Written answers
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Surveys
48. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated cost of producing a labour force survey for County Clare; and the estimated household sample size required. [10297/22]
- Citizens' Assembly
49. To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred from 2014 to date on the operation of each citizens’ assembly. [9091/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
51. To ask the Taoiseach if the planned memorial for persons who passed away during the pandemic will include everyone who passed away during the two-year period or if it will be just for persons...
- Departmental Advertising
52. To ask the Taoiseach the amount that his Department has paid for advertising, features and so on in a magazine (details supplied). [9583/22]
- Public Services Provision
53. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has won any award from a publication (details supplied); and if so, when this award was won. [9843/22]
- Departmental Communications
54. To ask the Taoiseach if he uses an application on his official Government phone; and if so, if he has the disappearing messages setting activated on the application on his phone. [9946/22]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Environmental Schemes
56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the environmental aid scheme is funded exclusively by the Exchequer or the European Union funding programmes; and if he will make a...
- Enterprise Support Services
58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grant aid schemes available for SMEs with a significant energy use that are not clients of Enterprise Ireland or the IDA to allow...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Prices
59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that the electricity credit will be paid to persons with prepay meters. [10243/22]
- Environmental Schemes
60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address concerns that costs and inefficiencies are creating a reduced ability among owners of agricultural...
- Building Energy Rating
62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the quality control measures that are in place regarding the BER system for rating the energy efficiency of homes; if...
- Electric Vehicles
63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a women's safety and accessibility audit of electric vehicle charging infrastructure is required to be considered...
- Climate Action Plan
64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the McKinsey reports have been used to inform the development of the Climate Action Plan 2019 and 2021;...
- Wind Energy Generation
65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the finalised terms and conditions for the first offshore wind-specific RESS auction, ORESS 1, will be published;...
- Energy Policy
66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 14 December 2021, the status of the review of the security of energy supply...
- Renewable Energy Generation
67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the seven renewable electricity community-led projects selected for support under RESS-1; the timeline for...
- Climate Action Plan
68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the local authorities to whom he has made a request to-date for the preparation of their local authority...
- Departmental Correspondence
69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will reply to same; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Broadband Infrastructure
70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the provision of broadband will be...
- Environmental Schemes
71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 19 January 2022, if he will clarify the number of deep retrofits that were...
- National Broadband Plan
72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has costings or projected figures for the additional cost of the National Broadband Plan as a result...
- Energy Prices
73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the discussions with the key energy sector stakeholders which have taken place to date to reduce the very...
- Cybersecurity Policy
74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to improve cyber-security in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10390/22]
- Illegal Dumping
75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects the use of CCTV to be authorised to combat illegal dumping;; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Energy Policy
76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to roll-out district heating on a large scale; the way he plans to do so; if legislative change will be...
- Renewable Energy Generation
77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the safeguards that he will put in place to ensure that communities can access supports for community renewable energy...
- Air Quality
78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to introduce legislation or other measures to improve the air quality around quarries; and if he will make a...
- Recycling Policy
79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the deposit return scheme will be in operation; if glass will be included in the scheme; and if he will make a...
- Illegal Dumping
80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if local authorities will receive support in 2022 to help fund anti-dumping initiatives; and if he will make a statement...
- Broadband Infrastructure
81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a broadband connection for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has conducted a women’s safety and accessibility audit of electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and if he will make a...
- Greenways Provision
86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the plans for the Boyne Greenway; if a particular route has been identified as the preferred route; if he will detail when...
- Driver Test
87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting over ten months to receive an appointment to undertake their motorcycle...
- Road Traffic Accidents
88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electronic data transfers forwarded by An Garda Síochána to the Road Safety Authority on road traffic collisions...
- Road Signage
90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name of the company, statutory body or organisation that is responsible for signage on the approach roads to railway bridges informing...
- Public Transport
91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the announced 20% cut in transport fares will apply to those who have purchased annual taxsaver ticket for 2022; and if he will make a...
- Department of Finance
- Energy Prices
92. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rate of payment of the fuel grant under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be reviewed to take consideration of the recent...
- Tax Code
94. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address concerns that the current capital acquisitions tax regime reduces the potential progress that solar developers can make in terms of reducing...
- Tax Reliefs
95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the case that the benefit-in-kind regime for cars encourages increased mileage to obtain tax relief which is counterproductive to...
- Primary Medical Certificates
97. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the review and the criteria changes planned in relation to the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10403/22]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Flood Risk Management
98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of all current and proposed flood relief schemes for County Cork. [10497/22]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Television Licence Fee
99. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Revenue Commissioners will be the authority responsible for collecting the television licence in 2022 or beyond. [10233/22]
- Departmental Bodies
100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the latest work relating to the Media Commission recruitment drive; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
101. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Uimhir Pharlaiminteach 71 ar an 20 Eanair 2022, stádas an ghasra oibre, an bhfuil an gasra bunaithe fós;...
- Departmental Meetings
102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 20 January 2022 and correspondence (details supplied), if she will provide a copy of...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Schemes
103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the use of a private operator in the mortgage to rent scheme represents value for money for local...
- Defective Building Materials
105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the works carried out on homes under the pyrite resolution scheme are up to 2007 building standards as is being proposed by...
- Planning Issues
108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns that the costs and inefficiencies in the planning process are creating a reduced ability among...
- Vacant Sites
109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant sites identified in each local authority area across the country; the amounts levied in each area under...
- Derelict Sites
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of derelict sites identified in each local authority area across the country; the amounts levied in each area under...
- National Biodiversity Plan
111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected timeline for the National Biodiversity Action Plan 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10220/22]
- Departmental Surveys
112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a national hedgerow survey has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10222/22]
- Legislative Measures
113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is considering restricting the movement or activities of volunteer metal detectors in any revision of the...
- Wind Energy Generation
114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made towards the resolution of the European Court of Justice ruling in case C-261/18 relating to Derrybrien...
- Housing Schemes
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available for a person who is not able to qualify for the help to buy scheme due to not meeting the loan...
- National Biodiversity Plan
116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made allocating biodiversity officers across the country; the number of additional biodiversity...
- Local Authorities
117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the decline in the number of staff employed by Clare County Council from 907.9 full-time equivalent in Q4 2008...
- Wastewater Treatment
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that Irish Water provides funding to deliver a wastewater treatment plant in Creggs, County Galway which has...
- Architectural Heritage
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the effect the recent Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022 have on architectural conservation...
- Water Services
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if manholes fall under the responsibility of Irish Water or the local authority. [10377/22]
- Derelict Sites
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of derelict sites on the derelict sites register in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on...
- Vacant Sites
124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant sites on the vacant sites register in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Provision
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants on the housing list in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Electric Vehicles
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the strategy document regarding electric vehicle charging for the Dublin local authorities will be available; and if he...
- Housing Schemes
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will publish updated guidance to facilitate a transition period for the changes to the tenant purchase...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Northern Ireland
129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions, apart from public statements, that he has taken to meet with and to request his counterparts in the strongest possible way to...
- Passport Services
130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects a first-time passport will be issued for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10135/22]
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to raise the situation of the undocumented Irish with the new administration in the United States of America since...
- Consular Services
139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is an honorary consul for the Ukraine in the State; and if not, if the Ukraine can have an honorary consul appointed to ensure that...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
140. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the person who ordered the dumping and filling in of the hollow next to Donnelly's Hollow was identified during the recent mediation process;...
- Department of Education and Skills
- State Examinations
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allow students who are visually impaired to gain access to their leaving certificate examination via a digital paper; and if she...
- School Transport
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the rate of payment of the school transport grant will be reviewed to take consideration of the recent increase in fuel prices; and if she...
- Site Acquisitions
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in the provision of a permanent site within the catchment area for a school (details supplied). [10169/22]
- Public Sector Pensions
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that female clerical workers in school settings are not permitted access to the spouses’ and children’s pension scheme;...
- School Enrolments
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which her Department is currently engaged with various school authorities in a school (details supplied) with a view to adding an...
- Departmental Data
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in secondary level education in Dublin 1, 2, 4, 6 and Dublin 6W in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Discipline
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the parents of student (details supplied) can expect the results of their appeal to her Department under section 29 of the Education Act...
- School Facilities
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that is being made for playing pitches, basketball courts and other outdoor sports facilities for students at a school (details...
- Teaching Qualifications
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish an expert review group to examine the minimum essential qualification for special needs assistants and issue...
- Schools Building Projects
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a new extension to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Teaching Qualifications
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will immediately establish an expert review group to examine and issue recommendations regarding the minimum essential qualification for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value of the employment wage subsidy scheme to the early learning and care and school age childcare sector; the estimated cost to these...
- Special Educational Needs
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information regarding facilities for special needs and ASD classes at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Education Policy
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the provision of primary and secondary education in Whitehall and Santry, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of extending the domiciliary carer's allowance to 16 and 17 year olds; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if citizens living in the State will be able to avail of the European targeted mobility scheme should they relocate to the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications that have been refused in the past 12 months; the number of...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to review the situation in which a person living alone who is in receipt of the old age pension and a...
- Social Welfare Payments
160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position in regard to the recovery of alleged overpayments in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider a claim for a carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is no longer in receipt of illness benefit. [10247/22]
- Social Welfare Code
164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost to the State if the stipend for artists and culture workers recently introduced under the basic...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take into consideration the information supplied by a person (details supplied) and review the decision to remove...
- Social Welfare Code
167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the adult dependent allowance is disallowed in cases in which a welfare claimant has put savings in joint names for the...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) who is seeking the carer’s allowance will be examined; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Payments
169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the methods of payment open to persons receiving a disability payment through her Department; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the criteria for the living alone allowance increase discriminates against...
- Social Welfare Code
173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process for making a complaint for a person who does not have a qualifying payment for the living alone increase but...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) was refused the living alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Direct Provision System
175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently resident in direct provision centres who have been granted leave to remain in...
- Defective Building Materials
176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that two letters addressed to him on 18 and 19 October 2021 from the chairperson of Donegal Education...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Carlow County Council handed over its records for its former Carlow Mother and Baby Home and Carlow Maternity...
- Child and Family Agency
178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children receiving aftercare allowance in the State by Tusla area office. [10196/22]
- Children in Care
179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Ireland that require care placements; the number of placements that are currently...
- Direct Provision System
182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision and emergency accommodation centres which were in use by the international...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Medical Cards
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a psychologist’s assessment for a person (details supplied) will be covered under the medical card. [10136/22]
- Departmental Funding
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to each higher education institution in respect of funds (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
- Technological Universities
185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the proposed technological university of the south east to acquire staff and fund a campus in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
- Further and Higher Education
186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he is satisfied regarding suitable premises to accommodate post leaving certificate students in Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth,...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person in (details supplied) County Mayo will be called for phase 6 of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Child Protection
188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Second Optional Protocol on The United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child which includes the sale of...
- Immigration Policy
189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if undocumented migrants who were born in Britain to Irish parents in circumstances (details supplied) fall under the scope of...
- Immigration Status
192. 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
193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the...
- An Garda Síochána
194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Gardaí assigned to the Cork west division; the stations which they are attached to; and if she...
- Department of Health
- Medical Cards
195. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of extending medical card provision for child and adolescent cancers from five years to ten years after diagnosis; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
196. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to be called for surgery in the Mater Hospital. [10134/22]
- Departmental Data
197. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department has taken to ascertain the number of persons that are dealing with a vaccine (details supplied) related narcolepsy in Ireland. [10141/22]
- Covid-19 Tests
198. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1573 of 19 January 2022, the number of persons that were tested for Covid-19 at the pop-up test centre (details supplied)...
- Disability Services
199. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive full-time personal assistant support hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10144/22]
- Departmental Bodies
200. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to disband NPHET. [10145/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
201. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the cost of breastfeeding equipment and supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10146/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
202. To ask the Minister for Health if section 38 and 39 workers will be eligible for the additional recognition payment applicable to frontline health care workers; and if he will make a...
- Medicinal Products
204. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement process for the drug luxturna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10161/22]
- Primary Care Centres
205. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a primary care centre in Millstreet, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10162/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
207. To ask the Minister for Health if a prosthesis will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10170/22]
- Vaccination Programme
208. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fund the HPV catch-up programme for those that missed out on the HPV vaccine in first year of school for any given reason; and if he will...
- Health Services Staff
209. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the ongoing recruitment process for podiatrists for the HSE chronic disease management community hubs; when the number will be...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
210. To ask the Minister for Health if a panel has been set up to examine the categories of workers to receive the Covid-19 frontline bonus payment; and the way in which submissions can be made...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
211. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to provide funding in the upcoming budget to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes...
- Health Services
214. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an orthopaedic review given their particular circumstances. [10186/22]
- Disabilities Assessments
215. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to an assessment of needs will receive a response; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
216. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of issues (details supplied) relating to the EU Digital COVID Certificate. [10190/22]
- Mental Health Services
217. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of setting up an independent complaints' mechanism for inpatient and outpatient mental health services; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Services
218. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) is on the waiting list for early intervention in Kilkenny; and the current wait time for same. [10192/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
219. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request Beaumont Hospital to expedite an appointment sooner that February 2023 for an urgent referral for a person (details supplies); and if he...
- General Practitioner Services
220. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposal to extend general practitioner visit cards to children over six years of age will be enacted; the date the extension applied from; and the...
- Mental Health Services
221. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons that lodge a complaint in relation to a clinical judgement with the community healthcare west mental health services are not provided with...
- Health Strategies
222. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Women’s Health Action Plan; when he expects the plan to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10211/22]
- Medicinal Products
223. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include treatments for hyperemesis in the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10212/22]
- Mental Health Services
224. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives he is taking to strengthen mental health services in 2022, especially CAMHS; the funding being provided for same; and if he will make a...
- Disease Management
226. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a working group under the auspices of the National Dementia Office and the HSE integrated care programme to determine the service...
- Hospital Staff
228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time psychologists and psychiatrists available in University Hospital Kerry and County Kerry, respectively for adult mental health services;...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
229. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an EU Digital COVID Certificate for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10235/22]
- Abortion Services
230. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to lift the temporary telemedicine provision of abortion pills introduced early in the Covid-19 pandemic given that restrictions are being...
- General Practitioner Services
231. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners can charge patients on the GMS for a repeat prescription. [10266/22]
- Health Services
232. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the recommendations contained in the clinical governance and operational arrangements for supporting a model of care for children with life...
- Vaccination Programme
233. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HPV vaccine doses which expired and were therefore unsuitable for use in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
234. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there has been a cut in services of 75% relative to the care of a person (details supplied); if the full range of services will be restored...
- Health Services Staff
235. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken by his Department to achieve the recommendation to deliver a significant increase in the number of podiatrists dedicated to...
- Disease Management
236. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for improving podiatry services for local people with diabetes in the CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10324/22]
- Health Services Staff
237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff that work in podiatry services for local persons with diabetes in the CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10325/22]
- Primary Care Centres
240. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres nationwide due to be fitted out and completed in 2022; if he will provide further details regarding the future opening of new primary...
- Hospital Appointments Status
241. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if the procedure will be carried out in 2022; if so, in which quarter; and...
- Health Services
242. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent annually on procuring consumable and other equipment related to drug and alcohol prevention and treatment programmes nationwide; and if he...
- Hospital Charges
243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders who have been mistakenly billed for a private medical procedure in each of the past five years; the number of medical card...
- Departmental Bodies
244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the newly established Public Health Reform Expert Advisory Group who have a lived experience of disability; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
245. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been included in the south Kerry CAMHS review. [10357/22]
- Disability Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a respite centre (details supplied) in Listowel has been closed; the timeframe for when this service will be reopened; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
247. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which elective surgeries will recommence at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10363/22]
- Care of the Elderly
249. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of personal budgets for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10366/22]
- Health Service Executive
250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of asset transfers the HSE has engaged in with the Royal College of Surgeons hospital group at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown in the past three...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
251. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to construction contractors by the HSE in respect of large infrastructure projects at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown in the past ten years to...
- Health Services
253. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis of the total cost of cancer treatment has been calculated; if so, the total annual costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10378/22]
- Hospital Services
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer resection surgeries which took place in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ambulance Service
257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private ambulance trips booked by University Hospital Limerick on each day of the week from the 14 to 18 February 2022. [10411/22]
- Food Safety
258. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1200 and 1201 of 2 November 2021, if his Department has communicated with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
- Medicinal Products
260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of antivirals and monoclonal antibody treatments which have been ordered; the schedule for delivery of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Children's Hospital
262. To ask the Minister for Health if private patients will be treated in the new national children’s hospital; if so, the level of clinical space this would represent; and if he will...
- Health Service Executive
263. To ask the Minister for Health the consultancies engaged by the HSE from March 2021 to end of December 2021 in excess of €2 million; the full values of these consultancies in each...
- Registration Certificate
264. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to address the very substantial backlog of birth and death registrations and the great difficulty which the public has in making...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Fisheries Protection
265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Statutory Instrument No. 318 of 2020 was signed in August 2020 to allow the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority to impose penalty...
- Animal Welfare
266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the necessary funding will be provided to Tipperary County Council to employ a full-time horse warden or wardens to ensure the...
- Fur Farming
267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the independent consultant's report into compensation arising from legislation to prohibit fur farming in Ireland;...
- Departmental Reports
271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he expects to publish the wool feasibility study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10385/22]
- Departmental Consultations
272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1200 and 1201 of 2 November 2021, the status of the consultation regarding the growing of...
- Horticulture Sector
273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be implemented to assist the mushroom and horticulture sectors due to the difficulties that have arisen in...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
274. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when work will commence on the 2022 local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10187/22]
- Animal Welfare
275. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an audit has been carried out into dog pounds nationwide; and if there are plans to carry out an audit in the future; and if she...
- Rural Schemes
276. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total number of local improvement scheme projects each local authority had on hand in each of the years from 2016 to 2021 and to...
