildings her Department has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA...
    • Community Development Projects
      993. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if grant funding is available through her Department that would assist in the purchase of replica uniforms for a community-based...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      994. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the range of supports provided by her Department to social enterprises. [7913/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      995. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the organisations in south-western areas of Dublin that have been in receipt of funding from her Department. [8362/22]

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