Written answers

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Data
      43. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or special advisers since 1...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding a work permit application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8486/22]
    • Industrial Development
      45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will contact IDA Ireland with a view to filling the post of a south east regional manager immediately due to the recent...
    • Departmental Data
      46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their...
    • Industrial Development
      47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the way IDA Ireland is receiving a nominal annual ground rent of just €25.39 per year for a property at...
    • Legislative Measures
      48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if recommendation number five from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment report on the Pre-Legislative...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Road Network
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any indication or information has been made available to him on the types of bridges on roadways in Ireland (details...
    • Energy Prices
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the impact that increased supply of electricity to business compared with domestic consumers is having on...
    • Environmental Schemes
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that persons in receipt of an invalidity pension have been excluded from the assistance remit of the new...
    • Departmental Data
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives,...
    • Energy Prices
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if persons with more than one property will receive multiple payments under the electricity costs emergency benefit...
    • Environmental Schemes
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who applied for the better energy warmer homes schemes and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of the projected funding of €1 billion per year to the energy efficiency home-retro fitting programmes...
    • Environmental Schemes
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the previously available scheme for deep retrofitting administered by the SEAI had a limit on the percentage...
    • Energy Prices
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the proposed electricity rebate will be reviewed in relation to full-time residents in mobile home parks who are not...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has carried out a cost-benefit analysis of the provision of solar energy in the State at each point of development...
    • Environmental Schemes
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the grants available for households to retrofit will consider the heat loss index that homes must achieve; if his...
    • Legislative Measures
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the circular economy Bill; the timeline he is working towards to publish the draft heads; if he plans to...
    • Ministerial Staff
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Test
      70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm an appointment for a person (details supplied). [8468/22]
    • Departmental Data
      71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff...
    • Bus Services
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the commitment made by the NTA in 2021 for route A of BusConnects from Rathfarnham to pass by the...
    • Driver Test
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8646/22]
    • Traffic Management
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding previously announced traffic management plans for Celbridge, County Kildare which included the rerouting and...
    • Road Projects
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the previously announced and outlined inner and outer relief road for Naas, County Kildare which was not approved...
    • Ministerial Staff
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary of...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Exemptions
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the cost of breastfeeding equipment and supplies; if consideration has been given to removing VAT; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or special...
    • Economic Data
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of national debt servicing currently; the refinancing schedule for the next five years; the interest rate projections for the next five years;...
    • Tax Data
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised by the Exchequer in each of the years since 2010 by the application of VAT on home energy heating bills, that is, electricity and gas; the...
    • Energy Policy
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland will oppose or support proposals to include gas and nuclear projects in the EU taxonomy as suggested by the EU Commission; and if he will make a...
    • Credit Unions
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the progress of commitments to credit unions in the programme for Government as highlighted in correspondence from an organisation...
    • Tax Code
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is appropriate to apply VAT, a tax, to another tax, the carbon tax, on domestic gas bills; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Data
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 8 February 2022, if he will provide the statistics, by gender, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      92. To ask the Minister for Finance if the enhanced employment wage subsidy scheme will be extended to a sector (details supplied). [8800/22]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Data
      93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their...
    • Public Sector Pensions (1 comment)
      94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that retired civil servants with qualifying pensions have not yet received the 1% pay increase granted in October 2021 which...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding front-line workers for homeless service charities (details supplied) who worked throughout the Covid-19 pandemic;...
    • Ministerial Staff
      96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary of...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
      97. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí ar an eolas, in ainneoin an ardaithe breise maoine a fuair Foras na Gaeilge i mbliana, nach ndearnadh an...
    • Departmental Data
      98. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by her Department for elected representatives, Ministers and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      99. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the live performance support scheme No. 4 will be open to new entrants; when the closing date will be; and the timeframe that...
    • Ministerial Staff
      100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to her Department; the cost of the annual...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Coastal Protection
      101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the National Coastal Change Management Strategy steering group met; when the group will report on its...
    • Departmental Reports
      102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 490 and 491 of 19 January 2021, the status of the report on pollution in the Elm Park...
    • Defective Building Materials
      103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the unnecessary delay in admitting homeowners with pyrite defective block in County Clare into the defective...
    • Legislative Measures
      105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will list the outstanding affordable housing regulations; and when they will be published. [8492/22]
    • Departmental Data
      106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the defective block scheme will include the replacement of foundations if needed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the discretionary top-up for housing assistance payments was used in 2021 in County Wicklow broken down by...
    • Defective Building Materials
      109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the defective blocks scheme for homeowners in counties Donegal and...
    • Vacant Sites
      111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current situation regarding the vacant site tax and the way it will apply in respect of zoned lands that are not...
    • Departmental Staff
      112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of officials in his Department at principal officer grade level or above. [8643/22]
    • Local Authorities
      113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of staff employed in each local authority housing department, by employment type, including architects,...
    • Road Projects
      119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the previously announced and outlined inner and outer relief road for Naas, County Kildare which was...
    • Ministerial Staff
      120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the process for a person that was born an Irish citizen but living abroad for 30 plus years and has let their Irish citizenship lapse; the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Data
      127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff...
    • Defence Forces
      128. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if ##he will provide an overview of the widows and orphans scheme for Army personnel; and the details regarding enrolment in the scheme. [8590/22]
    • Ministerial Staff
      129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary of the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase school places for children with literacy difficulties in the Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Educational Disadvantage
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the completion of the review of DEIS; the actions that schools (details supplied) can take to support their DEIS application; and...
    • Departmental Data
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by her Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff...
    • State Examinations
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take measures to ensure that a student (details supplied) who is taking physical education as a leaving certificate examination...
    • Schools Building Projects
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the summer work scheme application submitted by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8595/22]
    • Victim Support Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to implement the recommendations of the Caranua report Facing the future together: Discussing Ireland’s lifelong...
    • Irish Language
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies that her Department is pursuing to ensure that Irish-medium education is not discriminated by a first past the post system of school...
    • School Patronage
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislation, Act and section, which governs the bidding process for school patronages. [8640/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 131 of 1 February 2022 and 87 of 9 February 2022, and related press statement issued from her Department,...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) will not proceed until the new campus and facilities are fully ready to receive the students;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current implementation status of each recommendation of the 2014 review of the role, organisation and management of Visiting Teachers for...
    • School Equipment
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for a school to secure a system (details supplied) for a classroom; if she will consider including such systems as a specification...
    • Special Educational Needs
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of SNAs for the 2022-2023 school year; if the freeze in SNA allocation will continue or the frontloading model will be initiated;...
    • Ministerial Staff
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to her Department; the cost of the annual salary of the...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a living alone increase claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [8466/22]
    • State Pensions
      151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the capital value or rental income was used when assessing the means on the non-contributory pension review for a person...
    • Departmental Data
      152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by her Department for elected representatives, Ministers...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the qualifying criteria for the widow's pension to include long-term partners who have a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the grant under the treatment benefit scheme towards the cost of wigs and hairpieces for persons who suffer from hair loss...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for backdated State pension (contributory) will be finalised considering that the appeal has been ongoing...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider implementing a policy that would see those on the disability allowance automatically entitled...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the appeal in respect of the jobseeker’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be decided;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a half-rate carers allowance will be paid to either party of a married couple (details supplied); and her views on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a jobseeker’s overpayment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Employment Schemes
      160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the back to work enterprise allowance in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021...
    • Ministerial Staff
      161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to her Department; the cost of the annual...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Data
      162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that the once-off transition fund will work; if it will be based on the employment wage subsidy scheme...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      164. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that the core funding will operate; the criteria for core funding; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if services will continue to receive individual payments for children through the NCS. [8575/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to include breastfeeding equipment and supplies as part of the upcoming pilot of the baby box...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to enhance funding streams to the ECCE sector. [8618/22]
    • Childcare Services
      170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with representatives of owners of childcare facilities in the context of mitigating cost...
    • Child Poverty
      175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of Ireland’s implementation of the EU child guarantee after public consultation ended; and if...
    • Departmental Reports
      179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new actions that his Department will carry out in response to the Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures Annual...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Provision
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1163 of 19 January 2022, if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the...
    • Education and Training Boards
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1164 of 19 January 2022, if he will provide information in relation to the sale of a property (details...
    • Departmental Data
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or...
    • Education and Training Provision
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the proposed three new centres of excellence being established in the Cork, Limerick and Clare and Mayo...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that there is no dedicated course for retrofitting for new entrants; if there are plans to establish dedicated courses for...
    • Ministerial Staff
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary of the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Data
      188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by her Department for elected representatives, Ministers and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenses paid to retired members of An Garda Síochána; the number who received payment having appeared at...
    • International Protection
      190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a person’s (details supplied) case; and if she will instruct the IPO to prioritise...
    • Deportation Orders
      191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons from 2011 to date subject to a section 3 deportation order who engaged with the voluntary returns unit to...
    • Family Support Services
      192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that will be undertaken by the Government in cases of parental alienation to provide out of court assistance and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm an opening day for the extension to Longford Garda station. [8666/22]
    • Community Development Projects
      195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to redirect money and assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau back into the community; and if she will...
    • Victim Support Services
      196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the funding provided by her Department to crime victim support services between 2016-2021, in tabular form....
    • An Garda Síochána
      197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide information on cost breakdown and tender process in relation to the new uniform for members of An Garda...
    • Departmental Bodies
      198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the assets and moneys sized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, by county, between 2016 and 2021, in tabular form;...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a full breakdown will be provided of the capital expenditure included in Vote 24, by programme, for 2022, in tabular form....
    • Probate Applications
      205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that will be taken to tackle the ongoing delays in granting probate or processing applications of probate at the...
    • Ministerial Staff
      206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to her Department; the cost of the annual...
  • Department of Health
    • Medicinal Products
      207. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of reducing the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold from €100 to €72 for single-headed households; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      208. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that there may be, in a very small number of cases between receiving a Covid-19 vaccine and shingles in some...
    • Mental Health Services
      209. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital in Portrane will be fully operational; the overall cost of the facility; and if he will make a...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      210. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with an association (details supplied) as promised; if not, if he will provide a date for the meeting; if he will provide an update following the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the free general practitioner card to six- and seven-year-olds; if so, when this will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Care Packages
      212. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative arrangements will be initiated in respect of continued support for a person (details supplied) in County Cork when the services of their current...
    • Departmental Data
      214. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or special...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      216. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding in the upcoming budget to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over...
    • Medical Research and Training
      219. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which hospital-based training places across the medical profession are co-ordinated between the Department, the HSE and training bodies; his...
    • Health Service Executive
      220. To ask the Minister for Health when a service by the HSE will go to tender; when contractors will be appointed as a result of this tender (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      221. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for urgent and non-urgent referrals to the symptomatic breast cancer clinic at University Hospital Galway; the number of patients that are on...
    • Health Services Staff
      222. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plan to have a full-time consultant ophthalmologist located in Letterkenny, County Donegal to address high waiting lists for eye care in the county;...
    • Primary Care Services
      223. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of his Department and the HSE in prioritising the development of primary care eye teams in CHO6, CHO7 and CHO9 in 2022 with a view to extending...
    • Vaccination Programme
      225. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fund the HPV vaccine catch-up programme for those who have missed out on the HPV vaccine in first year of school for any given reason;...
    • Mental Health Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the community mental health team servicing north Dublin cannot take referrals for adult ADHD assessments due...
    • Dental Services
      227. To ask the Minister for Health the help that can be given to a person (details supplied) who has urgent need of dental care and has been refused same on their medical card; and if he will...
    • Pharmacy Services
      228. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 9 February 2022, if he will address the question asked of updating the current regulations on the sale of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      229. To ask the Minister for Health when the new care unit replacing St. Anne’s, Clifden and Clifden nursing home will go to construction; the progress made with this project to date; and...
    • Medical Inquiries
      230. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each of the recommendations in the Roscommon and Mayo audiology misdiagnosis report; the date of the complete implementation of each outstanding...
    • Health Service Executive
      232. To ask the Minister for Health the consultancies engaged by the HSE in the past three years with a value in excess of €2 million in addition to the purpose of the consultancy work and...
    • Hospital Services
      233. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding current staffing levels for paediatric epilepsy services at University Hospital Limerick (details supplied); the arrangements that are...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      234. To ask the Minister for Health if the audit on spending to date on the new national maternity hospital enabling works at Elm Park has been completed; if so, if he will provide a copy of the...
    • Health Services Staff
      238. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which an efficient, effective and expeditious procedure exists to facilitate medical staff, consultants, doctors, nurses or other medical...
    • Ministerial Staff
      240. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary of the existing civilian...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Data
      241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their...
    • Foreshore Issues
      242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can legislate for any activity on the seabed that belongs to the Crown Estate; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Farm Inspections
      244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is his Department's policy to increase penalties on farmers who exercise their right to appeal; if he will investigate a case...
    • Brexit Supports
      245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if allowances can be made for the small number of inshore fishery vessels to access the Brexit Inshore Fisheries business model...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if expenditure was incurred by his Department in each of the years 2017 to date in 2022 with regard to a company (details supplied);...
    • Ministerial Staff
      248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed mMinisterial Garda drivers to his Department; the cost of the annual salary...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Data
      249. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by her Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their...
    • Ministerial Staff
      250. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the annual cost of the salaries of any recently appointed ministerial Garda drivers to her Department; the cost of the annual salary...