Written answers
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the impact of the inclusion of all post-school options in the CAO system; the number of additional applicants there were in 2022...
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé ar an eolas faoin togra atá molta i mBéal Feirste chun foras breisoideachais agus ardoideachais lán-Ghaelach a...
- Technological Universities
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guarantees that can be provided to a college (details supplied) in regard to essential capital funding; if the funding committed by his...
- Further and Higher Education
62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to plans to develop a college campus on the northside of Cork city. [12727/22]
- Cross-Border Co-operation
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals there are to have further engagement with the Department in Northern Ireland in relation to further co-operation in further...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of current and planned apprenticeships; the take-up in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12771/22]
- Research and Development
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the involvement of Irish third-level institutions on joint research projects with their Ukrainian-based counterparts; the impact that the Russian...
- Technological Universities
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism that is in place to deal with human resources legacy issues arising from the amalgamation of the institutes of technology to the...
- Further and Higher Education
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the investment made in public and private higher education as a proportion of national income, GDP and GNI; the way that this compares to other...
- Third Level Education
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support third-level institutions to develop courses to support the quickly growing offshore wind sector and to support the...
- Technological Universities
70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process and timeline for the appointment of the remaining members of the governing authority of the South East Technological University; the...
- Student Accommodation
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed use of the cost rental model for student accommodation. [12711/22]
- Third Level Fees
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his plans in relation to third-level and post-graduate fees; if these fees will be abolished; and if he will make a statement...
- Further and Higher Education
73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made regarding the integration of Carlow College, St. Patrick's, into the higher education system; and if he will make...
- Third Level Costs
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in third-level institutions by institution and reason applying for support under the student assistance fund, in tabular...
- Disadvantaged Status
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the measures that have been taken to support students of DEIS schools to access further and higher education; and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made under apprenticeship commitments in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12768/22]
- Oideachas Tríú Leibhéal
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé na leasuithe atá beartaithe aige ar Bhille an Údaráis um Ard-Oideachas chun a chinntiú go ndéanfar soláthar...
- Third Level Fees
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work to reduce the student contribution charge; his views on the current level of the charge; and if he will make a statement on...
- Third Level Education
79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his strategy to end sexual violence and harassment in third-level education; the funding allocated by institution for this issue in tabular form;...
- Further and Higher Education
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it makes sense to maintain financial or other barriers to accessing all levels of further and higher education and that all...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and planned apprenticeship training to meet the targets of the new national retrofitting scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Further and Higher Education
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made by his Department and SOLAS regarding a new capital development for a college (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship courses available both nationally and in Limerick city and county in 2022; and the work ongoing to support older...
- Third Level Costs
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made under the SUSI grant review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12766/22]
- Apprenticeship Programmes
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that sufficient spaces are available in SOLAS training centres to progress current electrical apprenticeships waitlisted for...
- Further and Higher Education
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's plans to increase higher and further education capacity to train students in facets of ecosystem restoration as a key...
- Third Level Education
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss workers' rights for PHD students studying in Ireland to bring them in line with...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he and his Department have identified particular requirements in terms of apprenticeships or higher qualifications in...
- Research and Development
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will establish a science and technology policy fellowship within the civil service to provide opportunities to scientists and engineers to...
- Special Educational Needs
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way supports for students with disabilities in further and higher education aligns with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to educate and inform students across the third-level sector on the damage domestic violence and harassment can...
- Museum Projects
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of his discussions to date to secure the continued operation of the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Foreign Conflicts
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with third-level education institutions regarding Ukrainian students enrolled in Ireland given the crisis in Ukraine;...
- Third Level Costs
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the independent review of the student grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12368/22]
- Technological Universities
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of delivery of technical university status; the details of same in relation to Dundalk Institute of Technology; and if he will make a...
- Educational Disadvantage
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who are heading one-parent families are a priority group for supports into further and higher education at all levels of education; if...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on new plans for training and apprenticeship places in all trades that are needed to ramp up the supply of housing across the...
- Third Level Admissions
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the factors that influence the availability of college places; the weight that he is giving to the needs of industry, for example, the hospitality...
- Special Educational Needs
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding and progress that has been made under the fund for students with disabilities for the delivery of key services and supports for...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the increase in the number of apprentices and the number of apprenticeships since 2020; the progress of the national apprenticeship scheme...
- Cross-Border Co-operation
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an analysis has been carried out on an all-Ireland basis in relation to skills shortages throughout the island of Ireland; the proposals to...
- Research and Development
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Irish universities are involved in research projects or alliances with Ukrainian universities; if these have been impacted by the Russian...
- Irish Language
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he proposes to promote the use of the Irish language in further and higher education institutions. [12710/22]
- Apprenticeship Programmes
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the take-up of the new employer grant for apprenticeships introduced in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Further and Higher Education
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his plans to support and subsidise further education students to ensure that poverty does not deter them from continuing their...
- Third Level Staff
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current employment control framework; and if he will...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an update will be provided on which local authorities offer apprenticeship programmes; if there are plans to support the expansion of the...
- Student Accommodation
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current plans for student accommodation are providing affordable accommodation for third-level students; and if he will...
- Further and Higher Education
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned capital allocation for Cavan Institute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12760/22]
- Third Level Costs
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the SUSI review will be published; when he plans to implement the recommendations from the review; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Third Level Staff
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work by his Department on reducing the issue of precarity of employment in the higher education sector. [12851/22]
- Further and Higher Education
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of postgraduates with a higher than average qualification currently available throughout the country; the extent to which such...
- Third Level Education
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that he has taken to implement the key recommendations of the surveys of experiences of sexual violence and harassment in higher...
- Further and Higher Education
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 503 of 8 February 2022, if the review by the expert panel on the further education and training model has...
- Medical Research and Training
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in determining the longer-term skills needs of the healthcare services; the role which the further and higher...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the establishment of a campus in Kilkenny to provide a national centre for apprenticeships as part of the new South East...
- Research and Development
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made regarding the development of the next national research and innovation strategy; the timeline for same; and if he...
- Further and Higher Education
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his strategy to broaden access to further and higher education to traditionally less well represented groups; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- European Council
126. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. [12183/22]
- Census of Population
127. To ask the Taoiseach the criteria used for employing the census enumerators; the way that the enumerators were picked; and the way that a decision made in circumstances in which a person...
- Protected Disclosures
128. To ask the Taoiseach the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an external contractor has been...
- Cabinet Committees
129. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which each Cabinet Committee (details supplied) met from June 2020 to date inclusive [13114/22]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Commemorative Events
130. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if correspondence from a person (details supplied) has been received; if a response will issue in advance of the ceremony of...
- Departmental Staff
131. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Legislative Measures
132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the process by which retired workers will be included in the proposed the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension...
- Redundancy Payments
133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a matter and the mechanism that may be available to expedite cases (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Protected Disclosures
134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Conservation
135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the retrofit work will be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electricity Grid
137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request that Eirgrid submit updates regarding grid reinforcement projects to be laid before the Houses of...
- EU Directives
138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 2 November 2021, if he or his officials have had further engagements with...
- Energy Conservation
140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a SEAI grant assistance application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a...
- Energy Prices
141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if service providers can be mandated to put the €200 against forthcoming direct debits and not withheld from a...
- Departmental Staff
142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest...
- Wind Energy Generation
143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered bringing forward a ring-fenced auction specifically for floating offshore wind energy; and if he...
- Postal Services
146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 3 March 2021, if he will inform An Post that the issue has not been...
- Energy Conservation
147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of grant aid available for installation of solar panels on the roofs of domestic residences; and if he will...
- Energy Policy
148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the fact that the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has not carried out a risk assessment or an...
- Postal Services
152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of recommendations from the 2016 Kerr Report that have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on...
- Environmental Policy
154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to address the rising use of plastic in supermarkets and in food packaging; and if he will make...
- Energy Conservation
156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the efficiency of the warmer homes scheme process considering that works have not been carried out on an...
- Renewable Energy Generation
157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that his Department is assisting communities to develop community-owned renewable energy projects; the number...
- Energy Infrastructure
160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if deliveries of Russian coal to Moneypoint power station have been disrupted due to of European Union sanctions on...
- Protected Disclosures
161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022,...
- Climate Action Plan
162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total amount of funding committed and drawn down under the Climate Action Fund for each successful project; the...
- Energy Prices
163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the ongoing delaying in the disbursement of the energy credit; the date that the credit will be paid to...
- Energy Production
164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the context in which he wrote to An Bord Pleanála regarding the liquefied natural gas proposals at Tarbert, County...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Test
165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driver test in each centre nationwide; the average waiting time in tabular form; and if he will make...
- Bus Services
166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has agreed to a request to meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Transport
169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the 20% reduction in passenger fares on public service obligation routes to all scheduled service operators; and if he...
- Airport Policy
172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that Government funding to the City of Derry Airport is restored as soon as possible given the high percentage of...
- Economic Sanctions
173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish aircraft leasing companies are still permitted to lease aircraft to Russian companies and or persons; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to extend the Transport for Ireland 90-minute fare to Sallins; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12400/22]
- Road Projects
175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Knockcroghery by-pass on the N61 has been shelved until at least 2026 given the dramatic impact it will have on improving...
- National Transport Authority
176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Cork office for the National Transport Authority has been established; the location in which staff employed to work in the office...
- Driver Test
177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time period to sit a driver test by county driving test centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12456/22]
- Departmental Staff
178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Vehicle Registration Tax
179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the motor tax offices in Dublin will reopen for a walk-in service [12512/22]
- Public Transport
180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence (details supplied) regarding the lack of rural transport in County Monaghan; his views on this matter;...
- Driver Licences
181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence renewal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12615/22]
- Cycling Facilities
182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific funding that is being made available by his Department to local authorities along the EuroVelo Atlantic coast cycling route;...
- EU Agreements
183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person who is entitled to free transport in Ireland is eligible to avail of similar type schemes in the European Union (details...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); his engagements with Transport Infrastructure Ireland on this...
- Driver Licences
185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bids received for the most recent driver licence service contract; the value of the contract; if the number of offices...
- Transport Policy
186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the modelling used to develop the Connecting Ireland rural transport plan; the number of scenarios that were examined in preparation of...
- Electric Vehicles
187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he intends to accelerate the roll-out of electric vehicle charging points; the estimated number of EV public and on-street...
- Greenways Provision
190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce greenway and cycling wardens to greenways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12943/22]
- Driver Test
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and length of time of persons are waiting for a driving test in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Driver Licences
192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver licence renewal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13018/22]
- Taxi Licences
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reviewed the position on the transferability of taxi plates in view of the changed circumstances for many drivers as a result...
- Protected Disclosures
195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if...
- Maritime Safety
196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the German equivalent of the Marine Survey Office was in breach of European Union maritime safety regulations when it issued ongoing...
- Driver Licences
197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons aged 70 years of age or over are still entitled to renew their driving licence free of charge; and if he will make a statement...
- Bus Services
198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of antisocial incidents on Dublin Bus by individual bus routes and by month in each of the past two years that did not result...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Data
199. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual expenditure from the Revenue Commissioners towards additional healthcare expenses for a child from 2017-2021; the average annual relief claimed for...
- Tax Code
200. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is illegal for energy providers to charge both carbon tax and VAT on energy bills given that this amounts to a double taxation; and if he will make a...
- Banking Sector
201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take steps to protect the assets of thousands of customers of a bank (details supplied) who are being forced by the bank to liquidate their...
- Departmental Staff
202. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by...
- Primary Medical Certificates
203. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12518/22]
- Economic Sanctions
204. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Irish director of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development will be seeking the imposition by the bank of sanctions against Russia; and if he...
- Primary Medical Certificates
206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12668/22]
- Economic Sanctions
207. To ask the Minister for Finance if financial sanctions in respect of Russian interests make provision for the freezing and or interruption of cybercurrencies. [12922/22]
- Fuel Prices
208. To ask the Minister for Finance if potential measures are being examined to protect and or reduce the financial burden of increasing petrol and diesel prices, in particular for those that...
- Tax Data
209. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the various taxes and levies charged by the State on one litre of petrol and one litre diesel in tabular form by each fuel type; and if he...
- Protected Disclosures
211. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an external...
- Tax Code
212. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 22 February 2022, if the home renovation incentive will be reinstated and extended to cover works carried out...
- Credit Unions
213. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit unions which have closed and or amalgamated with other credit unions since 1 January 2010 annually; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Staff
215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider allowing private healthcare operators including pharmacies to make a tax-free payment to staff on a once-off basis...
- Flood Risk Management
217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a case of river erosion at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Office of Public Works
218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an issue raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding land in the ownership of the OPW will be addressed; and if...
- Departmental Expenditure
219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average renumeration paid to an independent chairperson of an expert advisory group; and the factors influencing determination of an...
- Voluntary Sector
221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or another Department require that a voluntary or non-executive director of any charitable organisation or company...
- Protected Disclosures
222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form;...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Staff
223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff currently employed by her Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Sports Funding
224. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a club (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12590/22]
- Tourism Promotion
225. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of online influencers and media personalities used by Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland in...
- Sports Funding
226. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason there is a delay in releasing funds under the 2018 Sports Capital Programme to a club (details supplied); and if she...
- Tourism Promotion
227. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a funding stream available to run a tourist office independent to Failte Ireland (details supplied); and if she will...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
228. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé atá ag riar an athbhreithnithe ar struchtúr Údaráis na Gaeltachta; ar éirigh leis an Roinn...
- Protected Disclosures
229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
- Census of Population
230. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans for the early release of the 1926 census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13116/22]
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Harbours and Piers
231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the restrictions forced on the fishers who use Magheraroarty Pier, Magheraroarty,...
- Energy Conservation
232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to updating the dwelling energy assessment procedure modelling software to reflect the...
- Planning Issues
233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules and procedures for Ministers making representations in regard to planning decisions in areas of policy for which...
- Housing Schemes
234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the carer’s allowance is being considered as part of the income of a...
- Approved Housing Bodies
235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount provided to each approved housing body through the Housing Finance Agency in the past ten years to date; and the...
- Housing Policy
237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is monitoring the price of starter homes in Dublin city; if he is satisfied that the ceiling of house prices for local...
- Planning Issues
239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of the cases in which imperative reasons of overriding public interest were invoked for...
- Housing Schemes
240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the funding that his Department makes available to local authorities for persons with disabilities and...
- Special Areas of Conservation
241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove the SAC designation for Lough Funshinagh Turlough in County Roscommon given the devastating environmental...
- Hare Coursing
242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the investigation by the National Parks and Wildlife Service into the Loughrea coursing meeting held in...
- Animal Diseases
243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new cases of RHDv2 in rabbits and hares notified to the National Parks and Wildlife Service since cases were...
- Departmental Staff
244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid...
- Housing Schemes
245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority home loan scheme applications that were received from Westmeath County Council for 2020, 2021...
- Vacant Properties
247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 25 January 2022, when all vacant homes officers will be full-time officers; the...
- Water Supply
248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation in Ratoath, County Meath in which a large supply of houses cannot be released...
- Water Quality
249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of days in each of the past five years for which boil water notices were in place in Navan, Trim, Kells, Ratoath,...
- Housing Schemes
252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Croí Conaithe scheme will be open to applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12539/22]
- Defective Building Materials
253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the publication date of the report by the Independent Working Group on Defective Homes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Schemes
254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of preferences expressed by applicants for social housing in Fingal, County Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Natural Resources
257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided to local authorities regarding hedgerow surveys to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Provision
259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable housing in Cork city and county; and the expected allocation date...
- Architectural Heritage
261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in relation to a building (details supplied); if the building has been damaged; if the roof is damaged; if so,...
- Rental Sector
262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if rent pressure zone legislation will be retained for a definitive duration; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Wildlife Protection
263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will release the National Parks & Wildlife Service report into the works carried out in the basement of Emo Court in...
- Ferry Services
264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to sign a licence for a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12862/22]
- Traveller Accommodation
265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on Traveller accommodation in 2021 by each local authority. [12928/22]
- Vacant Properties
266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most up-to-date compulsory purchase order limits for local authorities to purchase vacant housing units; and if he will...
- Property Registration
267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assistance will be provided in relation to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13041/22]
- Protected Disclosures
268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
- Legislative Measures
269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the legislation governing strategic policy committees, known as corporate policy groups, within local...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Peace Commissioners
271. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures that a peace commissioner can take to establish the reason that their signature was refused by a Government body (details...
- Citizenship Applications
272. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of citizenship applications by persons (details supplied); the progress of same since they were lodged in 2020; and if he will...
- Passport Services
273. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details enclosed) will be examined and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Foreign Conflicts
278. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that can be taken to facilitate Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine and who are not in possession of an international passport; and if he...
- Passport Services
279. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Passport Office to have a passport application cancelled (details supplied) and the documents and fee returned to the...
- Foreign Conflicts
282. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the advice that his Department is providing to hauliers bringing aid to Ukraine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Foreign Birth Registration
283. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on processing times for applications for the foreign births register; the current number of applications that...
- Departmental Staff
284. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Passport Services
285. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of first-time passport applications still outstanding; and his plans to employ more staff to alleviate the backlog. [12514/22]
- Foreign Conflicts
292. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give guidance to persons wishing to donate privately for humanitarian relief in Ukraine; if a list of suitable aid organisations...
- Passport Services
295. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in time for their travel plans considering that it is a renewal application received...
- Election Monitoring Missions
296. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider sending a large delegation of experienced and trained election observers to observe the elections in Hungary in April...
- Passport Services
297. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport can be returned to facilitate booked travel at the end of March 2022 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
- Foreign Conflicts
300. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the avenues available for persons living in Ireland to donate medical supplies, namely insulin to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement...
- Protected Disclosures
305. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an...
- Diplomatic Representation
306. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomatic and officials passports reported as lost and or stolen in the past 25 years to date in 2022; and the number of...
- Passport Services
307. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued to persons under fraudulent means in the past 25 years to date; and the number of those passports that...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Staff
308. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively,...
- Emergency Services
309. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the protocols, including weather, in relation to the request by first responders for Rescue 112 to attend a medical emergency on land by night....
- Protected Disclosures
310. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Staff
311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the sick leave taken in the current academic year can be restored to a teacher (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion has met with the parents of children attending a school (details supplied) regarding...
- School Facilities
314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite funding for the construction of a sports hall at a school (details supplied). [12380/22]
- School Funding
315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to both primary and secondary schools in County Cork in each of the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form;...
- Disadvantaged Status
316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to DEIS schools in Cork city and county in each of the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she...
- Special Educational Needs
317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications from primary schools and post-primary schools for special classes that have been refused in each of the years 2018 to...
- School Textbooks
318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review into the pilot for the free school books scheme will commence; the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the diagnosed disabilities and or medical conditions which need to be confirmed in order for assistive technology to be provided to primary...
- School Staff
320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the potential staff shortages created by requiring trainee teachers to withdraw from working as substitute teachers in order to...
- Special Educational Needs
322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review by her Department of the policy on reading classes and schools; and when these findings along with relevant...
- Departmental Staff
323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff currently employed by her Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively,...
- School Staff
324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a case (details supplied); the status of the talks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12494/22]
- School Accommodation
325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if the application will be examined under the additional accommodation scheme; if...
- School Curriculum
326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of schools that offer computer science as a leaving certificate subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12540/22]
- School Transport
328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of submissions that were received on the public consultation on school transport by county in tabular form. [12579/22]
- Departmental Contracts
329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an offer of acceptance has been received in her Department for a project (details supplied). [12580/22]
- Schools Building Projects
331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building project tenders that have changed in costings due to cost of material changes; and the average percentage change of...
- State Examinations
333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the alternate sitting of the leaving certificate examinations in 2022; if the categories of serious illness have been finalised; if...
- Special Educational Needs
334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have appealed their SNA allocation by county in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [12641/22]
- School Transport
336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided on a matter regarding school transport for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12647/22]
- School Accommodation
338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if same will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12654/22]
- School Transport
339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the steering group will be issuing its next interim report on the review of school transport; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Teaching Qualifications
342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application by a person (details supplied) under circular 0063/2021 will be dealt with to recognise the qualification obtained by the...
- Schools Building Projects
343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; the date in which her Department foresees the...
- School Accommodation
344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual amounts paid to third parties for the rental of properties for school accommodation from 2010 to date broken down by county, year and...
- Residential Institutions
345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 15 February 2022, the members of the survivor-led consultative forum; the person that chairs this...
- Teaching Qualifications
346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been a change in the post-qualification employment requirement to have 200 hours teaching experience for a teacher to be recognised;...
- Residential Institutions
347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications that were received by survivors of industrial and reformatory schools for redress under Caranua; the number of these...
- School Enrolments
350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidance that is given to secondary schools with regard to the charging of non-refundable enrolment and entrance exam fees to secure a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the latest guidance supplied to her Department regarding the wearing of facemasks in primary and post-primary...
- Special Educational Needs
353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on the review of a special needs assistant allocation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
- Protected Disclosures
355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an...
- Special Educational Needs
356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the issues outlined will be addressed; and if she will...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- State Pensions
360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the contribution history of a person (details supplied) will be provided; and if their contributions will entitle them to...
- EU Directives
361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of employees whose pensions will be impacted by the European Union institutions for occupational...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the dental benefit scheme will be accepted. [12366/22]
- Civil Registration Service
363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to bring forward the bill overhauling civil registrations; and if there are plans to include provision for a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for fuel allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
- Departmental Staff
365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff currently employed by her Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if hearing aids are covered for a person (details supplied) given they have a full medical card; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Payments
367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) for the fuel allowance will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Appeals
370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will issue in relation to an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons are still being referred to JobPath. [13014/22]
- Social Welfare Benefits
373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is on jobseeker’s benefit who is engaged in a Springboard course can be obliged to take up a job...
- Social Welfare Appeals
374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s benefit review in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Protected Disclosures
375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
- Social Welfare Schemes
376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position for those covered by the free travel scheme when their free travel cards expire; if a grace period of three to...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- International Protection
377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants that have been referred to vulnerability assessment processes...
- Asylum Seekers
378. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Department that will lead on engagement with Ukrainian refugees; and the way in which persons who are...
- Direct Provision System
379. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons and families who have been resident in direct provision centres in County Wexford from...
- Asylum Seekers
380. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent of supports that his Department will provide to displaced Ukrainian refugees who travel to Ireland as...
- Childcare Services
381. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of their difficulties securing...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
382. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to implement the recommendations made by the Ombudsman for Children to review the Disability Act 2005;...
- Departmental Schemes
384. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is considering the inclusion of Ukrainian nationals in the community sponsorship scheme. [12416/22]
- Direct Provision System
385. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the pledges that have yet to be implemented in the white paper on ending direct provision; if he...
- Departmental Staff
386. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second...
- Departmental Correspondence
387. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the correspondence he has had with a project (details supplied). [12515/22]
- Family Resource Centres
388. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a matter regarding resources for a family resource centre (details supplied) in County Monaghan;...
- Youth Services
389. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that TUSLA provide to young adults leaving foster care to secure their own accommodation; and if he...
- Child and Family Agency
390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies for social work positions that TUSLA currently has available; the steps that are being...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine a matter raised in correspondence regarding the ECCE (details supplied);; and if he will make...
- Domestic Violence
392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the business case which his Department submitted to Tusla in 2021 to ensure...
- Childcare Services
393. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently review the need of a centre (details supplied) to expand its childcare services to cater for...
- Domestic Violence
394. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a commitment will be made to a full national review of pay and conditions for staff in women and children's...
- International Protection
396. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the vulnerability assessment process for linking international protection applicants to healthcare services and...
- Asylum Seekers
398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken by his Department to support the reception and accommodation of persons from Ukraine...
- Children in Care
399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in care on their third placement or more by Tusla area office. [12921/22]
- National Youth Assembly
400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of delegates that will be nominated by each of the established Youth Organisations at the Youth...
- Family Resource Centres
401. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the core funding available to family resource centres to allow them to expand their...
- Protected Disclosures
403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in...
- Residential Institutions
404. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the context in which he made representations against planning proposals in Bessborough, County Cork; and if he...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Technological Universities
405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the delivery of technical university status; the details in relation to Dundalk Institute of Technology; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively,...
- Further and Higher Education
408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a pension review for a person (details supplied); if clarity will be provided on the matter given that the person has not received...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the recent increase in the number of apprentices; and the number of apprenticeships being offered and being taken up by...
- Third Level Costs
411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current maximum income allowed for a household for a new SUSI applicant; if the applicants income is taken into consideration; and if he will...
- Further and Higher Education
412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regular weekly supports that are available for a person (details supplied). [12662/22]
- Third Level Education
413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of Russian investment in the Irish University sector; the source of this investment; the steps if any he intends to take with respect...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new employer apprentice grant will be available to local authorities as employers further to correspondence (details supplied); and if he...
- Third Level Costs
415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 8 February 2022, when the SUSI review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Third Level Education
416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the participation rates of students in recipient of SUSI on the Erasmus+ programme in each of the years 2016 to 2019. [12906/22]
- Ministerial Staff
417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisors to Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department in 2020 and 2021, broken down by...
- Third Level Costs
418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the SUSI income thresholds for 2022-2023 were raised by €1,000 across all bands including for the special rate band which...
- Technological Universities
419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his nominees to the board of South East Technological University will participate and play an active role in the ongoing process to deliver a...
- Commissions of Investigation
421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date;...
- Protected Disclosures
422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an...
- Further and Higher Education
423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which extra provision is being made to extend and expand third and fourth-level education with particular reference to the ongoing...
- Third Level Education
426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure continued access to third-level for all students seeking to avail of third-level education; and if he will make a statement...
- Further and Higher Education
427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has put in place to specifically target the areas of key demand in the economy with particular reference to science, ICT and...
- Special Educational Needs
433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place to assist persons with disabilities to transition from second-level education to third-level education or employment; and...
- Third Level Education
436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide funding for the education at third-level of optometrists at a college other than the Technological University of Dublin if...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Departmental Schemes
437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications made to the immigrant investor programme by Russian citizens in each of the years from 2019 to 2022;...
- Visa Agreements
438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will waive visa requirements for Ukrainian nationals leaving Ukraine that seek to enter this State; and if she will make...
- International Protection
439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that persons who are in Ukraine who are not Ukrainian nationals regardless of their legal status in Ukraine...
- An Garda Síochána
440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rank and file positions that remain unfilled in County Louth within An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Staff
441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff currently employed by her Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid...
- Peace Commissioners
442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that a person (details supplied) should take in order to become a peace commissioner; and if she will make a...
- An Garda Síochána
443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on works planned for a Garda station (details supplied); the stage the works are at; the works...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that she has taken regarding the implementation of action 15 equality and choice in the National Disability Inclusion...
- Departmental Correspondence
446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a response will issue to this Deputy's letter dated 26 October 2021 on behalf of a person (details supplied); the reason...
- Domestic Violence
447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a program will be put in place to provide additional educational programmes to services that deal with the complexities of...
- Naturalisation Applications
448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made in relation to an application for naturalisation lodged by a person (details supplied) in view of...
- An Garda Síochána
449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the purpose of the email address blueblindfold@garda.ie; and the date upon which the account was set up. [12691/22]
- Alcohol Sales
452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the results of the Open Consultation on the Review of Alcohol Licensing which closed at the end of...
- Prison Service
453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 595 and 596 of 1 March 2022, if she will instruct the Irish Prison Service to record...
- Crime Prevention
454. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the actions contained in the Hamilton Review Group Report; and if she will make a statement on...
- Residency Permits
455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Covid-19 related immigration permissions will be treated as reckonable residency for the purposes of long-term residency...
- Citizenship Applications
456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when a...
- Legislative Reviews
457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the review of the Defamation Act 2009 and prepare new legislation based on its recommendations; and if...
- Protected Disclosures
458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
- Wards of Court
459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children in State care who on turning 18 years of age were made wards of court since 2015. [13101/22]
- Deportation Orders
460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will give a commitment to temporarily suspend all pending deportation orders to Ukrainian and Belarussian citizens in...
- Travel Documents
461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing time for travel documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13135/22]
- Department of Health
- Hospital Facilities
462. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the fifth theatre at Children's Health Ireland, Temple Street Children's University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Equipment
464. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new Children's Health Ireland MRI and associated staffing, works and leasing arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Procurement Contracts
465. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline further details of a tender (details supplied) valued at €1.5 million which is part of his paediatric orthopaedics plan; and if he...
- Hospital Facilities
466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline further details of the radiology outsourcing valued at €0.64 million which is part of his paediatric orthopaedics plan; and if he...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
467. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 24 February 2022, if the waiting list fund funded measures in his paediatric orthopaedic plan were funded from...
- Hospital Charges
468. To ask the Minister for Health the amount recovered through the use of debt collectors and or debt collection agencies in respect of the collection of fees and charges on patients attending...
- Residential Institutions
469. To ask the Minister for Health if Carlow County Council handed over its records for the former Carlow Mother and Baby Home and Carlow Maternity Hospital also known as Sacred Heart Home to...
- Hospital Appointments Status
470. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12330/22]
- Nursing Homes
471. To ask the Minister for Health the indicative timeline for the commencement of the plan to exempt rental income from the fair deal nursing home scheme which will increase the supply of...
- Eating Disorders
472. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all supports and services will be in place and will be made available to assist persons who are suffering from eating disorders (details...
- Hospital Appointments Status
473. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12333/22]
- Patient Files
474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide further details regarding the timeline surrounding in relation to an informed consent model of care (details supplied) given it is currently...
- Hospital Appointments Status
475. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12340/22]
- Substance Misuse
476. To ask the Minister for Health further to the advice from NPHET on the removal of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions from 28 February 2022, if the Keltoi residential addiction unit, St....
- Disease Management
478. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department has taken to establish a working group under the joint auspices of the National Dementia Office and the Integrated Care Programme;...
- Primary Care Centres
479. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary health care centre in a location (details supplied) for the residents of Rathcoole, Newcastle, Saggart and Brittas to...
- Mental Health Services
480. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand counselling in primary care to children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12360/22]
- Primary Care Services
481. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a chronic disease service within primary care in mid-west areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12361/22]
- Health Services
484. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a family (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12364/22]
- Hospital Staff
485. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for 100 extra neurology nurse specialists across Ireland which includes 10 extra nurses for St....
- Medicinal Products
486. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make available at home treatments for the immunocompromised such as molnupiravir and pazlovid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12367/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
487. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the bonus payment to front-line health workers; and the progress made with regard to determining eligibility. [12372/22]
- Primary Care Services
488. To ask the Minister for Health if the community paediatric ophthalmology waiting list initiative at the Grangegorman primary care centre (details supplied) will be expanded to other CHO...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that Covid-19 travel regulations will be applied with flexibility for those coming from Ukraine to avoid them being a barrier to travel to...
- Health Services Staff
490. To ask the Minister for Health when a vacancy will be filled for a service (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12402/22]
- Disabilities Assessments
492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an assessment of need in each of the CHO areas of Cork city and county in each of the years 2015 to 2021; the average waiting...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
493. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a plan in place to allow unvaccinated HSE paramedics to return to work. [12413/22]
- Health Services
495. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding allocated to the ophthalmology paediatric eye pathway for children requiring further assessment after childhood health screening; the...
- Vaccination Programme
496. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding children in south County Louth having to travel to Northern...
- Legislative Reviews
497. To ask the Minister for Health the way that interested applicants could be expected to have the opportunity to apply for the position of chair of the three-year review of the 2018 abortion...
- National Maternity Hospital
499. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the latest information regarding the governance and the location of the national maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Staff
500. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his engagements in relation to funding the appointment of clinical psychologists for each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; and if...
- Health Services Staff
501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a diabetes psychology resource to each community diabetes specialist team hub under the integrated model of care for the prevention and...
- Hospital Staff
502. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a 0.5 whole-time equivalent clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes paediatric diabetes team; the reason...
- Medical Cards
504. To ask the Minister for Health when the national medical card email address for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to make direct queries will become operational again; and if he will...
- Health Services
505. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 379 of 4 November 2021, if he will detail his engagements regarding the decision by a body (details supplied) to invite...
- Dental Services
506. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the waiting list for orthodontic appointments for children in County Kerry given the waiting list is presently between 3.5 to 5.5 years; and if he...
- Hospital Appointments Status
508. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to be called for surgery in the Mater Hospital. [12466/22]
- Departmental Staff
509. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons respectively, employed by...
- Disability Services
510. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for access to services following initial assessment by speech and language services in County Roscommon; if children are placed on a further...
- Disease Management
511. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establish a working group under the joint auspices of the National Dementia Office and the Integrated Care Programme to...
- Clinical Trials
515. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to building further links with an association (details supplied) in order to integrate Ireland’s participation in...
- Disease Management
516. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a review of the way that Huntington’s disease is included in national strategies in view of the disease being a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
518. To ask the Minister for Health the direction that has been given to maternity hospitals in relation to the admittance of fathers and birthing partners to labour wards for the full length of...
- Eating Disorders
519. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of each eating disorder mini hub team by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12519/22]
- Mental Health Services
525. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed out-of-hours crisis café for mental health will have the option of self-referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12525/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
528. To ask the Minister for Health if hearing aids are covered for a person (details supplied) given they have a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12537/22]
- Nursing Homes
529. To ask the Minister for Health the current usage of Birr nursing home; and plans that are in place for optimal capacity to be utilised. [12547/22]
- Eating Disorders
530. To ask the Minister for Health if provision has been made for an increased dietetic service for Wexford child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Appointments Status
533. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent cataract appointment at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
- Mental Health Services
534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include all north Kerry child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, families in the upcoming audit of north Kerry CAMHS cases, as opposed to...
- Medicinal Products
539. To ask the Minister for Health the way capacity challenges at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics can be addressed to avoid significant delays in the evaluation process of oncology...
- Health Services
545. To ask the Minister for Health his position with regard to the business case submission by an organisation (details supplied) seeking investment for additional staff and capital investment...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes aged 18 years and over who are waiting on a first appointment to the outpatient diabetes clinic in Cork University...
- Hospital Services
551. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes aged 18 years and over who were admitted through the emergency or medical assessment units of any South/Southwest Hospital...
- Health Services
554. To ask the Minister for Health when an updated green folder incorporating the relevant documentation for the wedding on 16 July 2022 of persons will be furnished in the case of a person...
- Abortion Services
555. To ask the Minister for Health if the latest announcement from the British Government that it will soon end telemedicine abortion will inform Irish public policy on this issue given the HSE...
- Healthcare Policy
556. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recent report (details supplied) published by the World Health Organisation; if there are plans to implement the recommendations of the report;...
- Health Services
557. To ask the Minister for Health if additional care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12646/22]
- Disability Services
558. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of occupational therapy and physiotherapy appointments for them; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
559. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be made to a full national review of pay and conditions for staff in women and children's refuges across the country given refuge staff...
- Ambulance Service
561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, that there was more than one ambulance backed up at the emergency department of Letterkenny...
- Medicinal Products
562. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medicine (details supplied) is not covered on the drugs payment scheme; when this application will be covered by the scheme; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
563. To ask the Minister for Health when in-person psychiatric outpatient appointments will resume with HSE psychiatrists in counties Meath, Westmeath and Louth in view of the fact that only...
- Medicinal Products
564. To ask the Minister for Health if the Therapeutics Advisory Group is reviewing a product (details supplied); if he expects this monoclonal antibody treatment to be added to the agreed list...
- Dental Services
566. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of restoring dental screening services for children in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12689/22]
- Mental Health Services
567. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include families (details supplied) in the north Kerry CAMHS audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12697/22]
- Health Services
568. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to improve the provision of chiropody services for older medical card holders in the Dublin 9 and 11 areas; and if he will make a...
- Disability Services
569. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on plans to expand respite services for adults in daycare in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12699/22]
- Emergency Departments
572. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over and under 75 years of age who presented at an emergency department who spent more than 24 hours waiting for a hospital bed in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 75 years of age on acute hospital inpatient and outpatient waiting lists by wait time band in February 2022; and if he will make a...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims made to the CervicalCheck Tribunal to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12717/22]
- Health Services
575. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for CHO services by speciality and service that is, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy...
- Ambulance Service
577. To ask the Minister for Health the National Ambulance response times for DELTA and ECHO callouts relative to relevant HIQA standards for January and February 2022; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Staff
578. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved consultant posts and the basis on which they are filled by speciality and tenure as per the doctors' integrated management E-system; the...
- Hospital Overcrowding
579. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges and bed days lost in January and February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12722/22]
- Dental Services
580. To ask the Minister for Health the status of school dental screening by service area; the extent to which services are behind schedule; the number of service areas which are operating a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
581. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes that applied for the special measures for safe visiting, temporary assistance payment scheme announced by him in December 2021; the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
582. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis on health waiting lists for assessment, treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12732/22]
- Hospital Facilities
584. To ask the Minister for Health the available and funded theatre capacity and theatre time and beds at Crumlin, Temple Street and Cappagh Hospitals up to year end 2021, broken down by...
- Hospital Equipment
586. To ask the Minister for Health the funded and available MRI capacity for paediatric orthopaedics up to the year end 2021 [12736/22]
- Hospital Services
588. To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends to expand and reconfigure outpatient cases and additional active clinical triage for paediatric orthopaedics; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Facilities
589. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of paediatric orthopaedic theatre time and beds will be protected for children with scoliosis and spina bifida for 2022; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
590. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all additional revenue funding made available for paediatric orthopaedic care for 2022, in tabular form by permanent or baseline funding or...
- Hospital Facilities
591. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all funded and available intensive care unit beds for paediatric orthopaedics up to the year end 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Staff
594. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of overtime in hours and amounts claimed in the health services across health and social care provided and funded by the HSE for the years...
- Health Services
597. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all services outsourced by the HSE to non-HSE hospitals or service providers across primary, community and acute care to provide healthcare...
- Health Service Executive
600. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the capacity reviews commissioned or put in place by the HSE since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12807/22]
- Health Services Staff
601. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the workforce planning strategies commissioned or put in place by the HSE since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Official Engagements
602. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the full cost of travel and attendance at international conferences abroad attended by either the Minister, Department officials and staff or...
- Hospital Facilities
603. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of fully funded acute hospital in-patient beds at the end of year 2005 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
606. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of children on waiting lists for grommet insertions by wait times 0-1, 1-3, 3-6, 6-9, 9-12 months over a year and two years by CHO...
- Cybersecurity Policy
607. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the additional measures put in place or planned measures to be put in place by his Department and the HSE in relation to cyber security; and...
- Hospital Facilities
608. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of surgical theatres in public hospitals by hospital group and hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12815/22]
- Hospital Services
610. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of diagnostic tests and examinations carried out by the HSE in each of the years 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Dental Services
612. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of dentists working in the public system in each of the years 2005 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Staff
615. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of whole-time equivalent surgeons employed in public hospitals by hospital group, hospital and speciality; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
616. To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue and capital funding provided for each level 4 hospital in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by revenue and by capital...
- Emergency Departments
617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting over 12 hours in an emergency department in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by hospital group and hospital;...
- Hospital Services
621. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of elective and non-elective procedures cancelled in acute hospitals in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by hospital group...
- Hospital Staff
626. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of staff employed at each level 4 hospital by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12833/22]
- Hospital Facilities
627. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of acute inpatient beds occupied in public hospitals in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by hospital group and by hospital;...
- Hospital Services
629. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of purchasing care for public patients in private hospitals in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by private hospital; and if...
- General Practitioner Services
633. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons in 2021 eligible for free general practitioner care paid for by the State; the total cost; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychology, occupational therapy and dietician appointments that have taken place in the past year from the early intervention service in...
- Alcohol Sales
642. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeframe for the completion of the relevant draft regulations with regard to section 12 and 13 of the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018 including...
- Hospital Services
643. To ask the Minister for Health if surgery is available through the HSE to treat adhesive capsulitis in the case of a person (details supplied); and if so, the average wait time for receiving...
- Mental Health Services
644. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 9 February 2022, the amount of the lower bid placed on a property (details supplied) that the HSE surpassed to...
- Health Services
646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide estimates of the cost of cancer care, including screening and treatment to the HSE each year since 2016; if he will provide a breakdown of...
- Hospital Staff
648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the recruitment and provision of neurology nurse specialists in Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new service users engaged with the Cork PrEP service every month between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021. [12880/22]
- Hospital Staff
652. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by an association (details supplied) which is seeking an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists across...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
654. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting a neurology outpatient appointment in the Mater Misericordiae University. [12903/22]
- Hospital Staff
655. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether investing in neurology nurses is a cost-efficient way of improving the efficiency of outpatient clinics, reducing waiting times and...
- Eating Disorders
656. To ask the Minister for Health the workforce plan for specialist eating disorder teams including recruitment and retention of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12914/22]
- Mental Health Services
657. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore the 30% pay cut that was imposed on consultant psychiatrics in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12915/22]
- Eating Disorders
658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed plan for increasing adult eating disorder beds; the locations they will be based; when they will be expected to be in place; and...
- Health Services Staff
659. To ask the Minister for Health the terms of reference of the Cross Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12917/22]
- Dental Services
660. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of primary school dental services for each service area; the waiting times and availability of dentists visiting primary schools in...
- Health Services Staff
662. To ask the Minister for Health if agency staff are excluded from eligibility for application to temporary HSE roles; if it is national policy that agency staff are not eligible for temporary...
- Dental Services
664. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he has taken in the context of the 2022 HSE service plan to support medical card holders to access dental care; if his attention has been drawn...
- Health Services
666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of free contraception for 17 to 25-year-olds; when it will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12939/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
667. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for orthopaedic surgery in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly. [12940/22]
- Medicinal Products
668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the increased dosage of 40mg to 80mg of humira per week for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12946/22]
- Home Care Packages
669. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the homecare needs of persons with dementia to allow them to remain in their home considering the impact transition to care...
- Public Procurement Contracts
670. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 16 February 2022, the current position in relation to the tender process (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Nursing Homes
671. To ask the Minister for Health the purposes of the nursing home support scheme; if the assessment for farms is based on the asset value of the farm, income from the farm or both; the way...
- Home Care Packages
672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the report on the HSE internal review of home support services in Wexford that was completed in November 2021. [12965/22]
- Disabilities Assessments
674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an ASD assessment in County Wexford; the average waiting in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12967/22]
- Mental Health Services
675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychology posts or whole-time equivalent posts that are allocated in County Wexford; the number of these posts that are vacant; the length of...
- Disability Services
676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for speech and language therapy by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [12972/22]
- Health Services
677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for physiotherapy by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [12973/22]
- Home Care Packages
678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for homecare packages; the number of persons experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay accessing...
- Disabilities Assessments
681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [12977/22]
- Health Services
682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for ophthalmology by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [12978/22]
- Mental Health Services
685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for community psychology services by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [12981/22]
- Health Services
688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for dietetics by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [12984/22]
- Health Services Staff
689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of allocated posts for each therapy by CHO in tabular form; the number that are currently vacant by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
690. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available to set up a support group (details supplied); if grant funding is available in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Covid-19 Pandemic
691. To ask the Minister for Health if the measures that have been requested by an organisation (details supplied) for persons with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia will be implemented. [12995/22]
- Health Services
692. To ask the Minister for Health if a legislative framework to support the rolling out of free contraception for persons aged 17 to 25 years is on track to be before the Houses of the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
693. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (detail supplied) will be reviewed; the status of an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13010/22]
- Vaccination Programme
694. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 vaccinations will be included in the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis yellow book (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
695. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the latest guidance supplied to his Department regarding the wearing of facemasks in primary and post-primary school settings;...
- Birth Certificates
696. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing the request for a birth certificate for a person (details supplied); when it will be sent; and if he will make a...
- Disability Services
697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the mobility allowance in each year since the scheme ended in 2013, in tabular form; the cost each year to the...
- Ambulance Service
703. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of ambulances that have encountered flat tyres being forced out of commission for significant blocks of time due to...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
704. To ask the Minister for Health the date the bonus payment of €1,000 will be paid; and the way that it will be paid. [13043/22]
- Protected Disclosures
706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an external...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
707. To ask the Minister for Health if shipping and postage costs for hearing aids and related items will be free for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13063/22]
- Mental Health Services
710. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be an inquiry into the provision of child and adolescent mental health services in south County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Emergency Departments
713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients under the age of 18 with mental health and psychiatric illnesses assessed in general paediatric hospital emergency departments since...
- Mental Health Services
714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting to be seen by child and adolescent primary care psychology services nationally; the average length of time on the wait...
- Disability Services
716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the age of 18 currently waiting to be seen by child disability and autism services in County Wexford; the length of time each...
- Mental Health Services
718. To ask the Minister for Health the current system that the HSE operates for data collection of mental health and psychiatric illness patients; if a dedicated information technology system is...
- Vaccination Programme
719. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 23 February 2022 and in view of the fact that the HSE has responded to say that, the question does not fall under...
- Mental Health Services
720. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline by which the framework governing the review of medication practices across all CAMHS teams will be established; and if he will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an itemised breakdown of all Covid-19 expenditure by the National Ambulance Service in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
725. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment with an occupational therapist; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Waiting Lists
726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women awaiting gynaecology appointments by hospital, in tabular form. [13123/22]
- Health Services
728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer following gynaecology consultation in 2021 and to date in 2022. [13125/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
729. To ask the Minister for Health if catering staff in hospitals and healthcare settings qualify for the pandemic bonus payment. [13126/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
730. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a cataract operation. [13128/22]
- Medical Research and Training
731. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he or his Department have had with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to ensure that enough...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Industry
732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has undertaken a study to determine the reasons for the rising price of fertiliser; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Expenditure
733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department on rented accommodation in Portlaoise in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make...
- Forestry Sector
734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for the reconstitution and underplanting scheme that have been received to date by county; the approvals...
- Agriculture Schemes
735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an oral hearing in relation to an appeal will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Land Issues
736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when documents will issue to the Land Registry on foot of a query for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12407/22]
- Forestry Sector
737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has allocated additional resources to processing applications on his proposal for afforestation on less than one hectare; and...
- Common Agricultural Policy
738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the European Union asked his Department questions on the CAP strategic plan submitted in December 2021; if questions were asked in...
- Agriculture Industry
739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of his engagements to date with maize growers and producers of plastic film arising from SI No. 326 of 2021; and if he...
- Greyhound Industry
741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds injured and killed at Irish greyhound tracks from 1 January to 31 December 2021; if he will include all...
- Forestry Sector
744. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the levels of resourcing and staffing for the purposes of carrying out environmental impact assessments and appropriate assessments...
- Departmental Staff
745. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff currently employed by his Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Forestry Sector
746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the year that Irish forestry will become a net emitter of carbon due to the current afforestation rates; and if he will make a...
- Horse Racing Industry
747. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated by Horse Racing Ireland to anti-doping measures in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he...
- Agriculture Schemes
750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which farmers can identify if the holding is within the boundaries for the cooperative projects of the agri-environment...
- Agriculture Industry
752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost associated with producing an online survey tool in relation to unfair trading practices; and if he will make a...
- Organic Farming
753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targeted number of participants in the organic farm scheme for the years 2022 to 2030; the expected allocation to achieve such;...
- Climate Change Policy
755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to meet the target contained within the Climate Action Plan to provide 1.6 TWh biomethane injected into the gas grid;...
- Agriculture Schemes
756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government has a 2030 or intermediary target for the adoption of multi-species swards; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Forestry Sector
758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to publish a report in relation to the recent correspondence of his Department to persons who have received afforestation...
- Climate Change Policy
759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Government target by year for the adoption of low emissions slurry spreading technology; the intended allocation under TAMS to...
- Agriculture Schemes
760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers supported via TAMS in the purchase of low emissions slurry spreading technology to date; the total expenditure;...
- Climate Change Policy
761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional abatement impact expected through reducing chemical nitrogen use to 350,000 by 2025 and by a further 25,000 tonnes by...
- Food Industry
762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to putting in place a mechanism to allow for greater transparency along the entirety of the Irish food...
- Forestry Sector
765. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an extension to the planting licence on lands (details supplied) will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes
766. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12650/22]
- Land Issues
767. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update in respect of releasing the Land Commission records; if he intends to open the archive on a phased...
- Agriculture Schemes
768. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to a scheme involving the Departments of Rural and Community Development and Housing, Heritage and...
- Common Agricultural Policy
769. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that on page 235 of the draft CAP report his Department has opted not to extend the permanent grassland definition to...
- Forestry Sector
770. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made on a felling licence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes
771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if calves born after the cut-off date for the beef dairy calf programme in 2022 will be eligible for inclusion in the 2023 dairy beef...
- Protected Disclosures
777. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of protected disclosures received by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Community Development Projects
778. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will review the community service programme contract between POBAL and community and voluntary groups given that there have...
- Flexible Work Practices
779. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the delivery of remote working hubs; the progress of the development of a national hubs network; and if she will make a...
- Rural Schemes
780. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application by a city and county council (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12438/22]
- Departmental Staff
781. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff currently employed by her Department; the current annual salary of the highest and second highest paid persons...
- Social Enterprise Sector
782. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the identity of the awardee of a contract to design and implement a baseline study and data collection exercise into the social...
- Departmental Schemes
783. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will review the stringent rules involved in allocating panic alarms (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Island Communities
784. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her attention has been drawn to the restrictions in service on the Tory Island ferry departing from Magheraroarty Pier,...
- Protected Disclosures
785. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form;...